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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.
2. Quest. Had not the faithful before Christs time Gods law written in their heart?
2. Quest. Had not the faithful before Christs time Gods law wirtten in their heart?
Answ. 1. It cannot be denied but that they had. God promiseth as much unto them, Deut. 30. 6. And David oft professeth, that Gods law was his delight, and the joy of his heart: and that he applied his heart thereto, Psal. 119. 77. 111, 112. and in his time he said of a man truly righteous, that, the law of his God is in his heart, Psal. 37. 31.
Answ. 1. It cannot be denyed but that they had. God promiseth as much unto them, Deut. 30. 6. And David oft professeth, that Gods law was his delight, and the joy of his heart: and that he applyed his heart thereto, Psal. 119. 77. 111, 112. and in his time he said of a man truly righteous, that, the law of his God is in his heart, Psal. 37. 31.
But yet we are to put difference betwixt the old and new Covenant: the Covenant made with the Church before Christs time, was delivered under dark and ob• types, figures, shadows, promises, and prophesies of things to come. So as it was not so clearly, nor so ordinarily, nor so fully written in their hearts. There were but few Davids in that time. But by the effectual work of Gods spirit under the new Covenant, the law is more ordinarily, more plentifully, and more thoroughly writ in the hearts of Gods confederates. The opposition therefore is comparative, and the comparison is not betwixt the law, and law-writing and writing: but betwixt the manner of writing one and the same law in the hearts of confede, under the old and new covenant.