A53696:744
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.
Now this Oracle was no other but this Prophecy of Daniel, whose accomplishment at that time the Jews all over the East expected. And they acknowledge in their Talmud, that they were made prodigiously obstinate in the War they had undertaken against the Romans, by their continual expectation every day and moment, that their Messiah who was to come about that time, would appear for their relief: For because of some expressions in this Prophecy, they always looked for his coming in some time of great distress. But this through their lusts and blindness was hid from them, that their distress indeed arose from their rejection of him, who was come, and had actually called them unto that Repentance, which alone would have prevented it. And this persuasion that the Messiah was to come at, or about the end of Daniels Weeks, and that those weeks were now come to an end, was so fixed in their minds, that when they found, that he came not, as they thought, according unto their expectation, they attempted to make a Messiah themselves, even the famous Barcoshi, which proved the means and cause of their utter extirpation out of the Land of Canaan, as hath been declared. Thus was it with them of old, whose posterity through obstinacy in ⟨p. 177⟩their unbelief, do now curse all that compute the time of his coming, and confounding it with his second appearance at the end of the world, cast it off to the last day, or a small proportion of time immediately preceding it.
Now this Oracle was no other but this Prophecy of Daniel, whose accomplishment at that time the Jews all over the East expected. And they acknowledge in their Talmud, that they were made prodigiously obstinate in the War they had undertaken against the Romans, by their continual expectation every day and moment, that their Messiah who was to come about that time, would appear for their relief: For because of some expressions in this Prophecy, they alwayes looked for his coming in some time of great distress. But this through their lusts and blindness was hid from them, that their distress indeed arose from their rej•ction of him, who was come, and had actually call•d them unto that Repentance, which alone would have prevented it. And this perswasion that the M•ssiah was to come at, or about the end of Daniels Weeks, and that those weeks were now come to an end, was so fixed in their minds, that when they found, that he came not, as they thought, according unto their expectation, they attempted to make a Messiah themselves, even the famous Barcoshi, which proved the means and cause of their utter extirpation out of the Land of Canaan, as hath been declared. Thus was it with them of old, whose posterity through obstinacy in