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 ...

§. 94. Of the Coherence of vers. 7. with the former.

Verse 7.

Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the Word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conver∣sation.

IN this verse is laid down a fourth duty to be performed to others. (See §. 1.) Those others are Ministers: so as the duties enjoyned in this verse are branches or the fift Commandment. Though the duties be distinct in themselves: yet they have reference to those that go before.

• 1. They may have a generall reference to all the forementioned duties. For their teachers had well instructed them in all. Therefore by remembring their teachers, they might be the better directed, and incited to them.
• 2. They may have a particular and more immediate reference to the virtues mentioned in the verse immediately going before, which were confidence and courage. For by remembring the doctrine and practice of their teachers, who had well instructed them in the grounds of both, and sealed up their doctrine by being themselves a pattern even unto death, they could not but be much established thereby.