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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.
The employments were such as these;
1. To tell Kings, Priests, Princes, yea and a whole Kingdom of their sins and rebellions against God: Micaiah told Ahab the truth, when all besides flattered him, 1 King. 22. 13, 14. Elijah told Ahab of his bloody sin, and denounced Gods judgement against him (1 King. 21. 20, &c.) when all the people conspired to shed innocent blood with him. Jeremiah told King, Priests, Princes and all the people of their apostasy, Jer. 1. 18. 2. To restore Religion, it being turned into idolatry. So did Samuel, 1 Sam. 7. 3. and Elijah, 1 King. 18. 21, &c. 3. To foretell Gods Judgements beforehand, that believers might be prepared the better to bare them: that impenitent might be made the more inexcusable; and that the severity of Gods judgements might be the more justified, Jer. 5. 13. Eze. 5. 8. 4. To make known Gods mercies in the middest of judgements, and Gods mind of doing good to them, after they have been scourged for their sins; thereby to provoke them to return to the Lord, Isa. 4. 2. Hos. 6. 1, 2. 5. To give evidences of the Messiah, thereby to establish the hope of such, as should live and die before that fullness of time, and to direct them how to build their faith on him: and that by setting out his eternal deity, his true humanity, his conception, birth, growth, doctrine, miracles, passion, resurrection, ascension, intercession; his first and second coming; his spiritual and eternal Kingdom,