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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.
They have also a considerable Lease of certain Tenements for 300 years; all which were procured by his means.
They have also a considerable Lease of certain Tenements for 300 yeares; all which were procured by his means.
Such was his respect to his Parish, as though he were oft offered1 places of far greater profit, yet he refused them all; oft saying, that the height of his ambition was to go from Black-friars to Heaven.
Such was his respect to his Parish, as though he were oft offered1 places of far greater profit, yet he refused them all; oft saying, that the height of his ambition was to go from Black-friers to Heaven.
- 1His self-denial, in refusing all manner of preferments.His self-deniall, in refusing all manner of preferments.
At his first coming to Black-friars, being in the 33. year of his age, he constantly preached twice on the Lords Day, and once weekly, on Wednesday fore-noon, which was for about 35. years very much frequented, and that by diverse City Ministers, and by sundry pious, and judicious Gentlemen of the Inns of Court, besides many well-disposed Citizens who in multitudes flocked to his Church. Yea such was the fame of Dr. Gouges Ministry, that when ⟨image 7⟩the godly Christians of those times came out of the Country unto London, they thought not their business done, unless they had been at Black-friars lecture.