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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
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.
AN Heir (saith the Apostle, Gal. 4. 1.) is Lord of all. On this ground the son of1 the bond-woman was cast out, that he might not be heir with the son of Sarah; nor part share with him, Gen. 21. 10, 12. This title Heir, setteth out a ⟨p. 10⟩dignity and dominion together, with the best right thereto that can be.
AN Heir (saith the Apostle, Gal. 4. 1.) is Lord of all. On this grouud the sonne of1 the bond-woman was cast out, that he might not be heir with the sonne of Sarah; nor part share with him, Gen. 21. 10, 12. This title Heir, setteth out a ⟨p. 10⟩dignity and dominion together, with the best right thereto that can be.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew]. See v 4. §. 43. add v. 14. §. 160.〈non-Latin alphabet〉. See v 4. §. 43. add v. 14. §. 160.
The dignity and dominion is the same that his Father hath. For an heir is a successor to his Father, in all that the Father hath. In this metaphor, caution must be put that it be not extended too far, by excluding the Father from any dignity or dominion. Indeed among men, the son hath not such dominion and possession of an inheritance, till the Father relinquish it: (as Jehoshaphat gave the Kingdom to Jehoram, his first born,