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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 153: §. 153. Of Gods putting down Christs enemies.
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.
1. Though the Father and the Son be distinct persons, yet they are of one and the same nature, and in that respect the same action is attributed to the one and the other; My Father worketh hitherto and I work; And what things soever the Father doth, these also doth the Son likewise, Joh. 5. 17, 19. for as they are one in essence, so in mind, and will, and works. 2. Matters are spoken of Christ, sometimes in relation to his divine nature, sometimes to his humane nature, and sometimes to his Office or Mediatorship, which he performeth in his person as God-man.
1. Though the Father and the Sonne be distinct persons, yet they are of one and the same nature, and in that respect the same action is attributed to the one and the other; My Father worketh hitherto and I work; And what things soever the Father doth, these also doth the Sonne likewise, Joh. 5. 17, 19. for as they are one in essence, so in minde, and will, and works. 2. Matters are spoken of Christ, sometimes in relation to his divine nature, sometimes to his humane nature, and sometimes to his Office or Mediatorship, which he performeth in his person as God-man.
In relation to his divine nature, he himself putteth all enemies under his feet▪ 1 Cor, 15. 25.
In relation to his humane nature which retains the essential properties of a man, the Father makes Christs enemies his footstool; For the humane nature is finite, only in one place at once: All the excellencies thereof, though far surpassing the excellencies of other creatures, are in measure with a certain proportion. That which is said of Gods giving the Spirit to Christ not by measure, Joh. 3. 39. is to be understood comparatively in reference to all other creatures; They have the measure of vessels, Christ hath the measure of a fountain, which may be accounted without measure: Notwithstanding this fullness of Christ, in relation to his humane nature God is said to advance him, to assist him, to do this and that for him; So here God is said to make his enemies his footstool. This act of God may also have relation to the office of Christ as he is Mediator; For in that respect he is under the Father, and depends upon the Father, and is assisted by the Father. Because sometimes in relation to Christs humane nature, this act of subduing Christs enemies is attributed to the Father; and sometimes in relation to his divine nature, it is attributed to himself: this Apostle useth an indefinite word of the passive voice (be made) till his enemies be made his footstool,