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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.
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, 2 Chron. 21. 7. In which respect Jehoram is said to reign, 2 King. 8. 16. even while Jehoshaphat was King) or till the Father be through impotency excluded (as Uzziah when he became leprous, 2 Chron. 26. 21.) or till he be forced from it (as Jehohaz was, 2 Chron. 36. 3, 4.) or be dead, as David, though he were anointed and so made heir apparent by Gods appointment, yet would not take the Kingdom upon him till Saul were dead (1 Sam. 26. 10.) But none of these can or may be imagined of God the Father: He neither will nor can give over his Supreme Jurisdiction, nor become impotent, nor be forced, nor die: yet hath Christ an absolute jurisdiction, and a full possession of his inheritance together with the Father. The supreme Sovereignty of the one, no whit at all hindereth the supreme Sovereignty of the other. What things soever the Father doth, these also doth the Son likewise, Joh. 5. 19. The difference is only in the manner. The Father doth all by the1 Son, and the Son doth all from the Father.
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 sonne hath not such dominion and possession of an inheritance, till the Father relinquish it: (as Iehosaphat gave the Kingdom to Iehoram, his first born,