A53696:54
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.
§ 17 Bellarmin chargeth Luther, Brentius, Chemnitius and the Centuriators with the rejection of this Epistle.1 But because I know that some of them are falsely accused by him, I am apt to suspect the same of the rest, which I have not the opportunity to consult; And so I shall not reckon them amongst the opposers of this Epistle. The matter is more certain concerning Cajetan and Erasmus: the former in his Preface unto, the other in his last Annotation on this Epistle, denying it to be St. Pauls, and questioning, yea, indeed rejecting its Canonical Authority. To them we may add Eniedinus, proceeding upon the same principles, and making use of their Arguments to the same purpose. These are the chief, if not absolutely all, who have at any time made any scruple at the Authority of this Epistle. The reasons they make use of to justify themselves in their conjectures, are amassed together by Erasmus in his Note on the 24. Verse of the last Chapter of it: But because he mixeth together the Arguments that he insists on to prove St. Paul not to have been the Penman of it, and the exceptions he puts in unto its Canonical Authority, which are things of a diverse consideration, I shall separate them, and first take out those that seem absolutely to impeach its Authority; leaving them that oppose its Penman, to our ensuing Discourse on that question in particular.
§ 17 Bellarmin chargeth Luther, Brentius, Chemnitius and the Centuriators with the rejection of this Epistle.1 But because I know that some of them are falsly accused by him, I am apt to suspect the same of the rest, which I have not the opportunity to consult; And so I shall not reckon them amongst the opposers of this Epistle. The matter is more certain concerning Cajetan and Erasmus: the former in his Preface unto, the other in his last Annotation on this Epistle, denying it to be St. Pauls, and questioning, yea, indeed rejecting its Canonicall Authority. To them we may add Eniedinus, proceeding upon the same principles, and making use of their Arguments to the same purpose. These are the chief, if not absolutely all, who have at any time made any scruple at the Authority of this Epistle. The reasons they make use of to justifie themselves in their conjectures, are amassed together by Erasmus in his Note on the 24. Verse of the last Chapter of it: But because he mixeth together the Arguments that he insists on to prove St. Paul not to have been the Penman of it, and the exceptions he puts in unto its Canonicall Authority, which are things of a diverse consideration, I shall separate them, and first take out those that seem absolutely to impeach its Authority; leaving them that oppose its Penman, to our ensuing Discourse on that question in particular.