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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.
There are but two ways possible (setting aside the Consideration of what shall be afterwards fixed on) whereby mankind, or any individual Person amongst them, may obtain deliverance from this Evil: And the first is, that God without any further consideration should remit it, and exempt the Creation from under it. But although this way may seem possible unto some, it is indeed utterly otherwise. Did not the sentence of it proceed from his Righteousness, and the Essential Rectitude of his Nature▪ Did he not engage his Truth and faithfulness, that it should be inflicted? and doth not his Holiness and Justice require that so it should be? What should become o• his glory, what would he do unto his great name, if now without any Cause or Reason he should contrary unto all these engagements of his Holy Perfections, wholly ren•• and take it off? Nay, this would plainly justify the Serpent in his Calumny, that what ever he pretended, yet indeed that no Execution of his Threatening would ever ens••. How also can it be supposed that any of his future C•mminations should have a just weight upon the souls of men; if that first great and fundamental one should be frustrated and evacuated? or what Authority would be left unto his Law, when he himself should dissolve the Sanction of it? Besides if God should do thus, which Reason, Revelation, and the Event of things do manifest that he neither would nor c•u•d, (for he cannot deny himself) this would have been his work, and not an acquisition of men themselves, which we are now enquiring, after. So that this way of deliverance, as it is but imaginary, so it is here of no consideration.
There are but two wayes possible (setting aside the Consideration of what shall be afterwards fixed on) whereby mankind, or any individual Person amongst them, may obtain deliverance from this Evil: And the first is, that God without any further consideration should remit it, and exempt the Creation from under it. But although this way may seem possible unto some, it is indeed utterly otherwise. Did not the sentence of it proceed from his Righteousness, and the Essential Rectitude of his Nature▪ Did he not engage his Truth and faithfulness, that it should be inflicted? and doth not his Holiness and Justice require that so it should be? What should become o his glory, what would he do unto his great name, if now without any Cause or Reason he should contrary unto all these engagements of his Holy Perfections, wholly ren and take it off? Nay, this would plainly justifie the Sepent in his Calumny, that what ever he pretended, yet indeed that no Execution of his Threatning would ever ens. How also can it be supposed that any of his future Cmminations should have a just weight upon the souls of men; if that first great and fundamental one shuld be frustrated and evacuated? or what Authority would be left unto his Law, when he himself should dissolve the Sanction of it? Besides if God should do thus, which Reason, Revelation, and the Event of things do manifest that he neither would nor cud, (for he cannot deny himself) this would have been his work, and not an acquisition of men themselves, which we are now enquiring, after. So that this way of deliverance, as it is but imaginary, so it is here of no consideration.