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The real Christian, or, A treatise of effectual calling wherein the work of God…
The real Christian, or, A treatise of effectual calling wherein the work of God is drawing the soul to Christ ... : to which is added, in the epistle to the reader, a few words concerning Socinianism ... / by Giles Firmin ...The real Christian, or, A treatise of effectual calling wherein the work of God is drawing the soul to Christ ... : to which is added, in the epistle to the reader, a few words concerning Socinianisme ... / by Giles Firmin ...
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1670
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.
Christ clothed with his Offices; so I understand the words: thus the Angel, Luke 2.11. there is indeed the Greek word, [Greek or Hebrew], not this Hebrew word Jesus; but yet this Saviour is by the Angel called Christ the Lord: The quarrel the Jews had with him was not about his name Jesus but that this Jesus should be Christ the Lord: Let his name be Jesus, they had others of that name before; but the name Jesus, with that Notation which the Angel gave of it and which they saw believing Jews and Gentiles did embrace, this they abhorred afterwards, in so much that they would not pronounce it; but if they did unawares happen to pronounce it, then they would punish themselves with a blow on their faces, and use another word like it, [Greek or Hebrew], which by an Apocope they framed out of two ⟨p. 155⟩words, [Greek or Hebrew], Deleatur nomen ejus, Let his name be blotted out; to see the hatred of this poor people against the Lord Jesus, the Lord hasten the removal of the veil. But in the time of his being in the flesh amongst them, that which they opposed was, that he should be the Christ, the Messiah; this was such a crime, that whoever did say he was the Christ, it was matter of excommunication, they put him out of the Synagogue, John 9.22. Others of the false Apostles would not stand much at that, but might yield it he was Christ, but not Lord; they would not set up him only Lord of their faith and lives, but they set up the Servant Moses with him, he must be joined to him, 1this the Son, nor his holy Apostles would endure.: hence we have it so often that these three are put together, Acts 2.36. God hath made that Jesus, whom ye crucified, both Lord and Christ, saith Peter: the last words were the Controversy, We preach not our selves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, saith Paul: so 1 Cor. 8.6. thus Paul in his Benedictions useth the words, The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, eight times.
Christ cloathed with his Offices; so I understand the words: thus the Angel,