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 ...

§. 48. Of having Foundations.

THE foresaid City is described by the stability of it, in this phrase, which hath Foundation•…•….

Of the divers acceptions of the word translated a 1.1 Foundation, see Chap. 6. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 1. §. 6.

A good Foundation maketh an Edifice firm and stable; in which respect, Christ setteth forth an House, that cannot be overthrown by winds, floods, or rain, to a House well founded, or set upon a good Foundation, Matth. 7. 24. 25.

To amplifie this point the more, the plural number is here used, b 1.2 Foun∣dations. This number is oft used for emphasis sake: as, mercies of God, Rom. 12. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. Multitude of tender mercies, Psal. 51. 1. Christ maketh mention of many Mansions in Heaven, Ioh. 14. 2. This plural number implyeth, that none of them are without Foundations.

This City, and the Mansions therein, are thus set out with Foundations, in opposition to the Tabernacles or Tents wherein Abraham and the other Pa∣triarchs

dwelt while they were on Earth. They were movable, and might be carried from place to place, and might be pulled down, or overthrown; yea 〈◊〉〈◊〉 they were corruptible, and could not alwaies last: but Heaven is immorable, firm, stable, and everlasting. See Chap. 13. v. 14. §. 139.

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