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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 48: §. 48. Of the scope of the second Psalm.
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.
The Jews, who make it altogether historical, and apply it only to David and his Kingdom, shoot clean beside the mark, and mistake the sense of the Psalm and scope of the inditer thereof. Nor this text here alleged, nor the extent of the dominion promised (to the uttermost parts of the earth,) nor the power promised of dashing all to pieces: nor the exhortation to all Kings to fear him: nor the title Jehovah, V. 11. nor the vengeance, nor the blessedness mentioned in the last verse, can historically and properly be applied to David.
The Iews, who make it altogether historical, and apply it only to David and his Kingdom, shoot clean beside the mark, and mistake the sense of the Psalm and scope of the enditer thereof. Nor this text here alledged, nor the extent of the dominion promised (to the uttermost parts of the earth,) nor the power promised of dashing all to pieces: nor the exhortation to all Kings to fear him: nor the title Iehovah, V. 11. nor the vengeance, nor the blessedness mentioned in the last verse, can historically and properly be applied to David.
It is much more to the purpose of the holy Ghost, that if any thing be there spoken of David, it be taken to be spoken of him as of a type of Christ: and so not by way of allegory or allusion, but truly and principally prophesied of Christ.
For this we have good proof, even from those that were immediately and infallibly1 assisted by the same Spirit, that inspired the penman of the Psalm, and knew his just and true meaning. For the two first verses are by a joint consent of all the Apostles applied to Christ, Acts 4. 25, 26. The 7th verse is also applied to him, as here, so