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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.
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.
First, Some of them say, that this Prophecy indeed concerneth the Messiah, but not Messiah Ben David, who shall be alwayes victorious, but Messiah Ben Joseph, who shall be slain in Battel 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 coyned 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.
2. Others feign that the true Messiah was born long ago, and that he lived amongst the leprous people at the Gates of Rome, being himself leprous, and full of sores; which as they say, is foretold in this Prophecy. Such monstrous imaginations as these might not be repeated without some kind of participation in the folly of their Authors, but that poor immortal souls are ruined by them; and that they evidence what a foolish thing man is when left unto himself, or judicially given up to blindness and unbelief. We are ready to admire at the senseless stupidity of their fore-fathers, they do so themselves, who chose to worship Baal and Moloch, rather then the true God, who had so eminently revealed himself unto them; but it doth no way exceed that of those who have lived since their rejection of the true Messiah, nor do we need any other instance then that before us to make good our Observation. And yet neither