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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.
1. Heads of Families: for it was their duty to instruct others in Gods will, Gen. 18. 19. Such an one was Abraham, Gen. 20. 7. 2. Such as gave themselves to be more then ordinarily instructed in Gods will: that on all occasions they might declare it to others. Of these there were Companies, or Societies, 1 Sam. 10. 5, 10. and 19. 20. These had their Colleges, 2 King. 22. 14. Among them some were Masters or Seniors; others Juniors, called sons of the Prophets, 2 King. 2. 3. 3. Such as God used to pen sacred Scripture, 2 Pet. 1. 19. 4. Such as were endued with a special gift of interpreting Scripture, 1 Cor. 12.1 29. These were especially in the Apostles times. 5. All sorts of true Preachers and Ministers of Gods words, Matth. 10. 41. and 13. 57▪ 6. Most strictly and properly such are styled Prophets, as were immediately stirred up of God, and extraordinarily assisted by his Spirit to such weighty matters, as could not, but by divine assistance be effected, Joh. 3. 2. They are therefore set out by an ancient Father, under such a iTitle as signifieth, bearers of the Spirit.