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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.
Again, there is an intimation of the manner how this work shall be performed. This First, God takes upon himself; I will do it; I will put Enmity: It is an issue of his Sovereign Wisdom and Grace. But Secondly, He will do it in and by the nature of man; the seed of the Woman. And two things must concur to the effecting of it. First, That this seed of the Woman must conquer Satan; bruise his Head, destroy his Works, and procure Deliverance for mankind thereby. Secondly, That he must suffer from, and by the means of Satan in his so doing; the Serpent must bruise his Heel. This is the Remedy and Relief, that God hath provided for mankind. And this is the MESSIAH; or God joining with the Nature of man, to Deliver mankind from sin and Eternal misery.
Again, there is an intimation of the manner how this work shall be performed. This First, God takes upon himself; I will do it; I will put Enmity: It is an issue of his Soveraign Wisdom and Grace. But Secondly, He will do it in and by the nature of man; the seed of the Woman. And two things must concur to the effecting of it. First, That this seed of the Woman must conquer Satan; bruise his Head, destroy his Works, and procure Deliverance for mankind thereby. Secondly, That he must suffer from, and by the means of Satan in his so doing; the Serpent must bruise his Heel. This is the Remedy and Relief, that God hath provided for mankind. And this is the MESSIAH; or God joyning with the Nature of man, to Deliver mankind from sin and Eternal misery.
§ 24 This Promise of Relief by the seed of the Woman, is as the first, so the only intimation that God gave unto our first Parents, of a way of Deliverance from that condition whereinto they and the whole Creation were brought by the Entrance of Evil or Sin. It was likewise the first Discovery that there was in him, [Greek or Hebrew] Benignity, Grace, Kindness, or Mercy, Compassion, Pardon. Hereby he declared himself to be, [Greek or Hebrew], Neh. 9. v. 17. A God of Pardons, Gracious, and tenderly merciful. As also Psalm 86. v. 5. [Greek or Hebrew], Good and pardoning and much in mercy. And if this be not acknowledged, it must be confessed that all the world, at least unto the Flood, if not unto the days of Abraham, in which space of Time we have Testimony concerning some, that they walked with God and pleased him, were left without any certain ground of Faith, or hope of Acceptance with him. For without some knowledge of this Mercy, and the Provision of a way for its exercise, they could have no such Persuasion. This then we have obtained, that God presently upon the Entrance of sin into the World, and the breach of its public Peace thereby, promised a Reparation of that Evil in the whole Extent of it, to be wrought in and b the seed of the Woman; That is the MESSIAH.