A53696:518
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.
§ 7 Aben Ezra reflects with scorn on the Christians, who from this Place, because three men are said to appear unto Abraham, and he calls them My Lord, would prove the Tri-personality of the Deity. [Greek or Hebrew], Because of the appearance of three men, God is three, and he is one, and they are not separated or divided. How then doth he▪ answer what they say? [Greek or Hebrew]; Behold they forget that there came two Angels unto Sodom. That is, that two of those who appeared were Angels and no more. But if any Christians have taken these three Persons to have been the three Persons of the Trinity, it were an easy thing to out-balance their mistake, with instances of his own and companions pernicious Curiosities and Errors. It is true, a Trinity of Persons in the Deity cannot be proved from this place, seeing one of them is expressly called Jehovah, and the other two in distinction from him are said to be Angels; so, and no more; Chap. 19.1. But yet a distinction of Persons in the Deity, although not the precise number of them is hence demonstrable. For it is evident that he of the three that spake unto Abraham, and to whom he made his supplication for the sparing of Sodom was Jehovah the Judge of all the world, v. 22, 25. And yet all the three were sent upon the work, that one being the Prince and Head of the Embassy; as he who is Jehovah, is said to be sent by Jehovah, Zech. 2. v. 8, 9. Neither is there any ground for the late Exposition of this and the like places, namely, that a created Angel representing the Person of God, doth both speak and act in his name, and is called Jehovah; ⟨p. 117⟩an invention to evade the Appearances of the Son of God under the Old Testament, contrary to the sense of all Antiquity; nor is any reason or instance produced to make it good. The Jews indeed say, that they were three Angels, because of the threefold work they were employed in, for they say, no more than one Angel is at any time sent about the same work. So one of these was to renew the Promise unto Abraham; another to deliver Lot; and the third to destroy Sodom. But besides that this is a rule of their own making, and evidently false, as may be seen, Gen. 32. v. 1, 2. 2 Kings 6. v. 17. so in the story its self, it is manifest that they were all employed in the same work; one as Lord and Prince, the other two as his ministering servants.