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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.
No mere creature was capable of these requisites.
No meer creature was capable of these requisites.
Finally a true Priest must be a Mediator betwixt God and man. He must be fit1 and able to appear before God (Heb. 8. 1.) And such an one as men may appear before him, Heb. 4. 15, 16. In this respect an Hypostatical union of the Divine and humane nature in one person, was requisite for a true Priest. This could none be, but Jesus Christ, God-man, Immanuel, God manifested in the flesh, 1 Tim. 3. 16. By2 virtue of this union, Christ himself was all in all. As man he was a fit sacrifice: He gave himself an offering and a sacrifice, Eph. 5. 2. As God he was the Altar that sanctified that Sacrifice: for the Altar sanctifieth the gift, Matth. 23. 19. As Godman3 in one person, he was the Priest that offered that Sacrifice upon that Altar: Through the eternal spirit he offered himself, Heb. 9. 14.
Finally a true Priest must be a Mediator betwixt God and man. He must be fit1 and able to appear before God (