Thirdly, There must be an expiation of sin, or else there can be no justification. The very Gentiles themselves, stung with the conscience of sin and vengeance, had their expiatory and lustratory Sacrifices. The ancient lews, being Gods people, had their offerings and sacrifices for sin, to make an Atonement according to the Levitical Law. The latter Jews, though they reject the sacrifice of the Messiah; yet that they might not be wholly without an expiation, offer a cock for sin, because the word [Gebher] in Hebrew signifies a man, and in the Talmud a cock; hence they say, Gebher, that is, the man sinneth, and Gebher, that is, the cock suffereth. If the Prophet Isaiah in the 53. chapter, had used the word (Gebher) the Rabbins (saith a Learned man) would have turned the man into a cock; but there it is not Gebher, but Ish, a man of sorrows: But these expiations not availing, God hath provided an expiation in the death of his son. Without shedding of blood there is no remission, saith the Apostle, Heb. 9.22. and because creature-blood could not do it, the blood of God was shed to redeem us ⟨p. 98⟩from sin; Jesus Christ, who is God-man, offered up himself through the eternal spirit, to purge our consciences from dead works: he paid the utmost farthing to Divine justice, and hath left nothing at all to pay for the believing sinner. The Gentile sacrifices were no expiations at all, being indeed sacrifices to devils and not to God; nay, in their own account they did not expiate in all cases. Hence when the Emperor Constantine was haunted with the innocent blood he had shed, the Gentile Flamius could tell him of no expiation. But the blood of Christ is a true and universal expiation, cleansing from sin and all sin, 1 Joh. 1.7. The Levitical sacrifices, though of Divine Institution, were but types and shadows, making nothing perfect. But a crucified Christ is the sum and substance of them, really atoning what those did but typically. The Rabbinical cock is a strange vanity, in which we may stand and wonder at the Jewish blindness; but what their vain Gebher could not do, that our Ish the man of sorrows, upon whom all our iniquities met, hath done indeed: he was wounded for our iniquities, his soul was an offering for sin, his life a ••nsom for many, his blood was shed for the remission of sins, he paid that he never took, he made […] through the blood of his cross;
Thirdly, There must be an expiation of sin, or else there can be no justification. The very Gentiles themselves, stung with the conscience of sin and vengeance, had their expiatory and lustratory Sacrifices. The antient lews, being Gods people, had their offerings and sacrifices for sin, to make an Atonement according to the Levitical Law. The latter Jews, though they reject the sacrifice of the Messiah; yet that they might not be wholly without an expiation, offer a cock for sin, because the word [Gebher] in Hebrew signifies a man, and in the Talmud a cock; hence they say, Gebher, that is, the man sinneth, and Gebher, that is, the cock suffereth. If the Prophet Isaias in the 53. chapter, had used the word (Gebher) the Rabbins (saith a Learned man) would have turned the man into a cock; but there it is not Gebher, but Ish, a man of sorrows: But these expiations not availing, God hath provided an expiation in the death of his son. Without shedding of blood there is no remission, saith the Apostle, Heb. 9.22. and because creature-blood could not do it, the blood of God was shed to redeem us ⟨p. 98⟩from sin; Jesus Christ, who is God-man, offered up himself through the eternal spirit, to purge our consciences from dead works: he paid the utmost farthing to Divine justice, and hath left nothing at all to pay for the believing finner. The Gentile sacrifices were no expiations at all, being indeed sacrifices to devils and not to God; nay, in their own account they did not expiate in all cases. Hence when the Emperor Constantine was haunted with the innocent blood he had shed, the Gentile Flamius could tell him of no expiation. But the blood of Christ is a true and universal expiation, cleansing from sin and all sin, 1 Joh. 1.7. The Levitical sacrifices, though of Divine Institution, were but types and shadows, making nothing perfect. But a crucified Christ is the sum and substance of them, really atoning what those did but typically. The Rabbinical cock is a strange vanity, in which we may stand and wonder at the Jewish blindness; but what their vain Gebher could not do, that our Ish the man of sorrows, upon whom all our iniquities met, hath done indeed: he was wounded for our iniquities, his soul was an offering for sin, his life a ••nsom for many, his blood was shed for the remission of sins, he paid that he never took, he made 〈…〉 through the blood of his cross;
