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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"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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§. 51. Of Instructions raised from the Identitie of the covenant of grace distinguished into the old and new.
THe Identity of the covenant of grace distinguished into old and new, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 us in sundry principles.
1. That the efficacy of Christs merit is everlasting: even from that time, wherein* 1.1 he was first promised, Gen. 3. 15. Therefore there were Sacrifices from the begin∣ning (Gen. 4. 4.) to typifie Christs Sacrifice. It is said of the law, and of all the types thereof, that they were a shadow of things to come, but the body is of Christ, Col. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 17. Heb. 10. 1. If by vertue of the everlasting merit of Christ, they who lived be∣fore
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he was exhibited, might in faith rest thereon: how much more may we? how much more ought we with strong confidence rest thereon? Heb. 9. 13, 14.* 1.2
2. That there is the same extent of the Sacrament of initiation under the new corenant, as was under the old. If infants might partake of the Sacrament of rege∣•…•… before Christ was exhibited, then much more since. That which the A∣postle saith of the Ark, in relation to Baptisme (1 Pet. 3. 21.) that it was a like fi∣•…•…,* 1.3 may be said of circumcision. All their Sacraments were like figures, not types of ours. The Apostle maketh an expresse analogie betwixt circumcision and Bap∣tisme, Col. 2. 11, 12.
3. That there is but one Catholick Church, and that the Church of believing* 1.4 Jewes and Gentiles, is the same, and that the same circumstantials appertained there unto. For all believers before and after Christ, are partakers of the same co∣venant of grace in substance. One God and Father: One Lord Iesus Christ: 1 Cor. 8. 6. One spirit, one body, Eph. 4. 4. 2 Cor. 4. 13. One Mediator, 1 Tim. 2. 5. One G•…•…spell. Heb. 4. 2. One Faith., Gal. 3. 7.
4. That the inheritance which they looked for is even the same which we look for, see §. 50. Error, 3, 4.