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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.
And this Concupiscence which is in the heart of man from his Conception, they acknowledge to have proceeded Originally from the Sin of our first Parents, for if it were implanted in him at his Creation, it cannot be avoided but that God himself must be assigned as the Principal efficient Cause of all Moral Evil.
Unto this purpose speaks their late Master in his Preface to his Book de Fragilitate. Haec vitiositas, saith he, ex primorum Parentum profecta crimine contagioque, invasit utramque animae rationalis facultatem, mentem, qua apprehendimus, & voluntatem qua appetimus; This vitiosity and contagion proceeding from the Sin of our First Parents, hath invaded both the faculties of our Rational Souls, both the Understanding and the Will. And for the continuance of this Evil, or its abode in us, they express it in Bereshith Rabba; [Greek or Hebrew], so long as the Righteous live they wage ⟨p. 76⟩War with their concupiscence. And they variously set forth the growth of it, where it is not corrected by Grace. At first they say, it is like a Spiders thread, but at last like a Cartrope; from Isa. 59. v. 5. and Chap. 5. v. 18. And again, in the beginning it is like a stranger, then as a Guest, but lastly as the Master of the House; see James 1.14, 15. And according to their wonted manner on Gen. 4. v. 7. where [Greek or Hebrew] of the Masculine Gender is joined with [Greek or Hebrew] of the Feminine, they observe: in Bereshith Rabba: sec. 22. [Greek or Hebrew], at first it is like a woman, but afterwards it waxeth strong like a man.
Unto this purpose speaks their late Master in his Preface to his Book de Fragilitate. Haec vitiositas, saith he, ex primorum Parentum profecta crimine contagioque, invasit utramque animae rationalis facultatem, mentem, qua apprehendimus, & voluntatem qua appetimus; This vitiosity and contagion proceeding from the Sin of our First Parents, hath invaded both the faculties of our Rational Souls, both the Vnderstanding and the Will. And for the continuance of this Evil, or its abode in us, they express it in Bereshith Rabba; , so long as the Righteous live they wage