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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 2 › Section 174: §. 174. Of the excellency and benefits of Christs Priesthood.
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.
These two titles, High, Great, applied to Christ, as Priest, do imply that he was a most excellent Priest. Those titles simply taken, import an excellency. In reference to others, comparatively taken, they import a super-excellency above all others. Never was there, nor ever can there be such an excellent Priesthood as Christs was: which the Apostle in this Epistle proveth by sundry evidences.
THese two titles, High, Great, applied to Christ, as Priest, do imply that he was a most excellent Priest. Those titles simply taken, import an excellency. In reference to others, comparatively taken, they import a super-excellency above all others. Never was there, nor ever can there be such an excellent Priesthood as Christs was: which the Apostle in this Epistle proveth by sundry evidences.
1. The Dignity of his person. Christ was not only a son of man, but also the Son of God. Other Priests were mere sons of men, Heb. 7. 28. 2. The Purity of his nature. Christ was holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners: all other Priests were sinners, Heb. 7. 26, 27. 3. The Eminency of his order. Christ was a Priest after the order of Melchi• dech, Heb. 5. 6. None so but he. 4. The solemnity of his Ordination. Christ was made Priest with a sacred Oath: others without an Oath, Heb. 7. 20, 21. 5. The kind of his Priesthood. Christ was a true real Priest: others only typical or metaphorical. See §. 172. 6. The unchangeableness of his Office. Christs Priesthood was unchangeable: Others office passed from one to another, Heb. 7. 23, 24. 7. The everlastingness of his Priesthood. Christ abideth a Priest continually▪ others were not suffered to continue by reason of death,