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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.
But to leave those who are improperly called Prophets, and to return to those who most strictly and properly were so called; God, for the clearer manifestation of his divine power in them, raised them up out of all sorts of people: Many of them were of the Priests, as Jer. 1. 1. Ezek. 1. 3. and Levites, as 2 Chron. 20. 14. Yea also there were Prophets of other Tribes. Daniel was of Judah, Dan. 1. 6. Elijah of Gad, 1 King. 17. 1. Elisha of Ephraim, 1 King. 19. 16. Jonah of Zebulon, z King. 14. 25. Others of other Tribes. As respect in choosing Prophets, was not had to any1 one Tribe, so nor to age; for children were chosen Prophets (1 Sam. 2. 18. and 3. 4, &c. Jer. 1. 6.) nor to education; for an herdsman was made a Prophet (Amos 7. 14.) nor to sex; for women were Prophetesses (Judg. 4. 4. Isa. 8. 3. 2 King. 22. 14. Luk. 2. 36.)
But to leave those who are improperly called Prophets, and to return to those who most strictly and properly were so called; God, for the clearer manifestation of his divine power in them, raised them up out of all sorts of people: Many of them were of the Priests, as