A53696:89
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.
Thirdly, The Style of the holy Penmen is in a gracious condescension suited unto them and their capacity, whereof far the greatest part of them with whom they had to do, consisted. This Origen at large insists upon in the beginning of his Fifth Book against Celsus. The Philosophy and Oratory of the Heathen, was suited principally, if not solely to their capacity that were learned; this the Authors, and Professors of it aimed at; namely, that they might approve their skill and ability unto those who were able to judge of them. The Scripture was written for the good of mankind in general,1 and without the least design of any contemporation of it self, to the Learning and ⟨p. 18⟩Wisdom of men. And this [Greek or Hebrew], or Condescension unto the common Reason, Sense, Usage, and Experience of mankind in general, is very admirable in the holy Penmen, and absolutely peculiar unto them. In this universal suitableness unto all the concernments of it, consists that excellent simplicity of the Scripture Style, whereby it plainly and openly without fraudulent Ornaments, in common and usual Speech, declares things Divine, Spiritual and Heavenly, with an holy accommodation of them to the understanding and capacities of men, in such occasional variety as yet never diverts from those properties and characters wherein the Uniformity of the whole doth consist.
Thirdly, The Style of the holy Penmen is in a gracious condescension suited unto them and their capacity, whereof far the greatest part of them with whom they had to do, consisted. This Origen at large insists upon in the beginning of his Fifth Book against Celsus. The Philosophy and Oratory of the Heathen, was suited principally, if not solely to their capacity that were learned; this the Authors, and Professors of it aimed at; namely, that they might approve their skill and ability unto those who were able to judge of them. The Scripture was written for the good of mankind in general,1 and without the least design of any contemporation of it self, to the Learning and ⟨p. 18⟩Wisdom of men. And this 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, or Condescension unto the common Reason, Sense, Usage, and Experience of mankind in general, is very admirable in the holy Penmen, and absolutely peculiar unto them. In this universal suitableness unto all the concernments of it, consists that excellent simplicity of the Scripture Style, whereby it plainly and openly without fraudulent Ornaments, in common and usual Speech, declares things Divine, Spiritual and Heavenly, with an holy accommodation of them to the understanding and capacities of men, in such occasional variety as yet never diverts from those properties and characters wherein the Ʋniformity of the whole doth consist.