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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.
WE shall now proceed to other Testimonies of the same evidence and importance § 1 with the foregoing. The end of calling and separating the people of the Jews, from the rest of the world, the forming of them into a Nation, and the setting up of a Political State and Rule amongst them, being solely, as we have declared, to bring forth the promised Messiah by them, and to shadow out his Spiritual Kingdom: It was necessary that he should come before their utter desolation, and final rejection from that state and condition, which also he did according to the promise and prediction before insisted on and explained. The same was the end of their Ecclesiastical, or Church-State, with all the Religious Worship that was instituted therein. Whilst that also therefore continued and was accepted of God in the place of his own appointment, he was to be brought forth and to accomplish his work in the world. This also in sundry places of the Old Testament is foretold, one or two of the most eminent of them we shall consider, and manifest from them, that the true Messiah is long since come, and exhibited unto the world, according to the Promise given of old to that purpose. The first we shall fix upon, is that of Haggai, Chap. 2. v. 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9. whereunto we shall add Mal. 3.1. The words of the former place are, Who is left among you, that saw this house in her first Glory, and how do you see it now? Is it not in your eyes in comparison of it as nothing? Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, Yet once it is a little while, and I will shake the Heavens and the Earth, and the Sea; and the dry Land, and I will shake all Nations, and the desire of all Nations shall come: And I will fill this House with Glory, saith the Lord of Hosts. The Silver is mine, and the Gold is mine, saith the Lord of Hosts, and the Glory of this latter House, shall be greater then the former, saith the Lord of Hosts: And in this place will I give peace, saith the Lord of Hosts. Those of the latter are, Behold, I will send my Messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me, and the Lord whom I seek shall suddenly come to his Temple, even the Messenger of the Covenant, whom ye delight in, Behold he shall come, saith the Lord of Hosts. Both to the same purpose.
WEE shall now proceed to other Testimonies of the same evidence and importance § 1 with the foregoing. The end of calling and separating the people of the Jews, from the rest of the world, the forming of them into a Nation, and the setting up of a Political State and Rule amongst them, being solely, as we have declared, to bring forth the promised Messiah by them, and to shaddow out his Spiritual Kingdom: It was necessary that he should come before their utter desolation, and final rejection from that state and condition, which also he did according to the promise and prediction before insisted on and explained. The same was the end of their Ecclesiastical, or Church-State, with all the Religious Worship that was instituted therein. Whilest that also therefore continued and was accepted of God in the place of his own appointment, he was to be brought forth and to accomplish his work in the world. This also in sundry places of the Old Testament is foretold, one or two of the most eminent of them we shall consider, and manifest from them, that the true Messiah is long since come, and exhibited unto the world, according to the Promise given of old to that purpose. The first we shall fix upon, is that of Haggai, Chap. 2. v. 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9. whereunto we shall add