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 ...

§. 148. Of not fearing the wrath of a King.

〈◊〉〈◊〉 a proof as was given of the faith of Moses Parents, that they were not a∣•…•… of the Kings Commaddement, is here given of the faith of Moses himself, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the wrath of the King. Here the point is set out with much emphasis: 〈◊〉〈◊〉.

• 1. Men use to be most feared, when their choler is stirred up, and wrath en∣•…•…; wrath makes men seek the greatest revenge: Yet Moses did not in such a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 fear.
• •…•…. The wrath of a King useth to be more feared than the wrath of other 〈◊〉〈◊〉: and that by reason of his supreme authority, and of his power, to work the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 mischief. The Kings wrath is as the roaring of a Lion, Prov. 19. 12. And 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of death, Prov. 16. 14.

Th•…•…s then the courage of Moses is amplified by a gradation,

• 1. He feared not man.
• 2. He feared not the greatest of men, a King.
• 3. He feared not that which most affrights men, the wrath of a King.

It was his faith in God that expelled this fear of man.

〈◊〉〈◊〉 greatest fears affright not believers; for what cause of greater fear could 〈◊〉〈◊〉 be, than the wrath of such a King as Pharaoh was? See more hereof, ver. 23. •…•…. 〈◊〉〈◊〉.