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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 179: §. 179. Of things pertaining unto God.
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. The things wherein God had to do with his people, namely, in making known Gods mind and will to them. This he did in Gods Name so as he stood in Gods room therein. So he pronounced pardon of sin unto them in Gods Name, and blessed them in Gods Name, Num. 6. 23. 2. The things wherein the people had to do with God. All their services which they performed to God, and Sacrifices which they offered up unto God, were to be tendered to God by a Priest, Lev. 5. 8. &c. Of those particular services and sacrifice• •re §. 175.
1. The things wherein God had to do with his people, namely, in making known Gods minde and will to them. This he did in Gods Name so as he stood in Gods room therein. So he pronounced pardon of sin unto them in Gods Name, and blessed them in Gods Name, Num. 6. 23. 2. The things wherein the people had to do with God. All their services which they performed to God, and Sacrifices which they offered up unto God, were to be tendred to God by a Priest, Lev. 5. 8. &c. Of those particular services and sacrifice• •re §. 175.
There was an absolute necessity of a Priest to be for man in things appertaining unto God upon these Reasons.
1. The infinite disparity which is between God and man. God is of infinite glory