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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 26: §. 26. Of Gods will, the ground of the efficacy of Christs sacrifice.
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.
That which the Apostle intimated in this general phrase, establish the second, he doth here in express terms declare: namely, that it was the body of Christ which was that sacrifice wherein God resteth well pleased, and thereupon it is established for ever.
THat which the Apostle intimated in this general phrase, establish the second, he doth here in expresse termes declare: namely, that it was the body of Christ which was that sacrifice wherein God resteth well pleased, and thereupon it is established for ever.
In this first clause, by the which will, The relative awhich hath reference to that which goeth before. In the seventh verse this very word, bwill is used, and applied to God the Father. But withal there is intimation given of Christs will, in ⟨p. 442⟩that he said, Lo I come. This giveth evidence, even of the will of Christ himself: So as I would exclude neither the one nor the other: for they both agree in one, and by both of them is the foresaid sacrifice made perfect. The will of the Father was the cause of Christs being made a sacrifice: and because it was the will of the Father, that his Son should be a sacrifice, the Son willingly offered himself. Hereupon saith Christ, I came down from heaven, to do the will of him that sent me. Indeed he there inserteth this negative, not to do mine own will, but that is intended exclusively, as if he had said, not mine own will alone; or in way of opposition, if in any case it could be so, that Christs will should be against the will of his Father; as where it is said, not as I will, but as thou wilt, Matth. 26. 39.
In this first clause, by the which will, The relative