Excerpt from An Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrew, Vol. 1 of 4: With Preliminary Exercitations The help which I might receive from the sedulous labours of so many learned men, and those in times, places, principles, distant, and distinguished from each other as also managing their common design with great variety as to particular intentions I looked on as a matter of no small advantage unto me. Some I found had critically examined many of the words, phrases, and expressions of the writer some compared his quotations with the places in the Old Testament from whence they are taken. Some had endeavoured an analysis of the several discourses of the author, with the nature and force of the arguments insisted on by him. The labours of some were to apply the truths contained in the Epistle unto practice others have collected the difficulties which they observed therein, and scanned them in a scholastical way, with objections and solutions after their manner. Others had an especial regard unto the places, whose sense is controverteod amongst the several parties at variance in Christian religion; all in their way and manner endeavouring to give light to the intentions of the Holy Ghost, either in particular passages, or in the whole Epistle. The helps and advantages in the investigation of the mind of God, which by their labours might be obtained, I looked on as a great encouragement to undertake the same work with them, and to promote the light of truth thereby. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.