A53696:452
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.
There is mention likewise made of the Messiah in the Targum, by an addition unto § 17 the Text, Ruth 3. v. 15. It was said in the Prophecy, that six Righteous Persons should come of Ruth, David, and Daniel with his Companions, and the King Messiah. The general End of the writing of this Book of Ruth, was to declare the Providence of God about the Genealogy of the Messiah. And this seems to have been kept in Tradition amongst them. And for this Cause doth Matthew expressly mention her name in his Rehearsal of the Genealogy of Christ, M•t. 1. v. 5. For it being a Tradition amongst the Jews, that this was the end of the writing of her Story, whereon they add that consideration unto the Text in their Targum, it was remembered by the Evangelist, in a compliance therewithal.
There is mention likewise made of the Messiah in the Targum, by an addition unto § 17 the Text, Ruth 3. v. 15. It was said in the Prophesie, that six Righteous Persons should come of Ruth, David, and Daniel with his Companions, and the King M•ssiah. The general End of the writing of this Book of Ruth, was to declare the Providence of God about the Genealogie of the Messiah. And this seems to have been kept in Tradition amongst them. And for this Cause doth Matthew expresly mention her name in his Rehearsal of the Genealogie of Christ, M•t. 1. v. 5. For it being a Tradition amongst the Jews, that this was the end of the writing of her Story, whereon they add that consideration unto the Text in their Targum, it was remembred by the Evangelist, in a compliance therewithall.
The place of Job wherein he expresseth his faith in him, and expectation of Redemption § 18 by him, hath been already explicated and vindicated, so that we shall not need here to insist upon it again. The Psalms next occur. In David the Light and Faith of the Church began to be greatly enlarged. The Renovation of the Promise unto him, the confirmation of it by an Oath, the Confinement of the Promised Seed unto his Posterity, the establishment of his Throne and Kingdom, as a Type of the Dominion and Rule of the Messiah, with the especial Revelations made unto him, as one that signally longed for his coming, and rejoiced in the prospect which he had of it, in the Spirit of Prophecy, did greatly further the Faith and Knowledge of the whole Church. Hence forward therefore the mention of him is multiplied, so that it would be impossible to insist on all the particular instances of it; I shall therefore only call over some of the most eminent, with an especial respect unto the concurrence of the Persuasion and Expectation of the Jews.