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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.
He suffered much both by the Speeches and also by the Actions of evil, and envious persons; yet he would pray for them, rather than in any harsh way requite them. He accounted revilers, and wrongdoers, to do more hurt to themselves than to him.1
He suffered much both by the Speeches and also by the Actions of evill, and envious persons; yet he would pray for them, rather than in any harsh way requite them. He accounted revilers, and wrongdoers, to do more hurt to themselves than to him.1
- 1His unjust sufferings.His unjust suffferings.
Sundry scandalous, and false aspersions have been cast upon him, particularly, by such as have been guilty of those crimes, which they have laid to his charge: oFor some who have lived by an unwarrantable trade of Usury, for justifying their own unwarrantable practice, have not stuck to impute the same to him, from which he was ever free; never putting any Monies out to use, either by himself, or any other for him; neither directly nor indirectly, as he hath been often heard to say, as in his life, so not long before his death.
- oRegium est cum benè feceris male audire. Sen.
pHe was ever Charitable, especially to the godly poor, according to the direction of the Apostle Paul, in