A53696:949
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
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§ 49 Again, The whole work promised from the foundation of the world to be accomplished by the Messiah, is here ascribed unto the person treated of, and his sufferings. Peace with God is to be made by his Chastisement, v. 5. and healing of our wounds by sin, is from his stripes. He bears the iniquity of the Church, v. 6. that they may find acceptance with God. In his hand the pleasure of the Lord for the Redemption of his people, was to prosper, v. 10. And he is to justify them for whom he dyed, v. 11. If these and the like things here mentioned may be performed by any other, the Messiah may stay away, there is no work for him to do in this world. But if these are the things which God hath promised that he shall perform, then he, and none other is here intended.
§ 49 Again, The whole work promised from the foundation of the world to be accomplished by the Messiah, is here ascribed unto the person treated of, and his sufferings. Peace with God is to be made by his Chastisement, v. 5. and healing of our wounds by sin, is from his stripes. He bears the iniquity of the Church, v. 6. that they may find acceptance with God. In his hand the pleasure of the Lord for the Redemption of his people, was to prosper, v. 10. And he is to justifie them for whom he dyed, v. 11. If these and the like things here mentioned may be performed by any other, the Messiah may stay away, there is no work for him to do in this world. But if these are the things which God hath promised that he shall perform, then he, and none other is here intended.
§ 50 Neither are the Cavils of the Jews about the Application of some expressions unto the Lord Jesus, worth the least consideration. For besides that they may all of them be easily removed, the whole being exactly accomplished in him, and his passion set forth beyond any instance of a Prophetic description of a thing future, in the whole Scripture, let them but grant that the true and only Messiah was to converse among the people in a despised, contemned, reproached condition, that he was to be rejected by them, to be persecuted, to suffer, to bear our iniquities, and that from the hand of God, to make his soul an Offering for sin, by that means spiritually to redeem and save his people, and as themselves know well enough, that there is an end of this Controversy, so the Lord Jesus must and will on all hands be acknowledged to be the true and only Messiah.