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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 101: §. 101. Of imitating both living and dead Saints.
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.
Not only Ministers of the Gospel, but other professors also thereof are or1 should be Guides. The Apostle saith of a Jew, as he was a professor of the true Religion, whether he were a Levite, or of another Tribe, that he was accounted a Guide, Rom. 2. 19. As it is said of Ministers, Ye are the light of the world, Matth. 5. 14. So it is said of other professors, Ye shine as lights in the world, Phil. 2. 15.
- 1All professors are patterns.
That which concerns these lights or guides, is, that they look to their feet, and well order their steps: that they so carry themselves as they may prove a good pattern to others. Be thou an example of the believers, saith St Paul to Timothy, 1 Tim. 4. 12. Be ensamples to the flock, saith St Peter to all sorts of Ministers, 1 Pet. 5. 3. Professors in Thessalonica are commended for being ensamples to such as believed, 1 Thess. 1. 7. Thus shall they show themselves good guides; Good to themselves, and good to others. I may apply to this purpose that which the Apostle said in a case not unlike this, In doing this, thou shalt both save thy self, and them that hear th•e, (1 Tim. 4. 16.) yea and them that see thee.