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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 59: §. 59. Of the Particle, This day, applied to Christs Resurrection.
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.
There was another time wherein Christ was on Earth manifested to be truly and properly begotten of God, and that was at his resurrection; For when he had so far subjected himself to the power of his enemies, as to suffer them to do to the very uttermost what possibly they could (for men after they have killed the body have no more that they can do, Luk. 12. 5.) to show that by his divine nature he could undo all, and make all void, he rose again from the dead. Thus was he declared to be the Son of God with power, namely, by the resurrection from the dead, Rom. 1. 4. For it was not possible that the Son of God should be holden of death, Act. 2. 24.
THere was another time wherein Christ was on Earth manifested to be truly and properly begotten of God, and that was at his resurrection; For when he had so farre subjected himself to the power of his enemies, as to suffer them to do to the very uttermost what possibly they could (for men after they have killed the body have no more that they can do, Luk. 12. 5.) to shew that by his divine nature he could undo all, and make all void, he rose again from the dead. Thus was he declared to be the Sonne of God with power, namely, by the resurrection from the dead, Rom. 1. 4. For it was not possible that the Sonne of God should be holden of death, Act. 2. 24.
Sundry both ancient and later Divines do apply these words, This day have I 1begotten thee, to the Resurrection of Christ; For by that power which Christ had to raise himself from the dead, it evidently appeared that he was indeed the begotten Son of God; of such power as the Father had; and therefore of the very substance of the Father: true God in power, true God in essence: This they do the rather