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 ...
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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 ...
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Gouge, William, 1578-1653.
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London :: Printed by A.M., T.W. and S.G. for Joshua Kirton,
1655.
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Bible. -- N.T. -- Hebrews -- Commentaries.
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"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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A41670.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 6, 2024.
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§. 99. Of Gods having no greater to swear by then himself.
THe reason why God sweareth by himself is thus set down, because he could swear by no greater. To set out the greatness of God above all others, this title A great God, and a great King above all Gods, is by a kind of a 1.1 excellency and pro∣priety attributed to God, Psal. 95. 3. There is scarce any other title more fre∣quently attributed to God in Scripture then this, Great: The heathen by the light of nature discerned thus much: and thereupon gave this title to God, b 1.2The best, the greatest.
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Every thing but God, who is the Creator of all, is a creature: but no creature can be greater then his Creator: therefore every thing else must needs be less th•…•…n God. The Apostle saith, without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better, Chap. 7. 7. Much more, without all contradiction, the less is created by the greater. It is impossible that the Creator should create a greater then himself, who in heaven c•…•…•…•…e compared unto the Lord? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened •…•…nto the Lord? Psal. 89. 6. This being so, who can be imagined to be amongst creatures, that God should take to be a witness, and judge of that which he sweareth? what can there be out of God so fit and precious a pawn to binde himself by, as that which is in God: even himself and his own excellencies. If therefore he swear, he must needs swear by himself.
That an inferiour is not to be sworn by, but a greater, is laid down as a •…•…uled case, v. 16.
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