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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.
Obj. How was it then that mere men were Priests in things pertaining unto God?
Obj. How was it then that meer men were Priests in things pertaining unto God?
Answ. The Priests under the Law were not properly but only typically in things pertaining unto God.
They entered not into the glorious presence of God, but only into the holy place made with hands, which was a representation thereof. They did not properly present the prayers of people to God, but only were a type of him that did it. The Sacrifices which they offered up did not properly take away sin, but were types of that Sacrifice which did it. The truth of all the things wherein those Priests had to do with God were accomplished in Christ, who though he were a true man yet was he not a mere man, but God also, and so became a man fit to be in things pertaining to God: Christ therefore alone is that true High-Priest that is for man in things pertaining to God.
They entred not into the glorious presence of God, but only into the holy place made with hands, which was a representation thereof. They did not properly present the praiers of people to God, but only were a type of him that did it. The Sacrifices which they offered up did not properly take away sin, but were types of that Sacrifice which did it. The truth of all the things wherein those Priests had to do with God were accompl•shed in Christ, who though he were a true man yet was he not a meer man, but God also, and so became a man fit to be in things pertaining to God: Christ therefore alone is that true High-Priest that is for man in things pertaining to God.