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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.
To the second I answer, That Christ as man would questionless have been merciful,1 Though he had not been subject to humane frailties and miseries. The very Union of the humane nature with the divine would have moved him to have showed mercy to such as were in misery, yet it cannot be denied but that the experience which he had of mans miseries moved him as he was man to be the more pitiful; They who have been pained with the gout, stone, or other tormenting ⟨p. 248⟩maladies use to pity others that are so pained, and that more, for the most part, then they who never felt any such pain.
To the second I answer, That Christ as man would questionlesse have been mercifull,1 Though he had not been subject to humane frailties and miseries. The very Union of the humane nature with the divine would have moved him to have shewed mercy to such as were in misery, yet it cannot be denied but that the experience which he had of mans miseries moved him as he was man to be the more pitifull; They who have been pained with the gout, stone, or other tormenting ⟨p. 248⟩maladies use to pity others that are so pained, and that more, for the most part, then they who never felt any such pain.
- 1How Christ merciful.How Christ mercifull.
Besides, this inference may be made in reference to our apprehension and persuasion of his mercifulness, as if it had been said, we could not have been persuaded that he would have been sensible of our miseries, and thereupon merciful to us if he had not been made like unto us in all things.