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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.
§. 107. Of calling Brethren.
Christ is said to call them brethren. To *call, in this place, is not a mere nominal, titular or complementall word, but very emphatical. It implieth an open acknowledgement of a thing, and a free profession thereof. Thus God saith of the Gentiles, I will call them my people, (Rom. 9. 25.) that is, I will before all the world declare and profess that they are my people, and acknowledge them for my own. Thus is this word taken, Matth. 5. 9, 19. And in the negative saith the Prodigal to his Father, I am no more worthy to be called thy son, Luk. 15. 21. and Paul, I am not meet to be called an Apostle, 1 Cor. 15. 9. The Prodigal was his Fathers son, and Paul was an Apostle: but both the one and the other thought himself unworthy to be acknowledged such as they were.
CHrist is said to call them brethren. To *call, in this place, is not a meer nominall, titular or complementall word, but very emphaticall. It implieth an open acknowledgement of a thing, and a free profession thereof. Thus God saith of the Gentiles, I will call them my people, (Rom. 9. 25.) that is, I will before all the world declare and professe that they are my people, and acknowledge them for my own. Thus is this word taken,