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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 45: §. 45. Of the Observations of the 4th Verse.
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.
§. 45. Of the Observations of the 4th Verse.
I. Angels are the most excellent of creatures. This is the reason why the Apostle brings them into this comparison. If there had been any creatures more excellent then Angels, Christs excellency had not been so far set out as now it is: For it might have been objected, that, though Christ were more excellent then Angels, yet he was not the most excellent of all, there being other creatures more excellent then Angels.
I. ANgels are the most excellent of creatures. This is the reason why the Apostle brings them into this comparison. If there had been any creatures more excellent then Angels, Christs excellency had not been so far set out as now it is: For it might have been objected, that, though Christ were more excellent then Angels, yet he was not the most excellent of all, there being other creatures more excellent then Angels.
II Christs excellency above Angels is beyond all comparison. This phrase so much better &c. implies as much.