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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 61: §. 61. Of the like Excellencies of every Angel.
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.
§. 61. Of the like Excellencies of every Angel.
Concerning the fore-mentioned Titles two things are to be observed.
COncerning the fore-mentioned Titles two things are to be observed.
1. That many of them are not simply and properly to be taken (as if Angels were indeed flames of fire, or, fair youths, or sate on thrones) but by way of similitude the more conspicuously to set out sundry excellencies in them. 2. That the distinct Titles do not so much set out distinct persons, or orders, or degrees among the Angels, as distinct properties, gifts, and excellencies in them; ⟨p. 62⟩as is evident by this phrase applied to Angels in four several apparitions; they four had the face of a man, and the face of a Lion on the right side; and they four had the face of an Ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an Eagle, Ezek. 1. 10. So as one was not as a man alone, and another as a Lion, and a third as an Ox, and a fourth as an Eagle; but all four had one likeness; Hereby it was implied, that every Angel was prudent as a man, courageous as a Lion, laborious as an Ox, swift as an Eagle: In like respects the same person was called a Prophet, a Man of God, and a Seer, 1 Sam. 3. 20. & 9. 6, 11. And the same thing a Dream, a Vision, a Revelation, Dan. 2. 28. See Chap. 2.