who is altogether suited to you, and sufficient for you. Re- joice in this; and know your privilege : and, " having such an High-priest over the house of God," avail yourselves of the opportunity afforded you, " drawing nigh to him with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having your hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and your bodies washed (as) with pure water: and hold fast the profession of your faith without wavering : for (all the promises of God are yours ; and) He is faithful that " hath promised'''."]
a Heb. X. 21—23.
Heb. viii. 6. Noiu hath he obtained a more excellent nmiistry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better proviises.
THE use of the Mosaic law^ is by no means suffici- ently appreciated in the Christian world. The value of a map to travellers, or of a chart to one who navi- gates the trackless deep, is well known : but when God has given to us a graphical exhibition (if I may so speak) of every part of our road to heaven, we never think of looking to it as the means of instruc- tion to our souls. Yet one would think that, after the strict injunctions given to those who drew these maps, no one would be inattentive to them. The whole Mosaic law was intended to represent, in plain and visible characters, the way of hfe. Hence, when Moses received his instructions from God relative to the tabernacle and all its vessels, he was ordered to take the utmost care not to deviate from them in the smallest matter ^ Of this the Apostle takes notice in the words preceding our text : Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle : for see, saith he, " That thou make all things accord- ing to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount." A similar direction was given to David also in reference to the temple which his son Solomon was to erect\
a Exod. XXV. 40. ^ 1 Cliron. xxviii. 19.