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 ...

§. 55. Of the difference betwixt divine Generation and Creation.

BEsides the fore-mentioned differences, there are others also betwixt divine Ge∣neration* 1.1 and Creation: For,

• 1. Creation was a work out of God, in and upon creatures. But divine Gene∣ration is an internall work, in God himself, upon the very Creator, if I may so speak.
• 2. Creation is a making of that which was not, and that out of nothing: But divine Generation is of that which ever was, and that of the very substance of God.
• 3. Creation was a work in the beginning Gen. 1. 1. Divine Generation was be∣fore* 1.2 that beginning, even eternall, Prov. 8. 22, 23. Not as In the beginning God crea∣ted the Heaven and the Earth, so In the beginning he made the Word, but In the beginning was the Word, Joh. 1. 1.
• 4. Creation had an end, Gen. 2. 1, 2. The divine Generation continueth ever with∣out all end.
• 5. Creation was of many things divers from the Creator, not like to him; The divine Generation is of that which is most like, yea, of the very same essence.

Notes

• * 1.1

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Epiph. advers. haeres. Arriau. haeres. 69. §. 26.
• * 1.2

  Non ficut in principio fecit Deus coelum & terram, ita in principio fecit Verbum, sed in principio crat Verbum. Aug. Ep. 69.