A53696:575
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.
§ 18 The Endless Fables of the Jews about their Messiah, as they have been in part discovered by others, so I design not here at large to recount them. The chief Masters of them in the Talmud are full of disputes and contradictions about him, and those of after Ages succeed them in their uncertainties. Such will the conceptions of all men be, when they take up fancies and opinions of their own in matters of Divine Revelation. But some things there are wherein they all generally agree, and those relating ⟨p. 133⟩unto his Person, Work and Office▪ which it shall suffice to give an account of, as answering our present Design. First, Therefore they contend that he shall be a mere man; and there is nothing that they strive to avoid more then the Testimonies of Scripture which show that the promised Messiah was to be God and man in one Person, as hath been already evidenced. They contend also that he shall be born after the manner of all men, not of a Virgin, but of a married Woman begotten by her Husband. About the place of his birth they are not fully agreed; for although they all acknowledge the Prophecy of Micah about Bethlehem to relate unto him, Chap. 5.2. yet knowing, that Town now to have been desolate for many Generations, and waste without inhabitant, which would seem to prove that he is come already, they contend, that it is said he shall be born at Bethlehem, because he is to spring of David who was born there; for of the Tribe of Judah and Family of David he must proceed; although they have neither distinction of Tribes, nor succession of Families left in the world amongst them. To relieve themselves from that difficulty, they feign that he shall restore unto them all their Genealogies.
§ 18 The Endless Fables of the Jews about their Messiah, as they have been in part discovered by others, so I design not here at large to recount them. The chief Masters of them in the Talmud are full of disputes and contradictions about him, and those of after Ages succeed them in their uncertainties. Such will the conceptions of all men be, when they take up fancies and opinions of their own in matters of Divine Revelation. But some things there are wherein they all generally agree, and those relating ⟨p. 133⟩unto his Person, Work and Office▪ which it shall suffice to give an account of, as answering our present Design. First, Therefore they contend that he shall be a meer man; and there is nothing that they strive to avoid more then the Testimonies of Scripture which shew that the promised Messiah was to be God and man in one Person, as hath been already evidenced. They contend also that he shall be born after the manner of all men, not of a Virgin, but of a married Woman begotten by her Husband. About the place of his birth they are not fully agreed; for although they all acknowledge the Prophesie of Micah about Bethlehem to relate unto him, Chap. 5.2. yet knowing, that Town now to have been desolate for many Generations, and waste without inhabitant, which would seem to prove that he is come already, they contend, that it is said he shall be born at Bethlehem, because he is to spring of David who was born there; for of the Tribe of Judah and Family of David he must proceed; although they have neither distinction of Tribes, nor succession of Families left in the world amongst them. To relieve themselves from that difficulty, they feign that he shall restore unto them all their Genealogies.