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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.
To the first I answer, That neither mercy nor any other like property is attributed1 to God properly as a passion, but tropically, and that to demonstrate that the effects of such affections do come from him. Men that have bowels of compassion in them, and are truly and throughly affected with the miseries of others, will be ready to afford them what help they can. Even so, because the Lord is ready to succour such as are in misery, he is said to be merciful, full of compassion, and to have bowels of mercy. See more hereof in The Saints Sacrifice, on Psa. 116. 5. §. 29.
To the first I answer, That neither mercy nor any other like property is attributed1 to God properly as a passion, but tropically, and that to demonstrate that the effects of such affections do come from him. Men that have bowels of compassion in them, and are truly and throughly affected with the miseries of others, will be ready to afford them what help they can. Even so, because the Lord is ready to succour such as are in misery, he is said to be mercifull, full of compassion, and to have bowels of mercy. See more hereof in The Saints Sacrifice, on Psa. 116. 5. §. 29.
- 1How God merciful.How God mercifull.
To the second I answer, That Christ as man would questionless have been merciful,1 Though he had not been subject to humane frailties and miseries. The very Union of the humane nature with the divine would have moved him to have showed mercy to such as were in misery, yet it cannot be denied but that the experience which he had of mans miseries moved him as he was man to be the more pitiful; They who have been pained with the gout, stone, or other tormenting