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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
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.
and Jesus Christ to be the great and only way and means, whereby he will communicate of himself, and bring us unto himself. The more clearly any portion of Scripture discovers and makes conspicuous this End, the more parts of the series and order of things whereby the last and utmost End of the glory of God is produced, in their mutual connection dependence and subserviency it manifesteth, the more fully doth it express this general End of the whole, and thereby evince its own interest therein.
and Jesus Christ to be the great and only way and means, whereby he will communicate of himself, and bring us unto himself. The more clearly any portion of Scripture discovers and makes conspicuous this End, the more parts of the series and order of things whereby the last and utmost End of the glory of God is produced, in their mutual connexion dependance and subserviency it manifesteth, the more fully doth it express this general End of the whole, and thereby evince its own interest therein.
Now herein doth this Epistle come behind no other portion of Scripture whatever. For as the Exaltation of the glory of God, as he is the first cause, and last end of all things, is expressly proposed in it, so the relation of the glory of God, and of our obedience and blessedness whereby and wherein it is declared, unto the Person, Offices, and Mediation of Jesus Christ is in an eminent manner insisted on and unfolded in it. And whereas some parts of Scripture do exhibit unto us, most clearly some one part of this general End of the whole, and other portions or Books of it, some other parts, this expresseth the whole, and all the parts of it distinctly, from the very foundation of calling men to the knowledge of God and obedience, unto the utmost end of his glorifying himself in their salvation by Jesus Christ. Neither is there herewithall the least alloy or mixture of any by, particular, ⟨p. 15⟩or proper end of the Writer; nothing of his Honour, Reputation, Advantage, Self-pleasing in any thing; but all runs evenly and smoothly to the general End before proposed. And this also hath deservedly a place among the [Greek or Hebrew] of Writings by Divine inspiration.