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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.
It is most clear, that the divine providence is here described, being distinguished from the former work of creation. Now Gods providence is manifested in two things,
1. In sustaining all things that he made. 2. In governing them.
In that this divine work of providence is attributed to Christ, he is thereby declared to be true God.
To show that that phrase which the Apostle used before in a mutual relation between the Father and the Son, about making the worlds, thus; By whom he made, derogating nothing from Christs supreme sovereignty, or absolute power in that work, as if he had been used for a Minister therein, here most simply without any such relation, he attributeth the divine work to him; and extendeth it to all things that were made, excepting nothing at all, in this general phrase, All things, whether1 visible or invisible, in Heaven, on earth, or under the earth, Col. 1. 16.