end from the beginning, who consequently. in his institution of the Law, beheld its accomplishment in the Gospel; expressly provided, that the sacrifices offered on this important, occasion should be slain by the Priest's own hand;* that the blood so slain should afterwards be brought by him into the Holy of Holies; that He should not presume to enter that sacred place without blood at any time; nor even with blood but at this annual solemnity; that part of this blood should be sprinkled before the mercy seat, on which the Emblems of the divine Presence were placed: that he should afterwards sanctify the altar

before the Lord by putting some of this consecrated blood upon it; and, lastly, that after the ceremonies relating to the Scape Goat were performed, the bodies of the bullock and goat slain for the sin offering, should be burnt with fire without the camp.§

Now all these things, according to the course of the Apostle's argument, were a

*Levit. xvi. 11. 15. xvi. 10.-Heb. ix. 7.

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+ Exod. xxx. 10.-Levit. Levit. xvi. 18, 19. § Levit.

figure of Christ, and accomplished in him. The Holy of Holies on earth represented the residence of the Deity in heaven. The service that was performed in it, consequently represented the service that was to be performed in heaven. The High Priest under the Law, therefore, represented the person of our great High Priest and Intercessor on this occasion; and the blood which he sprinkled before the Cherubim on the mercy seat, was the Type of that blood, the merits of which our great High Priest, when "entered within the vail," Heb. vi. 19. was afterwards to plead before his heavenly Father. "Christ (says the Apostle) is not entered into the holy place made with hands, i.e. into the Holy of Holics in the Temple, "which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, (the actual residence of the Deity) there to appear in the presence of God for us." Heb. ix. 24. And, as the High Priest on earth was not permitted to enter into the Holy of Holies on the great day of atonement, "without blood of others;" so his great Antitype, Jesus Christ, "being become an High Priest of good things to come,"

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come," qualified his human nature for an entrance into the holy place in heaven, by the offering of his own blood. Each High Priest acted under a public character, each sustaining the persons of those whom he represented. The High Priest under the Law" offered for himself, and the errors of the people." Our great High Priest under the Gospel "appeared in the presence of God for us:" whilst the burning the sin offering without the Camp, answers to Christ's suffering without the gate of Jerusalem.

As the covenant for the redemption of fallen man was, by divine direction to be typically exhibited on earth, with the view of preserving the true faith in the world, by directing the eye of the sacrificer to its proper object; it necessarily followed, that such an exhibition must be performed, before the Emblems appointed to represent the divine presence. For God literally speaking, dwelleth not in temples made with hands. "The heavens (saith the Lord) is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; where is the house that ye build unto me?" Isaiah lxvi .1. Still we find God

God giving express direction to Moses, relative to the building of the Tabernacle, in the following words. "Let them make me a Sanctuary, according to all that I shew thee after the pattern, that I may dwell among them." Exod. xxv. 8.

Now there are two senses, a literal and a figurative sense; in one of which every writing is to be understood, if it is to be understood at all. When, therefore, the Holy of Holies is called the Sanctuary, the dwelling-place or residence of the Deity; it must necessarily be understood, in a figu rative sense, to be a Type of heaven. Consequently the Figures or Emblems, which were ordered to be set up in the holy place, of which a particular description is given in the letter of the Law, must have been patterns, or representations of things in the heavens. In conformity with which idea, after having reminded the Hebrews to whom he was writing, that all things by the Law were purged with the blood of calves and of goats offered in sacrifice; the Apostle proceeds to observe, that "it was necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be

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purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves, (the Divine Realities, which those patterns were intended to represent), with better sacrifices than these." Heb. ix. 23.

"Jesus Christ then being become an High Priest of good things to come, entered not (says the Apostle) into the Holy of Holies on earth, with the blood of calves and of goats; but after his sacrifice on the Cross, he entered once into the holy place in heaven." Heb. ix. 11, 12. " If he were on earth, (observes the Apostle) he should not be a Priest; seeing, or because there are Priests that offer gifts according to the Law." Heb. viii. 4. The shadow and the reality could not, according to the divine plan, co-exist under the same Dispensation. When our blessed Saviour, therefore, having yielded up his life on the Cross, entered into heaven to offer his own blood for man's redemption, the Priesthood of the Law virtually ceased, and his own unchangeable Priesthood commenced; by the efficacy of which," he is able to save, to the uttermost, them that come unto God by him, seeing he ever