A41670:3706
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 3 › Section 17: §. 17. Of the sense of this word Partakers.
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.
Here two things are especially intended under this word Partakers.
1. All Saints have a like share in the heavenly calling, They being Partakers thereof have every one g part therein as well as a right thereto, All the Israelites were in this sense partakers of the same privileges, They were all under the cloud, and all passed through the Red Sea, and were all baptized, &c. and did All eat the same spiritual meat, and did All drink the same spiritual drink, 1 Cor. 10, 2, 3, 4. Ye are all one in Christ Jesus, Gal. 3. 28. The eight unities mentioned by the Apostle, Eph. 4. 4, 5, 6. intend thus much, For all believers make one body; They have all one Spirit; They are all called in one hope; They are all servants of one Lord; There is one Faith belonging to them all, and one Baptism; They have all One God, and […] Father. In reference to that one Father all believers are styled, bdear children, Eph. 5. 1. Great is the emphasis of the Greek word translated dear; It signifieth a beloved one, one that is so loved as all love is cast on him. It is most properly attributed to an only child, where God saith to Abraham, Take cthine only Son, Gen. 22. 2. The LXX thu• translate it, Take dthy beloved Son. He who in Hebrew is called an e