Matthew Poole and continuators on Hebrews 1:2

2 Hath in these last days spoken to us by his Son , whom he hath appointed heir of all things , by whom also he made the worlds .

The Gospel-day, last, as after the days of the old World, and after the Law given to Israel by Moses; the days of the fourth Kingdom of the Roman Empire, in the heighth of which Christ came into the World, and at the end of it shall accomplish his [illegible: 1 letter]ingdom, Dan. 2.40, 44. The last, because the Perfection of those Types which went before, when Christ setled in the Church that Religion which must remain unalterable to the end of the World, chap. 12.25, to 29. The best days for clearest Light and greatest Mercies.

Revealed his Will to us once and intirely, Iohn 1.17, 18. Iude v. 3, 4. Discovering the excellent things of God more clearly than they were before, Ephes. 3.3, to 11. 1 Pet. 1.10, 11, 12.

The believing Hebrews were so favoured beyond their Fathers, to have the best Revelation of God in Christ made to them, Matth. 13.16, 17. Luke 10.23, 24.

Our Lord Jesus Christ, who cometh out of the Father as a Son, Iohn 1.14. and 16.28. He is his Bosom-Son, nearest his Heart, Iohn 1.18. the compleat Word of him creating the new World as well as the old, Iohn 1.1. His Wisdom who teacheth without any mistake, declaring all of God, being Truth it self, and exhibiting of it, what he hath seen as well as heard, Iohn 3.11.

This Son who naturally issueth from his Father by a divine and an unutterable Generation, Prov. 8.22, to 32. and 30.4. On him all the Fathers love doth terminate, Colos. 1.13. He is to be the Founder and Builder of God's Family, propagating Being to a Holy Seed for him, chap. 3.3, to 7.

The Father hath chosen and ordained him as God-Man to Heirship by an inviolable Ordinance of his Decree, as 1 Pet. 1.20. compa. Ephes. 1.10. Giving him thereby, Right and Title to all things, appointing to him His Nature, chap. 2.16, compa. chap. 10.5. His Offices in this Nature, his Kingly, Psal. 2.6, 7. His Priestly, chap. 3.1, 2. His Prophetical, Acts 3.22. being Heir by Nature, as God the Son, and Heir by an irresistible Ordinance, as God-Man Mediator: so as he had a super[illegible: 1 letter]added Right from the Father, which Right he was able to make over to us, but his natural Right he could not, Rom. 8.17. And he was by solemn investiture put in possession of it at his Ascension, when he sate down on the Fathers Right-hand, chap. 12.2. Math. 28.18. Ephes. 1.20, 21, 22. Phil. 2.9, 10, 11.

Lord Proprietor, who hath Sovereign and Universal Power over all, being the First-Born, and receiving the Right of it in the whole Inheritance, Psal. 89.[illegible: 1 letter]7. Rom. 8.29. Col. 1.15, 1[illegible: 1 letter]. The Lot and Portion is fallen to him by God's Law, the Heir being Lord of all, Gal. 4.[illegible: 1 letter]1. Being Heir of his Brethren, Psal. 2.8. and the Builder and Purchaser of his Inheritance, Revel. 5.9, to 14. comp. 1 Pet. 1.3, 4, 18, 19. Possessing the Inheritance during his Fathers Life, and making all his Brethren Heirs of it with him.

Of all things within the compass of God, all that God is, all that God hath, all that God can or will do. All Dominions of God, Heaven, Earth and Hell are his. He is Lord of Angels, and hath made them Fellow-Servants with us, Ephes. 1.21. Col. 1.18. to Himself, and ministring Guards to us, ver. 14. and 5.11. Rev. 19.10. Of Devils, to overrule them, who cannot go or come, but as he permits them, Matth. 8.31. Col. 2.15. Of Saints, Iohn 17.10. Rom. 8.29. Of Wicked Men his Enemies, 2 Thess. 1.8, 9. Of all Creatures, Col. 1.15, 16, 17. Of all God's Works, Spiritual, Temporal, Past, Present, or to Come; Pardon, Peace, Righteousness, Life, Glory; all Blessings of all sorts, for Time, and for Eternity. This Son-Prophet hath Right to, actual Possession of; and free and full disposal of them. All both in Law and Gospel his, Moses himself, and all his Work, to order, change, and do his Pleasure with.

His Son God-Man, a joint cause, a primary and principal Agent with the Father, and not a meer Instrument, second in working as in relation; by this Word and Wisdom of God, who was the Rule and Idea of all things, all things were modelled, received their shapes, forms, and distinct Beings, Iohn 1.1, [illegible: 1 letter], 3. and 5.19, 20. Colos. 1.16. In the Works of the Trinity, what one Relation is said to do, the other do, but in their Order, answerable to the three Principles in every Action, Wisdom, Will, and Power.

Created and framed, giving Being where there was none, causing to subsist; suggesting herein his Ability for Redemption-Work. He who made the World, can remove it, chap. 11.3.

[non-Latin text not transcribed], scarce to be met with in any part of Scripture but this Epistle, strictly it signifieth Ages, and things measured by Time; answer it doth to the Hebrew [non-Latin text not transcribed] which imports both an Age and the World: So Ages are here well Translated Worlds, all Creatures and things measured by them. The Scriptures acquaint us with an Vpper World, and the Inhabitants thereof, Angels and glorified Saints; the Heavenly World, v. 10. where the Morning Stars sang together, Iob 38.7. compa. Gen. 1.1. There is a lower Earthly World, with its Inhabitants, Men, who live on the things in it, Psal. 24.1. And there is a Regenerate World, the new Heavens and new Earth made by Christ, and a new Sabbath for them, chap. 12.26, 27, 28. comp. 2 Pet. 3.13. There's Adam's World that now is, this present World, Ephes. 1.21. And the World to come, which as it is made by, so for the second Adam, the Lord from Heaven, in which he eminently is to Reign, Psal. 8.5, 6, 7, 8. of which see chap. 2.5.

Marginal references: Gal. 4.4.; Mat. 21.37.