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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.
Oil, and anointing therewith being mystically taken (as here they are) setteth out the Spirit and the gifts and graces thereof: In this respect Christ saith of himself, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach, &c. Luk. 4. 18. And the Apostle Peter saith of him, God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the holy Ghost, and with power, Act. 10. 38.
Oyl, and annointing therewith being mystically taken (as here they are) setteth out the Spirit and the gifts and graces thereof: In this respect Christ saith of himself, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath annointed me to preach, &c. Luk. 4. 18. And the Apostle Peter saith of him, God annointed Iesus of Nazareth with the holy Ghost, and with power, Act. 10. 38.
This is in special to be applied to the humane nature of Christ, yet so as united to the divine nature, both making one person: For God singly and simply considered in himself never was nor can be anointed, no, not metaphorically, as here the word is taken; God cannot be deputed to any Function: God needs not the Spirit to be poured on him, nor needs he any gift of the Spirit to be enabled to any thing that he doth. He is of himself allsufficient.
This is in speciall to be applied to the humane nature of Christ, yet so as united to the divine nature, both making one person: For God singly and simply considered in himself never was nor can be annointed, no, not metaphorically, as here the word is taken; God cannot be deputed to any Function: God needs not the Spirit to be poured on him, nor needs he any gift of the Spirit to be enabled to any thing that he doth. He is of himself allsufficient.