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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.
Besides, that which is Secondly alleged, that a thing that shall come to pass many ages after, cannot be made a sign of that which was to be done many ages before, is not universally true. The thing it self in its existence it is true cannot be made so a sign; but it may in the Promise and prediction of it. And many instances we have of things promised for signs, which were not to exist in themselves, until after the accomplishment of the things whereof they were signs, as Exod. 3.12. 1 Sam. 11.34. Isa. 37.10. 1 Kings 22.25. God intending by them the confirmation of their faith, who should live in the time of their actual accomplishment.
Besides, that which is Secondly alledged, that a thing that shall come to pass many ages after, cannot be made a sign of that which was to be done many ages before, is not universally true. The thing it self in its existence it is true cannot be made so a sign; but it may in the Promise and prediction of it. And many instances we have of things promised for signs, which were not to exist in themselves, untill after the accomplishment of the things whereof they were signs, as Exod. 3.12. 1 Sam. 11.34. Isa. 37.10. 1 Kings 22.25. God intending by them the confirmation of their faith, who should live in the time of their actual accomplishment.
Thirdly, This sign had the truth and force of a Promise although it was not immediately to be put in execution, and that is the reason, that the words here used, are one of them [Greek or Hebrew], conceive, in the preterperfect Tense, the other [Greek or Hebrew], in benoni, or Participle of the present Tense, to intimate the certainty of the events, as is usual in the prophetical Dialect. Their assurance then from this sign consisted herein, that God informs them, that as surely as he would accomplish the great promise of bringing forth the Messiah, and would put forth his marvellous power therein, that he should be conceived and born of a Virgin, so certain should be their present deliverance which they so desired.