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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 14: §. 14. Of the Causes and Effects of Saints Calling.
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.
2. The procuring cause is Gods free grace and rich mercy. For he hath called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, 2 Tim. 1. 9. Men before their calling are dead in sin, (Eph. 2. 1.) and were alienated from the life of God, Eph. 4. 18. If God of his mere mercy and free grace did not call them, they would not, they could not turn to him. bMen at their first calling are mere patients: They have not such ears as can hear Gods call, nor such eyes as can see the excellency of that calling, nor such feet as can carry them to him that calls, nor such hands as can receive the good things that are ⟨p. 268⟩offered by that calling. It is God that openeth ears, enlighteneth eyes, and enableth other parts to employ aright their distinct Functions toward the effecting of this great work, It is God which worketh in you both to will and to do, Phil. 2. 13. God first puts life into them that are dead, and then affords continual assisting grace for persisting and persevering in that Christian course whereunto they are called.
2. The procuring cause is Gods free grace and rich mercy. For he hath called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, 2 Tim. 1. 9. Men before their calling are dead in sinne, (Eph. 2. 1.) and were alienated from the life of God, Eph. 4. 18. If God of his meer mercy and free grace did not call them, they would not, they could not turn to him. b