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Gospel-revelation in three treatises, viz, 1 The nature of God. 2 The excellencies of…
Gospel-revelation in three treatises, viz, 1 The nature of God. 2 The excellencies of Christ. And, 3 The Excellency of mans immortal soul. By Jeremiah Burroughs, late preacher of the gospel at Stepney, and Giles-Cripple-gate, London. Published by William Greenhill. William Bridge. Philip Nigh. John Yates. Matthew Mead. William Adderly.Gospel-revelation in three treatises, viz, 1 The nature of God. 2 The excellencies of Christ. And, 3 The Excellency of mans immortal soul. By Jeremiah Burroughs, late preacher of the gospel at Stepney, and Giles-Cripple-gate, London. Published by William Greenhill. William Bridge. Philip Nye. John Yates. Matthew Mead. William Adderly.
London: printed for Nath. Brook, 1660
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Treatise 2 › Sermon 2: The Second SERMON ON The Excellency of Christ.
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And it brings the Saints into the Holy of Holies, and that with boldness, and for that you have a most excellent Scripture of the Saints being brought into the Holy of Holies by the Priest-hood of Christ, in the tenth to the Hebrews, Having therefore boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, 1by the Sacrifice that this our Priest hath offered ⟨p. 89⟩to the Father, we come to enter into the Holiest of all, and that with boldness.
And it brings the Saints into the Holy of Holies, and that with boldnesse, and for that you have a most excellent Scripture of the Saints being brought into the Holy of Holies by the Priest-hood of Christ, in the tenth to the Hebrews, Having therefore boldnesse to enter into the holiest by the bloud of Jesus, 1by the Sacrifice that this our Priest hath offered ⟨p. 89⟩to the Father, we come to enter into the Holiest of all, and that with boldnesse.
It was not so in the time of the Law; no, but after the High Priest had offered Sacrifice, he alone goes into the Holy of Holies; but now mark, here not only Christ our High Priest, but we, may come with boldness, which none of the people could do in the Law, that is thus, there is such an efficacy in the Sacrifice of our High Priest, as that every believer may come, though he hath never so many sins of his own, he may come with boldness into the Holy of Holies, into the most immediate presence of God the Father, through the sacrifice of this our Priest, that hath made such a way by his Blood for us, to come and enter into the Holy of Holies; the People in the time of the Law were to stand at a distance, for this Sacrifice was not actually offered; but since Christs coming, and his actual offering up his Sacrifice, now the Saints of God may come with boldness into the holy, immediate, and glorious presence of God that can be; let God appear never so gloriously, yet the Saints have liberty and boldness to come into the most glorious presence of God; and therefore Christ is wonderful in this Priestly Office of his. Two or three things more should have been spoken.