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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 › Section 137: §. 137. Of the different manner of creatures perishing.
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.
So the Greek word used by the Apostle is sometimes put for a sudden destruction,1 as Luk. 17. 27, 29. where it is applied to those that perished by the Flood, and by fire and brimstone from heaven.
So the Greek word used by the Apostle is sometimes put for a suddain destruction,1 as Luk. 17. 27, 29. where it is applied to those that perished by the Floud, and by fire and brimstone from heaven.
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It is also put for withering by degrees, as the grace of a flower perisheth, Jam. 1. 11.
There are some who conceive that earth and heaven do waste by degrees, and ⟨p. 97⟩through continuance of ages do wax old and fail. They say, that there is not now that clearness of light nor vigour of Stars that was in former times; and that the strength of the earth doth every year decay.