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An exposition of the Symbol or Creed of the Apostles according to the tenor…An exposition of the Symbole or Creed of the Apostles according to the tenour…
An exposition of the Symbol or Creed of the Apostles according to the tenor of the Scriptures, and the consent of orthodox Fathers of the Church. By William Perkins.An exposition of the Symbole or Creed of the Apostles according to the tenour of the Scriptures, and the consent of orthodoxe Fathers of the Church. By William Perkins.
Cambridge: printed by John Legatt, 1595Cambridge: printed by Iohn Legatt, 1595
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.
Christs anointing hath two parts, both of them figured by the anointing of the Jews. The first is his consecration whereby he was set apart to do the office of a Mediator between God and man: and therefore to be a king, a priest, a prophet: a king to gather and withal to govern his Church and people: a priest, to make satisfaction and intercession for the sins of the elect: a prophet, to reveal and teach his people the will of God his father. And though it be true that Christ is set a part to the work of mediation as he is mediator or as he is man: yet as he is God he doth design and set himself apart to the same work. For to design the mediator is a common action of the 3. persons, the father, the son and the holy ghost: and yet considering the father is first in order, and therefore hath the beginning of the action; for this cause he is said especially to design, as when S. John saith, Him hath God the father sealed.
Christes annointing hath two partes, both of them figured by the annointing of the Iewes. The first is his consecration whereby hee was set apart to doe the office of a Mediatour betweene God and man: and therefore to be a king, a priest, a prophet: a king to gather and withall to gouerne his Church and people: a priest, to make satisfaction and intercession for the sinnes of the elect: a prophet, to reveale and teach his people the will of God his father. And though it be true that Christ is set a part to the worke of mediation as he is mediator or as he is mā: yet as he is God he doth designe and set himselfe apart to the same worke. For to designe the mediatour is a common action of the 3. persons, the father, the sonne and the holy ghost: and yet cōsidering the father is first in order, and therfore hath the beginning of the action; for this cause he is saide especially to designe, as when S. Iohn saith, Him hath God the father sealed.
1The second part of Christs anointing is the pouring out of the fullness of the spirit or grace into the manhood of Christ:2 and it was particularly figured by the holy oil. For first, that oil had no man but God alone to be the author of it: so the most excellent and unspeakable graces of the manhood of Christ have their beginning from the godhead of Christ.