A53696:731
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.
Answ. Although great desolations and destructions being treated of in all these places, it would not be strange, if the same Author should express the alike events in the same terms; yet those which we are referred unto, are not the same in the Original, nor of any considerable correspondency. And the like may be said of another instance, which he adds in the ninth place, between an expression, Chap. 9. v. 27. and Chap. 11. v. 36. wherein is no agreement at all, and the places treat directly of things different, yea contrary.
§ 19 It is added in the last place, That as in the seventy Weeks, the division of the seven from the sixty, and of both from the one Week, are unapplicable to the material restoration out of real Babylon, so they will exactly and precisely agree to the Restoration out of Antichristian Babylon, as shall be showed.
§ 19 It is added in the last place, That as in the seventy Weeks, the division of the seven from the sixty, and of both from the one Week, are unapplicable to the material restauration out of real Babylon, so they will exactly and precisely agree to the Restauration out of Antichristian Babylon, as shall be shewed.
Answ. That the distribution of the LXX. Weeks mentioned in the Text, is applicable unto the continuance of the Judaical Church and State, with the coming of the Messiah, and the accomplishment of his work, hath been in part already showed, and shall be fully cleared in our ensuing Exposition of the place. (2.) Unto the exact answering of it unto the Restoration of the Church from Antichristianism: I shall only say, that if men may be allowed to fix Epoch's arbitrarily at their pleasure; and make applications of what is spoken in any place of Scripture, unto what things and persons they please, there is no doubt, but that they may make their own imaginations to adhere and agree well enough together.