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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.
All and every the forementioned points, have been before handled in this Epistle: […] is evident by the several references before mentioned; but the Apostle thought that he could not strike too much upon this string; for questionless these Hebrews,1 though they professed the Christian faith, stood too much upon the necessity of legal rites. The like earnestness against them is manifested in the Epistle to the Ro•. Chap. 3. & 4. and to the Galatians throughout the whole Epistle: the like […] doth the Prophet Jeremiah manifest against the superstition of the Jews in his time. Jer. 7. 4. &c. And another Prophet against their Idolatry. Isa. 40 18. &c. So other Prophets; and Christ himself against sundry superstitions of the Pharisees. Mat. •3. 13. &c.
All and every the forementioned points, have been before handled in this Epistle: 〈…〉 is evident by the several references before mentioned; but the Apostle thought that he could not strike too much upon this string; for questionlesse these Hebrews,1 though they professed the Christian faith, stood too much upon the necessity of legall rites. The like earnestnesse against them is manifested in the Epistle to the Ro•. Chap. 3. & 4. and to the Galathians throughout the whole Epistle: the like 〈…〉 doth the Prophet Ieremy manifest against the superstition of the Jews in his time. Ier. 7. 4. &c. And another Prophet against their Idolatry. Isa. 40 18. &c. So other Prophets; and Christ himself against sundry superstitions of the Pharisees. Mat. •3. 13. &c.
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