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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.
Here it is used in the general acception of the phrase, as flesh was noted before to be used: namely for humane nature subject to manifold infirmities.
Here it is used in the generall acception of the phrase, as flesh was noted before to be used: namely for humane nature subject to manifold infirmities.
Flesh and blood, as it is a visible substance, so it is gross, heavy, drowsy, subject to hunger, thirst, cold, heat, pain, wearisomeness, sickness, fainting, yea and death it self.
Flesh and blood, as it is a visible substance, so it is gross, heavy, drousie, subject to hunger, thirst, cold, heat, pain, wearisomness, sickness, fainting, yea and death it self.
In regard of the outward visible part, a man is little better then a brute beast, which is also flesh and blood, Eccles. 3. 19. Sundry beasts in sundry excellencies, appertaining to flesh and blood, go beyond men: as in bigness, swiftness, strength, vigour of several senses, as of sight, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching and other like endowments.
In regard of the outward visible part, a man is little better then a bruit beast, which is also flesh and blood, Eccles. 3. 19. Sundry beasts in sundry excellencies, appertaining to flesh and blood, go beyond men: as in bigness, swiftness, strength, vigor of severall senses, as of sight, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching and other like endowments.