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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 9 › Section 141: §. 141. Of Christs not dying for all.
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.
Though there be no contrariety betwixt Gods secret and revealed will, yet there1 is a difference betwixt the determination of Gods counsel and dispensation thereof.
Though there be no contrariety betwixt Gods secret and revealed will, yet there1 is a difference betwixt the determination of Gods counsell and dispensation thereof.
- 1Difference betwixt Gods secret and revealed will.
Many things are determined which are not revealed, as the day of judgement, Mark. 13. 32.
In the manner also of revealing Gods will, many things are so ordered as they do not directly declare what is determined. For instance, God commanded Abraham to offer up his Son Isaac, Gen. 22. 2. but did not reveal that his purpose was only to try Abraham's faith and obedience therein. So it was revealed to Jonah, that Nineveh should be overthrown: but did not make known, that the end of that threatening was to bring them to repentance, Jonah 3. 4, &c.
In the manner also of revealing Gods will, many things are so ordered as they do not directly declare what is determined. For instance, God commanded Abraham to offer up his Son Isaac,