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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
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.
§. 89. Of Watchfulness against fear of man.
§. 89. Of Watchfulnesse against fear of man.
There is great cause again and again, to exhort such as profess themselves to be Gods servants, whether Ministers or others, to take courage unto themselves, that they be not disheartened from their good courses by any thing that man can do, and to take heed that this root of bitterness, namely, timorousness, spring not up in them. This is one of those roots that trouble men, and whereby many be defiled, Heb. 12. 15. We are the rather to be watchful hereabouts by reason of the proneness of men, even of Saints and believers thereunto. Instance Abraham, Gen. 12. 13. Isaac, Gen. 26. 7. Jacob, Gen. 32. 7. David, 1 Sam. 27. 1. and sundry others. For the flesh as well as the Spirit is in such, and though the Spirit be ready, the flesh is weak, Mat. 26. 41.
THere is great cause again and again, to exhort such as professe themselves to be Gods servants, whether Ministers or others, to take courage unto themselves, that they be not disheartned from their good courses by any thing that man can do, and to take heed that this root of bitternesse, namely, timorousnesse, spring not up in them. This is one of those roots that trouble men, and whereby many be defiled,