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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
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.
That which hath been before noted, §. 104, 106, 139. concerning Christ and other men, being of one and the same flesh and blood, and in that respect breath, is confirmed by this phrase, He took on him the Seed of Abraham.
THat which hath been before noted, §. 104, 106, 139. concerning Christ and other men, being of one and the same flesh and bloud, and in that respect breth•, is confirmed by this phrase, He took on him the Seed of Abraham.
Both the ancient Fathers and also later Divines have much insisted on this Te• to prove sundry principles of our Christian faith, Concerning
1. Christs eternal Deity. Hereof See §. 160. 2. His true Humanity; In that he took upon him the seed of man, it is evid• that he was a true man. Seed is the matter of mans nature, and the very substance thereof. 3. The root out of which Christ assumed his humane nature, even the Seed of m• ▪ It was not created of nothing, nor was it brought from heaven, but assumed […] of the Seed of man; This was thus foretold, There shall come forth a rod out of […] Stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his root, Isa. 11. 1. And an Angel t• faith of Christ to the Virgin Mary, That holy thing which shall be born of thee, L• XI. 35. 4. The subsistence of Christs humane nature in his divine nature; The humane • ture of Christ never had a subsistence in it self; At or in the very first framing making it it was united to the divine nature, and at or in the first uniting it it […] framed or made. Philosophers say of the uniting of the soul to the body,