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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
Chapter 2 › Section 137: §. 137. Of this phrase, Flesh and blood.
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.
Flesh and blood thus joined, set out in general mans external substance, […] visible and sensible, and in that respect exposed to spirit, Luk. 24. 39.
Flesh and blood thus joyned, set out in generall mans externall substance, 〈…〉 visible and sensible, and in that respect exposed to spirit, Luk. 24. 39.
In particular flesh and blood is put
1. For mans earthly disposition, and incapacity of heavenly mysteries; so• himself he can neither know them, nor make them known. Thus flesh and bl• opposed to God, who is omniscient, and revealeth what mysteries he pleased whom he will, Matth. 16. 17. Gal. 1. 16. 2. For mans weakness. Thus it is opposed to principalities and po• Eph. 6. 12. 3. For mortality whereunto our sins brought us. Thus it is opposed to glo• bodies, 1 Cor. 15. 50.
1. For mans earthly disposition, and incapacity of heavenly mysteries; so himself he can neither know them, nor make them known. Thus flesh and bl opposed to God, who is omniscient, and revealeth what mysteries he pleased whom he will,