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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.
§. 34. Of Christ advanced as God-man.
Christs advancement is properly of his humane nature: For the Son of man is1 said to sit at Gods right hand, Matth. 26. 64. and Steven with his bodily eyes saw him there, Acts 7. 56. That nature wherein Christ was crucified, was exalted. For God, being the most high, needs not be exalted. Yet the humane nature in this exaltation, is not singly and simply considered in it self, but united to the deity: so as it is the Person, consisting of two natures, even God-man, which is thus dignified, next to God, far above all mere creatures. For as the humane nature of Christ is inferior to God, and is capable of advancement, so also the Person consisting of a divine and humane nature. Christ as the Son of God, the second Person in sacred Trinity, is in regard of his deity, no whit inferior to his Father, but every way2 equal: yet as he assumed our nature, and became a Mediator betwixt God and man, he humbled himself, and made himself inferior to his Father. His Father therefore exalted him above all creatures, Phil. 2. 8, 9. The Scripture expressly testifieth, that the Father advanced his Sonne. For he said to his Son, Sit at my right hand 3(Psal. 110. 1.) He set him at his right hand,