A53696:286
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.
§ 12 1. The very Story of the giving of the Law at Mount Sinai, sufficiently discovers the folly of this imagination: This Oral Law the Jews are ready on all occasions to prefer before that which is written: and do openly profess that without it, the other is of no use unto them. I desire then to know, whence it is that all the circumstances of the giving and teaching of the less necessary are so exactly recorded, but not one word is spoken of this Oral Law, either of Gods revealing of it to Moses, or of Moses teaching of it to Joshua or any others; Strange! that so much should be recorded of every circumstance of the less principal, lifeless Law, and not one word of either substance or circumstance of that which is, if these men may be believed, the very life and soul of the other. Maimonides in Jad Chazaka tells us, there is mention made of it in Exod. 24.12. I will give thee, saith the Lord [Greek or Hebrew] a Law and Commandment; [Greek or Hebrew] saith he, is the Written Law [Greek or Hebrew], the Oral; when the next words are [Greek or Hebrew], which I have written that thou mayest teach them; the Written Law being on several accounts expressed by both those terms, and no other. How know they that any such Law was given to Moses as they pretend? What Testimony Witness or Record of it, was had or made at the time of its giving, or in many generations, for two thousand years afterwards.
§ 12 1. The very Story of the giving of the Law at Mount Sinai, sufficiently discovers the folly of this imagination: This Orall Law the Jews are ready on all occasions to prefer before that which is written: and do openly profess that without it, the other is of no use unto them. I desire then to know, whence it is that all the circumstances of the giving and teaching of the less necessary are so exactly recorded, but not one word is spoken of this Orall Law, either of Gods revealing of it to Moses, or of Moses teaching of it to Joshua or any others; Strange! that so much should be recorded of every circumstance of the less principal, lifeless Law, and not one word of either substance or circumstance of that which is, if these men may be believed, the very life and soul of the other. Maimonides in Jad Chazaka tells us, there is mention made of it in Exod. 24.12. I will give ye, saith the Lord 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 a Law and Commandment; saith he, is the Written Law , the Orall; when the next words are , which I have written that thou mayest teach them; the Written Law being on several accounts expressed by both those terms, and no other. How know they that any such Law was given to Moses as they pretend? What Testimony Witness or Record of it, was had or made at the time of its giving, or in many generations, for two thousand years afterwards.