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A learned and very useful commentary on the whole epistle to the Hebrews wherein…
A learned and very useful commentary on the whole epistle to the Hebrews wherein every word and particle in the original is explained ... : being the substance of thirty years Wednesdays lectures at Black-fryers, London / by that holy and learned divine William Gouge ... : before which is prefixed a narrative of his life and death : whereunto is added two alphabetical tables ...A learned and very useful commentary on the whole epistle to the Hebrews wherein every word and particle in the original is explained ... : being the substance of thirty years Wednesdayes lectures at Black-fryers, London / by that holy and learned divine Wiliam Gouge ... : before which is prefixed a narrative of his life and death : whereunto is added two alphabeticall tables ...
London: printed by A.M. for Joshua Kirton, 1655
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.
But in regard of his office, as God-man, and Mediator betwixt God and man, this continuance hath respect to the future, and implieth an everlasting continuance; And that,
1. From his ascension, when he was actually set upon his Throne in heaven. This exaltation of Christ is frequently noted to be after his humiliation and subjection unto death, Act. 2. 36. & 5. 30, 31. Rom. 8. 34. Phil. 2. 8, 9. 2. From his Incarnation; For so soon as his humane nature was united to his divine (which was at his first conception) he had a right to his Royal dignity. Thereupon it is said v. 6. when he bringeth in the first-begotten into the world, &c. So soon as he was born he was acknowledged a King, and answerably he was worshipped, and Presents brought to him, Mat. 2. 2, 11. 3. From the beginning of the world, even so soon as man fell, as Mediator he was also King; That which was said of Christ in regard of his sacrifice, he was a Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, Rev. 13. 8. may be applied to his royalty, he was a King from the foundation of the world. For in every point of his Mediatorship he was the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever, Heb. 15. 8. that is, in all former times, in the present time, and for all future times. This was Christ in four especial respects.
1. From his ascention, when he was actually set upon his Throne in heaven. This exaltation of Christ is frequently noted to be after his humiliation and subjection unto death, Act. 2. 36