The harmony of the divine attributes in the contrivance and accomplishment of man's redemption…

1. To offer Sacrifice.

2. To make intercession for the People by virtue of the Sacrifice. This was performed by the High-Priest in the Feast of Atonement which was celebrated in the month Tisri. ¹The oblation of the Sacrifices was without, at the Altar▪ the Intercession was made in the Holy of Holies, into which none might enter but the High-Priest once a year. And first he must ⟨p. 270⟩expiate his own sins, and the sins of the people by Sacrifices, before he could remove the Veil, and enter into that sacred and venerable place, where no sinner had right to appear. Then he was to present the precious Incense, and the Blood of the Sacrifices, to render God favourable to them.² Now these were shadows of what Christ was to perform. The Holy of Holies was the type of the third-Heaven, in its Situation, Quality and Furniture. For it was the most secret part of the Tabernacle, separated by a double Veil, by that which was between it and the first Sanctuary, and by another that distinguished the first from the outward Court. Thus the Heaven of Heavens is the most distant part of the Universe, and separated from the lower World, by the Starry Heaven, and by the Airy Region, which reaches down to the Earth. Besides, the most Holy part of the Tabernacle was inaccessible to sinners: as Heaven is styled by the Apostle the place of inaccessible light. And it was the Throne of God, where he reigned: according to the Language of the Psalmist, He dwelt between the Cherubims. ³The figures of the Cherubims represented the Myriads of holy Angels, that adore the incomprehensible Deity, and are always ready to execute his commands. The Tables of the Law were a Symbol of that infinite Wisdom and Holiness which ordained them: and the High-Priests entering with the Blood of the Sacrifice, and carrying with him all the Tribes of Israel upon his Breast, signified that Jesus Christ the true High-Priest after he had really expiated sin by his Divine Sacrifice in the lower World, should enter into the Eternal Sanctuary with his own Blood, and introduce with him all his People. Of this there was a