A17384:3312
A commentary
A commentary: or, sermons upon the second chapter of the first epistle of Saint Peter wherein method, sense, doctrine, and use, is, with great variety of matter, profitably handled; and sundry heads of divinity largely discussed. By Nicholas Byfield, late preacher of God's Word at Isle-worth in Middlesex.A commentary: or, sermons vpon the second chapter of the first epistle of Saint Peter vvherein method, sense, doctrine, and vse, is, with great variety of matter, profitably handled; and sundry heads of diuinity largely discussed. By Nicholas Byfield, late preacher of God's Word at Isle-worth in Middlesex.
London: printed by Humphrey Lownes for George Latham, 1623London: printed by Humfrey Lownes for George Latham, 1623
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It is true, that we do not read, that our Saviour was himself anointed with oil, because his anointing consisted in the substance of that shadow. For, the shadow signifieth two things: First, ordination to the office; secondly, the pouring out of ⟨p. 793⟩gifts by the holy Ghost, for the exornation of the office.
It is true, that we doo not reade, that our Sauiour was himself anointed with oile, because his anointing consisted in the substance of that shadow. For, the shadow signifieth two things: First, ordination to the office; secondly, the pouring out of ⟨p. 793⟩gifts by the holy Ghost, for the exornation of the office.
Now, whereas Christ is Mediator in both natures, his anointing must be distinguished according to his natures. The whole person was anointed, but yet differently in respect of his natures: for, gifts could not be poured out upon his divine nature; yet, as the Son of God, the second person in Trinity, he was anointed, in respect of ordination to the office of Mediator: and as the Son of man, he was anointed, in respect of the pouring out of the gifts of the holy Ghost upon that nature in measure, as the Psalmist saith, above his fellows, Psalm 45.
Now, whereas Christ is Mediator in both natures, his anointing must bee distinguished according to his natures. The whole person was anointed, but yet differently in respect of his natures: for, gifts could not be poured out vpon his diuine nature; yet, as the Sonne of God, the second person in Trinity, he was anointed, in respect of ordination to the office of Mediator: and as the Sonne of man, he was anointed, in respect of the pouring out of the gifts of the holy Ghost vpon that nature in measure, as the Psalmist saith, aboue his fellows,