the hand of God. But your disorder comes from yourselves ; and therefore you should not be satisfied with its continuance one day or hour. You do well to be solicitous about the re- moval of it ; and we entreat you never to relax your solicitude about it, till the desired healing has been imparted to your souls. Know ye then for your comfort, that the blood and oil are already prepared, and that your great High-Priest is at this moment ready to apply them to your souls. Only go to him, and he will rejoice to minister to your necessities. Go humbly, yet boldly to him : present your ear, your hand, your foot, yea, and your whole person before him, that he may put upon them the blood and oil : and doubt not but that instantly you shall be restored to God, and stand " faultless before his presence with, exceeding joy c."]
c Jude, ver. 24.
Lev. xvi. 21, 22. And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the ini- quities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a Jit man into the xoilder- ness. And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities, unto a land not inhabited.
OF all the types, under the Mosaic dispensation, there was not one more plain in its import, or more useful in its tendency, than that before us. Most other types receive light from their accomplishment in Christ ; this reflects light on the Gospel itself. The high-priest, having before offered a bullock and a ram, was to take two goats ; and, having determined by lot which of them should be killed, and which be kept alive, was to kill the one, and to sprinkle its blood, with the blood of the bullock, within the sanc- tuary, and then to present the other before the Lord in the manner described in the text: he was to con- fess over it the sins of the people, and, by putting his hands upon its head, to transfer to it the people's sins; and then to send it into the wilderness that it might never more be seen of men. This ceremony pointed out to them the true and proper object of