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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 57: §. 57. Of the difference betwixt divine and humane Generation.
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.
§. 57. Of the difference betwixt divine and humane Generation.
Many of the differences betwixt the divine Generation of the Son of God, and humane Generations of Sons of men, are such as were noted before. I will therefore give but a touch of them, as being pertinent to the present point, and add some others thereunto.
MAny of the differences betwixt the divine Generation of the Sonne of God, and humane Generations of Sonnes of men, are such as were noted before. I will therefore give but a touch of them, as being pertinent to the present point, and adde some others thereunto.
1. The Generation of the Son of God is eternal, but of Sons of men temporal. 2. That is an internal work of the Father, This external. 3. That is a perpetual permanent act, This transient. 4. That importeth a necessary mutual subsistence of him that begetteth, and him that is begotten, in and with one another; Thou in me and I in thee, saith the Son unto his Father, Joh. 17. 21. But in humane Generation he that begetteth subsisteth without him that is begotten. 5. That setteth out an equality of Persons: In this Children as Children are inferior to their Parents. 6. That doth not presuppose no-being; as if the Son of God had of no-son been begotten a Son: This is a begetting of him to be a Son which was no son before. In humane Generation that is which was not before. 7▪ In divine Generation none is before or after the other. In humane Generation, he that begetteth is before the begotten, and that not only in order of cause, but also in time. 8. That is without all passion: This cannot be so; For as there is an action in that which begetteth, so a passion in that which is begotten. 9. In that, He which begetteth, and he which is begotten is