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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
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.
Heb. 8. 12. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins, and their iniquities will I remember no more.
Heb. 8. 12. For I will be mercifull to their unrighteousnesse, and their sins, and their iniquities will I remember no more.
The fourth promise and privilege is laid down in this verse. It is the justification of a sinner, consisting in the pardon of sins. This is a great one in it self: and it is laid down, as the ground and cause of all the rest. The conjunction of connection1 which is a causal particle FOR, or Because, implieth as much: so as Gods mercy in pardoning the sins of them whom he receiveth into the new covenant, is the cause of all other privileges of the new covenant. For this causal conjunction, because, hath reference to all, and every of the forementioned privileges. Because God is merciful in pardoning our sins, he putteth his law into our hearts, He is to us a God, and he teacheth us to know him. Thou hast (saith Hezekiah) in lov• to […] soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy •ack, Isa. 38. 17. He maketh Gods mercy in pardoning his sin, the cause of God• freeing him from destruction. The like reason doth God himself render of redeeming ⟨p. 280⟩his Church, Isa. 44. 22. Hence is it that David setteth this favour of God in the first place,