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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.
Others are of opinion that the heaven and all the Host thereof still retain that1 virtue, vigour, and strength which they had when they were first made; and that the earth, though in the superficies of it, whereon men and beast tread, and which is daily digged and ploughed up, may have some of the strength thereof exhausted, yet in the main body and innermost part of it, it still remaineth the same; and so shall do to the end of the world. See §. 139.
Others are of opinion that the heaven and all the Host thereof still retain that1 vertue, vigour, and strength which they had when they were first made; and that the earth, though in the superficies of it, whereon men and beast tread, and which is daily digged and ploughed up, may have some of the strength thereof exhausted, yet in the main body and innermost part of it, it still remaineth the same; and so shall do to the end of the world. See §. 139.
- 1Mundum videmus passio•i subjectum, & per secula senect•te deficere credimus & siniri. Aug. quaest▪ ex Vet. Test. q. 28.
Yet in that a• length they shall be changed, they may be said to perish; In this sense it is said, that heaven and earth shall pass away, Mar. 13. 31.1
Yet in that a• length they shall be changed, they may be said to perish; In this sense it is said, that heaven and earth shall passe away,