A41670:1797
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 2 › Section 21: §. 21. Of the great Salvation of the Gospel.
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.
This manner of setting down the word without a correlative, wants not emphasis; for it implieth it to be wonderful great: so great as cannot be expressed.
This manner of setting down the word without a correlative, wants not emphasis; for it implieth it to be wonderfull great: so great as cannot be expressed.
Where the Apostle maketh mention of a very great danger, wherein he despaired ⟨p. 130⟩even of life, he thus sets it out; God delivered us from so great a death (2 Cor. 1. 10.) so great, as one would have thought none could have been delivered from it. In like manner, this phrase, here intimateth, that this salvation is so great, as never the like was brought unto men before: nor can a greater be expected hereafter.