A53696:890
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
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But by this admirable providence of God, all these, and sundry other difficulties of the like nature, are removed out of the way, their minds are determined, a Journey they must take, and that at a time very unseasonable for the Holy Virgin, when she was so near the time of her delivery, and be publicly enrolled of the Family of David, upon the command of him who never knew ought of that business, which none but himself could be instrumental to accomplish. Fourthly, Not long after this, that Town of Bethlehem was utterly destroyed, nor hath been for a thousand and six hundred years, either great or small among the Thousands of Judah. And all these circumstances give much light unto this characteristical presignation of the person of the Messiah, from the place of his birth or nativity.
But by this admirable providence of God, all these, and sundry other difficulties of the like nature, are removed out of the way, their minds are determined, a Journey they must take, and that at a time very unseasonable for the Holy Virgin, when she was so near the time of her delivery, and be publickly enrolled of the Family of David, upon the command of him who never knew ought of that business, which none but himself could be instrumental to accomplish. Fourthly, Not long after this, that Town of Bethlehem was utterly destroyed, nor hath been for a thousand and six hundred years, either great or small among the Thousands of Judah. And all these circumstances give much light unto this characteristical presignation of the person of the Messiah, from the place of his birth or nativity.
The Exceptions of the Jews unto the Evangelists citation of the words of the Prophet, § 19 concern not the testimony it self, nor are indeed of any great importance. For first, The Evangelist intended no more, but only to direct unto that Testimony which was given unto the Nativity of the Messiah at Bethlehem, reciting so much of the words, and in such manner, as to prove by them that which he intended. He took not upon him to repeat every word as they were written by the Prophet (which he might easily have done had he designed it, and that without the least disadvantage unto what he aimed at,) but only to declare how the Assertion was proved, that the Messiah was to be born at Bethlehem.