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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.
That I may not exceed the bounds of an Epistle, I shall only add this word concerning the Narrative of my dear Fathers Life and Death. Though some things therein may […] credible; as his indefatigable pains▪ […] meekness, and the like; yet I do […] […], there is not one particular expressed in the whole, but upon mine own knowledge, I can avouch for truth, having observed most of them my self, and heard the rest often from his own month.
That I may not exceed the bounds of an Epistle, I shall only adde this word concerning the Narrative of my dear Fathers Life and Death. Though some things therein may 〈…〉 credible; as his indefagitable pains▪ 〈…〉 meekness, and the like; yet I do 〈…〉 〈…〉, there is not one particular expressod in the whole, but upon mine own knowledge, I can avouch for truth, having observed most of them my self, and heard the rest often from his own month.
Though he be now dead, yet he still speaketh to us in this elaborate Commentary of his, of which he died in travel. Though it were his Benoni, yet to the heedful Reader it may justly become another Benjamin, a Son of the right hand, to lead him fully into the bowels of the whole Epistle: The Authors sole aim in all his Ministry being the same with dAustins, and in this Commentary like that of eHierom, to hold out clearly the meaning of the Spirit, and not his own fancies and conceits.
Though he be now dead, yet he still speaketh to us in this elaborate Commentary of his, of which he died in travell. Though it were his Benoni, yet to the heedfull Reader it may justly become another Benjamin, a Son of the right hand, to lead him fully into the bowels of the whole Epistle: The Authors sole aim in all his Ministery being the same with