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A53696	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 ...	Owen, John, 1616-1683.	1668 (1668)	Wing O753; ESTC R18100	1,091,989	640

Gospel asketh them wither they received the Spirit by the works of the Law or by the Word of Faith Chap. 3.2 that is the Gospel That was the Way and means whereby God communicated unto them his Spirit by whom among many other Priviledges we are sealed unto the day of Redemption This is the Covenant of God that his Spirit and the Word of the Gospel shall go and shall abide together with his Elect Isa. 59.1 And he is given unto us by the Gospel on many accounts 1. Because he is the gift and grant of the Author of the Gospel as to all the especial Ends and concernments of salvation John tells us that the Spirit was not given when Jesus was not as yet glorified Chap. 7.39 that is not in that manner as God hath annexed unto this salvation and therefore Peter tells us that when the Lord Christ ascended up on high he received of the Father the Promise of the Spirit and poured him forth on them which did believe Acts 2.33 And this he did according to his own great Promise and Prediction whilest he conversed with his Disciples in the dayes of his flesh There was not any thing that he more supported and encouraged them withal nor more raised their hearts to an Expectation of than this that he would send unto them and bestow upon them the Holy Ghost for many blessed ends and purposes and that to abide with them for ever as we may see Joh. 14.15 16. And this is the great priviledge of the Gospel that the Author of it is alone the donor and bestower of the Holy Spirit which of what concernment it is in the business of our Salvation all men know who have any acquaintance with these things 2. He is promised in the Gospel and therein alone All the Promises of the Scripture whither in the Old Testament or New whose subject is the Spirit are Evangelical they all belong unto and are parts of the Gospel For the Law had no Promise of the Spirit or any Priviledge by him annexed unto it And hence he is called the holy Spirit of promise Ephes. 1.13 Who next unto the Person of Christ was the great subject of Promises from the foundation of the world 3. By these Promises are Believers actually and really made partakers of the Spirit They are vehicula Spiritus the Chariots that bring this holy Spirit into our Souls 2 Pet. 1.4 By these great and precious Promises is the Divine Nature communicated unto us so far forth as unto the indwelling of this blessed Spirit Every Evangelical Promise is unto a Believer but as it were the cloathing of the Spirit in receiving whereof he receives the Spirit himself for some of the blessed Ends of this great salvation God makes use of the Word of the Gospel and of no other means to this purpose So that herein also it is the grace of God that bringeth salvation Thirdly In our Justification And this hath so great a share in this salvation that it is often called salvation it self And they that are justified are said to be saved as Ephes. 2.8 And this is by the Gospel alone which is a point of such importance that it is the main subject of some of Pauls Epistles and is fully taught in them all And in sundry respects it is by the Gospel 1. Because therein and thereby is appointed and constituted the New Law of Justification whereby even a sinner may come to be justified before God The Law of Justification was that he that did the Works of the Law should live in them Rom. 10.5 But this became weak and unprofitable by reason of sin Rom. 8.3 Heb. 8.7 8 9. That any sinner and we have all sinned and come short of the glory of God should be justified by this Law or Rule implyes a contradiction and is utterly impossible Wherefore God by the Gospel hath constituted a new Law of Justification even the Law of faith Rom. 3.27 which is the holy Declaration of his Will and Grace that sinners shall be justified and accepted with him by faith in the blood of Christ without the Works of the Law that he that believeth shall be saved This is equally constituted and appointed in the Law of faith to be proposed unto all that shall believe And on the account hereof the Gospel is salvation 2. Because in every Justification there must be a Righteousness before God on the account whereof the Person to be justified is to be pronounced and declared righteous this is tendered proposed and exhibited unto us in and by the Gospel This is no other but the Lord Christ himself and his Righteousness Isa. 45.21 22. Rom. 8.3 4. Rom. 10.4 2 Cor. 5.21 Gal. 3.13 14. Now Christ with his whole Righteousness and all the benefits thereof are tendered unto us and given unto or bestowed on them that do believe by the Promise of the Gospel Therein is he preached and proposed as crucified before our eyes and we are invited to accept of him which the souls of Believers through the