Conclusion. IV.

Conclusion. IV.

Our Lord JESUS CHRIST, is the Illustrious Antitype of the Sacrifices used in Israel, and particularly of that which was Commanded for the whole Congregation of Israel.

The very Affection, That our Lord Jesus Christ has been made a Sacrifice, proves Him to be the Antitype of all the foregoing Sacrifices. If the former Sacrifices could have made Satisfaction to God for our Sin, He would never have put His own, His only Begotten, His Dearly ⟨p. 37⟩Beloved, SON unto the horrible Grief, of being made a Sacrifice. Much more than the Epistle, to the Hebrews, must be curt out of our Bibles, before we forego this Glorious Truth. And indeed, All the True Believers, before the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, had an Eve to the Messiah, in the Sacrifices; their Sacrifices were but so many Remembrances of the Messiah, who was promised, one day to be Bruised, for our Deliverances from the old Serpent. Hence we read, in Psal. 51. 16, 17. Thou desirest not Sacrifice, thou delightest not in Burnt offering: The Sacrifices of God are a Broken Spirit; a Broken and a Contrite Heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. The special Character, which the Spirit of God put on the Messiah, coming to be a Sacrifice for Sin, was that of, The Bruised one: Yea, the very First Time that ever the Messiah was mentioned in the World, His being Bruised, was the Thing proposed concerning Him. The Messiah, was to be, A Broken and Contrite one: There never were such Heart breaking Things Encountered by any Living, as what very felt by our Lord Jesus Christ, in the Rich Bay, when Earth and Hell joined for the Afflicting of Him, and His Father also treated Him, as one made a Curse for Sin. In the Agonies which then came upon Him, He cried out, My Heart is Broken! This, This was the Sacrifice, which thou, O David, still didst six ⟨p. 38⟩