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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 106: §. 106. Of the things wherein Saints are not to be imitated.
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§. 106. Of the things wherein Saints are not to be imitated.
This object of the forenamed duty, faith, (whose faith follow) is a limitation of that duty of imitation, and it showeth that the doctrine and practice of other men, though pious, is no absolute and infallible rule. The particulars that are mentioned, or otherwise intended, do show wherein such and such are to be imitated: as the Prophets in suffering affliction; Job in patience, Jam. 5. 9, 10. So others in other like things. The best Saints were men, and had the flesh in them as well as the Spirit, and many fruits of the flesh were manifest in them as well as of the Spirit.
THis object of the forenamed duty, faith, (whose faith follow) is a limitation of that duty of imitation, and it sheweth that the doctrine and practice of other men, though pious, is no absolute and infallible rule. The particulars that are mentioned, or otherwise intended, do shew wherein such and such are to be imitated: as the Prophets in suffering affliction; Iob in patience, Iam. 5. 9, 10. So others in other like things. The best Saints were men, and had the flesh in them as well as the Spirit, and many fruits of the flesh were manifest in them as well as of the Spirit.
That this point may be the more distinctly understood, I will endeavour to clear these two points.