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 ...
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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 ...
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Gouge, William, 1578-1653.
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London :: Printed by A.M., T.W. and S.G. for Joshua Kirton,
1655.
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Bible. -- N.T. -- Hebrews -- Commentaries.
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"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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A41670.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.
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§. 83. Of having a great Highpriest.
MOst of the particulars here laid down about Christs Priesthood have been be∣fore handled: as, that Christ is a Priest, an high Priest, and a great High∣priest. Of these see Chap. 2. v. 17. §. 172, 173, &c.
We are said to a 1.1have this Priest in sundry respects.
1. In that God the Father gave him to us by promise, Gen 3. 15.
2. In that Christ is actually exhibited, being come down from heaven, having assumed our nature (in which respect he is taken from among men) and in our na∣ture done and endured whatsoever as a Priest he was to do and endure.
3. In that by the Ministry of the Gospel he is offered and tendred unto us, Gal. 3. 1.
4. In that we professe to believe in him, and thereby take him for our Priest, (if
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at least we do indeed believe as we professe.) For to believe in Christ is to receive him, Ioh. 1. 12.
Thus we see that this word having, carrieth emphasis; and is much more then if he had said, Seeing there is, &c. This implieth a right to him, and a kinde of pos∣session of him.
This is a great priviledge thus to have such a Priest, such an high Priest, so great an high Priest. All men have not this Priest.
How should we esteem him? how carefull should we be to use him as our Priest? See Chap. 7. v. 17. §. 175.
O let not that be verified in us, which the wise man thus hinteth of a fool, Where∣fore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it? Pro. 17. 16.
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