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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.
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, Gen. 1. 6. which is all one as this, he spake; and so it is translated, Psal. 33. 9.
- 1How God is said to speak.
The time wherein God declared his mind part by part and sundry ways, is here styledc the time past: whereby he meaneth all that time that passed from the beginning of the world, till the exhibition of the Son of God in the flesh. This is evident by the opposition of this phrase, in time past, to the last days mentioned in the next verse. The Greek word may thus be translated, of old; whereby is hinted such a time as should be altered. What the Apostle saith of the old Covenant, may be applied to this old time; that which is old is ready to vanish away,