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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.
Secondly, We have declared in the entrance of this discourse, that the Messiah was § 38 the means promised for the delivery of mankind from that woeful estate of sin and misery whereunto they had cast themselves. This was declared unto all in general, this they believed whom God graciously enabled thereunto. But how this deliverance should be wrought in particular by the Messiah, how the works of the Devil should be destroyed, how God and Man should be reconciled, how sinners might recover a title unto their lost happiness, and be brought to an enjoyment of it; this was unknown not only unto all the Sons of Men, but also to all the Angels in Heaven themselves; who then shall unfold this mystery which was hid in the counsel of God from the foundation of the world? It was utterly beyond the reason and wisdom of man, to ⟨p. 226⟩give any tolerable conjecture how these things should be effected and brought about. But all this is fully declared by this Prophet himself. In his Doctrine, in what he taught, doth this great and hidden mystery of the Reconciliation and Salvation of mankind open it self gloriously to the minds and understandings of them that believe, whose eyes the God of this world hath not blinded, and them alone; for although this promise of the Messiah was all that God gave out unto Adam, and by him unto his posterity to keep their hopes alive in their miserable condition in the Earth, yet such was its obscurity, that meeting with the minds of men full of darkness, and hearts set upon the pursuit of their lusts, it was as to the substance of it, utterly lost to the greatest part of mankind. Afterwards the thing it self was again retrieved unto the faith and knowledge of some by new Revelations and Promises, only the manner of its accomplishment was still lost, hid in the depths of the bosom of the Almighty. But as we said by the preaching of Jesus, both the thing its self, and the manner of it, are together brought to light, made known, and established, beyond all the power of Satan, to prevail against it. This was the work of the promised Prophet; this was done by Jesus of Nazareth, who is therefore both Lord and Christ.
Secondly, We have declared in the entrance of this discourse, that the Messiah was § 38 the means promised for the delivery of mankind from that woful estate of sin and misery whereunto they had cast themselves. This was declared unto all in general, this they believed whom God graciously enabled thereunto. But how this deliverance should be wrought in particular by the Messiah, how the works of the Devil should be destroyed, how God and Man should be reconciled, how sinners might recover a title unto their lost happiness, and be brought to an enjoyment of it; this was unknown not only unto all the Sons of Men, but also to all the Angels in Heaven themselves; who then shall unfold this mysterie which was hid in the counsel of God from the foundation of the world? It was utterly beyond the reason and wisdom of man, to