1Or. þ TEIN I 3 * Neither is there any creature that is not ma- Fodeorit 13.14.01 DIfeſt in- his ſight o - bur all chings are naked and ©, 2.1nq Opened p to the eyes of him with whom we have to
139.11,12, JO 9. 0 Kei is not only copulative, but rationz!, ſhewing the ground of
the former Efficacy of the Goſpe!-Word, becauſe its Author ſecth and | Soul prevalleth over us to the accumulating ot Sin and Guilt dzi!
HEBREWVWS.
their ſtudious Labour to enter into God's Reſt ; for that calleth us.
('bh-q L- JoAbll 4 3 & HP.
knoweth all Perſons 2nd things, and filleth it with rhis. Power and Force. For every Crexture which God the Son created, An.*cl, of Man, Or any Otter, irom the greateſt to tne leatt; from the Levia- tnan toa Mite, rd all Parts of every Creature, ctpc cially of every Creature to winm the Golpe] is preached, ark 16. 15. not ay one 15 «pare Without 10ht, invitiole, unapparent, obicuere, or potſt- ble to be covered or tid. or _ TY VV; Ons.
e (9 de COVETEA Or 211d. or concealed from his View or Fire, waere the Relative 473 agreeth with 47 God in Chriſt, and rot with A.c595, Of the Ward, wiſe 12. as the following Relative cvincerh. To this God-Man no Spirit nor Thoueht can be Ind ;, it f-21l not be io from the efficacious Power of his Word, much lefs ſhall tnfid-lity or Hypocrifie be hid from it, or his moſt piercing Eve. p But all things 1n general and particular, and not anv one exceptca, ts be, naked, unclithed, the Covcring is removed, all Secrets are open and manifeſt to View, God the Sun fect? within and without, alt are
4 *
On taphor taken from the ſacrihced Beaſts, which beins $Knncd, were cut open from the Neck, and fo divided by the Cine to the Rump, or by the Throat downward, imoowelled by the Prieſts, 1o as cye- ry part within may be clearly feen whether clexn or vncilean. The Truth of which 1s, that every thing in the World, cyzn the molt 1c-
cret and inward Thovghts of the Heart of a Sinner, which 1s a <reat Deep, 15 opencd and laid forth to every Scrvple vnto God i: Chritt, every ſecret Unbelief, Apoſtatizing Principle, or Fiypocrific he dit-
cerneth clearly and fully, Fer. 17. 5, 16. he trat made the Eve, muſt ſee beſt. q His Eyes who pierceth beyond the Vuiturcs into things and places that no Eyc can difcern, the Sou's of Nev, 7 28. 7, 10. Pſal. 94. 9. Prov. 20, 12, All this 1s affertcd corceriung the Perſon of whom Pau! «writes, Chriff God-Man, the roilt Golpei- Miniſter, whoſe Word is ſo powerfully piercings : Of 4 and his Word is all this Speech and Diſcourſe ; he it 1s who is the &ti'-'tnowe ing and Impartial Judge, and makes his Gofrel Word of Crunk! Promite and Threatnings, to cut ſo deeply, and ſearch tne 52crets < the Hearts of all.
14 Secing then that we have a great high pric!t 7:
* that 1s palſed into the Heavens £ ; Jeſus the {01 ot +
Czod?, Þ It us hold fait or profefion z.
r The exccllency of the great Goſpel- Mnifter beyord all others in reſpet& of his Prieſtly Office, eſpecially bezxond Aaron and the Levitt -
cal Prieſthood, is ſhewn by the Holy Ghoſt from this Verſe to Chip. 5. verſe Il, It is introduced, as the Spirits counſel to theſe He- brews, from the Premiſes for their ufing of this Hizh Pricſt, in order to their reaching home to rhe Reſt of God, to whom and whoſe Pro- teſfion they ought to adhere, ſince he is ſo fit, - and ſo willing to give them an entrance into it, comp. chap. 2. 17, 18. and 3. t, 6. Be- ing therefore by the Spirit through Faith not only intereſted by a common Relation in him, but by a real Union to, and Communion with him, as he deſcribed ah High Prieſt, chap. 2.11. and 3. 1. ſo great as none was, or can equal him, All the Hizh Prief*s on earth are but imperfe& Types of him ; above Aa nd all oth<rs 3 the grand Preſider over all God's Worſhip, who had Work peculiar fo himſelf above all: The Supreme and Univerſal Pricſt in iieiven
| and Earth, whoſe Title the Roman Antichriſt uſurpeth.; to him only
due, Pontifex optimus maxim, yet officiating always for us. s He hath fulfilled his Type, entring into the Holy of Holieſt in Heaven, taking poflefſion of God's Reſt, and purchaſing an Entrance for us in- to it, and this after the remoyal of the Curſe, Satis*a&ion of the Di-
vice Juſtice for our Sins, Viftory over all Enemics that would op-
poſe his or our Entrance by him, as Sin, Wrath, Death and the De- vil, and keeping poſſeſſion of this Reſt for us, chap. 9. 23, 24, and 28. ft Ze the Saviour of his People from all their Sins, their Emmanuel, Matth. 1. 20, 21, 23. who being God the Son by <ter- nal Generation, was incarnate by taking to himſelf and unitin” a true Body and a reaſonable Soul, being conceived miraculouſly by the Vir- gin Mary from the overſhadoviing of the Holy Ghoſt; in which Na- ture, inſeparably united to his Perſon, he fulfilled all Righteouſneſs, and died a Sacrifice for our Sins, and roſe in our N=ture, and af- cended and entred into the Holy of Holieſt in Heaven, and made atonement, and laid open the way to Believers to enter God's Reft there. u« The entire Religion of which Jeſus is the Author, as op-
poſite to that of the Jews in its Principles and praQick part' of
it, chap. 3. 1. is powerfully, ſtrongly, and perfeveringly to be held by his without Relaxation, in which if we follow him, cleave to him, and by him labour to cnter, we ſhall not come ſhort of God's Ref, chap. 7. 24, 25. where the Head is, there ſhall the Body be alfo, John 14. 2,3. and 19. 24.
15 For * we have not an high prieſt, which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities ., + but
was in all points tempted like as we are, || yet without 1
fin'.