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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.
Obj. Paul and other Apostles wrote sundry Epistles, whereby they declared the will of God.
Answ. They wrote no other things then what they had preached. Such things they wrote, that they might remain upon perpetual record for the continual good of the Church.
Answ. They wrote no other things then what they had preached. Such things they wrote, that they might remain upon perpetuall record for the continuall good of the Church.
God is said to speak, both of old and now, by way of resemblance, after the manner1 of men. Men by speaking use to manifest their mind. This is the most frequent and accustomed manner of expressing a mans inward conceptions; even such things as they would have others to know and take notice of. In allusion hereunto Gods manifesting his mind is styled speaking. At the beginning when God manifested his mind every day, this phrase is used, God said, Gen. 1. 6. which is all one as this, he spake; and so it is translated, Psal. 33. 9.
God is said to speak, both of old and now, by way of resemblance, after the manner1 of men. Men by speaking use to manifest their minde. This is the most frequent and accustomed manner of expressing a mans inward conceptions; even such things as they would have others to know and take notice of. In allusion hereunto Gods manifesting his minde is stiled speaking. At the beginning when God manifested his minde every day, this phrase is used, God said,