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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 105: §. 105. Of the main scope of the 45. Psalm.
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.
§. 105. Of the main scope of the 45. Psalm.
The testimony intended under this phase, He saith, is taken out of Psal. 45. 6, 7. That Psalm is an express prophecy of Christ.
THe testimony intended under this phase, He saith, is taken out of Psal. 45. 6, 7. That Psalm is an expresse prophesie of Christ.
Many take that Psalm to be a congratulatory Hymn upon the marriage of Solomon, and so expound it historically; Most of the Jewish Rabbins apply it wholly that way. But there are many Points therein, which cannot with any probability be applied to Solomon. To let pass sundry other passages in other parts of the Psalm, few of the points noted in the two verses which the Apostle hath quoted out of that Psalm, can fully come up to Solomon: Nay, some of them cannot well and truly be applied to him; as this Apostrophe, O God, as here asimply set down; nor that continuance of time comprised under this phrase bfor ever and ever: For Solomons Throne did not properly for ever continue. Besides, his Sceptre was not in all things a Sceptre of righteousness; witness the many Wives and Concubines that he had, many of them being strangers, which was directly against the Law: witness also the Idolatry that he yielded to,