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28 For the law maketh 15 men High Priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated 16 for evermore.

CHAP. VIII.

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1 By the eternal priesthood of Christ the Levitical priesthood of Aaron is abolished: 7 and the temporal covenant with the fathers, by the eternal covenant of the Gospel.

NOW of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an High Priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens ;

2 A minister of the sanctuary,' and of the • true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and

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3 For every High Priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.

4 For if he were on earth, he should not be a Priest, seeing that there are Priests 2 that offer gifts according to the law :

5 Who serve unto the example and 'shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God 3 when he was about to make the tabernacle for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern showed to thee in the mount.

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EXOD. xxvii. 8: Hollow with boards shalt thou make it:

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6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant,5 which was established upon better promises.

7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.

8 For finding fault with them, he saith, 'Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah :

9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them

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as it was showed thee in the mount, so shall they make it. NUMB. viii. 4: And this work of the candlestick was of beaten gold, unto the shaft thereof, unto the flowers thereof, was beaten work according unto the pattern which the LORD had showed Moses, so he made the candlestick. See on

ACTS, vii. 44.

h 2 COR. iii. 6, 8, 9: Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

'HEB. vii. 22. See on 1 TIM. ii. 5.

HEB. vii. 11, 18.

'JER. XXXI. 31-34: Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD: but this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neigh bour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

4 Which had the 'golden censer, and the * ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and m Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;

the ark of the testimony; as the LORD commanded Moses. HEB. vi. 19: Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil.

LEV. xvi. 12: And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail.

* EXOD. XXV. 10: They shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof. do. xxvi. 33: Thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony. do. xl. 3, 21: The words under ver. 3.

'EXOD. xvi. 33, 34: Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your generations. As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.

m NUMB. xvii. 10: The LORD said unto Moses, Bring Aaron's rod again before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels; and thou shalt quite take away their murmurings from me, that they die not.

" EXOD. XXV. 16, 21: And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee. Thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee. do. xxxiv. 29: And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him. do. xl. 20: And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put the mercy seat above upon the ark. Deut. x. 2, 5 : I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakedst, and thou shalt put them in the ark. And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the LORD commanded me. 1 KINGS, viii. 9, 21: There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb. And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of the LORD, which he made with our

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5 And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.

6 Now when these things were thus ordained, P the Priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.

7 But into the second went the High Priest alone once every year, not without blood, which

fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt. 2 CHR. v. 10: There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put therein at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.

EXOD. XXV. 18, 22: Thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat. And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony. LEV. xvi. 2: And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother. 1 KINGS, viii. 6, 7: And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims. For the cherubims spread forth their two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.

P NUMB. XXviii. 3: This is the offering made by fire which ye shall offer unto the LORD; two lambs of the first year without spot day by day, for a continual burnt offering. DAN. viii. 11 Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.

9 Ver. 25. EXOD. XXX. 10: Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements. LEV. xvi. 2, 11, 12, 15, 34: The LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat. And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make an atonement for himself, and for his house, and shall kill the bullock of the sin offering which is for himself: and he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail. Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and

he offered 'for himself, and for the errors of the people:

8 The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:

9 Which was a figure for the time then present," in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, "that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the consci

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10 Which stood only in "meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.

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bring his blood within the vail. And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a year.

See on HEB. v. 3.

HEB. X. 19, 20.

See on JOHN, xiv. 6.

"Ps. xl. 6, 7: Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. Then said I, Lo, I come in the volume of the book it is written of me. GAL. iii. 21: Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law. HEB. vii, 18, 19 There is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof. For the law made nothing perfect. See on ACTs, xiii. 39.

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Ps. li. 16, 17: For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it thou delightest not in burnt offering. The sacri fices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

w See on COL. ii. 16.

* NUMB. xix. 7, &c: Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, &c.

EPH. ii. 15: Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace. COL. ii. 20: Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the

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