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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.
There is one of them, a nameless person, not unlearned, who hath written somewhat § 12 lately in the Portugal Language, which is translated into Latin by Brenius the Socinian, who gives so satisfactory an Answer in his own conceit, unto this Argument, that he concludes, that every one who is not obstinate, or blinded with corrupt affections, must needs acquiesce therein. His confidence, if not his reasons, deserves our consideration, especially considering that he offers somewhat new unto us, which their former Masters did not insist upon.
That then which he returns as an Answer, unto the enquiry of the Causes and Reasons of their present long captivities and misery, is the sins of their fore-fathers under the first Temple. The greatness of these sins, he saith, is expressed by the Prophet Ezekiel, Chap. 16.48. As I live, saith the Lord God, Sodom thy Sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as though hast done, thou and thy daughters. To which he adds, Isa. 1.9. where mention is made again of Sodom. So that this Captivity is to them, in the room of such a destruction, as Sodom was overthrown withal.
That then which he returns as an Answer, unto the enquiry of the Causes and Reasons of their present long captivities and miserie, is the sins of their fore-fathers under the first Temple. The greatness of these sins, he saith, is expressed by the Prophet Ezekiel, Chap. 16.48. As I live, saith the Lord God, Sodom thy Sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as though hast done, thou and thy daughters. To which he adds, Isa. 1.9. where mention is made again of Sodom. So that this Captivity is to them, in the room of such a destruction, as Sodom was overthrown withall.