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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 8 › Section 67: §. 67. Of the Lords being a God in peculiar to his consederates.
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.
On the foresaid respects, Gods especial respect is appropriated to those who are under the new Covenant: he is in an especial manner a God to them. As the promises in the old Testament tending hereunto, were intended to them, so in the new Testament they were applied to them. Of them saith Christ, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father, and to my God, and your God. John 20. 17. And God himself thus, I will be their God, 2 Cor. 6. 16.
On the foresaid respects, Gods especial respect is appropriated to those who are under the new Covenant: he is in an especial manner a God to them. As the promises in the old Testament tending hereunto, were intended to them, so in the new Testament they were applyed to them. Of them saith Christ, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father, and to my God, and your God. John 20. 17. And God himself thus, I will be their God, 2 Cor. 6. 16.
Believers under the new Covenant are incorporated into the body of the Mediator of the new Covenant actually exhibited: and in that peculiar respect, as the Lord is his Father and God, so he is their Father and God.
1. Good ground have we who live under this Covenant, to apply to our selves this singular privilege, and to take God for our God and Father: and to have i• in our minds whensoever we approach unto him: for […] end this phrase, our Fa•,