A continuation of the exposition of the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the…

1. That no sinful man was meet to offer the great Expiatory sacrifice for the Church; much less is any sinful man fit to offer Christ himself. As the first part of this Assertion declares the insufficiency of the Priests of the Church of the Jews, so doth the latter the vain pretence of the Priests of the Church of Rome. The former the Apostle proves and confirms expressly. For no other high Priest but such a one as was in himself perfectly sinless, did become us, or our state and condition. He that was otherwise could neither have any thing of his own to offer, and must in the first place offer for himself, and this he must be doing day by day. And the latter on many accounts is a vile presumptuous Imagination. For a poor sinful worm of the Earth, to interpose himself between God and Christ, and offer the one in sacrifice unto the other, what an issue is it of Pride and Folly?

1. That no sinful man was meet to offer the great Expiatory sacrifice for the Church; much less is any sinful man fit to offer Christ himself. As the first part of this Assertion declares the insufficiency of the Priests of the Church of the Jews, so doth the latter the vain pretence of the Priests of the Church of Rome. The former the Apostle proves and confirms expresly. For no other high Priest but such a one as was in himself perfectly sinless, did become us, or our state and condition. He that was otherwise could neither have any thing of his own to offer, and must in the first place offer for himself, and this he must be doing day by day. And the latter on many accounts is a vile presumptuous Imagination. For a poor sinful worm of the Earth, to interpose himself between God and Christ, and offer the one in sacrifice unto the other, what an issue is it of Pride and Folly?

2. The Excellency of Christs Person and Priesthood freed him in his offering from many things that the Levitical Priesthood was obliged unto. And the due Apprehension hereof is a great guide unto us in the consideration of those Types. For many things we shall meet withal which we cannot see how they had a particular Accomplishment in Christ, nor find out what they did prefigure. But all of them were such that their own infirm state and condition did require. Such was their outward Call and Consecration which they had by the Law, in the sacrifice of beasts, with certain washings and unctions, their sacrificing often, and for themselves, their Succession one to another, their Purifications or legal Pollutions. These and sundry things of like nature were made necessary unto them from their own sins and infirmities, and so had no particular Accomplishment in Christ. However in general all the Ordinances and Institutions about them all, taught the Church thus much, that nothing of that was to be found in the true high Priest wherein they were defective.