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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
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.
§ 31 But do these things answer the Promises made concerning him from the foundation ⟨p. 139⟩of the world? Is this the meaning of the Promise given unto Adam? Was this the End of the Call and Separation of Abraham? This the intendment of the Promise made unto him, that in his seed all the Nations of the Earth should be blessed? Is this only the importance of it, that towards the end of the world, many of them shall be conquered? Was this the intent of the Oath made unto David, and of the sure mercies confirmed unto him, and his, thereby? Do all the Promises in the Prophets, set out in words glorious and magnificent, end in a Warrior, inferior it may be unto many of those whose destruction they Prophesied of? Or is not this rather a way to expose the whole Old Testament unto scorn and reproach, as making the Promises thereof not to extend unto that Glory, which in others the Penmen of it despised; or at least to regard only things of the same nature with them? Was this the Expectation of the Fathers of old? Is this that which they desired, prayed for, longed for, esteeming all the Glory of their present Enjoyments as nothing in comparison of it? What is in this Messiah that he should be the Hope and Desire of all Nations? Did God set him forth as the great Effect of his Love, Grace, Goodness and Faithfulness towards them, and then bring forth a Military King, in whose exploits they were not all to be concerned? Was the Church in travail for so many Generations to bring forth this Fighter? Had they no Eye of old unto Spiritual and Eternal things in the Promise of the Messiah? Of late indeed Josephus Albo tells us that the Doctrine of the coming of the Messiah is not fundamental; And Hillel of old maintained that Hezekiah was the Messiah; He should have been so, saith another, had he composed a Song unto God. Barcosba a seditious Necromancer is the Messiah, says R. Akiha; He shall come, it may be, immediately before the Resurrection saith Manasse. But do these thoughts suit the Faith, Hope, Prayers, and Expectations of the Church of old? Do they answer any one Promise of God concerning him? No man not utterly unacquainted with the Scripture can give the least countenance unto such imaginations.
§ 31 But do these things answer the Promises made concerning him from the foundation ⟨p. 139⟩of the world? Is this the meaning of the Promise given unto Adam? Was this the End of the Call and Separation of Abraham? This the intendment of the Promise made unto him, that in his seed all the Nations of the Earth should be blessed? Is this only the importance of it, that towards the end of the world, many of them shall be conquered? Was this the intent of the Oath made unto David, and of the sure mercies confirmed unto him, and his, thereby? Do all the Promises in the Prophets, set out in words glorious and magnificent, end in a Warriur, inferior it may be unto many of those whose destruction they Prophesied of? Or is not this rather a way to expose the whole Old Testament unto scorn and reproach, as making the Promises thereof not to extend unto that Glory, which in others the Penmen of it despised; or at least to regard only things of the same nature with them? Was this the Expectation of the Fathers of old? Is this that which they desired, prayed for, longed for, esteeming all the Glory of their present Enjoyments as nothing in comparison of it? What is in this Messiah that he should be the Hope and Desire of all Nations? Did God set him forth as the great Effect of his Love, Grace, Goodness and Faithfulness towards them, and then bring forth a Military King, in whose exploits they were not all to be concerned? Was the Church in travail for so many Generations to bring forth this Fighter? Had they no Eye of old unto Spiritual and Eternal things in the Promise of the Messiah? Of late indeed Josephus Albo tells us that the Doctrine of the coming of the Messiah is not fundamental; And Hiliel of old maintained that Hezekiah was the Mssiah; He should have been so, saith another, had he composed a Song unto God. Barcosba a seditious Negromancer is the Messiah, sayes R. Akiha; He shall come, it may be, immediately before the Resurrection saith Manasse. But do these thoughts suit the Faith, Hope, Prayers, and Expectations of the Church of old? Do they answer any one Promise of God concerning him? No man not utterly unacquainted with the Scripture can give the least countenance unto such imaginations.