A53696:892
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, He useth the words to no other purpose, th•• that for which by the Jews acknowledgement they were recorded by the Prophet ••ther in the Alterations that are made in this recital is there one letter taken from the Prophets words, or added unto them, used by him to the advantage of his Assertion, which is the whole that the utmost scrupulosists can require in the recital of the words of another by the way of Testimony.
Thirdly, He seems not to repeat the words of the Prophet himself immediately, but only to record the answer which from these words of the Prophet, was given unto Herod by the Priests and Scribes. So that the repetition of the words is theirs, and not his properly.
Fourthly, Whose ever the words are, as there is nothing in the whole of them discrepant from, much less contrary unto, those of the Prophet, nor are used to signify any thing but the open plain intention of the Prophet: so are all the particulars wherein a difference appears between them, capable of a fair Reconciliation. This we shall manifest by passing briefly through them.
Fourthly, Whose ever the words are, as there is nothing in the whole of them discrepant from, much less contrary unto, those of the Prophet, nor are used to signifie any thing but the open plain intention of the Prophet: so are all the particulars wherein a difference appears between them, capable of a fair Reconciliation. This we shall manifest by passing briefly through them.