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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 this also is intimated in the ensuing particles, [Greek or Hebrew], and not to him. For an Objection is prevented that might arise about the penal excision of the Messiah, for how could it be, seeing he was every way Just and Righteous. To this it is answered by way of concession, that it was not on his own account, not for himself, but for us; as is at large declared, Isa. 51. Or [Greek or Hebrew], not to him, may be a farther declaration of of his state and condition; namely, that notwithstanding those carnal Apprehensions which the Jews would have of his outward Splendour, Glory, Wealth and Riches, yet in Truth he should have nothing in or of this world, none to stand up for him, not where to lay his head. And this is that part of the Prophecy, for the sake whereof the Jews do so pertinaciously contend, that the true Messiah is not here intended. For, say they, he shall not be penally cut off. But who told them so? Shall we believe the Angel or them? Will they not suffer God to send his Messiah in his own way, but they must tell him, that it must not be so? To cast off Prophecies, when and because they suit not mens carnal lusts, is to reject all Authority of God and his Word. This is that which hath proved their ruin temporal and eternal: they will not receive a Messiah that shall suffer, and be cut off for sin, though God foretold them expressly that it must be so.
And this also is intimated in the ensuing particles, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, and not to him. For an Objection is prevented that might arise about the poenal excision of the Messiah, for how could it be, seeing he was every way Just and Righteous. To this it is answered by way of concession, that it was not on his own account, not for himself, but for us; as is at large declared, Isa. 51. Or 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, not to him, may be a farther declaration of of his state and condition; namely, that notwithstanding those carnal Apprehensions which the Jews would have of his outward Splendour, Glory, Wealth and Riches, yet in Truth he should have nothing in or of this world, none to stand up for him, not where to lay his head. And this is that part of the Prophecy, for the sake whereof the Jews do so pertinaciously contend, that the true Messiah is not here intended. For, say they, he shall not be poenally cut off. But who told them so? Shall we believe the Angel or them? Will they not suffer God to send his Messiah in his own way, but they must tell him, that it must not be so? To cast off Prophecies, when and because they suit not mens carnal lusts, is to reject all Authority of God and his Word. This is that which hath proved their ruine temporal and eternal: they will not receive a Messiah that shall suffer, and be cut off for sin, though God foretold them expresly that it must be so.