O R a thelaw © having aſhadow c of good things to come, exd notrhe very image d of the things, can never with thoſe ſacrifices which they otiered year by year continually,makeethe commers thereunto pertect : | a This For is conneGting this to the foregoing Diſcourſe, and 15 a further Improvement of thc Argument laid down, ch. 9, proving the Neceſſity and Excellency of the one Sacrffice offered by Chriſt for Sinners unto God, from the weakneſs of all the legal ones. For if all the Multitude of them were not able to take away Sins, and Chritt's one Offering is mighty to aboliſh them, and to pertet all who uſe it, then not theſe legal- ones, but his is neceffary to be va - lued by the Hebrews, and preferred to that end ; the Demoſtrat1- on of which takes up from v. x, to 19. of this Chapter. b The whole Moſaical Oectnomy given from God to Tſrael by him in the Wil- derneſs of Sina, Prieſthood, Covenant, Sacrifices and Services which that did contain. c Chap. 8. 5. A Shadow is lower than an Tmage, and of another kind from the reality or Subſtance ; a dark, obſcure Repreſentation of what was to fulfil them, viz. of Chriſt, with all his Miniſtry and Priviledges attending his Covenant, both for Time and Eternity ; this the Mofaical Law reaily comprehended, but all in Shadow-1/o;h, d They are not the very Eflence and Sub- ſtance themſelves of thoſe things, the Pattern, or real Samplar, but | a ſhadowy Repreſentation ; they lead their Utcrs to Chriſt and his matters, which they repreſented, but were not the ſubſtantial good things themſelves. So Image is read, 1 Cor. 15. 49. we have car- ried the Image of the earthly Adarn, that is, his Nature. e The Legal S.xcrifices are not only impotent in reſpe& of their Conſtitut!- on, but of thcir very Nature, being only Shadows, fo as they can- | not render a Soul compleat, either in reſpe& of Juſtihcation or | SanQification, it could not free any either from the Guilt or Puniſh- ment of Sin at prefent, much lets eternally, with all the Renovation of them, either on the Day of Atonement yearly, or thoſedaily offered by them, though they ſhould continue tobe offered tor ever, vet could they not perfe& either the Prieſts Miniſtring, or thoſe for whom they miniſtred, who were externally humbling themſelves on the Expiation-day. They being defigned only to point the People to tins better Sacrince of Chriſt, which was to perfe& them,that Work
being ſo noble, and above the power of Shadows to pertorm, © a; 7 For then || would they not have ceaſed to be of- Dn tered f, becauſe the worſhippers once purged g,
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fered, be- F Fir, proves the weakneſs of that ſhadowy Service under the eaſe, &e, Law, becauſe it never ceafed, which it would it it had perictted its Uſers; and having reached its end, and done that Work, have ceaſed; for theſe Sacrihces would not of right have been repeated, neither needed they, 1f they could have juſtifyed, and fanttified Souls for ever. z For then this Effet would have followed, tne Worſhip- pers wao were to be attoned for, or expiated by theſe Scriaces, if they had perfc&ed them, 7. e, pirconed, juſtified, and acquitted them from guilt of fla and Puniſhment, there would have nothing remained to have troubled, vexed, or tormented their Souls, they being no further accuſed or condemned by their Conſcience about
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& Fr, gives a Reaſon of the precedent Proof, That the Sacrifices' did heep Sins in Remcunirance ; fr tiey were 05 tuct: Power to tuke them away. { This 15 equivalent to an Univerſul Nevative, the Jmprſſiotlits ie ing abtojure as to the things themſelves in their very Nature, ticy bBcing corporeal, can have no Fniluence upon a Hirituul Evil in te Soul, Mich. 5.6, 7. and by God's Conſiitution they v them to better things, God being not plated with riclh and Blood, Pſal. 5c. 13. Iſa. 1. x1. m The Blood of theft were on!y into the Holy of Holieft on the Attonement-day, yearly, 4 -: to which this 15 chietly applied; nor could the Blood of ail Sacrifices by Expiation, pardon their Odlerers, nor ly Sandtrr, cleanſe them, nor by removing the ſenſe of them, Soul ; they could neither pacific God, nor the. Sinners Conliient having no Virtue or Power to fatisfie God's Juſtice, or mr Grace, only it had by his Conſtitution a Power to type cut tha: which could do both, :
5 Wheretore 7 when he cometh into the i he ſaith, o Sacrihce and oftering thou | but a # body || haft thou pr
nai introduceth tie Proof of the Invalidity of ts ces, and the Efficacy cf the' one Sucrifice of C Teſtimony aboutboth of theni. » God the Son, who exiſted be- tore his Incarnation, beſfeahers God the Father, when he was coming ito tits World, to become a part of it, by unitins an Holy Human Nature to the Divine, 2s-David voucheth by the Spi- rit of God, Pſal. qo. $5. The bloody atommins Sacrifices of Bulls Goats, the Peace-oiferinzs and Thuank-oftcrings, Levit. 7. 1 Oſjerings of every fort without Elood, required by the Luw of M5- ſes, God did ncither deſire require, nor delight 1n, as 1n themſclves propitiatory; for he never intended them to take away Sins, or perte&t the Worſhippers; ſee 1 S.1m:; 15. 22. Jſam. 11, to 15, Feremiak 6. 20, Amos 5. 21, 22, p But'the Hebrew Texts read, The ears haſt thou bored for me. The Apoſtle makes uſe here of the Greek Paraphrafe, 4 Body haſt thou fitted me , as ;iving in proper Terms the ſenſe of the former figurative Expreſſion, diſcoverins thereby Chriſt's entire willingneſs t9 become God's Servant for evir, Exod. 21. 6. and that he might be ſo, which he could not, as Go./ the Son, 11mply, the Father by his Spirit did articulate him, and formed him pynt by joynt a Body ,, that is, furniſhed him with an Hu- man Nature, ſo as that he my,lit perform that piece of Services which God required, offerinz up himicF a bloody Sacrifice for Sin, to which he was obedient, Phil. 2. 8, Thus were his Exrs ho. red, which could not be, if he had not been cloath& with Body. '
6 In burnt-ofterings a -had no pleaſure :