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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 115: §. 115. Of divers and strange Doctrines, and undue Toleration thereof.
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.
Herein lieth a main difference betwixt the doctrine of God, and the doctrines of men. Gods doctrine is the truth it self: and truth is only one, plain, clear, firm, stable: but doctrines of men are erroneous and false; and in that respect various, ambiguous, deceitful, inconstant, unstable. Man is full of vain inventions. There is no certain rule to be found but in Gods Word.
Herein lieth a main difference betwixt the doctrine of God, and the doctrins of men. Gods doctrine is the truth it self: and truth is only one, plain, clear, firm, stable: but doctrins of men are erroneous and false; and in that respect various, ambiguous, deceitfull, inconstant, unstable. Man is full of vain inventions. There is no certain rule to be found but in Gods Word.
The advice of the Apostle John about trying the spirits, whether they be of God (1 Joh. 4. 1.) is very behovefull to this purpose.
The advice of the Apostle Iohn about trying the spirits, whether they be of God (1 Joh. 4. 1.) is very behovefull to this purpose.
For this end we must pray for the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Christ, Eph. 1. 17. We are of our selves blind, and without the spirit of illumination may soon be drawn into one or other of these divers doctrines.
For this end we must pray for the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Christ,