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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 2 › Section 24: §. 24. Of Christs first publishing 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.
It cannot be denied but that the substance of the Gospel, and therein salvation, was preached from the beginning of the world (as hath been showed before, §. 20. 21.) but so dark was that kind of light, as, like the light of the Moon when the Sun shineth, is accounted no light. The day taketh his beginning from the rising of the Sun, and the light that cometh from thence: So Salvation, here spoken of, taketh beginning from Christs preaching the Gospel.
It cannot be denied but that the substance of the Gospel, and therein salvation, was preached from the beginning of the world (as hath been shewed before, §. 20. 21.) but so dark was that kinde of light, as, like the light of the Moon when the Sunne shineth, is accounted no light. The day taketh his beginning from the rising of the Sunne, and the light that cometh from thence: So Salvation, here spoken of, taketh beginning from Christs preaching the Gospel.
Besides, Christ is the substance and truth of all the shadows, figures, types, Prophesies and Promises of that Salvation which was set out by them. When Christ the Lord came, and declared himself to be the substance and truth of the Law, he might well be accounted the first publisher of salvation.
Besides, Christ is the substance and truth of all the shadowes, figures, types, Prophesies and Promises of that Salvation which was set out by them. When Christ the Lord came, and declared himself to be the substance and truth of the Law, he might well be accounted the first publisher of salvation.
Object. It is said of the Ministry of John the Baptist, The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, Mark 1. 1.