A53696:361
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.
Moreover, they differed in their Intellectual Perfections, whereby they were enabled to discern the Excellencies, and to know the mind of God. For although man had all that Light, Knowledge and Wisdom concreated with him, and so natural unto him, which were any way needful to enable him unto a right and due performance of the Obedience required of him, in the Observance whereof he should have been brought unto the Enjoyment of God; yet it came far short of that Excellency of Understanding, and that piercing Wisdom which was in those Spiritual Beings, which they were endowed withal to fit them for that near contemplation of the glory of God whereunto they were admitted, and that ready Apprehension of his mind which they were to observe. And as these were in themselves, and ought to have been improved by themselves, as blessed means of preserving them in their Obedience, so being despised and neglected they were a great Aggravation of the Wickedness of their Apostasy.
Moreover, they differed in their Intellectual Perfections, whereby they were enabled to discern the Excellencies, and to know the mind of God. For although man had all that Light, Knowledge and Wisdom concreated with him, and so naturall unto him, which were any way needfull to enable him unto a right and due performance of the Obedience required of him, in the Observance whereof he should have been brought unto the Enjoyment of God; yet it came far short of that Excellency of Understanding, and that piercing Wisdom which was in those Spiritual Beings, which they were endowed withall to fit them for that near contemplation of the glory of God whereunto they were admitted, and that ready Apprehension of his mind which they were to observe. And as these were in themselves, and ought to have been improved by themselves, as blessed means of preserving them in their Obedience, so being despised and neglected they were a great Aggravation of the Wickedness of their Apostasy.
There was likewise (Fifthly) a difference in the manner of their Defection. Man was circumvented by the Craft and Policy of the Angels, who were made before him, and sinned before him. And this, although He was furnished with an Ability and Power to have rejected and overcome, yet it had that influence into his Sin and Fall, that the Holy Ghost affirms that our first Parents were SEDUCED, or deceived,