The safety of appearing at the day of judgement, in the righteousness of Christ

1. The sacrifices did teach this truth; the offering up of sacrifice was a principal part of the instituted worship of God of old. it was appointed immediately upon the •all, and the institution thereof renewed at Mount Sinai, and vindicated from many corruptions, wherewith man had depraved them; and although there were some other particular intendment of some of them, yet the general end of them all was to make atonement, and procure the remission of sin, Lev. 1.4. the design of them was to procure the remission of sin, without shedding of blood is no remission, Heb. 9 22, and therefore it was their manner to confess their sins when they brought their sacrifice, Lev. 5.5. the sacrifice was slain instead of the sinner, Gen, 22.13. and in those sacrifices God is said to smell a savour of rest, Gen. 8.21. the offerings are often called a sweet savour: and these sacrifices did shadow forth the satisfaction that Jesus Christ was to make for our sins; the great end of them was to lead the Church into a dependence upon the sacrifice of Christ: to shadow forth to them how acceptable and pleasing that would be unto God. These legal sacrifices could not make real, but only typical satisfaction; they were not a proportionable price to ransom mens souls by; the Apostle tells us, it was not possible that they should take away sins, Heb. 10.4. the design of them was to be types of the satisfaction that was to be made by the death of ⟨p. 66⟩Christ: in those sacrifices were shadowed forth that Christ Jesus was to be put to death: for the sacrifices were slain, that he was to be slain upon the account of our sins; so the sacrifices were that he was to suffer the wrath of God, as the sacrifices were burnt up with fire from heaven: that the death of Christ was an effectual means to reconcile us unto God: that these sacrifices were types of Christ making atonement is clear, because Christ is often called a sacrifice,