7'- Chrifl th~ Priefl of the Covenant. . for us, Ver. 10. Ahram's driving away the fowls that · came down upon the,carcafes, typified Chrifi's victory over the devil, ·all along during the fiate of his humi.. liation, -and efpecially' his triumphing over them on the crofs, Vet. JI. And Enally, there was a fmoking fur– nace, and a burning lamp that paffed between rhe Fieces ; which fignified the revenging wrath of God, feizing 4Jn .ChriH ·the facrifice, and ju!l:ice therewith fatisfied, er. 17. Thirdly, No facrifice could, be accepted, buton fu<:h an altar as lliouid fancrify the gifr to its neceffnry va1u~ and defign 'd effect, Mat. xxiii. 19. And who could furnifh that, but Chrifr-himfelf, whofe Divine nat1:1re wa:s the alrar, from 'W'hen·ce the facrifice of his hutnan nature derived its v~lt1e .and efficacy as infinite ? Heb. ix. 14. 'Howmych more !hall the blood of Chtifi,who through the eternal Spirit, offered himfelfwithout fpot to God,. purge your confcience fi·om dead works?, His bleffed body fuffering, ahd bleeding to death on the crofs; and his holy foul fcorched and melted with· i-n him, with the fire of the Divine wr~th ; both in the mean tihle united to his Divine nature; were the facrifice burning qn the altar, from the which God ·!inelled a {\veet 1[wour, to the appealing of his wrath ,and fatisfying of his jnflice fullly. Not, that Ghrifl: was a facrifie;e, only while on the crofs: but that his offeri11g of himfelf a facrifice, which was begun frt)m his incarnation in the womb, the facrifice being laid on the altar in the firfi motilent thereof; and was continued through his whole ' life ; was compleated ·on the crofs; and in the grave; Heb. x. 5· .' Where• · fo1"e when he tometh into the world, he fahh, Sacri· fice and 6ff:ring thou wouldfi not, but a ~ody hafl: thou prepared me :-Ver. 7· Then faid I, Lo,-1 come,' Ifa. liii. 2. ' "\Vhen we :fhal1 fee him, there is no beauty that we iliould defire him, Ver. 3· He is-a man, of !orrows, and acquai-nted with grief,' 2 Cor. y. 21. ' He hath mad~ him to be fin for us .'
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