Exodus 29:46

REFLECTIONS

Reader! let us not think, in the perusal of this Chapter, that we are in the midst of shadows still; but bless God the Holy Ghost, who enables us to look through the shadow, and see clearly the substance, to which the whole ministered. Do we not in Aaron see our Almighty Aaron, and in his sons those who are the sons and daughters of the Lord God Almighty, whom Jesus hath made kings and priests to God and the Father? Was Aaron thus washed, and arrayed, and anointed to the sacred service? and was not Jesus, our great high priest, consecrated to the work, when in the infinite purity of his nature he offered himself in all the glories of his person and his character, to make reconciliation for the sins of his people? Dearest and ever blessed Lord! do thou go in before me, in all the parts of this precious character. Be thou my morning and my evening propitiation! Sanctify my soul with the continued pourings forth of all the graces, and gifts, and rich anointings, of thine Holy Spirit. And may that first and unspeakable mercy be my portion, that being reconciled to God, even the Father, in thy blood and righteousness, he may according to his most sweet promise dwell in me, and be in me and with me; that he may be my God, and that I may be among the number of his people.