A53696:333
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.
Wherefore, Secondly, they grant that on this account, his Sin was imputed unto all his Posterity. That is some of them do so, and those the most sober of them. So Rabbi Menahem Rakanatensis in sec. Bereshith. &c. [Greek or Hebrew]; It is no wonder why the Sin of Adam and Eve was engraven and sealed with the Signet of the King to be propagated unto all following Generations; For in the day that Adam was created all things were finished, so that he was the Perfection and Complement of the whole workmanship of this world. Therefore when he sinned the whole world sinned, whose Sin we hear and suffer, which is not so in the Sin of his Posterity. To be sealed with the Signet of the King, is their Expression of Gods Constitution.
Wherefore, Secondly, they grant that on this account, his Sin was imputed unto all his Posterity. That is some of them do so, and those the most sober of them. So Rabbi Menahem Rakanatensis in sec. Bereshith. &c. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; It is no wonder why the Sin of Adam and Eve was engraven and sealed with the Signet of the King to be propagated unto all following Generations; For in the day that Adam was created all things were finished, so that he was the Perfection and Complement of the whole workmanship of this world. Therefore when he sinned the whole world sinned, whose Sin we hear and suffer, which is not so in the Sin of his Posterity. To be sealed with the Signet of the King, is their Expression of Gods Constitution.
And these words are very consonant to those of our Apostle, Rom. 5.12. As by one man Sin entered into the World, and Death by Sin, so Death passed upon all men, for that, or because in him all have sinned. To the same purpose speaks the Targum on Eccles. 7. v. 29. in the Copies followed by the Jayan and London Bibles; (for so the words are not in those of Buxtorf, nor the Biblia Regia) God made the First man upright and innocent before him, but the Serpent and Eve seduced him, [Greek or Hebrew], and gave cause why the day of Death should come on him and all the Inhabitants of the Earth. And we can have no more Authentic Testimony of the Apprehensions of their ancient Doctors, than what their Targums afford us. And therefore Joseph Albo in Scher Itharim expressly concludes lib. 1. chap. 11. that all the punishments relating unto Adam and Eve for their first Sin belong unto all mankind. And whereas they fancy that some Persons spent their days without actual sin; at least any such as should deserve Death, they charge their Death on the guilt of the sin of Adam. So the Targum on the last Chapter of Ruth; And Hobed begat Jesse, who was called Nachash, and there was no iniquity, or corruption in him for which he should be delivered into the hnd of the Angel of Death to take his soul from him; and he lived man days, until the Counsel that the Serpent gave to Eve, abode before the Lord; and upon that Counsll were all the inhabitants of the Earth made guilty of death, and upon the aunt of that sin dyed Jesse the Righteous. Lud. Capellus in his Annotations on