352 - CH R 'IS T T .Y PE. ed tO continue by reafon of Death, Heb. vii. 23. VII. The Priefl: under the Law, and the Sacrifice, were two Things. VIII. The Prieft under the Law entered intO the holy Place, by the Blood of Bulls and Calves. ! X. The Prieft under the Law offered Sacrifices only for the Jewifh Nation, or Ifrae! according to the Flefh. A P R I E S T. Book II. D I S PAR IT Y. in the P riefthood, feeing he e':Jer liveth, and hath taken rhe whole Work upc.n himfelf, being in– finitely able and fufficient to difcharge the whole Truft repofed in him. VII. Chrift is both Prieft and Sacrifice. The Divinity, or eter~al Spirit, offered up the Huma– nity, as an acceptable Sacrifice unto God. VIII. Chrifl entered into the Holiefl by his own Blood, having obtained eternal Redemption for us, Heb. ix. 12. · !X. Chrift offered up a Sacrifice both for J ews and Gentiles. He is a Propitiation for our Sins, and not for ours only, but for the SiltS of the wbole World, r John ii. 2 . C 0 R 0 L L A R E S. I. FROM hence we may learn, that withom the Blood of Chrifl: offered up as a pro– . pitiatory Sacrifice to God, there is no Remiffion of Sin, nor eternal Life. God's Wrath is only appeafed by a Sacrifice; and this was clearly hinted from the Begin– nmg. II. From hence we may learn, how far the Prie!lhood of Chrifl-, and the Gofpel-Co– :venant doth excel that of the L aw; moreover, the End and Delign of God in the one, and in the other. Many Things have been briefly tOuched, wherein the great Diffe– rences do conlift; fome of which, for the fake of the Weak, I fhall reiterate in this Place. The Priefl: under the L aw was a mortal Man; Chrift God-Man. Thofe Priefts were Sinners themfelves, and needed a Sacrifice for their own Sins; Chrift was · without Sin, and needed no Offering for himfelf, Chrift oflered up his own Body on the Tree. Thofe Sacrifices were the Shadow ; the Sacrifice of·Chrift is the Subftance of them. The Prieft and Sacr-ifice is the Type, Chrift the Antitype. Thofe Sacrifices could not take away Sin, nor purge the Con!Cience; Chrift's Sacrifice doth borh. III. Moreover, this reprehends fuch as flight and invalidate the meritOrious Sacri– .fice of Chrift, and account his Blood to have no more Virtue nor Efficacy in it to J ufti– £cation, than the Blood of any godly Man. IV. It alfo calls upon all faithful Chriftians, tO ftudy the Nature of Chrift's Priefl:– hood more and more; much of the M yftery of the two Covenants conGfteth in Prieft– hood and Sacrifice, there is fomething in it hard to be underftood. V. This greatly detc<'ls the Ignorance and abominable Error of the Romifh Church, that continues to offer up frefh Sacrifices for Sin; as if Chrift had not ·offered up a fuf– ficient ~acrifice once for all, or that he needeth Competitors, and Help, tO atone and make Peace between God and Sinners. VI. It may alfo confute their blafphemous Notion concerning Chrifl's Priefihood, as if it pa.ffed from him unto them ; whereas nothing can be more plainly affnted, than his continuing a Priefl for ever. His Prieflhood is unchangeable, exercifed in his .own Pcrfon, as a principal Part of the Glory of his Office; and on the Difcharge of it, depends the CJHlrch's Prefervation and Stability : He e·ver liveth to make Intercd]ion for liS, Heb. vii. 25. And every Believer may from hence go wi th confidence t111to him in all their Concerns, for Relief and Succour, who himfelr is faid to be touched «ith the feeling of our Infirmities, Heb. v. 2. · But this of Chrift's offering once for all, and continuing a Prieft for ever, the RI e111ifh Annotators are grearly at a }of$ about, conchidi"ng, that it makes againfr the Jt:\\S • 4 md Aaron's l'riefbhood; which worthy Cartwright learnedly anfwtrs, to whom we refer you. F0r clear it is, that what the Papi!ts affirm concerning their l'rieft and Mafs to be a propitiatory Sacri fice for the Q!!ick and the Dead, is dete<'led from hence to be a .blafphemcus, execrable, and pefl-ilent Error; and by -no Means -are they able to make ·.the Offerinas and Sacrifices made by their Priefts, as Chrift's Succeffors, to hold good in a ny Cafr, o~ confonant to God's Word. Which further to evince, we 01all here cite a Page of Dr. Owen's, on Heb. vii. 24. and fo conclude this of Chrift's Priefthood. ' The Expolitors of the Roman Church are greatly perplexed m the reconcilmg o£ • .this Palfaae of the Apofrle vnto the pc&nt f'ncfthood of thm Church; and they a ·~
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