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A discourse of the work of the Holy Spirit in prayer with a brief…
A discourse of the work of the Holy Spirit in prayer with a brief enquiry into the nature and use of mental prayer and forms / by John Owen ...
London: printed for Nathanael Ponder, 1682
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.
(2.) Those unto whom he is thus promised, are the House of David and the Inhabitants of Jerusalem; that is the whole Church expressed in a Distribution into the ruling family and the body of the people under their rule. And the Family of David, which was then in supreme power among the people, in the Person of Zerubbabel, is expressly mentioned for three reasons: (1.) Because the Faithfulness of God in his Promises, was concerned in the preservation of that Family, whereof the Messiah was to spring, Christ himself being thereby in the Rule of the Church typed out in an especial manner. (2.) Because all the Promises in a peculiar manner, were first to be fulfilled in the Person of Christ, so typed by David and his House. On him the Spirit under the New Testament was first to be poured out in all fullness, and from him to be communicated ⟨p. 13⟩unto others. (3.) It may be to denote the especial Gifts and Graces that should be communicated unto them, who were to be employed in the Rule and conduct of the Church, under him, the King and Head thereof. And the Inhabitants of Jerusalem, is a phrase expressive of the whole Church; because that was the seat of all their public ordinances of worship. See Psal. 122. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Wherefore the whole spiritual Church of God, all Believers are the object of this Promise as represented in the Family of David and the Inhabitants of Jerusalem.
(2.) Those unto whom he is thus promised, are the House of David and the Inhabitants of Jerusalem; that is the whole Church expressed in a Distribution into the ruling family and the body of the people under their rule. And the Family of David, which was then in supream power among the people, in the Person of Zerubbabel, is expresly mentioned for three reasons: (1.) Because the Faithfulness of God in his Promises, was concerned in the preservation of that Family, whereof the Messiah was to spring, Christ himself being thereby in the Rule of the Church typed out in an especial manner. (2.) Because all the Promises in a peculiar manner, were first to be fulfilled in the Person of Christ, so typed by David and his House. On him the Spirit under the New Testament was first to be poured out in all fullness, and from him to be communicated ⟨p. 13⟩