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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.
The call of God is twofold:1
- 1Distinct kinds of calling.
1. Outward, by the Ministry of the word; and that in a double respect. One on Gods part only, in offering the means: as when he sent forth his servants 1to call them that were bidden to the wedding, and they would not come, Matth. 22. 3. The other on mans part also, by an outward yielding to the call: as he that came to the wedding and had not on a wedding garment, Matth. 22. 11. In the former respect, all that hear the sound of the Gospel are called. In the later respect, all hypocrites that live in the Church and profess the faith, are called: as Cain, Ham, Saul, Judas, Demas, Ananias, Sapphira, and sundry others. 2. Inward, by the operation of the Spirit, who inwardly stirs up mens spirits2 heartily to accept Gods gracious invitation, and so to attend to Gods Word, as they do truly and savingly believe. Thus was Lydia called, Act. 16. 14.
1. Outward, by the Ministry of the word; and that in a double respect. One on Gods part only, in offering the means: as when he sent forth his servants 1to call them that were bidden to the wedding, and they would not come, Matth. 22. 3. The other on mans part also, by an outward yielding to the call: as he that came to the wedding and had not on a wedding garment,