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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.
3. The instrumental causes which God useth for the effecting this great work,1 are Ministers of his Word. These are those Servants whom he sends forth to call men, Mat. 22. 3. By their preaching of the Word both that woeful estate wherein men lie by nature is discovered, and also that excellent and blessed estate, whereunto they are called, is made known; The former is ordinarily done by preaching Law, whereby is the knowledge of sin, Rom. 3. 20. and 7. 7. Hence ariseth sight and sense of sin, grief, horror, and despair for the same.
3. The instrumental causes which God useth for the effecting this great work,1 are Ministers of his Word. These are those Servants whom he sends forth to call men, Mat. 22. 3. By their preaching of the Word both that wofull estate wherein men lie by nature is discovered, and also that excellent and blessed estate, whereunto they are called, is made known; The former is ordinarily done by preaching Law, whereby is the knowledge of sin, Rom. 3. 20. and 7. 7. Hence ariseth sight and sense of sin, grief, horrour, and despair for the same.
- 1Instrumental causes.
The latter by preaching the Gospel, which is the power of God unto Salvation, to every one that believeth,