A53696:410
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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But we have farther Expositions of this first Promise, and farther Confirmations of § 29 this Grace in the Scripture its self. For in Process of time it was renewed unto Abraham, and the Accomplishment of it confined unto his Family. For his gratuitous Call from Superstition and Idolatry, with the Separation of him and his Posterity from all the Families of the Earth, was subservient only unto the fulfilling of the Promise before treated of. The first mention of it, we have Gen. 12. v. 1, 2, 3. Now the Lord had said unto Abraham, Get thee out of thy Country, and from thy Kindred, and from thy Fathers House, unto a Land that I will show thee. And I will make of thee a great Nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy Name great, and thou shalt be a blessing. And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee, and in thee shall all the Families of the Earth be blessed. And this is again expressed, Chap. 18. v. 18. All the Nations of the Earth shall be blessed in him. And Chap. 22.18. And in thy seed shall all the Nations of the Earth be blessed. And when he doubted of the accomplishment of this Promise, because he was Childless, and said, Behold unto me thou hast given no seed, as knowing that therein lay the Promise, Chap. 15. v. 3. God tells him, that he who should come forth of his own Bowels should be his Heir, ver. 4. which was afterwards ⟨p. 90⟩restrained unto Isaac. chap. 17.21. Thus he is called and separated, as from his own family and kindred, so from all other Nations, and a peculiar portion of the earth assigned unto him and his, for their habitation. Now the especial End of this Divine dispensation, of this Call and Separation of Abraham, was to be a means of accomplishing the Former Promise, or the bringing forth of him, who was to be the Deliverer of mankind from the Curse that was come upon them for their sin. For,
But we have farther Expositions of this first Promise, and farther Confirmations of § 29 this Grace in the Scripture its self. For in Process of time it was renewed unto Abraham, and the Accomplishment of it confined unto his Family. For his gratuitous Call from Superstition and Idolatry, with the Separation of him and his Posterity from all the Families of the Earth, was subservient only unto the fulfilling of the Promise before treated of. The first mention of it, we have