A53696:931
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.
First, The Nature of the Doctrine taught by this Prophet, gives Testimony unto our § 37 assertion. Whatever Characters of that Truth which is holy and heavenly can rationally be conceived or apprehended, th•y are all eminently and incomparably imprinted on the Doctrine of Jesus Christ. Whatever tends to the glory of God, as the first Cause, and last End of all things, as the only Sovereign Ruler, Judge, and disposer of all, as the only infinitely holy, wise, righteous, good, gracious, merciful, powerful, faithful, independent Being, is clearly, evidently, and in a heave•ly manner revealed therein. Whatever is useful or suitable to excite and improve, all that is of good in man, in the n•ti•ns of his mind, or inclinations of his will, to discover his wants and defects that he may not exalt himself in his own imagination abov• h•s state and condition; whatever is needful to reveal unto him, his End, or his Way, h•s Happiness, or the Means conducing thereunto, whatever may bring him into a d•e subjection unto God, and subordination unto his Glory; whatever m•y teach him to be useful in all those Relations wherein he may be cast, within the bounds and compass of the moral principles of his nature, as a creature made for society; whatever is useful the debtor him from, and suppress in him every thing that is evil, even in those hidden seeds and Embryos of it which lye beneath the first instances that Reason can reach unto to discovery of, and that in an absolute universality, without th• l•ast indulgence on any pretence whatever, and to st•r him up, provoke him unto, and direct him in the practice of whatever thing is true, honest, just, pure, lovely, of good report, that is virtuous, or praise-worthy, that may begin, bound, guide, limit, finish, and perfect, the whole System of moral actions in him in relation unto God himself, and others; it is all revealed, confirmed, and ratified in the Doctrine of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.