A53696:975
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.
1. For those who lived in his own days: see Matth. 18.11, 12, 13, 14. Joh. 7.31. Chap. 19.16, 24. Acts 4.16. Acts 19.13. Neither did they at any time, dispute his works, but only the power whereby they were wrought: of which afterwards.
1. For those who lived in his own dayes: see Matth. 18.11, 12, 13, 14. Joh. 7.31. Chap. 19.16, 24. Acts 4.16. Acts 19.13. Neither did they at any time, dispute his works, but only the power whereby they were wrought: of which afterwards.
2. The fame and reputation of them, was such amongst them, that those who made an Art and Trade of casting out of Devils, used the invocation of the name of Jesus over their possessed, which the notoriety of his exerting his Divine power in that kind of works, induced them unto: See Acts 19.13. They adjured the Spirits by the Name of Jesus whom Paul preached, observing the miracles that he wrought in that name. For they being ignorant of the true way and means whereby the Apostle wrought his miraculous works, after the manner of Magicians they used the name of him whom he preached, in their Exorcisms, as it was ever the custom of that sort of men to intermix their charms with the names of such persons, as they knew to have excelled in mighty works. And that this was common among the Jews of those days, is evident from