A53696:297
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.
Some of these are recounted by Maimonides in his Preface unto Jad Chazaka; as the Reading of the Book or Roll of Esther with Fasting; lights on the Feast of Dedication; The ⟨p. 65⟩Fast on the seventh of Ab. or July; various Mixtures, and Washings of hands; things plainly of that nature which our Lord Jesus condemned amongst them. And it is observable how he frees them from transgressing that Precept, Deut. 12.32. Thou shalt not add unto this word, by this Constitution. [Greek or Hebrew]. For, saith he, they say not that the holy blessed God hath commanded these things, that there should be such Mixtures, that the Book of Esther should be read with fasting; for if they should say so, they should add to the Law; but thus we speak, such and such a Prophet or the Consistory, commanded and appointed, that the Book of Esther should be read with fasting to celebrate the Glory of the Holy Blessed God in our Deliverance, and so of the rest. It seems then they may add what they will of their own, so they entitle not the Name of God to their Inventions; by which means they have set themselves at liberty to multiply superstitious Observations at their pleasure, which they had actually done in the days of our Saviour, and thereby made the Law of God of none effect.
Some of these are recounted by Maimonides in his Preface unto Jad Chazaka; as the Reading of the Book or Roll of Esther with Fasting; lights on the Feast of Dedication; The ⟨p. 65⟩Fast on the seventh of Ab. or July; various Mixtures, and Washings of hands; things plainly of that nature which our Lord Jesus condemned amongst them. And it is observable how he frees them from transgressing that Precept, Deut. 12.32. Thou shalt not add unto this word, by this Constitution. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. For, saith he, they say not that the holy blessed God hath commanded these things, that there should be such Mixtures, that the Book of Esther should be read with fasting; for if they should say so, they should add to the Law; but thus we speak, such and such a Prophet or the Consistory, commanded and appointed, that the Book of Esther should be read with fasting to celebrate the Glory of the Holy Blessed God in our Deliverance, and so of the rest. It seems then they may add what they will of their own, so they entitle not the Name of God to their Inventions; by which means they have set themselves at liberty to multiply superstitious Observations at their pleasure, which they had actually done in the dayes of our Saviour, and thereby made the Law of God of none effect.