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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 13 › Section 90: §. 90. Of not fearing Multitudes, Plots and Practices against ones self.
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§. 90. Of not fearing Multitudes, Plots and Practices against ones self.
IN setting down the object of the fore-mentioned fear, he expresseth it in the singular number, 1MAN. This word is here collectively to be taken, and may comprise multitudes under it: and thereunto the confidence of this man of God is to be extended: according to that which in another place he saith, I will not be afraid of ten thousand of people that have set themselves against me round about, Psal. 3. 6. For many in opposition unto God are but as one. Therefore there is no restraint to the Lord to save by many or by few, (1 Sam. 14. 6.) and in like manner against many or against few. Herewith did Asa strengthen his faith, 2 Chron. 14. 11. There is an infiniteness in the Power, Wisdom, and other Properties of God. So as all humane power being finite, one man, and multitudes of men are alike to him. In this respect the Psalmist with an holy insultation saith, Why do the Heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? &c. Psal. 2. 1, 2, 3. On this ground we need not be affrighted at the consultations, conspirations, and combinations of multitudes together.
IN setting down the object of the fore-mentioned fear, he expresseth it in the singular number,