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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.
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.
(b) The word translated, not possible, is the very same that is translated impossible. Chap. 6. v. 18. §. 141.
Of the derivation, and divers acceptions of the Greek word. See chap. 6. §. 38.
Here it is taken for an impossibility, in regard of an impotency in the nature of the thing it self. There is such an impotency in the blood of beasts, as it is impossible that sin should be taken away thereby.
By blood he meaneth that which was shed when the beasts were offered up for sacrifices: whereby was typified, the blood and death of the Lord Jesus.
Under these two Creatures, Bulls and Goats, all other clean Creatures, that were offered up for sacrifices, are synecdochically comprised; for they were all of the same kind. These two are here mentioned in reference to the solemn annual sacrifice that was offered up for sin, on the day of reconciliation.