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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.
As for the end of a Fast, it is to subdue the flesh; which eating of fish can do no more then eating of flesh.
But why should this distinction of meats be made in matter of Religion, seeing Christ faith, Whatsoever entereth into the mouth, goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught? And again, To eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man, Mat. 15. 17, 20▪ And an Apostle saith, Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving, 1 Tim. 4. 4. And again, Unto the pure all things are pure, Tit. 1. 15. On these and other like grounds he reckoneth abstinence from some meats among doctrines of devils, 1 Tim. 4. 1, 3.
But why should this distinction of meats be made in matter of Religion, seeing Christ faith, Whatsoever entreth into the mouth, goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught? And again, To eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man, Mat. 15. 17, 20▪ And an Apostle saith, Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving, 1 Tim. 4. 4. And again, Unto the pure all things are pure, Tit. 1. 15. On these and other like grounds he reckoneth abstinence from some meats among doctrins of devils, 1 Tim. 4. 1, 3