A53696:768
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.
But here our Masters are by no means agreed amongst themselves; nor do they know what to answer unto this enquiry. And if they do guess at any one; it is not because they think it possible he should be designed, but because they think it impossible for them to keep life in their cause, and not to speak when the sword of truth lies at the heart of it. Some of them therefore affirm the Messiah spoken of to be Cyrus, whom God calls [Greek or Hebrew] his Anointed, Isa. 45. v. 1. But what the cutting off, or death of Cyrus should make in this Prediction they know not. Nor do they endeavour to show that any thing here mentioned to fall out with the cutting off the Messiah, hath the least Relation unto Cyrus or his death. And if because Cyrus is once called the Anointed of the Lord, he must be supposed to be intended in that place, where no one word or circumstance is applicable unto him, they may as well say, that it is Saul the first King of Israel who is spoken of, seeing he also is called [Greek or Hebrew], the Anointed of the Lord, 1 Sam. 24. v. 6. as was Zedekiah also, Lament. 4. v. 20. But it must needs be altogether incredible unto any, unless they are Jews who can believe what they please that serves their ends, that because the Lord calleth Cyrus his Anointed, in reference unto the especial work of destroying the Babylonian Empire, in which sense the term of anointing, namely for a designation unto any employment, is obvious and familiar in the Old Testament, should therefore be esteemed the promised Messiah of the people of God, who is here evidently described. But that which casts this fancy beneath all consideration is the time allotted to the cutting off of the Messiah.
But here our Masters are by no means agreed amongst themselves; nor do they know what to answer unto this enquiry. And if they do guess at any one; it is not because they think it possible he should be designed, but because they think it impossible for them to keep life in their cause, and not to speak when the sword of truth lyes at the heart of it. Some of them therefore affirm the Messiah spoken of to be Cyrus, whom God calls 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 his Annointed,