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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§. 100. Of the conformity of the Sonne of God and Saints in suffering.

Verse 11.

For both he that sanctifieth, and they who are sanctified, are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren.

THis Verse is here inferr'd, as a confirmation of that which goeth before. This causall particle * 1.1 FOR implieth as much. It confirms the main point in hand, namely that Christ was true man: and it is added as a fourth proof thereof. See §. 1.

It hath also an immediate reference to the last clause of the former verse; and sheweth a reason, why it became God to make perfect the Captain of our salvation through sufferings: even because he and we are all of one.

Herein lieth the equity of Christs sufferings, that therein and thereby he might* 1.2 be like to us. For in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, ver. 17. Christ was herein of Moses his minde: He would suffer affliction with his people, Heb. 11. 25. He would not go an other way to glory then they did with whom he was of one. Thus much doth the inference of Christ being one with us, upon his sufferings import.

This doth exceedingly commend unto us the love of Christ: and it demonstra∣teth* 1.3 an equity of our suffering with him and for him. For we also are of one with him. Hereby shall we gain assurance to our own souls, and give evidence to others, that we are of one with him: namely by our willingnesse to be conformable to him: and to drink of that cup whereof he hath drunk, as he said to his Disciples, Matth. 20. 23.

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* 1.1

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* 1.2

Christ suffered to be like us.

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* 1.3

We must in suffering be like Christ.

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