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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
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Principles presupposed in the Apostles Discourse in his Epistle to the Hebrews. First, A Messiah promised from the Foundation of the World. Of the Evil that is in the World. Of Sin and Punishment. Original and Entrance of them. Ignorance of Mankind about them. The Sin and Fall of Adam. Their Consequents. Jews Opinion about the Sin of Adam. Also of the Curse, and corruption of Nature. Their sense of both at large evinced. God not unjust if all mankind had perished in this condition. Instance of the Sin and Punishment of Angels. Differences between the Sin of Angels and Man. Angels lost, Mankind relieved. Evidences of that Deliverance. How attainable. Not by Men themselves. Not by Angels. Nor the Law. That proved against the Jews. Their Fable of the Law made before the World, with the occasion of it. The Patriarchs saved before the giving of the Law. Observation of the Moral Precepts of the Law no means of Relief, nor the Sacrifices of it. The New Covenant. God the Author of it. How to be accomplished. The first Promise of it, Gen. 3.16. discussed. Sense of the Jews upon it; manifested: Examined. Promise of a Deliverer, the Foundation of all Religion in the World. The Promise renewed unto Abraham, Gen. 12.1, 2, 3. Nature of it as given unto him. Testified unto and confirmed, Gen. 49.10. Numb. 24.17, 19. Job 19.25. Opened; with sundry other Places. End of the Separation of the Posterity of Abraham unto • peculiar People and Church. This Deliverer the MESSIAH. Denotation of the Word. The Person who.
WE proceed now unto our Principal intendment in all these Discourses; which is the Consideration and Discussion of those great Principles, as of all Religion in general, so of the Christian in particular, which the Apostle supposeth as the Foundation of his whole Treaty with the Hebrews, and which § 1 are the Basis that he stands upon, in the management of his whole Design. For in all Discourses that are Paraenetical, as this Epistle for the most part is, there are always some Principles taken for granted, which give Life and Efficacy unto the Exhortations in them, and whereinto they are resolved. For as to persuade men unto particulars in Faith, Opinion or Practice, without a previous conviction of such general Principles of Truth, as from which the Persuasions used do naturally flow and arise, is a thing weak and inefficacious; so to be exercised in the Demonstration of the Principles themselves, when the especial End aimed, is to persuade, would bring confusion into all Discourse.