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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Title: 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 ...
Author: Gouge, William, 1578-1653.
Publication: London :: Printed by A.M., T.W. and S.G. for Joshua Kirton,; 1655.
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§. 95. Of divine expressions of the Excellency of Angels.

THe excellency of Angels is further set out by sundry divine expressions, where∣by excellent things are illustrated by applying them to Angels, as the tongue of Angels, 1 Cor. 13. 1. Angels food, Psa. 78. 25. thereby is meant the most excellent tongue and the most excellent food that can be; as if Angels did speak with a tongue they would speak with such a tongue; or if they did eat any food they would eat such food.

The excellency of God is set out by such like phrases, as, a Prince of God, Gen. 23. 6. An host of God, 1 Chron. 12. 22. A City of God, Jon. 3. 3. A mountain of God, Psa. 36. 6. Cedars of God, Psa. 80. 10. By these phrases it is declared, that the more excellent any thing is, the more it appertaineth to God; and the more any thing appertains to God the more excellent it is. If Gods excellency be thus set forth, surely the excellency of Angels must needs be very much amplified by the fore∣mentioned phrases.