A53696:868
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.
And this was still one part of the charge managed against his followers, in the very next Age after, that they believed in a person whom they knew to live at such a season, and in a mean condition. Neither did the most malicious and fierce impugners of the Religion taught by him, such as Celsus, Porphyry, and Julian ever once attempt to attack the Truth of the story, as to his real existence, and the time of it. So that herein we have as concurrent a suffrage as the whole world in any case is able to afford.
And this was still one part of the charge managed against his followers, in the very next Age after, that they believed in a person whom they knew to live at such a season, and in a mean condition. Neither did the most malicious and fierce impugners of the Religion taught by him, such as Celsus, Porphyrie, and Julian ever once attempt to attacque the Truth of the story, as to his real existence, and the time of it. So that herein we have as concurrent a suffrage as the whole world in any case is able to afford.
The best of the Historians of the Nations, who lived near those times, give their § 5 Testimony unto what is recorded in our Gospel. The words of one of them, a person of unquestionable credit, in things that he could attain the knowledge of, and as it will appear by them, far enough from any compliance with the followers of Jesus, may suffice for an instance. This is Cornelius Tacitus, in the fifteenth of his Annals: Abolendo (saith he) rumori (he speaks of Nero and his firing of Rome,) subdidit reos, & quaesitissimis poenis affecit, quos per flagitia invisos vulgus Christianos appellebat. Author ejus nominis Christus qui Tiberio imperitante per procuratorem Pontium Pilatum supplicio affectus erat. He expresly assigns the time of the death of Christ unto the reign of Tiberius, and government of Pilate. The same also is confirmed by the Jews own Historian Flavius Josephus, in the fourth Chapter of the eighteenth Book of their Antiquities; unto which season also he assigns the death of John the Baptist, who was his contemporary, according to the Evangelical Story.
The best of the Historians of the Nations, who lived near those times, give their § 5 Testimony unto what is recorded in our Gospel. The words of one of them, a person of unquestionable credit, in things that he could attain the knowledge of, and as it will appear by them, far enough from any compliance with the followers of Jesus, may suffice for an instance. This is Cornelius Tacitus, in the fifteenth of his Annals: Abolendo (saith he) rumori (he speaks of Nero and his firing of Rome,) subdidit reos, & quaesitissimis poenis affecit, quos per flagitia invisos vulgus Christianos appellebat. Author ejus nominis Christus qui Tiberio imperitante per procuratorem Pontium Pilatum supplicio affectus erat. He expresly assignes the time of the death of Christ unto the reign of Tiberius, and government of Pilate. The same also is confirmed by the Jews own Historian Flavius Josephus, in the fourth Chapter of the eighteenth Book of their Antiquities; unto which season also he assigns the death of John the Baptist, who was his contemporary, according to the Evangelical Story.