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Made higher than the Heavens,] ¹i. e. of an higher Perfection than all created Powers in Heavenly Places, whether Angels or Principalities, &c.

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Such an High Priest became us: An High Priest of an inferior perfection would not have done our business for us.

Such an High Priest became us: An High Priest of an inferiour perfection would not have done our business for us.

And as, such an High Priest became us, so, truly such a way of justifying believing Sinners, became him; namely, it was becoming a person of such a transcendent worth and excellency, to justify his Redeemed in the most ample and glorious way; &c. by working out for them, and then investing them with, a Righteousness, adequate to the Law of God; a Righteousness, that should be every way commensurate to the miserable estate of fallen Man, and to the holy design of the glorious God. It was a becoming thing, that the second Adam might restore as good a Righteousness, as the first Adam lost; that this should justify as sully, as the other did condemn. ¹This is the very design of that famous Parallel instituted by the Apostle between the two Adams, namely, to signify an equality, not of number in the persons receiving: but of efficacy in the persons deriving, and communicating what was their own, to either of their Seeds: The first Adam to his natural Seed, and the second Adam to his Spiritual Seed; to the end that Men and Angels might take notice, that Jesus Christ the second Adam, was not less Powerful to save, than the first Adam was to destroy: To which purpose