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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.
No Reason can be fetched from Abraham as a man, a Son of Adam, why G• should prefer him before any other son of Adam. We must rest in that wh• Christ affirmeth in another case, Even so Father, for so it seemeth good in thy […] ▪ Matth. 11. 25, 26. This the Apostle largely proves, Rom. 9. 15. &c.
No Reason can be fetcht from Abraham as a man, a Son of Adam, why G• should preferre him before any other sonne of Adam. We must rest in that wh• Christ affirmeth in another case, Even so Father, for so it seemeth good in thy 〈…〉 ▪ Matth. 11. 25, 26. This the Apostle largely proves, Rom. 9. 15. &c.
As it was in the case betwixt men and Angels, §. 159. so is it in this case between men and men.
As it was in the case betwixt men and Angels, §. 159. so is it in this case betwe• men and men.
If that respect which God manifested to man more then to Angels afford matter of high admiration and much gratulation, much more doth this different between men and men.