SERMON V. ROM. v. 8. GOD COMMENDETH HIS LOVE TO- HOUGH Chrift is the end of the Rom. x. 4. Law, and he was accordingly reprefented with more or lefs clearness, in all it's offerings; yet was there one kind of thofe offerings, and a particular one of the kind, by which he was prefigured in a more distinguished manner: thefe Lev. xvi. these were the offerings for fin, and that folemn one in particular, which was presented in the name of the whole Jewish Nation upon the great day of the annual Expiation. That fin offering being fet apart to make an atonement because of the uncleanness of the children of Ifrael, and because of their tranfgreffions in all their fins, the body of the beast itself was ordered to be removed, as a thing unclean, from the midst of the congregation, and burnt without the camp; but the high Priest was commanded to take of the blood, and bring it within the veil, and sprinkle it on the mercy feat, and before the mercy feat. All which is thus reprefented and apHebr. ix. plied by the Apostle. The first covenant had ordinances of divine fervice, and a worldly fanctuary. There was a tabernacle made, the first, wherein was the candlestick and the tables, and the fhew bread, which is called called the fanctuary. And after the fecond veil, the tabernacle which is called the holiest of all: which had the ark of the covenant, and over it the cherubims of glory Shadowing the mercy feat. Now the priests went always into the first tabernacle; but into the fecond went the High Prieft alone, once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people. The Holy Ghost this fignifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifeft, while as the first tabernacle was yet Standing. Which was a figure for the time then prefent. But Chrift being come, an High Prieft of good things to come, by his own blood entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. Not into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the prefence of God for us. Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the High Priest entereth into the holy place every year, with the blood of others; but now, once, hath he appeared peared to put away fin by the facrifice of himself. Christ was once offered to bear This man, after he had Hebr. x. the fins of many. 12. II, 12. offered one facrifice for fins, for ever fat Hebr.xiii. down on the right hand of God.-The bodies of thofe beasts whofe blood is brought into the fanctuary by the High Prieft for fin, are burnt without the camp. Wherefore Jefus alfo, that he might fandlify the people with his own blood, fuffered without the gate. 25. Thus not only the death of our Lord, but his entrance into heaven, and the Hebr. vii. interceffion he ever liveth to make for us, were exhibited circumftantially, as the Apoftle has fhewn us at large, by the annual offering for fin, and the ceremonies attending it. Yet, as all the facrifices under the Law, of whatever kind, were typical of the death of Christ; so, however they might differ in other respects, there was one fignal circumftance common to all the three great claffes of them, which was eminently figurative of the great |