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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 › Section 11: §. 11. Of the meaning of the first Verse.
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. God oft himself spake with his own voice; and that when men were awake or1 at sleep. God spake to Adam when he was awake, Gen. 3. 9, &c. And to Solomon in a dream when he was asleep, 1 King. 3. 5. 2. God spake by the voice of Angels, to Lot, Gen. 19. 1, &c. This phrase (Chap. 2. v. 2.) the word spoken by Angels, showeth that God oft revealed his will to men by Angels. 3. God most frequently declared his mind by children of men; whom he oft endued with an extraordinary spirit. Thus much is intended in this phrase, God spake by the Prophets. 4. Gods mind was sometimes make known by signs. In this respect a voice is attributed to signs: as when God thus saith to Moses, If they will not hearken to the voice of the first sign, they will believe the voice of the latter sign, Exod. 4. 8. Thus also God spake by his Judgements: whereupon saith a Prophet, Hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it, Mich. 6. 9. Under this head Sacrifices may be comprised; for God spake to Abel and to Cain by their Sacrifices, Gen. 4. 4, 5. So to David by his, 1 Chro. 21. 26. And to Solomon by his, 2 Chro. 7. 1. And to Elijah by his, 1 King. 18. 24, 38. By ⟨p. 9⟩sundry other Types did God also use to speak to his people, Exod. 29. 42. and 30▪ 6▪