A53696:408
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.
God having in infinite Wisdom and Grace, provided this way of Relief, and given § 28 this intimation of it, That Revelation became the Foundation and Centre of all the Religion that ensued in the world. For as those who received it by Faith, and adhered unto it, continued in the Worship of the true God, expressing their Faith in the Sacrifices that he had appointed typically to represent and exemplify before their eyes the work its self which by the promised seed was to be accomplished; so also all that false Worship which the generality of mankind apostatized into, was laid in a general persuasion, that there was a way for the Recovery of the favour of God; but what that was they knew not, and therefore wandered in woeful uncertainties.
God having in infinite Wisdom and Grace, provided this way of Relief, and given § 28 this intimation of it, That Revelation became the Foundation and Center of all the Religion that ensued in the world. For as those who received it by Faith, and adhered unto it, continued in the Worship of the true God, expressing their Faith in the Sacrifices that he had appointed typically to represent and exemplifie before their eyes the work its self which by the promised seed was to be accomplished; so also all that false Worship which the generality of mankind apostatized into, was laid in a general perswasion, that there was a way for the Recovery of the favour of God; but what that was they knew not, and therefore wandered in wofull uncertainties.
Some suppose that our great Mother Eve in those words, Genes. 4. ver. 1. [Greek or Hebrew], expressed an Apprehension that she had bore him who was Man-God, the Man the Lord, the Promised Seed. And they do not only contend for this meaning of the words, but also reproach them who are otherwise minded; as may be seen in the Writings of Hunnius and Helvicus, against Calvin, Junius, Paraeus, and Piscator. That she together with Adam believed the Promise, had the consolation▪ and served God in the Faith of it, I no way doubt. But that she had an Apprehension that the Promised Seed should be so soon exhibited, and knew that he should be the Lord, or Jehovah, and yet knew not, that he was to be born of a Virgin, and not after the ordinary way of mankind, I see no cogent Reason to evince. Nor do the words mentioned necessarily prove any such apprehension in her. The whole weight of that supposition, lies on the Construction of the words from the interposition of the Particle [Greek or Hebrew] denoting as they say after Verbs active always an Accusative Case. But instances may be given to the contrary; whence our Translation reads the words, I have gotten a man from the Lord, without the least intimation of any other sense in the Original. And Drusius is bold to affirm, that it is want of solid skill in the Sacred Tongue, that was the cause of that conception. Besides, if she had such thoughts, she was manifoldly mistaken; and to what end that mistake of hers should be here expressed, I know not. And yet notwithstanding all this, I will not deny but that the expression is unusual and extraordinary, if the sense of our Translation be intended, and not that by some contended for, I have gotten or obtained the Man the Lord. And this, it is possible caused Jonathan Ben Uzziel to give us that gloss on the words in his Targum. [Greek or Hebrew]. And Adam knew his Wife Eve, who desired the Angel: and she conceived and bare Cain, and said, I have obtained the man (or a man) the Angel of the Lord. That is, him who was promised afterwards, under the name of the Angel of the Lord, or the Angel of the Covenant, which the Jews may do well to consider.