A53696:822
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.
Haggai and Zechariah, in their poverty after their re••rn, which dispensation ceased not, until they pointed out unto them the end of the Covenant, and told them that the Messiah should come speedily and suddenly unto his Temple, Mal. 3.1, 2.
Haggai and Zechariah, in their poverty after their re••rn, which dispensation ceased not, untill they pointed out unto them the end of the Covenant, and told them that the Messiah should come speedily and suddenly unto his Temple, Mal. 3.1, 2.
§ 5 The present Jews (I hope) will not deny, but that God is faithful still, and as able to accomplish his Promises, as he was in the days of old. Let us then enquire whether they enjoy any one thing promised them in the Covenant, or any thing relating thereunto, or have done so since the days wherein, as we have proved, the Messiah was to come. (1.) For the Country given unto them by Covenant, and the place of Gods Worship therein, the whole world knows, and themselves continually complain, that strangers possess it, they being utterly extirpated and cast out of it. It is with them all, as it was with Abraham before the grant of the inheritance was accomplished, they have not possession of one foot in it in any propriety, no not for a burying place. Their Temple is destroyed, and all their attempts for the restoration of it, which God so blessed of old, frustrated, yea ceased. Their daily Sacrifice is ceased, and whatever they substitute in the room of it, is an open abomination unto the Lord. We need not insist on these things. The Stories of their ruin, exile, vain attempts to recover their Land, of their Fore-fathers, of the utter pollution of the places of their Worship are known to themselves, and all men that take care to know ought of these things. Where is now the Covenant of the Land of Canaan? Was it to be absolutely everlasting? Whence comes it to pass, that the great promise ⟨p. 197⟩