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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.
§. 167. Of Christs Brethren.
That whereunto Christ was bound is thus expressed, To be made like unto his Brethren.
THat whereunto Christ was bound is thus expressed, To be made like unto his Brethren.
This is the third time that this Relative Brethren, in reference to Christ, is here in this Chapter used, and that still in the very same sense. See §. 106. 113. It setteth out the same persons that were intended under these Titles Sons, §. 90. Sanctified ones, §. 103. Children, §▪ 128. and Seed of Abraham, §. 162. All these point at the Elect of God, for whose sake in special Christ took on him the common nature of man; for he was made like unto man for the Elects sake, who are given unto him of his Father, §. 132. Christ principally intended their good by being made like to man, and they reaped the benefit thereof, yea, to them that benefit is restrained. See §. 133.
This is the third time that this Relative Brethren, in reference to Christ, is here in this Chapter used, and that still in the very same sense. See §. 106. 113. It setteth out the same persons that were intended under these Titles Sons, §. 90. Sanctified ones, §. 103. Children, §▪ 128. and Seed of Abraham, §. 162. All these point at the Elect of God, for whose sake in speciall Christ took on him the common nature of man; for he was made like unto man for the Elects sake, who are given unto him of his Father, §. 132. Christ principally intended their good by being made like to man, and they reaped the benefit thereof, yea, to them that benefit is restrained. See §. 133.