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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 3 › Section 6: § 6. Of the causes of mens being holy, and of calling them so.
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.
Besides he giveth this title indefinitely, so as they that are truly holy might apply it to themselves. For a Sermon may be preached, or a Letter written to a whole assembly without manifesting any difference betwixt person and person, when that which is preached or written is specially intended to those who in truth are such as they profess themselves to be.
This is not to justify the wicked, for that is an abomination, Prov. 17. 15. And a1 •o is denounced against them that call evil good, Isa. 5. 20. When matters are apparent, judgement must answerably be given. Love makes not men blind. When men are plainly discerned to be unholy, to call them holy is not to think or speak the best, but the worst. But when we see nothing to the contrary, then are we to judge the best of Professors. It is better to judge an hypocrite upright (if we know him not to be an hypocrite) then an upright man an hypocrite. For we may well judge otherwise then the truth is, so we judge not otherwise then love requireth.
This is not to justifie the wicked, for that is an abomination, Prov. 17. 15. And a1 •o is denounced against them that call evil good, Isa. 5. 20. When matters are apparent, judgement must answerably be given. Love makes not men blinde. When men are plainly discerned to be unholy, to call them holy is not to think or speak the best, but the worst. But when we see nothing to the contrary, then are we to judge the best of Professors. It is better to judge an hypocrite upright (if we know him not to be an hypocrite) then an upright man an hypocrite. For we may well judge otherwise then the truth is, so we judge not otherwise then love requireth.