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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 › Section 41: §. 41. Of Christs Excellencies above Angels.
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.
IN all the forementioned Excellencies is Christ more excellent then Angels. For
IN all the sorementioned Excellencies is Christ more excellent then Angels. For
1. Christs divine nature is infinitely more excellent then an angelical spirit: Yea his humane nature, by the hypostatical union of it with the divine, hath likewise a dignity infinitely surpassing an Angels nature. 2. Christ is the express image of the person of his Father, which is more then to be created, as Angels were, after Gods image. 3. Christ is the brightness of Gods glory: Therefore more glorious then the most glorious Angels. Christ is in Heaven at the right hand of the Throne of the Majesty. Therefore in place of residency higher then Angels. 5. Christs function, to be a Mediator betwixt God and man, is greater then any of the functions of Angels.
Therefore Christ is more excellent then Angels in their greatest excellencies. Yet there is a greater excellency, wherein Christ doth further excel Angels, comprised under this phrase, a more excellent Name. This doth the Apostle largely insist upon and copiously prove: and that upon this ground.
Therefore Christ is more excellent then Angels in their greatest excellencies. Yet there is a greater excellency, wherein Christ doth further excell Angels, comprised under this phrase, a more excellent Name. This doth the Apostle largely insist upon and copiously prove: and that upon this ground.