A53696:476
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.
Secondly, As to the name ascribed unto him, they are for the most part agreed, and § 34 unless that one evasion which they have fixed on, will relieve them, they are utterly silent; Now this is, as was before declared, that the words are to be read, The Wonderful, Counsellor, the mighty God, the Everlasting Father, shall call his Name the Prince of Peace; so that the Prince of Peace only is the name of the promised Child, all the rest are the Name of God. But (1.) If words may be so transposed, and shuffled together, as they are to produce this sense, there will nothing be left certain in the Scripture; nor can they give any one instance of such a disposal of words, as they fancy in this place. (2.) The very reading of the words rejects this Gloss, He shall call his Name Wonderful; (3.) It is the name of the Child, and not of God that gives him, which is expressed for the comfort of the Church: (4.) What tolerable Reason can be given for such an accumulation of Names unto God in this place? (5.) There is nothing in the l•ast, not any distinctive accent, to separate between the Prince of Peace, and the expressions foregoing; but the same Person is intended by them all; so that it was not Hezekiah, but the mighty God himself, who in the Person of the Son was to be incarnate, that is here spoken of.
Secondly, As to the name ascribed unto him, they are for the most part agreed, and § 34 unless that one evasion which they have fixed on, will relieve them, they are utterly silent; Now this is, as was before declared, that the words are to be read, The Wonderfull, Counsellor, the mighty God, the Everlasting Father, shall call his Name the Prince of Peace; so that the Prince of Peace only is the name of the promised Child, all the rest are the Name of God. But (1.) If words may be so transposed, and shufled together, as they are to produce this sense, there will nothing be left certain in the Scripture; nor can they give any one instance of such a disposal of words, as they fancy in this place. (2.) The very reading of the words rejects this Gloss, He shall call his Name Wonderfull; (3.) It is the name of the Child, and not of God that gives him, which is expressed for the comfort of the Church: (4.) What tolerable Reason can be given for such an accumulation of Names unto God in this place? (5.) There is nothing in the l•ast, not any distinctive accent, to separate between the Prince of Peace, and the expressions foregoing; but the same Person is intended by them all; so that it was not Hezekiah, but the mighty God himself, who in the Person of the Son was to be incarnate, that is here spoken of.