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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.
Obj. 2. David by a kind of property and excellency is called Gods first-born, Psa. 89. 27. where God thus saith of him, I will make him my first-born, higher then the Kings of the earth.
Obj. 2. DAvid by a kinde of property and excellency is called Gods first-born, Psa. 89. 27. where God thus saith of him, I will make him my first-born, higher then the Kings of the earth.
Answ. Howsoever that may in some respects be applied to David, who was a true adopted child of God, the first of Gods faithful ones, that as King reigned over that ancient people of God, who was also the head of those Kings on whom the Kingdom over Israel was established, and more excellent then all the Kings of the earth in his time; yet those excellent prerogatives which are mentioned in that Psalm, were but poor and slender in comparison of what they are, if they should be no other then what rested in Davids person.
Answ. Howsoever that may in some respects be applied to David, who was a true adopted childe of God, the first of Gods faithfull ones, that as King reigned over that ancient people of God, who was also the head of those Kings on whom the Kingdom over Israel was established, and more excellent then all the Kings of the earth in his time; yet those excellent prerogatives which are mentioned in that Psalm, were but poor and slender in comparison of what they are, if they should be no other then what rested in Davids person.
We are therefore to know, that David was an especial type of Christ, and that many superexcellent prerogatives which are proper to the only begotten Son of God, are there applied to David, merely as a type of that Son of God, and as a dark shadow of his incomparable and incomprehensible excellencies; that so Gods people who lived before Christ was exhibited, might have some representations (so far forth as in mortal men they could be set out) of Christs surpassing glory, and infinite blessings that in him were brought to men: That therefore which is promised