A53696:287
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
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§ 13 2. Did their Fore-fathers at any time before the Captivity transgress this Oral Law, or did they not? If they say they did not, but kept it, and observed it diligently, we may easily see of what importance it is, that the most strict Obs•evation of it, would not preserve them from all manner of wickedness, and what an hedge it is to the Written Law, when notwithstanding the obedience yielded unto it, that was utterly despised and neglected; if they shall say that Law also was broken by them; I desire to know whence it comes to pass, that whereas God by his Prophets doth reprove them for all their other sins, and in particular for contempt of his Written Law, the Statutes, Ordinances and Institutions of it, he no where once mentioneth this their greater guilt of despising the Oral Law, but there is as universal a silence concerning its transgression, as there is of its giving and institution. Can we have any greater evidence of its being fictitious than this; that whereas it is pretended that it is the main Rule of their Obedience to God, God did never reprove them for the transgression of it, though whilst he owned them as his Church and People, he suffered none of their sins to pass by unreproved, especially not any of that importance, which this is by them pretended to be of.
§ 13 2. Did their Fore-fathers at any time before the Captivity transgress this Orall Law, or did they not? If they say they did not, but kept it, and observed it diligently, we may easily see of what importance it is, that the most strict Obs•evation of it, would not preserve them from all manner of wickedness, and what an hedge it is to the Written Law, when notwithstanding the obedience yielded unto it, that was utterly despised and neglected; if they shall say that Law also was broken by them; I desire to know whence it comes to pass, that whereas God by his Prophets doth reprove them for all their other sins, and in particular for contempt of his Written Law, the Statutes, Ordinances and Institutions of it, he no where once mentioneth this their greater guilt of despising the Orall Law, but there is as universall a silence concerning its transgression, as there is of its giving and institution. Can we have any greater evidence of its being fictitious than this; that whereas it is pretended that it is the main Rule of their Obedience to God, God did never reprove them for the transgression of it, though whilest he owned them as his Church and People, he suffered none of their sins to pass by unreproved, especially not any of that importance, which this is by them pretended to be of.