JELOre chap. 5. I, 7 Sceing thele Earthly Prieſts had ſuch Service, it would tollow thence, it he were carthly and of their Order, he ſhou'd noc4 ſuch too, *arayx#i:v having no Verb expretly jovncd to it, is var;. oully ſupplied : Some, by it zs ;, but thoſe who would make the 7 .:- bernacle his Body, do not allow it, that being oftcred bctore tits, aid theretore add, 7t was, or hath been : but it 1s beſt ſupplicd potent} ally, it would be neceſſary tor this Hizh-Prieſt, 1f he were fo low 4: thoſe Prieſts, to have ſomething ot the like nature or kind of Giite and Sacrifices, that he might offer as they did. Now ſuch he need: eq not, as being utterly inconſiſtent with his Pricſthood, as is proved atter.
4 For if he were on earth he ſhould nor he 1 prielt &, ſeeing that || there are prieſts that otter pitt; according to the law /, |
k This gives the reaſon why the Levitical Gifts and Offerinvs were inconfiſtent with Chriſt's Prieſthoed : for if he were earthly tor Per- ſon or Office, or was exiſting on Earth, or in an earthly Sanftuiry or Tabernacle proper to the Law, he could not by Divine Ordi:11- tion be an Offering-Prieſt, being not of Aaron's Family, nor of the Tribe of Levi, nor ſucha Prieſt as he was made by God's Oath, cr Melchiſedec's Order, if he were tor Temper, Office, or Place of t::. niftry earthly, 1 This earthly Office, State and Work, was by th Law ſetled on Aaron's Family, and none could legally offer Sacrifice or Gitts in God's earthly Tabernacle or Temple, but his Sons alone, Chriſt as he was not of that Tribe, fo he never was cithcr in the Court of the Pricſts, or in the holy place in the Temple, neither 61d miniſter in them as a Prieſt at all ; this was proper and peculiar on- ly to his Types.
5 Who ſerve unto the example and * ſhalow of
heavenly things 2, as Moles was admonithed of Gol «
7, when he was about to make the tabernacle. For lee, {ith he, o 7Þa7 thou make all things according to the pattern p ſhewed to thee in rhe mount.
1m Theſe Aarnnical Pricfts, and their Service 1m the literal Tabey- nacle, were only ſubſervient, as the Model in the Mt:d, to repre- ſent the Truth, as the Platform of a Tabernacle ſerves toward the making and pitching of it. 'Yz:dei1 uamn 1s an of/cure and underhund Reſemblance, the firſt Draught, that which 1s thc rough part ot what is to be repreſented, chap. g. 23. ſuch as the fhadow 1s to the natural Body, a dark reſemblance of it ; ſuch were theſe of Chrilt's Perſon, Miniſtry, and thoſe heavenly things performed by him. They were leading them to, and inſtructing them in Chriſt and his Work, though the Veil on their Mind and Hearts hindred them from diſcerning it. So true 1s that, John 1. 17. Moſes's Law was the ſhadow, Chriſt the Truth of all, compare chap. 9. 6, 23. and 1%, Ils And it is not unlikely that both the literal Tabernacle and Tem:- ple-Oeconomy are but groſſer and obſcurer Diſcoveries of that Firm and Manner of the Manifeſtation of God in Glory, and the nnft ex- cellently regulated Service and Miniſtry in the Oeconomy there, n Keycrugmem, Moſes was in the Mount, from God's own Moutit, the beſt of Oracles, charged and admoniſhed about, and intallibly guided in his Duty, Exod. 25. 1, to 40. confirmed by the Spirit in Affs 7. 44. when he had his Commiſhon tor the Work, rcf6]- ved to enter on, and perfett it according to God's Charge, then was this Oracle given out about the Earthly Tabernacle, Prieſthood, and Service. 0 Lk you to it, obſerve this, take heed and beware, /a'th he, who 1s Fehovah, the Soveraign Lord of him and I/ac!, a Bc- ing of Power to enjoyn, and command, and to require any nez,'et, Exod. 25.1,to 40. p Thou ſhalt make, trame, and work, by e&r- joyning I/-ael what they are to make, and.pertett what thou art 10 do, all thoſe things of the Veſlels, Parts, and Strufture of the Ta- bernacle tor Ofticers and Service, for con-joyning, rearing, and pitching of it, Exod. chap. 25, to chap. 40. All after the Type, Copy, Pattern, Exemplar ſhewed thee by me, and ſeen and vioiv- ed by thee, when thou wert with me in the top of the Mount <7nar forty Days and forty Nights. This Tabernacle was tramed by its Type, and was to be an Ordinance reſembling, fizuring, and 'yping a Spiritual Tabernacle and Miniſtry of Chriſt that was to ſucceed and fulfil it, being different in the whole kind from this Type ; it be- ing Spiritual and Heavenly, this a groſs material earthly Fabrick. Moſes was moſt exa& in framing all as God commanded, atter his own pattern : He did not add, diminiſh, nor alter any thing 1n it, Exod. chap. 40.
6 But now * hath he obtained a more excellent * 2 Cir
miniſtry 9, by how much alſo he is the mediator * of a hetter || covenant s, which -was eſtabliſhed upon |,,;
better promiſes 7. THE a j
9 But, is here adverſative ſetting this High-Prieft over-againft and above the Aronical, on the account both of his Miniſtry and Co- venant, of which theirs were but Types and Shadows. The Lord Chriſt hath now really and fully obtained, and doth poſlels as the Goſpel-High- Prieſt, a Publick Miniſtration, which as to its glorious Effets, tranſcendently excels the Levitical, chap. 5. 11, 12, 14: chad. to. 12, 14, 18. r By how much he is Mediator ot 4 better Covenant, by ſo much he hath a more excellent Miniſtry, ſo ti1at this is a Progt of the former. Menrnc is a Medler, one that 1n- terpoſeth, not only between Perſons at di/tance, but at enmty 3 = parlying between God and Sinners, could profit little, God being wd highly injured by, and offended with them ; and therefore he "2 diates here, as a Surety, as chap. 7.22. and fo undertakes for S1N-
ners to ſatisfie God, wronged by them, by Sacrificing himſeir to: them, and ſo ſecure the performance of h1s Cov them. By which Sacrifce he purchaſcth and merits the Ho
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