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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 188: §. 188. Of the Doctrines raised out of Heb. 2. v. 17, 18.
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.
I. Christ conformed himself to what he undertook. He took on him the seed of Abraham, wherefore he was made like his brethren.
I. CHrist conformed himself to what he undertook. He took on him the seed of Abraham, wherefore he was made like his brethren.
II. There was a necessity of Christs being man. It behoved him. See §. 166.
III. Christ was such a man as others. He was made like. See §. 168.
IV. Christ assumed the common nature of man for the Elect sake. These are the brethren to whom Christ is made like. See §. 167.