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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.
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.
If it be demanded why those things were then registered: I answer, That though they were not all written for our imitation; yet all for our instruction and learning, Rom. 15. 4.
If it be demanded why those things were then registred: I answer, That though they were not all written for our imitation; yet all for our instruction and learning, Rom. 15. 4.
Particular instructions which we may gather from them, are such as these.
1. By extraordinary acts the doctrine which they delivered is confirmed. 2. By temporary acts the manifold wisdom of God is manifested, (Eph. 3. 10.) and Saints submission unto God answerably ordered. 3. By sinful acts the weakness of Saints is evidenced; and Gods goodness and patience toward them. Admirable comfort may be received from thence.
1. By extraordinary acts the doctrine which they delivered is confirmed. 2. By temporary acts the manifold wisdom of God is manifested, (Eph. 3. 10.) and Saints submission unto God answerably ordered. 3. By sinnefull acts the weakness of Saints is evidenced; and Gods goodness and patience toward them. Admirable comfort may be received from thence.