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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§. 34. Of Christ advanced as God-man.

CHrists advancement is properly of his humane nature: For the Sonne of man is* 1.1 said to sit at Gods right hand, Matth. 26. 64. and Steven with his bodily eyes saw him there, Acts 7. 56. That nature wherein Christ was crucified, was exalted. For God, being the most high, needs not be exalted. Yet the humane nature in this exaltation, is not singly and simply considered in it self, but united to the deity: so as it is the Person, consisting of two natures, even God-man, which is thus dignified, next to God, farre above all meer creatures. For as the humane nature of Christ is inferior to God, and is capable of advancement, so also the Person consisting of a divine and humane nature. Christ as the Sonne of God, the second Person in sacred Trinity, is in regard of his deity, no whit inferior to his Father, but every way* 1.2 equal: yet as he assumed our nature, and became a Mediator betwixt God and man, he humbled himself, and made himself inferior to his Father. His Father therefore exalted him above all creatures, Phil. 2. 8, 9. The Scripture expresly testifieth, that the Father advanced his Sonne. For he said to his Sonne, Sit at my right hand* 1.3 (Psal. 110. 1.) He set him at his right hand, Ephes. 1. 20. God exalted him, Acts 5. 31. God hath given him a Name which is above every name, Phil▪ 2. 9. Now he that giveth is greater then he that receiveth.

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* 1.1

Beatitudinis Christi munera acquis•…•… no•…•… possunt secundum quod natura De∣us est, sed secun∣dum quod natu∣ra homo sactus est conven•…•…, Vigil. cont. Eu∣tych. l. 5.

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* 1.2

In qua •…•…orma cruc•…•…xus est, ipsa exaltata est. Au•…•… contr. Maxim.

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* 1.3

〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Greg. Ny•…•…. cont. Eunom. In statu exalta∣tionis Pater Fi∣lium ad dex∣tram suam col▪ locavit, ei{que} no∣men donavit, &c. Donans au∣tem major est accipiente do∣num, Hilar. de Trin. l. 9.

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