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 May 2, 2024.
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§. 73. Of ALL Angels alike subject to Christ.
THis generall particle ALL is expressed, because there are many Angels; ForMichael had an Army of Angels to fight against the Dragon and his Angels, Rev. 12. 7. And Christ could have had more then twelve Legions, that is 79992. to have guarded him, Mat. 26. 53. Daniel makes mention of thousand thousands, yea, of ten thousand thousands, Dan. 7. 10. And to shew that their number exceeds all number, the Apostle stiles them an innumerable company of Angels, Heb. 12. 22. But be they never so many, they are comprised under this particle ALL, so as all and every one of them must worship Christ.
Yea if there be distinct and different degrees among them, and severall orders, all those degrees and orders, whether more or lesse eminent, superior or inferior, are comprehended under this universall particle ALL; For (as the Apostle noteth in the last verse of this Chapter) they are ALL ministring spirits▪ If they be All ministring spirits for them who shall be heirs of salvation, much more are they All to worship Christ. For he is the Creator of ALL, even of Thrones, and Domini∣on•…•…,
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and Principalities, and Powers, Col. 1. 16. He is the Head of ALL, Col. 2. 10. and he is advanced far above them ALL, Eph. 1. 21.
If therefore these Titles of distinction, Principalities, Powers, &c. give any pre∣heminence to some of the Angels above others, yet that preheminency doth not exempt them from this duty of worshiping Christ Iesus; at whose name every knee must bow, of things in heaven or earth, Phil. 2. 10.
Not without cause therefore this generall particle ALL is here used, Let all the Angels of God worship him; He that saith ALL excepteth none at all.