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A49796 An exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrewes wherein the text is cleared, Theopolitica improved, the Socinian comment examined / by George Lawson ... Lawson, George, d. 1678. 1662 (1662) Wing L707; ESTC R19688 586,405 384

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was the blood of Calves and Goats with water for such were Sacrificed for Burnt-Offerings and Peace-Offerings The things sprinkled with blood were the Book wherein the Covenant was written and out of which it was read and the People who engaged themselves in the Covenant The time was when Moses had spoken every Precept to all the People according to the Law For the Covenant must first be made before it could be confirmed And this sprinkling upon the People was the confirmation of the Covenant on the People's part as the sprinkling of it upon the Altar was the confirmation on God's part This was the action described more fully then we find it in Exod. 24. 2. The words are added to the action to signify the use and end of that sprinkling which is to ratify the League and Covenant For in these words we have 1. A Covenant enjoyned by God 2. The Blood of this Covenant The History informs 1. Of a Covenant made 2. This Covenant enjoyned by God unto Israel It 's said to be enjoyned both because God having made and instimted it by Moses commanded it to be entred into and confirmed by the People but also because in this Covenant there were certain Precepts which were Articles and Conditions the observation whereof God did stipulate and require at their hands In Moses Exod. 24. 8. it 's said to be the Covenant which God had made with them and he is said to make it not only because he was the Authour of it but also because in it he was the principal party covenanting and binding himself unto the People by his promises which are so made that they prerequire the performance of the Precepts from them if they will either avoid the penalties threatned orattain the Blessings and Rewards promised 3. This Covenant once made must be confirmed by Blood and this Blood sprinkled For the meaning of the words This is the Blood of the Covenant is this That this is the Blood by which this Covenant is confirmed and made inviolable And as this so the New Covenant is confirmed by Blood as is evident from the words of our blessed Saviour in the Institution of the Eucharist saying This Cup is the New Covenant in my Blood which is shed for you Luke 22. 20. 1 Cor. 11. 25. Or This is my Blood of the New Testament which is shed for the Remission of the Sins of many Matth. 26. 28. Mark 14. 24. Where we have 1. A Now Covenant 2. The Blood of this New Covenant or the New Covenant in this Blood that is this New Covenant confirmed by Blood or Blood confirming this New Covenant 3. This Blood is the Blood of Christ shed for Remission of Sins This Remission of Sins is one principal Blessing promised in this New Covenant yet this promise had been in vain and to no purpose if Christ's Blood had not been shed to satisfy divine Justice and make Sin remissible For though Man should repent and believe yet his Sin could never have been actually remitted if not by this Blood made remissible So that this Blood of Christ is the firm and immovable basis upon which the Covenant is fixed Both these Covenants agree in this that they were confirmed by Blood and to manifest this is the intention of the Apostle and though the confirmation of both be the same in general yet as the Blood so the manner of confirmation was very different § 19. As there were several Ceremonials instituted by God for confirmation so there were some ordianed for purification therefore it followeth Ver. 21. Moreover he sprinkled with Blood both the Tabernacle and all the Vessels of the Ministry Ver. 22. And almost all things by the Law are purged with Blood and without sh●dding of Blood is no Remission IN these words with those that follow in the next Verse we have an explicate and full comparison in quality and both the parts are expressed For we find 1. The Proposition in these words 2. The Reddition ver 23. In the Proposition we may observe 1. The sprinkling of several things with Blood 2. The effect of this sprinkling which was purification 3. The necessity of this sprinkling for Remission 1. Several things were sprinkled with Blood the things thus sprinkled are either named in particular as the Tabernacle and the Vessels of the Ministery or signified by a more general term yet with some diminution and abatement The general term is all things the abating Particle is almost which signifies that many and the greatest part of them by far were sprinkled with Blood yet not all but some were excepted and were sprinkled and cleansed with water 2. The end of this was purging We do not read of the sprinkling of the Tabernacle with Blood in the Books of Moses we find that Aaron and his Sons with their Garments and the Altar were sanctified by Oyl and Blood Lev. 8. 38. Neither do we find there signified or here expressed by the Apostle what kind of purging or sanctification this here mentioned is There is a purging of Consecration of Sanctification or Explation Consecration is a separation from common use Sanctification is a purging from pollution Expiation is a freeing from guilt These two last seem here to be understood at least principally yet we may distinguish between the cleansing of things and persons Things may be considered as common or polluted as common they are purged by Consecration as polluted by re-consecration Persons are impure and as such they must be sanctifyed or guilty and as such they must be restored by expiating Blood sprinkled Some give the reason why things as the Tabernacle and Vessels and other things must be purged by by Blood to be this because man being himself polluted polluteth those things which he useth and this is something though not all that may be said in this particular 3. The necessity of this sprinkling is because without Blood there is no Remission Where we have 1. Blood shed 2. Remission 3. No Blood shed no Remission 1. By Blood shed we must understand the Blood of some living thing to be Sacrificed and this Blood shed upon the slaying of the Sacrifice and not only shed but usually sprinkled before it could purge 2. Remission may be Consecration in respect of things and Expiation and Sanctification from pollution in respect of persons For Remission is not here to be taken strictly for freeing a person from guilt and obligation to punishment Neither is it in this place any cleansing from spiritual pollution of the Conscience or freedom from the spiritual and eternal penalties but it 's only a Legal Remission of Legal guilt and impurity 3. If where there is no Blood shed there is no Remission then it follows that unto Remission Blood shed is necessary not only as an antecedent to a consequent but as a cause to the production of an effect It 's true that the causality is not naturall but morall By this God even then did signify