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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 › Section 123: §. 123. Of the preheminency of Christs gifts above others.
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.
Christ is an head from whom the members must be supplied, so as he receives not for himself alone, but for his whole body. Of his fullness have we all received, and grace for grace, Joh. 1. 16.
Christ is an head from whom the members must be supplied, so as he receives not for himself alone, but for his whole body. Of his fulness have we all received, and grace for grace, Joh. 1. 16.
Particular members of the mystical body may have the fullness of vessels, but this is the fullness of a fountain.
Particular members of the mysticall body may have the fulnesse of vessels, but this is the fulness of a fountain.
Here lieth a main difference between the Mediator and mere men: The most that can be said of the best of them is, that they have but enough for themselves, as the wise Virgins said, Mat. 25. 9. Christ alone is that overflowing Spring who hath enough for all others, Joh. 1. 16.
Here lieth a main difference between the Mediatour and meer men: The most that can be said of the best of them is, that they have but enough for themselves, as the wise Virgins said, Mat. 25. 9. Christ alone is that overflowing Spring who hath enough for all others,