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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 185: §. 185. Of the temptations whereunto men are subject.
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.
These are tempted as Christ himself was,
1. By God, to prove them, as Abraham was, Gen. 22. 1. Or to manifest that grace which God hath bestowed on them, as Job was, Job 1. 7. or to discover corruptions in them, as Hezekiah was, 2 Chro. 32. 31. 2. By Satan, and that always to sin, 2 Cor. 11. 3. 3. By good men, upon a mistake of doing good, Act. 21. 12. 4. By evil ones, as Joseph was tempted by his Mistress; Gen. 39. 7. 5. By a mans own self, Jam. 1. 14. A man tempts himself sometimes by overmuch confidence and boldness, Matth. 14. 28, 29. And sometimes by too much diffidence, Gal. 2. 12.
1. By God, to prove them, as Abraham was, Gen. 22. 1. Or to manifest that grace which God hath bestowed on them, as Iob was, Iob 1. 7. or to discover corruptions in them, as Hezekiah was, 2 Chro. 32. 31. 2. By Satan, and that alwaies to sin, 2 Cor. 11. 3