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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
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.
Verse 8. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
Verse 8. Iesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
Though in this verse there be no particle of connection or relation that may direct1 us to the dependence of it upon that which goeth before, or followeth: yet the very subject matter thereof evidently showeth that it hath a fit reference both to the verse before it, and also to that which followeth.
THough in this verse there be no particle of connexion or relation that may direct1 us to the dependance of it upon that which goeth before, or followeth: yet the very subject matter thereof evidently sheweth that it hath a fit reference both to the verse before it, and also to that which followeth.
- 1The dependence.The dependance.
In the former verse the Hebrews were exhorted to follow the faith of their Guides which had been before them. This verse layeth down a forcible reason to move them thereto. The reason is taken from the object of their faith; which was Jesus Christ, who remains still the same object of faith: whereupon it becomes those that live after them, to follow that very faith.