A53696:827
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.
Two things in general, the Jews reply unto these considerations, the one, as they § 9 have occasion and advantage, the other, openly and constantly: The first which they only mention, as they have occasion, is the prosperity of some of their Nation in this or that Country, with the honour and riches, that some of them have attained unto. Unto this purpose, they tell us stories of their number and wealth in the East, out of Benjamin Tudulensis and others, with the riches of some of them in the Western parts of the world also. But themselves know that none of these things, not one of them, was promised unto them in the Covenant that God made with them upon Mount Horeb. All the promises of it respected the Land of Canaan, with their preservation there, or return thither. What they get abroad in the world, elsewhere under the power and dominion of other Nations, befalls them in a way of common providence, as the like things do the vilest wretches of the earth, and not in a way of any especial promise. And therefore when Daniel and Nehemiah, with others, were exalted unto ⟨p. 198⟩glory and riches among the Babylonians and Persians, yet they rested not therein, but pleaded the Covenant of God for their restoration unto the Land promised unto Abraham. And to suppose that the wealth of a few Jews up and down the world, gotten by Physic, or Usury, or farming of Customs, is an accomplishment of the promises before insisted on, is openly to despise the promises, and the Author of them?
Two things in general, the Jews reply unto these considerations, the one, as they § 9 have occasion and advantage, the other, openly and constantly: The first which they only mention, as they have occasion, is the prosperity of some of their Nation in this or that Country, with the honour and riches, that some of them have attained unto. Unto this purpose, they tell us stories of their number and wealth in the East, out of Benjamin Tudulensis and others, with the riches of some of them in the Western parts of the world also. But themselves know that none of these things, not one of them, was promised unto them in the Covenant that God made with them upon Mount Horeb. All the promises of it respected the Land of Canaan, with their preservation there, or return thither. What they get abroad in the world, elsewhere under the power and dominion of other Nations, befalls them in a way of common providence, as the like things do the vilest wretches of the earth, and not in a way of any especial promise. And therefore when Daniel and Nehemiah, with others, were exalted unto