A53696:980
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. Do they not know, that their own Moses was generally esteemed by the wisest of the Heathen, to have been skilled and exercised in Magic. So Pliny and ⟨p. 240⟩Apuleius testify, and that he wrought wonders by virtue thereof, as Celsus contends at large. And can they fix on a readier course to confirm such a suspicion in the minds of Atheistical Scoffers, then by their own taking up the same accusation against the Author of more, and greater miracles then those wrought by Moses? What colour of answer can they return unto his reproaches, whilst themselves with more open impudence manage the same accusation against the Lord Jesus? Besides, as is confessed, Egypt was the spring of Magical incantations, the worlds Academy for that diabolical cunning, where, almost alone, it was had in honour and reputation. There in the Kings Court had Moses his education and conversation forty years. How much more just then, though sufficiently unjust, might a suspicion seem concerning him of his being skilled in that falsely called Wisdom, then concerning our Lord Jesus, who was persecuted thither, and returned thence in his infancy, which they childishly object unto him? So that in this whole vain pretence they do nothing but attempt to cast down their own foundations.
1. Do they not know, that their own Moses was generally esteemed by the wisest of the Heathen, to have been skilled and exercised in Magick. So Pliny and ⟨p. 240⟩Apuleius testifie, and that he wrought wonders by vertue thereof, as Celsus contends at large. And can they fix on a readier course to confirm such a suspicion in the minds of Atheistical Scoffers, then by their own taking up the same accusation against the Author of more, and greater miracles then those wrought by Moses? What colour of answer can they return unto his reproaches, whilest themselves with more open impudence manage the same accusation against the Lord Jesus? Besides, as is confessed, Aegypt was the spring of Magical incantations, the worlds Academy for that diabolical cunning, where, almost alone, it was had in honour and reputation. There in the Kings Court had Moses his education and conversation forty years. How much more just then, though sufficiently unjust, might a suspicion seem concerning him of his being skilled in that falsly called Wisdom, then concerning our Lord Jesus, who was persecuted thither, and returned thence in his infancy, which they childishly object unto him? So that in this whole vain pretence they do nothing but attempt to cast down their own foundations.