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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.
Though all these three phrases in general intend one and the same thing, namely immutability, yet to show that there is no tautology, no vain repetition of one and the same thing therein, they may be distinguished one from another.
Though all these three phrases in generall intend one and the same thing, namely immutability, yet to shew that there is no tautology, no vain repetition of one and the same thing therein, they may be distinguished one from another.
1. The first, Thou remainest, pointeth at Christs eternity before all times; for it implieth his being before, in which he still abides. 2. The second, Thou art the same, declares Christs constancy. There is no variableness with him; Thus therefore he saith of himself. I am the Lord, I change not, Mal. 3. 6. 3. The third, Thy years shall not fail, intendeth Christs everlastingness; that he who was before all times, and continueth in all ages, will beyond all times so continue.
1. The first, Thou remainest, pointeth at Christs eternity before all times; for it implieth his being before, in which he still abides. 2. The second, Thou art the same, declares Christs constancy. There is no variablenesse with him; Thus therefore he saith of himself. I am the Lord, I change not, Mal. 3. 6. 3. The third, Thy years shall not fail, intendeth Christs everlastingnesse; that he who was before all times, and continueth in all ages, will beyond all times so continue.
Thus these three phrases do distinctly prove the three branches of this description of Christ, which is, and which was, and which is to come,