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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.
These Manifestations of the Son of God unto the Church of old, as the Angel or § 19 Messenger of the Father subsisting in his own Divine Person, are all of them Revelations of the Promised Seed, the great and only Saviour and Deliverer of the Church in his eternal Pre-existence unto his Incarnation, and pledges of his future taking flesh for the accomplishment of the whole work committed unto him. And many other instances of the like nature may be added out of the former and later Prophets, which because in most important Circumstances they are coincident with these need not here particularly be insisted on.
These Manifestations of the Son of God unto the Church of old, as the Angel or § 19 Messenger of the Father subsisting in his own Divine Person, are all of them Revelations of the Promis•d Seed, the great and only Saviour and Deliverer of the Church in his eternal Pre-existence unto his Incarnation, and pledges of his future taking flesh for the accomplishment of the whole work committed unto him. And many other instances of the like nature may be added out of the former and later Prophets, which because in most important Circumstances they are coincident with these need not here particularly be insisted on.
Some of late would apply all these Appearances unto a created delegate Angel; § 20 which conceit as it is irreconcilable unto the sacred Text, as we have manifested, so is it contrary unto the sense of the ancient Writers of the Christian Church. A large Collection of Testimonies from them is not suited unto our present Design and Purpose, I shall therefore only mention two of the most ancient of them; one of the Latin, the other of the Greek Church. The first is Tertullian, who tells us, Christus semper egit in Dei Patris nomin•; ipse ab initio conversatus est & congressus cum Patriarchis & Prophetis. adv. M•r•. lib. 2. Christ always dealt (with men) in the name of God the Father; and so himself from the beginning conversed with the Patriarchs and Prophets. And again, Christus ad colloquia humana semper descendit, ah Adam usque ad Patriarchas & Prophetas, in vision, in somno, in speculo, in aenigmate, ordinem suum praestruns semper a initio; & Deus in terris cum hominibus conversatus est, non alius quam sermo qui caro erat futurus. Adv. Praxeam. It was Christ who descended into communion with men, from Adam unto the Patriarchs and Prophets, in Visions, Dreams, and Appearances, or Representations of himself, instructing them in his future condition from the beginning; And God who conversed with men on earth, was no other but the Word who was to be made flesh. The other is Justin Martyr, whose word needs not be produced, seeing it is known how he contends for this very thing, in his Dialogue with Trypho.