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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.
1. By a Metonymy of the Subject. The Altar is put for the Sacrifice laid thereon. This is evident by the act of eating attributed thereto, thus, We have an Altar whereof they have no right to eat. The Israelites did eat of the Sacrifice, not of the Altar. Thus metonymically is Altar used in these phrases, They are […] with the Altar: and partakers of the Altar, 1 Cor. 9. 13. & 10. 18. that is, of the Sacrifices offered upon the Altar. 2. By a Synecdochy, one of the legal Rites, namely, Altar, is put for all the rest: as meats were, §. 119. 3. By a Metonymy of the Adjunct, a type is put for the truth, a shadow for the substance, an earthy Altar and Sacrifice for the celestial Altar and Sacrifice, which is Jesus Christ. Thus much may be inferred from the singular number Altar, here used, not Altars. The Apostle maketh a like collection from the word, seed, in the singular number, thus, He saith not, And to seeds, as of many, but as of one, and to thy seed, which is Christ, Gal. 3. 16.
1. By a Metonymy of the Subject. The Altar is put for the Sacrifice laid thereon. This is evident by the act of eating attributed thereto, thus, We have an Altar whereof they have no right to eat. The Israelites did eat of the Sacrifice, not of the Altar. Thus metonymically is Altar used in these phrases, They are 〈…〉 with the Altar: and partakers of the Altar, 1 Cor. 9. 13. & 10. 18. that is, of the Sacrifices offered upon the Altar. 2. By a Synecdochy, one of the legal Rites, namely, Altar, is put for all the rest: as meats were, §. 119. 3. By a Metonymy of the Adjunct, a type is put for the truth, a shadow for the substance, an earthy Altar and Sacrifice for the celestial Altar and Sacrifice, which is Jesus Christ. Thus much may be inferred from the singular number Altar, here used, not Altars. The Apostle maketh a like collection from the word, seed, in the singular number, thus, He saith not, And to seeds, as of many, but as of one, and to thy seed, which is Christ,