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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.
In the Bishops time, when it might not be permitted to keep a Fast openly in the Church, he was one of those Ministers who frequently helped pious Christians in their private Fasts. In times of fear and danger, he and others had sometimes weekly, sometimes monthly Fasts, whereof many in his own House and Vestry; which he was eminently observed to perform with extraordinary reverence and awfulness of spirit. His confessions were accompanied with much1 sense of sin, brokenness of heart, self-abhorrency, judging of the creature, and justifying of God. In petition very pertinent, Judicious, Spiritual, Seasonable, accompanied with Faith and Fervour, like a true Son of Jacob wrestling with tears and supplications, as resolving not to let him go without a blessing.
In the Bishops time, when it might not be permitted to keep a Fast openly in the Church, he was one of those Ministers who frequently helped pious Christians in their private Fasts. In times of fear and danger, he and others had sometimes weekly, sometimes monethly Fasts, whereof many in his own House and Vestry; which he was eminently observed to perform with extraordinary reverence and awfullness of spirit. His confessions were accompanied with much1 sense of sin, broakennesse of heart, self-abhorrency, judging of the creature, and justifying of God. In petition very pertinent, Judicious, Spirituall, Seasonable, accompanied with Faith and Fervour, like a true Son of Iacob wrestling with tears and supplications, as resolving not to let him go without a blessing.
- 1(s) Tanto masor laus est ignoscentis, quanto masor exaggeratio est peccata confitentis. Aug. in Psal. 94.
But none like him in Thanksgiving; after a man would think he1