A53696:581
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.
§ 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 b•st 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.
§ 21 It is sufficiently evident that this Opinion and Perswasion of the Jews which is Catholick 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 b•st 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.
§ 22 In things therefore of this kind, Ignorance of their miserable condition by nature, both as to sin and wrath, justly claims the first place. For although, as was by instances before manifested, the Evidence of Truth, and Power of Traditions amongst them, have prevailed with some, to avow the notion of the Sin of Adam and the corruption of our nature thereby, yet indeed there is not any of them, that have a true sense and conviction of their Natural Condition, and the misery that doth attend it. The Messiah, as we have proved at large, was first promised to relieve mankind from that state whereinto they were cast by the Apostasy of Adam the Common Root and Parent of them all. Such as are mens apprehensions of that condition, such also will be their thoughts concerning the Messiah, who was promised to be a Deliverer from it. They who know themselves cast out of the favour of God thereby, made obnoxious unto his eternal displeasure, and disenabled to do any thing that shall please him, as being cast into a state of universal Enmity against him, must needs look on the Messiah promised in the Grace, Goodness and Wisdom of God for a Saviour and Deliverer, to be One that