The sum of sacred divinity briefly & methodically propoundedThe summe of sacred diuinitie briefly & methodically propounded

First, That Christ himself performeth all the parts,¹ and his whole person hath a stroke in it: for both he is the Sacrifice, or thing it self offered, the Priest, or the Offerer, and the Altar, or that which sanctifieth the offering: whereupon in his whole person as GOD and Man, he is said to be our Priest, Heb. 5. 6.

First, That Christ himselfe performeth all the parts,¹ and his whole person hath a stroke in it: for both hee is the Sacrifice, or thing it selfe offered, the Priest, or the Offerer, and the Altar, or that which sanctifieth the offering: whereupon in his whole person as GOD and Man, he is said to be our Priest, Heb. 5. 6.

1. 1his taking upon himhis taking vpon him

First, As Man, he is the Sacrifice, his whole humanity suffering (both Soul and Body) which was the Tabernacle of his Deity, wherein he performed this Sacrifice; whereupon the Apostle calleth him, The ^xMinister of that true Tabernacle, which the Lord pight, and not man: and, that ^yChrist being come an High Priest, by a better and more perfect Tabernacle, not made with hands, that is, not of this building, which the earthly Tabernacle was of, but even by his own blood entered into the holy Place. Wherefore the Scripture attributeth the remission of our sins by this oblation, sometimes to his whole person, sometimes by a Synecdoche of the part for the whole, to his Body, flesh or blood, and sometimes to his Soul,