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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 154: §. 154. Of making enemies a footstool.
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.
The addition of the word (feet) under the footstool of thy sect, importeth emphasis, and implieth the lowest dejection that can be. But because this addition soundeth not well in our English, our Translators leave it out.
A foot-stool is that which one puts under his feet, and sets his feet upon. It is in Scripture used two ways.
A foot-stool is that which one puts under his feet, and sets his feet upon. It is in Scripture used two waies.
1. In reference to a place. 2. In reference to persons. 1. To set out a place where one delights to set his feet, or to abide. 2. To set out such persons as in indignation one tramples under his feet.
When this metaphor of a footstool in relation to God, is applied to a place, it intendeth his gracious presence. Thus the earth in general is styled his footstool, Isa. 66. 1. From thence Christ maketh this inference, that men swear not by the earth, because it is Gods footstool,