A53696:580
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.
§ 20 This is the sum of the Creed of the most sober part of the Jews concerning the Messiah whom they look and long for; if any are so sober as to embrace it; For the same Author tells us, that there were very few so minded, it may be scarce another in an Age besides himself; generally they look after nothing but Rule, Dominion, Wealth, and Pleasure. But he, and they all own him as a temporal King, a mighty Warrior, subduing the Nations unto the Jews, a Furius Camillus, or an Alexander, or a Caesars of Redemption from sin, death and Hell, of Pardon of sin, Justification and Righteousness, of eternal Salvation by him, they know, they believe nothing. Maimonides thinks indeed, that his Kingdom shall long continue, not like Manasseh of late, who supposeth that it might not abide above forty years, and those immediately preceding the Day of Judgement.
§ 20 This is the summ of the Creed of the most sober part of the Jews concerning the Messiah whom they look and long for; if any are so sober as to embrace it; For the same Author tells us, that there were very few so minded, it may be scarce anoth•r in an Age besides himself; generally they look after nothing but Rule, Dominion, Wealth, and Pleasure. But he, and they all own him as a temporal King, a mighty Warriour, subduing the Nations unto the Jews, a Furius Camillus, or an Alexander, or a Caesars of Redemption from sin, death and Hell, of Pardon of sin, Justification and Righteousness, of eternal Salvation by him, they know, they believe nothing. Maimonides thinks indeed, that his Kingdom shall long continue, not like Manasseth of late, who supposeth that it might not abide above forty years, and those immediately preceding the Day of Judgement.
§ 21 It is sufficiently evident that this Opinion and Persuasion of the Jews which is Catholic unto them, and hath been so ever since they rejected the true Messiah, contains an absolute renunciation of the faith of the Church of old, and an utter rejection of all the ends for which the Messiah was promised. I shall not therefore enter here upon a particular refutation of it, for it will occur in our ensuing Discourses. Neither is this the Person about whom we contend with them: nor have we any concernment in him. When he comes, let them make their bst of him; we have already received the Captain of our Salvation. What also they plead for themselves as the ground of their obstinacy in refusing the True Messiah, must afterwards be particularly discussed. At present therefore, I shall only reflect on those depraved habits of their minds, which in concurrence with occasions and Temptations suited unto them, have seduced them into these low, carnal, and earthly imaginations about the Promised Seed, his Person, Office, and Work that he was to perform.