ancther, is abrogated as uſeleſs, necdlcls, and imperice, Moſzica! one, thus grown old, weak and devicp:d, and by the . tation of the New Golpel-Covenant, abrogated, may continue 1 2 WW] : and 10 graduatiy
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7- 4s 15 owned by the Apoftviical Sy. nod, Acts chap. 15. It was high time for theſe Hebrews to ceaf- trom that yaniſhing Moſaical One; and effettually to cloſe with the Gype!-Prieſthoad and Covenant, which muſt remain and continue fos ever; ſec Dan. g. 24, 26, 27. which if they did not, muſt end in the total Deſtruction of them, their Temple and City ; Which came tO pal! not many years after the Apoſtle wrote this Epiſtle,
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The fm of the outward Tabernacle, and what was therein; and the HHmiliry of its Priefls : Theſe were Shadows and Types , as ali9 the Purifications made therein, 1 ——10. Chrift by his Sacyifice and entrance into the true Sanfuary hath fulfilled all this, ard by ought to paſs an eternal Redemption, 11 14. By hs Death the New Teſtament is confirtned, even as the Death of 4 Teſtatw confirms all Teſtaments, even as in the Old Teſtament all things were ſprint! with Blwd , But the Heavenly things muſt be purified by better $4- crtſices, 15 23. Therefore is Chriſt gone into Heaven, after he had once offered up himſelf upon Earth, from whence he ſhall cone t; de/rver them that wait for him, 24 — 28.
Hen @ verily the firſt Covenant b had allo || or. 4 dinances c of divine ſervice d, and a worldly e
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a The Holy Spirit from vey. 1. of this Chapter, to ver. 15. of chap. 10. 1s 1uſtrating his two laſt Arguments taken from tie Ty bernacles and Covenant- Adminiſtrations, about which, both the 4axo- nical Prieſts, and the Goſpel High-Prieft did miniſter ; in both whicl Chriſt hath beyond all Compariſon the preher juence, which the Spirit proves by an Argument drawn a comparatis, of the Ther: nicle and Service of the*Aaronical Prieſts, and tiie Tabernacle ang work of Chriſt. He beginneth with a Propotition ot the adjunct: of the firſt Covenant from wer. 1. to ver. 11, The three Parti: introducing 1t, wy. &» and z, agree, the one in conn: ing, the othe; {4emonſtrating, and the laſt in afferting that which followeth, to de- pend on what went before, as, and then zruly the firſt. b '7 +... is an Ellipfis, nothing is in the Greek Text joyned with it, th: uv. ! ſome Greeb Copies add 4m the fit Tabernacle, but this is to inake the fame thing 4 property of it lelt, ard iS ablurd to reac The firſt Tabernacle had a Tabernacle ; it is therefore better ſup. plied from that which #jr/? relates to in ter. 7. 13. of cap. 8. viz The My.ical Crvenant- Admmiſtration which had or poflctied as its pro- per Adjundts even thoſe three Giſtin& ones following. c Aotwe.ygte, we read Ordinances, others Ceremonies or Rites. It is derived from a Paffive Verb, and may fignifte a righteous Sentence ov 0-di- nanc? of God, or a rizhteous Event that anſiers that Law or De- cree, as Rom. 8. 4. In the Plural it notes, Jura, the Laws of GJ, but eſpecially here the Ceremonial Laws, thole jult Conſlitutinns ©; Miniſtry which God gave by Moſes to the Aaronical Prieſith1;d. d STgiecs Which our Tranflators makes of the Genitize Caſe Singular, but this 15 repugnant to the next Words connetted to it, which ſhouid ſtrictly be of the ſame Caſe ;, it 1s therefore beſt rendred in the Accuſative Caſe Plural, and by oppoſition to Ordinances, and t© 1s read Services or Worſhig, which becauſe it refers to God, our Tranllators have added to it the Word Divine. How various th:s Worſhip was in the Miniſtry of the High-Prieſt and ordinary Prieſts, the Apoſtle ſheweth afterward, and therefore moſt properly to be rendred Services. e T? 434;y was the Sanftuiry where thelc Servi- ces were performed, called the Holy, from its relation to God 4nd his Service, it conſiſted of two Tabernacles as is deſcribed, w. 2, 3: It 1s Calied xo:winey, being externally decent, beautiful and glorins, as 1s evident by its deſcription, Exod. 25, Made it was, after God's own Model, and a Myſtical Structure, and a Type of a better ; yet though that were ſo pleaſing to the Eye of the World, its Miteri.:!s were hke it, frail, brittle, and paſſing away, as things mace with Hands make way for better, v. 24. j
2 For there was a tabernacle f mate, the firl! s, wherein tes the candleſtick þ, and the table z, an the ſhew-bread 4, which is called the j| lanctuary /
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