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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 2 › Section 108: §. 108. Of Christs not being ashamed of his brethren.
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.
This pattern of Christ is the rather to be noted because it stripped such as are ashamed1 of their relations to others, of all excuse. Some husbands are ashamed of their wives when they are raised to high dignities: some children in like cases are ashamed of their parents: some servants of their Masters: and so in other relations. Can any be more highly advanced then Christ? Some are ashamed of the ⟨p. 196⟩meanness and disparity of those to whom by some bond of relation they are knit: might not Christ have been in this respect much more ashamed of us?
This pattern of Christ is the rather to be noted because it stript such as are ashamed1 of their relations to others, of all excuse. Some husbands are ashamed of their wives when they are raised to high dignities: some children in like cases are ashamed of their parents: some servants of their Masters: and so in other relations. Can any be more highly advanced then Christ? Some are ashamed of the ⟨p. 196⟩meannesse and disparity of those to whom by some bond of relation they are knit: might not Christ have been in this respect much more ashamed of us?
- 1It is a shame to be ashamed of alliance.
But what shall we say of those that are ashamed of Christs brethren, even in this1 respect, because they are his brethren, and make a sincere profession of the true faith? O more then monstrous impudency! Yet thus are husbands, wives, parents, children, and others ashamed of their wives, husbands, children, parents and others, even because they profess the faith and are called Christs brethren.