Gospel do accordingly And 3. Faith it self whereby we receive the Lord Christ for all the Ends for which he is tendered unto us and become actually interested in all the fruits and benefits of his Mediation is wrought in us by the Word of the Gospel For as we have declared it is the seed of all Grace whatever and in especial faith cometh by hearing and hearing by this word of God Rom. 10.17 Conviction of sin is by the Law but faith is by the Gospel And this is the Way and means which God hath appointed on our part for the giving us an actual interest in Justification as established in the Law of the Gospel Rom. 5.1 Again 4. The Promise of the Gospel conveyed unto the soul by the Holy Spirit and entertained by faith compleats the justification of a believer in his own conscience and gives him assured Peace with God And then the whole work of this main branch of our salvation is wrought by the Gospel Fourthly There is in this salvation an instruction and growth in spiritual Wisdom and an Acquaintance with the Mysterie of God even of the Father and the Son which also is an Effect of the Gospel Of our selves we are not only dark and ignorant of heavenly things but darkness it self that is utterly blind and incomprehensive of spiritual Divine Mysteries Ephes. 5.8 and so under the Power of darkness Col. 1.13 as that we should no less than the Devils themselves be holden under the chains of it unto the Judgement of the great Day Darkness and ignorance as to the things of God themselves in respect of the Revelation of them and Darkness in the Mind and Understanding of them in a right manner being revealed is upon the whole world And no heart is able to conceive no tongue to express the greatness and misery of this Darkness The removal hereof is a mercy unexpressible the beginning of our entrance into Heaven

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with that clearness evidence and perspicuity as it is now by the Apostles and Preached unto all It is only then the degrees of the manifestation of this mysterie as to openness plainness and evidence that are asserted by the Apostle above all which of the same kind went before but the discovery of it absolutely is not denyed And thus much was necessary in our passage to secure our own interest in the mercy treated about § 33 We may now return a little again unto the Promise given unto Abraham In the pursuit hereof his Posterity was separated to be a peculiar people unto God Their Church-state the whole Constitution of their Worship their Temple and Sacrifices were all of them assigned and appointed unto to the confirmation of the Promise and to the explanation of the way whereby the blessed seed should be brought forth and the work that he should perform for the removal of sin and the Curse and the bringing in of everlasting Righteousness as shall elsewhere be manifested Moreover unto this Deliverer and Deliverance to be wrought by him with the nature of it and the means of its accomplishment by what he was to do and suffer do all the Prophets bear witness The full manifestation hereof seeing it requires an explication of the whole Doctrine of the Messiah concerning his Person Grace and Mediation his Offices Life Death and Intercession the Justification of sinners through his Blood and Sanctification by his Spirit with all other Articles of our Christian Faith all which are taught and revealed though obscurely in the Old Testament would take up an entire Volumn and be unsuitable unto our present design But three things in general the Prophets give Testimony unto him by First By preferring the promised relief and remedy above all the present Glory and Worship of the Church directing it to look above all its enjoyments unto that which in all things was to have the pre-eminence Se● Isa. 2. v. 2. Chap. 4. v. 2 3 4 5. Chap. 7. v. 13 14 15. Chap. 9. v. 6 7. Chap. 11. v. 1 2 3 4 10 c. Chap. 32. v. 1 2 3 4. Chap. 35. v. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. Chap. 40. v. 1 2 3 4 5 9 10 11. Chap. 42. v. 1 2 3 4. Chap. 49. v. 18 19. Chap. 51. v. 4 5 6 7. Chap. 59.20 21. Chap. 60. Chap. 61. v. 1 2 3 c. Chap. 65. v. 17 18. Jeremiah 23. v. 5 6. Chap. 30. v. 9. Chap. 31. v. 31 32 33 34. Chap. 32. v. 40 41 42. Ezek. 40. c. Dan. 7.27 Chap. 9. v. 24. Chap. 12. v. 1 2. Hos. 3. v. 5. Joel 3. v. 18. Amos 9. v. 11 12 13 14 15. Obad. v. 21. Micah 4. v. 1 2 3 4. Chap. 5. v. 1 2 3 4. Habbuk 2. v. 14. Hagg. 2. v. 6 7 8 9. Zechar. 2. v. 8 9 10 11 12. Chap. 3. v. 8 9 10. Chap. 6. v. 1● 13. Chap. 9. v. 9 10 11. Chap. 14. v. 3 4 20. Malach. 