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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.
§. 113. Of the righteousness of Christs Kingdom.
§. 113. Of the righteousnesse of Christs Kingdom.
The aGreek word joined by the Apostle to the Sceptre here mentioned, signifieth rectitude, straightness, evenness; It is opposed to crookedness, roughness, unevenness: So doth the bHebrew word also signify; It is fitly applied to a Sceptre, which useth to be straight and upright; not crooked, not inclining this way or that way; So as that which is set out by a Sceptre, namely, government, is hereby implied to be right and upright, just and equal, not partially inclining to any side: The government of a good King is frequently set out by this phrase, He did cthat which was right, 1 King. 15. 5, 11. & 22. 43. and it is opposed to declining to the right hand or to the left, 2 Kin. 22. 2. according to the true meaning of the word in this place, it is not unfitly translated righteousness; and so it is expounded in the next verse: These two words in Hebrew, which signify drighteousness, and erectitude or equity, are oft joined together, as fimporting the same thing, Prov. 2. 9