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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.
Those who to extricate themselves out of this difficulty, fancied two Supreme Principles, or Causes, the one Author of all Good, the other of all Evil, were ever exploded as Persons bidding defiance unto all Principles of Reason whereby we are distinguished from the Beasts that perish. This I say men generally discerned, that Evil, wherein it now lies, could not have entered into the world, without a disturbance of that Harmony, wherein all things at the beginning were constituted by Infinite Wisdom and Goodness, and some interruption of that dependence on God, from whence it did proceed.
Those who to extricate themselves out of this difficulty, fancied two Supream Principles, or Causes, the one Author of all Good, the other of all Evil, were ever exploded as Persons bidding defiance unto all Principles of Reason whereby we are distinguished from the Beasts that perish. This I say men generally discerned, that Evil, wherein it now lyes, could not have entred into the world, without a disturbance of that Harmony, wherein all things at the beginning were constituted by Infinite Wisdom and Goodness, and some interruption of that dependance on God, from whence it did proceed.
The very first Apprehensions of the Nature of God, and the Condition of the Universe declare, that man was formed free from sin, which is his voluntary subduction of himself from under the Government of his Maker, and free from Trouble, which is the effect of his displeasure on that Subduction or Deviation, in which two, the whole nature of Evil consisteth; so that it must have some other Original.
The very first Apprehensions of the Nature of God, and the Condition of the Ʋniverse declare, that man was formed free from sin, which is his voluntary subduction of himself from under the Government of his Maker, and free from Trouble, which is the effect of his displeasure on that Subduction or Deviation, in which two, the whole nature of Evil consisteth; so that it must have some other Original.