A53696:757
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.
The first thing designed is, [Greek or Hebrew]. The time determined for the coming of § 30 the Messiah, is also limited, [Greek or Hebrew], ad cohibendam praevaricationem; to restrain, forbid, coerce, make an end of Transgression. [Greek or Hebrew] is to shut, to shut up, to forbid, to coerce, to refrain, or restrain, Psalm 119. v. 101. [Greek or Hebrew], I have refrained, or kept my feet from every evil way, Psal. 40. v. 12. Thou Lord [Greek or Hebrew] wilt not with-hold, or restrain thy mercy from me. So also to shut up, or put a stop unto; as Jerem. 52. v. 3. Haggai 1. v. 10. 1 Sam. 25. v. 33. Psalm 88. v. 9. Thence is [Greek or Hebrew] Carcer, a Prison wherein men are put under restraint. From the similitude of Letters and Sound in Pronunciation, some suppose it to have an affinity in signification with [Greek or Hebrew] to consummate, to end, to finish. But there is no pregnant instance of this coincidence. For although [Greek or Hebrew] do sometimes signify to restrain or shut up, as Psalm 74. v. 11. yet [Greek or Hebrew] no where signifies to consummate, finish, or complete. The first thing therefore promised with the Messiah, which he was to do at his coming, was to coerce and restrain Transgression, to shut it up from overflowing the world so universally as it had done formerly. Transgression from the day of its first entrance into the world, had passed over the whole lower Creation like a flood. God would now set bounds unto it, coerce and restrain it, that it should not for the future overflow mankind as it had done. This was the work of the Messiah. By his Doctrine, by his Spirit, by his Grace, and the Power of his Gospel, he set bounds to the rage of wickedness, rooted out the old Idolatry of the world, and turned millions of the Sons of Adam unto Righteousness. And the Jews who deny his coming, can give no instance of any other restraint laid upon the prevalency of Transgression within the time limited by the Angel, and so directly deny the Truth of the Prophecy, because they will not apply it unto him unto whom alone it doth belong.