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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.
The manner of the birth of the Messiah, namely that he should be born of a Virgin, is § 20 a third characteristical note given of him. The first promise doth sufficiently intimate that he was not to be brought into the world according to the ordinary course of mankind, by natural generation, seeing he was [Greek or Hebrew], and in peculiar manner designed to be the seed of the Woman, that is to be born of a Woman without conjunction of man. To make this sign yet the more evident, God gives it forth directly in a word of promise, Isa. 7.10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. Moreover the Lord spake to Ahaz, saying, ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God, ask it either in the depth, or in the height above; but Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the Lord; And he said, hear ye now ye House of David, Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but ye will weary my God also? Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign, Behold, a Virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and call his name Emanuel, Butter and Honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good; for before the Child shall know to refuse the evil and choose the good, the Land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her Kings. This is the Promise and Prophecy, the accomplishment whereof in our Lord Jesus we have recorded, Matt. 1.22, 23. All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Prophet, Behold, A Virgin shall be with Child, and shall bring forth a Son, and they shall call his name Emanuel. Now this being a thing utterly above the course of nature, which never fell out from the foundation of the world unto that day, nor ever shall do so to the end of it, seeing the miraculous power of God shall no more in the like kind be exerted; it is an infallible evidence, and demonstrative note of the true Messiah. He and he alone was to be born of a Virgin; so alone was Jesus of Nazareth, and therefore he alone is the true Messiah.
The manner of the birth of the Messiah, namely that he should be born of a Virgin, is § 20 a third characteristical note given of him. The first promise doth sufficiently intimate that he was not to be brought into the world according to the ordinary course of mankind, by natural generation, seeing he was 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, and in peculiar manner designed to be the seed of the Woman, that is to be born of a Woman without conjunction of man. To make this sign yet the more evident, God gives it forth directly in a word of promise,