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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.
The word translated amerciful is derived from a root that signifieth bmercy or pity, Now the proper object of mercy is misery; Thereupon a word derived from the same root signifieth cmiserable, Rev. 3. 17. The Verb derived from the same word is oft used by such as were in misery and sought mercy of Christ; as the blind men who said unto him, dHave mercy on us, Mat. 9. 27. The Hebrew word which is oft translated emercy signifieth also bowels, for mercy ariseth from the moving of the bowels at the sight of misery: fTo have compassion or mercy is frequently set out by a word that signifieth to have the bowels moved, as Mat. 9. 36. Luke 10. 33. & 15. 20. Yea, these two words, bowels and mercy are oft joined together, as thus, gIf any bowels and mercies, Phil. 2. 1. and thus, hbowels of mercies, Col. 3. 12. A like phrase is translated itender mercy,