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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
Chapter 8 › Section 58: §. 58. Of reconciling the Prophet and the Apostle.
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.
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1. The Prophet directeth Gods speech to the Israelites, while they remained the people of the Lord, not clean cast off, and thereupon setteth out the mere relation betwixt God and them, to aggravate their •in the more. For hereby it appeareth, that they were as an adulterous wife, which had on her part broken the matrimonial bond, and thereby provoked God to break the covenant on his part. Thus the cause of abrogating that covenant is by the Prophet declared to be on their part. But the Apostle speaking of the covenant abrogated after their rejection, sets down the effect thereof, which was, that God regarded them not. He would not any longer show himself an husband unto them. Thus in regard of the different times, wherein the Prophet and Apostle wrote, that which by the former is declared to be deserved on the peoples part, is by the latter showed to be executed on Gods part. One sets down the cause, or provocation: the other, the effect or execution of one and the same thing. Thus there is no contradiction in the Apostles words to that which the Prophet had said, but a manifestation of that which the Prophet intended, to be accomplished. 2. Some read the Prophets words interrogatively thus, Should I have continued an husband unto them? So it is in the margin of our English Bible. Thus is God brought in as casting off all further care of them, and not regarding them, as the Apostle expresseth it. The Prophet speaks to the rebellious people themselves: and therefore sets down the mind of God with a kind of indignation interrogatively. But the Apostle speaketh of a people that had received their doom and punishment: and therefore expresseth it more plainly and clearly. 3. The word used by the Prophet and translated,