A53713:961
Of Communion with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost
Of communion with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, each person distinctly in love, grace, and consolation, or, The saints fellowship with the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, unfolded by John Owen ...Of communion with God the Father, Sonne, and Holy Ghost, each person distinctly in love, grace, and consolation, or, The saints fellowship with the Father, Sonne, and Holy Ghost, unfolded by John Owen ...
Oxford: printed by A. Lichfield for Tho. Robinson, 1657
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. An earnest it is [Greek or Hebrew], neither the Greek, nor the Latin §. 16 have any word to express directly what is here intended. The Latins have made words for it, from that expressed here in the greeks: arrha and arrabo. The Greek word is but the Hebrew herabon which as some conceive came amongst them, by the Tyrian merchants being a word of trade: It is by some rendered in Latin, Pignus, a pledge: but this cannot be here intended. A pledge is that property which any one gives, or leaves in the custody of another to assure him that he will give him, or pay him some other thing; in the nature of that which we call a pawn. Now the thing, that is here intended, is a part of that which is to come, and but a part of it according to the trade use of the word, whence the metaphor is taken, it is excellently rendered in our Language an earnest. An earnest is part of the price of any thing, or part of any grant, given before hand to assure the person, to whom it is given, that at the appointed season he shall receive the whole that is promised him.
2. An earnest it is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, neither the Greek, nor the Latine §. 16 have any word to expresse directly what is here intended. The Latines have made words for it, from that expressed here in the greeks: arrha and arrabo. The Greek word is but the Hebrew herabon which as some conceive came amongst them, by the Tyrian •erchants being a word of trade: It is by some renderd in Latine, Pignus, a pledge: but this cannot be here intended. A pledge is that property which any one gives, or leaves in the custody of another to assure him that he will give him, or pay him some other thing; in the nature of that which we call a pawn. Now the thing, that is here intended, is a part of that which is to come, and but a part of it according to the trade use of the word, whence the metaphor is taken, it is excellently rendred in our Language an earnest. An earnest is part of the price of any thing, or part of any grant, given before hand to assure the person, to whom it is given, that at the appointed season he shall receive the whole that is promised him.