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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 274: §. 274. Of all praise-worthy having their due.
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.
Surely such plainly show, that they are not of the Society of true Saints. They1 are none of those, nor like those that are mentioned in this Catalogue of praise-worthy persons, that obtained a good report through faith. They are not simply, all, but as is here expressed, all these: Those that are named and others like unto them. Praise-worthy men are a choice sort. Many more than these lived before Christ exhibited: yea, lived in the time and place that some of these did▪ yet received no good report. Cain lived, and offered a Sacrifice with Abel, yet ⟨p. 243⟩was none of those. Ham was in the Ark with Shem; Ismael in Abraham's family with Isaac: Esau in the same womb with Jacob, Dathan and Abiram came through the red Sea with Called and Joshua: many other wicked unbelievers were mixed with Believers, yet they obtained not such good report as Believers […].
Surely such plainly shew, that they are not of the Society of true Saints. They1 are none of those, nor like those that are mentioned in this Catalogue of praise-worthy persons, that obtained a good report through faith. They are not simply, all, but as is here expressed, all these: Those that are named and others like unto them. Praise-worthy men are a choise sort. Many more than these lived before Christ exhibited: yea, lived in the time and place that some of these did▪ yet received no good report. Cain lived, and offered a Sacrifice with Abel, yet ⟨p. 243⟩was none of those. Cham was in the Ark with Shem; Ismael in Abrahams family with Isaak: Esau in the same womb with Iacob, Dathan and Abiram came thorow the red Sea with Caled and Ioshua: many other wicked unbelievers were mixed with Believers, yet they obtained not such good report as Believers 〈…〉.
- 1None but Believers have good report.