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The progress of divine providence, set out in a sermon preached in the Abbey…The progresse of divine providence, set out in a sermon preached in the Abbey…
The progress of divine providence, set out in a sermon preached in the Abbey Church of Westminster before the house of Peers, on the 24th of September, 1645. being the day of their monthly fast. / By William Gouge, one of the members of the Assembly.The progresse of divine providence, set out in a sermon preached in the Abbey Church of Westminster before the house of Peers, on the 24th of September, 1645. being the day of their monethly fast. / By William Gouge, one of the members of the Assembly.
London: printed by G.M. for Joshua Kirton next Goldsmiths-hall, 1645London: printed by G.M. for Ioshua Kirton next Goldsmiths-hall, 1645
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THE PROGRESS OF GODS Providence.THE PROGRESSE OF GODS Providence.
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.
7.1 To insist upon no more particulars, the Apostle under this indefinite phrase [Greek or Hebrew], some better thing, compriseth all those good things, which in comparison of the ⟨p. 9⟩Church of the Jews are bestowed on the Christian Church.2 For thus he saith, God hath provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
7.1 To insist upon no more particulars, the Apostle under this indefinite phrase 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, some better thing, compriseth all those good things, which in comparison of the ⟨p. 9⟩Church of the Jewes are bestowed on the Christian Church.2 For thus he saith, God hath provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
- 1All Gospel things better.
- 2Heb. 11. 40.
In such a respect,1 as Gospel-blessings are called better, they are also called new, as A new Covenant, a new Testament, a new Jerusalem, a new Heaven and earth, a new name, a new commandment, a new way, a new heart, a new spirit, and a new song. These and other like things are called new, in opposition to old things,