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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 153: §. 153. Of the Resolution of Heb. 2. v. 14, 15.
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.
In setting down the conquest we may discern
1. The manner of expressing it: by way of a final cause, That he might. 2. The matter whereof it consisteth. This setteth out, 1. The kind of conquest, Destroy. 2. The means whereby he accomplished it, by death. 3. The enemy conquered. He is set out, 1. By his power, Him that had the power of death. 2. By his name, Devil.
1. The manner of expressing it: by way of a finall cause, That he might. 2. The matter whereof it consisteth. This setteth out, 1. The kinde of conquest, Destroy. 2. The means whereby he accomplished it, by death. 3. The enemy conquered. He is set out, 1. By his power, Him that had the power of death. 2. By his name, Devil.
The second Act of Christs Royal Function is set out as the former.
The second Act of Christs Royall Function is set out as the former.
1. By the manner of expressing it, which is by way of a final cause, implied in this copulative, and, as if he had said, And that he might. 2. By the matter whereof it consisteth. Herein is set down, 1. The kind of Act, Deliver. 2. The extent thereof, Them who, or whosoever. 3. The parties delivered. These are described by that miserable condition wherein they were before they were delivered. This condition is set out two ways, 1. By that fear wherein they are aggravated by the object thereof, death. 2. By that bondage wherein they were. This is aggravated, 1. By the straitness of the bond, subject, or fast held. 2. By their continuance therein, all their life time.