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A learned and very useful commentary on the whole epistle to the Hebrews wherein…
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 Wednesdays lectures at Black-fryers, London / by that holy and learned divine William Gouge ... : before which is prefixed a narrative of his life and death : whereunto is added two alphabetical tables ...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 ...
London: printed by A.M. for Joshua Kirton, 1655
Chapter › Section 157: §. 157. Of particular Angels attending particular Persons.
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.
1. It hath no ground or warrant in Gods Word. I may in this case say, To which of the Angels said God at any time, Wait on such an one and never leave him, night nor day? 2. One and the same Angel hath attended upon divers persons, and brought severally messages to the one and the other, as Gen. 18. 21. Luk▪ 1. 19, 26. 3. One and the same Angel hath delivered sundry persons at once, Acts 5. 18, 19. 4. Many Angels have jointly together protected the same person, 2 King. 6. 17, Psal. 91▪ 11. 5. It lessens the comfort which Christians may receive from the guard of an host of Angels, as Gen. 32. 1. or from Legions of Angels as Mat. 26 53. or from the innumerable company of Angels, as Heb. 12. 22. It impaireth that comfort by appropriating a single Angel to a single person. 6. It cometh too near to the heathenish conceit of a good and evil Genius to attend1 each particular person; For there is as great probability for one devil as a tempter, continually to assault every one, as for one good Angel to protect him. 7. The difference about the time of particular Angels first undertaking this particular2 Function, is against them that hold it an argument of the uncertain truth thereof.3
1. It hath no ground or warrant in Gods Word. I may in this case say, To which of the Angels said God at any time, Wait on such an one and never leave him, night nor day? 2. One and the same Angel hath attended upon divers persons, and brought severali messages to the one and the other, as