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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
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§ 30 I have insisted the longer on this particular, because it compriseth all that the Prophecy is cited for by the Evangelist, and all that we are concerned in it. This being proved and confirmed undeniably, that it is the Messiah whose birth is here foretold, as also that he was to be born of a Virgin, all other passages, whatever difficulty we may meet withal in them, must be interpreted in answer thereunto. And we have showed before, that by reason of the Typical State and Condition of that people, many of the Promises of the Messiah were so mixed with things of their then present temporal concernment; that it is often a matter of some difficulty to distinguish between them. It is enough for us, that we prove unquestionably, that those passages which are applied unto him in the New Testament were spoken of him intentionally in the Old; which we have done in this place; and what belonged unto the then present state of the Jews, we are not particularly concerned in. However we shall manifest in answer to the remaining exceptions of the Jews, that there is nothing mentioned in the whole Prophecy that hath any inconsistency with what we have declared, as to the sense of the principal point of it; nay, that the whole of it is excellently suited unto the principal Scope already vindicated.
§ 30 I have insisted the longer on this particular, because it comprizeth all that the Prophecy is cited for by the Evangelist, and all that we are concerned in it. This being proved and confirmed undeniably, that it is the Messiah whose birth is here foretold, as also that he was to be born of a Virgin, all other passages, whatever difficulty we may meet withall in them, must be interpreted in answer thereunto. And we have shewed before, that by reason of the Typical State and Condition of that people, many of the Promises of the Messiah were so mixed with things of th•ir then present temporal concernment; that it is often a matter of some difficulty to distinguish between them. It is enough for us, that we prove unquestionably, that those passages which are applyed unto him in the New Testament were spoken of him intentionally in the Old; which we have done in this place; and what belonged unto the then present state of the Jews, we are not particularly concerned in. However we shall manifest in answer to the remaining exceptions of the Jews, that there is nothing mentioned in the whole Prophecy that hath any inconsistency with what we have declared, as to the sense of the principal point of it; nay, that the whole of it is excellently suited unto the principal Scope already vindicated.