A53696:844
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.
For a Close then of these considerations, I shall add some of the confessions of the Jews themselves, which the evidence of the Truth contended for hath at several seasons extorted from them. And this I shall not do, as though they were of great importance in themselves, or unto us, but only to discover their entanglements in contending against the light: for the present Masters of their unbelief, are more perplexed with the convictions of their Predecessors then with the plainest testimonies of the Scripture. The Authority of their Predecessors being equal with them unto, if not more sacred then that of the word of God its self.
First then, Being pressed with the Testimonies before insisted on out of Haggai concerning the glory of the second Temple, and the coming of the desire of all Nations thereunto, they have a Tradition that the Messiah was born the same day that the second Temple was destroyed. The story indeed which they make it up with, is weak, fabulous and ridiculous, and he who is offended with the citation of such things out of their Talmudical Doctors, is desired only to exercise patience until he shall be able himself to report from them things more serious and of greater importance; and yet from them must we learn the persuasions and convictions of the Ancient Jews, or be utterly ignorant of them. Be their stories what they will also, the powerful convincing Evidence of Truth, and the miserable shifts that the poor wretches are put unto, to keep off the Efficacy of it from their minds do sufficiently appear in them.
First then, Being pressed with the Testimonies before insisted on out of Haggai concerning the glory of the second Temple, and the coming of the desire of all Nations thereunto, they have a Tradition that the Messiah was born the same day that the second Temple was destroyed. The story indeed which they make it up with, is weak, fabulous and ridiculous, and he who is offended with the citation of such things out of their Talmudical Doctors, is desired only to exercise patience until he shall be able himself to report from them things more serious and of greater importance; and yet from them must we learn the perswasions and convictions of the Antient Jews, or be utterly ignorant of them. Be their stori•s what they will also, the powerfull convincing Evidence of Truth, and the miserable shifts that the poor wretches are put unto, to keep off the Efficacy of it from their minds do sufficiently appear in them.