A53696:91
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.
§ 31 What ever hath been thus spoken concerning the Style of the Sacred Scripture in General, it is as applicable unto this Epistle unto the Hebrews, as to any one portion of Holy Writ what ever. That Simplicity, Gravity, Unaffectedness, suitableness to its Author, Matter, and End, which commends the whole unto us, are eminent in this part of it; that Authority, Efficacy and Energy which are implanted on the whole by him who supplied both sense and words unto the Penmen of it, exert themselves in this Epistle also.
§ 31 What ever hath been thus spoken concerning the Style of the Sacred Scripture in General, it is as applicable unto this Epistle unto the Hebrews, as to any one portion of Holy Writ what ever. That Simplicity, Gravity, Ʋnaffectedness, suitableness to its Author, Matter, and End, which commends the whole unto us, are eminent in this part of it; that Authority, Efficacy and Energy which are implanted on the whole by him who supplied both sense and words unto the Penmen of it, exert themselves in this Epistle also.
No defect in any of these can be charged on it, that should argue it of any other extract than the whole. Nothing so far singular, as to be inconsistent with that harmony, which in all their variety there is among the Books of the Holy Scripture, as to the style and kind of Speech, is any where to be found in it. If any where, as in the beginning of the first Chapter, the Style seems to swell in its current above the ordinary banks of the Writings of the New Testament, it is from the greatness and sublimity of the Matter treated on, which was not capable of any other kind of Expression. Doth the Penman of it, any where use Words or Phrases, not commonly, or rarely, or perhaps no where else used in the sense and way wherein they are by him applied? it is because his Matter is peculiar, and not elsewhere handled; at least, not on the same Principles, nor to the same purpose as by him: Doth he oftentimes speak in an Old Testament Dialect, pressing Words and Expressions to the service and sense they were employed in under the Tabernacle and Temple, after they had been manumitted as it were, and made free from their Typical importance in the Service and Spiritual Sense of the Gospel? it is from the consideration of their state and condition, with whom in an especial manner he had to do; and this in perfect Harmony with the Wisdom of the Holy Ghost in other portions of Scripture. So that on this account also its Station in the Holy Canon is secured.