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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 2 › Section 118: §. 118. Of the Apostles fit application of a Divine testimony to Christ.
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.
This duly weighed, taketh away the ground of that dispute which is betwixt Expositors about the place, out of which this testimony should be taken. Some affirm that it is taken out of Psal. 18. 2. Others out of Isa. 8. 17. Arguments pro and con are brought on both sides. But I suppose that this dispute might have been spared. For, to come to the second Point.
This duely weighed, taketh away the ground of that dispute which is betwixt Expositors about the place, out of which this testimony should be taken. Some affirm that it is taken out of Psal. 18. 2. Others out of Isa. 8. 17. Arguments pro and con are brought on both sides. But I suppose that this dispute might have been spared. For, to come to the second Point.
2. Both the Psalmist and the Prophet Isaiah may be fitly applied to Christ.
In that Psalm there are sundry points that can be applied to none properly but to Christ: as this, Thou hast made me the head of the Heathen, ver. 43. And this, As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves to me, ver. 44. And this, He showeth mercy to his anointed, to David and to his seed for evermore, ver. 50.
In that Psalm there are sundry points that can be applied to none properly but to Christ: as this, Thou hast made me the head of the Heathen, ver. 43. And this, As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves to me, ver. 44. And this, He sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David and to his seed for evermore, ver. 50.