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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.
§ 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.
§ 10 The second consequent of the first sin of man, is the Morall corrupti•n 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.
The name they give unto it, is [Greek or Hebrew] figmentum malum; the evil figment of the Heart; properly enough, from Gen. 6. v. 5. And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth; [Greek or Hebrew], and th•• […] whole figment of the thoughts, or computation of his heart, was only evil, eve•• […]. Hence have they taken their [Greek or Hebrew], a more proper name than that used by Christian Divines of Original Peccatum. And it is a ludicrous ignorance in some of the late Rabbins, who profess themselves to deny Original Sin, as doth the Author of the Questions and Objections, published by Brenius, and others of them, and yet in t•e mean time grant this Evil figment in all mankind, which was not in Ad•m in his innocency. And hereunto they oppose that [Greek or Hebrew], that Good Concupiscence, whih they fancy to come on every one at the Age of thirteen years, when he becomes ius Praecepti, or liable unto the commands of God. The argumiss term it in the Chade Tongue, [Greek or Hebrew] to the same Purpose. And it is mentioned by them,