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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.
It hath-stood upon its trial above sixteen hundred years in the world, challenging the wit and malice of its adversaries, to discover any one thing or circumstance of any thing that is untrue, false, evil, uncomely, not useful, or inconvenient in it, or to find out any thing that is morally good, virtuous, useful, praise-worthy, in h•bit or exercise, in any instances of operations in any degree of intention of mind, any duty that man owes to God, others, or himself, that is not taught, enjoined, encouraged, and commanded by it; or to discover any motives, encouragements, or reasons unto, and for the pursuit of that which is good, and the avoidance of evil that are true, real, solid, and rational, which it affordeth not unto them that embrace it. This absolute perfection of the Doctrine of this Prophet, joined with those Characters of Divine Authority which are enst•mped on it, doth sufficiently evidence that it contains the great, promised, full, final Revelation of the Will of God, which was to be given forth by the Messiah. Add hereunto, that since the delivery of this Doctrine, the whole race of mankind hath not been able to invent, or find out any thing, that without the most palpable folly and madness might be added unto it, much less stand in competition with it, and it will it self sufficiently demonstrate its Author.
It hath-stood upon its trial above sixteen hundred years in the world, challenging the wit and malice of its adversaries, to discover any one thing or circumstance of any thing that is untrue, false, evil, uncomely, not useful, or inconvenient in it, or to find out any thing that is morally good, virtuous, useful, praise-worthy, in h•bit or exercise, in any instances of op•rations in any degree of intention of mind, any duty that man owes to God, others, or himself, that is not taught, injoyned, incouraged, and commanded by it; or to discover any motives, incouragements, or reasons unto, and for the pursuit of that which is good, and the avoidance of evil that are true, real, solid, and rational, which it affordeth not unto them that embrace it. This absolute perfection of the Doctrine of this Prophet, joyned with those Characters of Divine Authority which are enst•mped on it, doth sufficiently evidence that it contains the great, promised, full, final Revelation of the Will of God, which was to be given forth by the Messiah. Add hereunto, that since the delivery of this Doctrine, the whole race of mankind hath not been able to invent, or find out any thing, that without the most palpable folly and madness might be added unto it, much less stand in competition with it, and it will it self sufficiently demonstrate its Author.