A53696:760
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.
§ 33 That which in the fourth place is mentioned answers the former. To make Reconciliation for iniquities, and [Greek or Hebrew], to bring in everlasting Righteousness. There was a Legal Righteousness amongst the people before, consisting partly in their blameless observation of the institutions of the Law, and partly in their ritual atonements for sin, made annually and occasionally. Neither of these could constitute their Righteousness everlasting. Not the former; for by the deeds of the Law can no flesh be justified; that is, not absolutely, what ever they might be as to the possession of the promised Land. Not the latter; for as our Apostle observes, the annual repetition of Legal Sacrifices did sufficiently manifest that they could not make perfect them that came unto God by them.
§ 33 That which in the fourth place is mentioned answers the former. To make Reconciliation for iniquities, and 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, to bring in everlasting Righteousness. There was a Legal Righteousness amongst the people before, consisting partly in their blameless observation of the institutions of the Law, and partly in their ritual attonements for sin, made annually and occasionally. Neither of these could constitute their Righteousness everlasting. Not the former; for by the deeds of the Law can no flesh be justified; that is, not absolutely, what ever they might be as to the possession of the promised Land. Not the latter; for as our Apostle observes, the annual repetition of Legal Sacrifices did sufficiently manifest that they could not make perfect them that came unto God by them.
In opposition unto these, an Everlasting Righteousness, such as is absolute, perfect, and enduring for ever, is promised to be brought in by the Messiah; the Righteousness which he wrought in his life and death, doing and suffering the whole will of God, being imputed unto them that believe. And this [Greek or Hebrew], Everlasting Righteousness, procureth and endeth in the [Greek or Hebrew], everlasting Salvation mentioned, Isa. 45. v. 17. both opposed unto the ritual Righteousness, and temporal deliverance of the Law. To declare the nature, and the way of bringing in this Righteousness is the design of the Gospel,