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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.
Two things absolutely free it from suffering under any such suspicion. First, The nature of its Argument, treating as was said, of such things as eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor have they entered into the heart of man. The Deity, Offices, Sacrifice, Mediation and Grace of Jesus Christ, are not things that can have any foundation in the invention and imagination of man; Yea, being revealed by God, they lye in a direct contradiction unto all that naturally is esteemed wise or perfect; 1 Cor. 1.18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23. They exceed the sphere of natural comprehension, and are destructive of the principles which it frameth unto it self for the compassing of those ends whereunto they are designed. Nor is it liable to be esteemed of the other extract; or the diligence and wisdom of man in collecting it from other Books of Divine Revelation, which alone with any colour of reason can be pretended. Humane diligence regulated by what is elsewhere revealed of God, is humane still; and can never free it self from those inseparable attendances which will manifest it so to be. For suppose a man may compose a writing, wherein every Proposition in it self shall be true, and the whole in its contexture materially every way answerable unto the truth, (which yet must be accidental as to the principle of his wisdom, understanding, ability, and diligence by whom it is composed, they being no way able to give that effect certainly and infallibly unto it) yet there will never be wanting that in it, whereby it may be discerned from an immediate effect and product of Divine Wisdom and understanding. Take but the Writings of any Wise man, who from his own ability and invention hath declared any Science in them, and allow his discovery of it to be the absolute complete rule of that Science, so that nothing beyond, or besides what he hath written about it is true or certain, nor any thing else, but as it hath conformity to, or coincidence with what he hath written, and it will be very difficult, if not impossible for any man so to treat of that subject from his Writings, as not to leave sufficient Characters upon his own, to difference them from his Original, and pattern;
Two things absolutely free it from suffering under any such suspicion. First, The nature of its Argument, treating as was said, of such things as eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor have they entered into the heart of man. The Deity, Offices, Sacrifice, Mediation and Grace of Jesus Christ, are not things that can have any foundation in the invention and imagination of man; Yea, being revealed by God, they lye in a direct contradiction unto all that naturally is esteemed wise or perfect;