A53696:382
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 was therefore a Remedy in this case provided long before the giving of the Law on Mount Sinai; and therefore the Law was not given unto that purpose, but for other Ends at large declared by our Apostle. Either then they must grant that all the Patriarchs, and he in especial of whom they boast perished eternally, or else that there was a means of Deliverance provided before the giving of the Law, and consequently that the Law was not given for that End. The first they will not do, nor can without an absolute Renunciation of their own Sacred Writings, wherein none have obtained a larger Testimony that they pleased God than they. The latter therefore followeth undeniably. If they shall say they had a way of Deliverance, but God provided another afterwards, as this would be spoken without Warrant or Authority from the Scripture, so I desire to know both what that way was, and why it was rejected. Of Gods appointment it was, and effectual it was unto them that embraced it, and why it should be laid aside who can declare?
There was therefore a Remedy in this case provided long before the giving of the Law on Mount Sinai; and therefore the Law was not given unto that purpose, but for other Ends at large declared by our Apostle. Either then they must grant that all the Patriarchs, and he in especiall of whom they boast perished eternally, or else that there was a means of Deliverance provided before the giving of the Law, and consequently that the Law was not given for that End. The first they will not do, nor can without an absolute Renunciation of their own Sacred Writings, wherein none have obtained a larger Testimony that they pleased God than they. The latter therefore followeth undeniably. If they shall say they had a way of Deliverance, but God provided another afterwards, as this would be spoken without Warrant or Authority from the Scripture, so I desire to know both what that way was, and why it was rejected. Of Gods appointment it was, and effectual it was unto them that embraced it, and why it should be laid aside who can declare?
Again, as was before observed, there are two parts of the Law; The Moral Precepts § 20 of it, and the instituted Worship appointed in it. Unto this latter part do the Sacrifices of it belong. But neither of these are sufficient unto the End proposed, nor jointly can they attain it. Two things are evidently necessary from what hath been discoursed, unto the Deliverance enquired after. First, That Man be reconciled unto God, by the removal of the Curse, and the Wrath due unto him for his Apostasy. Secondly, That his Nature be freed from that Principle of Sin and enmity against God, (the evil figment) that it is tainted, yea, possessed withal. And neither of these can be effected by the Law, or either part of it. For,