_We have such an High Priest._ OUR GREAT HIGH PRIEST You can hardly fail to observe the tone of triumph of St. Paul in giving his summary; in announcing it as an established fact, that we have such an High Priest, a High Priest such as had been described--“holy, harmless, undefiled, and separate fr... [ Continue Reading ]
_The true tabernacle_ THE TRUE TABERNACLE I. IT HAS A DIVINE RESIDENT. The soul is in the body, animating and controlling it, and revealing itself in it; so God is in the good--the true Church. II. IT HAS A DIVINE ARCHITECT. 1. He formed the plan, and a wonderful plan it is, stretching over ages... [ Continue Reading ]
_To offer gifts and sacrifices_ SACRIFICES I. GOD’S ORDINATION OR APPOINTMENT GIVES RULES, MEASURES, AND ENDS UNTO ALL SACRED OFFICES AND EMPLOYMENTS. Whoever undertakes anything in religion or divine worship, without it, besides it, beyond it, is a transgressor, and therein worshippeth God in vai... [ Continue Reading ]
_According to the pattern shewed to thee_ PLAN AND PATTERN AND PURPOSE Moses, when he went down from God on Sinai, knew what he was going to build, and how he was going to build it. The thought of a thing, the conception of it, is its first and largest half. It is easier to pour in the molten iron... [ Continue Reading ]
_Mediator of a better covenant._ THE COVENANT OF GRACE OPENED AND EXPLAINED I. THE GOSPEL-DISPENSATION UNDER WHICH WE LIVE IS PROPERLY A COVENANT. 1. What we are to understand by a covenant in general. 2. What by the covenant of grace in particular. 3. Illustrate two or three particular points... [ Continue Reading ]
_If that first covenant had been faultless_ THE IMPERFECTION OF THE FIRST COVENANT Observe here 1. What is charged on the first covenant, and that is faultiness, by which we are not to understand any sinful faultiness, but defectiveness and imperfection only; for it was not faulty in the matter... [ Continue Reading ]
_Finding fault with them_ GOD COMPLAINING OF THE CHURCH I. GOD HATH OFTTIMES JUST CAUSE TO COMPLAIN OF HIS PEOPLE WHEN YET HE WILL NOT UTTERLY CAST THEM OFF. II. IT IS THE DUTY OF THE CHURCH TO TAKE DEEP NOTICE OF GOD’S COMPLAINTS OF THEM. Want hereof is that which hath laid most churches in the... [ Continue Reading ]
_I will put My laws into their mind_ GOD’S COVENANT WITH THE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH I. WHAT IS IMPORTED GENERALLY IN THE WORDS. 1. That a covenant shall be made, and a covenant-relation shall subsist, between God and every member of the New Testament Church. 2. That both parties, so related to one... [ Continue Reading ]