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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
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But the blind Pharisee disputes not so much against us as against God himself. Who was it that denounced death in case he so transgressed? Who was it that pronounced him miserable, and the world accursed on the account thereof? Are we to blame if the Jews are not pleased with the ways of God? Besides although to eat an Apple be in its self but a small thing, yet to disobey the command of the great God, is no such small matter as the Jew supposeth; especially that command which set boundaries unto that excellent condition, wherein Adam in the right of all his Posterity was placed. But these Exceptions owe their Original unto a discovery of the Tendency of that Truth, which otherwise as we have showed they are convinced of; and which we have sufficiently cleared from the Scripture.
But the blind Pharisee disputes not so much against us as against God himself. Who was it that denounced death in case he so transgressed? Who was it that pronounc•d him miserable, and the world accursed on the account thereof? Are we to blame if the Jews are not pleased with the wayes of God? Besides although to eat an Apple be in its self but a small thing, yet to disobey the command of the great God, is no such small matter as the Jew supposeth; especially that command which set boundaries unto that excellent condition, wherein Adam in the right of all his Posterity was placed. But these Exceptions owe their Original unto a discovery of the Tendency of that Truth, which otherwise as we have shewed they are convinced of; and which we have sufficiently cleared from the Scripture.
§ 10 The second consequent of the first sin of man, is the Moral corruption of Nature, the spring of all that evil of actual sin that is in the world. And herein we have • full consent from the Jews, delivered after their manner, both in the Tar•ums, Talmuds, and private Writings of their principal Masters. For an Evil Concupiscence i• the heart of man from his very conception they generally acknowledge.