A53696:443
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.
Wherefore this place is rightly applied unto him in the New Testament, Acts 3.22, 23. Chap. 7.37. And we have hence a farther discovery of the Nature of the Deliverer, and Deliverance promised of old, and therein of the Faith of the Ancient Church; He was to be a blessed Prophet to reveal the mind and will of God; which also he hath done unto the utmost. And from this place it is that the Jews themselves in Midrash Coheleth, cap. 1. say, [Greek or Hebrew]; The latter Redeemer is to be like the former.
Wherefore this place is rightly applyed unto him in the New Testament, Acts 3.22, 23. Chap. 7.37. And we have hence a farther discovery of the Nature of the Deliverer, and Deliverance promised of old, and therein of the Faith of the Antient Church; He was to be a blessed Prophet to reveal the mind and will of God; which also he hath done unto the utmost. And from this place it is that the Jews themselves in Midrash Coheleth, cap. 1. say, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; The latter Redeemer is to be like the former.
Deut. 25. v. 19. Thou shalt blot out the Remembrance of Amaleck from under Heaven, § 12 thou shalt not forget it. Jonathan; Targum, [Greek or Hebrew], And also in the days of the Messiah the King, thou shalt not forget it. But as this savours too much of those revengeful thoughts which they frequently discover themselves to be filled withal; so all these apprehensions proceed from the Old Tradition that by the Messiah we should be delivered from the hands of all our Enemies, which they being carnal and earthly, do wrest to give countenance unto their own desires and imaginations.
Deut. 25. v. 19. Thou shalt blot out the Remembrance of Amaleck from under Heaven, § 12 thou shalt not forget it. Jonathan; Targum, , And also in the dayes of the Messiah the King, thou shalt not forget it. But as this savours too much of those revengefull thoughts which they frequently discover themselves to be filled withall; so all these apprehensions proceed from the Old Tradition that by the Messiah we should be delivered from the hands of all our Enemies, which they being carnal and earthly, do wrest to give countenance unto their own desires and imaginations.