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 ...

§. 69. Of Christs dominion farre exceeding all others.

THe foresaid Objection being in the matter and substance of it true, doth much amplifie the Dominion of Christ. For thereby it plainly appeareth, that Christs Dominion is such an one, as never any had the like. Experience giveth proof to the truth hereof.

Solomon reigned over all Kingdoms from the river Euphrates unto the border of Egypt, (1 King. 4. 21.) and Ahashuerus from India even to Ethiopia over 127 Pro∣vinces, Esther 1. 1. But Christs Dominion hath no limits nor bounds.

Nebuchadnezzar was a King of Kings: his dominion was to the end of the earth▪ (Dan. 2. 37. & 4. 22.) The Lord gave to Cyrus all the Kingdoms of the earth, Ezra 1. 1. All the world was taxed by Cesar Augustus, Luke 1. 1. But these phrases, The end of the earth, All Kingdoms of the earth, All the world, are Synecdochically used, the whole being put for a part. Besides, no part of their Dominions reached unto hea∣ven, as Christs doth. That which is said of Nebuchadnezzars greatness reaching unt•…•… heaven, (Dan. 4. 22.) is hyperbolicall.