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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 133: §. 133. Of restraining the benefit of Christs Offices to the Elect.
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.
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1. Because these cannot be discerned one from the other here in th• world. 2. Because these are here in this world mixed together as wheat and chaff in the Barn. 3. To make the reprobate the more inexcusable.
By the efficacy of the Gospel men may know that they are the Elect of God▪ ⟨p. 213⟩given to Christ, and shall be eternally saved.
They who reap any benefit by the Ministry of the Gospel, ought not to attribute it to any wit, wisdom, conceit, memory, or other parts of their own: but only to the good pleasure and gift of God. The praise which Christ gave to his Father in the behalf of babes, (Matth. 11. 25.) must such as are effectually wrought upon much more give unto God in behalf of themselves, and say, Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy Name give glory,