A53696:302
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.
Thus for the most part the first Question of a Romanist is, How do you know the Scriptures ⟨p. 66⟩to be the Word of God? and then the next word is, the Cabala, the [Greek or Hebrew], Oral Law, Tradition, these are the Foundation of it; And in their progress they fail not to assert two Principles both borrowed from the Jews. First, That the Scripture is imperfect, and doth not give us a full and complete account of all things that are to be believed or practised, that God may be glorified, and our own souls saved. Secondly, That what is delivered therein can no way be rightly and truly understood, but by the help of those Traditions which they have in their custody. But although these are good useful Inventions, and they are men that want not Ability to find out what is conducing unto their own advantage, yet they cannot be allowed the Credit of being their first Authors, seeing they are expressly borrowed of the Jews.
Thus for the most part the first Question of a Romanist is, How do you know the Scriptures ⟨p. 66⟩to be the Word of God? and then the next word is, the Cabala, the 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Orall Law, Tradition, these are the Foundation of it; And in their progress they fail not to assert two Principles both borrowed from the Jews. First, That the Scripture is imperfect, and doth not give us a full and compleat account of all things that are to be believed or practised, that God may be glorified, and our own souls saved. Secondly, That what is delivered therein can no way be rightly and truly understood, but by the help of those Traditions which they have in their custody. But although these are good usefull Inventions, and they are men that want not Ability to find out what is conducing unto their own advantage, yet they cannot be allowed the Credit of being their first Authors, seeing they are expresly borrowed of the Jews.
§ 19 Fourthly, When these two Laws, the Law of God, and their own, do come in competition, the Jews many of them do expressly prefer that of their own invention before the other, and that both as to certainty, and use. Hence they make it the foundation of their Church, and the only safe means to preserve the Truth. So are we informed by Isaac Corbulensis in [Greek or Hebrew]. Do not think, saith he, that the written Law is the Foundation; for the Foundation is the Oral Law; For by that Law was the Covenant made, as it is written, according to these words do I make a Covenant with thee.