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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Title: 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 ...
Author: Gouge, William, 1578-1653.
Publication: London :: Printed by A.M., T.W. and S.G. for Joshua Kirton,; 1655.
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§. 116. Of legal types cleansed with answerable meanes.

AS the legal types themselves were mean in their kind, being of earthy things, so the means of purifying them were answerable. They were purified with these: namely, with those external and earthy things which are mentioned, v. 19▪ §. 102, 103.

All things are cleansed with means according to their kind. Our faces, our hands, our feet, our whole body, our linnen, the vessels that we use, and other like things are washed and made clean with water and other like external and earthy things.

We may from hence infer, that the faithfull under the law, rested not in those ex∣ternal rites, for the purifying of their souls.

It is not possible that the blood of buls, and of goats should take away sin. The Gospel was preached unto Abraham (Gal. 3. 8.) and therein he believed. The like may be said of all the faithfull that dyed under the law. This is the reason of the Apostles setting forth the faith of so many worthies, as he hath produced, Chap. 11.