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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.
The Jews of latter Ages, assign some difference among the books of the old Testament, § 8 1as to their spring and Original, or manner, of Revelation though they make none as to their being all Canonical. The Book of the Law, they assign unto a peculiar manner of Revelation which they call [Greek or Hebrew] mouth to mouth, 2or face to face, which they gather from Numbers 12.8. whereof afterwards. Others of them they affirm to proceed from [Greek or Hebrew] or the gift of Prophecy, whereof as they make many kinds or degrees, taken from the different means used by God in the Application of himself unto them, belonging to the [Greek or Hebrew] of divine Revelation mentioned by the Apostle, Heb. 1.1. so they divide those books into two parts, namely the [Greek or Hebrew] or former Prophets containing most of the historical Books after the end of the Law; and [Greek or Hebrew] the latter prophets, wherein they comprise the most of them peculiarly so called. The Original of the remainder of them they ascribe unto [Greek or Hebrew] or inspiration by the holy Ghost, calling them peculiarly [Greek or Hebrew] written, by that inspiration; as though the whole Canon and system of the books were not [Greek or Hebrew] the Scripture, or writing, and [Greek or Hebrew], or divine inspiration, the only means of their writing. But they do herein as in many other things. The distribution of the books of the old Testament, into the Law, Psalms and Prophets, was very ancient in their Church. We have mention of it, Luke 24.44. [Greek or Hebrew], that are written in the law of Moses, and in the Prophets, and in the Psalms, that is, in the whole Canonical Scripture. And evident it is that this distribution is taken from the subject matter of those principal parts of it. This reason of that distribution which they have by Tradition, they not knowing or neglecting, have feigned the rise of it in a different manner of Revelation, and cast the particular books arbitrarily under what heads they pleased; as is evident from sundry of them which they reckon unto the [Greek or Hebrew] Cethubim, ⟨p. 4⟩