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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
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.
This demonstrateth the great danger and damage of reviving Jewish ceremonies. They are not only idle and unprofitable, but mischievous and deadly: they do not only no good, but are un-utterably hurtful. They deprive such, as trust unto them, of the most rich and precious jewel that ever the world had. What the Apostle said of circumcision, may be applied to all legal types and rites, If ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing, Gal. 5. 2. Can a Christian think it a small damage to have Christ made unprofitable and of no use unto him? Well may this infe•ce be made, he taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. Christs sacrifice cannot be established unless they be abrogated. Christs sacrifice was not added to those former, as if they standing could confer any help to Christ: but when Christ was to be established, they were taken away.
This demonstrateth the great danger and damage of reviving Jewish ceremonies. They are not only idle and unprofitable, but mischievous and deadly: they do not only no good, but are un-utterably hurtfull. They deprive such, as trust unto them, of the most rich and precious jewel that ever the world had. What the Apostle said of circumcision, may be applyed to all legal types and rites, If ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing, Gal. 5. 2. Can a Christian think it a small dammage to have Christ made unprofitable and of no use unto him? Well may this infe•ce be made, he taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. Christs sacrifice cannot be established unlesse they be abrogated. Christs sacrifice was not added to those former, as if they standing could confer any help to Christ: but when Christ was to be established, they were taken away.
The manner of bringing in Christs sacrifice upon the rejecting of the legal sacrifices,1