A commentary vpon the Epistles of Saint Paul to Philemon, and to the Hebrewes together with a compendious explication of the second and third Epistles of Saint Iohn. By VVilliam Iones of East Bergholt in Suffolke, Dr. in Divinity, and sometimes one of the fellowes of the foundation of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge.

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Title: A commentary vpon the Epistles of Saint Paul to Philemon, and to the Hebrewes together with a compendious explication of the second and third Epistles of Saint Iohn. By VVilliam Iones of East Bergholt in Suffolke, Dr. in Divinity, and sometimes one of the fellowes of the foundation of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge.
Author: Jones, William, 1561-1636.
Publication: London :: Printed by R[ichard] B[adger] for Robert Allot, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-Yard, at the signe of the Blacke Beare,; 1635.
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VERSE 4.

HE doth illustrate it by a common received principle.

Mervaile not, though I said, the Church is built; for every house must be built of some: the Church is an house, even the house of the living GOD: therefore it must be built. By whom? Not by a mortall man, but by the immortall GOD, which is Iesus Christ. Christ, 1 Cor. 3.11. is the foundation, in respect of doctrine: hee is the materiall and efficient cause of the building. An house consisting of many stones and pieces of wood, must have an artificer to put them together: so the Church consist∣ing of Iewes and Gentiles, of all people in the world, must be fast∣ned together, by the Lord Iesus Christ.

The force of the Article is not to be omitted: all those things whereof wee entreate, appertaining to the Church the house of GOD.

It is true that CHRIST built all things in the world, as well as in the Church: but that is impertinent to the scope of the place: therefore it is fittest to restraine the universall particle to that which we have in hand.

As in the former Verse was contained the proposition of the argument: So in this the assumption. The builder of the Church is greater than Moses, or the whole Church: Christ is the builder of this house, being the high and eternall GOD; therefore greater than Moses and all the Church.