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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
Chapter › Section 111: §. 111. Of Christs Sceptre.Chapter › Section 111: §. 111. Of Christs Scepter.
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 King by swaying his Sceptre this way or that way, manifesteth his mind: When he inviteth any to come to him, or would have silence made, or vouchsafed grace and favour to any, or declare his dislike of a thing and displeasure, he doth2 it by the motion of his Sceptre, so as his mind may be discerned thereby. When Ahasuerus would give an evidence of his favour to Esther, he held out his Sceptre to her; Esth. 5. 2. & 8. 4. Because a Sceptre is proper to a King, by a Metonymy it is oft put for a Kingdom or Royal dignity, as Gen. 49. 10. Numb. 24. 17. And the destruction of a King and Kingdom is set out by breaking a Sceptre, Isa. 14. 5▪ Zec. 10. 11.
A King by swaying his Scepter this way or that way, manifesteth his minde: When he inviteth any to come to him, or would have silence made, or vouchsafed grace and favour to any, or declare his dislike of a thing and displeasure, he doth2 it by the motion of his Scepter, so as his minde may be discerned thereby. When Ahasuerus would give an evidence of his favour to Esther, he held out his Scepter to her; Esth. 5. 2. & 8. 4. Because a Scepter is proper to a King, by a Metonomy it is oft put for a Kingdom or Royall dignity, as