A53696:615
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.
Now this Tribe of Judah may be considered either absolutely in its self, as it was in § 9 its separated stations and condition in the Wilderness, without the mixture of any not of his posterity, or with respect unto that accession which was afterwards made unto it occasionally from the other Tribes. And this was fourfold: First, From the Lot of Simeon falling within its lot in the first inheritance of the Land, Josh. 19.1. whence that Tribe, though still keeping its distinct Genealogy, was reckoned unto Judah, and became one people with them. Secondly, By the cleaving of the Tribe of Benjamin, whose lot lay next unto it, and mixed with it in the very City of the Kingdom, to the reigning house of David in the fatal division of the people, 1 Kings 12.20, 21, 27. upon which both those Tribes were after called by the name of Judah, v. 20. and the people of both [Greek or Hebrew] Judaei or Jews. Thirdly, By the falling off of the Tribe of Levi, with multitudes of other good men unto it out of all the Tribes of Israel, upon the Idolatries and persecution of Jeroboam, 2 Chron. 11.13, 14, 15, 16, 17. verses, by which means that one Tribe quickly became more numerous and potent then all the rest. Fourthly, By the mixture and addition of those great numbers which out of all the Tribes of Israel joined themselves unto them upon their return from Babylon, and the restitution of the Worship of God amongst them in its proper place. Now it is ⟨p. 146⟩Judah with all these accessions that is intended in this Prophecy and Benediction, yet so, as that in many things, as namely, in the production of the Messiah, the natural Genuine Off-spring of Judah was still to have the pre-eminence.
Now this Tribe of Judah may be considered either absolutely in its self, as it was in § 9 its separated stations and condition in the Wilderness, without the mixture of any not of his posterity, or with respect unto that accession which was afterwards made unto it occasionally from the other Tribes. And this was fourfold: First, From the Lot of Simeon falling within its lot in the first inheritance of the Land,