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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 157: §. 157. Of particular Angels attending particular Persons.
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.
Argum. 3. The Christians said in reference to Peter, It is his Angel, Act. 12. 15.1
- 1Rhem. Annot. on Act. 12. 15▪
Answ.
1. That might be a sudden speech of men astonished, and the• no sufficient ground for a sound Argument. 2. They might be missed by a common error of the times, as Christs Disciples were, Mat▪ 17. 10. Act. 1. 6. 3. They might use that phrase to put off the maids persisting to affirm that Peter was there, with that vulgar opinion, as if one should importunately say of my friend whom I knew to be dead and buried, that he saw him alive, I to put him off should say it was his ghost then. 4. They might think it to be an Angel sent from God to comfort and encourage Peter, and by Peter desired to carry them word thereof, and yet not one that continually waited on him as his peculiar protector. 5. The word Angel signifieth a messenger (as is before showed §. 82.) Thus it may be taken for a man sent as a messenger from him.
1. That might be a sudden speech of men astonished, and the• no sufficient ground for a sound Argument. 2. They might be missed by a common errour of the times, as Christs Disciples were, Mat 17. 10.