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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 19: §. 19. Of Christ the brightness of Gods glory.
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.
The word translated brightness, is metaphorical; but very fit for the point in hand. The Verb whence it is derived, signifieth to send forth brightness, or light:1 and the Noun here used, such brightness as cometh from light: as the brightness or light, or sun beams issuing from the Sun.
The word translated brightness, is metaphoricall; but very fit for the point in hand. The Verb whence it is derived, signifieth to send forth brightnesse, or light:1 and the Noun here used, such brightness as cometh from light: as the brightness or light, or sun beams issuing from the Sun.
- 1Sicut flamma splendorem quem gignit tempore non praecedit: ita Pater nuuquam sine Filio fuit. Ar•br. de Fide. l. 4. c. 4.
No resemblance taken from any other creature, can more fully set out the mutual relation between the Father and the Sonne. For
No resemblance taken from any other creature, can more fully set out the mutuall relation between the Father and the Sonne. For
1. The brightness issuing from the Sun, is of the same nature that the Sun is. 2. It is of as long continuance as the Sun: Never was the Sun without the brightness of it. ⟨p. 17⟩3. This brightness cannot be separated from the Sun: The Sun may as well be made no Sun, as have the brightness thereof severed from it. 4. This brightness is from the Sun; not the Sun from it. 5. This brightness cometh naturally and necessarily from the Sun; not voluntarily and at pleasure. 6. The Sun and the brightness are distinct each from other: the one is not the other. 7. All the glory of the Sun is in this brightness. 8. The light which the Sun giveth to the world is by this brightness.