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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.
He was a very close Student, for as he was ea Lover of Learning, so very laborious in his studies, sitting up late at night, and rising up early in the morning.
He was a very close Student, for as he was ea Lover of Learning, so very labo•ious in his studies, sitting up late at night, and rising up early in the morning.
- e[Greek or Hebrew]〈non-Latin alphabet〉
He lived in the College nine years, and in all that time (but1 when he went out of Town to his friends) he was never absent from morning prayers in the Chapel, which used to be half an hour before six; yea he used to rise so long before he went to the Chapel, as he gained time for his secret devotions, and for reading his morning task of Scripture; for he tied himself to read every day fifteen2 Chapters in English of the sacred Scripture, five in the morning, five after dinner, before he fell upon his ordinary studies, and five before he went to bed. He hath been often heard to say, that when he could not sleep in the night time, he would in his mind run through distinct Chapters of Scripture in their order, as if he had heard them read, so deceiving the tediousness of his waking, and depriving himself also sometimes of the sweetness of his sleeping hours, though by a better and greater sweetness; for he found the meditation of the word to be sweeter to him than sleep.