þ The Spirit proves his Call and Inveſtiture into this Office, 1ts Confirmation to him for ever by another Teftimony of the Father about it, penn'd by David, Pſatm 110. 4. and ratified to be fo by the Lord himſelf, 1Matth. 22. 41, to 45. that he as Man was David's Son, as'God-Man, David's Lord, and ths grand Oficer to atone God by his Sacrifice for Sinners, and to intercede for him. By this Word of God to him was he inveſted with the moft glorious Priefthood, and ſetled in that which he muſt execute for ever, Chap. 7. 24. having no Suc- cetfour in it,” q which Order was a ſingular and moſt excellent one ; ſuch as Aaron's d1d but imperfeQly ſhadow to us. It -was a Royal Prieſt-hood God inſtalled in him, ſuch as was Ae!chijſedech's, largely deſcribed, chap. 7, This was by God the Father revealed to David, and prophefied by him to the Church, but attuilly fulalled as to Pro- clamation and Inauguration at his Aſcenſion into the Holy of Holieſt in Heaven, where he a&ually in the Flcfh doth officiate and minifter 1n it,
7 Who in the davs of his fleſh r, when he had * of- fered up pravers and ſupplications s with 1trong cry- ing, and tears 7, unto him that was able to ſave him from death z, and was heard, || f in that he Tear- ed 7. |
» Here Chriſt is parallel'd in his Nature, Work and Compaſſions, to his Types, and 15 ſet above them: He was taken out - of Men, as his Type was, verſe 1. He was made Fleſh, and dwelt among us 1n the Humane Nature, Fobn 1. 14. He had his Days numbred, and his Time ſet for his Being and Miniſtry beneath, doing and ſuffering the Will of God here in a State of Humiliation, Frailty, and Mortality ; which Infirmities attending his Fleſh, are now put off for ever, chap. 2. 14. s He performed his Service and Offering to God, as his Tvpes, for the Men for whom he was ordained, fuch as he delighted in; his Praycrs repreſented his inward Deſires to God for what he needed, and was necellary in our behalt to be obtained, a Sacrifice fit to be offered by Him, chap. 13.15, compare 1 Pet. 2, 5. "Izemgizc a Word but this once uſed in the New Teſtament ; its Root fignifi- eth an Olive Branch which Petitioners carried in their Hands; an Emblem of the vehement deſire of ſuch Supplicants of a peaceſul Anſwer or Return to their Prayzrs, Theſe of Chriſt were the moſt feryent Supplications flowing from a deeply afflifted Soul 1n a proftrate Body, when he was preparing for the effering up his Soul a Sacrifice for
* * Chap. 7.
E *[ohn 17. E 1, NC,
Lev. 9.7 ; hape7.2% [Or, for his E ficty.
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and \when actually offering it on the Croſs, Matth. 27. 45. Theſc were the Prayers of Ged-Man the Goſpel High-Prieft, 8 put up by him unto. God the Father, who 1s eflentially good and powerful, willing and able to hear and anſwer his Supplications, the Fountain of all Mercy, Bleffing, and Help, who could deliver him from, and fave him in the greateſt Dangers, ſo as none of thoſe which encom- paſſed him ſhould hurt him, no not Death. For he was delivered from the Evils which were far more dreadful to him than Death it felf, and which were to exerciſe him both before, and at the hour of Death. Thoſe deadly Temptations which he underwent in his Ago- ny and on the Croſs, and from which he chargeth the Diſciples to pray, that both He and they might be kept, 2atth. 25: 37, 38. Thoſe deadly Stings in his Soul, verſe 41. Mark 14.38. Luke 22.40, 46. ſuch Confli&s as his Father ſupported him under, carried him through, and gave him the victory over all rhat Curſe and: Power
that might do him or his myſtical Body hurt. Tt was this Death of |
Deaths that did terrifie him. As for the other he chearfully under- went it, reſigned: his Spirit to his Father, trafted his Body jn his Treaſury, and was ſo far from being ſwallowed ap by it; that he was
zloriouſly 1iſen from it; # Evidefic 9s Aguby in the mighty \ God fate Him fawn on his Right Hand in th- prefence' of fi the
his Work by Fire from Heaven at his firſt Sacrifice, and vindicates his |
Sin, when he was in the Garden, Luke 22. 49, 45. in his Agony,
HEBREWS.
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