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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.
§ 15 Neither yet doth it appear from any thing delivered by Caius, Hippolytus, Eusebius or Hierome, 1that the Latin Church did ever reject this Epistle. Yea, we shall find that many amongst them, even in those days, reckoned it unto the Canon of the Scripture, and owned St. Paul as the Penman of it. Eusebius himself acknowledges that Clemens useth sundry Testimonies out of it, in his Epistle ad Corinthios. And others also there were concurring with his judgement therein. But these two things I allow, on the testimonies insisted on. (1.) That sundry particular persons of note and esteem in the Roman Church owned not the Canonical authority of this Epistle, as not esteeming it written by St. Paul: (2.) The Church it self had not before the days of Hierome made any public Judgement about the Author or Authority of this Epistle, nor given any Testimony unto them. For it seems utterly impossible, that if any such Judgement had passed, or testimony been given, that Hierome living in the midst of that Church, should know nothing of it, but so often affirm the contrary without hesitation. And this undeniably evinceth the injustice of some mens pretensions, that the Roman Church is the only proposer of Canonical Scripture, and that upon the Authority of her proposal alone it is to be received. Four hundred years were passed before she her self publicly received this Epistle, or read it in her Assemblies; so far was she from having proposed it unto others. And yet all this while was it admitted and received by all other Churches in the world, ⟨p. 7⟩as Hierom testifies, and that from the days of the Apostles, whose judgement the Roman Church it self at length submitted unto.
§ 15 Neither yet doth it appear from any thing delivered by Caius, Hippolitus, Eusebius or Hierome, 1that the Latine Church did ever reject this Epistle. Yea, we shall find that many amongst them, even in those dayes, reckoned it unto the Canon of the Scripture, and owned St. Paul as the Penman of it. Eusebius himself acknowledges that Clemens useth sundry Testimonies out of it, in his Epistle ad Corinthios. And others also there were concurring with his judgement therein. But these two things I allow, on the testimonies insisted on. (1.) That sundry particular persons of note and esteem in the Roman Church owned not the Canonical authority of this Epistle, as not esteeming it written by St. Paul: (2.) The Church it self had not before the dayes of Hierome made any publick Judgement about the Author or Authority of this Epistle, nor given any Testimony unto them. For it seems utterly impossible, that if any such Judgement had passed, or testimony been given, that Hierome living in the midst of that Church, should know nothing of it, but so often affirm the contrary without haesitation. And this undenyably evinceth the injustice of some mens pretensions, that the Roman Church is the only proposer of Canonical Scripture, and that upon the Authority of her proposal alone it is to be received. Four hundred years were passed before she her self publickly received this Epistle, or read it in her Assemblies; so far was she from having proposed it unto others. And yet all this while was it admitted and received by all other Churches in the world,