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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.
1. In honour, in that he rose as a Priest and Lord to ascend up into heaven, and to s•t at his Fathers right hand, there to make intercession for his Church, Rom. 8. 34. and to rule and govern the same, Act. 2. 32, 33. &c. These are the privileges of the first-born. 2. In order, In that none rose to glory, never to die again, before him; Many1 were raised from the dead before he rose again; but they were raised to such a life as they had before, a mortal life subject to death; and answerably they died again; But Christ being raised from the dead d•eth no more, Rom. 6. 9. very probable it is, that they who were raised out of their graves at Christs resurrection went after him into heaven, and returned not to death again: In this respect Christ is such a first-born as many will follow after him, so as he may well be said to be the first-born among many brethren, Rom. 8. 29.
1. In honour, in that he rose as a Priest and Lord to ascend up into heaven, and to s•t at his Fathers right hand, there to make intercession for his Church, Rom. 8. 34. and to rule and govern the same, Act. 2. 32, 33. &c. These are the priviledges of the first-born. 2. In order, In that none rose to glory, never to die again, before him; Many1 were raised from the dead before he rose again; but they were raised to such a life as they had before, a mortall life subject to death; and answerably they died again; But Christ being raised from the dead d•eth no more,