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 ...

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Title: 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 ...
Author: Gouge, William, 1578-1653.
Publication: London :: Printed by A.M., T.W. and S.G. for Joshua Kirton,; 1655.
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§. 99. Of that Faith which is to be followed.

ONe particular wherein the foresaid Guides are to be remembred, is thus set down, Whose faith follow.

Of faith in generall as it is a gift of God, or grace whereby we are justified, and saved, I have at large discoursed in the Whole Armour of God, on Eph. 6. 16. Treat. 2. Part. 6. §. 11, &c.

This word Faith must in this place be taken for something that may be heard or seen, and in that respect imitable; namely for the doctrine of faith, (Rom. 1. 5.) or profession of faith, (Act. 14. 22. Rom. 1. 8.) or effects and fruits of faith, (Iam. 2. 14, 18.) or for fidelity and faithfulness, (Matth. 23. 23.) Our English Translators do turn the Greek word, which properly signifieth faith, into fidelity, Tit. 2. 10.

Either, or every of these significations may here not unfitly be intended. For when obedience is yielded to the doctrine of faith, which Ministers preach; or when people conform themselves to that profession of the faith which their Mini∣sters do: or when they shew forth such fruits of faith as they do; or are faithfull in their own place, as their Ministers were in their own, then they follow the faith of their Guides.

The Apostle setteth out the object of Christians imitation, under this word Faith.

1. Because faith is a mother grace, a breeding grace. All the acts of Gods an∣cient Worthies are produced as acts of faith, Heb. 11.
2. Because faith is that grace that makes all things acceptable. Without faith it is impossible to please God, Heb. 11. 6.
3. Because God is most glorified by the faith of his servants.
4. Because, in regard of mans good, faith is the most necessary, profitable, and comfortable grace. Of the glory which faith brings to God, and good to man, See The whole Armour of God, on Eph. 6. 16. Of Faith. §. 7, 8.