A53696:463
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.
The 110th Psalm is a signal Prophecy of him; describing his Person, Kingdom, § 26 ⟨p. 104⟩Priesthood, and the work of Redemption, wrought by him. But whereas sundry things in this Psalm, are interpreted and applied unto the Lord Christ by our Apostle in his Epistle unto the Hebrews, where they fall directly under our consideration, I shall here only briefly reflect on some of their own confessions, although it be a signal declaration of the faith of the Church of old, scarcely to be paralleled in any other place. The later Masters indeed observing how directly and openly this Psalm is applied unto the Lord Christ in the New Testament, and how plainly all the Passages of it are accommodated unto the Faith of Christians concerning the Messiah, his Office and Work, do endeavour their utmost to wrest it unto any other, as shall elsewhere be manifested. Yea, the Targum its self is here silent of the Messiah, for the very same Reason, and perverts the whole Psalm to apply it unto David; and yet is forced on v. 4. to refer the things spoken of unto the World to come, or Days of the Messiah. And the most of their Masters when they mention this Psalm occasionally, and mind not the Controversy they have about it with Christians, do apply it unto him. So doth the Midrash Tehillim on Psalm 2. v. 7. and also on this Psalm, v. 1. though there be an endeavour therein foolishly to wrest it unto Abraham. Ra. Saadias Gaon, on Dan. 7. v. 13. whose words are reported by Solomon Jarchi on Gen. 35. v. 8. Ra. Arama on Gen. 15. as he is at large cited by Munster on this Psalm. Moses Haddarshan on Gen. 18. v. 1. Ra. Obadiah, on the place; All whose words it would be tedious here to report. It is sufficiently manifest that they have an open conviction, that this Psalm contains a Prophecy concerning the Messiah; and what excellent things are revealed therein touching his Person, and Offices, we shall have occasion to declare in the Exposition of the Epistle its self, wherein the most material passages of it, are applied unto our Lord Jesus Christ.