A41670:1802
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.
So great are the things by the Gospel revealed unto the Church, as in former ag• were not made known, Ephes. 3. 5. Many Prophets, and Kings, and Righteous men desired to see these things, but saw them not, Matth. 13. 17. Luk. 10. 24. After this salvation, not only the Prophets have enquired, but also the Angels desire to look into it, 1 Pet. 1. 10, 12.
On the other side, this great salvation is a great aggravation of all neglect thereof.1 On this ground Christ aggravateth the Jews contempt of the Gospel in his time: and plainly telleth them, that the men of Nineveh, and the Queen of the South, shall rise up in judgement against them, because a greater then Jonah, and a greater then Solomon was among them, Matth. 12. 41, 42. This is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather then light, Joh. 3. 19.
On the other side, this great salvation is a great aggravation of all neglect thereof.1 On this ground Christ aggravateth the Jews contempt of the Gospel in his time: and plainly telleth them, that the men of Nineveh, and the Queen of the South, shall rise up in judgement against them, because a greater then Ionas, and a greater then Solomon was among them,