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An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…
An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the second epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians by Anthony Burgess ...An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the second epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians by Anthony Burgesse ...
London: printed by A.M. for Abel Roper, 1661
AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON THE First Chapter of… › Sermon 6
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.
1. Of his proper Name, which yet doth denote his Office, Jesus. 2. His appellative Name, Christ. We shall conclude both these at this time. And
For the first word Jesus, Osiander, otherwise a learned man, hath a singular 1opinion, viz. That Jesus comes from Jehovah, only the Hebrew letter Shin is interposed, because he is called Shiloh, Gen. 49. his conceit being, that as Christ himself was compounded of two Natures; so ought his Name to be of two names; the one, viz. Jehovah, signifying his Divine Nature; and the other Shiloh his humane Nature. One Argument he urgeth is from Phil. 2. where God is said to give Christ a Name above all Names. Now (saith he) the Name Jesus was common to many others; therefore he had such a peculiar name, as none ever had. But that is a gross mistake, as if Name were there taken for a Word, and not for the Person or Office signified thereby. No less absurd is his notion also, That whereas the word Jehovah was ineffable, not pronounceable before (a figment of the Rabbins) by this addition of […] it is made utterable. To this purpose almost Castalio likewise, who makes the word compounded of Jehovah and Ish vir, as if it were God-man; but not only the general consent of all, but the reason that the Angel gives of this Name, makes it evident, that Jesus is the same with Joshua, (for so the Septuagint render that word suitably to a Greek termination) and so comes from Jashang, to save; and therefore the Angel saith, He shall be so called, because [Greek or Hebrew] he shall save his people from their sins. So that this name is very expressive, In nomine Jesus totum latet Evangelium, The whole Gospel lieth in this name of Jesus, or a Saviour. The Greek word [Greek or Hebrew] is so comprehensive, that Tully saith, The Latinists cannot comprehend it in one word, sospitator comes nearest to it.
For the first word Jesus, Osiander, otherwise a learned man, hath a singular