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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 275: §. 275. Of Christ the prime promise.
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.
Here the word promise being of the singular number, implieth some eminent, excellent thing promised, and this is, Christ Jesus himself, who is elsewhere set •orth under this word promise, as Act. 2. 39. and 26. 6. Christ is said to be given according to the promise, Act. 13. 23. and Gods promise is said to be fulled in raising up Jesus. Act. 13. 32.
Here the word promise being of the singular number, implieth some eminent, excellent thing promised, and this is, Christ Jesus himself, who is elsewhere set •orth under this word promise, as Act. 2. 39. and 26. 6. Christ is said to be given according to the promise, Act. 13. 23. and Gods promise is said to be ful•led in raising up Jesus. Act. 13. 32.
Christ must needs be the prime promise, in that he is the first promise since Adams •all, Gen. 2. 15. and in that he is the complement, or accomplishment of all other promises, 2 Cor. 1. 20.