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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 9: §. 9. Of the impotency of external rites about spiritual matters.
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§. 9. Of the impotency of external rites about spiritual matters.
Heb. 10. 4. For it is not possible that the blood of Bulls and of Goats should take away sin.
This verse may be taken as a distinct argument to confirm the impotency of the legal sacrifices, because they consisted of the blood of brute Beasts, which could not expiate sin. Or it may have immediate reference to the third verse, as showing a reason, why in those sacrifices there was a remembrance again of sin: namely, because those sacrifices were of brute beasts, which could not take away sin: so as sin remained notwithstanding those sacrifices: and therefore there was a remembrance again of them.
THis verse may be taken as a distinct argument to confirm the impotency of the legal sacrifices, because they consisted of the blood of bruit Beasts, which could not expiate sin. Or it may have immediate reference to the third verse, as shewing a reason, why in those sacrifices there was a remembrance again of sin: namely, because those sacrifices were of bruit beasts, which could not take away sin: so as sin remained notwithstanding those sacrifices: and therefore there was a remembrance again of them.