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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
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This end supremely and absolutely is the glory of that God who is the Author of it. This is the centre where all the lines of it do meet, the scope and mark towards which all things in it are directed. It is the Revelation of himself that is intended, of his mind and Will, that he may be glorified; wherein also, because he is the principal fountain, and last end of all, consists the order and perfection of all other things. Particularly the demonstration of this glory of God, in and by Jesus Christ is aimed at. The works of Gods Power and Providence do all of them declare his Glory; the glory of his eternal Perfections and Excellencies, absolutely and in themselves. But the End of the Scripture, is the glory of God in Christ, as he hath revealed himself and gathered all things to an head in him, unto the manifestation of his glory. For this is life eternal that we know him the only true God, and whom he hath sent, Jesus Christ. The means whereby God is thus glorified in Christ, is by the Salvation of them that do believe, which is therefore also an intermediate End of the Scripture: These things are written, that we may believe, that Jesus is the Son of God, and that believing, we may have life through his name, John 20.31. 1 Tim. 4.16. Moreover whereas this eternal life unto the glory of God cannot be obtained without faith and obedience according to his will, the Scripture is given for this purpose also, that it may instruct us in the mind of God, and make us wise unto salvation: 2 Tim. 3.15, 16. Rom. 1.16. 2 Pet. 1.3. These in their mutual subserviency and dependence, complete the characteristical End of the Scripture. I confess Plato in his Timaeus, makes it the End of Philosophy, that we may thereby be made like unto God. But that Philosophy of his, having its rise and spring in inbred notions of nature, and the contemplation of the works of Gods Providence, could have no other end but conformity unto him, as his perfections were revealed absolutely; whereunto the Scripture adds this revelation in Christ Jesus, 1 John 1.18. which gives them, as I said, their special and peculiar end. It makes God known, as all in all, and man to be nothing as to goodness or blessedness, but what he is pleased to do for him, and communicate unto him;