884 Chap. 42. an Expoftion upon the Book, of J oH. Verf. $ of the true God(The Devil is Gods ape.) Typical facrificcs were of God, for the taking away of the finof man r And fo was the true facrifice, the Lord Jefus Chrilf ; whenhe(that is, Christ) faid, facrifice and offering, andburnt-offering, andoffering for fin, thou wouldit not (that is, thou wouldtt not have those legal facri- fices, nor didft ever intend ro have them, as facìsfa&ions to thy offended jultice, ultimately to ref+ in them) then faid be(that is, Chrilf) Lo, l come to de thy will, OGod (Heb. o. 8, 9.) It was the will of God, that Jefus Chrilf fhould be the expiatory facri- fice for the fin of man ; by the which will (v.io.)weare fanë1ified through the offering ofthe body ofplea Chrif f1 once for all.The facri- fice of Chri(t himfelf had not faved us,if it had not been of Gods appointment; nor could any facrifice have fo much as fhadowed the way, or means of our falvarion, if God had noc appointed it. Fourthly, Confider the purpofe for which the Lord command- ed Eliphaz, &c. to offer their facrifice, it was to make-an actone- ment for their fin. Hence Obierve ; Sin muff have a facrifice. There was never any way in the world, from fief( to 1aff,tohelp a (inner but by a facrifice;and who was the facrifice ? Surely Jefus Chrifiwas the facrifice; it was not the blood of bulls and goacs,of bullocks and rams,that could take away fin,as the Apoftic argueth at large in the Epiffle to the Hebrew', thefe could never take away fin, thefeonly pointed at Jefus Chrilf, who alone ,,id it,by bearing our fins,and by being made a facrifice for rhem.To typifie or thew this, we read in the law of altofer,'that the fin of the offender was laid upon the facrifice; and a facrifice for fin, was called fin by the Prophet, long before Chrilf came (Dan. 9.24.) He (hall make em end of fn, that is, when Chrilf (hall come in the flelh, he (hall make an end of all facriEces for fie.; and fo the Apoffle called it After Chrilf was come, and had fuffered in the fle(h(z Cor. c. 2Y.) He made him to be fen ( that is, a facrifice for fin ) for nee, who knew no fin, that we might be made the righteoufne t of god iee him. The facrifice wascalled fin, becaufe the fin of the perfon whobrought it, and in whole behalf it was offered, was laid upon the facrifice ; there wasas it were a tranflarion of the fin, from . the perfon to the facrifice. RI which fence Luther is to be un- dcrilood,
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