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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.
After his public Sermons were ended, diverse Neighbours (not1 having means in their own families) assembled in his ihouse, where after such a familiar manner he repeated the public Sermons, as diverse have professed they were much more benefited by them in that repetition, then in the first hearing: for he did not use word by word to read out of notes what was preached, but would by Questions and Answers draw from those that were under his charge, such points as were delivered. After which his constant course was to visit such of his Parish as were sick, or by pain and weakness disabled to go to the public ordinances; with each of these he would discourse of some heavenly and spiritual subject, suitable to their condition, and after that pray by them; wherein he had a more than ordinary gift, being able in apt words and expressions to commend their several cases unto God, and to put up petitions suitable to their several needs. His usual course was to pray eight times in the public Congregation on a Lords-Day; for as he prayed before and after each Sermon, so before and after his reading and expounding the Scripture, which he performed both in the forenoon and after-noon. And in his family his constant course was to pray thrice every Lords-Day, and that in a solemn manner, viz. In the morning and evening and after his repetition of the sermons.
After his publick Sermons were ended, diverse Neighbours (not1 having means in their own families) assembled in his ihouse, where after such a familiar manner he repeated the publick Sermons, as diverse have professed they were much more benefited by them in that repetition, then in the first hearing: for he did not use word by word to read out of notes what was preached, but would by Questions and Answers draw from those that were under his charge, such points as were delivered. After which his constant course was to visit such of his Parish as were sick, or by paine and weaknesse disinabled to go to the publick ordinances; with each of these he would discourse of some heavenly and spirituall subject, suitable to their condition, and after that pray by them; wherein he had a more than ordinary gift, being able in apt words and expressions to commend their severall cases unto God, and to put up petitions suitable to their severall needs. His usuall course was to pray eight times in the publick Congregation on a Lords-Day; for as he prayed before and after each Sermon, so before and after his reading and expounding the Scripture, which he performed both in the forenoon and after-noon. And in his family his constant course was to pray thrice every Lords-Day, and that in a solemn manner, viz. In the morning and evening and after his repetition of the sermons.