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there mixed, Ex:d. 24.5, 6. Levit. c. 2, 4, and 14,51,)on the Al- tar, Eook of the Covenant, and all Iracl, Exod. 24. 6, 7, 8. con- tirming and ratilying the Covenant on God's part and theirs, as the words annexed, wr. 22. aud Exod. 24. 8. aifirm, behold the Blond ' ty which this Covenant is made firm and imutlable, Al this 1s but a ſhadoiv and Type of the ratincation of the New Covenant with Sinners by the Death of Chriſt :; He is the Mediator that brin2s ! Covenant to them ; he dycth ard putgit in force; by his Blood ratineth it on God's part and theirs, by his Spirit ap- plyinz 1t to them, and ſprinkling it on them ; he brings home the Tcftamenta] Lleiſinzs to them, Chap. 10. and 11. 28. and 12, . Fa. 52. 15, Exch. 36-25. 1 Pets 1. 2. | o Saving, * This 7s the blood of the teſtament, which God hath enmoyned unto you 7. 9g Mis after his ſprinkling the Altar, Book of tic Covenant, and all Irae!, tauzht them the meaning of it; ſaying, Tos that 1: the Blnod wherewith FT have ſprinkied you, is a Sign cr Seal of the Te- ftament. the Blozd by which it is ratified and conirmed : the Blood ypified and repreſented bv it, was that of Chriſt the Teftator, by which all the New Teitament :: ratified to all penitent believing Sin- ners that look to it, without which 1t could never have been made 00d. The Blood of Chritt i- the immovable foundation of this Teſtament, Exod. 24. 8. compare 1 Cor. 11. 25. Even the Te- ſtamental Covenant which Feh1vah had made with them, and which he enjayned them, by ſuch a rite as this to ratifie and confirm, 21 Morcover © he {foriikled likewite with blood both the rakernacle. and all rhe vettels of the mt- niltry 7. | |
r Moſes did not_only tprinkic the Bookof the Covenant with Blood, but the Tabenacte it ſelf, vearly, on the Atonement day, as is charged, Levit. 16. 14, 16, 17. Foras the Altar and Perſons were to be Attoned for, ſo was the Tabernacle it telf, ver. 18, 20. Firſt, they were ſprinkled, and then anointed, Levit. 8. 10, 11. as the Goipcl-Tabernacle was in the truth of it, ys Cor. 6.11, Allthe Gar- mentsand Veilels of that Prieſthood were thus to be purified, Ty- pitying how unclean all the Perfons miniſiring with them, and Ato- ned tor in and by them were; and how polluting all things, and polluted by them, till they were purihed by the Blood of Churiit, © 22 And almoſt all things / are by the Law pureg- <d with blood : and * withour ſhedding of blood 1s nc remiliion.
{ All ſuch things as are capable of- purifying, and which were not to be ſo by the Water of Separation, or by Fire, as Levitt. 16. 28. Numb. 21. 22. were ceremonially purged by Blood. # And without the Pz.ith of ſome living Creature as a Sacrifice, and the Blood of it not only ſhed, but ſprinkled, there could be neither legal Pardon of Guilt, nor purging of Ccremonial Filth. By this God fignified to TI ae!. that without the' Blovd of Chriſt kis Son, and the Teſtator of Is Teſtament, fhed asa Sacrifice, to purchaſe and procure both re- mifſon and the Spirit, there could be neither pardon of the guilt of Sin. and the removal of the puniſhment, nor purging the filth, or renewing the nature of the Sinner, his Blood being the 1ineſtimable price purchating both fer them,
25 Ir eas neceltary rhetefore x, that the patterns of the things in the Heavens t ſhould be purified with rheſe, tut the heavenly x things themlcelves with better {acri! c:s than thele.
u This concluſion the Spirit draweth from the antecedent, wer. 12, proved in the following Verſes, therefore 1s it here rehearſed, the iilative Particle thereforc,is but to ſum up the uſe of Blood about the firſt Tabernacle, and that Teſtament-diſpenſation. It 1s pofi- tively neceſſary by the Will of God, expreſly enjoining them, to point out better, and that there might be an agreement of the. Type with the Truth. w The Tabernacles in all their parts, the Bcok of the Covenant, Veflels, Services, Fc. Being Types, Signs, Ex- amples and Snadows of things in Heaven, muſt be ceremonially purg- c{ and ſeparated from common uſe to Divine, by thoſe external, ritua! ſprinkling and Illuſtrations, eſpecially with Beaſts Blood, myſti- cally repreſenting better blood and Purifications of Perſons and things than theſe. x But things more excellent and glorious than carthly ones, the Goſpel-Tabernacle in its parts, Teſtament, Services, about which Chriſt miniſtreth, which are Heavenly for their decent, agreeableneſs with, and tendency to it ; they are ſpiritual and in- corruptable, wer. In, 12. chap. 8. 2. and 12. 22. Gal. 4. 26. Rev.21. are to be dedicated, ſet a part, put in force, and ſanQificd to God by the one Sacrifice of Chriſt, of more value, worth, and vertue, than all the legal Sacrifices together. It 15 expreſſed plurally, to anſwer the oppoſite term, and to ſet out 1ts excellency, being far a- bove all others ; the Blood of it being that of God, by perſonal Uni- on,and which 1s only efficacious for eternal good, and availgble with him ; ſo ought it to be eſteemed as it was 1n Truth and not quarrel- lcd with by theſe Hebrews.
24 For Chriſt is not entred y into holy places made with hands, which are the figures z of the true, but into heaven a it ſelf, now to appearb in the preſence of God tor us.