A01981:972
The saints sacrifice
The saints sacrifice: or, a commentary on the CXVI. Psalm Which is, a gratulatory psalm, for deliverance from deadly distress. By William Gouge, D.D.The saints sacrifice: or, a commentarie on the CXVI. Psalme Which is, a gratulatory psalme, for deliverance from deadly distresse. By William Gouge, D.D.
London: printed by George Miller for Edward Brewster, 1632
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§. 60. Of persisting in good courses.
II. *Saints must proceed in their approved practice. 2aThey must not be weary in well doing. bMark them (saith the Apostle) which walk so, as they have us for an example. What kind of walking doth he mean? He himself hath plainly and fully expressed it in the verses before. It was this, cTo follow on, dTo reach forth unto the things which are before, eTo press toward the mark. From this his walking, and proceeding on, he maketh this inference, fLet us walk by the same rule, or as some not unfitly translate it, let us proceed. For *the word which the Apostle useth, properly signifieth to go on in order. The virtue of such as appertain to the kingdom of heaven, is in this proceeding set out by many metaphors: as gThe shining of light more and more unto perfect day: hThe waters of the Sanctuary ⟨p. 119⟩