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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.
Further, There are other considerations offering themselves from the context, § 28 undeniably proving that it is the conception of a Virgin which is here intended and foretold. For first, it is plainly some marvellous thing, above, and contrary unto the ordinary course and operation of nature that is here spoken of. It is called [Greek or Hebrew] a signal prodigy, and is given by God himself in the room of, and as something greater, and more marvellous than any thing that Ahaz could have asked either in Heaven above, or in the Earth beneath, had he made his choice according unto the tender made unto him. The Lord God himself shall give you a sign. The Emphasis used in giving the promise, denotes the marvellousness of the thing promised. Now certainly it was no such great matter that the Wife of Ahaz, which had before born him a Son who was now eight years of age, or the Wife of the Prophet, who was the Mother of Shearj•shub then present with his Father, or any Virgin then present immediately to be married, should bear a Son, so as to have it called a Prodigy, an eminent sign of Gods giving a thing that he should take upon his own power to perform, when within the same space of time hundreds of Sons were born to other Women in the same Country. And it is ridiculous what the Jews pretend, namely, that it was great in this, that the Prophet should foretell that Conception, as also that it should be a Son that should be born, and not a Daughter; for the work and sign intimated doth not consist at all in the Truth of the Prophets prediction, but in the Greatness of the thing it self that was foretold.
Further, There are other considerations offering themselves from the context, § 28 undeniably proving that it is the conception of a Virgin which is here intended and foretold. For first, it is plainly some marvelous thing, above, and contrary unto the ordinary course and operation of nature that is here spoken of. It is called 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 a signal prodigie, and is given by God himself in the room of, and as something greater, and more marvelous than any thing that Ahaz could have asked either in Heaven above, or in the Earth beneath, had he made his choice according unto the tender made unto him. The Lord God himself shall give you a sign. The Emphasis used in giving the promise, denotes the marvelousness of the thing promised. Now certainly it was no such great matter that the Wife of Ahaz, which had before born him a Son who was now eight years of age, or the Wife of the Prophet, who was the Mother of Shearjshub then present with his Father, or any Virgin then present immediately to be married, should bear a Son, so as to have it called a Prodigie, an eminent sign of Gods giving a thing that he should take upon his own power to perform, when within the same space of time hundreds of Sons were born to other Women in the same Country. And it is ridiculous what the Jews pretend, namely, that it was great in this, that the Prophet should foretell that Conception, as also that it should be a Son that should be born, and not a Daughter; for the work and sign intimated doth not consist at all in the Truth of the Prophets prediction, but in the Greatness of the thing it self that was foretold.