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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§. 144. Of Christs everlasting continuance as he is Mediator.

AS by way of resemblance this description of everlastingnesse, Thy years shall not fail, may be applied to the deity of Christ, so most properly to his humane nature, to his Mediatorship, as he was God-man; To all his offices, to the merit, virtue, and efficacy of all that he did and endured for mans redemption, to his my∣sticall body, and to the gifts and graces which he bestoweth on his members.

1. In regard of his humane nature, his years shall not fail, in that being raised from the dead he dieth no more, Rom. 6. 9. He continueth ever, He ever-liveth, Heb. 7. 24, 25.
2. As Mediatour he is said to live ever to make intercession for us, Heb. 7. 25.
3. As King he shall reign for ever, and there shall be no end of his Kingdom, Luk. 1. 33.
4. He is a Priest for ever, Psa. 110. 4.
5. In respect to his Propheticall Office, he is stiled an everlasting light to instruct and direct his people, Isa. 60. 19, 20.
6. In regard of the merit and vertue of what he did and suffered, He is the same for ever. Heb. 13. 8.
7. His gifts are without repentance, Rom. 11. 29. They are such as he never repent∣eth the giving of them; and thereupon he never takes them away: As for such Apostates as have clean put them away, they never had any true, sound, sanctifying saving grace, 1 Ioh. 2. 19.
8. That body whereof he is the head must also continue for ever. If the years of the head shall not fail, can the years of the body fail? On this ground it is that the gates of hell shall not prevail against the Church, Mat. 16. 18.