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 ...

§. 121. Of Christs being one with Saints.

THe foresaid testimony being applied to Christ giveth proof of his humane na∣ture, and shews him to be one with us: and that in three respects.

• 1. In that he ranketh himself in the number of Saints, saying, Behold I and the children: and so presenteth himself with the rest of Gods children unto God, as to a common father of them all; according to that which elsewhere he saith, I asce•…•… unto my Father and your Father, &c. Ioh. 20. 17.
• 2. In that he presenteth himself unto God as his Minister, who had faithfully fulfilled the task which was committed to his charge. Hereupon it followeth, that he was inferiour to his Father, who appointed him a Prophet.
• 3. In that the nature of relation, intimated in this word children, implieth that he is of the same nature with them. For father and children, properly taken, are all of the same nature.