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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.
1. Great knowledge; For they are intellectual or understanding creatures, able1 to conceive any mysteries that are or shall be revealed. They understand according to the spiritual power of an angelical mind, comprehending all things that they will together most easily: Angels being in heaven, know all the counsel of God that is there made known: That which Christ saith of them, Mat. 18. 10. In heaven they do always behold the face of my Father, implieth, that they are privy to the whole counsel of God, revealed in heaven: yea, on earth also they frequent the Assembly of Saints; thereby they come to know the whole counsel of God on earth made known to the Church. In this respect the Apostle saith, that Unto the Principalities and Powers in heavenly places is made known by the Church the manifold wisdom of God, Eph. 3. 10. They are very inquisitive after all divine mysteries; For of those things which Prophets foretold, and Apostles preached, it is thus said, which things the Angels desire to look into, 1 Pet. 1. 12. This restrictive phrase, no, not the Angels, Mar. 13. 32. importeth the great measure of knowledge which Angels have; For it followeth, Nor the Son: Of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the Angels which are in heaven, neither the Son; By the two last phrases it is implied, that if any creatures knew that secret, surely the Son and the Angels would know it.
1. Great knowledge; For they are intellectuall or understanding creatures, able1 to conceive any mysteries that are or shall be revealed. They understand according to the spirituall power of an angelicall minde, comprehending all things that they will together most easily: Angels being in heaven, know all the counsell of God that is there made known: That which Christ saith of them, Mat. 18. 10. In heaven they do alwaies behold the face of my Father, implieth, that they are privy to the whole counsell of God, revealed in heaven: yea, on earth also they frequent the Assembly of Saints; thereby they come to know the whole counsell of God on earth made known to the Church. In this respect the Apostle saith, that Unto the Principalities and Powers in heavenly places is made known by the Church the manifold wisedom of God,