A53696:945
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.
We have strength also added unto this Testimony by the weakness of the opposition § 48 which at present they make unto our Application of this place unto the Messiah. It is rather rage then reason, that here they trust unto; and seem to cry, pereant & amici, dummodo & inimici pereant. Let Targum, Talmud, Cabal Tradition, former Masters be esteemed Liars, and deceived; so that Christians may be disappointed. New Expositions and Applications of this Prophecy they coin, wherein they openly contradict one another; yea, the same man (as Abarbinel) sometimes himself; and when they have done, suggest such things as are utterly inconsistent with the faith of the ancient Church concerning the Messiah, with follies innumerable no way deserving our serious consideration. The chief things which they most confide in, we shall speedily remove out of our way.
We have strength also added unto this Testimony by the weakness of the opposition § 48 which at present they make unto our Application of this place unto the Messiah. It is rather rage then reason, that here they trust unto; and seem to cry, pereant & amici, dummodo & inimici pereant. Let Targum, Talmud, Cabal Tradition, former Masters be esteemed Lyars, and deceived; so that Christians may be disappointed. New Expositions and Applications of this Prophecy they coin, wherein they openly contradict one another; yea, the same man (as Abarbinel) sometimes himself; and when they have done, suggest such things as are utterly inconsistent with the faith of the antient Church concerning the Messiah, with follies innumerable no way deserving our serious consideration. The chief things which they most confide in, we shall speedily remove out of our way.
First, Some of them say, that this Prophecy indeed concerneth the Messiah, but not Messiah Ben David, who shall be always victorious, but Messiah Ben Joseph, who shall be slain in Battle against Gog and Magog. But (1.) This figment wholly overthrows the faith of the true Messiah; and they may as well make twenty as two of them. (2.) That Ben Joseph whom they have coined in their own brains, is to be a great Warrior from his first appearance, and after many Victories to be slain in a Battle, or at least, be reputed so to be. But this Prophecy is concerning a man, poor, destitute, despised, afflicted all his life, bound, imprisoned, rejected, scorned, condemned and slain under a pretence of Judgement, no one thing whereof they do, or can ascribe unto their Ben Joseph.