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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.
It is one of the Articles of a Christians faith, set down in the three solemn forms of Articles, which are commonly call Creeds, as the Apostles Creed, the Nicene Creed, Athanasius Creed and others, that Christ shall continue to sit in heaven at Gods right hand, till he comes to judge the quick and the dead: which will not be till the last day.
It is one of the Articles of a Christians faith, set down in the three solemn formes of Articles, which are commonly call Creeds, as the Apostles Creed, the Nicene Creed, Athanasius Creed and others, that Christ shall continue to sit in heaven at Gods right hand, till he comes to judge the quick and the dead: which will not be till the last day.
• That personal appearance, which many conceive shall be of Christ a thousand years before the last day, is apparently against the foresaid Scriptures.
But I would further demand, (e) to what end should he personally appear on earth;1 what good would come thereby? his royal throne and seat whereon he sits, being in heaven, he can and doth behold the whole earth in every part and corner thereof: and in it, his whole militant Church, and all particular congregations, yea, and member thereof. Being in heaven he can and doth provide for all Churches, and for every particular person all needful, temporal, spiritual, and eternal blessings: and protect them from all temporal, spiritual and eternal enemies and miseries: What more can be expected to be done by his personal appearing on earth? yea, on earth could he so well do all that that he doth in heaven?
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