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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.
§. 115. Of Christs love of Righteousness.
§. 115. Of Christs love of Righteousnesse.
That which puts on Christ to sway his Sceptre righteously, and righteously to govern his people, is not so much any advantage which himself expects from his subjects, as an inward inclination in himself thereunto, and a delight therein. So much doth this word love, (Thou has• loved righteousness) intend; In this did the man after Gods own heart manifest his love of Gods Commandments, in that he delighted in them; I will delight my self (saith he) in thy Commandments, which I have loved, Psa. 119. 47. yea, they who love a thing will also earnestly and zealously put themselves on to practise and exercise the same. So much is intended in this phrase, My hands will I lift up unto thy Commandments which I have loved, Psa. 119. 48. When the soul of a man is duly affected with righteousness, and his heart set upon it to love it, he will take all occasions to practise it: Nothing more puts on one to do a thing then love; My Soul hath kept thy Testimonies, and I love them exceedingly, saith the Psalmist, Psa. 119. 167.
THat which puts on Christ to sway his Scepter righteously, and righteously to govern his people, is not so much any advantage which himself expects from his subjects, as an inward inclination in himself thereunto, and a delight therein. So much doth this word love, (Thou has loved righteousnesse) intend; In this did the man after Gods own heart manifest his love of Gods Commandments, in that he delighted in them; I will delight my self (saith he) in thy Commandments, which I have loved,