A53696:303
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.
§ 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. Exod. 34.27. (where he takes his Argument from that Expression, [Greek or Hebrew], wresting foolishly, as they do all, his Oral Law from those words, [Greek or Hebrew] which signify nothing but according to, nor are any other words intended, but those delivered to Moses and written by him.) And these, he adds, are the Treasures of the Holy Blessed God; For he knew that Israel should be carried Captive among other People, and that the Nations would transcribe their Books, and therefore would not commit their secret Law to Writing.
§ 19 Fourthly, When these two Laws, the Law of God, and their own, do come in competition, the Jews many of them do expresly 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 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Do not think, saith he, that the written Law is the Foundation; for the Foundation is the Orall Law; For by that Law was the Covenant made, as it is written, according to these words do I make a Covenant with thee. Exod. 34.27. (where he takes his Argument from that Expression, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, wresting foolishly, as they do all, his Orall Law from those words, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 which signifie nothing but according to, nor are any other words intended, but those delivered to Moses and written by him.) And these, he adds, are the Treasures of the Holy Blessed God; For he knew that Israel should be carried Captive among other People, and that the Nations would transcribe their Books, and therefore would not commit their secret Law to Writing.