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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 35: §. 35. Of Heaven the place of Christs exaltation.
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.
More expressly this supereminent place is said to be the Heavens, Chap. 8. v. 1. The plural number is used to show that he meaneth the highest Heavens: that which in Canaan's dialect is styled the Heaven of Heavens (2 Chron. 2. 6. and 6. 18.1 Neh. 9. 6.) even that which compriseth in it all the other Heavens, it being over all. In relation to two inferior Heavens, it is styled the third Heaven, 2 Cor. 12. 2. For the Scripture maketh mention of three Heavens. The first a•d lowest is the airy Heaven, in which feathered fowls fly, Gen. 1. 8. The second and middlemost is the Starry Heaven, in which the Sun, the Moon, and all the Stars are contained, Gen. 15. 5. ⟨p. 27⟩The third and highest is that where Christ now sitteth. This distinction giveth light2 to that phrase, far above all Heavens (Eph. 4. 10.) whereby the supereminent height of Christs exaltation is set forth. He there meaneth all the visible Heavens, whether under or above the Moon. For the humane nature of Christ is contained within the third Heaven, Acts 3. 21.
More expresly this supereminent place is said to be the Heavens, Chap. 8. v. 1. The plural number is used to shew that he meaneth the highest Heavens: that which in Canaans dialect is stiled the Heaven of Heavens (2 Chron. 2. 6