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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 71: §. 71. Of the different interpretation of the eleventh verse.
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 literal sense of this verse being so highly transcendent, seemeth at1 first sight to be impossible: and thereupon by divers persons is diversly interpreted.
THe foresaid literal sense of this verse being so highly transcendent, seemeth at1 first sight to be impossible: and thereupon by divers persons is diversly interpreted.
- 1Different applications of the knowledge here promised. 1. To celestial spirits.
1. Some apply it to the state of Saints in Heaven, because here we know in part: but t•en shall we know as we are known, 1 Cor. 13. 12.
Answ. Though that application may fitly stand with the letter, yet it is not agreeable to the scope of the Apostle, which is to set forth the privileges of the Church under the Gospel.
Answ. Though that application may fitly stand with the letter, yet it is not agreeable to the scope of the Apostle, which is to set forth the priviledges of the Church under the Gospel.