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A learned and very useful commentary on the whole epistle to the Hebrews wherein…
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 Wednesdays lectures at Black-fryers, London / by that holy and learned divine William Gouge ... : before which is prefixed a narrative of his life and death : whereunto is added two alphabetical tables ...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 ...
London: printed by A.M. for Joshua Kirton, 1655
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. To distinguish it from the Kingdoms of the world, which the devils showed to Christ, Mat. 48. 2. To show the kind of the Laws, Ordinances, and appurtenances thereof, which are all heavenly, Heb. 9. 23. 3. To demonstrate the qualification of the subjects thereof, whose inward disposition and outward conversation is heavenly, Heb. 3. 1. Phil. 3. 20. 4. To set out the extent thereof. It doth not only reach from Euphrates to Sihor, as Solomons Kingdom did, 1 King. 4. 21. or from India to Ethiopia over 127. Provinces, as Ahasuerus his Kingdom did, Esth. 1. 1. but to heaven it self, yea, and that throughout the whole earth and the whole heaven, Psae. 135. 6. Mat. 28. 18. 5. To manifest the end of calling men into the Church, which is Christs Kingdom of grace on earth, that they might be fitted for heaven which is the Kingdom of glory, Col. 1. 12. 13. 1 Pet. 1. 3, 4.
1. To distinguish it from the Kingdomes of the world, which the devils shewed to Christ, Mat. 48. 2. To shew the kinde of the Laws, Ordinances, and appurtenances thereof, which are all heavenly,