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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.
§. 12. Of Directions to be Holy.
That we may be such holy brethren as are here set down,
THat we may be such holy brethren as are here set down,
1. Be well informed in the nature of holiness: For superstition, hypocrisy, yea and idolatry it self make pretence of holiness. If the mark be mistaken, the more pains we take and diligence we use▪ the further we shall be off from it. The faster a traveller goes in a wrong way, the farther he may be from the place to which he desires to go. The Jews being ignorant of Gods righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, were farthest off from true holiness. See §. 6. of the holiness here meant. 2. Cleanse your selves fro• all filthiness of the flesh and spirit. Thus may you perfect ⟨p. 266⟩holiness in the fear of God, 2 Cor. 7. 1. It is a course which all of all sorts observe for perfecting of a thing; namely, first to remove the impediments: thus Physicians purge our peccant humours: Chirurgeons draw out festering matter: Husbandmen sack up broom, briars, thorns, and all noisome weeds: Every man […] striveth so the mastery, is temperate in all things, (