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 ...

§. 50. Of the resolution of Heb. 10. v. 15, 16, 17, 18.

Vers. 15.

Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witnesse to us: for after that he had said before,

Vers. 16.

This is the Covenant that I will make with them after those dayes, saith the Lord: I will put my lawes into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them.

Vers. 17.

And their sins and iniquities, will I remember no more.

Vers. 18.

Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

IN these four verses is set down the perfection of Christs sacrifice.

Hereof are two parts.

• 1. A proof of the point, v. 15, 16, 17.
• 2. The conclusion thereof, v. 18.

Vers. 15. About the proof we may observe,

• 1. The inference of this upon other proofs. In this copulative, Also.
• 2. The substance of the proof. Herein two things are considerable.

• 1. The Author of the proof.
• 2. The matter thereof.

The Author is propounded in this title the holy Ghost: and amplified

• 1. By his kind of proof. He is a witnesse.
• 2. By the persons to whom he bears witnesse, To us.

Vers. 16. The matter of the proof in general, setteth down a covenant in th•…•…se words, This is the covenant.

More particularly there are set down four points.

• 1. The Author of the covenant, I will make, saith the Lord.
• 2. The time of making it, set down in a double reference.
  • 1. To that which God had said before, after he had said before.
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  • 2. To other times in this phrase, after those dayes.
• 3. The persons with whom the covenant was made, with them, namely, the Chri∣stian Church.
• 4. The parts of the covenant. These are two.
  • The first concerneth our sanctification.
  • The second our justification.

That which concerneth our sanctification consisteth of two parts.

• 1. Putting Gods lawes into our hearts.
• 2. Writing them in our minds.

Both these are amplified by the Author, which is God. For he saith in both, I will.

Vers. 17. That which concerneth our iustification is the pardoning of sin, where∣in consider

• 1. The distinction of the things pardoned, sins and iniquities.
• 2. The manner of pardoning them: remember no more.

Of the conclusion (v. 18.) there are two parts.

One setteth down the thing proved, and taken for granted, where remission of these it.

The other is a consequence inferred thereupon, there is no more offering for sin.