y This Verſe contains the 1pecial Anniverſary-Service of the Higi- Prieft alone in the inward Tabernacle, the Holy of Holieft, of whici you have the Law, Exod. 3v. 14. Levit. 16. 2, Gc. Into this place the Hizh-Pricft was to enter vnce a Year only, and every Y eat to repeat it, as Exod. 3o. 10: upon the Atonement-day being the tenth Day of the Month T1j71, the ſeventh Month in their Ecclet:- aſtical Year, and the firſt ot their Civil ; that Davy was he to enter ſeveral times into that place, firſt for himſelf, Levir. 15. 11, 12; 13, 14. and then for the People, ver. 15, 15, (9c. carrying in the Blood firſt within the Veil, and then coming out ag:in, and carryins in the Incenſe on the Golden Center; none of the other Prieſts were to enter into the Holy Place while he was Miniſtring, but him alcne, as Levit. 16. 17. 2 when he firſt entced into the Holteſt of all, as vas with the Blood of a young Bull, of a Ram, Zee. 5. 3. 14. with the Blood of the He-Goat, v. 15, 27. Atter he had offered the 1n- cenſe on Ins Golden Cenſfer, v. 4. he muit fprinkle the Blood upon the Mercy-Seat, and before it, by which expiarory Blood there was made an Atonement, ver. 12, 13, 14. 4a Firli, for his finiut Sc!t and Family, ver. 11. and then for the T2norances, Incogitancics, £Er- rors, and all forts of Sins comnutted by the People, v. 15- Chap. 7 27. all of them being committed with ſforne Error of the Under- ſtanding, which Type in all its parts, was perfe&ly fuifilled 10 Chritt the Goſpel-High-Prieft, as is ſhewn in the following Verſes, whereby not only his Office, but his Services are tranſcendently fect aboye, aud preferred to all the Aaronical ones,
8 The Holy Ghoſt 6 this fignifying, That * the way into the holieſt of all c was not yer made manitett, while as the firſt tabernacle was yet Nanding d.
b God the Spirit himſelt, the thicd Relation in the Deity, the Author of all the Myſaical Inſtitutions, who commanded all thete ritual Ceremonial Services in this Tabernacle to be performed, WO revealed all this to Moſes, and who inſpired him with it, Lever. 15: I, 2. The moſt infallible Interpreter of his own Inſtitutions, de- clared by theſe Signals and Types, and demonſtrated by the frame of Ordinances, thengiven to the Church in theſe expretſions, Ex22. 30. 10. Levit. 16. 2, 12, 13,14, 15, 17: The Veil ever covering the Holy of Holieſt, but only in the Day of Expiation, when it was drawn aſide and that laid open. c The true and very means to God*: Preſence in Heaven it ſelf, which 1s only by Chriſt the great High- Prieſt, through whoſe Blood we can come to the Throne of 11:5 Grace there boldly, chap. 10. 19, 20, 21, 22. and by the per:ect work of his Spirit on us, can enter with Him into the Holy ot Hc lieſt in Heaven. This was not fo plainly, clearly, fully, umverſiily known as afterwards by the ſhedding of Chriſt's Blood, and the Re- velation of it in the Goſpel to all the world. Chriſt was-revealed to the Hebrews, and all theſe Ceremonial Ordinances did hold Him out, and by Him only the Saints under that Covenant Adminittra- tion got to Heaven, yet the manifeſtation of it was obſcure in com- pariſon of what it 15 ſince. d While the Atoſaica! Covenant-Adrni- niſtration was to continue till the coming of Chriſt in the Fleſh, and perfeting the work by his death, for the ſpace of near 1 Vears, was the true, right, and proper way-for entering into Heaven, dark ly, and obſcurely, and typically revealed unto the Church, when by the death of Chriſt the Veil of the Holy of Holieft was rent alunder, Heaven laid open to be ſeen, and entred into by all peritent belicy- ing Sinners through Chriſt, eyery day 1n their Duties, and then in their Perſons; Matth. 27. 51.
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