A53696:824
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.
Again, How are they delivered from their Adversaries? How are they defended § 6 from their Oppressors? There is not a known Nation in the world, wherein they live not, either openly or privately, in Exile and Banishment from their own Land. About their oppressions, and against their Oppressors they have cried out, and prayed after their manner for many Generations. Where is the protection, the deliverance promised? if the time be not yet expired for the coming of the Messiah, why are they not delivered? What word is there in the Law, or the Prophets, that they shall not be delivered out of Temporal distresses any other way but by the Messiah? hath it not been otherwise with them? Were they not delivered from former Oppressions and Captivities, by other means? Could not God of old have dispossessed the Romans of the Land of Canaan, and afterwards the Saracens, and can he not now the Turks, as easily as he did the Babylonians, Persians and Graecians? If the Covenant of those promises be not expired in the coming of the Messiah, what account can they give of these things?
Again, How are they delivered from their Adversaries? How are they defended § 6 from their Oppressors? There is not a known Nation in the world, wherein they live not, either openly or privately, in Exile and Banishment from their own Land. About their oppressions, and against their Oppressors they have cryed out, and prayed after their manner for many Generations. Where is the protection, the deliverance promised? if the time be not yet expired for the coming of the Messiah, why are they not delivered? What word is there in the Law, or the Prophets, that they shall not be delivered out of Temporal distresses any other way but by the Messiah? hath it not been otherwise with them? Were they not delivered from former Oppressions and Captivities, by other means? Could not God of old have dispossessed the Romans of the Land of Canaan, and afterwards the Saracens, and can he not now the Turks, as easily as he did the Babylonians, Persians and Graecians? If the Covenant of those promises be not expired in the coming of the Messiah, what account can they give of these things?
Further, where are the Prophets, promised unto them? can they name one since the § 7 days of a John Baptist, whom they owned for a Prophet? hath any one amongst them pretended to any such thing, whom the event, and themselves thereon have not discovered to be an Impostor? Such was Theudas, and Moses Cretensis, with some few others. Is it not strange, that they who never long wanted a Prophet in their straits and difficulties, and sometimes had many of them together, should now in their utmost misery, wanderings and darkness, be left utterly destitute of any one for a thousand six hundred years, and upwards? It is the general confession of all their Masters, that they have left the Holy Ghost, or Spirit of Prophecy. After the finishing of the second Temple, they say, and they say truly, that Prophecy ceased. [Greek or Hebrew]; saith Saadias Haggeon on Daniel the 9th. Israel had no Prophet after the finishing of the second house, but those who enjoyed the Bath Kol. But what is now become of that Bath Kol also for a thousand six hundred years? Is not all pretence of Revelations utterly departed? what then is become of that Covenant wherein it was promised unto them? yea we know that they have not only left the Holy Ghost, as a spirit of Prophecy; but also as a spirit of grace and supplications; so that besides a few superstitious forms repeated by number and tale; there is no such thing as prayer amongst them; as some of their late Masters have acknowledged.