Rio R I' E S T, now; and it Ihall foon glow with Praife and Delight for ever! Teach me, my incarnate LORD, By thy living, lively, Word ; And, in Spirit ever nigh, That delightful Word apply: Be my PROPHET, when I call, Be my Light, my Life,. my AU, P R I E S T. THE Ápoftle gives a briefDefinition of the Prieft's Office, where he fays, that every High Prieft, taken from among Men, is ordainedfor Men in T'bingspertaining to GOD, that be may offer both Gifts and Sacrjees for Sins ;a? for which End, he alone was anointed with the Holy Oil, and was admitted into the molt Holy Place. The Defign of this Inftitution was to præfigure thä gracious Work of Chrifi in Man's Redemption, as well as the Means which he would employ, in the Fulnefs of Time, o accomplifh it Confidered in any other View, the Office would have been nugatory, and the Slaughter of fomany livingCreatures, aswere prefcribed in the Jewifh (Economy, bloody and cruel. HadMan continúed without Sin, neither the Blood of Beafts in the Type, nor the Blood of 7efi¿s in the End, would Heb. vo I. have
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