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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 102: §. 102. Of excess in honouring Saints departed.
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§. 102. Of excess in honouring Saints departed.
Unto those to whom Guides for imitation are given, I would commend a caution and a direction.
UNto those to whom Guides for imitation are given, I would commend a caution and a direction.
A Caution in two respects. One to prevent excess. Another to redress defect.
The excess is of such as have the patterns of those whom they take to be Guides in too high admiration, accounting their works meritorious, yea and supererogatory. Hereupon they conceive that they may receive benefit by the works of those others. The superstitious Priests and Pharisees among the Jews taught their people such a conceit; namely, that by children's giving […] great gift to the Temple (which they called Corban) their parents might be profited, though they did no more for them, Mark 7. 11, 12. By this means men are so far from observing this duty of following their Guides, as they are kept from it. For by expecting benefit from others walking in such and such courses, they think it needless for themselves to walk in such ways; because they have the benefit of others walking therein, without such pains of their own.