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6. Into the most holy place. By these words is showed, whither also the Ark went, when it went to take up its rest. And in that this Ark was a type of Christ in this, it is to show or further manifest, that what Christ doth now in Heaven, he doth it before his Father's face. Yea, it intimates that Christ even there makes his appeals to God, concerning the worth of what he did on Earth, to God the Judge of all; I say, whether he ought not for his sufferings-sake, to have granted to him his whole desire, as Priest and Advocate for his People.

6. Into the most holy place. By these vvords is shevved, vvhither also the Ark vvent, vvhen it vvent to take up its rest. And in that this Ark was a type of Christ in this, it is to shew or further manifest, that what Christ doth now in Heaven, he doth it before his Father's face. Yea, it intimates that Christ even there makes his appeals to God, concerning the worth of what he did on Earth, to God the Judge of all; I say, whether he ought not for his sufferings-sake, to have granted to him his whole desire, as Priest and Advocate for his People.

Wilt thou, said Festus to Paul, go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things before me? Acts 25.9. Why, this our blessed Jesus was willing when here, to go up to Jerusalem to be judged; and being misjudged of there, he made his appeal to God, and is now gone thither, ⟨p. 188⟩even into the holy place, even to him that is Judge of all, for his Verdict upon his doing; and whether the Souls for whom he became undertaker, to bring them to glory, have not by him a right to the Kingdom of Heaven.