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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
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But yet that the Reader may in them consider the woeful condition of men rejected of God, cast out of his Covenant, and bereaved of his Spirit, and withal of how little use the Letter of the Old Testament is unto the vain minds of men, wholly destitute of Divine Illumination and Grace, and also learn what is that present Persuasion of the Jews, which they prefer before the faith of their Fore-fathers, and what they conceive of that Messiah for whose sake they reject him in whom alone there is Salvation, I shall give an account of the most important heads of their Opinions, and conjectures about him, as also of the principal occasions of their being hardened in their impenitency and unbelief.
But yet that the Reader may in them consider the wofull condition of men rejected of God, cast out of his Covenant, and bereaved of his Spirit, and withall of how little use the Letter of the Old Testament is unto the vain minds of men, wholly destitute of Divine Illumination and Grace, and also learn what is that present Perswasion of the Jews, which they prefer before the faith of their Fore-fathers, and what they conceive of that Messiah for whose sake they reject him in whom alone there is Salvation, I shall give an account of the most important heads of their Opinions, and conjectures about him, as also of the principal occasions of their being hardened in their impenitency and unbelief.
Our Apostle tells us, 1 Tim. 3. v. 16. That without Controversy great is the Mystery of § 9 Godliness, God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of Angels, Preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the World, received up into Glory. All things which concern the Messiah, his Person, Office and Work, are exceedingly Mysterious, as containing the principal effect of the Eternal Wisdom and Goodness of God, and the sacred depths of the counsel of his Will. Hence the things spoken of him in the Old Testament, are unto carnal Reason full of seeming inconsistencies. As for instance, it is promised of him that he should be the seed of the Woman; Gen. 3. v. 15