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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.
§ 1 THE second great Principle supposed by the Apostle in all his Discourses with the Hebrews in his Epistle to them, and which he lays as the foundation of all his Arguments, is, that the Messiah whom we have proved to have been promised from the foundation of the world, was actually come, and had finished the work appointed for him, then when he wrote that Epistle. This the Jews pertinaciously deny unto this very day, and this denial is the centre wherein all the lies of their unbelief do meet; and hereupon in a miserable deplorable condition do they continue crying for, and expecting his coming, who came long since, and was rejected by them. Now this being the great difference between them and Christians, and that such an one as hath a certain influence into their Eternal condition. As they have endeavoured to invent evasions from the force of the Testimonies and Arguments, whereby our Faith and Profession is confirmed; so are we to use diligence in their vindication and establishment; which we hope to do unto the satisfaction of the sober and godly wise in our ensuing Discourse.
§ 1 THE second great Principle supposed by the Apostle in all his Discourses with the Hebrews in his Epistle to them, and which he layes as the foundation of all his Arguments, is, that the Messiah whom we have proved to have been promised from the foundation of the world, was actually come, and had finished the work appointed for him, then when he wrote that Epistle. This the Jews pertinaciously deny unto this very day, and this denyall is the center wherein all the lies of their unbelief do meet; and hereupon in a miserable deplorable condition do they continue crying for, and expecting his coming, who came long since, and was rejected by them. Now this being the great difference between them and Christians, and that such an one as hath a certain influence into their Eternal condition. As they have endeavoured to invent evasions from the force of the Testimonies and Arguments, whereby our Faith and Profession is confirmed; so are we to use diligence in their vindication and establishment; which we hope to do unto the satisfaction of the sober and godly wise in our ensuing Discourse.
§ 2 The first great Promise of the Messiah at large insisted on before, declared only his coming; and the end of it in general. This Promise was recorded [Greek or Hebrew],