A53696:540
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.
§ 22 This Ra. Moses ••r Nachman; wrote about the year of the Lord, 1220. in Spain, and dyed at Jerusalem, An. 1260. and is one of the chiefest Masters of the Jews. And there are many things occurring in his Writings, beyond the common rate of their present Apprehensions. As in the Places cited, he doth plainly evert one of the principal foundations of their present Infidelity. For he not only grants, but contends and proves that the Angel spoken of, was God, and being sent of God as his Angel, he must be a distinct Person in the Deity, as we have proved. The Reason indeed he fixeth on why he is called an Angel, namely, because he governeth the world, although the thing its self be true, is not so proper. For he is so called because of his eternal designation, and actual delegation by the Father, unto the work of saving the Church in all conditions from first to last. And as he acknowledgeth that his being called the Face of God, proves him to be God, so it doth no less evidently evince his Personal distinction from him whose Face he is; that is, the Brightness of his Glory, and the express image of his Person. And what he adds of the Mercy and Benignity which by the appointment of God he exerciseth towards his People, is signally suitable unto the tenderness and mercy which the great Captain of our Salvation exerciseth by Gods appointment towards all those whom he leads and conducts unto Glory.
§ 22 This Ra. Moses ••r Nachman; wrote about the year of the Lord, 1220. in Spain, and dyed at J•rusal•m, An. 1260. and is one of the chiefest Masters of the Jews. And there are many things occurring in his Writings, beyond the common rate of their present Apprehensions. As in the Places cited, he doth plainly evert one of the principal foundations of their present Infidelity. For he not only grants, but contends and proves that the Angel spoken of, was God, and being sent of God as his Angel, he must be a distinct Person in the Deity, as we have proved. The Reason indeed he fixeth on why he is called an Angel, namely, because he governeth the world, although the thing its self be true, is not so proper. For he is so called because of his eternal designation, and actual delegation by the Father, unto the work of saving the Church in all conditions from first to last. And as he acknowledgeth that his being called the Face of God, proves him to be God, so it doth no less evidently evince his Personal distinction from him whose Face he is; that is, the Brightness of his Glory, and the express image of his Person. And what he adds of the Mercy and Benignity which by the appointment of God he exerciseth towards his People, is signally suitable unto the tenderness and mercy which the great Captain of our Salvation exerciseth by Gods appointment towards all those whom he leads and conducts unto Glory.