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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.
§. 110. Of the necessity of Christs continual sitting upon his Throne.
§. 110. Of the necessity of Christs continuall sitting upon his Throne.
There is an absolute necessity that Christs Throne should be for ever and ever, because there never was nor can be any worthy, meet, or able to succeed Christ in the Throne, and to go forward with that work which he had begun; Wherefore that his good beginning might not prove vain, it was necessary that he should have an everlasting Kingdom: Among men a good supply may be made, and one man may go on with that good work which another hath begun, and perfect the same: David made great preparation for the Temple, 1 Chron. 22: 2. &c. & 28. 11. &c. but his Son Solomon perfected the Temple after the death of his Father, 2 Chr. 5. 1. But there is one only true natural Son of God, one Mediator between God and Man; So as there can be none like to him to succeed him on the Throne: Besides Christ ever liveth, and therefore needeth no Successor; But all men are mortal and are not suffered to continue by reason of death. This1 reason the Apostle rendereth of the difference betwixt the Priesthood of men which was changeable, and the unchangeable Priesthood of Christ, Heb. 7. 23, 24.
THere is an absolute necessity that Christs Throne should be for ever and ever, because there never was nor can be any worthy, meet, or able to succeed Christ in the Throne, and to go forward with that work which he had begun; Wherefore that his good beginning might not prove vain, it was necessary that he should have an everlasting Kingdom: Among men a good supply may be made, and one man may go on with that good work which another hath begun, and perfect the same: David made great preparation for the Temple,