X88 e/In Expofition of the Cu a '. I I. Levit. 1. 4. chap. 4. zo, 26, Co. 6. 3o. Numb. 15. 23,26. And ftill God is refpeáed as he who is offended, and is to be reconciled s as it is expreffed, Levit. 10. 1y, ieoat.an.3a see) eivrwv $vavrs mark., /hap make attonement Jr o them before she Lord. And fometimes they adde that wherewith the attonement is made, namely Offerings or Sacrificesofone fort or another, Levit. 8.17. And they will give us the fenfe of the word in another place, Prov. 16. is. The wrath of a King is as mefngers ofdeath, gañe 1';< aopat e,Aáorrat di.rir, a wife man /hall appeafe him; referring that to the Kin which the Original doth to hiswrath, rI]197í, Chap turn away, that is, by appealing him. In the ufe ofthis word then there is always underftood, s. An once, crime, guilt ordebt, to be takenaway. 2. A perfon offinded, to be pacified, attoned, recon- ciled. 3. Aperfon offinding to be pardoned, accepted. 4. ASacrif4ce or other means of making the attonement, fometimes one is expreffed, fometimes another, but the ufe ofthe word hath refpe$ unto them all. .And in vain doth Crellius pretend, adGroi. ad cap. 7. p. 360. that irvoxt to Trod and b laxe,Sm crept root are the fame, and de. note the fame thing, the former always denoting the perfon offended, the latter the perfonoffending, or the offence it fell; the one is to attone or appeafe another, the other to make attonement for another; whichCutely arefufficiently different. 3. The Jews to whom Paul wrote, knew that theprincipal work ofthe High Prieff was to make attonement withGod forfin ; whereoftheir Expiations and freedom from it was aconfequent ; and therefore they underflood thisaEl and duty accordingly, it bring the utual expreffioncf it that the Apoftle applies untoit. They knew that the great work oftheir High Prielt was to make attonement for them, for theirfrig and tranfgreffions, that they might not die, that the ppnifhment threatned in the Law might not come upon them, as Levit. 16. ro, and 2 r. is fully declared. And the Apotile now. inftruEls them in thefubffance, ofwhat they had before attended unto in types and fhadows. Nor is there any mention in the Scripture ofthe expiation of finsbut by attonement ; nor doth this word ever in anyplace fgnifie the real cleanftng offn inherent fromthe firmer; fo that the latter fenfe propofed hath no confifteiicy with it. Thedifficulty pretended from the conffruifion, is not of anymoment. The fenfe and confiant ufe of the wordbeing what we have evinced. there muff"be an Ellipfis fuppofed, and 1Wecce.5.on rat éueprfas, is the fame in fenfe with iníaxe6m 78r gear 'marl 7A, ,isapadie, to ma/sg reconciliation withGodforfins ; as the-famephrafe is in other places explained. Sixthly; There is afarther double enforcement of the necelíity ofwhat was before affirmed, concerning hisbeing made like unto his brethren in all things, with reference untohis Priefthood ; and the firft is taken from what he didor fufered in that con- dition ; the other from the benefits and advantages which enfued thereon. The firft in thofe words, For that be himfelfbathfufredbeing tempted, Iv ; 'Pv w 0, in that ; that is, fayCome, in thefame nature, he fuffcred in the fíefh that he took, being tempted. But the wordsfees atheronly an illation ofwhat theApoflle concludes or infers from that whichhe hadbefore laid down ; "um; whereas, in as much, feting that ; fo both id w and 4 are often ufed, Rom. 6. 12. nd7ot0e errs. Now it is here affirmedof Chrif} that smopOs tint>kMS, hefuffered being tempted; ta.a t. not, it hapendunto him to be tempted, whichwe before rejeéted. The Vulgar Latin, andExpofitors following that Tranfftion; Hefufred and was tempted. But the [and] .inferted we have fhewed ¡o be juperfluaus, and it is acknowledged to be fo by Era'- mue, Eflius, ALapide; thoughTena with fame others contend for the retaining of it. It is not the fuffering of Chrift ingeneral that is here intended; nor is the end mentioned of it tliatofhis faltering ingeneral, which was to make reconciliation; but chef/meowing and relieving ofthem that are tempted, which regards the fuffer- ings that befell him inhis temptations. It is not his fufferings abfolutely confidered, nor his being tempted that is peculiarly defigned, but his fuffering in his temptation, as was before obferved. Toknow then what were theft fufferings, we mull enquire what were his temptations, andhow he was affe6led with them. To tempt, and temptations are things in themfelves ofan indifferent nature,and have no moral evil in them abfolutely confidered. What ever attends them of that kind, proceeds either from the intention ofthe tempter, or the condition of them that are tempted. HenceGod is Paid to tempt men, but not to induce them unto fin, Gen. zz. s. james I. 53. What ofevil enfues on temptation, is from the tempted themfelves. Moreover, though temptation feems tobe of an active importance, yet in it fell it is meetly
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