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A41670	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 ...	Gouge, William, 1578-1653.; Gouge, Thomas, 1605-1681.	1655 (1655)	Wing G1391; ESTC R34210	2,433,641	1,664

Synechdochically 〈◊〉 for the plurall So Psal. 44. 1. 64. 9. But the Apostle expresly to clear the 〈◊〉 of the holy Ghost useth the plurall number thus My works Though both the Hebrew and Greek words translated works are used to 〈◊〉 out common and ordinary works yet also especially when they have 〈◊〉 unto God they are oft put for extraordinary works works of wonder even 〈◊〉 raculous works as Psal. 44. 1. Ioh. 5. 36. The works here intended are those many and great wonders which the Lord 〈◊〉 from Israels passing through the red sea unto the wilderness to their going through Iordan into Canaan Some of them were works of mercy in providing for them things needfull 〈◊〉 delivering them from dangers whereof see § 92. Others were works of judgement in punishing them for their sinnes whereof see § 96. These were not works done in former ages or in farre remote parts of the world to the notice whereof they could not come but by hear-say only but they were works done among them done upon them so as they saw them Both the Hebrew word used by the Psalmist and also the Greek word 〈◊〉 by the Apostle signifie a seeing of a thing present with the bodily eyes Deut. 7. 19 Mark 11. 20. Here is mention made of mighty works and of their express seeing of 〈◊〉 What clearer evidence could they have of Gods power and providence yet 〈◊〉 tempted him The clearest evidences which God can give of himself and of 〈◊〉 Divine excellencies work not upon incredulous and obdurate hearts Such ●…ders did God in Egypt as the Egyptians themselves could say to Pharaoh 〈◊〉 thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed Exod. 10 7. yet did not Pharaoh ●…ull Undeniable demonstrations were given by Christs Birth Life Works Doctrine Death Resurrection Ascension and Gifts that followed thereupon that 〈◊〉 was the promised Messiah yet to this day will not the Jews beleeve him so to be Blindnesse of minde and hardnesse of heart possesseth them Besides their own naturall blindnesse and hardnesse The God of this world hath further blinded their mindes and hardned their hearts lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ should shine unto them 2 Cor. 4. 4. By experience we finde that the clearest and brightest light doth no good to blinde eyes We have in this respect great and just cause to take heed how we provoke God to give us over either to our own corruptions or to the malice of Satan For preventing this let us not close our eyes against any light shewed unto us lest we prove like these Israelites who though they saw with their own eyes Gods wonderfull works yet continued to tempt him §. 100. Of Gods continuing to shew his power among such as oppose it THere is yet a further aggravation of their sinne by the time here set down under this phrase fourty years In Psal. 95. 10. this circumstance of time fourty years is referred to God and to his grieving for their obstinacy For God is there thus brought in complaining Fourty years long was I grieved c. The reason why God continued so long to be grieved was because they continued so long to tempt him The Apostle therefore doth not alter the sense of the Prophets words by referring them to another clause but makes it the more clear So long as they tempted God they grieved him Therefore in that they tempted him fourty years they grieved him fourty years This the Apostle himself asserts under this question v. 17. With whom was he grieved fourty years Thus whether we referre the fourty years to their sinne or to Gods displeasure therea●… the sense remains the same To satisfie all doubts about this and other like alterations we must remember that the Penmen of the New Testament were not Translators of the Old but such as quoted here and there some places for proof of the point in hand to which purpose it was sufficient for them to give the sense of the place though they altered the words See Chap. 1. v. 6. § 72. Chap. 9. v. 20. § 106. As this time fourty years hath reference to that which goeth immediatly before thus they saw Gods works fourty years it gives evidence of Gods doing wondrous works all that time notwithstanding their tempting of him For mans incredulity cannot hinder the working of Gods power What if some did not believe shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect Rom. 3. 3. An incredulous Prince would not believe that God could give such plenty as was gromised by the Prophet when Samaria by a long fiege was almost famished Yet it came to passe as the man of God had spoken 2 King 7. 18. Nor the Jews nor the Disciples of Christ could be brought to beleeve that Christ should rise again from the dead yet he did rise again the third day Obj. It is said that Christ did not many mighty works in his own Country because of 〈◊〉 unbelief Matth. 13. 58. Answ. That is not to be taken of weakning Christs power as if mans unbelief would hinder it but of withholding the benefit of Christs power from unbeleevers Unbelief is as a strong and high dam against a flowing river which doth not dry up the spring nor the flowing of the waters but only keeps the waters from running into that channell where the dam is set The waters still flow up and rise higher and higher against the dam and because they are kept from running through the dam they make another passage and therein flow on Thus Christ left his own Country and went into other places and there manifested his power The word preached did not profit the Israelites not being mixed with faith in them that heard it Yet in it self The Word of God is quick and powerfull c. H●…b 4. 2 12. This mighty power of God still working even when men oppose against it may be some stay to troubled consciences and to such as are inclined to despair §. 101. Of Gods Long-sufferance THe time of fourty years hath reference to Gods continuing to do wonders 〈◊〉 only by works of judgement but also of mercy grieving so long at the obstinacy of his people and thus it giveth us to understand that the Lord is a God of long-suffering and great forbearance Thus is he frequently set forth in sacre●… Scripture as Exod. 34. 6. Ion. 4. 2. Psal. 103. 8. Here is mention made of fourty years forbearance He did forbear the old world one hundred and twenty years Gen. 6. ●… and the Amorites four hundred years Gen. 15. 13. and the Polity of the Jews eight hundred years and the Christi●… state above sixteen hundred and the world about six thousand Every of us ha●…e good evidence of Gods long-suffering in our selves Our people had been no people our sunne had been darknesse our souls had been in hell ere this if the Lord had not been a God of much

