Openod, andapplied fromCHRIST s Prieftl y-OfEce. Again, Take the High-Priefi in the times ofthe oid-Te- fiament, aid though he did make a n atonement for the fins of the people ; yet fotnetimes alto he did make thepeople to fin. It is Paidof Aaron, the great High-Prieft, concer. ning the golden-Calf, that he did make the people naked: But the Lord Jefus Chrift, our great High-rrief, he makes anatonement for fin, and never does make them fin : He is fo far from making the people naked, that he covers themwith his righteoufnefs that their nakednefs may not appear. Here's a glorious High-Prieil ! Yea, This High-Priefrof ours, He does not only make an atonement for fin committed, and pairs the debt; but he does alfo becomeour Surety untoGod the-Father : He does not only pay thedebt that is pail, but he becomes a Surety for time tocome. Noneof all thole High- Priefts, that ever did fo ; not Aaron, not any High-Prieft that ever gavehis bond unto God the Father, that any (inner Ihould never fin no more. But our Lord Iefus Chrili, our High- Prieft, he becomes our Surety : and what Surety ? not an ordinary furety ; for amongft us, the Surety joyns, and does become boundwith the Debter, but fill it runs in the name of the Debter, and the Debter he gives the bond for to pay the debt. But now here, our Surety, he gives the bond, and we that are theDebters, we donot give the bond for topay the debt : there is no godly man, or bdcever, that ever gave a bond untoGod theFather, that he will pay thedebt : but our Surety comes, and the bond goes in the name of the Surety, and the Debtersname is out. Oh! what a glorious,and bleffecl High-Prietf is here ! here is a HighPrieft, beyond all the High-Priefts that ever did go before.! And that's the Fourth thing Fifthly, How does all this conduce to our Comfort or Ho- 5. lineji. Firer. How does all thismake to our Comfort ? Muell First, Is it not a comfortable thing in thecares of a poor Anfw. r. limier, that there is a Magazine, and a Storehoufe ofMer- cy let up ? that the Lord bath ere&ed an office of love, and
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