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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.
As for recreations, howsoever many pious persons do spend time1 therein, and that lawfully in warrantable recreations, yet he spent none therein; Insomuch as he was never expert in any kind of exercise for recreation. He hath been often heard to say, that he took not any journey merely for pleasure in all his life time; study and pains having been all ways both in youth and age his chiefest pleasure and2 delight: Yea it was his meat and drink to be doing the will of his heavenly Father, wherein he took as much pleasure and delight, as natural men do in their eating, and in their drinking, or in their sports and pastimes.
As for recreations, howsoever many pious persons do spend time1 therein, and that lawfully in warrantable recreations, yet he spent none therein; Insomuch as he was never expert in any kind of exercise for recreation. He hath been often heard to say, that he took not any journey meerly for pleasure in all his life time; study and paines having been all waies both in youth and age his chiefest pleasure and2 delight: Yea it was his meat and drink to be doing the will of his heavenly Father, wherein he took as much pleasure and delight, as naturall men do in their eating, and in their drinking, or in their sports and pastimes.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew].〈non-Latin alphabet〉.
- 2Plato. His contempt of all worldly pleasures and delights.
Such was his Carriage and Conversation, that there was scarce a