Exercitations on the Epistle to the Hebrew

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1812. Excerpt: ... EXERCITATION XVIII. 1. Objections of the Jews against the Doctrine of Christianity. 2. Their principal argument to prove the Messiah not yet come. General answer. Principles leading to a right understanding of fthe promises concerning the Messiah. 3. Redemption and salvation promised by him spiritually. Folly and self-contradiction of the Jews, that expect only temporal deliverance by him. 4. Promises of temporal things, accessory and occasional. Thence conditional. The general condition of them all suited to the nature and duration of the kingdom of the Messiah. 5. Spiritual things promised in words which first signify, things temporal. Reasons thereof. Of peace with God, and in the world. 6. Seed ot Abraham, Jacob, Israel, Sion, Jerusalem. Who and what intended thereby. 7. All nations; the world; the Gentiles in the promise, who. 8,9. Promises suited unto the duration of the kingdom of the Messiah. 10. The calling and flourishing state of the Jews thereon. 11. Particular piomises may not be understood, or understood amiss, without prejudice to the faith. 12. Application of these principles. 13,14. Promise of universal peace in the days of the Messiah: Isa ii. 2, 3,4,5. considered. 15. Jewish objections from it, answered. Outward peaqo how intended. 16. Promises of the diffusion of the knowledge of God. Of unity in his worship, Jerem. xxxi. 34. Zeph. iii. 9. Zech. xiv. 9. fulfilled. 17--19. Jewish objection answered. 20. Promises concerning the restoration and glorious estate of Israel. 21. Fulfilled to the spiritual Israel. To the Jews in the appointed season. Their calling, and peace ensuing thereon. M* A Hat which remains for a conclusion to these dissertations, is the...