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Secondly, The Oblation or offering he made, was not the §2blood of beasts, but his own blood. Heb. 9.12. And herein he transcended all other Priests,¹ that he had something of his own to offer. He had a body given him to be at his own dispose, to ⟨p. 142⟩this use and purpose. Heb. 10.10. He offered his body; Yea, not only his body, but his soul was made an offering for sin. Isa. 53.10. We had made a forfeiture of our souls and bodies by sin, and it was necessary the Sacrifice of Christ should be answerable to the debt we owed. And when Christ came to offer his Sacrifice, he stood not only in the capacity of a Priest, but also in the capacity of a surety; and so his soul stood in the stead of ours, and his body in the stead of our bodies. Now the excellency of this Oblation will appear in the following adjuncts, and properties of it. This Oblation being for the matter of it the soul and body of Jesus Christ; is therefore,

1. 1Bilson. and Fevardentius affirm that Christ only offered up his body, not his soul upon this weak ground, that if he had offered both he had not offered one, but two Sacrifices. Against whom the Learned Parker in his excellent book de d•s […] urgeth my text and thus frees it from that corrupt gloss. Pulchrè, quasi boloca stum non unum fuit Sacrificium quia ex plur bus partibus constabit!—Sacrificium Christi unicum dicitur, non in oppositione corporis ad animam, sed in oppositione corporis & animae, semel Oblati ad multa illa Sacrificia quae non semel, sed multoti•s, in Lege Mosis offerebantur. Parker de descensu Lib. 111. p. 146.Bilson. and Fevardentius affirm that Christ only offered up his body, not his soul upon this weak ground, that if he had offered both he had not offered one, but two Sacrifices. Against whom the Learned Parker in his excellent book de ds urgeth my text and thus frees it from that corrupt gloss. Pulchrè, quasi boloca stum non unum fuit Sacrificium quia ex plur bus partibus constabit!—Sacrificium Christi unicum dicitur, non in oppositione corporis ad animam, sed in oppositione corporis & animae, semel Oblati ad multa illa Sacrificia quae non semel, sed multotis, in Lege Mosis offerebantur. Parker de descensu Lib. 111. p. 146.