A53696:553
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.
so that all the Wise men of that Generation followed him, and took this Barcosba for their King and Messiah. And He first applied unto him the Prophecy of Balaam; Num. 24. v. 17. concerning the Star that should arise out of Jacob, whereon they changed his name, and called him Barchocheba, or the Son of the Star; or as some say, that was his name at first whence the blind Rabbin took occasion to apply that Prediction unto him. Concerning him also they interpreted the Prophecy of the Shiloh, and that also in Haggai about the shaking of the Heavens and the earth, as they acknowledge in the Talmud in the place fore-cited. This man therefore, a Magician and a bloody Murderer by the common advise and Counsel of their Doctors and Wise men they gathered unto in multitudes, and embraced as their Deliverer. So soon as he had got strength and power, he set himself to the work which they expected from their Messiah; namely to conquer the Romans, and to extirpate the Christians, which last, as Justin Martyr who lived near those days informs us, he endeavoured with all Cruelty. In the pursuit of this design, he continued for three years and an half, obstinately managing a bloody War against the Romans, until the Impostor himself was slain, their great Rabbi taken and tortured to death with iron Cards, and such a devastation made of the whole Nation, as that to this day they could never gather together in great numbers in any place of the world.
so that all the Wise men of that Generation followed him, and took this Barcosba for their King and M•ssiah. And He first applyed unto him the Prophesie of Balaam; Num. 24. v. 17. concerning the Star that should arise out of Jacob, whereon they changed his name, and called him Barchocheba, or the Son of the Star; or as some say, that was his name at first whence the blind Rabbin took occasion to apply that Prediction unto him. Concerning him also they interpreted the Prophesie of the Shilo, and that also in H•ggai about the shaking of the Heavens and the earth, as they acknowledge in the Talmud in the place fore-cited. This man therefore, a Magician and a bloody Murderer by the common advise and Counsel of their Doctors and Wise men they gathered unto in multitudes, and embraced as their Deliverer. So soon as he had got strength and power, he set himself to the work which they expected from their Messiah; namely to conquer the Romans, and to extirpate the Christians, which last, as Justin Martyr who lived near those dayes informs us, he endeavoured with all Cruelty. In the pursuit of this design, he continued for three years and an half, obstinately managing a bloody War against the Romans, until the Impostor himself was slain, their great Rabbi taken and tortured to death with iron Cards, and such a devastation made of the whole Nation, as that to this day they could never gather together in great numbers in any place of the world.