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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 91: § 91. Of the concurrence of Faith in God, and courage against man.
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.
The Apostle that sets down a believers profession in the Lord affirmatively, thus, We may boldly say,▪ The Lord is my helper, expresseth his esteem of man negatively, thus, I will not fear what man shall do to me, doth hereby make faith in God, and fear of man so opposite, as they cannot stand together; no more then light and darkness. Therefore where we are exhorted to the former, we are dehorted from the latter.
The Apostle that sets down a believers profession in the Lord affirmatively, thus, We may boldly say,▪ The Lord is my helper, expresseth his esteem of man negatively, thus, I will not fear what man shall do to me, doth hereby make faith in God, and fear of man so opposite, as they cannot stand together; no more then light and darknesse. Therefore where we are exhorted to the former, we are dehorted from the latter.
Object. Examples were before given (§. 89.) of sundry Worthies who were endued with a great measure of faith, and yet feared men.
Object. Examples were before given (§. 89.) of sundry Worthies who were indued with a great measure of faith, and yet feared men.
Answ.