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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.
And such was the fruit of his Ministry, that very many of his Auditors,1 though living in other Parishes, upon trial before sundry Elderships, have confessed, that the first seed of grace was sown in their Souls by his Ministry. And herein God wonderfully honoured his Ministry, in making him an aged Father in Christ, and to beget many Sons and Daughters unto righteousness, for thousands have been converted and built up by his Ministry.
And such was the fruit of his Ministery, that very many of his Auditors,1 though living in other Parishes, upon triall before sundry Elderships, have confessed, that the first seed of grace was sown in their Souls by his Ministery. And herein God wonderfully honoured his Ministery, in making him an aged Father in Christ, and to beget many Sons and Daughters unto righteousnesse, for thousands have been converted and built up by his Ministery.
- 1The great success of his Ministry.The great successe of his Ministery.
He used also monthly to preach a preparation Sermon before the Communion, on the Eve before every monthly Communion.
He used also monethly to preach a preparation Sermon before the Communion, on the Eve before every monethly Communion.
He was indeed eminently faithful and laborious in the work of the Ministry to his dying day, preaching so long as he was able to get up into the Pulpit. As a tree planted in the house of the Lord, fruitful