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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§. 155. Of the Apostles manner of proving his Point. ver. 14.
THE second part of the Assumption (mentioned §. 148.) is here proved: It was this, Angels are Ministers; That it may be the better discerned what kinde of Ministers they are, their nature, that they are Spirits, and their office ministring, and their warrant sent forth, and their charge for whom they minister, such as shall be heirs of salvation, are expresly set down ver. 14.
The manner of setting down these Points is emphaticall; It is by way of Inter∣rogation;* 1.1 An Interrogation about things affirmed implies a strong affirmation; as if it were a matter unquestionable, undeniable, and so clear, as whosoever duely considereth it, cannot but acknowledge it to be most true. Where God saith to Cain,
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If thou do well shalt thou not be accepted? Gen. 4. 7. He declares it to be so manifest∣ly true, that Cain himself could not deny the truth of it. By such a manner of de∣claring a matter, he that propounds the point leaves it to the judgement of him to whom the Question is propounded to judge of the truth thereof.