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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 130: §. 130. Of the extent of Heaven and Earth.
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.
There is mention made in Scripture of three heavens.1
- 1Three heavens
1. The Air, wherein birds and Fowls do fly, wherein are the clouds also; so as all the space betwixt the Earth and the Moon, is called the first heaven. 2. The Firmament, wherein are all sorts which are called the host of Heaven, Deut. 4. 19. is the second heaven. 3. That invisible place where are the Angels and glorified Saints, and the humane nature of Christ, and where God doth most manifest his glory, is the third heaven, 2 Cor. 12. 2. Beyond this is nothing at all. In regard of this distinction of heaven, the plural number heavens is used.
1. The Air, wherein birds and Fowls do fly, wherein are the clouds also; so as all the space betwixt the Earth and the Moon, is called the first heaven. 2. The Firmament, wherein are all sorts which are called the host of Heaven, Deut. 4. 19. is the second heaven. 3. That invisible place where are the Angels and glorified Saints, and the humane nature of Christ, and where God doth most manifest his glory, is the third heaven, 2 Cor. 12. 2. Beyond this is nothing at all. In regard of this distinction of heaven, the purall number heavens is used.
Thus we see how these two words earth, heavens, may be put for all creatures.