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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 175: §. 175. Of Duties arising from 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.
§. 175. Of Duties arising from Christs Priesthood.
Such an Office, so excellent, so needful, so useful to us, as Christs Priesthood is, cannot but require much duty from us. By virtue thereof Christ gave himself for us. Do not we then owe our selves, and all that we have, and all that we can1 do, to Christ? But in special we ought so to account of Christ, and so to use him as the Jews did their High Priests.
SUch an Office, so excellent, so needfull, so usefull to us, as Christs Priesthood is, cannot but require much duty from us. By vertue thereof Christ gave himself for us. Do not we then owe our selves, and all that we have, and all that we can1 do, to Christ? But in speciall we ought so to account of Christ, and so to use him as the Jews did their Highpriests.
- 1Give all to Christ.
1. Negatively, they might not curse the Ruler of their people, (Exod. 22. 28