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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 10 › Section 20: §. 20. Of Christs subjecting himself to Gods will.
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§. 20. Of Christs subjecting himself to Gods will.
The matter whereunto Christ so readily offered himself is thus expressed, To do thy will O God. Gods will was the rule of Christs obedience. It was both the ground thereof, and also the motive to put on Christ to do what he did. This is the ground of all that God himself doth, see chap. 2. v. 4. §. 37. This therefore ought to be the ground, the rule, and motive to us to do what we do. Hereof see chap. 13. •. •1. §. 173.
THe matter whereunto Christ so readily offered himself is thus expressed, To do thy will O God. Gods will was the rule of Christs obedience. It was both the ground thereof, and also the motive to put on Christ to do what he did. This is the ground of all that God himself doth, see chap. 2. v. 4. §. 37. This therefore ought to be the ground, the rule, and motive to us to do what we do. Hereof see chap. 13. •. •1. §. 173.
In setting down this ground and rule of obedience Christ directeth himself to God, and by an Apostrophe thus speaketh unto him, O God. Hereby he testifieth,