A41670:1880
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 29: §. 29. Of creatures disability about miracles.
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.
1. In the Text there is only a supposition made, If there be: which doth not necessarily imply that such a thing may be. 2. There may be signs and wonders done, which are not true miracles. 3. Their foretelling of a thing may be upon mere conjecture: as Fortune-tellers guess at things to come. But herein is nothing extraordinary. 4. God may work by such evil instruments, in such an evil cause, to try whether his people will be drawn by any means from a known truth. This may seem to be implied in these words, For the Lord your God proveth you, to know whether you love the Lord your God, with all your heart, and with all your soul, Deut. 13. 3.
1. In the Text there is only a supposition made, If there be: which doth not necessarily imply that such a thing may be. 2. There may be signes and wonders done, which are not true miracles. 3. Their foretelling of a thing may be upon meer conjecture: as Fortune-tellers guesse at things to come. But herein is nothing extraordinary. 4. God may work by such evil instruments, in such an evil cause, to try whether his people will be drawn by any means from a known truth. This may seem to be implied in these words, For the Lord your God proveth you, to know whether you love the Lord your God, with all your heart, and with all your soul, Deut. 13. 3.
Obj. 5. The Sorcerers in Egypt wrought miracles. For it is said that they also did in 1like manner with their enchantments, Exod. 7. 11, 12, 22. & 8. 7. they did as Moses had done before: they turned the Rod into Serpents, and water into blood; and they brought abundance of Frogs.
Obj. 5. The Sorcerers in Egypt wrought miracles. For it is said that they also did in