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…

Now you must know there is a two-fold anointing, or a two-fold Oil, which ¹the Scripture speaks of; one material and visible, which was used in the Old Testament; the other material and invisible, which is the Spirit of God, with the graces thereof. When therefore Christ is called the anointed, and God is said to anoint him, Act. 4. 27. & Psal. 45. 7. And also the people of God are said to have the anointing, 1 John 2. 27. Hence Hierom said, Disce Christianum nomen tuum interpretari. This is wholly to be understood after a spiritual manner. For as Oil was in the Old Testament used significatively, to represent the graces of Gods Spirit; hence every thing dedicated to God, was to be anointed; to teach us, That no approaches unto God, without sanctification, were acceptable. So in the New Testament, the Spirit of God and his graces, still retain the name of anointing. The Jews out of extreme hatred to Jesus Christ, will not call their Messiah, whom they expect [Greek or Hebrew] but [Greek or Hebrew]. Now Christ is therefore the Messiah, the anointed one, that he may be a Jesus, without this he could not have been a Saviour. Observe,

Now you must know there is a two-fold anointing, or a two-fold Oyl, which ¹the Scripture speaks of; one material and visible, which was used in the Old Testament; the other material and invisible, which is the Spirit of God, with the graces thereof. When therefore Christ is called the anointed, and God is said to anoint him, Act. 4. 27. & Psal. 45. 7. And also the people of God are said to have the anointing, 1 John 2. 27. Hence Hierom said, Disce Christianum nomen tuum interpretari. This is wholly to be understood after a spiritual manner. For as Oyl was in the Old Testament used significatively, to represent the graces of Gods Spirit; hence every thing dedicated to God, was to be anointed; to teach us, That no approaches unto God, without sanctification, were acceptable. So in the New Testament, the Spirit of God and his graces, still retain the name of anointing. The Jews out of extream hatred to Jesus Christ, will not call their Messias, whom they expect but . Now Christ is therefore the Messias, the anointed one, that he may be a Jesus, without this he could not have been a Saviour. Observe,