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Two discourses concerning the Holy Spirit, and His work the one, Of the Spirit…
Two discourses concerning the Holy Spirit, and His work the one, Of the Spirit as a comforter, the other, As He is the author of spiritual gifts ... / by ... John Owen.
London: printed for William Marshall, 1693
Chapter 5: Particular Actings of the Holy Spirit as a Comforter. How he is an Unction.
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.
1. THAT all Persons and Things that were Dedicated or Consecrated unto God under the Old Testament, were anointed with Material Oil: So were the Kings of the People of God, so were Priests and Prophets: In like manner the Sanctuary, the Altar, and all the Holy Utensils of Divine Worship were Anointed. And it is confessed that among all the rest of Mosaical Institutions, those also concerning Unction were Typical and Figurative of what was to come.
1. THAT all Persons and Things that were Dedicated or Consecrated unto God under the Old Testament, were anointed with Material Oyl: So were the Kings of the People of God, so were Priests and Prophets: In like manner the Sanctuary, the Altar, and all the Holy Utensils of Divine Worship were Anointed. And it is confessed that among all the rest of Mosaical Institutions, those also concerning Unction were Typical and Figurative of what was to come.
2. THAT all these Types had their first, proper and full Signification and Accomplishment in the Person of Jesus Christ. And because every Person and thing that was made holy to God, was so anointed, he who was to be the most Holy, the only Spring and Cause of Holiness in and unto others, had his Name and Denomination from thence. Both Messiah in the Old Testament, and Christ in the New, are as much as the Anointed One. For he was not only in his Person typified in the anointed Kings, Priests and Prophets, but also in his Mediation by the Tabernacle, Sanctuary, Altar and Temple. Hence his Unction is expressed in those Words, [Greek or Hebrew], Dan. 9. 24. To anoint the Holy of Holies, who was prefigured by all the holy anointed Ones before. This became his Name as he was the Hope of the Church under the Old Testament, The Messiah; and the immediate Object of the Faith of the Saints under the New, The Christ. Here therefore in the first place, we must enquire into the Nature of this Unction; that of Believers being an Emanation from thence, and to be interpreted by Analogy thereunto. For (as it is usually expressed by way of Allusion) it is as they Oil, which being