1. v. 11. Chap. 3.1 2 3. Chap. 4. v. 2. Which places although but a few of those that occur in the Prophets are yet too many to be particularly insisted on But this they all teach with one consent that there was in the Promise which they assert and confirm an Excellency of Blessings far exceeding in Glory and Worth and in advantage unto Believers all that which they outwardly enjoyed in their Peace Prosperity Kingdom and Temple-Worship Now this can be nothing but the Spiritual and Eternal Deliverance of their Persons from sin Curse and Misery with the enjoyment of the Favour of God in this Life and Blessedness hereafter in his Presence for evermore And this in particular is expressed and declared in many of the Promises directed unto especially those which concern the making and establishing of the New Covenant which is that we are in the demonstration of Secondly They do the same in the Description they give of the Person that was to be this Remedy or Relief and of the work that he had to accomplish for that End and Purpose For the former they declare that he was to be the Son of God God and Man in one Person Psalm 2. v. 7. Psalm 110. v. 1. Isa. 9. v. 6 7. Jer. 23. v. 5 6. Zech. 2.8 9 10. and in sundry other places is the same mysterie intimated whereby the Church was farther instructed how God would joyn with the nature of man in the seed of the Woman for the Conquest of the Old Serpent and the destruction of his works And for the latter as they declare his sufferings in an especial manner even what and how he was to suffer in the bruising of his heel or bearing the effect of and Punishment due to sin Psalm 22. Isaiah 53. Dan. 9. v. 24 25. so his teaching ruling and governing of his people in their Obedience unto God by him untill they are saved unto the uttermost as the great Prophet and King of his Church is by them fully manifested Psalm 2. Psalm 22. v. 25. Psalm 45. v. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17. Psalm 68. v. 17 18. Psalm 72. Psalm 89. v. 9 10 11 12 13. Psalm 96. Psalm 97. Psalm 98. Psalm 99. Psalm 110. Isaiah 11. v. 1 2 3 4 5. Chap. 9.6 7. Chap. 32. v. 1 2. Chap. 35. Chap. 40.11 12. Chap. 42. v. 1 2 3 4. Chap. 45. v. 22 23 24 25. Chap. 49. v. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12. Chap. 50. v. 4. Chap. 59. v. 16 17. Chap. 61. v. 1 2 3. Chap. 63. v. 1 2 3 4 5 6. Jerem. 23. v. 5 6. Micah 4. v. 2 3. Chap. 5. v. 1 2 3 4. Zechary Chap. 2. v. 8. Mal. 3.1 2 3 4. as in sundry other places Yea herein all the Prophets greatly abound it being the principal work that God raised them up for and inspired them by his Holy Spirit in their severall Generations as Peter declared 1 Epist. 1. v. 10 11 12. Thirdly They did also by taking off the Expectations of men from looking after relief and deliverance by any other way or means whatsoever Psalm 40. v. 8 9. Add hereunto that the whole Fabrick of the Tabernacle and Temple-Worship was contrived appointed and designed in Infinite Wisdom unto no other End but to instruct and direct the Church unto this Promised Deliverer and the Salvation to be wrought by him as shall God assisting abundantly be manifested in our Exposition of the Epistle unto the Hebrews Thus do both the Law and Prophets bear witness unto this Promised Deliverer and § 34 the Deliverance to be wrought by him And this is He whom the Jews and Christians call the Messiah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to annoint with oyle Those who were peculiarly of old consecrated unto God in the great Offices of Kings Priests and Prophets were by his Appointment so to be annointed at least some

brought to glory There is a double act of Gods Predestination the first is his designation of some unto grace to be sons Ephes. 1.5 the other his appointment of those sons unto glory both to be wrought and accomplished by Christ the Captain of their salvation The latter and the execution of it namely the bringing of those who by grace are made sons unto glory is that which the Apostle here expresseth He dealeth not with the Hebrews in this Epistle about the conversion of the Elect the traduction of them into a state of grace and sonship but of the government of them being made sons and their guidance unto glory And therefore the sufferings of Christ which absolutely and in themselves are the cause of our sonship and reconciliation with God are mentioned here only as the means whereby Christ entred into a condition of leading sons into glory or of saving them who upon the account of his sufferings are made sons by grace But yet this is not so precisely respected neither but that the Apostle withall intimates the necessity of the sufferings of Christ as to the whole effect of it towards the Elect. Now these sons thus to be brought unto glory are said to be many not all absolutely not a few or of the Jews only which they looked for but all the Elect of God who are many Rev. 7.9 And this work of bringing many sons unto glory is here signally assigned by the Apostle unto God the Father whose Love Wisdom and Grace Believers are principally to eye in the whole work of their salvation wrought out and accomplished by Jesus Christ. This therefore we shall a little insist upon to declare the grounds and reasons on the account whereof it is so ascribed unto him or what acts are peculiarly assigned unto the Father in this work of bringing many sons unto glory which will secure the ascription of it unto him and therein our interpretation of the place 1. The Eternal designation of them unto that glory whereunto they are to be brought is peculiarly assigned unto him He predestinates them to be conformed to the image of his Son Rom. 8.28 29 30. The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ chooseth us before the foundation of the world and predestinateth us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ unto himself Ephes. 