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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 24: §. 24. Of Christ upholding all things.
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.
§. 24. Of Christ upholding all things.
AS a further demonstration of Christs dignity and dominion, the Apostle attributes another divine effect to him. One was in these words, made the worlds: The other in these, and upholding all things by the word of his power.
The copulative particle AND, showeth, that as the forementioned resemblances of Brightness and express Image, set out a divine dignity (for copulatives are used to join together things of like nature:) so these words set out a divine dominion: they are all divine.
The copulative particle AND, sheweth, that as the forementioned resemblances of Brightness and express Image, set out a divine dignity (for copulatives are used to joyn together things of like nature:) so these words set out a divine dominion: they are all divine.
The word Upholding, is metaphorical, and by way of resemblance applied to1 Christ. It signifieth to bear, carry or uphold a thing: as the friends, who took up and