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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.
§ 13 That God without the least impeachment of his Righteousness or Goodness might have left all mankind remediless in this Condition, is manifest, both from what hath been discoursed concerning the means whereby they were brought into it, and his dealing with Angels on the like occasion. The condition wherein man was created, was morally good and upright; the state wherein he was placed outwardly happy and blessed; the Law given unto him, just and equal, the Reward proposed unto him, glorious and sure, and his Defection from this condition voluntary. What shall we say then, is God unjust who inflicteth Vengeance? God forbid. The Execution of a Righteous Sentence, upon the voluntary Transgression of a Law just and equal, hath no unrighteousness in it. And this was the sum of what God did in this matter, as to the misery that came on mankind. And who should judge Him, if he left him for ever to eat of the fruit of his own ways, and to be filled with his own devices? He had before, as expressed his Power and Wisdom, so satisfied his Goodness and Bounty in his Creation, with his endowments, and enjoyments according unto the Law thereof; and what could man look for farther at his hands?
§ 13 That God without the least impeachment of his Righteousness or Goodness might have left all mankind remediless in this Condition, is manifest, both from what hath been discoursed concerning the means whereby they were brought into it, and his dealing with Angels on the like occasion. The condition wherein man was created, was morally good and upright; the state wherein he was placed outwardly happy and blessed; the Law given unto him, just and equall, the Reward proposed unto him, glorious and sure, and his Defection from this condition voluntary. What shall we say then, is God unjust who inflicteth Vengeance? God forbid. The Execution of a Righteous Sentence, upon the voluntary Transgression of a Law just and equal, hath no unrighteousness in it. And this was the summ of what God did in this matter, as to the misery that came on mankind. And who should judge Him, if he left him for ever to eat of the fruit of his own wayes, and to be filled with his own devices? He had before, as expressed his Power and Wisdom, so satisfied his Goodness and Bounty in his Creation, with his endowments, and enjoyments according unto the Law thereof; and what could man look for farther at his hands?