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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
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.
§. 277. Of Gods providence in ordering mens different privilege.
§. 277. Of Gods providence in ordering mens different priviledg.
Hebr. 11. 40. God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should […] be made perfect.
Hebr. 11. 40. God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should 〈…〉 be made perfect.
IN this last verse is laid down the privilege of believing Christians, above believing Jews. The author of that privilege is expressly said to be aGod, God maketh▪ the estates of men to differ. That which Eve said of a third Son, God hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, gives proof hereof, Gen. 4. 25. So also doth that which is said to Noah finding grace in the eyes of the Lord, Gen. 6. 8. And the promise which God made to Abraham, Gen. 12. 1, 2. And renewed, ⟨p. 244⟩[…]. 17. 20, 21. This is most lively exemplified in Isaac's 2. sons, even when they […] in their Mothers womb,