The works of William Bridge, sometime fellow of Emanuel College in CambridgeThe works of William Bridge, sometime fellow of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge

If we now inquire further, what the work of the High-Priest was, and is, that accordingly we may address our selves unto Jesus Christ for succour. We shall find, that it is also, to Pray, and Intercede for the people. To make reconciliation for the sins of the people, (says the text) To make Atonement for the sins of the people, (says the old Testament.) Which Reconciliation, or Atonement, was made in the times of the old Testament, not only by offering of a sacrifice, but by taking the blood thereof, and presenting that with Prayers, ⟨p. 26⟩and intercessions, unto God, to accept of it for the sins of the people. As we shall find, in that same 16. of Leviticus: After the sacrifice was killed, the Priest was to take the blood of it, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the Mercy-Seat; as we read in the 14. verse. And at the 12. and 13. He shall take a Censer full of burning coals of fire from off the Alter before the Lord, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil; And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the Lord, that the cloud of the incense may cover the Mercy-Seat. He was to cause a cloud of incense to arise upon the Mercy-Seat. All which was a great Type of the Prayers, and Intercessions of Jesus Christ: who having once offered up himself a sacrifice for our sins, hath carried the blood, and the virtue of it into Heaven, there sprinkled the Mercy-Seat, and there still by his Intercessions does appear for us; As it is proved at large, in the 9. Chapter of this Epistle to the Hebrews, 11. and 12 verses: But Christ being come an High-Priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect Tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building: Neither by the blood of goats and calves: but by his own blood be entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. And at the 24. verse: For Christ is not entered into the Holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true, but into Heaven it self, now to appear in the presence of God for us. And if you duly consider this book of the Hebrews, you will find, that this work of Christs Intercession, is The Essential work of his Priestly-Office: it seems rather to go beyond the former, than to fall short of it. Hebrews, the 8. Chapter and the 4. verse. For if he were on earth, he should not be a Priest.

If we now inquire further, what the work of the High-Priest was, and is, that accordingly we may address our selves unto Jesus Christ for succour. We shall find, that it is also, to Pray, and Intercede for the people. To make reconciliation for the sins of the people, (saies the text) To make Atonement for the sins of the people, (saies the old Testament.) Which Reconciliation, or Atonement, was made in the times of the old Testament, not only by offering of a sacrifice, but by taking the blood thereof, and presenting that with Praers,