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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
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.
§. 28. Of our sins purged by Christ.
§. 28. Of our sinnes purged by Christ.
TO discover the filth that by Christ is purged away, the purgation here mentioned is styled a purgation oof sins. Sin is the worst filth that ever besmeared a creature: It makes the creature loathsome and odious in Gods sight: It makes it most wretched and cursed; for it pulleth upon the sinner Gods wrath which is an unsupportable burden, and presseth the soul down to hell. By sin Angels of light became Devils: and by reason of sin they are called foul and unclean spirits, 2Mark. 9. 25. Rev. 18. 2. Matth. 10. 1. By purging away this kind of filth, Christs sacrifice is distinguished from all the legal sacrifices and purifications: none of them could purge away sin. Sin makes too deep a stain even into the very soul of man, to be purged away by any external and earthly thing. That which the Apostle saith (Heb. 10. 4.) of the blood of Bulls and Goats, which were the greatest and most efficacious sacrifices of the Law, may be said of all external means of purifying: It is not possible that they should take away sins. Therefore they are said to sanctify to the purifying of the flesh (Heb. 9. 13.) not to the purifying of the soul.
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