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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.
His preaching it was always very distinct, first opening the true1 literal sense of the text, then giving the Logical Analysis thereof, and then gathering such proper observations as did thence arise, and profitably and pertinently applying the same; so as his Ministry proved very profitable to his hearers. Many have acknowledged, that in a Logical Resolution of his text, he went beyond all that ever they heard, as also in clearing of difficult and doubtful places, as they came in his way. As his method was clear, so his expressions plain, always delivering the solid of Divinity in a familiar stile, to the capacity of the meanest.2
His preaching it was allwaies very distinct, first opening the true1 literall sense of the text, then giving the Logical Analysis thereof, and then gathering such proper observations as did thence arise, and profitably and pertinently applying the same; so as his Ministery preved very profitable to his hearers. Many have acknowledged, that in a Logicall Resolution of his text, he went beyond all that ever they heard, as also in clearing of difficult and doubtfull places, as they came in his way. As his method was clear, so his expressions pl•in, allwaies delivering the solid of Divinity in a familiar stile, to the capacity of the meanest.2
- 1His method in Preaching.
- 2His exemplary Life and Consation.
And for his life and conversation it was most exemplary, practising what he preached unto others, and living over his Sermons: so as1