A53696:641
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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§ 29 For first, this is manifest from the Context and words themselves. The promise of the Messiah was the foundation of that Nation and people; the reason of the Call of Abraham, and of the erection of a Kingdom and a State in his posterity. This we have elsewhere demonstrated. This promise concerning him, and Covenant in him, was always the chief matter and head of the Patriarchal Benedictions, when they blessed their Children and posterity. Now unless we grant him to be intended in this expression, there is no mention of him at all in this Prophetical Eulogy of Jacob. Besides, his posterity being now to be distributed into twelve distinct Tribes or Families, and each of them having this peculiar blessing appropriated unto him, wherein it is certain and confessed by all the Jews, that this privilege of bringing forth the Messiah was henceforth impaled unto Judah. It must be done in this place, or there is no footstep of it in the Scripture. And it is very strange that Jacob, in reckoning up the privileges and advantages of Judah above his Brethren, should omit the chief of them, from whence all the rest did flow. And the very tenor of the words manifest this intention; fixing on that which was the fountain and end of all blessing in the promised seed, he passeth over his Elder Children, and determines it on Judah with the continuance of Rule to the coming thereof.
§ 29 For first, this is manifest from the Context and words themselves. The promise of the Messiah was the foundation of that Nation and people; the reason of the Call of Abraham, and of the erection of a Kingdom and a State in his posterity. This we have elsewhere demonstrated. This promise concerning him, and Covenant in him, was alwayes the chief matter and head of the Patriarchal Benedictions, when they blessed their Children and posterity. Now unless we grant him to be intended in this expression, there is no mention of him at all in this Prophetical Eulogie of Jacob. Besides, his posterity being now to be distributed into twelve distinct Tribes or Families, and each of them having this peculiar blessing appropriated unto him, wherein it is certain and confessed by all the Jews, that this priviledge of bringing forth the Messiah was henceforth impaled unto Judah. It must be done in this place, or there is no footstep of it in the Scripture. And it is very strange that Jacob, in reckoning up the priviledges and advantages of Judah above his Brethren, should omit the chief of them, from whence all the rest did flow. And the very tenour of the words manifest this intention; fixing on that which was the fountain and end of all blessing in the promised seed, he passeth over his Elder Children, and determines it on Judah with the continuance of Rule to the coming thereof.