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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.
This noun, hand, added to the former verb, thus, By the hand, implieth a metaphor, taken from indulgent and tender parents, who take their Children that are weak by the hand, that they should not fall and hurt themselves. This metaphor doth Moses thus explain, The Lord thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, Deut. 1. 31.
This noun, hand, aded to the former verb, thus, By the hand, implyeth a metaphor, taken from indulgent and tender parents, who take their Children that are weak by the hand, that they should not fall and hurt themselves. This metaphor doth Moses thus explain, The Lord thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, Deut. 1. 31.
This setteth out Gods tenderness over his Church. Another Prophet setteth out Gods tenderness, thus, Taking them by their arms, I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love, Hos. 11. 3, 4. To this purpose tend these metaphors. He sound him in a desert land, and in the wast howling wilderness: he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, […] […] young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: so the Lord alone did lead him, Deut. 32. 10, 11, 12. And this which Christ useth, How often would I have gathered thy Children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens, Mat. 23. 37.
This setteth out Gods tendernesse over his Church. Another Prophet setteth out Gods tendernesse, thus, Taking them by their armes, I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love,