A53696:298
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.
In all these things are they followed and imitated by the Romanists. In the same manner do they lay up the stock of their Traditions. In general they make the Church the repository of them, although they do not so distinctly explain the way and means whereby they were committed thereunto as the Jews do. Unto the Sanhedrin, Councils are succeeded in the same Office. But their Nature, Work, Authority, Assistance, and Use, are so variously disputed amongst them, that nothing of certainty from them, or by them singly considered is to be obtained. It is the High Priest, or Pope that is the Principal Conservator of this Sacred Treasury of Traditions; Upon their Succession doth the certainty of them depend. And whilst there is a Pope at Rome, the knowledge of the new Oral Law will not fail, as the Old one did not whilst the Jews had an High Priest, though in the pursuit of it they Crucified the Messiah, and continue to reject him unto this day. Besides, like the Jews, they content not themselves with what they pretend to be of ancient Tradition, but assume a Power of making new Constitutions in the things of God; whereby they would have us to think they do not violate the prohibitions of adding, because they ascribe them not unto the Word of God, but to the Authority of the present Church. Thus far therefore they are fully agreed.
In all these things are they followed and imitated by the Romanists. In the same manner do they lay up the stock of their Traditions. In general they make the Church the repository of them, although they do not so distinctly explain the way and means whereby they were committed thereunto as the Jews do. Unto the Sanhedrim, Councils are succeeded in the same Office. But their Nature, Work, Authority, Assistance, and Use, are so variously disputed amongst them, that nothing of certainty from them, or by them singly considered is to be obtained. It is the High Priest, or Pope that is the Principal Conservator of this Sacred Treasury of Traditions; Upon their Succession doth the certainty of them depend. And whilest there is a Pope at Rome, the knowledge of the new Orall Law will not fail, as the Old one did not whilest the Jews had an High Priest, though in the pursuit of it they Crucified the Messiah, and continue to reject him unto this day. Besides, like the Jews, they content not themselves with what they pretend to be of antient Tradition, but assume a Power of making new Constitutions in the things of God; whereby they would have us to think they do not violate the prohibitions of adding, because they ascribe them not unto the Word of God, but to the Authority of the present Church. Thus far therefore they are fully agreed.