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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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§ 36 We are then in the next place to consider the Accomplishment of this promise, in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. Now this the story of him and the event do abundantly testify, that he was a Prophet, and so esteemed by the Jews themselves, until ⟨p. 225⟩through the envy of the Scribes and Pharisees, and their own unwillingness to admit of the purity and holiness of his Doctrine, they were stirred up to oppose and persecute him, as they had done all other Prophets, who in their several Generations foretold his coming, is evident from the records of the Evangelical story; see Joh. 1.46. chap. 6.17. Act. 3.22, 23. Their present obstinate denial hereof, is a mere contrivance to justify themselves in their rejection and murder of him. But this is not all; he was not only a Prophet in general, but he was that Prophet who was foretold by Moses, and all the Prophets, who built on his foundation, who was to put the last hand unto divine Revelations, in a full declaration of the w•ole counsel of God, the peculiar work of the Messiah; and this we shall evince in the ensuing considerations of his Doctrine and Prophecy, with the success and event of them.
§ 36 We are then in the next place to consider the Accomplishment of this promise, in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. Now this the story of him and the event do abundantly testifie, that he was a Prophet, and so esteemed by the Jews themselves, until ⟨p. 225⟩through the envy of the Scribes and Pharisees, and their own unwillingness to admit of the purity and holiness of his Doctrine, they were stirred up to oppose and persecute him, as they had done all other Prophets, who in their several Generations foretold his coming, is evident from the records of the Evangelical story; see Joh. 1.46. chap. 6.17. Act. 3.22, 23. Their present obstinate denial hereof, is a meer contrivance to justifie themselves in their rejection and murder of him. But this is not all; he was not only a Prophet in general, but he was that Prophet who was foretold by Moses, and all the Prophets, who built on his foundation, who was to put the last hand unto divine Revelations, in a full declaration of the wole counsel of God, the peculiar work of the Messiah; and this we shall evince in the ensuing considerations of his Doctrine and Prophesie, with the success and event of them.