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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.
IF the difference betwixt the new and other covenants be observed, we shall find it far to excel all other covenants. Whereby we are instructed in sundry points: as
IF the difference betwixt the new and other covenants be observed, we shall find it far to excell all other covenants. Whereby we are instructed in sundry points: as
1. In the manifold wisdom of God, as the Apostle stileth it, Eph. 3. 10. This is1 manifested in ordering the government of his Church, according to the state and condition thereof. For 1. In mans entire estate, when he was made perfect, God made with him a covenant of works. ⟨p. 264⟩2. After mans fall, when the Church was in the infancy of it, God ordered it, as best befitted that estate. 3. In the child-hood of it, he gave his people such external ordinances, as were most convenient for them. 4. In the riper age of it, he fully revealed his whole will, and gave them ordinances more spiritual. 5. When the Church shall come fully to be complete, and more perfect then at the first, there shall be no Sun, no Moon, no Temple, no external ordinances, Rev. 21. 22, 23. 2. In the increase of Gods goodness. This is herein manifested, that all the2 changes of Gods covenant were ever to the better. The covenant of Grace was better then the covenant of works. The new covenant better then the old. At first, when all were in one family: yea, and afterwards when there were many distinct Families, the first-born was both a Governor, and also an Instructor of the whole Family, Gen. 4. 7