A41670:3154

A learned and very useful commentary on the whole epistle to the Hebrews wherein…

Name: A learned and very useful commentary on the whole epistle to the Hebrews wherein…
Author: William Gouge

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 ...

William Gouge 1578–1653London: printed by A.M. for Joshua Kirton, 1655

[20], 528, 534, 384, 157, [33] p., [1] leaf of plates : port. · 1.1M words · Wing G1391 · ESTC R34210

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Chapter 2 › Section 150: § 150. Of a natural mans bondage.Chapter 2 › Section 150: § 150. Of a naturall mans bondage.

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.

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IT is here further said that ^*through or by fear of death they are subject to bondage. The terror with which unregenerate persons are afflicted is aggravated by a kind of bondage whereinto it brings them; For the fear of death is like a scourge which keeps them that are under it in bondage, so as they dare not speak, nor stir, nor attempt any thing for their freedom; They who are in such a manner under the lash (as we speak) are in a miserable bondage.

IT is here further said that ^*through or by fear of death they are subject to bondage. The terrour with which unregenerate persons are afflicted is aggravated by a kinde of bondage whereinto it brings them; For the fear of death is like a scourge which keeps them that are under it in bondage, so as they dare not speak, nor stir, nor attempt any thing for their freedom; They who are in such a manner under the lash (as we speak) are in a miserable bondage.

*[Greek or Hebrew] metu mortis.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 metu mortis.

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The word translated ^abondage is a relative, it hath reference to a superior power which keeps one in awe; The Noun whence it ariseth signifieth ^ba Servant. Servant, according to the Master to whom he hath relation, implieth a dignity or a slavery; A Servant of God, Tit. 1. 1. of the Lord,

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The book

Title as printed

Author

William Gouge 1578–1653

Place

London

Printer

A.M.

Bookseller

Joshua Kirton

Year

1655

Size

[20], 528, 534, 384, 157, [33] p., [1] leaf of plates : port.

Words

1,095,090

Catalogue

Wing G1391 · ESTC R34210

Text

EEBO-TCP A41670

Passages

22,423

Sections

2,014

Title page

A learned and very useful commentary on the whole epistle to the Hebrews wherein…

§. 151. Of the continuance of a mans bondage all his life.

§. 152. Of deliverance from spiritual bondage.

§. 152. Of deliverance from spirituall bondage.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

§. 151. Of the continuance of a mans bondage all his life.

§. 152. Of deliverance from spiritual bondage.

§. 152. Of deliverance from spirituall bondage.

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