416 VERSF4 The Priellhoodof Chrift rather by the lying prefumptionsof a deceitfull heart, thanby the evidences and tellimony ofGods holy Spi- rit. Confider what I fay, and the Lord give you under.. (landing in all things. The fecond thing propofed to bee confidered in the Prieghoodof Chrill, was thequalificationof that perfon who was tobe a fit High-Prieil for us. Legal/facrifices would not ferve the turne to purge away fin, becaufe of their bafeneffe.They were not expiations of fin, He6.9.9. 12. but were onely remembrances and commemorations offinne,Fieb. TO.; neceffary it was that heavenly things themfelves fhould bepurified with better facrificcs,Heb, 9.23. for theyof themfelves, without that typicall rela- :ion which they had unto Chritl, Gal.3 .23. and that In- firamentall vertue which in that relation theyhad from him,Heb.9.t 3.wcre utterlywearke andunprofitable,Heb. 7.18.as the fhadow hash neither being in it felfe,nor can aive'refrefhment unto another, but dependently on the bodrtowhich it belongeth. And this appeareth,firfl, by their reiteration,where the confcience is oncepurged ,and there is remiffionoffin,there is no moreoffring,Heb.to. a- s 8.for the repeatingofthe facrifice fhews that the per- fon for whole fake it is rcpeated, is inflatu quopriss,, in the fame conditionnow as bee was in at the time of the former oblation. Secondly, by their Variety,there were both Gifts andfacrifices for fins, 1-1eb .5.1. 8.3. buls,and goats,and calves,and lambes, He6.9.9. 1 2.13. and that (hems that no one thingwas fit to typifie the full rxpia- don wrought byChrill, whereas he offered but OneSa- crifice, and by that perfc6led for ever them that arc fan- alfied, Heb . t 0.12.14. And if/Tilllacrifices would not terve the turne,then neither would14gall Priefis be fit for co great a worke ; for all the good which the Prietl cloth is in the vertueof the facrificewhich be brings : and this likewifc the Apofile proves by many arguments : Era, becaufe oftheirfinfmlnes, for they themfelveswanted an expiation,
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