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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
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.
Others put the reason of the foresaid difference between men and Angels in […] heinousness of the sin of Angels: and thereupon they aggravate the sin•e▪ Angels by sundry circumstances: as, that they were the more excellent creatures that they had more light of understanding: that they first sinned: that they […] not tempted •o sin as man was: and that they tempted man and so were murder of man, Joh. 8. 44.
Others put the reason of the foresaid difference between men and Angels in 〈…〉 hainousnesse of the sinne of Angels: and thereupon they aggravate the sin•e▪ Angels by sundry circumstances: as, that they were the more excellent creatures that they had more light of understanding: that they first sinned: that they 〈…〉 not tempted •o sin as man was: and that they tempted man and so were murder of man, Ioh. 8. 44.
I will not assay to extenuate any of these aggravations: But this I may bo• say, that these and other like reasons taken from difference in creatures much • gate from the supreme Sovereignty of God, who thus saith, I will be gra• ▪ whom I will be gracious: and I will show mercy, on whom I will show mercy, Exod▪ 19. That which about Gods Sovereignty exercised on man and man, in refere• to the Elect and reprobate is distinctly set down by the Apostle (