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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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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Gouge, William, 1578-1653.
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London :: Printed by A.M., T.W. and S.G. for Joshua Kirton,
1655.
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Bible. -- N.T. -- Hebrews -- Commentaries.
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"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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A41670.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 6, 2024.
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§. 133. Of Anthropomorphites.
THE Anthropomorphites do hereupon erre, not knowing the Scriptures nor* 1.1 the power of God, in that they literally and properly apply to God such parts of men as are metaphorically and only by way of resemblance for teaching sake, attributed to him: They feign God to themselves by a carnall cogitation to be after the Image of a corruptible man, and that God is altogether a body, imagining that whatsoever is not a body is no substance at all. But they are much deceived; For Spirits are not only true substances, but every way the most excellent substan∣ces; Bodilinesse doth but adde grossenesse, heavinesse, drowsinesse, and sundry o∣ther weaknesses to a substance.
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Concerning the members of God which the Scripture frequently mentioneth,* 1.2 that no man should beleeve that we according to the form and figure of flesh are like to God, the same Scripture saith, that God hath wings, which we have not; Therefore when we hear of wings, we understand protection, Psa▪ 9. 4. So when we hear of hands we must understand operation, and if the Scripture mentions any other like thing, I suppose it to be spiritually understood.
Notes
* 1.1
Anthropomor∣phitas vocant, quoniam Deum sibi fingunt co∣gitatione car∣nali in similitu∣dinem imag•…•…is corruptibilis ho∣minis. Aug. de Hares. H•…•…m. 50.
Deum ipsum omninò corpus esse praesumunt, putant•…•…s quid corpus non est, prors•…•…s •…•…l∣lum esse substan∣tiam. Aug. Ep. 112. De membris Dei quae assiduè Scriptura commemorat, n•…•… quisquam secundum carnis huj•…•…s formam & figuram nos esse crederet •…•…imiles Deo, prop•…•…crea & eadem Scriptura & alas 'Deum habcre dixit, quas nos utrique non habemus, &c. Aug. Ep. 111.