A53696:430
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.
Besides his suffering is intimated in the foregoing Expression, that the Serpent should bruise his heel, which they much desire to free their Messiah from. But that which principally lies against them in this Testimony is, that whereas they appropriate the Promise of the Messiah unto themselves, and make the Doctrine concerning him to belong unto the Law of Moses, whereof say some, (those that follow Maimonides) it is one of the Fundamentals, others (as Josephus Albo) that it is a branch of the Fundamental concerning Rewards and Punishments, it is here given out by the Testimony of their Targums, unto the Posterity of Adam indefinitely, two thousand years before the Call and Separation of Abraham, from whom they pretend to derive their Privilege, and much longer before the giving of their Law, whereof they would have it to be a part; which is diligently to be heeded against them.
Besides his suffering is intimated in the foregoing Expression, that the Serpent should bruise his heel, which they much desire to free their Messiah from. But that which principally lyes against them in this Testimony is, that whereas they appropriate the Promise of the Messiah unto themselves, and make the Doctrine concerning him to belong unto the Law of Moses, whereof say some, (those that follow Maimonides) it is one of the Fundamentals, others (as Josephus Albo) that it is a branch of the Fundamentall concerning Rewards and Punishments, it is here given out by the Testimony of their Targums, unto the P••terity of Adam indefinitely, two thousand years before the Call and Separation of Abraham, from whom they pretend to derive their Priviledge, and much longer before the giving of their Law, whereof they would have it to be a part; which is diligently to be heeded against them.
§ 4 Concerning the Promises made unto Abraham we have spoken before; the next mention in the Targum of the Messiah is on Gen 35. v. 21. where occasion is taken to bring him into the Text. For unto those words, and Israel journeyed and spread his Tent, [Greek or Hebrew], unto, or beyond the Tower of Edar, Jonathan adds, [Greek or Hebrew] Which is the place from whence the King Messiah shall be revealed in the end of the days. And this Tradition is taken from