mention fo much thereof, as will be neceffary to render this Treatife.complete and entire. Ο p Lev. iv. 3. In the Kingdom of Ifrael therefore, . this Ceremony of Unction was used to defign the Confecration, Dedication or Appointment of any Perfon or Thing to any particular Act or Office; and efpecially, it was employed in the Vocation, Confecration, and Inauguration of their Prophets, Priefts, and Kings as Elifba was anointed to Kings xix. be a Prophet by Elijah; and the P. La 16. vitical Law prefcribes Unction to every High Prieft, at his inveftiture in his Office; and 1 Zadok the Prieft inau-1 Kings i. 39. gurated Solomon in his Kingdom, by anointing him with Oil. Now in allufion hereunto, our Saviour is faid to be anointed by a fpiritual Unction, being fet apart, confecrated, and dedicated thereby, to be a Great Prophet, an High Prieft, and an univerfal King; in a most eminent manner uniting in Ab unctione himself the three Offices, viz. Propheti-Chriftus, cal, Sacerdotal, and Regal, which were quæ per Reges, divided in the Jewish Adminiftration, Prophetas & as Petrus Chryfologus remarks in his Ex-Sacerdotes opofition thereof, That Jefus was cal-in figuram, in quia & Unctio lim cucurrerat hunc Regem Regum, Sacerdotem Sacerdotum, Prophetarum Prophetam, tota fe plenitudine fpiritus divinitatis effudit. In Symb. Apoft. Serm. 59, P. 53. led Chrift from anointing; because, that Unction which formerly by a Figure ran upon Kings, Prophets, and Priefts, the Divine Spirit poured with a perfect Plenitude on this King of Kings, Prieft of Priefts, and Prophet of Prophets. As for the manner of our Lord and Saviour's Unction, it cannot be sup posed to have been by real and material Oil, but it must be understood of a fpiritual and divine Operation. Athanafius obferving the feveral Refemblances and Parallels that are be twixt David and Chrift, in every one whereof the latter hath the Pre-eminency, mentions this for one David, faith he, was anointed with material Oil; but the manner of our Saviour's anointing is thus defcribed in the forty fifth Pfalm, Thy Throne, O God, is for ever and ever; a right Scepter is the Scepter of thy Kingdom: thou haft loved Righteousness, and hateft Iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, bath anointed thee with the Oil of Gladness above thy Fellows, where it is faid with ὁμοιολεξία Xeigsws ico- the Oil of Gladness, left by the word ons, #1) # 16. Anointing we should apprehend an Equa εἶναι μὴ τῇ γομώων, έχει είπε Δαβίδ, ἐχείων καὶ ὁ Χειςός, ἀλλ' ὁ μ' ἐχείπη από ανθρώ င် πε, ὁ ἢ ἐχείπη ἐν Παρος, καὶ ἡ Χείσις ἀνεκδιή[ητΘ, καὶ ἀκαλά anlara weg [μala, &c. Tom. 1. Homil. de Sement. p. 1068. lity between them: David and Chrift were both anointed, but the one was anointed by Man, and the other by the Father; which Unction is ineffable, and the manner thereof incomprehenfible: wherefore the Pfalmift files it, the Oil of Gladness above thy Fellows; for, although both are alike anointed, yet their Unction is not of equal Worth and Dignity; for, as Chrift retains the Parallel, fo alfo be conferves the Pre-eminency. was the Holy He who anointed our Saviour was qui unxit, & ipfe qui unétus eft, & ipfa unctio in qua unctus eft; & unxit quidem Pater, unctus eft vero Filius, in fpiritu qui eft unctio; quemadmodum per Efaiam air fermo, Spiritus Dei fuper ficans & ungentem Patrem, & unme propter quod unxit me, figniCum Filium, & unctionem qui eft fpiritus. Lib. 3. c. 20. p. 209. * In Chrifti nomine fubauditur, the Spirit; as he faith by the Prophet Ifaiah, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he anointed me; fignifying the Father who anointeth, the Son who is anointed, and the Spirit & More who is the Oil: Which Oil was chiefly avar as poured upon him at his Conception ärbeuand Baptifin; and, as Origen obferves, xesòs av. " is to be referred to his human Nature, Vol. 2. Com I น πθ αυτό ment.in Johan. in Tom. I. p. 29. in which he was anointed by God to be both Lord and Saviour. After our Saviour's human Name, and the declaration of his Function and Office, there follows in the Creed his Filiation, or Sonfhip expreffed in the word Son, which is his Divine Name; whereby we are not to underftand any thing that is human and common, but fuch a Filiation as is divine, proper and peculiar unto him, and is not communicable and attributable unto any other, being his Father's only Son; wherein are Two things obfervable: First, That he is the Son of the Father, bis Son: Secondly, That he is his only Son, i. e. fuch a Son; or, a Son in such a manner as never any other is or was. Thou The Oracles of the Old Teftament did foretel, That Chrift fhould be the Pfal. ii. 7. Son of God: w I will declare the Decree; the Lord hath faid unto me, art my Son, this day have I begotten * He fhall cry unto me, Thou art my Father, my God, and the Rock of Salvation: Alfo, I will make him my First-born, higher than the Kings of * Pfal. Ixxxix.thee. 26, 27. my Ifa. ix. 6. the Earth. Y Unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given, and the Government shall be upon his Shoulder, and bis Name Name Shall be called Wonderful, Coun fellor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. When Hofea xi. i: Ifrael was a Child, then I loved him, and called my Son out of Egypt. Whence amongst the Jews, at the time of our Saviour's appearance, Meffias and the Son of God were convertible terms, defigning the fame Perfon, as is evident from feveral Paffages, in the New Testament; as, a Rabbi, thou⚫ Joh. i. 49. art the Son of God, thou art the King b of Ifrael. I believe, that thou art John xi. 27% the Chrift, the Son of God, which should come into the World. с What have Matth. viii. we to do with thee, Jefus, thou Son of 29. God? Now Chrift is on several respects called the Son of God in Scripture, as he is fo called on the account of his temporal Generation, being conceived in an extraordinary manner in the Virgin's Womb, by the Power of the Holy Ghoft; whence the Angel told the Virgin Mary, He & fhould be called Luke 1. 3 the Son of God, And, he is alfo fo called by reason of his Resurrection from the Dead, whereby he was, as it were, begotten to another Life by God his Father, who raised him; as in Alts |