an offering for sin. Isaiah liii.-Behold the true Paschal Lamb, to whom all the typical service of the Law was designed to lead you. Behold the Lamb of God, slain in the Divine Councils before the world began; who, in the fulness of time, shall, with his own Blood, enter once into the holy place not made with hands; that through the eternal spirit" offering himself without spot to God, he may purge your consciences from dead works to serve the living God." Heb. ix. 14.

Thus has it been shewn in what sense Jesus Christ is made unto us Sanctification. He came into the world, (as he himself said) not to destroy the Law but to fulfil it. This commission he executed partly in his character of Sanctifier. To the Jew he rendered the law perfect by filling it up: and at the same time furnishing, in his own divine Person, that truc sanctification, of which the purifications of the Law were designed as figures for the time being. To lead the Jewish nation to this important conclusion, our Saviour, when expiring on the Cross, made use of these striking words: "It is finished." As if he had said, the

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work which I covenanted to perform on earth is compleated. At the same time the vail of the Temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.

The Apostle tells us, that by the High Priest on earth entering within the vail into the second tabernacle with blood once every year, the Holy Ghost signified "that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest." Heb. ix. 8. The cir cumstance, therefore, of this vail being rent from top to bottom, at the death of Christ, was intended, it it presumed, to convey, in the same symbolic language, this important, idea; that at the death of Christ, the way into the holiest of all, was really made manifest; and that therefore the emblematic service, which had hitherto been performed within the vail of the tabernacle on earth, was no longer necessary to be continued. The scene was now changed from earth to heaven; where the great work of atonement was in future to be carried on by that spotless High Priest, who with his own blood was ascended into heaven for that gracious purpose.

In this sense, then, Jesus Christ became

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the true sanctifier of his chosen people. Whilst the Gentile, through the preaching of his Gospel, was rescued from the gross impurity of the superstitious worship to which he had been accustomed, by which the glory of the incorruptible God had been changed, through the suggestions of the devil, into images made like to corruptible man, to birds, beasts, and creeping things."

In a general sense, both to Jew and Gentile, that is, to every member of the Christian Church, Jesus Christ is made sanctification, by virtue of his having appeared once in the end of the world, to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself: and in consequence of that abundant effusion of his spirit shed abroad under the Christian Dispensation, by which that real purity of heart and mind is effected, which the ritual purifications of the Law were designed to typify; and to which all the appointed means of grace under the Gospel are designed to lead.

The short view which has been here taken of a most important subject, bears testimony to the plan of divine wisdom in

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the covenant of Grace, sufficient, it is presumed, to establish the faith, and direct the practice of every Christian Professor. For, short as it is, it makes the Bible speak a consistent language from Genesis to Revelations; directing the attention of the reader to the same divine object of Christian hope, from the revelation of the promised Seed to Adam in Paradise, through the shadows of the Law, to its actual completion in the person of Jesus Christ; "who

for us men and for our salvation came down from Heaven, was incarnate by the Holy Ghost, and crucified under Pontius Pilate." Who, in correspondence with the figurative language of the Prophet, by which he is described as coming" with dyed garments from the vintage, red in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength, speaking in righteousness, and mighty to save," is represented in the Book of Revelations, as "clothed in a vesture dipped in Blood;" the emblematic memorial of the bloody work which He had performed for Man, and his name, (as the Divine Revelation proceeds to inform us) is called the Word of God. And

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He hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King of Kings and Lord of Lords." Rev. xix. 16.

The correspondence between the symbol of the Old Testament, and the letter of the New is well worthy of remark; because it bears striking testimony to the consistency of the divine plan, in the execution of the Christian Covenant.

The Cherubim, it has been observed, were set up at the cast of the Garden of Eden, immediately after the Fall. This same emblematic representation was afterwards made from a pattern expressly delivered by God to Moses, and in process of time, to David for the religious service of the Tabernacle and Temple. The particular construction of the Cherubim was also revealed to Ezekiel in a vision. Under this emblematic representation, Divine Wisdom was pleased to convey that knowledge of spiritual things, necessary to give effect to the worship of those, who lived under the Dispensations, preceding that which commenced with the ministry of Jesus Christ.

This latter Dispensation graciously exchanged