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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.
How distinctly and clearly doth this metaphor set out the great Mysteries of our Christian faith, concerning God the Father and Son! For they are
How distinctly and clearly doth this metaphor set out the great Mysteries of our Christian faith, concerning God the Father and Sonne! For they are
1. Of one and the same essence, Joh. 10. 30. 2. Coeternal, Joh. 1. 1. 3. Inseparable, Prov. 8. 30. 4. The Son is from the Father: God of God, light of light, very God of very God.1 5. The Son is begotten of the Father, by nature, not by will, favour or good pleasure, Rom. 8. 7, 32. 6. The person of the one is distinct from the other: For the Father is not the Son; nor the Son the Father, Joh. 5. 17. 7. The incomprehensible glory of the Father, most brightly shineth forth in the2 Son, Joh. 17. 5. 8. All that the Father doth in relation to creatures, he doth by the Son: As in these respects Christ is fitly and justly styled brightness; so in regard of his surpassing excellency, he is said to be the brightness of GLORY. Of the Hebrew and Greek words translated glory, see Chap. 2. v. 7. §. 60.
1. Of one and the same essence, Ioh. 10. 30. 2. Coeternall,