A53696:289
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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4. The sole ground and foundation of this Oral Law lies in the imperfection of the Written Law. This is that which they plead, for the necessity of it; The written Law extends not to all necessary cases that occur in Religion; many things are redundant, many wanting in it, and hereof they gather great heaps of Instances; so that they will grant that if the Written Law had been perfect, there had been no need of this Traditional one. But whom in this matter shall we believe, a few ignorant Jews, or God himself, bearing witness that his Law is perfect, and requiring no more in his Worship but what is in that Law prescribed? See Psal. 19.8. Prov. 30.5, 6. Deut. 4.1, 2. And this perfection of the Written Law, though it be perfectly destructive to their Traditions, not only the Karaei among themselves do earnestly contend for, but also sundry of their Gemarists do acknowledge, especially when they forget their own concernments out of a desire to oppose the Gospel. And to this head belong all the Arguments that Divines make use of to prove the perfection of the Scripture, against the New Talmudists in Christianity.
4. The sole ground and foundation of this Orall Law lyes in the imperfection of the Written Law. This is that which they plead, for the necessity of it; The written Law extends not to all necessary cases that occurr in Religion; many things are redundant, many wanting in it, and hereof they gather great heaps of Instances; so that they will grant that if the Written Law had been perfect, there had been no need of this Traditional one. But whom in this matter shall we believe, a few ignorant Jews, or God himself, bearing witness that his Law is perfect, and requiring no more in his Worship but what is in that Law prescribed? See Psal. 19.8. Prov. 30.5, 6. Deut. 4.1, 2. And this perfection of the Written Law, though it be perfectly destructive to their Tradions, not only the Karaei among themselves do earnestly contend for, but also sundry of their Gemarists do acknowledge, especially when they forget their own concernments out of a desire to oppose the Gospel. And to this head belong all the Arguments that Divines make use of to prove the perfection of the Scripture, against the New Talmudists in Christianity.