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Exercitations on the Epistle to the Hebrews
Exercitations on the Epistle to the Hebrews also concerning the Messiah wherein the promises concerning him to be a spiritual redeemer of mankind are explained and vindicated, his coming and accomplishment of his work according to the promises is proved and confirmed, the person, or who he is, is declared, the whole economy of the mosaical law, rites, worship, and sacrifice is explained : and in all the doctrine of the person, office, and work of the Messiah is opened, the nature and demerit of the first sin is unfolded, the opinions and traditions of the ancient and modern Jews are examined, their objections against the Lord Christ and the Gospel are answered, the time of the coming of the Messiah is stated, and the great fundamental truths of the Gospel vindicated : with an exposition and discourses on the two first chapters of the said epistle to the Hebrews / by J. Owen ...Exercitations on the Epistle to the Hebrews also concerning the Messiah wherein the promises concerning him to be a spiritual redeemer of mankind are explained and vindicated, his coming and accomplishment of his work according to the promises is proved and confirmed, the person, or who he is, is declared, the whole oeconomy of the mosaical law, rites, worship, and sacrifice is explained : and in all the doctrine of the person, office, and work of the Messiah is opened, the nature and demerit of the first sin is unfolded, the opinions and traditions of the antient and modern Jews are examined, their objections against the Lord Christ and the Gospel are answered, the time of the coming of the Messiah is stated, and the great fundamental truths of the Gospel vindicated : with an exposition and discourses on the two first chapters of the said epistle to the Hebrews / by J. Owen ...
London: printed by Robert White for Nathaniel Ponder, 1668
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§ 6 This Oral Law they affirm to be an unwritten Tradition and Exposition of the written Law of Moses, given unto him in Mount Sinai, and committed by him to Joshua and the Sanhedrin, to be by them delivered over by Oral Tradition unto those who should succeed them in the Government of that Church. It doth not appear that in the days of Christ or his Apostles, whilst the Temple was standing that there was any stated opinion amongst them about this Oral Law; though it is evident that not long after it began to be received by the body of the People. Nay it is evident that there was no such Law then acknowledged; For the Sadducees who utterly reject all the main Principles of it, were then not only tolerated, but also in chief Rule, one of them being High Priest.
§ 6 This Orall Law they affirm to be an unwritten Tradition and Exposition of the written Law of Moses, given unto him in Mount Sinai, and committed by him to Joshua and the Sanhedrim, to be by them delivered over by Orall Tradition unto those who should succeed them in the Government of that Church. It doth not appear that in the dayes of Christ or his Apostles, whilest the Temple was standing that there was any stated opinion amongst them about this Orall Law; though it is evident that not long after it began to be received by the body of the People. Nay it is evident that there was no such Law then acknowledged; For the Sadduces who utterly reject all the main Principles of it, were then not only tolerated, but also in chief Rule, one of them being High Priest.
That they had multiplied many superstitious Observances amongst them under the name of Traditions, is most clear in the Gospel; and it doth not appear that then they knew whom to assign their original unto, and therefore indefinitely called them the Traditions of the Elders, or those that lived of old before them. After the Destruction of their Temple, when they had lost the life and spirit of that Worship, which the Scripture revealed, betaking themselves wholly unto their Traditional figments, they began to bethink themselves how they might give countenance to their Apostasy from the Perfection and Doctrine of the written Law. For this end they began to fancy that these Traditions were no less from God, than the written Law it self. For when Moses was forty days and forty nights in the Mountain, they say that in the day time he wrote the Law from the mouth of God, and in the night, God instructed him in the Oral Law, or unwritten Exposition of it, which they have received by Tradition from him. For when he came down from the Mount, after he had read unto them the Written Law, as they say, he repeated to Aaron and Eleazer and the Sanhedrin, all that secret instruction which he had received in the night from God, which it was not