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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 162: §. 162. Of Christs taking on him the Seed of Abraham.
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.
When almost all the world was addicted to Idolatry, it pleased God to call Abraham out of his own native Country, and to enter into Covenant with him and his Seed, to be their God, and to take them for his people, Gen. 17. 17. Exo. 19. 3, 6. Therein he made Abraham a kind of head and stock of his Church, and that not only of such as should descend from him after the flesh, but also of all that should believe, Rom. 4. 11. In reference hereunto is Christ said to take on him the Seed of Abraham. Fitly in this case doth the Apostle make mention of Abraham.
When almost all the world was addicted to Idolatry, it pleased God to call Abraham out of his own native Countrey, and to enter into Covenant with him and his Seed, to be their God, and to take them for his people, Gen. 17. 17. Exo. 19. 3, 6. Therein he made Abraham a kinde of head and stock of his Church, and that not only of such as should descend from him after the flesh, but also of all that should beleeve, Rom. 4. 11. In reference hereunto is Christ said to take on him the Seed of Abraham. Fitly in this case doth the Apostle make mention of Abraham.
1. Because the promise of the Messiah to come of his seed was oft made to Abraham, as Gen. 12. 3. & 13. 15, 16. & 15. 5, 6