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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.
2. When in relation to God this metaphor of a footstool is applied to persons, it intendeth such enemies as God utterly subdueth, and on whom he executeth just and severe revenge; as Psa. 110. 1. which Text is oft quoted in the New Testament, namely by Christ, Mat. 22. 44. by Peter, Act. 2. 35. and by Paul in this place. This Apostle doth plainly express the meaning of it in this phrase, He hath put them under his feet, 1 Cor. 15. 25.
2. When in relation to God this metaphor of a footstool is applied to persons, it intendeth such enemies as God utterly subdueth, and on whom he executeth just and severe revenge; as Psa. 110. 1. which Text is oft quoted in the New Testament, namely by Christ, Mat. 22. 44. by Peter, Act. 2. 35. and by Paul in this place. This Apostle doth plainly expresse the meaning of it in this phrase, He hath put them under his feet, 1 Cor. 15. 25.
The metaphor is taken from the practice of men, who when they have utterly vanquished their deadly enemies, in testimony of that full conquest and absolute power they have over them, yea also of their indignation against them, and revenge of them, will set their feet upon them, and trample on them; so did Joshua make the Captains of his Army put their feet upon the necks of the Kings of those cursed Canaanites whom they subdued,