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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.
If the Priest himself had been slain, his blood could not have purged himself, or1 any others from sin. For,
- 1Why Priests offered not themselves.
1. He was a man, and in that respect a sinner. 2. His blood was too mean a price, to redeem another, Psal. 49. 7. 3. He could not have carried his own blood when he was dead. 4. If a Priest should have offered himself for others, who would have been a Priest? For scarcely for a righteous man will one die, Rom. 5. 7. 5. It would have been counted a cruel law for a Priest to shed his own blood.
Herein we have an evidence of Gods tender respect to man in sparing his blood. Though man were ordained a Priest to typify Christs Priest hood: though man in that function were to appear before God: though he were to bear their names, yea and their sins, Exod. 28. 38. (all which Christ did:) yet when it came to the shedding of his blood, (as Christ did his) therein God spared him, and accepted the blood of beasts: as he accepted the Ram for Isaac, Gen. 22. 13.
Herein we have an evidence of Gods tender respect to man in sparing his blood. Though man were ordained a Priest to typifie Christs Priest hood: though man in that function were to appeare before God: though he were to beare their names, yea and their sins,