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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
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We have also a surer word for our own satisfaction, in the Application of this place unto Satan in the Divine Writings of the New Testament: as 2 Cor. 11.3. 2 Tim. 2.14. Rom. 5.11, 12, 13, 15. Heb. 2.14, 15. 1 John 3.8. Revel. 12.9. and Chap. 20. v. 2, 3. but we forbear to press them on the Jews.
We have also asurer word for our own satisfaction, in the Application of this place unto Satan in the Divine Writings of the New Testament: as 2 Cor. 11.3. 2 Tim. 2.14. Rom. 5.11, 12, 13, 15. Heb. 2.14, 15. 1 John 3.8. Revel. 12.9. and Chap. 20. v. 2, 3. but we forbear to press them on the Jews.
Besides, it is most evident from the thing it self. For (1.) Who can be so sottish as to imagine, that this great Alteration which ensued on the works of God, that which caused him to pronounce them accursed, and to inflict so sore a Punishment on Adam and all his Posterity, should arise from the Actings of a Brute Creature. Where is the glory of this dispensation? How can we attribute it unto the Wisdom and Greatness of God? What is there in it suitable unto his Righteousness and Holiness? Whereas supposing this to be the work of him who was in himself the beginning of all Apostasy, and who first brake the Law of his Creation, all things answer the Excellency of the Divine Perfections. Moreover is it imaginable that the nature of man then flourishing in the vigour of all its intellectual Abilities, Reason, Wisdom, Knowledge; in that Order and Rectitude of them which was his Grace, should be surprised, seduced and brought into subjection, unto the Craft and Machinations of an inferior Creature, a Beast of the Field, and that unto its own Ruin Temporal and Eternal? The whole nature of the inferior creatures, James tells us, is tamed by the nature of Man, Chap. 3. v. 7. and that now in his lessened and depraved condition; and shall we think that this Excellent Nature, in the blossom of its strength, and right unto Rule over all, should be tamed, corrupted, subdued, by the nature of a Beast or a Serpent. And yet again, whereas in the whole action of the Serpent, there is an open design against the glory and honour of God, with the welfare and happiness of mankind, and that managed with Craft, Subtlety, and Forecast, how can we imagine that such a contrivance should befall a brute Worm, uncapable of Moral Evil, and newly framed out of the dust by the power of its Creator? Hitherto it had continued under the Law and Order of its Creation; and shall we now think that suddenly on an instant, it should engage thus desperately against God and man? And further the actings of the Serpent were by Reason and with Speech. And doth not a supposal that he was endowed with them plainly exempt him from that Order and kind of Creatures whereof he was, and place him among the number of the intellectual and rational parts of the Creation?