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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.
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 glory1 and Majesty, and dwells in that light that no man can approach unto, 1 Tim. 6. 16▪ Man is but dust and ashes, Gen. 18. 27. 2. The direct enmity in disposition that is between God and man, Rom. 5. 10▪ Col. 1. 21. 3. The plain contrariety in condition between God and man, God being mo• pure and holy, man most polluted and unholy.
1. The infinite disparity which is between God and man. God is of infinite glory1 and Majesty, and dwels in that light that no man can approach unto, 1 Tim. 6. 16▪ Man is but dust and ashes, Gen. 18. 27. 2. The direct enmi•y in disposition that is between God and man, Rom. 5. 10▪