A53696:551
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.
That this was the Ground on which they rejected the Promised Messiah, is evident § 5 from the Story of the Gospel, and we shall farther prove it upon them in our ensuing Discourses. How they did that, and what was the End thereof, is well known. But after they had done this, and murdered the Prince of Life, to justify themselves in their wickedness and unbelief, they still with all earnestness looked after such a Messiah as they had framed in their own imagination. And herein they grew more earnest and furious than ever. For they had not only their own false pre-conceived Opinion, strengthened by their carnal Interests and desires of earthly things to act and provoke them, but also their Reputation and pretence unto the Love and favour of God, to heighten them in their Presumptions; because they could not retain the least sense of them, if it might be supposed, that they had rejected the true Messiah, because in his way and work he answered not their Expectation. For this is the course of Pride and carnal Wisdom, to pursue those miscarriages with violence wherein they have been wickedly engaged; and to lay hold on any pretence that they may seem to justify them in what they have done. And on this account they exposed themselves as a prey unto every Seducer, who made the least appearance of being such a Messiah as they thought meet for them to receive. This at last cast them on a second shipwreck, in the business of Barchocheba who pretending himself to be their Messiah sent to deliver them from the Roman Yoke, and to set up a Kingdom amongst them, drew them all the world over, into that Sedition, Outrage and War, which ended in an almost universal extirpation of the whole Nation from the face of the Earth.
That this was the Ground on which they rejected the Promised Messiah, is evident § 5 from the Story of the Gospel, and we shall farther prove it upon them in our ensuing Discourses. How they did that, and what was the End thereof, is well known. But after they had done this, and murdered the Prince of Life, to justifie themselves in their wickedness and unbelief, they still with all earnestness looked after such a Messiah as they had framed in their own imagination. And herein they grew more earnest and furious than ever. For they had not only their own false pre-conceived Opinion, strengthened by their carnal Interests and desires of earthly things to act and provoke them, but also their Reputation and pretence unto the Love and favour of God, to heighten them in their Presumptions; because they could not retain the least sense of them, if it might be supposed, that they had rejected the true Messiah, because in his way and work he answered not their Expectation. For this is the course of Pride and carnal Wisdom, to pursue those miscarriages with violence wherein they have been wickedly engaged; and to lay hold on any pretence that they may seem to justifie them in what they have done. And on this account they exposed themselves as a prey unto every Seducer, who made the least appearance of being such a Messiah as they thought meet for them to receive. This at last cast them on a second shipwrack, in the business of Barchocheba who pretending himself to be their Messiah sent to deliver them from the Roman Yoke, and to set up a Kingdom amongst them, drew them all the world over, into that Sedition, Outrage and War, which ended in an almost universal extirpation of the whole Nation from the face of the Earth.