VEt. i7í10. Eplfle to the }. i E B R E W S. fhould be affumed: The nature ofAngels beingnot taken, thofe that finned in that nature, mull perifh for ever; and they that fancy a pofiibility of Caving (niters any other way butbyfatirfallionmade in thenature that hadfinned, feemnot to have con- fidered aright the nature offin, and the JußiceofGod. Had any other way been pot table, whydoth the perithingofAngels Co inevitably follow thenon-affumptionof their nature ? This way alone then could it be wrought. Secondly, That we were carrying away all humane nature into endlefdflruüion ; for fo it is intimated, whence Chrißs af(itmption of it is expre fed by his putting forth his. hand and taking holdof it, to flop it in its court ofapotlalie and ruine. Of Angels only Come individual perlonsfell from God ; but our Whole nature, in every one to whom it was communicated from and by Adam was running head-long to de ltu- ¿hon. In it felftherecould be no relief, not any thing to commend it unto God. Here Sovereign Grace interpofeth. The love ofGod to mankind, Tit. 3. 4. As to the Angels, hepared themnot, 2 Pet. 2.4. He fpared not them, and(flared not his Sonforus, Rom. 8.32. And ifwe confider rightly what the Scripture informs us ofthe number and dignity of the Angels that finned, of their nature and ability to accomplifh the will of God, and compare therewith our own vilenefs and low condition, we may have matter ofeternal admiration fuggelled unto us. And therewas infinite Wifdom as well as Sovereign Grace inthis difpenfation ; fundry branches whereof the Apollle afterwards holds out untous. 279 Verfe XVII, XVIII. HAving declared the general Reafons why the Sonor Mellishwas for a little while tobe made lower than the Angels, in his Incarnation andfufferings, and (hewed the ends thereof ; the ApoRle proceeds todeclare other efpecial ends of this divine Difpenfation, and thereinmakes way unto what he had to infirulk the Hebrews in about the Pricelly Office ofChriß, which was the principal ground and foundation of what he intended more fullyafterwards to difcourfewith them about, and toinform them in. Verfe 17, 18. 7O9ev ¿Ima nand aán * 7071 ¿Psopóts ios,NIiear, hi io,síuw? ysvt rar , afts dxre- pn's 78 'seae Tat .& v, ht Adoxeiat edt ¿5eay ?ias Ad; vhrovev ¿Tas aN- raáe,fdiu7ar 707f /INra))0p.4n t hentuoi:. "005v ¿tuet; V. onde debuit, whence he ought. So Reza: Syr, Ohl MIN 'tit), for «o9errúpslne. whichcauCe, or wherefore, it was juß, meet, or equal. Others, wherefore it was due, it was convenient. Wherefore it behovedhim ; fo ours. 'IOW, joyned with an Infini- tive Mood, as here it is, lignifies commonlyoportet me, orneceff eft, or debeo ; I ought, it behovethme, it is neeeffary forme ; and denotes more that a meet Congruency, Con.. veniency, or Expediency ; even fuch a kind ofneceflity as arifeth from that, which in it felfis juft and equal, which the Syriacketpreffeth; of the fame importance with Iapews, verfe io. Kara aavra, per amnia ; Syr. C]"t 17)i, in omni re, inevery thing. Arab. Incundis Karz`zd ra; eorum couditionibus, in all conditions ; that is, every condition and Rate of life : ours, in all things, leaving the words where they are placed in the Original, Wherefore in all things it behovedhim; whereas a little tranfpofition ofthem wouldmore cleat up the fenfe ; Wherefore it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren in all things. The JEthiopiekquite omits the words here, and placeth them after iosbµwv, merciful in all things. Toìs a'd'sApoïs iµo:mllvat, V. Fratribusfimulari: Eraf. fimilir reddi: Beza,frmilir fieri ; `ouotwoñvee asours, to be made like. The Article prefixed to ¿J iAOe7s reßrains thename Brethren Tat dr1Atie; unto thofe whom he had before difcourfrd of under the names of children, difcipler, fantiified ones. °Iva iAfálaeor yívnTa: S atsat .itdais, ut mifericors fieret ( or effet) pontifex : fo V. Eraf
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