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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.
§. 9. Of the Occasion of this Epistle.
The occasion of this Epistle was two-fold. 1. The immortal and insatiable malice of the unbelieving Jews against all that professed the Name of Christ. 2. Their inbred superstition about the Mosaical rites.
THe occasion of this Epistle was two-fold. 1. The immortall and insatiable malice of the unbeleeving Jews against all that professed the Name of Christ. 2. Their inbred superstition about the Mosaicall rites.
So implacable was their hatred of all that maintained the Christian faith, as in that cause they spared not their own countrymen (1 Thes. 2. 14.) St Paul, while he was of the Jewish religion, was highly esteemed of Priests, Rulers, and other Jews; but when he became a Christian, none was more fiercely and violently persecuted then he. So dealt they with all that were of that faith: and where they had not sufficient power of themselves, they stirred up the unbelieving Gentiles against all that professed the Christian faith; especially if they were Jews, Acts 142, 19. Hence it came to pass that these Hebrews, to whom in particular this Epistle was directed, suffered much for their profession sake (Chap. 10. 32, &c.) wherefore to encourage them unto all perseverance in the faith, and to keep them from apostasy and falling away from the truth received, the Apostle wrote this Epistle, which is filled with many forcible encouragements; and with terrible denunciations of sore vengeance against Apostasy. St Pauls words were of old said to be thunders: which ⟨p. 6⟩is most true in this Epistle, where he writes against apostasy, Chap. 6. v. 4, 6, 8. and