A53696:742
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.
But the Talmudical Curse and Censure is pointed directly against them that would ⟨p. 176⟩conclude any thing from the account of Gabriel given unto Daniel in this place. This they plainly acknowledge in a Disputation which they had with a converted Jew before the Bishop of Rome recorded in their Shebet Jehuda. Only they would except Daniel himself, affirming that he was not [Greek or Hebrew], a Computer of the time, but [Greek or Hebrew], a Seer; as though the Question were about the way and means whereby we attain a just computation of the time, and not about the thing it self. Daniel received the knowledge of this time by Revelation, as he did the time of the accomplishment of the Captivity, though he made use of the computation of time limited in the Prophecy of Jeremiah; but in both he gives us a perfect Calculation of the time, and so cannot be exempted from the Talmudical Malediction. And I mention these things in the entrance of our Considerations of this Prophecy, to manifest how far the Jews despair of any tolerable defence of their cause, if the things recorded in it be duly weighed. This then we see in general, that the Holy Ghost directed the Church to compute the time of its spiritual deliverance by the coming of the Messiah, no less evidently then he did that of their temporal deliverance from the Babylonian Captivity. Neither are there more differences among Christians, about the precise beginning and ending of Daniels LXX. weeks, then were and are about the beginning and ending of the LXX. years of Jeremiah amongst the Jews. This Rule was given them by God himself, to direct and guide them, if they would have attended unto it, in that darkness, and under those prejudices, which the coming of the Messiah was attended withal.
But the Talmudical Curse and Censure is pointed directly against them that would ⟨p. 176⟩conclude any thing from the account of Gabriel given unto Daniel in this place. This they plainly acknowledge in a Disputation which they had with a converted Jew before the Bishop of Rome recorded in their Shebet Jehuda. Only they would except Daniel himself, affirming that he was not 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, a Computer of the time, but 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, a Seer; as though the Question were about the way and means whereby we attain a just computation of the time, and not about the thing it self. Daniel received the knowledge of this time by Revelation, as he did the time of the accomplishment of the Captivity, though he made use of the computation of time limited in the Prophecy of Jeremiah; but in both he gives us a perfect Calculation of the time, and so cannot be exempted from the Talmudical Malediction. And I mention these things in the entrance of our Considerations of this Prophecy, to manifest how far the Jews despair of any tolerable defence of their cause, if the things recorded in it be duly weighed. This then we see in general, that the Holy Ghost directed the Church to compute the time of its spiritual deliverance by the coming of the Messiah, no less evidently then he did that of their temporal deliverance from the Babylonian Captivity. Neither are there more differences among Christians, about the precise beginning and ending of Daniels LXX. weeks, then were and are about the beginning and ending of the LXX. years of Jeremiah amongst the Jews. This Rule was given them by God himself, to direct and guide them, if they would have attended unto it, in that darkness, and under those prejudices, which the coming of the Messiah was attended withall.