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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 138: §. 138. Of Saints being flesh and blood.
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.
Indeed transgression altered the good quality that was in mans body and soul: Namely the integrity, the holiness and righteousness in which he was created after Gods Image. So regeneration altereth mans evil disposition and corruption, wherein he was conceived and born: but not his outward condition or constitution. Whether he were tall or low, fat or lean, healthy or sickly, strong or weak, strait or crooked, fair or foul, rich or poor before his regeneration, he remains the same afterward, for ought that regeneration doth to the contrary.
The Lord will have his children to retain, as others, flesh and blood, and remain subject to all manner of infirmities, for sundry weighty reasons.
1. That they might not, by reason of any spiritual privileges, be too much puffed up: for the children, while here they live, are too prone thereunto, 2 Chro. 32. 25, 2 Cor. 12. 7. 2. That in Gods presence they might the more abase, yea and abhor themselves, Job 40. 4. & 42. 6. 3. That they might learn to lay forth their misery, and plead their weakness before God, Job 6. 12. ⟨p. 218⟩4. That they might take heed of provoking. Gods wrath against themselves, […] are but flesh and blood, Act. 9. 5. 5. That they might have the more compassion on others,