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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43581	A review of Mr. Horn's catechisme, and some few of his questions and answers noted by J.H. of Massingham p. Norf.	Hacon, Joseph, 1603-1662.	1660 (1660)	Wing H177; ESTC R16207	79,887	160

did he that A. In that being made under the law for us he accordingly yeelded himself to death to bear the curse due unto us Q. 102. How did doth he more fully exercise his Priestly office in Heaven A. He in his Ascension offerd and presented himself as the prepared Sacrifice to his Father and was thereby consecrated the great high Priest entred within the veil with the vertues of his own bloud to appear in the presence of God for us and to make intercession The preparatives that were to Christs death or Sacrifice of himself we may call those infirmities which together with our nature he took upon him meaning not personal infirmities as diseases or distempers of this or that sort but such as accompany mankinde in general hunger thirst weariness fear pain grief and mortalitie we may reckon also his devout obedience his humilitie voluntary humiliation or empoverishing of himself his vehem nt supplications with strong crying and tears As these did forego his Sacrifice so did they prepare so it but that his death should be a preparation to his Sacrifice and that his Sacrifice should onely be prepared on earth and offered in Heaven is a new part of learning and soundeth somewhat strange out of what shop soever it came and to what purpose soever it was first forged Our Church hath taught us that Christ suffering upon the cross did make THERE a full perfect sufficient Sacrifice oblation and satisfaction and our Saviour said upon the Cross It is finished And when the Apostle to the Colossians C. 2 V. 14 saith that the handwriting was blotted out and taken out of the way or out of sight and to make it past all fear of ever being produced against us that it was nailed to his cross that is cancelled and torn in pieces there needeth nothing more to be said to let us know that there needeth nothing more to be done for perfecting the Sacrifice and expiation For whether he speaketh in reference to the Ceremonial or the moral law or both it was a full and complete Sacrifice to the purpose intended And holy Scripture plainly speaketh of his death and Sacrifice as precisely the same the altar being the cross and no other propitiatory Sacrifice but his body crucified and dead Hebr. 9 26 28. Christ must not offer often because he must not suffer often and he must not suffer often because it is appointed for men once and but once to die To offer and to suffer and to die are in this case made the very same thing And even in common speech and in common sense the sacrifice of any thing consisteth in the killing of it and if it be of a thing inanimate then it consisteth in the consuming of it but neither killing nor consuming is the preparing of the Sacrifice Where was Christ slain was it not upon the earth yes and shall he be sacrificed in heaven or where was ever the killing the sacrifice called the preparing of it There was among the Jews the Preparation of the Pass-over and the killing of the Passover and the eating of the Pass-over these three It is true that the killing of it did prepare for the eating of it But the eating of it was the Sacrament of it not the Sacrifice of it The places or texts of Scripture such as carry any colour may be considered Hebr. 8. 4. For if he were on earth he should not be a Priest seeing that there are Priests that offer gifts according to the law From which words he may as well gather that Jesus Christ was not a Priest at all upon earth as that he did not complete his sacrifice upon earth but it was granted he was a Priest in preparing the Sacrifice Answ to Qu. 83. By shewing the meaning of that place his mistake will appear The Apostle preferreth Jesus Christ before the Levitical High Priest among many other respects in this for one The place where now he is Our High Priest is in heaven made higher then the heavens c. 7. v. 26. c. 8. v. 1. A minister of the Sanctuary vers. 2. that is The Holy of Holies the Oracle or most sacred Quire wherein under the law the High Priest onely did officiate which place as formerly it did typifie so here it doth signifie heaven it self On this dependeth the fourth verse wherein he proveth that if a Christ be a Priest as that 〈◊〉 was taken for granted he must be a Priest in heaven for if he were on earth he should not be so much as a Priest much less a High Priest For Priests on earth offer gifts prescribed by the Levitical law such gifts Christ did not offer such a Priest therefore Christ was not he was not of the tribe of Levi no Levitical Priest therefore he offered no Levitical gifts other earthly Priests there are to do that Therefore must he be a Priest offering in heaven or no Priest at all Now our Catechist should have considered how these words in verse 4. are brought in and to what they belong the Apostle speaketh not now of sacrifices slain and offered in the Temple by the Priests but of such oblations as were made by the High Priest in the most holy place into which he entred once a year and thereby did shadow out our High Priest who entred into heaven and offered there such services as we needed after that he had finished the Sacrifice of himself on earth In this Epistle are often mentioned and distinguished gifts and sacrifices in this fourth verse onely gifts are named all sacrifices are gifts but all gifts are not sacrifices Our High Priest being ascended into heaven offereth as a Gift not as a Sacrifice himself and the merit of his passion as the High Priest carryed the bloud into the Oracle And as Aaron did bear the names of the twelve tribes upon his breast so doth our High Priest the names of all his faithfull people he offereth prayers for them and incense with their prayers that they may be accepted But especially he would abuse his Reader here upon the Homonymie or ambiguitie of the word offer which though by frequent use it be in some sort appropriate to sacrifices yet is it sometimes otherwise used as To him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other and if he shall ask an egg will he offer him a scorpion it may mean no more than to tender exhibit shew no more than to proffer produce or bring forth as much as to present or represent if we take this word after the Latine use which is to bring forth any thing and make it present Suetonius of the Emperour Claudius poenas parricidarum repraesentabat he would see them suffer before his face or in his presence Such is the use of it in Cyprian and often in Tertullian And in this sense did our High Priest offer himself at the throne of Majesty on the cross he offered his Sacrifice but in heaven