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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 9 › Section 139: §. 139. Of Christs bearing mens sins.
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.
1. As sin was a debt and Christ our surety, that debt was imputed to him, thus was he made sin, 2 Cor. 5. 21. 2. He endured the punishment of sin. Thus was he made a curse, Gal. 3. 13. This he did to free us from sin and the punishment: thus we are said to be healed by his stripes, Esa. 53. 5. 1 Pet. 2. 24. and to be freed from the curse, Gal. 3. 13.
This also he did, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him, 2 Cor. 5. 21. O blessed change! Christ took upon him our sins, and freed us with his righteousness.
This also he did, that we might be made the righteousnesse of God in him, 2 Cor. 5. 21. O blessed change! Christ took upon him our sins, and freed us with his righteousnesse.
1. This burden of sin that lay on Christ should deeply humble us, who are the1 cause thereof. It was such a burden, as we had sunk everlastingly under the burden of it, if he had not born it. If ever thou wilt behold sin in the horribleness of it, behold it lying on the Lord Jesus, and making him lye gravelling on the ground, sweating drops of blood, praying thus, Father, if it be possible let this Cp pass, and crying, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me. It is something to behold sin forcing Adam out of Paradise, and pressing the evil Angels down to hell: and in the manifold judgements that God hath inflicted on sinners: and in the terrors of a despairing conscience: and in the tortures, and torments of the damned: but all these come far short of the burden that lay upon the Son of God, who knew no sin, and yet was made sin for us: who was the most blessed one, and yet was made a […] fo us.