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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.
This Collection of his they call [Greek or Hebrew] or [Greek or Hebrew] Mishne, or Mishnaioth, being as is § 8 pretended […] repetition of the Law in an Exposition of it; indeed a farrago of all sorts of Traditions, true, and false; with a monstrous mixture of Lies, useless, foolish and wicked. The things contained in it, are by themselves referred to five heads: 1. The Oral Law received by Moses on Mount Sinai, preserved by the means before declared: 2. Oral Constitutions of Moses himself after he came down from the Mount: 3. Constitutions and Orders drawn by various ways of arguing; (13. as Rambam tells us) out of the written Law; 4. The Answers and Decrees of the Sanhedrin; and other wise men in former Ages; 5. Immemorial Customs, whose original being unknown are supposed to be divine.
This Collection of his they call 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 or 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Mishne, or Mishnaioth, being as is § 8 pretended 〈…〉 repetition of the Law in an Exposition of it; indeed a farrago of all sorts of Traditions, true, and false; with a monstrous mixture of Lyes, useless, foolish and wicked. The things contained in it, are by themselves referred to five heads: 1. The Orall Law received by Moses on Mount Sinai, preserved by the means before declared: 2. Orall Constitutions of Moses himself after he came down from the Mount: 3. Constitutions and Orders drawn by various wayes of arguing; (13. as Rambam tells us) out of the written Law; 4. The Answers and Decrees of the Sanhedrim; and other wise men in former Ages; 5. Immemoriall Customs, whose original being unknown are supposed to be divine.
The Whole is divided into six parts: noted with the initial letter of the word which § 9 signifies the chief things treated on in it. As the first by [Greek or Hebrew], z, that is [Greek or Hebrew], Zeraim, Seeds; which is divided into eleven Massicktot or Treatises, containing all of them seventy five Chapters. The second by [Greek or Hebrew], m, that is, [Greek or Hebrew], Moad, or appointed feasts, which is distributed into Twelve Massicktot, containing in them eighty eight Chapters. The Third by [Greek or Hebrew] that is [Greek or Hebrew], of Women, and is distributed in seven Treatises, containing seventy one Chapters. The fourth by [Greek or Hebrew], that is, [Greek or Hebrew], Nezikim, about loss and damage, and is divided into eight Massicktot, whereof the first is divided into three parts, called [Greek or Hebrew], the first, middle, and last port or entrance, containing in them thirty Chapters, whereunto forty four are added in the following parts. The fifth by [Greek or Hebrew], that is [Greek or Hebrew], Kodoshim, of Sanctifications, and is divided into eleven Books containing ninety Chapters. The sixth with [Greek or Hebrew], that is, [Greek or Hebrew], Teharoth, of Purifications, in twelve Books, and one hundred twenty six Chapters.