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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 187: §. 187. Of Ministers desire to be present with their people.
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.
2. He might promise it by divine instinct. 3. He might promise it upon reserved condition, if he should be set at liberty.
This manner of expressing his mind, I will see you, is not upon such a peremptory resolution of his own power to do it, as is condemned, Jam. 4. 13. but upon an intended submission to the will of God: for true believers have that in their minds, whether they express it or no. This Apostle did oft times in plain terms express that condition, as where he said, I will return again unto you, if God will. Act. 18. 21. And, I will come unto you shortly, if the Lord will, 1 Cor. 4. 19. The phrase of my Text implieth an earnest desire of the Apostle to be with these Hebrews. God had made him a means of their conversion unto the Christian faith, and of their edification therein: and this put into him an entire affection of doing yet further all the good he could.
This manner of expressing his minde, I will see you, is not upon such a peremptory resolution of his own power to do it, as is condemned, Iam. 4. 13. but upon an intended submission to the will of God: for true believers have that in their minds, whether they expresse it or no. This Apostle did oft times in plain terms expresse that condition, as where he said, I will return again unto you, if God will. Act. 18. 21. And, I will come unto you shortly, if the Lord will, 1 Cor. 4. 19. The phrase of my Text implieth an earnest desire of the Apostle to be with these Hebrews. God had made him a means of their conversion unto the Christian faith, and of their edification therein: and this put into him an entire affection of doing yet further all the good he could.