A41670:1639
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.
§. 5. Of giving heed to the Gospel.
The duty which the Apostle presseth upon himself and others, as a matter of necessity, is to give earnest heed to the things which they had heard. Hereby he means the Gospel, which he stiles Salvation; and of which he saith, It was first spoken by the Lord, and afterwards by his Apostles, v. 3, 4. Of these excellencies of the Gospel we shall speak in their due place.
THe duty which the Apostle presseth upon himself and others, as a matter of necessity, is to give earnest heed to the things which they had heard. Hereby he means the Gospel, which he stiles Salvation; and of which he saith, It was first spoken by the Lord, and afterwards by his Apostles, v. 3, 4. Of these excellencies of the Gospel we shall speak in their due place.
By expressing the matter in the time past, things which we ahave heard, he giveth us to understand, that the Gospel had been formerly preached unto them; even before he wrote this Epistle: so as he wrote no new doctrine: but rather endeavoured to establish them in that which they had received. He counts it safe to write the same things to them, Phil. 3. 1. even the same which they had heard before. Hereby he watered what had been sown amongst them. Whither the seed of the Gospel had been cast amongst thee Hebrews by himself or some other, he doth not declare. But certain it is, that that precious seed had been cast among them. They had heard the Gospel: He doth here water it that the crop may be the more plentiful.