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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 22: §. 22. Of the Benefits arising from the relation of the Sonne to the Father.
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§. 22. Of the Benefits arising from the relation of the Son to the Father.
§. 22. Of the Benefits arising from the relation of the Sonne to the Father.
BY the resemblance of a character, we see what is to be sought in Christ; namely whatsoever is in the Father: As the former metaphor implieth, that the glory of the Father is invisible, till it shine forth and show it self in the Son: so this likewise declareth, that the Fathers excellency is, as it were, hid, and could not be known, unless it were revealed and laid open in this character or express image. Again, As the former metaphor implieth, that out of Christ, who is that brightness, there is no light at all, but mere palpable darkness (for God wh• only is as the Sun, light in himself and the fountain of all light to all creatures, doth by this brightness only shine out to us, Joh. 1. 9.) So this metaphor importeth, that in Christ, the Father is truly and thoroughly to be known. For a character well made, doth not only in part and obscurely, but fully and to the life demonstrate the image that is on the stamp. It is truly and properly an express image.
BY the resemblance of a character, we see what is to be sought in Christ; namely whatsoever is in the Father: As the former metaphor implieth, that the glory of the Father is invisible, till it shine forth and shew it self in the Sonne: so this likewise declareth, that the Fathers excellency is, as it were, hid, and could not be known, unless it were revealed and laid open in this character or express image. Again, As the former metaphor implieth, that out of Christ, who is that brightness, there is no light at all, but meer palpable darkness (for God wh• only is as the Sun, light in himself and the fountain of all light to all creatures, doth by this brightness only shine out to us,