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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 10 › Section 3: §. 3. Of the insufficiency of legal sacrifices to make perfect.
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.
§. 3. Of the insufficiency of legal sacrifices to make perfect.
From the foresaid nature of the Law, set down affirmatively under the metaphor of a shadow, and negatively, not the very image, and from the use of the Law, which was to foreshow good things to come, the Apostle inferreth the main conclusion about the impotency of the Law, that it can never make perfect. No not those who came to it, and observed the rites thereof. The principal whereof were sacrifices, and those offered up, and that year by year continually.
FRom the foresaid nature of the Law, set down affirmatively under the metaphor of a shadow, and negatively, not the very image, and from the use of the Law, which was to foreshew good things to come, the Apostle inferreth the main conclusion about the impotency of the Law, that it can never make perfect. No not those who came to it, and observed the rites thereof. The principall whereof were sacrifices, and those offered up, and that year by year continually.
To make perfect, is to work such grace in one, as may bring him to glory: this1 the Law could not do, see Chap. 7. v. 19. §. 86.
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