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Mount Ebal, or A heavenly treatise of divine love Showing the equity and necessity…Mount Ebal, or A heavenly treatise of divine love Shewing the equity and necessity…
Mount Ebal, or A heavenly treatise of divine love Showing the equity and necessity of his being accursed that loves not the Lord Jesus Christ. Together with the motives means marks of our love towards him. By that late faithful and worthy divine, John Preston, Doctor in Divinity, chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty, master of Emmanuel College in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Lincolns Inn.Mount Ebal, or A heavenly treatise of divine love Shewing the equity and necessity of his being accursed that loves not the Lord Iesus Christ. Together with the motives meanes markes of our love towards him. By that late faithfull and worthy divine, John Preston, Doctor in Divinitie, chaplaine in ordinary to his Majestie, master of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Lincolnes Inne.
London: printed by Marmaduke for John Stafford, 1638London: printed by Marmaduke for Iohn Stafford, 1638
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.
There is not much difficulty in the words, yet foam there is; for clearing whereof, I will show ⟨p. 3⟩you what is meant by these two terms, Anathema, Maranatha, and so proceed: for the first (Anathema) it is a Greek word, and it is as much as elevari, & suspendi, to be lift up, or be hanged, and it signifies accursed, by way of allusion to that opprobrious and cursed kind of death, which was inflicted upon notorious and heinous Malefactors, who for their offence were hanged up upon a tree, gibbet, or any such engine, according as it is said, cursed is every one that hangeth *&c. which place is again alleged by this our Apostle St. Paul, to prove that Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the Law, being made a curse for us, for it is written, cursed is *&c.
There is not much difficulty in the words, yet fome there is; for clearing whereof, I will shew ⟨p. 3⟩you what is meant by these two termes, Anathema, Maranatha, and so proceede: for the first (Anathema) it is a Greeke word, and it is as much as elevari, & suspendi, to be lift up, or be hanged, and it signifies accursed, by way of allusion to that opprobrious and cursed kinde of death, which was inflicted upon notorious and hainous Malefactors, who for their offence were hanged up upon a tree, gibbet, or any such engine, according as it is said, cursed is every one that hangeth *&c. which place is againe alledged by this our Apostle St. Paul, to prove that Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the Law, being made a curse for us, for it is written, cursed is *&c.
- *Deut. 21. 23.
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