A53696:370
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, God hath been pleased to require from men a Revenue of Glory by a way of Worship prescribed unto them after the Entrance of sin. This he hath not done unto the Angels that sinned; nor could it have been done in a consistency with Righteousness unto men without a Supposition of a Possibility of Deliverance from under his Wrath. For in every Prescription of Duty, God proposeth himself as a Rewarder, which he is only unto them that please him; and to please God without the Deliverance enquired after is impossible. Besides that God is actually glorified in the world, by the Way of Worship required on this supposition, shall be elsewhere declared, and Arguments added in ⟨p. 80⟩full measure to confirm our Assertion. Deliverance then from this condition may on just grounds be expected; and how it might be effected, is our next Enquiry.
§ 16 The great Relief enquired after, must be brought about by men themselves, or by some other for them. What they can do themselves herein we may be quickly satisfied about. The nature of the Evils under which they suffer, and the Event of things in the world sufficiently discover the disability of men to be their own Deliverers. Besides, who should contrive the way of it, for them? One Single Person, More, or All? How easily the impossibility of it might be demonstrated on any of these suppositions, is too manifest to be insisted on. The Evils suffered under, are of two sorts, both Universal and Eternal. The first is that of Punishment, inflicted from the Righteousness of God.
§ 16 The great Relief enquired after, must be brought about by men themselves, or by some other for them. What they can do themselves herein we may be quickly satisfied about. The nature of the Evils under which they suffer, and the Event of things in the world sufficiently discover the disability of men to be their own Deliverers. Besides, who should contrive the way of it, for them? One Single Person, More, or All? How easily the impossibility of it might be demonstrated on any of these suppositions, is too manifest to be insisted on. The Evils suffered under, are of two sorts, both Ʋniversal and Eternal. The first is that of Punishment, inflicted from the Righteousness of God.