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Love to Christ, necessary to escape the curse at his coming
Love to Christ, necessary to escape the curse at his coming by Tho. Doolittle ...
London: printed for Tho. Cockerill, 1692
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.
SECT. II. The Explication of Anathema, Maran-atha.
Anathema, where found in Scripture, is usually Translated Accursed. Acts 23.14. And they came to the chief priests and elders, and said, [Greek or Hebrew], We have bound our selves under a great curse, that we will eat nothing until we have slain Paul: i.e. with a Curse we have Cursed; that is, grievously Cursed, or bound our selves with direful Curses, Vers. 21. The same word used. Gal. 1.8. But tho we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you, than that which we have preached unto you, [Greek or Hebrew], let him be (Anathema) accursed. Repeated verse 9. Mark 14.71. But he began ([Greek or Hebrew]) to curse and to swear, saying, I know not this man of whom ye speak. Rom. 9.3. For I could wish my self (Anathema) were accursed from Christ, for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh, 1 Cor. 12.3. Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God, calleth Jesus (Anathema) accursed. Not to love Jesus, is to carry our selves towards him as tho he were Anathema; but forasmuch as he is God over all, blessed for ever; whosoever loves not him, shall be Anathema for ever. This Greek word is used as the Hebrew word [Greek or Hebrew], Cherem, which is Translated utterly to destroy, viz. 1 Sam. 15.9