A53696:698
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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That which in general he first insisteth on as a Reason to abjudicate this Prediction § 3 from the times of the Messiah, is the difference that is among Learned men about the Chronological Computation of the time here limited and determined. The variety of opinions in this matter he terms monstrous, and the difficulties that attend the several Calculations inextricable. But whether this Reason be cogent or no unto his purpose, is easy to determine; yea, it seems to have strength on the other side. For notwithstanding the difficulties of the exact Computation pretended, not one of them whom he mentions, nor scarce any other Person, Ancient or Modern before himself, or a very few besides, did ever doubt, or call in question, whether the time designed, did concern the coming of the Messiah or no. And it seems to be a great evidence of the Truth thereof, that no difficulty in the computation did ever move them to question the Principle its self.
That which in general he first insisteth on as a Reason to abjudicate this Prediction § 3 from the times of the Messiah, is the difference that is among Learned men about the Chronological Computation of the time here limited and determined. The variety of opinions in this matter he terms monstrous, and the difficulties that attend the several Calculations inextricable. But whether this Reason be cogent or no unto his purpose, is easie to determine; yea, it seems to have strength on the other side. For notwithstanding the difficulties of the exact Computation pretended, not one of them whom he mentions, nor scarce any other Person, Antient or Modern before himself, or a very few besides, did ever doubt, or call in question, whether the time designed, did concern the coming of the Messiah or no. And it seems to be a great evidence of the Truth thereof, that no difficulty in the computation did ever move them to question the Principle its self.
Besides that, this is indeed no tolerable Argument, namely, that Learned Men cannot agree in the exact computation of any time appointed unto such an end, to prove that it was not designed unto that end, is evident from other instances in the Scripture to the same purpose. Thus God tells Abraham, that his seed should sojourn in a strange Land four hundred years,