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 ...

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Title: 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 ...
Author: Gouge, William, 1578-1653.
Publication: London :: Printed by A.M., T.W. and S.G. for Joshua Kirton,; 1655.
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§. 16. Of Christ being appointed.

TO magnifie the ministry of the Gospel, and thereby the more to commend unto us the Gospel it self, the Apostle goeth on in describing the Author there∣of, the Sonne of God; and that both in a dignity conferred upon him, and also in his own divine worth.

The dignity is thus expressed; whom he hath appointed Heir of all things. This must needs be meant of Christ as Mediator, even as the title Sonne before was meant: For as God he was not deputed or appointed to a thing.

God is said to appoint his Sonne,* 1.1

1. By ordaining in his eternal counsel that his Sonne should be Heir. As Christ was delivered by the determinate counsel of God to be slain (Acts 2. 23.) so was he ap∣pointed to be Heir, 1 Pet. 1. 20.
2. By sending him into the world; or by giving him to be incarnate for that very eud, Phil. 2. 7, 8, 9.
3. By raising him from the dead, and setting him at his right hand in Heaven. On these grouuds S^t Peter thus saith, God hath made him both Lord and Christ, Acts 2. 36.

This word appointed, sheweth the right that Christ hath to his Supream dignity▪ That which is said of Christs being Priest (Chap. 5. 5.) may be applied to this digni∣ty: Christ glorified not himself to be an heir; but he that said to him, Thou art my Sonne, to day have I begotten thee, appointed him heir.

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