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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.
Secondly, Why did none of the latter Prophets whom God granted unto the people, after their return from Captivity; as Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi let the people know, that this was the condition of their return into their Land, but only require of them to walk answerable unto the mercies they had then received.
Thirdly, As the very nature of the dispensation did declare, that God having purged out the Rebels of the people, and destroyed them with his sore judgements, had forgiven their sins, and was returned unto them, in a way of mercy and grace never to call over their forepast iniquities any more, so the Prophets that treated concerning that dispensation of God, do in places innumerable assert the same, and plainly contradict this imagination.
Fourthly, God punisheth not the sins of the Fathers upon their children, unless the Children continue in the sins of their Fathers. This he declareth at large, Ezek. 18. Now what were the sins of this people under the first Temple before their captivity? our Author reckons Adultery, Murder and Idolatry: It is no doubt but many of them were Adulterers, and that sin among others was charged on them by the Prophets; but it is evident that their principal ruining sins were their Idolatry, and persecution or killing of the Prophets. And God by Ezekiel declares, that in and by their Captivity, he would punish and take away all their Idolatry, and Adulteries even from the Land of Egypt, or their beginning to be his people, Chap. 23.11, 27. Now were the Jews, that is, the body of the people guilty of these sins under the second House? it is known that from all Idolatry they preserved themselves, which was that sin, that in an especial manner was their ruin before; and for killing the Prophets, they acknowledge that after Malachi they had none, so that none could be persecuted by them, but those whom they will not own to be Prophets: But,