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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.
§. 86. Of the Nature of Angels.
Angels are created Spirits subsisting in themselves; Every word in this brief description so makes to the nature of Angels, as it distinguisheth them from all others.
ANgels are created Spirits subsisting in themselves; Every word in this brief description so makes to the nature of Angels, as it distinguisheth them from all others.
1. They are Spirits, so they are expressly called in this verse and ver. 14. This importeth both their being and also the kind of their being; Spirits are substances, and have a true real being, as the souls of men have which are styled Spirits Eccl. 12. 7. Heb. 12. 9. 23. The Offices deputed by God to Angels, the great works done by them, the excellent gifts wherewith they are indned (as knowledge, wisdom, holiness, strength, &c.) do plainly demonstrate, that they are true real substances. Hereby they are distinguished from all mere imaginations and phantasies, which are conceptions in mens minds of such things as never were, nor ever had any true being at all; as those intelligentiae which Philosophers conceit do turn the celestial Orbs. They are also hereby distinguished from physical qualities, philosophical accidents, and from mere motions, affections, inspirations, and such other things as have no true, real being at all. The Title Spirit doth further import their kind of being to be spiritual, which is the most excellent being that can be; Herein it is like to the divine being; For God is a Spirit,