...propitiate the deity, or merit any favour at the hands of God. The gifts and sacrifices then offered, could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience," Heb. ix. 9The blood of bulls and of goats was a low compensation for the sin of man. The offering of...

...respects, an edifying resemblance. a They 'sanctified to the purifying of the flesh,' Heb. lx. ta. ' But could not make him that did the service perfect' as pertaining to the conscience.' Ueb. ix. 9. t Lev. xvi. 2I. 1 What says that prodigy of Oriental learning, Bochart ! ' Hoc eodem ritu...

...can we refuse to acknowledge that it was, in its own time, glorious. .For, although these ceremonies could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience, yet was the whole system, of which they formed a part, perfectly adapted, by Divine Wisdom, to the...

...trespass-ofl'ering, Lev. v. 15. 19. f They " sanctified to the purifying of the flesh," Heb. ix. 15. " but could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to tba conscience," Heb. ix. 3. An oddly concerted device this ! in which the tongue must contradict what...

...once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself and for the errors of the people. But Christ being come a High Priest of good things to come, not by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the Holy place,...

...holy, harmless, undefiled, and separate from sinners," chap. vii. 26. " And being come an high-priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle," than that in which the legal high-priest officiated, namely, his own body ; which was a tabernacle...

...shadows of the ancient Jewish worship were to receive their accomplishment, and to vanish away. The gifts and sacrifices that could not make him that did the service perfect as pertainingto the conscience ; which stood in meats and drinks, and diverse washings, and carnal ordinances,...

...sin, Heb. x. 4. that they did sanctify only to the purifying of the flesh, Heb. vii. 13. that they could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience, Heb. ix. 9. that is, that they only released offenders from the obligation to civil and ecclesiastical...

...shadows of the ancient Jewish worship were to receive their accomplishment, and to vanish away. The gifts and sacrifices that could not make him that did the service perfect as pertainingto the conscience ; which stood in meats and drinks, and diverse washings, and carnal ordinances,...

...and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation ; that it could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience." He calls the Levitical institutions " weak and beggarly elements,"0 and speaks with contempt even of...