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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.
§ 5 And this Appellation is of ancient use in the Church. The Synod of Laodicea, supposed to have preceded the Council of Nice, 1makes mention of it, as a thing generally admitted; for the Fathers of it decree, [Greek or Hebrew]. That no private Psalms ought to be said or read in the Church, nor any uncanonical Books, but only the Canonical books of the new and old Testament, whose names they subjoin in their order.2 And some while before, the Bishops who joined with the Church of Antioch in the deposition of Paulus Samosatenus charge him as [Greek or Hebrew] one that in the introduction of his heresy departed from the Canon or rule of the Scripture. Before them also,3 it was called by Irenaeus [Greek or Hebrew]. And Chrysostom calls it [Greek or Hebrew],4 the sentence of the divine Laws, [Greek or Hebrew], the exact balance square or rule and Canon of all truths and duties; wherein he hath evidently respect unto the original use and importance of the word before explained; and thereupon calls on his hearers, that omitting the consideration of what this or that man says or thinks, they should seek and require [Greek or Hebrew] all these things of or from the Scriptures, which are the Canon of our faith and obedience.5 And Austin, demonstrent ecclesiam suam non in rumoribus Africorum, sed in praescripto legis, in Prophetarum praedictis, in Psalmorum cantibus, hoc est in omnibus canonicis Sanctorum librorum authoritatibus. Let them demonstrate their Church, not by the rumours of the Africans, but by the prescription of the Law, the predictions of the Prophets, the Songs of the Psalms, that is by the Canonical Authority of the holy books of the Scriptures. 6And he pursues the Metaphor of a scale and a measure in many words elsewhere. And thus Aquinas himself confesseth the Scripture is called Canonical, 7because it is the Rule of our understanding in the things of God; And such a Rule it is, as hath Authority over the Consciences of men, to bind them unto faith and obedience, because of its being given of God by inspiration for that purpose.