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 ...

§. 135. Of the resolution of the tenth Verse.

Verse 10.

And thou Lord in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the Earth, and the Heavens are the works of thine hands.

THE connexion of this verse with the former set out by this copulative parti∣cle And, manifesteth an addition of another argument to prove the same point. Hereof see §. 77.

The Summe of this Text, is, The Creation of things.

Two speciall Points thereabout are here noted.

• 1. The Creator that made all.
• 2. The Creatures that were made.

In setting out the Creator observe,

• 1. The manner of attributing this work unto him, by an Apostrophe THOU. See 106. and 125. and 127. in the end.
• 2. The Title given unto him, LORD.

In the creatures note,

• 1. What is common to all,
• 2. Wherein they are distinguished one from another.

Two things are common to all.

• 1. The same Lord that made all implied in this copulative AND.
• 2. The same time wherein all were made, In the beginning.

There are also two things wherein the creatures differ,

• 1. Their distinct kindes, Earth, Heaven.
• 2. Their distinct ends.

One to be as a foundation, Laid the Foundation.

The other to be as a cover over all, and conspicuously to manifest the glory of God in this phrase, The work of thine hands.