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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.
We ought hereupon to have our judgements grounded on the Scriptures, our opinions ordered, and our doubts resolved thereby. Nothing ought to be taken as an Article of Faith, but that which may be proved thereby. The kind of argument1 here used is negative: it stands thus; The Scripture no where declareth Angels to be Sons of God. Therefore that name belongeth not to them.
We ought hereupon to have our judgements grounded on the Scriptures, our opinions ordered, and our doubts resolved thereby. Nothing ought to be taken as an Article of Faith, but that which may be proved thereby. The kinde of argument1 here used is negative: it stands thus; The Scripture no where declareth Angels to be Sonnes of God. Therefore that name belongeth not to them.
- 1How a negative proof holds. See Chap. 7. v. 14. §. 76. 92.
In regard of an Article of Faith, a negative argument from Scripture is sound and good; because all Articles of Faith requisite to be believed, are therein set down; so as if it be not to be found in the Scripture, we may well conclude that it is no Article of Faith.
In regard of an Article of Faith, a negative argument from Scripture is sound and good; because all Articles of Faith requisite to be beleeved, are therein set down; so as if it be not to be found in the Scripture, we may well conclude that it is no Article of Faith.
The Name which here is denied to belong to Angels, is thus set down, under an