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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 7: §. 7. Of the Excellency, Utility and Necessity of being holy.
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.
§. 7. Of the Excellency, Utility and Necessity of being holy.
The Apostle could not have given unto them a more excellent attribute then this, Holy. For
THe Apostle could not have given unto them a more excellent attribute then this, Holy. For
1. There is nothing wherein a creature can be more like to his Creator, then in1 being holy. It is said that God at first created man in his own Image, (Gen. 1. 27.) This Image of God the Apostle expoundeth to be holiness, Eph. 4. 24. It is the greatest excellency that can be conferred on a creature, to be after the Image of his Creator: that is, like unto him. 2. Nothing so fits us for glory as holiness.2 Not Riches, For they profit not in the day of wrath, Prov. 11. 4. The rich man when he died, went to hell,