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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
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.
To have the heart established with grace, is to have such understanding of the Gospel, and so to affect it in the whole soul, as to be resolved never to depart from it; never to be carried about with any other doctrine; which is not agreeable with this grace here spoken of.
This phrase established in the faith, Col. 2. 7. doth in effect intend as much as to be established with grace. For faith is an especial effect of grace. There the Apostle addeth two Metaphors, which do much illustrate this point, in these words, drooted and built up. The former Metaphor is taken for a tree (such an one as our Oak) whose root doth spread as far in the earth, as the boughs in the air; so as no storms throw it. Sooner may the arms of it be rent one from another, then the tree be overthrown or rooted up. Thus he, whose heart is established with grace, will sooner suffer his limbs to be pulled one from another, or his soul be parted from his body, then his heart from grace; or grace from his heart.
This phrase established in the faith, Col. 2. 7. doth in effect intend as much as to be established with grace. For faith is an especial effect of grace. There the Apostle addeth two Metaphors, which do much illustrate this point, in these words, drooted and built up. The former Metaphor is taken for a tree (such an one as our Oak) whose root doth spread as far in the earth, as the boughes in the air; so as no storms throw it. Sooner may the arms of it be rent one from another, then the tree be overthrown or rooted up. Thus he, whose heart is established with grace, will sooner suffer his limbs to be pulled one from another, or his soul be parted from his body, then his heart from grace; or grace from his heart.