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 ...

§. 9. Of the Resolution of, and Observations from, Hebr. 11. 3.

THis verse gives an evidence of the Worlds Creation.

Hereof are two parts.

• 1. The evidence it self.
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  2. An inference made thereupon.

  In setting down the evidence, four points are observable.

  • 1. The thing evidenced, The Worlds were framed.
  • 2. The means thereof, By the word of God.
  • 3. The kind of evidence, Faith.
  • 4. The manifestation thereof, We understand.

  In setting down the Inference, one thing is granted, another is denyed.

  That which is granted, is, That things seen were made,

  That which is denyed, is, That they were made of things which appear; for they were not made of such.

Doctrines.

• I. The world had a beginning. This is here taken for granted.
• II. The worlds were made in their full perfection. The word translated, framed, implyeth as much,
• III. Gods word was the onely means of making the world. This means is here expressed.
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• IV. All things were made of nothing. This is intended under this phrase, were not made of things which do appear.
• V. Faith gives evidence to Creation. This is the main intendment of this verse.
• VI. Faith is in the understanding. Not that it is only there. It is also in the will. It worketh affiance as well as assent. But by faith we under∣stand.