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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 66: §. 66. Of bringing Christ into the world.
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.
The point is, That Christ is more excellent then Angels. The argument is, because he is the only true Son of God. This argument was confirmed, first by one testimony out of Psal. 2. 7. And then by another argument out of 2 Sam. 7. 14. Before this later, to show that it tendeth to the same purpose that the former did, he premiseth this clause, and again.
The point is, That Christ is more excellent then Angels. The argument is, because he is the only true Sonne of God. This argument was confirmed, first by one testimony out of Psal. 2. 7. And then by another argument out of 2 Sam. 7. 14. Before this later, to shew that it tendeth to the same purpose that the former did, he premiseth this clause, and again.
Here to that argument taken from Christs dignity, he addeth another, taken from the subjection of Angels to Christ: And because it proveth as much as the former did, he saith, And again.1
- 1Loquitur de secund• Christi adventu, cu• ad judicandum veniet, qu• est secunda introductio in hunc mundam inferiorem. Ribera Comment. in Heb. 1. 6.