The Apostleship and Priesthood of Christ; A Practical Exposition of St. Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews Lectures (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1834 Excerpt: ... For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high-priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; (for then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: ) but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself ver. 24--26. We are instructed, in the foregoing part of this Epistle, that we have in our Lord Jesus Christ "a minister of the sanctuary," or true celestial tabernacle, "which the Lord pitched, and not man." We are taught, also, that the ordinances of the Jewish tabernacle were chiefly valuable, as "serving for an example or shadow," a copy, or adumbration, "of heavenly things1," "according to the pattern which was showed to Moses in the Mount;" the Mosaic covenant being, in fact, but a temporary one, introductory to the everlasting covenant of justification and sanctification, of pardon and holiness, of mercy from God and obedience from man, of which Christ is the Mediator. The superiority of this new or Christian to the old or Jewish covenant, has already occupied our attention in discoursing upon the eighth chapter of this Epistle; we have now to recur more particularly to the doctrine, that the Jewish tabernacle, with its ministry and ordinances, was only a temporary type of heavenly things to come, prefiguring, as we have said, that celestial sanctuary, which Christ has entered as our Mediator, and that allsufficient sacrifice, which he alone could offer for our sins. To enter satisfactorily on this subject, we must pause a moment, and recall to mind what the Jewish tabernacle was. By referring, ...