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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 140: §. 140. Of Christs power about altering creatures.
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.
As he hath supreme authority, so he hath also almighty power; He is able to bring to pass what he will; By the Word of the Lord were the Heavens made, Psal. 33. 6. and by the same word they may be changed.
As he hath supreme authority, so he hath also almighty power; He is able to bring to passe what he will; By the Word of the Lord were the Heavens made, Psal. 33. 6. and by the same word they may be changed.
Therefore it is here added, And they shall be changed; Because the Lord Jesus hath a mind to change them they shall be changed; for who hath resisted his will? All things are alike to him. Whether is it easier to say to that that was not, Let there be Light in the Heaven, Gen. 1. 14? or to say, Let the Heavens be folded up and changed; Upon the same ground that the former was effected, the latter also shall be accomplished.
Therefore it is here added, And they shall be changed; Because the Lord Jesus hath a minde to change them they shall be changed; for who hath resisted his will? All things are alike to him. Whether is it easier to say to that that was not, Let there be Light in the Heaven, Gen. 1. 14? or to say, Let the Heavens be folded up and changed; Upon the same ground that the former was effected, the latter also shall be accomplished.
As the power of the Lord Jesus in creating and preserving all things tendeth much to the strengthening of our faith in the accomplishment of all his promises, and in obtaining our lawful desires of such things as are needful and useful, and in protecting us from matters hurtful and dangerous; so his power in altering and abolishing what he pleaseth, is of use to make us stand in awe of him, and to be afraid of offending his Majesty and provoking his wrath.