3 36 't0epatatonpoîtpe IfttributeV, Ch. XIII. merely by the poftiveWill of God ; So, (the exercife -,rL of his Supreme Right being tempered with Wifdome and Equity,) he ordained that the guilt fhould be abo- lifht by a Sacrifice, and that they fhould be fully re- faired to their former Priviledges. Thus the Apoflle Th3eb, 9.13: tells us, that the Blood of thole Sacrifices sanF,li es to thepurifying of the flefh, that is, communicated a legal Purity to the Offerers, and confequently a right to ap- proach theholy Place. Now the reafon of thefe Infti- tutions was, that the legal Impurity might reprefent the true defilements of Sin, and the Expiatory Sacri- fices prefigure that great andadmirable Oblation, which fhould purgeaway all Sin. 2. A real Guilt which refpe&s the Confcience, ande was contra&edfrom thebreach of the Moral Law, and fubje&ed the Offender to Death Temporaland Eternal. This could not be purged away by thofe Sacrifices. Forhow is it pofiìble theBloodof aBeaff fhould cleanfe the Soul of a Man, or content the Juffice of an of- fended God ? Nay on the contrary they reviv'd the guilt ofSin, and reinforced the rigour of theLaw, and were a publick profeffionof the Mifery of Men : For this reafon the Law is called the MìniJlry of Death.. As the Moral contained a declaration of our guilt, and Gods right to punifh, fo all the parts of the Ceremo- nial were either arguments and convi&ions of Sin, or images of the punithment due for them. But as they had a relation to Chrift who was their Complement, fo .. they fignified the expiationof moralguilt by his Sacri- yid. vlem face, and freed the Sinner from that temporal Death to contra Raven- fpers,c.aq. which hewas liable ;as a Reprefentativeofour freedom from Eternal Deathby the Blood of the Crofs. This will appear more clearly by confidering, r. That all kinds ofplacatorySacrifices are referred to Chrift in the New 7eftafnentà 2. That all their Etfe&s are attri- buted.
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