y Fr, ſherwvs this to be a rational proof of the tranſcendency of Chriſts Death and Sacrifice; and this he demonſtrates from the plice of his Miniftry, far excecding that of this Type. The Goſ- ipel Hioh-Prieft did not like Aaron, enter with his Blood into the Holy of Roheft of an earthy Tabernacle, frail and moveable, and appear before the Mercy-Seat on the Ark there, ver. 9. z All theſe
were but like, and correſpondent figures and refemblances of the true, holv, and glorious place of Ged's reſidence. a But he, as our Heh-Prictt, did enter with his Atoning-Blood ; after the Sacrificing of himſelf on the Crofs, into the Heaven of Heavens,and approached th: Throne of Juſtice, and propitiated it, making it a Mercy-Seat and true Throne of Grace unto penitent believing Sinners ; and then perfeted the work of Propitiation and Redemption : After-
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mortal, and laid open a way tor our entring there, þ Wherehe; iy appears as our Advocating Mediator, pleading his Merit fr tt. r miſfion of our Sins, and rendring of God's Face-ſmiling on. - 4 fivouring his Clients, which was terrifying and ati ightnins Cu Ad.im before, See Chap. 7. 25. and 10. 19. and Ron. 8, 54. 2.1, 2. Rev. 5, 6. Here he repreſents our Perfons to Gao | hitting in the mean while us beneath for our ſecins him Face t and being blefied in the enjoyment of that profpe't for cyer,
25 Nor c yetthat he ſhould ofier hinſl city * the high-prieft entreth into the Holy plc: with the blood of others.
c The excellency of Chriſt's Sacrifice bevond the 2 2cncey; argued here from its ſingularity; it needs no repetition. 25 thc 1- plied Sacrifices did. Ovd” introducing it, is but inferrins + cetlency of Chriſt's Sacrifice, by denying in it that Kin was annexed to the legal Ones; there was no need ["e dye yearly, to fulfil the Type of the often yearly Sacrifcrs 41 Legal High-Prictt, who entred with the Blood of Bulls and © firange Blood tohim, and not his own, into the Holy of E446! in the Tabernacle, ajid entred ſo every year once, to ew ths tue of his Sacrifice to be only f1gnal, typica!, and pitſin;,
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26 For then d muſt he oicen have tutfere: ' the foundation of the world : bur nouw / * the end of the world hath heg appeared iv | way fin by the ſacrifice of himlclt:
d Emi, The conſequent is drawn 2b impoſſibili ; if he had @{-n oftered himſelf, he muſt have often ſuffered, but he could wor ful. ter often, For where there was Oitcring, there muſt be a S:rifce, and fo Suffering. Now that Chriſt thould do fo in his own Porfun was impoſſible and abſurd, for God to have put his Sn on ſufterin» fo cruel a Death ſo often. e From the Fall of 44am at the bein- ning of the World, ever fince Sin needed a Sacrifice ; but his on. ſuffering as a Sacrifice for it, was of Eternal Vertue in God's py: poſe, anſwering and ſatisfyinz God's juſtice ; one Death of the {- cond Adam for the Sin and Penalty of the firft; in the efticacy any vertue of his Death which was everlaſting. The often and annua! Sacrificing of the Aaronical Prieſts, and entring of the Holy of Ho- lieſt with the Blood of Beaſts, was to ſhew the 7ews their Weaknei., and to inſtru& them in, and lead them to this one Sacrifice once ty be offered, of eternal Avail, as is ſubjoyned. f But Chriſt ti: Goſpel-High-Prieſt was not only God-Man, manifeſtcd to be to, and
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exhibited as ſuch an Officer by his Work, but was manifeſted to | ſuch by Promiſe, and in Types and Figures from Adam's Fall; by! now ſhewed it clearly in his Suffering-work, x Tim. 3. 15, Thedu; of Chriſt's Miniſtry on Earth under the fourth Monarchv, called the laſt Days and Times, 1 Fohn 2. 18. The end of the World, 1 Cor. 16, Il. The fulneſs of time, Gal. 4. 4. God's ſet and beſt time tor hi: appearance, and it was but once that he appeared in theſe days, pcr- forming this Work, g Then he facrificed himſelf, offered up hi: Blood to God within the Vail, taking away by his own Biol which God required, the Guilt, Stain, and Power of all Sin, juſtifying Believers from all Condemnation by it, by what he did and ſuftercd in their ſtead for their good, who tlie from it for refuge to him, 1. 53. Dan. 9. 24. Rom. 7. 24, 25. 1 7oh. 3.5,
27 And as it is appointed þ unto men once to dyc. but after this the Judgmear z.