A41670:3148
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.
Obj. It is said that the houses of the wicked are safe from fear, and that they die […] strength, being wholly at ease and quiet, Job 21. 9, 23.
Obj. It is said that the houses of the wicked are safe from fear, and that they die 〈…〉 strength, being wholly at ease and quiet, Job 21. 9, 23.
Answ.
1. All other joy is only from the teeth outward (as we speak) they have […] true, found, inward joy; they have not the ground of true joy, which is an assura• of Gods favour in Christ. 2. Their joy is but short; As the cracking of thorns under a pot, so is the laughed fools, Eccles. 7. 6. 3. Many times it falleth out, that when they seem to be very jocund, there is […] inward terror in the soul, Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful, Prov. 14. 13. 4. Their joy is inconstant, they have their fits of anguish and vexation, Lam. 5. 1• 5. All their joy is but as in a dream, like him that dreameth he eateth, but […] is awake his soul is empty, Isa. 29. 8. his rejoicing ariseth from the slumbering of […] conscience, which for the time ceaseth to terrify him. 6. A man may be so intoxicated, and as it were made drunk with earthly ceits, as he may end his days in a foolish pleasing conceit: as a thief made […] may die in a desperate merriment and that under the gallows: heretics may […] so intoxicated with their errors as to suffer death for them with much seeming […] ambitious persons may with an outward glory cast themselves into the jaws of de as