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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.
For suppose him to have in all things attained the perfect sense of his Guide, which yet it may be, until all words are freed from their ambiguity will be impossible for any one to do, yet still there will remain such an impression of the Genius and fancy wherein the Rule was first framed upon it, as the follower cannot express. And how much more will there be so in that which both for matter and words also, proceeds from the Sovereign Will and Wisdom of God. Can it be supposed, that any man should collect by his own industry and diligence a Writing out of that which is given by Him, and regulated thereby, that should absolutely express those infinite Perfections of his nature which shine forth in that which is immediately from himself? For that any Writing should be pretended to be undiscernible from them given by Divine inspiration, It is not enough that the matter of it be universally true, and that truth no other but what is contained in other parts of Scripture, but it must also have those other [Greek or Hebrew] and characters of a Divine Original which we shall in our progress discover in this Epistle, as in other Books of the Holy Scripture: for it is not behind the very choicest of them.
For suppose him to have in all things attained the perfect sense of his Guide, which yet it may be, untill all words are freed from their ambiguity will be impossible for any one to do, yet still there will remain such an impression of the Genius and fancy wherein the Rule was first framed upon it, as the follower cannot express. And how much more will there be so in that which both for matter and words also, proceeds from the Soveraign Will and Wisdom of God. Can it be supposed, that any man should collect by his own industry and diligence a Writing out of that which is given by Him, and regulated thereby, that should absolutely express those infinite Perfections of his nature which shine forth in that which is immediately from himself? For that any Writing should be pretended to be undiscernable from them given by Divine inspiration, It is not enough that the matter of it be universally true, and that truth no other but what is contained in other parts of Scripture, but it must also have those other 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 and characters of a Divine Original which we shall in our progress discover in this Epistle, as in other Books of the Holy Scripture: for it is not behind the very choicest of them.