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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 18: §. 18. Of Christ the Creator of the worlds.
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.
These three worlds are distinguished into two, namely Heaven and Earth, Col. 1. 16.1
- 1Inferior mundus.
Thus we see how under this word worlds, all things that ever were made, above1 and below, visible and invisible are comprised: So as the making of the worlds setteth out the divine power of Christ.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew]. See chap. 2. §. 41.〈non-Latin alphabet〉. See chap. 2. §. 41.
Where it is said, that God, by him, made the worlds; the Son is not set out as a mere instrument in this work; but as a primary and principal agent therein, together with the Father; for what thing soever the Father doth, these also doth the Son likewise, Joh. 5. 19. That particle clikewise, is not to be taken of doing different things like to an other; for he there speaketh of dthe very same thing: but of doing them by the same power, authority, dignity, with the same mind and will, after the