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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.
This variety of means whereby God spake to his people of old, is here intimated, to show, that God doth now under the Gospel, more uniformly and constantly declare his mind: for the word whereby God speaking of old is set out▪ is in the Greeka • participle, and hath reference to theb verb, v. 2. word for word it may thus be translated, At sundry times and divers manners God speaking in time past, &c.3 hath in these last days spoken, &c. This relative expression of God speaking, implieth a difference betwixt God speaking then and now. Then variously, so many ways as we heard before: now uniformly after one and the same manner; which is by preaching. So Christ made known the will of his Father, Mark. 1. 14, 38. So did his Apostles, Mark. 6. 12. Christ after his resurrection made them also so to do throughout the whole world, Mark. 16. 15. So they did, Acts 8. 4. For it pleased God by preaching to save them that believe, 1 Cor. 1. 21.
This variety of means whereby God spake to his people of old, is here intimated, to shew, that God doth now under the Gospel, more uniformly and constantly declare his minde: for the word whereby God speaking of old is set out▪ is in the Greeka • participle, and hath reference to theb verb, v. 2. word for word it may thus be translated, At sundry times and divers manners God speaking in time past, &c.