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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
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.
There is not a Line in the Epistle to the Hebrews, that doth not virtually begin and end in these Principles; not an Assertion, not a Doctrine, not an Exhortation, that is not built on this Triple Foundation. They are also the great Verities [Greek or Hebrew], of the Christian Profession or Religion. A sincere endeavour therefore in their Explanation ⟨p. 69⟩and Vindication, especially in these days, wherein as on the one hand, there are various thoughts of heart, about the Jews, their present condition and expectation, so on the other, there are many who are ready with a presumptuous boldness [Greek or Hebrew], and to call in question the fundamentals of all Religion, may not be unacceptable. Now the first of these Principles, is at this day by several vain imaginations obscured by the Jews, to their utter loss of all benefit by it, and hath been so for many Generations, although it were the Life and Soul of the Religion of their fore-fathers, as shall be demonstrated; and the two latter are by them expressly denied, and maliciously contended against. Here then we shall fix; and confirm these Principles in the order wherein we have laid them down; declaring on every one of them, the Conceptions and Persuasions of the Jews concerning the promised Messiah, removing in the Close their Objections against the Faith of Christians in this matter, in a peculiar Exercitation to that Purpose. And the Confirmation, and Vindication of the first of these Principles, is that which our present Discourse is designed unto.
There is not a Line in the Epistle to the Hebrews, that doth not virtually begin and end in these Principles; not an Assertion, not a Doctrine, not an Exhortation, that is not built on this Triple Foundation. They are also the great Verities 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, of the Christian Profession or Religion. A sincere endeavour therefore in their Explanation ⟨p. 69⟩and Vindication, especially in these dayes, wherein as on the one hand, there are various thoughts of heart, about the Jews, their present condition and expectation, so on the other, there are many who are ready with a presumptuous boldness 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, and to call in question the fundamentals of all Religion, may not be unacceptable. Now the first of these Principles, is at this day by several vain imaginations obscured by the Jews, to their utter loss of all benefit by it, and hath been so for many Generations, although it were the Life and Soul of the Religion of their fore-fathers, as shall be demonstrated; and the two latter are by them expresly denyed, and maliciously contended against. Here then we shall fix; and confirm these Principles in the order wherein we have laid them down; declaring on every one of them, the Conceptions and Perswasions of the Jews concerning the promised Messiah, removing in the Close their Objections against the Faith of Christians in this matter, in a peculiar Exercitation to that Purpose. And the Confirmation, and Vindication of the first of these Principles, is that which our present Discourse is designed unto.