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 ...

§. 183. Of the Resolution and Observations of Heb. 13. 22.

THe Summe of this verse is, A Direction for profiting by the Ministry of the Word.

We may observe,

• 1. The Inference of it upon that which went before, in this particle, AND, or BUT.
• 2. The Substance of it.

In the Substance is set down,

• 1. The Matter.
• 2. A Motive to enforce it.

In the Matter, there is considerable,

• 1. A thing desired.
• 2. The manner of desiring it.

The Manner is first propounded; and that in two branches,

• 1. A milde request, We beseech you.
• 2. The thing desired.

Herein we may distinguish,

• 1. An Act desired, Suffer.
• 2. The Subject of that desire, The word of Exhortation.

The Motive is taken from the brevity of that Word which he would have them to suffer; For I have written to you in few words.

Observations.

• I. To Gods work mans endeavour must be added. He had before prayed, that God would work in them. Here he requireth an endeavour on their part. See §. 180.
• II. What Ministers desire for themselves they must endeavour for their people. He did before beseech them to pray for him, v. 19. Here he beseecheth them to look to their own good. See §. 180.
• III. Directions are to be enforced with all mildenesse. Here the Apostle beseecheth that which he had power to command. See §. 108.
• IV. Ministers and people are as brethren. So the Apostle styleth here the people under his charge. See §. 180.
• V. To instructions exhortations are to be added. The word Exhortation implieth as much. See §. 180.
• VI. The Word delivered by Gods Minister is with much patience to be received. This word suffer, intends as much. See §. 180.
• VII. A Minister pressing only such things as are most necessary should make people the more to regard them. See §. 182.
• VIII. Larger exhortations out of brief fundamentall Points, are patient∣ly to be endured. These two last points arise out of the last words of the verse. See §. 182.