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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.
§. 143. Of Christs everlastingness.
§. 143. Of Christs everlastingnesse.
THE last phrase whereby Christs immutability is set out, is this, Thy years shall not fail; Years are not properly applied to the Lord; For eternity admits no distinction of times as things temporary do, 2 Pet. 3. 8. The holy Ghost doth herein speak of the Lord as we mortal creatures use to speak one of another; for the continuance of temporary things which have a beginning, and shall have an end, are distinguished by hours, days, weeks, months, and years. The longest ordinary distinction of times is a year. That continuance which exceedeth that date useth to be set forth by multiplying years, as two years, ten years, an hundred years, a thousand years, and so forward; The fewer of these distinctions that any pass over, the shorter their continuance is; The more they pass over the longer is their continuance: If still they continue year after year, and that without date or end, so as still their years are continued and cease not, they are counted everlasting, their years fail not.
THE last phrase whereby Christs immutability is set out, is this, Thy years shall not fail; Years are not properly applied to the Lord; For eternity admits no distinction of times as things temporary do, 2 Pet. 3. 8. The holy Ghost doth herein speak of the Lord as we mortall creatures use to speak one of another; for the continuance of temporary things which have a beginning, and shall have an end, are distinguished by howrs, daies, weeks, moneths, and years. The longest ordinary distinction of times is a year. That continuance which exceedeth that date useth to be set forth by multiplying years, as two years, ten years, an hundred years, a thousand years, and so forward; The fewer of these distinctions that any passe over, the shorter their continuance is; The more they passe over the longer is their continuance: If still they continue year after year, and that without date or end, so as still their years are continued and cease not, they are counted everlasting, their years fail not.