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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.
The foresaid new covenant is here amplified by preferring it before the old: and that the excellency thereof might more evidently be manifested, he setteth out the old covenant in this verse, and the new covenant in the three following. Thus by comparing them together, it will appear which is the better.
THe foresaid new covenant is here amplified by preferring it before the old: and that the excellency thereof might more evidently be manifested, he setteth out the old covenant in this verse, and the new covenant in the three following. Thus by comparing them together, it will appear which is the better.
He sets down the comparison negatively thus, anot according to the covenant, &c. This negative hath reference to the manner of delivering the former covenant: as if he had said, not under such dark types and shadows, not clogged with such burdensome rites and ceremonies, nor with such chargeable sacrifices, and other oblations, as the old covenant was: but more clearly, with easier burdens and less cost.
He sets down the comparison negatively thus, anot according to the covenant, &c. This negative hath reference to the manner of delivering the former covenant: as if he had said, not under such dark types and shadowes, not clogged with such b•rthensome rites and ceremonies, nor with such chargeable sacrifices, and other oblations, as the old covenant was: but more clearly, with easier burthens and lesse cost.
- a[Greek or Hebrew].〈non-Latin alphabet〉.