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86

On

the Excellency

of

Ghr,ifl.

braid

,af

lorii,

e

eugh,thefarrsrerl

spirit,

offered

himfelf

wither

t

fpet

to

God

;

he

offers

his

body and foul

as

it

were

upon

his

Divine

Nature

,

that

as

the Altar

did

fans

ifie the

Offering,

go

the Divine

Nature

of Chria did

fanelifie

the

offering

of

his

Humane

Nature,

fo

that

he

indeed became

both theAltar,

and the Sacrifice.

8

And

thenf

rther,Chrifi

:iS

wonderful

in

his,Prietlly

Office,

and

that

<ii

orids

,_That.heoffered:!butone:Sari-

-é,

and

at

one

tiui,:,

.

táo*the:Prielks

informer

time,the

j

offered

manyitSitcrifiges,

and they

offered

often

;

but

now

if

you

would read

of-

C:hriPcs

Priefkly

Office,

read

-efped-

ally

the

ferenth, eighth,

and

ninth Chapters

of

the .Epifte

to

the

Hebrews,

and there

you

thall,hweas

much

almoa

as

in

all

the

Scripture,befides, of

thePrieflly

Orifice

of'Jefus

Chrifl.;

The

Priefts in the Law they

.offeredrf en,

but

Chrifl:

offered

but once,

and having

but

once offered bee

.down

in glory, upon

his

offering of

himfelf

but

once

be-

fore the Father

It

was avai,làble

for

ever,

for

.fo

the

Scrip

-

ture tells

us

in divers

places

of

the

Hebrews

,

and

bee

was

able

to

fave

to the

uttermat,

upon

his

once

offering of

him

-

felf.

Md

then

further,

ChriVc is

wonderful

in

his

Prieflly

Of-

fice

in this,

which

is

as

much

as

in

any

thing, and

that

is,

that

he

loth

now exercife

it

in

heaven,

ax

the-

rightvhand

of

the Father

bThis interceilion, for

fo

the

Scripture faith in

the

eighth

of

the

Hebrews

,

Thut

we

I d

fstchan.high

Prieff,

who

is.

fet

on

the

right

hand

of

the

;throne lof

the

Maiety

in

the

heavens,

and

thereheis

making

interceton.

As

the Midi

(you

.,ltnow)

in

the

.-

time of

the

Law

didr ebtercife his

Prielily

Office,

not

only

by

offering Sacrifice,

but

by going

into

the Holy

df'-lólies,

and

theme

had

the

names

of

the

Tribes

ingraven

upon

hisbrrc,

:and

fo

prefened

therm

_be-

fbre

God,

and made

intercef

ion

for all

the

Tribes.

Alin

Chi-i1+

he

is

our wonderful High:Pritf£,

for

he

-havi+

g

toff&

red

himfelf

a

Sacrifice

to

the Jufîice

of

his

Father,

bee

is

gone

to

Heaven,

and

bath the

names

of-ail Beleevers

upon

his

brefl,upon

h is

heart,

andthere

prefents them all-before

his