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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 31: §. 31. Of Christs sitting and standing in Heaven.
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.
Obj. Christ is said to stand on the right hand of God, Acts 7. 55.
Answ. Divers phrases may be used of the same thing in divers respects, and imply no contradiction: For first, to speak according to the letter, a King may be said to sit on his Throne, because that is his ordinary posture: and to stand at some special times: as Eglon arose out of his seat when Ehud said to him, I have a Message from God to thee, Judg. 3. 20.
Answ. Divers phrases may be used of the same thing in divers respects, and imply no contradiction: For first, to speak according to the letter, a King may be said to sit on his Throne, because that is his ordinary posture: and to stand at some speciall times: as Eglon arose out of his seat when Ehud said to him, I have a Message from God to thee, Judg. 3. 20.
There are three limitations wherein different acts cannot be attributed to the same thing.