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…

2. There is the Cause of this, which is two-fold, God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. All these parts shall be opened, as we take them in order; only let us first take notice of the Manner and End of this Salutation in ⟨p. 96⟩the general, That it is not for any earthly or worldly thing, but what is spiritual. The Grecians they used commonly [Greek or Hebrew], and [Greek or Hebrew] in their Salutations, as the Latins, Salve, and are relating only to temporal welfare. And indeed the Heathens knew no better; but the Apostle would lift up our hearts to higher things. The Apostle James Chap. 1. 1. writing to the dispersed Tribes, useth the word only, Greeting; which made Cajetan, among other reasons reject it, as not Canonical, as if such a Salutation savoured of an humane spirit: But this is no Argument. For the Apostles gathered together in a Council at Jerusalem, sending a Letter to the Churches abroad, use no more Salutation than that, only in that we are to comprehend, whatsoever is more expressly in Pauls Salutation. Seeing then its only spiritual things which Paul here doth wish to them. Observe,

2. There is the Cause of this, which is two-fold, God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. All these parts shall be opened, as we take them in order; only let us first take notice of the Manner and End of this Salutation in ⟨p. 96⟩the general, That it is not for any earthly or worldly thing, but what is spiritual. The Grecians they used commonly 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, and 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 in their Salutations, as the Latines, Salve, and are relating only to temporal welfare. And indeed the Heathens knew no better; but the Apostle would lift up our hearts to higher things. The Apostle James Chap. 1. 1. writing to the dispersed Tribes, useth the word only, Greeting; which made Cajetan, among other reasons reject it, as not Canonical, as if such a Salutation savoured of an humane spirit: But this is no Argument. For the Apostles gathered together in a Councel at Jerusalem, sending a Letter to the Churches abroad, use no more Salutation than that, only in that we are to comprehend, whatsoever is more expresly in Pauls Salutation. Seeing then its only spiritual things which Paul here doth wish to them. Observe,