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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 181: §. 181. Of the people for whom reconciliation is made.
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.
By people are here meant the whole number of Gods elect, for whom God hath entered into a New Covenant in and with Christ, of whom God saith, Th• art my people, Hos. 2. 23. These are styled The people.
By people are here meant the whole number of Gods elect, for whom God hath entred into a New Covenant in and with Christ, of whom God saith, Th• art my people, Hos. 2. 23. These are stiled The people.
1. In allusion to the custom of Priests under the Law who made an atonement for the people, Num. 16. 47. 2. By way of exclusion, to show that the reconciliation were not for his own sins but for the sins of others, which are styled the people: Herein Christ the true High-Priest differed from the High-Priest under the Law, who made atonement for himself and for the people, Lev. 16. 24. But Christ for the people alone. 3. For limitation sake; To show that Christ made not reconciliation for all and every man, but only for such as may be comprised under this word the people, which is restrained by this relative HIS, his people, Mat. 1. 21.
1. In allusion to the custome of Priests under the Law who made an atonement for the people, Num. 16. 47. 2. By way of exclusion, to shew that the reconciliation were not for his own sins but for the sins of others, which are stiled the people: Herein Christ the true High-Priest differed from the High-Priest under the Law, who made atonement for himself and for the people,