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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.
Anathema, Maran-atha; some render it, Let him be accursed till the Lord come, or when the Lord comes; or he shall have due Vengeance from the Lord when he comes. Some thus, Let him be accursed ⟨p. 5⟩even till the coming of the Lord, to his death's day, even for ever; and hath reference to that Prophecy of Enoch, recorded Jude ver. 14. Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, [Greek or Hebrew], the Lord comes with ten thousand of his Saints, 15. to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them, of all their ungodly deeds which they have angodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. And all for want of Love unto him.
Anathema, Maran-atha; some render it, Let him be accursed till the Lord come, or when the Lord comes; or he shall have due Vengeance from the Lord when he comes. Some thus, Let him be accursed ⟨p. 5⟩even till the coming of the Lord, to his death's day, even for ever; and hath reference to that Prophecy of Enoch, recorded Jude ver. 14. Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the Lord comes with ten thousand of his Saints, 15. to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them, of all their ungodly deeds which they have angodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. And all for want of Love unto him.
Learned men conclude, That here is an allusion to the Jewish manner of Excommunication; of which there were three sorts or degrees; The Lesser. The Middle Sort. The Greatest.