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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 2 › Section 157: §. 157. Of Christs not assuming the nature of Angels.
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 negative, he took not on him the nature of Angels, is here premised for weighty reasons.
1. In reference to the fifth verse, where it is said that God put not in subjection unto the Angels the world to come. Here a reason thereof is showed: namely, because Christ was not one with Angels, he took not upon him their nature. 2. It giveth an instance of Gods Sovereignty and Justice. For God hath power to leave sinners in that miserable estate whereunto they have implunged themselves: and justly may he so do: for thus in justice hath he dealt with the Angels that sinned. The Angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgement of the great day, Jude v. 6. 2 Pet. 2. 4. 3. To amplify Gods mercy to man. It is a very great amplification of mercy that it is such a mercy as is not extended to others: though those other stood in as much need thereof, Psal. 147. 20. ⟨p. 233⟩4. It demonstrateth more fully the kind of nature which Christ assumed: that it was not an Angelical, a spiritual, a celestial nature, as some Heretics have imagined. See §. 140.
1. In reference to the fifth verse, where it is said that God put not in subjection unto the Angels the world to come. Here a reason thereof is shewed: namely, because Christ was not one with Angels, he took not upon him their nature. 2. It giveth an instance of Gods Soveraignty and Justice. For God hath power to leave sinners in that miserable estate whereunto they have implunged themselves: and justly may he so do: for thus in justice hath he dealt with the Angels that sinned. The Angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darknesse unto the judgement of the great day,