CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

2. He did set and sanctify himself to be an oblation, and therefore it is that the Apostle doth so often call him the High-Priest in his Epistle to the Hebrews.

2. He did set and sanctifie himself to be an oblation, and therefore it is that the Apostle doth so often call him the High-Priest in his Epistle to the Hebrews.

Thirdly, There is the object matter, and that is [Greek or Hebrew] my self; The Priests of the Old Testament did consecrate the Beasts that were slain, but here Christ sanctifieth himself, So that he is both the Priest and the Sacrifice also, It is himself, and that is the greater love.

Thirdly, There is the object matter, and that is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 my self; The Priests of the Old Testament did consecrate the Beasts that were slain, but here Christ sanctifieth himself, So that he is both the Priest and the Sacrifice also, It is himself, and that is the greater love.

Further, There is the End for whom, for them, and this doth evidently prove Christ to be a Sacrifice of Atonement, For whereas the Apostle Ephes. 5.2. there saith Christ gave himself an offering and a Sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savour. The Socinian would thereby understand no more then the acceptableness of it, not that is was propitiatory for us, and they compare it with the liberality of the Philippians ▪ Phil. 4.18. where the Apostle calls their Gift an Odour of a sweet smell acceptable to God, yet this is only part of the meaning, and the phrase is not wholly alike, for in that place of Phil. it is [Greek or Hebrew] for us, as in