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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.
Supposing then Adam to dye penally under the Curse of God, as without extraordinary Relief he must have done, the Righteousness and Truth of God being engaged for the Execution of the Threatening against him, I desire to know what should have been the State and condition of his Soul? Doth either Revelation or Reason intimate that he should not have continued for ever under the same Penalty and Curse, in a state of Death, or Separation from God? And if he should have done so, then was Death eternal in the Commination. This is that which with respect unto the present effects in this life, and the punishment due to sin, is termed by our Apostle, [Greek or Hebrew], 1 Thess. 1. v. 10. the Wrath to come, from whence the Messiah is the Deliverer.
Supposing then Adam to dye poenally under the Curse of God, as without extraordinary Relief he must have done, the Righteousness and Truth of God being engaged for the Execution of the Threatning against him, I desire to know what should have been the State and condition of his Soul? Doth either Revelation or Reason intimate that he should not have continued for ever under the same Penalty and Curse, in a state of Death, or Separation from God? And if he should have done so, then was Death eternal in the Commination. This is that which with respect unto the present effects in this life, and the punishment due to sin, is termed by our Apostle, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, 1 Thess. 1. v. 10. the Wrath to come, from whence the Messiah is the Deliverer.
Nor will the Jews themselves contend that the guilt of any sin respects only temporal punishment. The Event of Sin unto themselves they take to be that only, imagining their Observation of the Law of Moses, such as it is, to be a sufficient Expiation of Punishment eternal. But unto all strangers from the Law, all that have not a Relief provided, they make every sin mortal; and Adam, as I suppose had not the Privilege of the Present Jews to observe Moses Law. Wherefore they all agree, that by his Repentance he delivered himself from Death eternal, which if it were not due unto