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 ...

§. 130. Of the Resolution of Heb. 13. 10, 11, 12.

10.

We have an Altar, whereof they have no right to eat, which serve the Taber∣nacle.

11.

For the bodies of those beasts whose bloud is brought into the Sanctuary by the High∣priest for sin, are burnt without the Camp.

12.

Wherefore Iesus also, that he might sanctifie the people with his own blo•…•…d, suffered without the gate.

THe Summe of these verses is, A Declaration of the Damage which ariseth from addicting ones self to legal Rites.

The Damage is a depriving himself of that benefit which comes from Christ. This is,

• 1. Propounded, vers. 10.
• 2. Illustrated, vers. 11, 12.

Of the Proposition, there are two parts:* 1.1

• 1. A Declaration of the Point.
• 2. A Description of the Persons here concerned.

The Point holds two things:

• 1. The kinde of benefit, in this Metaphor Altar.
• 2. The means of partaking thereof, in this other Metaphor eat.

The Persons are of two sorts:

• 1. Such as partake of the benefit, in this phrase, We have.
• 2. Such as misse of it.

In setting down the latter is noted:

• 1. The cause of their missing of the benefit, They serve the Tabernacle.
• 2. A consequence thence arising, They have no right.

The Illustration is by applying the truth to a type.* 1.2

Hereof are two parts,

• 1. The Type, v. 11.
• 2. The Truth, v. 12.

The Type was the manner of burning certain Sacrifices.

Hereof are two parts:

• 1. A Description of those Sacrifices.
• 2. The place where they were burnt.

They are described,

• 1. By the kinde, Bodies of Beasts▪
• 2. By the use of them.

Hereabout are expressed,

• 1. That part of them that was brought, Bloud.
• 2. The person by whom it was brought, The Highpriest.
• 3. The place into which it was brought, The Sanctuary.
• 4. The end why, for sin.

The second part of the Illustration, is the truth of the fore-said Type?* 1.3

Whereof observe,

• 1. The Inference, in this word, Wherefore.
• 2. The Substance.

Of it there are two parts:

• 1. The Person, Iesus.
• 2. His Suffering.

This is set out,

• 1. By the place where he suffered, without the Gate.
• 2. By the end why he suffered, That he might sanctifie.

This is set out,

• 1. By the Subject whom he sanctified, The people.
• 2. By the means wherewith he sanctified, bloud. This is amplified by the kinde of bloud, his own.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Verse 10.
• * 1.2

  Vers. 11.
• * 1.3

  Vers. 13.