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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 166: §. 166. Of the necessity of Christ being man.
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.
TO Christs Prophetical and Kingly Offices the Apostle addeth his third, which is his Priestly office, and that to prove the main point in hand, namely, that Christ was man, otherwise he could not have been a Priest, For every High-Priest is taken from among men, &c. Heb. 5. 1.
TO Christs Propheticall and Kingly Offices the Apostle addeth his third, which is his Priestly office, and that to prove the main point in hand, namely, that Christ was man, otherwise he could not have been a Priest, For every High-Priest is taken from among men, &c. Heb. 5. 1.
As the two last verses of this Chapter have a general reference to Christs • mane nature, set out, ver. 10, 11. &c. So they have also a special reference to the last clause of the verse going before, and that as a necessary consequence following thereupon; Because Christ took on him the Seed of Abraham, therefore it behoved him to be made like unto him.
As the two last verses of this Chapter have a generall reference to Christs • mane nature, set out, ver. 10, 11. &c. So they have also a speciall reference to the last clause of the verse going before, and that as a necessary consequence following thereupon; Because Christ took on him the Seed of Abraham, therefore it behoved him to be made like unto him.
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