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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 10: §. 10. Of the Scope and Method of this Epistle.
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 this may the more distinctly, clearly and fully be demonstrated, the Apostle doth to the life set out Christs two Natures, divine and humane in one Person: his three Offices, Princely, Prophetical and Priestly; together with the excellency and sufficiency of them. To this do tend all the divine Instructions, Refutations, Exhortations, Consolations, Denunciations.
That this may the more distinctly, clearly and fully be demonstrated, the Apostle doth to the life set out Christs two Natures, divine and humane in one Person: his three Offices, Princely, Propheticall and Priestly; together with the excellency and sufficiency of them. To this do tend all the divine Instructions, Refutations, Exhortations, Consolations, Denunciations.
The several points of this Epistle may all be comprised under two heads.
The severall points of this Epistle may all be comprised under two heads.
1. Grounds of Faith. 2. Rules for Life.
The grounds of faith are laid down from the beginning of the Epistle to the 22th verse of the 10th Chapter. Yet sometimes he falleth into pertinent digressions, by way of Exhortation, Consolation and Reprehension; to make them thereby to give the more diligent heed to those grounds of faith.