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HEBR.Chap. II. V
E R.
XVI.
For, He in no
llJife
took! the
A
N G E L
s:
en
ut, the Seed
of
A
B R A H A M
Hee
tookf.
D, evenbecaufel this
day,
Hetookc not the
Angels
Na–
ture upon Him, bur rooke our
N
atnre, in the
feed
of
vL
bi-ahnm:
therefore hold wcerhis
Day,
as a highPeAfl:
therefore meet we rhus, every ycerc;ina holy Aifcmbly;
even, for
a
fo'!emne
memorial!,
that Heharh, as rhis day,
bellowed upon us
a
dignity, which upon
theAngdJ,
Hee
bellowed nor. That He(asin the Chapter before, the
Apojlle
fetrerh Him forth) that is
ihebrightn~fJe
of
His
Fa-
Hcb...3;
thers gldry, the very CharuC!er of His fr•bftance, the Htire
of all things, by whom Hee made the World:
Hee, \\·hen
both needed it, (His
taking
upon Him their
NAtllre )
and both llood before Him,
UWen
an1
vfngeh:
the
An-
gels
Herookenor, but
<..Mm
fiee tobke;
was
made Mal'l,
was not made an
.Angel!:
that is, didmore
for
them, than He did for rhe
Angels
ofHe.wen.
Elfc-where the
.Apojlle
doth deliver this very point
pojitivcly
;
(and that)nor wirhom
[
ome
.
vehemenc~~:
Withortt all
q~effion
great is the myjlerie ofgodlincffe, God is mimifeftedin theflefb.
,
Tini.1.
W.hlCh
lS
meffect, the fame, that is here faid .; bur that, here it is deltvered by way of
compa.
~~.
:rijon,
For, this fpeech is evidently a
comparfon.
IfHe had rhus fet it downe :
Otlr 7'0lture He
13'
tooke;