A53696:306
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.
when the world is filled with the noise of their own conflicts, notwithstanding the pretended relief which they have thereby.
It remains that we consider how these Traditions come to be communicated unto others, out of the secret Store-house wherein Originally they were deposited. This as I have elsewhere, and partly before declared, was by their being committed unto writing by Rabbi Judah Hakkadosh, whose collections, with their Expositions in their Talmud, do give us a perfect account, if we may believe them, of that secret Law which came down unto them by Oral Tradition from Moses. And something like hereunto is by the Romanists pretended. Many of their Traditions they say, are recorded in the Rescripts of Popes, Decrees of Councils, and Constitutions of the Canon Law, and the like sacred means of the declaration of the Oral Instructions of our Lord Jesus Christ and his Apostles.
It remains that we consider how these Traditions come to be communicated unto others, out of the secret Store-house wherein Originally they were deposited. This as I have elsewhere, and partly before declared, was by their being committed unto writing by Rabbi Juda Hakkadosh, whose collections, with their Expositions in their Talmud, do give us a perfect account, if we may believe them, of that secret Law which came down unto them by Orall Tradition from Moses. And something like hereunto is by the Romanists pretended. Many of their Traditions they say, are recorded in the Rescripts of Popes, Decrees of Councils, and Constitutions of the Canon Law, and the like sacred means of the declaration of the Orall Instructions of our Lord Jesus Christ and his Apostles.
But herein the Jews deal with us far more ingeniously than they. They tell us plainly, that now their whole Oral Law is written, and that they have no reserve of authentic Traditions not yet declared.