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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.
We need not much insist on their madness who of old with a sacrilegious licentiousness § 11 rejected what portion of Scripture they pleased. The Ebionites not only rejected all the Epistles of Paul, but also reviled his person as a Greek and an Apostate, as Irenaeus and Epiphanius inform us.1 Their folly and blasphemy was also imitated and followed by the Helescheitae in Eusebius. Marcion rejected in particular this Epistle to the Hebrews, and those also to Timothy and Titus, as Epiphanius, 2and Hierome assure us, who adds unto him Basilides. And Theodoret as to the Epistle unto the Hebrews, 3joins unto them, some of the Arians also. Now though the folly of those Sacrilegious persons be easy to be repelled as it is done by Petrus Cluniacusis, 4yet Hierome hath given us a sufficient reason why we should not spend time therein. Si quidem (saith he) redderent causas cur eas Apostoli non putant, tentaremus aliquid respondere, 5& sorsitan satisfaciere lectori; nunc vero cum haeretica autoritate pronunciant & dicunt, illa Epistola Pauli est, haec non est, ea autoritate refelli see pro veritate intelligant, 6qua ipsi non crubescant falsa simulare. They did not so much as plead, or pretend any cause or reason for the rejection of these Epistles, but did it upon their own head and Authority, so they deserve neither answer nor consideration.
We need not much insist on their madness who of old with a sacrilegious licentiousness § 11 rejected what portion of Scripture they pleased. The Ebionites not only rejected all the Epistles of Paul, but also reviled his person as a Gre•k and an Apostate, as Irenaeus and Epiphanius inform us.1 Their folly and blasphemy was also imitated and followed by the Helescheitae in Eusebius. Marcion rejected in particular this Epistle to the Hebrews, and those also to Timothy and Titus, as Epiphanius,