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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.
§. 178. Of Christs mercifulness and faithfulness meeting together.
§. 178. Of Christs mercifulnesse and faithfulnesse meeting together.
These two Attributes, Merciful, Faithful, are joined together by this copulative and, which showeth that he who was merciful in regard of his in•d disposition (and thereupon had compassion on those who were in misery) was also faithful in succouring such as he pitied. He did not love in word neither in tongue only, but in deed and truth, 1 Joh. 3. 18. He did not say to such as he pitied, Depart in peac• be you warmed and filled: but he gave them those things that are needful for them; He was merciful and faithful; His mercifulness was the ground of his faithfulness, and his faithfulness was an evidence of his mercifulness; A• there was a readiness in him to will by reason of his mercifulness, so there was a performance also out of that which he had (according to the advice of the Apostle 2 Cor. 8. 11.) by reason of his faithfulness. This is plainly se• forth in th• Parable of the Samaritan, who doth lively set forth Christ himself; That Samaritan saw a man stripped of his raiment, wounded and left half dead, thereupon he had compassion on him, this showed him to be merciful; Upon this he went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and took further care of him, this showed him to be faithful,