y That ſpoken of, P/al. 49. 8. that Will and Command of God given to Chriſt, God-Man, that he would once offer up his Body a Sacritice for Sin. which he willingly and heartily obeyed, Ph!/. 2. 8. x Sandined is to be taken largely for a Communication to us of all the Benefits of Redemption, as Pardon, Reconciliation, Ab ſolution from Puniſhment, Renovation of God's Image, and ſuch a Diſcharge of $in at laſt as'never to be guilty of it more, Per- fet;on of Grace in Glory. a The voluntary and heartily yielding :f up, and preſenting the Blood of it to the Father within the Vell in Heaven, to atone him according to his own Command and Will, without which it wou!ld not have been accepted by him, Luke 23. 45. comp. John 20. 15, 17, 18. and 19, 28. 30. b It was that part of Chriſt's Perſon that was to dye a Sacrifice, and the Blood of it that was to be ſhed for purchaſing the Remiſſion of Sins,as appears in the Memorial of it, Luke 22. 19, 20. The very Body of God Mn, AQs 26. 28. The once Offering of which was eternally av.aila- Hleto take away Sin from Sinners, and perfe& them to Glory. So that God's end being once reached init, it is of perpetual Virtue to apply its Fruits to believing Penitents, and needs not any Repe- tition. RR
11 And c every prieſt ſtandeth daily miniſtring, and offering oftentimes the ſame Sacrifices, which can d never take away lins. ;
c Having proved, that not the yearly repeated Legal Sacrinces could pertect a Sinner, but only the Sacrifice of Chriſt the Sparit, proceeds to prove, that the daily Legal Sacrifices can do as little for this Work as the annua! ; and therefore theſe Hebrews ought to de- ſert all theſe, and depend only upon Chriſt's. From ver. 11, to 19. Every Prieſt in Aaron's Family 1n his courſe daily miniſtring, /{ood at the Altar, and performed the Service appointed him by God, of- fering often the ſame bloody Sacrifices to God, of Bulls, Goats, Sheep, Foul, many times in one day, and for many days together, cap. 7. 27. d Theſe were not available either to the Prieſts Offer- ing, or thoſe who brought them to be offered for the ſpiritual and etcrnal Expiation of their Sins, as to their Guilt, Stain, Power or Puniſhment, not any, nor all of theſe, none could do 1t at any time. See ver. 4. © RN
12 But e this man after he had ottered one tacrifice for fins, f for ever fat down on the right hand of God F
© Oppoſed to the Legal Prieſts 1s ths Prieſt, God-Man, an Al- mizhty Miniſter, having once offered, and no more, one Sacrifice of his Body for the Stus of others (he had none of his own, as e- very other Pricſt had) that they might be pardoned and remembred no more, it being of eternal Virtu= and Efficacy. f For ever muſt be joyned to the Sacrifice to compleat the Oppoſition, v. 11. The Legal one could never take away Sins, but his one Sacrifice could take them themaway for ever. g He ceaſed from ſactificing any more, and aſcended up to Heaven, and there he ſat himſelf down (having aboliſhed Sin, and finiſhed his Work as a Servant for ever inthe higheſt place of Dominion and Power at God's Right hand while the Aaronites ſtood trembling and waiting,at God's Foot-ſtool and'thence he powerfully and efficaciouſly commands the blotting out of Sins, applieth his Merits,and diſpenſeth to his Servants the Covenant-Mer- cies which he purchaſed by his own Blood for them, chap. 1. 3. and 2. 9,.4nd 8. 2. .
13 From henceforth þ expeCting * till his enemies be made his foot-{tool. |
þ That which remaineth he expe@eth, even the fulfilling of his Father's Promiſe to him, P/al. 110. 1. patiently waiting, earneſtly looking ſor what is moſt certain, and wherein he cannot be diſap- pointed; for in reſpe@ of himſelf, his enemies cannot infeſt him more, being entirely. vaniſhed already, but in reſpe& of his Ad- miniſtration, he waits till all that oppoſe his royal Prieſthood, as the Devil and his Angels, Sin, the Curſe, Death, and the World, with which he conflis as a Prieſt to deſtroy them with his own Blood, as his Members do by it, Rev. 12. 11. having given them their Deaths Wound by his own Death, he fits downand waits in the ſucceffive Axes of his Church, until upon his Ele& it be made good, putting all under his own and Churches Feet, ſo to over- come and tramp!ec on them, as Men on their Foot-ſtools, See ch. 2. 8. 1} Cor. 15.26.
HEBREWS,
# In this Verſe the Apoftle repeats the whole Teſtimony, pro- [
14 For by one 7 offering he hath & perfiftcd for © ot them that are / ſanCtified.
. 7 For, here gives the Reaſon of the precedent ef, and it is on poſed to the Reaſon of the legal Offerings detedt ; their Sgcy: 5. multiplied could not perfe& Sinners, but this one doth it fuljx $ by one, &c. k Chriſt God-Man, the Golpel-High-Prict! by Mn Offering of himſelf a Sacrifice for Sin to God his Father. anc ... pertormed by him, hath ſecured Perfe&ion of Juſtification Sant: cation, and Blefſednefs, perpetually to be continued, where, +. Perſons 1ntereſted in it, are qualiaed and Conſecrated to be Prict;. to God and his Father, (as the Aaronical Prieſts were by the <._;; fice of the Ram of Conſecraticn, Exod. 29. 22, 24.) to ſs :,, their proportion here, but eſpecially after the Completiou of i; 14 their RelurreRion, they ſhall perfettly ſerve him before js Throw, in the Holy of Hojielt tor ever, 1 Pet. 2. G9. Rev. 1. 5.:1d 5, x- and 20. 6, { The renewed Souls by the Holy. Ghotft, fucy who. Conſciences he hath 1prinkled with the Blood of Jus, ang by jr treed them from the Guilt of Sin and its Puniſkment, and « !;of} Natures he regenerates and ſan&itieth, frecing them jrom thor (441 Havits,” and making them inherently Holineſs unto the Lord, P; ;1 3. 10-6 3 :
15 IWhereof the holy Ghoſt 2 alfo is a witncſ; t, us: for after that he had aid betore.