An 8xpojiti~n, "With NtJtes ----------~---------------------------------- lation as Mediatour ; all thefe miracles and cures were wrought in bis name,Mar.16.t7.fnm] nam( fh•ll they c•ft out devils;fo~ Ail. 3· 6. In rhe name of {efus ofNa~ar·uh arife Ana w~lk.!, and verfe 16. Hu name through faith in his name,hathm"de the man flrong. Having opened the phrafes, I come now to open the comrover· .fie; f¥hether thu Anointing "'ith oyl) be a jta11ding tJrdil'zance in the ·(hurch ! The Papifis make it a Sacrament , which they call the Sit.crament ofextremeVnction; others in our days would revive it 2s aftAnding Ordimmcefor Church-members, expecting fome mi· -racutous cure; therefore I mufi deal wnh both : I know that · th~ intricacies of d1fpute are unpleafant to a vulgar eare , therefore I (hall not rraverfe arguments w and fro , but cut the work fhort by laying down fomepropofitions, that may prevent both the error of the Papifis , and the novellifm of rhofe that would revive this rite in our days. The PropoGcions are thefe. 1. In rhe verv Apofiles time, when it was mofi in u(e,it was not abfolmely nect ff:uy,nor infiimted byChrifr:fomeProtefiants I con– fefs f:~y that it was inG:ituted by Cbrifi a~ a tempMary rite, which is denyed even by fome among thePapifis,as Lombara,C.~tjet~tn,Hugo, who all found ir uponApoHolic:~l praB:ice.F~r my part I think it was only apprDvedby Chrilt,and not it~itituttdJ and taken up as an ufual praelicc: among the Hebrews; -as I remember Grotjus in his Com– mentary on the Evangelifis, provedi that it was an ufual rite among that people , it being their cufrom to exprefs every thing inward ~nd fpirituall.by fome Hieroglyphick and viGbk Symbol~and there– fore God, in a condefcention to them,appointed fo, many rites and figures, furable to the Genius of that Nation; and ·therefore · when they prayed for thefick, they would-anoint them with oyl,as a to– hen of that eafe and joy which they fhould obtain from God ;This rite wa!l imitated by the Apofiles, and by the Primitive ChriRians, with fuch precifenefs ana confl:ancie, that they would never give or take any medicine without anointing with oyl; fo that I think veri– ly it was nothingbut an imitation of a Jewifh rite, which Chrift a.pproved, but m:ver infiir}Jted; for when Chrifi fem out the Apo– Hles,and che power of healing was fo folemnly confel ~ dupon them, we hear of no fuch commands of anoiming with O) l: he bid,·them l.u((/jic/eytjfes,.Mark 16. 18. but pre:fcribeth not-the manner; This y,o.u will gram at leafi,that ic never had chatrfolemn ratification [till ;be. L:m/.ctJTI'J( J whic~ other fiaoding Ordinances hn~e. Y~a,J fit1d it.
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