Translations had inserted it To the second exception that the Psalmist maketh no mention of Christ in that Psalm I answer three things 1. That the three Persons in sacred Trinity are one in essence minde will and work Ioh. 5. 17 19 20. What the one doth the other also doth So as the same act may be applied to any one of them 2. Wheresoever mention is made of any act of God in reference to a creature It is most properly the act of the Son For the Father doth all by the Son In particular by him he made the worlds V. 2. 3. The Kingdom of Christ is expresly described in the latter part of the Psalm v. 12. c. and that for the comfort of the Church to support her in her great distresse being much overwhelmed with sore affliction by reason of the Babylonish captivity To exemplifie this in a few particulars Who had mercy on Zion Who built up Zion Was it not the Lord Christ Whose name do the converted Gentiles fear Whom do the Kingdomes serve Is it not the Lord Christ Psa. 102. 13 15 16 22. It is therefore evident that this Text as the former were is most fitly applied to Christ. The Apostle had before v. 2. said that God by the Sonne made the worlds Here to shew that the Sonne was not as Arius taught an instrument or Minister in that great work but the principall Authour He doth in speciall thus apply it to the Sonne Thou Lord in the beginning hast laid c. The first particle AND hath reference to the first clause of the 8. verse namely to these words Unto the Sonne he saith Which words are here understood as if he repeated them again And unto the Sonne he saith Thou Lord c. Unto the Sonne there he saith Thy Throne c. AND Unto the Sonne here he saith Thou Lord c. There is the same Authour of that and this testimony The Greek word Lord is apparently of the Vocative case and further declared to be by an Apostrophe directed to the Lord by this particle of the Second Person THOU See § 106. §. 128. Of the Title Lord applied to Christ. THe Greek word translated LORD being applied to God is ordinarily put for Iehovah which is the most proper name of God and never attributed to any but to the true God True it is that in the Hebrew there is another name of God which is translated Lord and ofttimes attributed to man as Gen. 18. 12. and 45. 8. yet usually this name when it is put for God is pointed with such pricks or vowels as Iehovah is and with these points it is never attributed to any but to God In this Text the Title Lord is without question the interpretation of Iehovah For the Title Iehovah is in that Psalm seven times used as v. 1. 12 15 16 19 21 23. and once Iah V. 18. which is an abbreviation of Iehovah Wherefore the Title Lord doth here intend Iehovah and being applied to Christ setteth out his divine nature and declareth him to be true God even that God who hath his being of himself and ever continueth of and by himself the eternall and immutable God even He which is which was and which is to come Rev. 1. 4. The Lord that changeth not Mal. 3. 6. Who in regard of his self-existency giveth to himself this Title I am that I am and also this I am Exod. 3. 14. Thus this Title Lord in relation to Iehovah giveth further proof of the true and proper Divinity of Christ. To Christ by an excellency and property is this Title Lord frequently attributed David long before Christs incarnation in the Spirit called him Lord Mat. 22. 43. The Angel that brought the first news of his birth stiles him Christ the Lord Luk. 2. 11. Both his Disciples and others in his life so called him After his resurrection when he was discerned by Iohn Iohn said to Peter of him It is the Lord Joh. 21. 7. Christ himself thus saith Ye call me Lord and ye say well for so I am Joh. 13. 13. It was usuall with the Apostles in their Epistles thus to stile him the Lord Iesus Rom. 1. 8. And he is said to be the one Lord Iesus Christ 1 Cor. 8. 6. A Prophetesse called him Lord anon after he was conceived even while he was in his mothers womb Luke 1. 43. Christ is Lord in sundry respects 1. As God In regard of his divine nature God said I am the Lord Exo 6. 2. 2. As the Sonne of God In regard of his Person For of the Sonne in relation to the Father it is said The Lord rained fire from the Lord Gen. 19. 24. 3. As God-man In regard of the hypostaticall union of Christs two Natures in one person Thus saith Thomas to Christ on earth My Lord and my God Joh. 20. 28. 4. As King of the Church In regard of that authority and dignity whereunto God hath advanced him I have set my King upon my holy Hill of Sion saith the Father to his Sonne Psa. 2. 6. God hath made him both Lord and Christ Act. 2. 36. On these grounds divine worship hath been yeelded unto him on earth as unto the Lord In his Infancy Mat. 1. 11. In his Man-age Mat. 8. 2. After his Resurrection Mat. 28. 9. In the time of his Ascention Luke 24. 52. And now also Christ being in heaven and sitting as Lord on his Throne is worshiped Rev. 4. 10. 5. 14. Thus he is still and ever shall be worshipped as the true Lord by his Church Answerably all other divine respect is to be yeelded to him He is to loved with all the soul with all the heart with all the minde and with all the strength Accordingly is he to be feared admired adored called upon beleeved in served obeyed subjected unto praised for all things in all things glorified preferred before all advanced above all and every way esteemed as a Lord even our Lord the most high supream Soveraign over all §. 129 Of Christs Eternity THE Eternity of this Lord is further set out in this phrase In the beginning namely in the beginning of time so as that which was before that beginning was without beginning properly eternall Thus is the eternity of God manifested in the very first word of the holy Bible Gen. 1. 1. and the eternity also of the Son of God Ioh. 1. 1. He that in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth was before that foundation was laid and before that beginning In that respect saith the Sonne of God of himself The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way before his works of old I was set up from everlasting from the beginning or ever the earth was c. Pro. 8. 22 23. c. As the eternity of the Creator is by this phrase in the beginning intended so the plain contrary concerning creatures is expressed Creatures being