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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.
Besides the Testimony of God himself in his Word, we have a concurrent suffrage § 2 from the whole Creation, that man in the Beginning was formed, as in the Image, so in the Favour of God, and unto his Glory. And as he was not liable unto any evil which is the effect of Gods displeasure, nor defective in any Good, necessary to preserve him in the condition wherein he was made, so he was destitute of nothing that was any way requisite to carry him on unto that farther enjoyment of God whereunto he was designed. Gen. 1. v. 26, 31. Ecclesiast. 7. v. 29. For God being infinitely Good, Wise, Righteous, and Powerful, creating man to know, love, honour, and enjoy him, and thereby to glorify those Holy Properties of his nature, which exerted themselves in his creation, (which that he did, the nature of those intellectual Perfections wherewith He endowed him, doth undeniably evince) it was utterly impossible that either He should not delight in the work of his own hands, the effect of his own Wisdom and Power, or not furnish him with those Faculties and Abilities by which he might answer the Ends of his Creation. To suppose a Failure in any of these, is contrary to the prime Dictates of Reason. For Infinite Wisdom can do nothing in vain, nothing not perfectly suited unto the End whereunto it is designed; Neither can Infinite Goodness allow of any defect in ought that proceedeth from it. Gen. 1. v. 31. God saw every thing that he had made, and behold it was very Good. Hence many Philosophers saw and granted, that the First Cause in the Production of all things, did [Greek or Hebrew] proceed by such a certain Reason and Way, as that every thing might both in its self and with reference unto its own especial End, and also in Relation unto the Universe, have its proper Rectitude and Goodness, sufficient unto its Station and Condition. This [Greek or Hebrew] the Scripture calls, [Greek or Hebrew], Ephes. 1. v. 11. The Counsel of the Will of God; expressing a contemporation of absolute Sovereignty, and Infinite Wisdom. And these uncontrollable Notions of Nature or Reason, cast men of old into their entanglements about the Original of Evil. For this they plainly saw, that it must be accidental and occasional, but where to fix that Occasion they knew not.
Besides the Testimony of God himself in his Word, we have a concurrent suffrage § 2 from the whole Creation, that man in the Beginning was formed, as in the Image, so in the Favour of God, and unto his Glory. And as he was not liable unto any evil which is the effect of Gods displeasure, nor defective in any Good, necessary to preserve him in the condition wherein he was made, so he was destitute of nothing that was any way requisite to carry him on unto that farther enjoyment of God whereunto he was designed.