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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 149: §. 149. Of natural mens fear of death.
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§. 149. Of natural mens fear of death.
The miserable condition here intended, is said to be fear of death: Death here is taken in as large an extent as it was §. 142. namely for temporal, spiritual and eternal death. Death, even death of the body, dwhich is a separation of the soul from the body, is by the Heathen counted ethe most terrible of all things, and fthe ⟨p. 126⟩greatest of all evils; gevery living thing shunneth death: this they do nature upon a desire of preserving their being and love of life. On this ground it was […] Satan said to the Lord, Skin for skin, and all that a man hath will he give for his […] Job 2. 4. This works in men a fear of death.
THe miserable condition here intended, is said to be fear of death: Death here is taken in as large an extent as it was §. 142. namely for temporal, spiritual and eternal death. Death, even death of the body, dwhich is a separation of the soul from the body, is by the Heathen counted