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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 › Section 144: §. 144. Of Christs everlasting continuance as he is Mediator.
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.
§. 144. Of Christs everlasting continuance as he is Mediator.
AS by way of resemblance this description of everlastingness, Thy years shall not fail, may be applied to the deity of Christ, so most properly to his humane nature, to his Mediatorship, as he was God-man; To all his offices, to the merit, virtue, and efficacy of all that he did and endured for mans redemption, to his mystical body, and to the gifts and graces which he bestoweth on his members.
AS by way of resemblance this description of everlastingnesse, Thy years shall not fail, may be applied to the deity of Christ, so most properly to his humane nature, to his Mediatorship, as he was God-man; To all his offices, to the merit, virtue, and efficacy of all that he did and endured for mans redemption, to his mysticall body, and to the gifts and graces which he bestoweth on his members.
1. In regard of his humane nature, his years shall not fail, in that being raised from the dead he dieth no more, Rom. 6. 9. He continueth ever, He ever-liveth, Heb. 7. 24, 25. 2. As Mediator he is said to live ever to make intercession for us,