A53696:578
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.
With these Opinions, many of them have mixed prodigious fancies, rendering their § 19 estate under their Messiah in this world, not much inferior unto that which Mahomet hath promised unto his followers in another. And some of them on the other hand endeavour to pare off what superfluities they can spare, and to render their folly as plausible as they are able. Wherefore that it may appear what is the utmost height of their conceptions in this matter, and that which the most contemplative persons amongst them fix upon, I shall subjoin a description of him and his Kingdom, in the words of Maimonides, one of the wisest and soberest persons that hath been amongst them since their last fatal dispersion. This man therefore in his Exposition of the tenth Chapter of Tractat. Saned. observing the fond and frivolous imaginations of their ⟨p. 134⟩Talmudical Masters about the Messiah, gives many rules and instructions about the right understanding of their sayings, to free them from open impieties and contradictions. And hereunto he subjoins, as he supposeth the true Notion of the Messiah and his Kingdom in the ensuing words. As to the days of the Messiah, they are the time when the Kingdom shall be restored unto Israel, and they shall return unto Palestine. And this King shall be Potent, the Metropolis of whose Kingdom shall be Zion; and his Name shall be famous unto the uttermost parts of the Earth. He shall be greater and richer then Solomon, and with him the Nations shall make peace and yield him obedience, because of his Justice, and the Miracles that he shall perform. If any one shall rise against him God shall give him up into his hand to be destroyed. All the Scripture declares his Happiness, and the Happiness we shall have by him. Howbeit nothing in the nature of things shall be changed, only Israel shall have the Kingdom; for so our Wise men say expressly, there is no difference between these days, and the days of the Messiah, but only the subduing of the Nations under us. So indeed says Rab. Samuel, and others of them; [Greek or Hebrew]: He goes on, In those days Victuals shall be had at an easy rate, as if the earth brought forth Cates and Clothes; And afterwards, The Messiah shall dye, and his Son, and his Sons Son shall reign after him; but his Kingdom shall endure long, and men shall live long in those days;
With these Opinions, many of them have mixed prodigious fancies, rendering their § 19 estate under their Messiah in this world, not much inferiour unto that which Mahomet hath promised unto his followers in another. And some of them on the other hand endeavour to pare off what superfluities they can spare, and to render their folly as plausible as they are able. Wherefore that it may appear what is the utmost height of their conceptions in this matter, and that which the most contemplative persons amongst them fix upon, I shall subjoyn a description of him and his Kingdom, in the words of Maimonides, one of the wisest and soberest persons that hath been amongst them since their last fatal dispersion. This man therefore in his Exposition of the tenth Chapter of Tractat. Saned. observing the fond and frivolous imaginations of their