A53696:344
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.
Secondly, They say, that Moses calleth it, [Greek or Hebrew], praeputium, or uncircumcision, Deut. 10.16. And therefore in Tract. Sand. cap. 11. to the Question, when an Infant may be made partaker of the World to come, Ka. Nachman the Son of Isaac answereth, [Greek or Hebrew], presently after he is circumcised; Circumcision being admitted of old, as the sign of the taking away by Grace of the natural evil figment of the heart. And in Answer hereunto, it is called by our Apostle [Greek or Hebrew], or Uncircumcision; Col. 2.13.
Secondly, They say, that Moses calleth it, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, praeputium, or uncircumcision, Deut. 10.16. And therefore in Tract. Sand. cap. 11. to the Question, when an Infant may be made partaker of the World to come, Ka. Nachman the Son of Isaac answereth, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, presently after he is circumcised; Circumcision being admitted of old, as the sign of the taking away by Grace of the natural evil figment of the heart. And in Answer hereunto, it is called by our Apostle 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, or Ʋncircumcision; Col. 2.13.
Thirdly, They say, David calls it [Greek or Hebrew] an Unclean thing. This they draw from Psalm 51. v. 12. by the Rule of Contraries, a great Guide in their Expositions. Create in me a Clean Heart O God; whence it appears that the Heart of its self is unclean. And the Apostle gives it us under the same Name and Notion,