This subject, duly apprehended, is replete,
1. With instruction —
[If Christians were more in the habit of considering the Jewish law, they would gain a far clearer insight into the nature and principles of their own religion. Ask a Christian, How he is to be saved ? and he will give you some vague and in- distinct answer about God's mercy, and his own repentances and reformations. Even the priests themselves, who should instruct others, are not always clear on this matter. But no Jewish priest would have hesitated to point to the sacrifices as the only means of acceptance with God. Let us then learn from them, that, if we will ever come to God at all, it must be simply and solely by the Lord Jesus Christ : " He is the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by him^." And let this especially be remembered, that there is no salvation for us in any other way : " for no other persons will the Lord Jesus intercede ; nor shall his saving power be exerted for any others." This is clearly intimated in the text. Whom is it that he is able to save ? it is " them that come unto God by him." And for whom is it that he intercedes ? " He ever lives to naake intercession for them." O that we might all consider this, and seek the Lord in the only way in which he ever can be found !]
2. With consolation —
[What an astonishing thought it is, that our adorable Emmanuel, now seated at the right hand of God, is living, as it were, only for us, to transact our business there, as once he
^ Heb. ix. 1 -3, 11 — l^. ^ John xiv. 6.