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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.
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2. New Heavens, and a new Earth: Hereby is meant a new face of a Church, far more glorious in the spirituality of it, then the former before Christ. The phrase is hyperbolical: it is used to set forth not only a renovation ⟨p. 10⟩of the Church, but such a renovation as should put the world as it were into a new form and frame; insomuch as he that should attentively look upon it, might say, Behold new Heavens and a new Earth. If it be objected,1 that an Apostle, speaking of the times of the Gospel, saith, We look for new Heavens and a new Earth, and thereby intends the glory of the world to come. I answer, that excellent matters are some times spoken of in their inchoation and progress, and sometimes in their perfection and consummation: so as the new Heavens and the new Earth, in their beginning and increase, may be under the Gospel, and in their consummation and perfection, after the day of judgement.
2. New Heavens, and a new Earth: Hereby is meant a new face of a Church, farre more glorious in the spirituality of it, then the former before Christ. The phrase is hyperbolicall: it is used to set forth not only a renovation ⟨p. 10⟩of the Church, but such a renovation as should put the world as it were into a new forme and frame; insomuch as he that should attentively look upon it, might say, Behold new Heavens and a new Earth. If it be objected,1 that an Apostle, speaking of the times of the Gospel, saith, We looke for new Heavens and a new Earth, and thereby intends the glory of the world to come. I answer, that excellent matters are some times spoken of in their inchoation and progresse, and sometimes in their perfection and consummation: so as the new Heavens and the new Earth, in their beginning and increase, may be under the Gospell, and in their consummation and perfection, after the day of judgement.
- 12 Pet. 3. 13. How we still look for new heavens and a new earth. Principium innovationis in praesentiseculo perfecta consummataque novitas nondum. Hier. Come. in Ephes. l. 2.