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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 11 › Section 271: §. 271. Of Persecutors cruelty exceeding brute beasts.
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§. 271. Of Persecutors cruelty exceeding brute beasts.
THE places whereunto Confessors wandered, being for the most part, such as wild beasts do accustom themselves unto, giveth instance, that Confessors of the Truth have less feared savage beasts, than persecuting men. It is said of Christ, when he was in the Wilderness, that he was with the wild beasts. Mark. 1. 13.
THE places whereunto Confessors wandred, being for the most part, such as wild beasts doe accustome themselves unto, giveth instance, that Comfessors of the Truth have less feared savage beasts, than persecuting men. It is said of Christ, when he was in the Wilderness, that he was with the wild beasts. Mark. 1. 13.
Cruel men have been resembled to the most cruel beasts; as to a Lion. (2 Tim. 4. 17.) a Woolf, a Leopard, a Bear, an Ape, a Cockatrice, Isa. 11. 6, 7, 8. Yea, to such beasts as never were. Such as are described (Dan. 7. 4. &c.) because they exceed all beasts in savageness, and cruelty.
Cruell men have been resembled to the most cruell beasts; as to a Lion. (2 Tim. 4. 17.) a Woolf, a Leopard, a Bear, an Ape, a Cokatrice,