312 PR I E S T. GOD's Wrath alone, andof the People there was nonewith him. His awn Arm, replete with Omnipotence, brought Salvation to him, and to his People through him ; and his Zeal for GOD's Glory and their Happinefs, it upheld him. * No Power, but divine Power, could have accom- plifhed the arduous Tafk ; and therefore, in the Man- hood of jefus, dwelt all the Fullnefs of the GODHEAD bodily. -j- He entered the Lifts alone; and e He alone muff and will have the Glory. In thefe Particulars, and in fome others, fuch as his. Apparel, &3c. theyewilh High-Prieft could be a ftriking Refemblance ofChrift; but he could not perfonally typify the Mediator throughout he could not fuller and die for the People. And that none might fancy, that a Man alone couldbe the mediatory or atoning Objeét in the Sight of GOD ; this Part of the Service and Type was Lo be exhibited upon clean Beggs; both to fhew the .PaSivenefs ofthe ViEtim, and the Merit and Worth of the Sacrifice to be other thanmerely human. It is not pofìible that the BloodofBulls and Goats could expiate for theSin of Man : it is equally impoflible, that one Man's Blood could atone for the Offences of many. At the moft, the Blood of one could extend but to one; and, therefore, the great Atonement with GOD muft be of an infiniteand extenfive Nature, calculated to reach backwardfrom the fall ofMan, and to look forward with its Satisfallion to the End of Time, Now, nothing can have this infinite and extenfive Merit but what is divine; and confequently, if Ifrael be faved with an everlafting Salvation by the Mérit of jefus, jefus himfelf muft be a divine and an everlafting Perfon. If he were not divine, his Atonement could not have merited beyond himfelf, and of courfe he would have perifhed in the Undertaking as entirely, as the Bulls and Goats in the Sacrifice ; and if he were pot the everlafting GOD, he would not only have failed himfelf, but all, that have hoped or do hope in him, çnuit lilçewife fail with him. How little do the Arians Ifaiah i7çiii. I, ii. 9, and
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