the Cloudif taken sff.the Tabernacle. 7,7 according to thepattern ? and here he calls Chrift the true Tabernacle ; what was theirs a falfe one ? I, it was in regard ofChriftwho is theSon himfelf ; for not any of all thole things theyo s themfelves were to reff in, though done ex= aftly according to the Pattern . Eut this MES S I A-H was he that they fhonld have eyed through and beyond all tholefigures and.Jt-iadows ;for that Tabernacle was but pitched' by man; mark that ; though comnnanded by God ; but the true Tabu n cle ispitched by the Lord bnmfelf. So that the A ofile there, we may clearly fee, expounds this Taft chapter ofExodus, and reduccth all thole fadows to the fubflance, proving that Chrift himfelf is the true Tabernacle, and the true Miniftry, and the true Sanftuary, and that thofe things arc but the Patterns'and Emblems of the heavenly things. Now all things muft be accórding tohim; for he is the true pattern, and is that one and alone Sacrifice, on '.e ffered ; as in that ninth chapter of the Hebrews, ar.d-the eleventh verle and fo on , Chrift being an high Priefl' of good things to come, by agreater andmore perfeTTabernacle, not 'made with hands ; that is ropy, not of this building ; and by his own blood .he entered into the Holy Place;andif the blood ofBulls andGoats fan1ifyetb to thepurify ng oftheflejh_ hew much more (hall the blood ofGhrafl, who through the eternalfpirit cifered up himfelfe without rpot to God, purge your coafciences from dead works ? &c. Though all thefe things were done by Mofes, andail done according to the example and pattern ; yet, faith he, the things weJpeakofare not things done by man, not of this building, that is,- not done by thewifdotn, power, or will, of ruin; no nor thofedone ly then according to the dire&&iön of God himfelfe, (and in that fenfe confinandcd andun- queftionable O:dinances ) yet thefe made not the commers themuntoperf :f61 ; therefore, faithhe, in the-three and tWetí titthverleof that ninth chapter, It was therefore neceffrry that the P ATTE R. N S of the things in the Heavens fhould bepurredwith thefe ; but the Heavenly things themfelves with betterfacriftces : for Chrift is not entered into the Holy Places made with hands, which are the figures of the true, but into Heaven it Jelf, pow to appear in thé prefence of Gbd focus : The Heavenly. Ibid. 8.2. 1-1.e13.9.tt. &c. Veit; 2
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