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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.
The evidence here noted, whereby Christ is declared to be more excellent then all the Angels, is in this act worship, enjoined to Angels. For he that is worshipped is thereby manifested to be far more excellent then they who worship him. Worshipping one is much different from blessing one. That is an act of the inferior, This of the Superior; Without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better, Heb. 7. 7. And without all contradiction the better is worshipped of the less; especially if worship be taken as here in this place.
THe evidence here noted, whereby Christ is declared to be more excellent then all the Angels, is in this act worship, enjoyned to Angels. For he that is worshiped is thereby manifested to be far more excellent then they who worship him. Worshiping one is much different from blessing one. That is an act of the inferiour, This of the Superiour; Without all contradiction the lesse is blessed of the better, Heb. 7. 7. And without all contradiction the better is worshiped of the lesse; especially if worship be taken as here in this place.
The aHebrew word used by the Psalmist, and translated worship, cometh from a root that signifieth to bow down, as Isa. 51. 23. Bow down that we may go over thee. It is most frequently used in the blast Conjugation, which addeth much emphasis, and importeth both a reciprocal action, reflecting upon ones self thus, He bowed himself, 1 Sam. 20. 41. and also a thorough, serious performance thereof, even to the ground; and therefore the word earth, is oft added thereto, to show a bowing as low as can be, even to the earth or ground,