A53696:401
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
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We may now therefore take the sum of this Discourse, and of the whole matter § 26 that we have insisted on, about the Entrance of sin into the world, and the Remedy provided in the Grace and Wisdom of God against it. It appears upon our Enquiry; First, That the Sin of our First Parents, was the Occasion and Cause of all that Evil which is in the world, of all that is felt or justly feared by mankind. For as those who knew not, or received not the Revelation of the Truth in these things made unto us in the Scripture, could never assign any other cause of it, that might be satisfactory unto an ordinary rational Enquiry, so the Testimonies of the Scripture make it most evident, and especially that insisted on. Secondly, It hath been evinced, tha• mankind could not recover, or deliver themselves from under the power of their own innate corruption and disorder, nor from the effects of the Curse and Wrath of God that came upon them. Neither is there any ground of Expectation of Relief from any other part of Gods Creation. But yet that God for the praise of the glory of his Grace, Mercy and Goodness, would effect it and bring it about. Thirdly, That this Relief and Deliverance is first intimated and declared, in those words of God unto the Serpent; I will put Enmity between thee and the Woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Which appears,
We may now therefore take the summ of this Discourse, and of the whole matter § 26 that we have insisted on, about the Entrance of sin into the world, and the Remedy provided in the Grace and Wisdom of God against it. It appears upon our Enquiry; First, That the Sin of our First Parents, was the Occasion and Cause of all that Evil which is in the world, of all that is felt or justly feared by mankind. For as those who knew not, or received not the Revelation of the Truth in these things made unto us in the Scripture, could never assign any other cause of it, that might be satisfactory unto an ordinary rational Enquiry, so the Testimonies of the Scripture make it most evident, and especially that insisted on. Secondly, It hath been evinced, tha• mankind could not recover, or deliver themselves from under the power of their own innate corruption and disorder, nor from the effects of the Curse and Wrath of God that came upon them. Neither is there any ground of Expectation of Relief from any other part of Gods Creation. But yet that God for the praise of the glory of his Grace, Mercy and Goodness, would effect it and bring it about. Thirdly, That this Relief and Deliverance is first intimated and declared, in those words of God unto the Serpent; I will put Enmity between thee and the Woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Which appears,