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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 11 › Section 267: §. 267. Of the worlds vile esteem of Saints.
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.
§. 267. Of the worlds vile esteem of Saints.
THE other thing implied is the worlds esteem of Saints: and that is a base and vile esteem as if they were not to be regarded. For the aforesaid instances that they wandered in Sheeps skins, &c. doth manifest a vile esteem of them. They neglected, they rejected, they ill entreated them. Ishmael had a mean esteem of Isaac, manifested by mocking him, Gen. 21. 9. So had Saul of David 1 Sam. 22. 11▪ and Michal his daughter, 2 Sam. 6. 16. David's o•t complaints hereof, Psal. 119. 51. and 79. 4. So Job, Job 30. 1. &c. The Prophets observe this to be the common conceit of the world. Isa. 62. 4. Jer. 30. 17. So doth an Apostle, 1 Cor. 4. 13. Woeful experience giveth too evident proof of the truth hereof even in these our days.
THE other thing implied is the worlds esteem of Saints: and that is a base and vile esteem as if they were not to be regarded. For the aforesaid instances that they wandered in Sheeps skins, &c. doth manifest a vile esteem of them. They neglected, they rejected, they ill entreated them. Ismael had a mean esteem of Isaac, manifested by mocking him,