A41670:1787
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.
Answ. They had the Gospel, Heb. 4. 2. Gal. 3. 6. In this respect Christ is said to1 be slain from the foundation of the world, Rev. 13. 8. to be ever the same, Heb. 13. 8.
- 1The Jews had the Gospel. See Chap. 4. v. 2.
The first Promise made to man, in the judgment denounced against the devil immediately after mans fall (Gen. 3. 15.) contained the sum of the Gospel. Abel's sacrifice, Gen. 4. 4. and Noah's, Gen. 8. 20, 21. and others: and the sundry Types of the Ceremonial Law, and sundry Prophecies and Promises in the Prophets, set out Christ, the substance of the Gospel: but not so clearly, so fully, so powerfully as the ministry of the Gospel.
The first Promise made to man, in the judgment denounced against the devil immediatly after mans fall (Gen. 3. 15.) contained the summe of the Gospel. Abels sacrifice, Gen. 4. 4. and Noahs, Gen. 8. 20, 21. and others: and the sundry Types of the Ceremonial Law, and sundry Prophecies and Promises in the Prophets, set out Christ, the substance of the Gospel: but not so clearly, so fully, so powerfully as the ministry of the Gospel.