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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§. 54. Of the difference betwixt divine Generation and Predestination.

THere are among other divine operations, three, which are in themselves very remarkable, yet not to be compared to the divine generation of the Sonne of God; Those three are these, Predestination, Creation, Regeneration: A due consi∣deration of the difference betwixt them and this, will much illustrate this.

1. The generation of the Son of God doth differ from Predestination (which* 1.1 is an internall and eternall work of God) in that it is a Personall Act, proper to the Father alone, and that only in relation to the Son: But Predestination is an essentiall act (if I may so use this word) common to all the Persons, Father, Sonne, holy Ghost; and that in relation to Angels and men.

Besides Predestination (as all other works of God towards creatures) is an act* 1.2 of Gods will meerly voluntary; God might if he would have forborn to doe it: He wrought all things after the counsell of his own will, Eph. 1. 11. But the divine ge∣neration though it be a free act, without any constraint, yet is it not a work of* 1.3 counsell and will, but of nature and necessity. The Father cannot but beget the Sonne.

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* 1.1

Generatio solius Patris propria ess. Fulgent. Res. 2. ad Ferrand.

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* 1.2

Generatio non est voluntatis opus, sed natur•…•… proprietas.

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* 1.3

Cyril. Thesau. lib. 1. c. 3.

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