A53696:909
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, Upon th•s interpretation of the words, there is no ground left for the application of their mystical sense which they pretend to be made by Matthew. For if indeed the Person primarily, directly and literally spoken of, did not conceive a Child w•ilest she was a Virgin, but only that she who was then a Virgin, did afterwards upon marriage conceive in the ordinary course of nature, there remains no ground for the application of what is spoken concerning her, unto one, who in, and after her conception, and the Birth of her Child, continued a Virgin. For although it be not required that there be an agreement in all things between the Type and the Antitype; yet if there be no agreement between them, in that wherein the one is designed to signify the other, they cannot on any account stand in that relation. David as he was a King, was a Type of Messiah the Great King. There was we know, not an absolute similitude in all things between David and him: nor was there any necessity, that so there should be, that he might be his Type. But yet if he had not been a King, he could have been no Type of him at all in his Kingdom. No more can any person here spoken of, unless she did conceive a Son, and bring forth continuing a Virgin, be a Type of her who was so to do. For how can the miraculous work of the Conception of a Virgin, be signified or expressed by the ordinary Conception of a Woman in the State of Wedlock? Besides, this Answer is wholly needless, as to the objection of the Jews, and inconsistent with the sense of the place, as will be seen in the consideration of the words themselves.
S•condly, Upon th•s interpretation of the words, there is no ground left for the application of th•ir mystical sense which they pretend to be made by Matthew. For if indeed the Person primarily, directly and literally spoken of, did not conceive a Child w•ilest she was a Virgin, but only that she who was then a Virgin, did afterwards upon marriage conceive in the ordinary course of nature, there remains no ground for the application of what is spoken concerning her, unto one, who in, and after her conception, and the Birth of her Child, continued a Virgin. For although it be not required that there be an agreement in all things between the Type and the Antitype; yet if there be no agreement between them, in that wherein the one is designed to signifie the other, they cannot on any account stand in that relation. David as he was a King, was a Type of Messiah the Great King. There was we know, not an absolute similitude in all things between David and him: nor was there any necessity, that so there should be, that he might be his Type. But yet if he had not been a King, he could have been no Type of him at all in his Kingdom. No more can any person here spoken of, unless she did conceive a Son, and bring forth continuing a Virgin, be a Type of her who was so to do. For how can the miraculous work of the Conception of a Virgin, be signified or expressed by the ordinary Conception of a Woman in the State of Wedlock? Besids, this Answr is wholly needless, as to the objection of the Jews, and inconsistent with the sense of the place, as will be seen in the consideration of the words themselves.