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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.
In the latter respect, as God-man, he is the Son of God by the union of his humane nature with the forementioned second Person, who only is of all the Persons the Son of God. For as neither the Father nor the holy Ghost is the Son; so nor the Father nor the holy Ghost did assume humane nature; but the Son only. In regard of the nature, true it is, that God and man were united in one Person. God was manifested in the flesh, 1 Tim. 3. 16. But in regard of the Person, the Son of God was also Son of man; the Word was made flesh, Joh. 1. 14. In this respect an Angel saith of him that was born of the Virgin Mary (Luk. 1. 35.) he shall be called the Son of God.
In the latter respect, as God-man, he is the Sonne of God by the union of his humane nature with the forementioned second Person, who only is of all the Persons the Sonne of God. For as neither the Father nor the holy Ghost is the Sonne; so nor the Father nor the holy Ghost did aslume humane nature; but the Sonne only. In regard of the nature, true it is, that God and man were united in one Person. God was manifested in the flesh, 1 Tim. 3. 16. But in regard of the Person, the Sonne of God was also Sonne of man; the Word was made flesh, Joh. 1. 14. In this respect an Angel saith of him that was born of the Virgin Mary (Luk. 1. 35.) he shall be called the Sonne of God.
So near is this union of God and man, as, though they be two distinct natures, and1 more different then any two other distinct things can be, yet they make but one Person: as mans body and soul, which are different natures, make but one person. In this respect the union of Christs natures is called an hypostatical union, that is, such an union as makes one subsistence, or one Person. Hence is it that the properties and effects of the one nature are attributed to the other,