A41670:1809
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 22: §. 22. Of Christ the Preacher 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.
Answ. Though there be no greater authority then a divine authority, yet there may be sundry differences between the things that are divine. For
1. Of divine truths there may be degrees: Some may be of greater moment, or of greater consequence then others: to pay Tithes under the Law was a divine injunction; but judgment, mercy and faith, were weightier matters of the Law, Mat. 23. 23. 2. There were different kinds of revealing divers truths, some more obscurely, some more clearly, 2 Cor. 4. 14, 18. 3. Some divine truths were more strongly confirmed then others. Priests under the Law were made without an Oath; but Christ with an Oath: so as Christs Priesthood was more strongly confirmed, Heb. 7. 20, 21. 4. More excellent Ministers may be used in dispensing some divine truths then in others. Behold a greater then Jonah is here. Behold a greater then Solomon is here, saith Christ of his own Ministry, Matth. 12. 41, 42.
1. Of divine truths there may be degrees: Some may be of greater moment, or of greater consequence then others: to pay Tythes under the Law was a divine injunction; but judgment, mercy and faith, were weightier matters of the Law, Mat. 23. 23. 2. There were different kindes of revealing divers truths, some more obscurely, some more cleerly, 2 Cor. 4. 14, 18. 3. Some divine truths were more strongly confirmed then others. Priests under the Law were made without an Oath; but Christ with an Oath: so as Christs Priesthood was more strongly confirmed,