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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 186: §. 186. Of Timothies being set at liberty.
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 the first, Questionless he was that man to whom Saint Paul directed two1 Epistles: even he whose mother was a Jewess, and his father a Greek, whom Paul suffered to be circumcised to prevent offence that the Jews might otherwise have taken. Him, while he was a young man, Paul took to go forth with him, Act. 16. 1, 3. It is said of this Timothy, that he ministered to Paul, Act. 19. 24. that is, he accompanied Paul, Act. 20. 4. and went, and returned, and abode where Paul would have him. He is styled Pauls work-fellow, Rom. 16. 21. Frequent mention is made in Pauls Epistles of sending Timotheus hither and thither upon messages to the Churches, as, 1 Cor. 4. 17. Phil. 2. 19. 1 Thess. 3. 2. Yea Saint Paul joins the names of Timothy with his own, in sundry Epistles that he wrote to the Churches, as, 2 Cor. 1. 1. Phil. 1. 1. Col. 1. 1. 1 Thess. 1. 1. Philem. v. 1. and he left him at Ephesus, where was a great Church, there to water what he himself had planted, and to order the affairs of that Church, 1 Tim. 1. 3. All these show, that he was a Minister of the Gospel: of very special note, and of singular use to the Church of God: so as his liberty must needs be good news to Gods Church. 2. To the second, we cannot find either in the Book of the Acts, or in any