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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
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.
§. 40. Of Angels Excellencies.
The persons before whom Christ is here in excellency preferred, are styled Angels (better then the Angels.)
THe persons before whom Christ is here in excellency preferred, are stiled Angels (better then the Angels.)
The signification of this name Angel, the nature of Angels, their special office and quality, is by this our Apostle himself distinctly set down v. 7. Yet here it is meet, that we consider some of the Angels excellencies, that so we may the better discern, both the reason why the Apostle doth give this instance of Angels; and withal the surpassing excellency of Christ, who excels such excellent creatures.
The signification of this name Angel, the nature of Angels, their special office and quality, is by this our Apostle himself distinctly set down v. 7. Yet here it is meet, that we consider some of the Angels excellencies, that so we may the better discern, both the reason why the Apostle doth give this instance of Angels; and withall the surpassing excellency of Christ, who excels such excellent creatures.