416 How may we havefutahle Conceptior.s S.er ln, 7, Ar Byfield Comment on i Pet.2.12. P.r}to. No Sacrifice was to be offered in any other phce ; There the Spiritual Woríhippers had by faith a fight of God, and communion with God, Pfd 63.2. Pfal.68.24. Towards God in this place they were co make all their Supplications and Prayers where ever,or in what Country foe - ver they were, i Kin.8.29,3 o. See Dan.6 i o. Now the Tabernacle and Temple were a Type of the Body or Humanity of Chtift, as him - felf explained) 74.2.19. in whi h the Divine glory of the Godhead dwelt; roh. t , i4. The Word was made flr¡h ;and dwelt among5 us (or Ta- bernacled in us, as the Greek word fgnifies) and we 147T his Glory, the Glory as of the only begotten of the Father. Therfore what the Ta- bernacle or Temple was to them under the Law, that is Chrift Jefus to us under the Go !pal. And as God manifelled to them in the Tempie was the proper Objed ofWorfbip to diem, fd God manifefttd to us in Chrift is the proper Objcd of Worfhip to us. 3 . The Flefh or Humanity of Chrift is the Medium or Mean by which we have accefs to God in all our Worfhip.This is expref ed,He6. Io.19,2O. Having 6oldnefsto enter into the Holieff (where the Divine glory appeared between the Cherubirns on the Mercy feat) by the blond of refus ; By a new and livibg_ way, which he hath confecrated for us through the Vayl, which is to f<y,his Fled. By the Flefh of Chrift here I do not underitand his Natural Flefh barely confidered as fuck, but in that notion as it is to be underl ood,70h 6.53,54,55,56.where Chrift fpeaketh of eating his Flefh and drinking his Bloud unto life ; where Chrilis Flefh (by a Metonymy of the Caufe for the Effect) lignifies the Righteoufnefs, Satisfaç} ion, Rcconci liation,Grace,Peace,Glory Chtift procured or us by the obedience he performed to God in that Flefh; By the Flefh of Chrift in this fence we have accefs to God in all our Worfhip. Yet is not the confideration of Chrifts Natural Flefh altogether nie- lefs unto this end ; Fc r whereas we are apt to frame Images and Simi- litudes of God in our minds, the right apprehenfions of God dwelling in the Hamane Nature of Chrift (who is the true Image of the Invifi- bie God) may be effedual to remove all oiler Images and likeneffes of God out of our minds : But then we mutt be careful t hat we do not terminate our conceptions of God in the Man-Chrift, or in the Man- hood of Chrift, for then we (hall make the Humane Nature of Chrifi the Image of the Godhead, and that would be an Idol. But when we have taken up an apprehenfion of the Humani y of Chrift, if our con- ceptions pafs through the vayl into the Holieft;if we are led thereby to worfhip that Godt;çad that c wets in ir, this is a right Conception and true Wor[hip. The
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