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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
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Secondly, Hence it follows, That all Promises concerning temporal things, at his coming, § 4 or by it, are but accessory and occasional, and such as directly appertain not to his principal work, and main design of his coming. Certain it is, that the whole work for which God of old promised the Messiah, might have been effected and fully accomplished, if not one word had been spoken of any outward advantage to ensue thereon in this world. These Promises then belong not directly and immediately to the Covenant of the Redeemer, but are declarations only of the Sovereign Will and Wisdom of God, as to what he would do in the dispensation of his Providence, at such and such a season. Hence two things will ensue.
Secondly, Hence it follows, That all Promises concerning temporal things, at his coming, § 4 or by it, are but accessory and occasional, and such as directly appertain not to his principal work, and main design of his coming. Certain it is, that the whole work for which God of old promised the Messiah, might have been effected and fully accomplished, if not one word had been spoken of any outward advantage to ensue thereon in this world. These Promises then belong not directly and immediately to the Covenant of the Redeemer, but are declarations only of the Soveraign Will and Wisdom of God, as to what he would do in the dispensation of his Providence, at such and such a season. Hence two things will ensue.
First, That all these Promises may be conditional. Those which concerned the sending of the Messiah for the accomplishment of his principal work, were absolute, and depended not upon any thing, in any, or all of the Sons of men. The whole of it was a mere effect of Sovereign Grace. He was therefore infallibly to come at his appointed season. But those that concern the dispensation of Gods Providence in temporal things, may all of them be conditional. And evident it is, that they have one Condition annexed to the fulfilling of every one of them; and that is, that those who would partake of them, do submit themselves unto the Law and Rule of the Messiah. For in the midst of the greatest collection of Promises in the whole Old Testament, which at first view seem to express the glory of the Kingdom of the Messiah in outward things, it is added, the Nation and Kingdom that will not serve them shall perish; yea, those Nations shall be utterly wasted,