A41670:1683
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.
§. 8. Of the Apostles manner of enforcing his matter.
§. 8. Of the Apostles manner of inforcing his matter.
Verse 2. For if the word spoken by Angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward: ⟨p. 121⟩Verse 3. How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him? Verse 4. God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the holy Ghost, according to his own will.
Verse 2. For if the word spoken by Angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward: ⟨p. 121⟩Verse 3. How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him? Verse 4. God also bearing them witnesse, both with signes and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the holy Ghost, according to his own will.
The first particle of this text, as our English sets it down, being a causal conjunction1 For, showeth that it follows as a reason of that which went before: a reason to persuade the Hebrews to attend diligently to the Gospel. The Apostle used one motive before §. 6. He addeth this to enforce them the further to observe his instruction: and that not only by adding one reason to another, as two blows strike a nail deeper in then one: but by producing another more forcible motive then the former.