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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.
Angels are of all mere creatures the most excellent. If Christ then be more excellent then the most excellent, he must needs be the most excellent of all. This excellency of Christ is so set out, as thereby the glory and royalty of Christs Kingly office is magnified. For this is the first of Christs offices which the Apostle doth in particular exemplify: in which exemplification he giveth many proofs of Christs divine nature: and showeth him so to be man as he is God also: and, in the next Chapter, so to be God, as he is man also: like to his brethren, Chap. 2. v. 17.
Angels are of all meer creatures the most excellent. If Christ then be more excellent then the most excellent, he must needs be the most excellent of all. This excellency of Christ is so set out, as thereby the glory and royalty of Christs Kingly office is magnified. For this is the first of Christs offices which the Apostle doth in particular exemplifie: in which exemplification he giveth many proofs of Christs divine nature: and sheweth him so to be man as he is God also: and, in the next Chapter, so to be God, as he is man also: like to his brethren, Chap. 2. v. 17.
The comparison here made betwixt Christ and Angels, is not a mere simple comparison, thus, Christ is more excellent then Angels: but it is comparatively propounded as a comparison of a comparison: thus, Christ is aso much better then Angels, as he hath obtained a more excellent Name. This comparative comparison much sets out the transcendency of the point; that he is beyond all comparisons, even infinitely better.
The comparison here made betwixt Christ and Angels, is not a meer simple comparison, thus, Christ is more excellent then Angels: but it is comparatively propounded as a comparison of a comparison: thus, Christ is aso much better then Angels, as he hath obtained a more excellent Name. This comparative comparison much sets out the transcendency of the point; that he is beyond all comparisons, even infinitely better.