V E R, 3. Epi/1le to the H a B R E..w s. Co is the fame thingexpreffed, Acts 7.55. and byMark, it heetóts. Chap. a6.1: Our Apoftle conitantly keepeth the fingular number , with b. Chap. r. 13. Chap. 8. n Chap. 12. 2. The fame thing in both Exprefliions is 'intended; only that of ix .1. tile, or it Aetois, in the pluralnumber is more eminently deftruEtive of the folly of the Anthropomorphites ; for they cannot hence pretend that God hath a right hand, untels they will grant that he hatlr many; which, were not only to turn theGlory of the invifibleGod into the likenefs of a man, but of a Meer. AndAúffinwell obferves, that inthe Pfalm, where that expreflion is fiat ufed, fit on myRight Hand; it is added, -p,ttr_iy +iWN, the Lordon thyright hand ; at the Right handof him, who fate on his right hand : which removes all Carnal Apprehenfions from the meaning of the words. , Tn "t µeyamwtIvns.This word is feldom ufed in other Authors; twice in this EpiJfle, MtyaauvGsts here, and Chap. 8. 1. once by Jude, v. 25. and no where elfe in the New Teltáment. by theLXX. not at all. The Apottle evidently expreffeth by it TM or rt1nal ; not asthey are ufedappellatively, for Glory, Power, or Majeffy, but asthey are names, and denotethe.efntialgloryofGod; the glorious God. So that ta,yasaosoin,Is Godbim- fill not abfolutely confidered, but with reference unto theRevelation of his Glory and Majefty in Heaven ; Godon bis Throne ; asour Apoftle declareth, Chap. 8.1. 'Er ;4007s. in the HigbeJf. µeyarroadvn itógawk, is s4iç }; that is, p1r`1j1, the by J.lxrîtsl High* ; God himfelf: SeeLuk 1.35. Verfe '3. .Who being the Erightnefs of Glory, andthe exprf image ofhis Perfan, and upholding (or difpofngof) all things by the wordofhis power, having by himfelfpurged ourfins, fate down onthe right handofthe Majefty on high. re Apofile proceeds in his Defcription of the Perfin in whom God1pake in the Revelationof the Gofpel; afcendingunto fuch a manifeftation of him, as that they might underhand hisEminency above all formerly ufed in the like Miniftrations ; as alto how he was pointed out andJhaddowedby fundry Types and Figures under the Old Teftament. Of this Defcription there are three Parts : The fish declaring What he is; the fe- condWhat he doth, or did; and the third the Confegnent of them both, in what .hé enjoye:h. Of theficft Partof this Defcriptionof the Wish, thereare twoBranches, or it two wayes expreffed ; For he affirms ofhim, Firft,That he is the Brigbmefl, Beam or Splendor of the Glory; andSecondly, the exprefl image, or charat`Fer ofhis Fathers Pelfon. do the fecond allo thereare two things affigned unto him : The former relating un- tohis Power; as he is theBrightnefs ofGlory ; he fejtaineth, or ruleth and difpofeth . ofall things by she Wordof bis Power : Tnelatter unto his Love and Work of Media- tion ; by him(i(f, or in his own Perfon, he bath purged ourfins. . His prefent and perpetual Enjoyment, as a confegnent of what Ire ¡was and did, or doth, is'expreffed in the laft words ; he. fate down at the right hand of the Majeffy on high. Someof thefe Expreffrons may well begranted to contain fomeof thofe d'uoelere, Things hardto be underßtood, which Peter affirms tobe in thisEpiftle ofPaid, z Epiff.3. t6. which unitableand unlearned menhave in allAges wrefted unto their own deltruóion. The Things intended are unqueflionably fxblime and Myfferious. The Terms wherein they are, expreffed are rare, and no where elfe ufed in theScripture to the fame Our- pofe; Come of them notat all, which deprives us of one great help in the Interpre- tation ofthem. The Metaphors ufed in the Words,or Types alluded unto by them, are nbftrufe anddark ; fo that thedifficulty ofdifcovering the true, precife, and genuine meaningof the Holy.Ghoft inthem is fuch, as that thisverfe, at leatt force part of it, maywell be reckoned among thofe placeswhich the Lord hath left in his Word, to exereifeour Faith and Diligence and Dependance on his Spirit, for a right Under- ftandingof them.. it may be indeed, that from what was known and acknowledged in the Judsical Church, the whole intention of the Apofile was moreplain unto them, and more plainly and dearly delivered, than now it feemeth unto usto be, C who
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