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 ...

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Title: 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 ...
Author: Gouge, William, 1578-1653.
Publication: London :: Printed by A.M., T.W. and S.G. for Joshua Kirton,; 1655.
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§. 139. Of the Lords being yet to▪ come.

THis phrase, a 1.1 •…•…e that shall come, is the interpretation of one Greek word: and it is appropriated to Christ, •…•…Matth. 11. 3. Rev. 1. 4, 8. and 4. 8. and 11. 17. This very title giveth proof that the Lord Christ is yet to come. This is meant of his second and last comming, whereof see Chap. 9. v. 28. §. 143.

The Lord put off his first comming till the fulnesse of time, Gal. 4. 4. which was about the space of 3950. years: And he hath put off his second comming till the ti•…•…es of restitution of all things, Acts 3. 21. This he did in reference to the one and other comming,

1. To prepare men the better unto his comming.
2. To nourish faith and hope, which cease, when the thing believed and hoped for is accomplished. We hope for that we see not, Rom. 8. 24.
3. To try patience, Iam. 5. 7.
4. To exercise Wisedome, Courage, Obedience, and other like graces.
5. To discover such corruptions as lurk in the heart, Deut. 8. 2.
6. To make men the more long for the Lord, before he come, and more welcomely to accept him when he commeth.

That which is to come is to be waited for.

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