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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.
Christian Reader,
Thou hast here at length that so much desired, and long looked for Commentary of Doctor GOUGE on the Epistle to the Hebrews. The largeness whereof may be a sufficient plea for the long stay thereof at the Press.
THou hast here at length that so much desired, and long looked for Commentary of Doctor GOUGE on the Epistle to the Hebrews. The largeness whereof may be a sufficient plea for the long stay thereof at the Press.
Though it be a Posthumus (a child brought into the world after the death of his Father) yet I do assure thee, it is his own. For though he set not upon this work for the fitting it to the Press, till the latter •nd of his days, after he was seventy years of age, being kept from • by other public employments as is well known; yet it pleased •od so to lengthen out his life, that he lived to finish this Commentary upon the whole Epistle, excepting one half Chapter; the completing whereof though it cost me some time and pains, that it might be answerable to the rest; yet in respect both of its form and matter, it may well be accounted his own work. For as being his Amanuensis to a great part of the work, I observed his Method, so the matter and substance of that half Chapter I found in his own n•tes: to which I have added no more, than I thought necessary to make it like the rest. So that I may truly say, thou hast here ⟨image 3⟩Doct. GOUGES Commentary upon the whole Epistle to the Hebrews. And therein the substance of above a thousand Sermons Preached at that famous Wednesday Lecture in Blackfriars London, though now cast into a new mould by way of Section. Yea I am persuaded, and that upon good grounds, that there is scarce a point in Divinity which he handled upon any portion of Scripture in the whole course of his Ministry, but he hath brought the substance of it into this Commentary. Several Sermons which upon the first view, I thought fit to be published, and hereunto had designed them; I have since found fully handled in his Commentary; wherein I conceive, thou mayest find as many points of Divinity, Cases of conscience, and Controversies, fully, […], though succinctly handled, as in any Commentary whatsoever yet […]