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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
Chapter › Section 117: §. 117. Of the meaning of this relative particle Therefore.
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.
It may in the one or the other sense be here taken: As a cause it implieth that Gods anointing Christ, that is, pouring his Spirit upon him, made him to be so fit and able a King as he was; As an effect, it intendeth, that Christ being most righteous, and every way able and fit to govern the Kingdom, God therefore anointed, that is, deputed him thereto.
It may in the one or the other sense be here taken: As a cause it implieth that Gods anointing Christ, that is, pouring his Spirit upon him, made him to be so fit and able a King as he was; As an effect, it intendeth, that Christ being most righteous, and every way able and fit to govern the Kingdom, God therefore annointed, that is, deputed him thereto.
In this respect it must have reference to Christs humane nature or to his person as Mediator God-man: Thus God gave the Spirit unto him not by measure, Joh. 3. 34▪ and the Spirit of the Lord was upon him, Luk. 4. 18.
This word of inference Therefore, may also be taken as a manifestation of Gods anointing him, Thus, Christ loved righteousness, therefore it was manifest that God anointed him; as where Christ saith, therefore the Kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain King, Mat. 18. 23. It is manifest that the Kingdom of Heaven is like, &c.
This word of inference Therefore, may also be taken as a manifestation of Gods annointing him, Thus, Christ loved righteousnesse, therefore it was manifest that God annointed him; as where Christ saith, therefore the Kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain King,