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Title:  The manifold vvisedome of God In the divers dispensation of grace by Iesus Christ, In the Old New Testament. In the covenant of faith. workes. Their agreement and difference. By G. Walker, B.D. pastor of Saint Iohn the Evangelist in Watlingstreet.
Author: Walker, George, 1581?-1651.
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These are the divers significations of the word Law, which is called To∣rah in the Old, and in the New Testament.The word Gospel is in the Hebrew text in the old Testament called Bessorah, and in the new Testament they both signifie good news, glad tidings, and a joyfull message; the one is derived of the Hebrew verb (Bissar) and the other of the Greek word , which both sig∣nifie one thing, namely to tell good news, or bring glad tydings. For the Greek word , it is diversly used in Scripture, and in other Greek Authors.Sometimes for the reward which is given to one for bringing good newes, as 2 Sam. 4. 10. where there∣ward which the man expected from David for the tydings of Sauls death is by the 70 called , and in the Hebrew Bessorah. Sometime in hea∣then writers, the sacrifices which men offered up in thankfulnesse for good newes, as in Xenophon lib. 1. , in Isocrates Areopag.0