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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.
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. Lev. 16. 11, 15. These •ere called sin offerings, because they were types of Christs sacrifice, which did indeed take away sin; but they themselves could not: and that by reason of the disproportion betwixt the means of cleansing on the one side, and the thing cleansed together with the filth cleansed away on the other side.
Under these two Creatures, Bulls and Goats, all other clean Creatures, that were offered up for sacrifices, are synecdochically comprized; 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. Lev. 16. 11, 15. These •ere called sin offerings, because they were types of Christs sacrifice, which did indeed take away sin; but they themselves could not: and that by reason of the disproportion betwixt the means of cleansing on the one side, and the thing cleansed together with the filth cleansed away on the other side.
The means were merely external, earthly and carnal: namely, the blood of Beasts.
The means were meerly external, earthly and carnal: namely, the blood of Beasts.