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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.
But none like him in Thanksgiving; after a man would think he1 had spent the last drop of his Spirit in Confession and Prayer; O▪ how would he revive and gather up his Spirits when he came to the work of Thanksgiving; wherein he would be so large, particular, warm, and vigorous, that in the end of the day he would quicken the auditory, as if then the work had been but newly to begin, and that only had been the work of the day. Wherein he may be a pattern to all his surviving Brethren in the Ministry.
But none like him in Thanksgiving; after a man would think he1 had spent the last drop of his Spirit in Confession and Praier; O▪ how would he revive and gather up his Spirits when he came to the work of Thanksgiving; wherein he would be so large, particular, warm, and vigorous, that in the end of the day he would quicken the auditory, as if then the work had been but newly to begin, and that only had been the work of the day. Wherein he may be a pattern to all his surviving Brethren in the Ministery.
- 1His excellency in thanksgiving.
He was very inquisitive after the good and welfare of the Church1 of God, as at home, so abroad, that accordingly he might order his prayers in their behalf, being ever mindful of them in his prayers. And when he heard it went ill with the Church of God in any place, like another Nehemiah, he sat him down, and wept, and mourned, and fasted, and prayed unto the God of heaven in their behalf.
He was very inquisitive after the good and wellfare of the Church