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A learned and very useful commentary on the whole epistle to the Hebrews wherein…
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 Wednesdays lectures at Black-fryers, London / by that holy and learned divine William Gouge ... : before which is prefixed a narrative of his life and death : whereunto is added two alphabetical tables ...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 ...
London: printed by A.M. for Joshua Kirton, 1655
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
A Throne is a Royal seat, a seat proper to a King; so much is intended by this1 phrase, Only in the Throne will I be greater then thou, Gen. 41. 40. That was spoken by a King upon advancing one above all his Subjects; only he excepts his own royal dignity, which he setteth out under this word Throne. These two words, Throne, Kingdom, are oft joined together, thus, The Throne of his Kingdom, 2 Sam. 7. 13. Deut. 17. 18. and it is called a Royal Throne, Esth. 5. 1. A Kingly Throne, Dan. 5. 20. A Throne is metonymically put for a Kingdom, 2 Sam. 7. 16. 1 King. 1. 37. Kings used to sit on their Throne when they would set out their royalty, 1 Kin. 22. 10, 19. Act. 12. 21. And when they executed public judgement, 1 King. 27. 7. In this respect it is styled a Throne of Judgement, Pro. 20. 8. and Thrones are said to be prepared for Judgement, Psa. 9. 7. & 122. 5. and God is said to sit on a Throne judging, Psa. 9. 4. In allusion to this right, Christ thus saith to his Disciples,