A53696:559
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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and yet complains, I am a worm and no man, a reproach of Men, and despised of the People, Psal. 22. v. 6. All which, with sundry others of the like nature concerning his Office and Work, are clearly reconciled in the New Testament, and their concurrence in the Person of our Lord Jesus Christ openly and fully declared.
§ 10 At the time of his coming, the Jews were generally as ignorant of these things, as Nicodemus was of Regeneration; they knew not how they might be. And therefore when ever our Saviour intimated unto them his Divine Nature, they were filled with rage and madness, John 8. v. 58, 59. They wo•ld stone him because being a man, he declared himself to be God: John 10. v. 30, 31, 33. and yet, when he proved it to them that the Messiah was to be so, inasmuch as that being Davids Son, yet David in Spirit cal•ed him Lord, they were confounded, not being able to answer him a word; Matth. 22. v. 42, 43, 44, 45, 46. when he told them, that the Son of Man the Messiah must be lifted up, that is in his death on the Cross, they objected unto him out of the Law, that Christ abideth for ever, John 12. v. 34. and they knew not how to reconcile these things. Hence some of his own Disciples thought he could not be the Messiah when they saw that he dyed, Luke 24. v. 20, 21. and the b•st of them seemed to have expected an outward temporal Kingdom. But of all these difficulties, as was said, and seeming inconsistencies, there is a blessed Reconciliation revealed in the Gospel, and an Application made of them to the Person of the Lord Jesus, the Office he bare, and the Work that he accomplished. This the Jews refusing by unbelief, they have invented many fond and lewd imaginations to free themselves from these difficulties and entanglements. Some things they deny to be spoken concerning the Messiah; some things they wrest and pervert to their own apprehensions, and somewhat they allow and look for, that is truly promised.