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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.
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.
Fear is a disturbed passion, arising from the expectation of some evil which […] would shun: For the Greek word cometh from a Verb that signifieth to flee free and this word here used by the Apostle, is sometimes put for flight. Men use to […] from such things as they fear; and if men could, they would flee from and […] death. Death therefore being taken to be the greatest of evils, and man continu• expecting it, must needs fill mans heart with fear, even fear of a bodily death. ( • fear of man, See Chap. 13. §. 84.) But to such as are instructed in the nature of […] (which addeth a sting to death,) and in the resurrection of the body, and the intolerable and everlasting torment of body and soul in hell, death must needs be a […] greater fear, till they have some assurance of their deliverance from it: For […] as it was first inflicted for sin, is the very entrance into eternal damnation; […] then can the thought and remembrance of death be but very dreadful? It was […] of death that made Adam and Eve to hide themselves from Gods presence […] they heard his voice in the garden, Gen. 3. 8. This was it that made Cain say, […] punishment is greater then I can bear, Gen. 4. 13. This made Nabals heart to die […] in him, 1 Sam. 25. 37. And it made Saul to fall along on the earth as a man […] swoon, 1 Sam. 28. 20. This made Faelix to tremble when he heard Paul preach• the judgement to come, Acts 24. 25. Fear of the second death makes Kings are great men, yea and bond-men too, cry to the mountains to fall on them and […] hide them from the face of him that sitteth on the Throne, and from the wrath […] the Lamb, Rev. 6. 15, 16. Surely there is hnothing more difficult then not to […] death. The conscience of men unregenerate doth bring in a bill of […] against them, and convince them of rebellion against the great Lord: they are […] that respect as a malefactor who is arraigned and condemned, and liveth in fear […] the gallows, and is much disquieted therewith, taking no joy or comfort in […]