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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.
§. 15. Of Christs willingness to offer himself.
§. 15. Of Christs willingnesse to offer himself.
This word aHe saith, is by the Apostle attributed to Christ; and it implieth a readiness, or forwardness in him to do what he did. This is further manifested ⟨p. 434⟩by this phrase attributed to him, v. 7. Lo I come: especially as it is expressed, Psal. 40. 8. I delight to do thy will O my God. That metaphor which Christ himself useth, Joh, 4. 34. doth more fully express his mind in this case, my meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. If we observe the whole course of his life, we shall find it to be wholly composed unto his Fathers will. When he was but a child he could say, Wist you not that I must be about my Fathers business, Luk. 2. 49.
THis word aHe saith, is by the Apostle attributed to Christ; and it implieth a readinesse, or forwardnesse in him to do what he did. This is further manifested ⟨p. 434⟩by this phrase attributed to him, v. 7. Loe I come: especially as it is expressed, Psal. 40. 8. I delight to do thy will O my God. That metaphor which Christ himself useth, Ioh, 4. 34. doth more fully expresse his mind in this case, my meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. If we observe the whole course of his life, we shall find it to be wholly composed unto his Fathers will. When he was but a child he could say, Wist you not that I must be about my Fathers businesse,