A41670:1760
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 2 › Section 17: §. 17. Of the just punishment of transgressors.
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.
Transgression is said to receive a reward, because the transgressor receiveth it, and that for his transgression.
Transgression therefore, by a Metonymy of the effect, is put for a transgressor:1 A transgressor is said to receive the reward here intended, not as a willing act on his part: but as it is a due debt and so to be received: for punishment is as justly due to a transgressor, as any good reward to him that doth that which is required of him. Punishment is a satisfaction for a transgression, even as for a debt that is due: in which respect sins and transgressions are styled debts, Matth. 6. 12. and they on whom the punishment is inflicted, are in the dGreek and eLatin Dialect said to pay the punishment: because by enduring punishment a kind of satisfaction is made: and they who make the satisfaction, pay the debt. This payment doth not necessarily imply a voluntary act, but an act that is most due and just. The sense, the grief, the smart, the pain of a punishment or judgement lieth on him that is punished or judged. These therefore may well be said to receive the recompense that is or shall be inflicted. They that resist shall receive to themselves damnation, Rom. 13. 3. They cannot avoid it: will they nill they, they shall have it. He that is just in giving to every one their due, inflicts it.
Transgression therefore, by a Metonymy of the effect, is put for a transgressor:1 A transgressor is said to receive the reward here intended, not as a willing act on his part: but as it is a due debt and so to be received: for punishment is as justly due to a transgressor, as any good reward to him that doth that which is required of him. Punishment is a satisfaction for a transgression, even as for a debt that is due: in which respect sins and transgressions are stiled debts,