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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 10: §. 10. Of the resolution of Heb. Chap. 10. V. 1, 2, 3, 4.
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.
Verse 1. The sum of these four verses is, A Declaration of the impotency of the Law.
Verse 1. THe sum of these four verses is, A Declaration of the impotency of the Law.
This is set out four ways.
This is set out four wayes.
1. By the end or use of the Law, v. 1. Here-about are set down, 1. The use it self. 2. A consequence following thereupon. The use is propounded two ways. 1. Affirmatively. 2. Negatively. The affirmative manifesteth. 1. The meanness of the use, in this word, shadow. 2. An excellency in that meanness, in this phrase, of good things to come. The negative removeth from the law a special excellency, in this phrase, Not the very Image of the things. The consequence is, that it could not make perfect. This is amplified. 1. By the means which could not do it, The sacrifices. These are described, 1. By the Act done, offered. 2. By the time when; This in two branches, 1. Year by year. 2. Continually. 2. By the persons whom they could not make perfect, the comers thereunto.
1. By the end or use of the Law, v. 1. Here-about are set down, 1. The use it self. 2. A consequence following thereupon. The use is propounded two wayes. 1. Affirmatively. 2. Negatively. The affirmative manifesteth. 1. The meannesse of the use, in this word, shadow. 2. An excellency in that meannesse, in this phrase, of good things to come. The negative removeth from the law a speciall excellency, in this phrase, Not the very Image of the things. The consequence is, that it could not make perfect. This is amplified. 1. By the meanes which could not do it, The sacrifices. These are described, 1. By the Act done, offered. 2. By the time when; This in two branches, 1. Year by year. 2. Continually. 2. By the persons whom they could not make perfect, the commers thereunto.