Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ

THE High Priest under the Law when he was to enter into the Holy Place on the Solemn day of Atonement, was to take both his hands full of sweet Incense from the Golden Table of Incense, to carry along with him in his entrance. He had also a Censer filled with Fire, that was taken from the Altar of Burnt-offerings, where Atonement was made for Sin with Blood. Upon his actual entrance through the veil, he put the Incense on the Fire in the Censer, until the Cloud of it's smoke covered the Ark, and the Mercy Seat. See Levit. 16. 12, 13. And the end hereof was to present unto God, in the behalf of the People, a sweet smelling Savour from the Sacrifice of Propitiation. See the Declaration of these things in our Exposition of Heb. 9th.

THE High Priest under the Law when he was to enter into the Holy Place on the Solemn day of Atonement, was to take both his hands full of sweet Incense from the Golden Table of Incense, to carry along with him in his entrance. He had also a Censer filled with Fire, that was taken from the Altar of Burnt-offerings, where Atonement was made for Sin with Blood. Upon his actual entrance through the vail, he put the Incense on the Fire in the Censer, until the Cloud of it's smoak covered the Ark, and the Mercy Seat. See Levit. 16. 12, 13. And the end hereof was to present unto God, in the behalf of the People, a sweet smelling Savour from the Sacrifice of Propitiation. See the Declaration of these things in our Exposition of Heb. 9th.

IN Answer unto this Mystical Type, the great High Priest of the Church, our Lord Jesus Christ, being to enter into the Holy Place not made with hands, did by the glorious Prayer Recorded in this Chapter, influenced from the Blood of his Sacrifice, fill the Heavens above, the glorious Place of God's Residence, with a cloud of ⟨p. 2⟩