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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 19: §. 19. Of sundry uses 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.
§. 19. Of sundry uses of Saints Calling.
This point of the heavenly Calling of Saints affords matter of Confutation, Humiliation, Reprehension, Admiration, Gratulation, Consolation, Direction, Exhortation.
THis point of the heavenly Calling of Saints affords matter of Consutation, Humiliation, Reprehension, Admiration, Gratulation, Consolation, Direction, Exhortation.
1. The error of attributing such free will to man in his corrupt estate, as to be1 able thereupon to turn from darkness to light, is confuted, in that unless God both outwardly by his Word, and inwardly by his spirit call him, he cannot come. No man can come to me, (saith Christ) except the Father draw him, Joh. 6. 44. The word calling refutes another error about the universality of it. For we are called out from others. 2. That woeful plight wherein our selves were before our calling: and wherein2 others still lie which are not yet called, gives great matter of Humiliation: For it is an estate of darkness and death, under the power of sin and Satan. 3. Sundry sorts are upon this call of God to be taxed. As,