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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 99: §. 99. Of that Faith which is to be followed.
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.
This word Faith must in this place be taken for something that may be heard or seen, and in that respect imitable; namely for the doctrine of faith, (Rom. 1. 5.) or profession of faith, (Act. 14. 22. Rom. 1. 8.) or effects and fruits of faith, (Jam. 2. 14, 18.) or for fidelity and faithfulness, (Matth. 23. 23.) Our English Translators do turn the Greek word, which properly signifieth faith, into fidelity, Tit. 2. 10.
This word Faith must in this place be taken for something that may be heard or seen, and in that respect imitable; namely for the doctrine of faith, (Rom. 1. 5.) or profession of faith, (Act. 14. 22. Rom. 1. 8.) or effects and fruits of faith, (Iam. 2. 14, 18.) or for fidelity and faithfulness, (Matth. 23. 23.) Our English Translators do turn the Greek word, which properly signifieth faith, into fidelity, Tit. 2. 10.
Either, or every of these significations may here not unfitly be intended. For when obedience is yielded to the doctrine of faith, which Ministers preach; or when people conform themselves to that profession of the faith which their Ministers do: or when they show forth such fruits of faith as they do; or are faithful in their own place, as their Ministers were in their own, then they follow the faith of their Guides.