1.3 4 5. And he hath from the beginning chosen us unto salvation 2 Thess. 2.13 14. And this electing love of God this eternal purpose of his good pleasure which he purposed in himself is the fountain and spring of all other immediate causes of our salvation From hence Faith Acts 13.45 Sanctification 2 Thess. 2.13 Holiness Ephes. 1.4 preservation in grace 2 Tim. 2.19 the death of Christ for them Joh. 3.16 and final glory it self 2 Tim. 2.10 do all ensue and proceed so that on the account hereof he may be justly said to be the Bringer of many sons to glory 2. He was the spring and fountain of that Covenant as in all other Operations of the Deity that was of old between himself and his Son about the salvation and glory of the Elect. See Zech. 6.13 Isa. 42.1 Prov. 8.20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30. Isa. 50.4 chap. 53.11 12. Psal. 16.10 to Psal. 110.1 6. He in his love and grace is still declared as the Proposer both of the Duty and of the Reward of the Mediator the Son incarnate as the Son accepts of his Terms and Proposals Heb. 10.5 6 7 8. And hence the Intenseness of his Love the Immutability of his Counsel the Holiness of his Nature his Righteousness and Faithfulness his Infinite Wisdom do all shine forth in the Mediation and sufferings of Christ Rom. 3.25 26. chap. 5.8 1 Joh. 4.9 Heb. 6.17 18. Tit. 1.2 Rather than his Love should not be satisfied and his Counsel accomplished He spared not his own Son but gave him unto death for us 3. He signally gave out the first Promise that great foundation of the Covenant of Grace and afterwards declared confirmed and ratified by his Oath that Covenant wherein all the means of bringing the elect unto glory are contained Gen. 3.15 Jerem 31.32 33 34. Heb. 8.8 The Person of the Father is considered as the principal Author of the Covenant as the Person covenanting and taking us into covenant with himself the Son as the Messiah being considered as the Surety and Mediator of it Heb. 7.22 chap. 9.15 and the Purchaser of the Promises of it 4. He gave and sent his Son to be a Saviour and Redeemer for them and unto them so that in his whole work in all that he did and suffered he obeyed the Command and fulfilled the Will of the Father Him did God the Father send and seal and give and set forth as the Scripture every where expresseth it And our Lord Jesus Christ every where remits us to the consideration of the Love Will and Authority of his Father in all that he did taught or suffered so seeking the Glory of God that sent him 5. He draws his Elect and enables them to come to the Son to believe in him and so to obtain life salvation and glory by him No man saith our Saviour can come to me except the Father which hath sent me draw him Joh. 6.44 No man no not any one of the Elect can come to Christ unless the Father in the pursuit of that love from whence it was that he sent the Son do put forth the efficacy of his grace to enable him thereunto and accordingly he reveals him unto some when he is hidden from others Matth. 11.25 For the Revelation of Christ unto the soul is the immediate act of the Father Matth. 16.17 6. Being reconciled unto them by the blood of his Son he reconciles them unto himself by giving them pardon and forgiveness of sins in and by the Promises of the Gospel without which they cannot come to glory 2 Cor. 5.18 19 20 21. He is in Christ reconciling us unto himself by the non-imputation or forgiveness of our sins Forgiving us all our trespasses for Christ his sake Ephes. 4.32 There are many things concurring unto the pardon of sin that are peculiar acts of the Father 7. He quickens them and sanctifies them by his Spirit to make them meet for the inheritance of the Saints in light that is for the enjoyment of glory He that raised up Jesus from the dead quickens us by his Spirit Rom. 8.11 So saving us by the washing of Regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost which he shed on us richly by Jesus Christ Tit. 3.5 6. This sanctification and renovation by the Holy Ghost and all supplies of actual grace enabling us unto obedience are every where asserted as the Grant and Work of the Father who worketh in us both to will and to do of his own good pleasure And so in especial is the saving illumination of our minds to know the mystery of his grace and discern the