A53696:647
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.
from the time that we have left our own Land we have no power of making Laws; and they jointly confess in the Talmud. Tract. Saned. that sometime before the destruction of the Temple, all power of Judging both as unto life and death, and as unto pecuniary punishments, was taken from them. So that if there be a certainty in any thing in this world, it is certain that Sceptre and Law-giver are long since departed from Judah.
from the time that we have left our own Land we have no power of making Laws; and they jointly confess in the Talmud. Tract. Saned. that sometime before the destruction of the Temple, all power of Judging both as unto life and death, and as unto pecuniary punishments, was taken from them. So that if there be a certainty in any thing in this world, it is certain that Scepter and Law-giver are long since departed from Judah.
There are not many things wherein the present Jews do more betray the desperateness § 34 of their cause, then in their endeavour to obscure this open and known truth in matter of fact. That which they principally insist upon, is a story out of the Itinerary of Benjamin Tudelensis.
This Benjamin was a Jew, who about 500. years ago passed out of Europe into the ⟨p. 154⟩Eastern parts of the world in a disquisition of his Country-men, and their state and condition whereof he hath given an account in his Itinerary, after the manner of vulgar Travellers. Among other things which he relates, fide Rabbinica, he tells us of a Jew that hath, or then had, a principality at Baghdad, whom his Countrymen called the Son of David, there being a thousand of them living there all in subjection unto him. This honour was allowed him by the Caliph, who in those days ruled there; so that when he passeth in the streets they cry before him, make way for the Son of David. Fagius long since returned a proper Answer to this Story in a Proverb of their own; [Greek or Hebrew], He that hath a mind to lye, let him place his Witnesses at distance enough. When Benjamin passed over those Eastern parts of the world, they were greatly unknown to Europeans, and he had thence advantage to feign what he pleased for the reputation of his Nation, which he was not wanting to the improvement of. Time hath now brought truth to light. The people of Europe, especially the English and Hollanders have some while since discovered the state of things in those parts, and can hear no tidings of Benjamins principality, nor his Son of David; nor could the Jews ever since get any one to confirm his relation. Besides, if all that he avers should be granted to be true, as in the main, it is undoubtedly false, what would it amount unto as to the matter in hand: Is this the Sceptre and Law-giver promised unto Judah as the great privilege above his Brethren? It seems an obscure unknown person in Baghdad in Captivity, by the permission of a Tyrant whose Slave and Vassal he is, hath a pre-eminence among a thousand Jews, all slaves to the same Tyrant.