A53696:98
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.
§ 34 Unto what hath been spoken, we may add, that the Canonical Authority of this Epistle is confirmed unto us by Catholic Tradition; By this Tradition I intend not the Testimony only of the present Church that is in the world, nor Fancy a trust of a Power to declare what is so in any Church whatever; but a general uninterrupted Fame conveyed and confirmed by particular Instances, Records, and Testimonies in all Ages. In any other sense how little weight there is to be laid upon Traditions, we have a pregnant instance in him who first began to magnify them. This was Papias, a contemporary of Policarpus in the very next Age after the Apostles. Tradition of what was done, or said by Christ, or the Apostles, what Expositions they gave, he professed himself to set an high value upon, equal to, if not above the Scripture. And two things are considerable in his search after them.
§ 34 Unto what hath been spoken, we may add, that the Canonical Authority of this Epistle is confirmed unto us by Catholick Tradition; By this Tradition I intend not the Testimony only of the present Church that is in the world, nor Fancy a trust of a Power to declare what is so in any Church whatever; but a generall uninterrupted Fame conveyed and confirmed by particular Instances, Records, and Testimonies in all Ages. In any other sense how little weight there is to be laid upon Traditions, we have a pregnant instance in him who first began to magnifie them. This was Papias, a contemporary of Policarpus in the very next Age after the Apostles. Tradition of what was done, or said by Christ, or the Apostles, what Expositions they gave, he professed himself to set an high value upon, equal to, if not above the Scripture. And two things are considerable in his search after them.