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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 11: §. 11. Of the meaning of the first Verse.
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.
True it is, that there is the same authority, even a divine authority of both: And that they are both a manifestation of Gods will. Therefore God is said to speak by the Ministers of both. God being the author of the one and the other, they are both of the like authority: and God speaking in both, both declare the will of God. God spake in times past, and God spake in these last days: The same God by the Prophets and by his Sonne.
True it is, that there is the same authority, even a divine authority of both: And that they are both a manifestation of Gods will. Therefore God is said to speak by the Ministers of both. God being the author of the one and the other, they are both of the like authority: and God speaking in both, both declare the will of God. God spake in times past, and God spake in these last dayes: The same God by the Prophets and by his Sonne.
The relation of this title GOD, to the Son, showeth, that the first Person in sacred1 Trinity, the Father is in particular meant: yet the other Persons are not excluded. For the Son (Exod. 3. 2, 6.) and the holy Ghost also (Acts 28▪ 26.) spake to the fathers. The same work may be done by the blessed Trinity, the order and manner of working being rightly applied to each Person. For as the Son is from the Father, and the holy Ghost from the Father and the Son; so the Father worketh by the Son, and the Son from the Father. Thus Jehovah the Son, is said to rain fire from Jehovah the Father, Gen. 19. 24. Some of the ancient Fathers, ⟨p. 8⟩assembled in a Council, were so confident of the truth of the Application of that