that 1s the Sacrince that anſwercth to the legal ones offcred th Court, and without the Gate, Chap. 13.11, 12, 13. and with the Blood of which he enters the Holy of Holieft as the Hih - vr; did, ana. he doth not paſs through his Fleſh there, but carricti; i with him. The Word #z4rwow oh.l. 14. May not only reler to the God-licads Tabernacling 1n Fleſh; but that God the Son incarnate Tybcy. nacled in his Church; thoſe with whom Chrift dwelt while on Tart: for his Human Nature dwelt, or had a T:hernacle in this Wer'd 4 well as. kig Deity; and this 1s ſuch a Tabernacle where te in ti. whole Perton and his Church may mcet and Communicate to-cth.r- This Tabernacle 1s greater than the Moſaical for quantity, s jt re fers to Earth the place, even the whole World, where his Church i; diſperſed, beyond all compariſon larger than its Type, whiah was a little limited and confined place, and more perjeft than that which was only made of Boards, Gold, Silver, Erafs, Sik, Lionen, Skins, gc. This being a Spiritual Temple and Tent in witich God will ink: and dweil forever, 1 Cor. 3. 5, 15, 17, and 2 Cor. 6, 6. 16, £13," 2, 12.20, 21, 22, 1 Pet. 2. 5. It is far more $lorious than thy Te. bernacle, Hap. 2. 7, 8,9, r Whit 1s hand wrought or mide by 3c: 1s at the beſt mouldering and decaying ; but this was wrovght Ly ec Spirit of God himſelf; moſt excellent for the quality, perinancycy of the Materials and Work, Epheſ. 2. 22, Man had nertther Pc, nor Skill to form, poliſh, frame, or pitch this, Chap. 8. 2. Croats. Work 1s God's Work, as to the Old and New Creation. Hands may frame and pitch the other, and pluck it up, but he that worwet! frameth, raiſeth, createth, this 15 God, 2 Cor. 5. 5. Ephe/. 2, :0
12 Neither / by the blood of goats and calves. ©. bur by his own blood 7 he entered inf once into the ho.
ly place, having obtained z eternal redemption for js. je, 1, f From his Otiice and Sanctuary, he proceeds to cicar up his Ser- % 5+. vice; it was not about weak, typical vaniſhing Sacrifices, the Elogd" ©
of Goats or young Bulls, that he was concerned as the Aaronica! Prieſts were, Lev. 16. 14, 15. opened before, ver. 7. And this anny- ally on the expiatory day, Lev. 16. 29, 34. which could not ſltisfc injured Juſtice, nor exptate Sin, nor purge, nor quict the Conſci- ence of the Offender, Chap. 10. 1, to 5. #t But with his own pure, precious and unſpotted Blood, 1 Pet. 1.19, Nota drop, or feiv Drop:. muſt go for it, then what dropped from his Body in his Avony, from his Head pierced by Thorns, from his Back when Whip't, from his Hands and « Feet when Nailed on the Crofs might have done ; but it mauſt be his own Life, Blood, the Blood of the ſecond 4d: dying by it for the firſt, Rom. 5. 8, to 20. Phil. 2.6, 8. And as it is the Blood of Adam, that it may have value enough and vw. rth : 1; muſt be the Blood of him who 1s God too, with his own Blood, 4: 20.28, This price ſurmounts all Treaſures, John 5. 51.and, 10,11,15. With this Blood of the Covenant he entred inmediitely upon tlic breathing out of his Soul on the Croſs (the Vail of the Temple bein: rent aſunder, and room made for the great Hiph-Prieſt to full: Type) into the Holy of Holieft in Heaven, where never Angcl came nor any but himſelf, till his now piercing through, rending the Vai), and laying it open, Chap. 10. 19. compare T/a. 57. i5. and came witli it to Gods' Throne of Juſtice there ; and made the everiaſting At- tonement for Sin, and ſo turned it into a Throne of Grace, tv!- filing his T\ pe, and as the High-Prieſt did before the Sacritice was burnt or conſumed, Lev. 156. For the expiation of Sin was not dc- ferred by Chriſt to his Aſcention, 45 dayes after his Death ; but was immediately on his giving up the Ghoſt by him performed, and i: this fulfilled all righteouſneſs, Matth, 3. 15. This is the once that he entred Heaven for expiation, ſatisfying the injured Juſtice of God by Sin, fulfilled the Law, and then publickly appearcd at God's Throne, to ſhew all was compleat, Luk. 23. 43, 45,45. 70” 19. 320. This once he did that which the High-Pricit did annually typife, but could never accompliſh for ſo many 100 years together, er. 26, 28. Chap. 10. To, II, 14. By which it 1s evident, that nz
and one, refers to the ſhedding of his Blood as a Sacrifice, and prc- ſenting of it to the;Father, as compleating Propitiation - Work at
that once for ever, # When he with the Incenſe of his Merit and Prayer to the Juſt and Mercitul Judge, even God his bather, ſued tor, found, obtained, and fully received Eternal Redemption tor Sinners, 7. e, Deliverance of their guilty Perſons from Eterna! Death, full remiſſion of all their Sins, Rom. 3.25, 26. Full recon cilation to God, 2 Cor. 5. 18, 19, 21, withan inſtating them 1nto all Spiritual good. This work is ſtiſed Eternal, becauſe its Vertue 1: of perpetual continuance, which freeth the duly qualified Subjects, Col. 1. 21. 23. from the Guilt and puniſtment of all Sins for ever.
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13 Forif 7 the blood of Bulls and ot goars, and the aſhes z of an heifer ſprinkling the unclean, lanctt fieth w to the purifying of the fleſh. |
t This Service of Chriſt in kis SanRuary exceeds the Aaronical not onlv for reconciling Souls to God, but purifying of them, «s gp] ed in this and 14 ver. The Blood js the ſame as ſpoken of ny I Bulls here put for Calves, are but to diſtiaguiſh the 5ex Fraps it 1s to be noted where our Tranſlators read Oxen, as tO Sacritces in the Old Tettament, as particularly, Numb. 7. 87. they mean 54.45;
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ofcred to God at all, as Sacri- Samuel, Nvid, ard the Saints, believer