A53696:62
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 Neither is there any more real weight, in that which Erasmus in the next place objects; namely that some things in it seem to give Countenance unto some exploded Opinions of Ancient Heretics; whereof he gives us a double instance. First, Quod velum seperans sanctum sanctorum interpretatur coelum: that he interprets the Veil separating the Most Holy Place to be Heaven: which indeed he neither doth, but only affirms that the Most Holy Place in the Tabernacle, was a Type or Figure of Heaven it self, nor if he should have so done, had he given the least countenance unto the fondness of the Manichees, whom I suppose he intendeth; His whole Discourse perfectly exploding their abominations. His other Instance is in that vexed place, chap. 6.6. favouring as he pretends the Novatians, denying recovery by repentance unto them who had fallen into sin after Baptism. But the incompetency of this Objection, rising merely from their ignorance of the true meaning of the Holy Ghost that made it, as for the end for which it was used, hath been demonstrated by many of old and late. And the Lord assisting in our Exposition of that place, we shall show, that it is so far from giving Countenance unto any error or mistake which any man may fall into, contrary to the Gospel, that a more plain, familiar and wholesome commination is hardly to be found in the whole Book of God. And this is the sum of what I can meet withal, that is objected against the Canonical Authority of this Epistle; which how little it amounts unto, beyond an evidence of mens willingness to lay hold on slight occasions to vent their Curiosities and Conceptions, the Reader that is godly and wise will quickly perceive.
§ 21 Neither is there any more reall weight, in that which Erasmus in the next place objects; namely that some things in it seem to give Countenance unto some exploded Opinions of Antient Hereticks; whereof he gives us a double instance. First, Quod velum seperans sanctum sanctorum interpretatur coelum: that he interprets the Vail separating the Most Holy Place to be Heaven: which indeed he neither doth, but only affirms that the Most Holy Place in the Tabernacle, was a Type or Figure of Heaven it self, nor if he should have so done, had he given the least countenance unto the fondness of the Manichees, whom I suppose he intendeth; His whole Discourse perfectly exploding their abominations. His other Instance is in that vexed place, chap. 6.6. favouring as he pretends the Novatians, denying recovery by repentance unto them who had fallen into sin after Baptism. But the incompetency of this Objection, rising meerly from their ignorance of the true meaning of the Holy Ghost that made it, as for the end for which it was used, hath been demonstrated by many of old and late. And the Lord assisting in our Exposition of that place, we shall shew, that it is so far from giving Countenance unto any error or mistake which any man may fall into, contrary to the Gospel, that a more plain, familiar and wholesome commination is hardly to be found in the whole Book of God. And this is the summ of what I can meet withall, that is objected against the Canonical Authority of this Epistle; which how little it amounts unto, beyond an evidence of mens willingness to lay hold on slight occasions to vent their Curiosities and Conceptions, the Reader that is godly and wise will quickly perceive.