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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 21: §. 21. Of the Sonne a distinct Person.
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.
This Christ is in a double respect,
1. As he is the second Person in the sacred and indivisible Trinity. 2. As he is Immanuel God with us, God manifested in the flesh.
As he is the Son of God the second person in Trinity, the whole divine essence, and all the divine properties are communicated to him. In this respect the two forementioned resemblances of brightness and character, and also all other resemblances, which by the wit of man, can be imagined, come short in setting out the relation betwixt the Father and the Sonne. They are not only like each other, but they are both the very same in nature. Resemblances may be some help to us, who are better acquainted with earthly and sensible things, then with heavenly and divine: But they cannot possibly set out divine mysteries, especially such as are of all the deepest and profoundest, as the mysteries of the Trinity of Persons in the Unity of Essence, and the Union of God and man, two distinct Natures in one Person. Therefore sundry resemblances are used: one to set out one point, an other an other: and yet all that can be used, cannot to the life and full set out the Eystery.
As he is the Sonne of God the second person in Trinity, the whole divine essence, and all the divine properties are communicated to him. In this respect the two forementioned resemblances of brightness and character, and also all other resemblances, which by the wit of man, can be imagined, come short in setting out the relation betwixt the Father and the Sonne. They are not only like each other, but they are both the very same in nature. Resemblances may be some help to us, who are better acquainted with earthly and sensible things, then with heavenly and divine: But they cannot possibly set out divine mysteries, especially such as are of all the deepest and profoundest, as the mysteries of the Trinity of Persons in the Unity of Essence, and the Union of God and man, two distinct Natures in one Person. Therefore sundry resemblances are used: one to set out one point, an other an other: and yet all that can be used, cannot to the life and full set out the Eystery.