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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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§ 24 So is it also with them as to their Apprehension of the Judgement of God concerning the Desert of sin. The natural notion hereof the vilest Hypocrites amongst them were sometimes perplexed withal. See Isa. 33. v. 14, 15. Micah 6. v. 8. But the generality of them have long endeavoured by prejudicate Imaginations, to cast out the true and real sense of it. That God is angry at sin, that in some cases an Atonement is needful they will not deny. But so low and carnal are their thoughts of his severity, that they think any thing may serve the turn to appease his Wrath, or to satisfy his Justice, especially towards them whom alone he loves. Their Afflictions and Persecutions, the Death of their Children, and their own Death, especially if it be of a painful distemper, they suppose to make a sufficient Propitiation for all their sins. Such mean and unworthy thoughts have they of the Majesty, Holiness, and Terror of the Lord. Of late also, lest there should be a failure on any account, they have found out an invention to give their sins unto the Devil by the Sacrifice of a Cock, the manner whereof is at large described by Buxtorfius in his Synagoga Judaica. And this also hath no small influence on their minds to pervert them from the Faith of their Fore-Fathers. Let the Messiah provide well for them in this world, and they will look well enough unto themselves, as to that which is to come.
§ 24 So is it also with them as to their Apprehension of the Judgement of God concerning the Desert of sin. The natural notion hereof the vilest Hypocrites amongst them were sometimes perplexed withall. See Isa. 33. v. 14, 15. Micah 6. v. 8. But the generality of them have long endeavoured by prejudicate Imaginations, to cast out the true and real sense of it. That God is angry at sin, that in some cases an Attonement is needfull they will not deny. But so low and carnal are their thoughts of his severity, that they think any thing may serve the turn to appease his Wrath, or to satisfie his Justice, especially towards them whom alone he loves. Their Afflictions and Persecutions, the Death of their Children, and their own Death, especially if it be of a painful distemper, they suppose to make a sufficient Propitiation for all their sins. Such mean and unworthy thoughts have they of the Majesty, Holiness, and Terror of the Lord. Of late also, lest there should be a failure on any account, they have found out an invention to give their sins unto the Devil by the Sacrifice of a Cock, the manner whereof is at large described by Buxtorfius in his Synagoga Judaica. And this also hath no small influence on their minds to pervert them from the Faith of their Fore-Fathers. Let the Messiah provide well for them in this world, and they will look well enough unto themselves, as to that which is to come.