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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. They cannot be hindered by any bodily impediments; No corporal substance can any whit stay their course, or slacken their enterprise; They can pass through and pass over all such things as would stop and hinder any bodies; as Castles, Cities, Stone-walls, Iron-gates, Rivers of waters, Seas, Woods, or any other like things. 2. They have no corporal gravity, nor any other like quality to slacken their motion. 3. They need not such space of time to pass from place to place, as bodies need; Even on a sudden they can be in divers places which are Millions of miles asunder; as the highest heaven and earth is. 4. They have a greater propensity and forwardness to do any task enjoined by their Lord, then other creatures: This is a great means of putting them on to do what they are enjoined with all celerity.
1. They cannot be hindred by any bodily impediments; No corporall substance can any whit stay their course, or slacken their enterprise; They can pass through and pass over all such things as would stop and hinder any bodies; as Castles, Cities, Stone-wals, Iron-gates, Rivers of waters, Seas, Woods, or any other like things. 2. They have no corporall gravity, nor any other like quality to slacken their motion. 3. They need not such space of time to pass from place to place, as bodies need; Even on a sudden they can be in divers places which are Millions of miles asunder; as the highest heaven and earth is. 4. They have a greater propensity and forwardnesse to do any task enjoyned by their Lord, then other creatures: This is a great means of putting them on to do what they are enjoyned with all celerity.
On these grounds we may well think that the Sun in his course cannot be swifter then they, nor the sight of the eye; Nor the lightning from Heaven more quick then they.
It is necessary that Angels be so quick,