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 ...

§. 76. Of the difference betwixt the type and truth.

THe main point proved is in the 14. v. which is inferred as a consequence of that* 1.1 which went before, in this phrase, a 1.2 how much more, which implyeth that there is no comparison betwixt the type and truth. It is an indefinite interrogation which sets down no limits. The truth doth infinitely exceed and surpass the type: more then the naturall face of a man doth exceed the figure, Image and resemblance thereof in water, in a picture, or in a loking glass.

• 1. The truth is spiritual, celestial and divine: The type carnal, earthy, hu∣mane.
• 2. The truth hath vertue originally in it self. The Son hath life in it self: The types can do no more then what they are appointed to do.
• 3. The truth doth actually, and to the full perform what the type did only shew was to be performed: but could not perform it of it self.

Have not we Christians hereupon just cause to have the truth exhibited to us in* 1.3 far higher account then the Jewes had the types afforded to them? Should not we much more diligently seek to be cleansed in our souls by Christs blood, then they sought to be cleansed by the blood of beasts to the purifying of the flesh? Have not we stronger ground of confidence for quieting our consciences, then they had for quieting theirs? Seriously think on this manner of inference, How much more?

Of the blood of Christ and of the infinite value thereof. See v. 12. §. 57.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Vers. 14.
• a 1.2

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
• * 1.3

  The truth of types to be highly estee∣med.