8 The great Gotpei-Myffery o t andbonne; : ICI face, or offeringwas raid to be bruited. In antwer to that, our Lord and Saviour Chrift is Paid to be bruifed for our iniquities. If it were a liquid thing that wasoffered up to God, as wine, or oyle, then it was laid to be powredout. In antwer to this, it is Paid ofour Lord and Saviour, That his foul was powred out unto death. Thus all Sacrifices meeting in him. Behold the Lamb of Ged ( faies John the Bap tilt when he lawChrift.) He does not fay, Behold the Bull ofGod, or the Goat of God andyet Buis, and Goats were facrificed. Why does he rather fay,behold theLamb of God, than the Bullock, or the Goat ? For when the. High Erica went into the Holyof Hone, and fprinkled the Mercy-Seat, he did not fprinkle the Mercy-Seat with theblood of the Larub, but with the blood ofa Goat; and yet notwithitanding, it is not laid, Behold the Goat of God, but, Behold the Lambof God : Why fo ? Not on- ly becaufe that Chrift was ofa lamblike, andmeek difpo- Ilion (as force would have it:) Nor onlybecaufe, that the great Type of Chaff, was the Patcal.Larnb, (though thete tae reafons.) But there wasa dayly facrifice in theTemple; whether men brought any offeringor no, there was a Ran- ding facrifce in the Temple, moining,and evening, and that facrifice was a Lamb. Now therefore, to thew, that lefus Chrift is thedayly facrifice, therefore he cries out, and faies, Behold the Iamb ofGod, and not the Goat of God ; for the Goat was not facrificed every day as the I arnb was. For proof ofthis, take the Apoilles Exhortation, Fphe. 5. 2. /lid/kit/WA', Chrzff bath lz ved tu, andLathgiven him- .1.1' 7 1.4 r far lif an aherirg and a facrifice to God. Here are Three t flings courcicrable. Firfl, He does not fay,'Whohath redee- med us : but, to ihow his great love unto us, Who hath given birnfelffir : He doth not fay, Who bath given him- felfftr our fins : Yet he faies fo, in Gat. 1. 4:Who gave him- f elf for our fins; But, Who gave himpffor us. Why? To thew, who they were that he gave hinifelf for: He gave hielfeiffcr us, as /inners. Again, He faies here, He gave himfelf
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