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A45436 A paraphrase and annotations upon all the books of the New Testament briefly explaining all the difficult places thereof / by H. Hammond. Hammond, Henry, 1605-1660. 1659 (1659) Wing H573B; ESTC R28692 3,063,581 1,056

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offered every year anew on the day of expiation thereby commemorating not only the sins committed that year since the last day of expiation but their former sins again for which they had foremerly sacrificed at the time of committing of them and to typifie that one true sacrifice of Christ that alone is able to do the work for all our sins 4. For it is not possible that the bloud of bulls and goats should take away sins Paraphrase 4. For the truth is it is not in the power of any sacrifice of any beast to take away the guilt of sin or purifie the conscience 5. Wherefore when he cometh into the world he saith Sacrifice and burnt-offering thou wouldst not but a body hast thou prepared me Paraphrase 5. And therefore in the Prophetick Psalm concerning Christ's coming into the world God's despising of those legal sacrifices is mentioned and all that is thought fit to be depended on in order to obtaining pardon for sin is the body of Christ God giving him a body and designing that to crucifixion fitting it for the Crosse as the servants car for the door-post Deut. 15. 17. to which it was to be nailed on which ground of similitude it is that in stead of opening or boaring my ear in the Psalmist t is here framing him or fitting him a body see Note on 2 Cor. 13. c. and so decreeing that to be the perfect and complete sacrifice which was to supply the defects of all the rest 6. In burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure Paraphrase 6. And then he adds in the name of Christ speaking to God his Father The offerings of legal sacrifices I know are not acceptable in thy sight or able to reconcile thee to sinners 7. Then said I Lo I come in the volume of the Book it is written of me to doe thy will O God Paraphrase 7. Therefore I that is Christ come according to what he had undertaken and bound himself by bond to his Father in order to that great work of our redemption to perform whatsoever thou my God shalt require of me 8. Above when he said Sacrifice and offering and burnt-offerings and offering for sin thou wouldst not neither hast pleasure therein which are offered by the Law 9. Then said he Lo I come to do thy will O God He taketh away the first that he may establish the second Paraphrase 8 9. By which place of the Psalmist Psal 40. it is clear that the sacrifices appointed by Moses's Law are not of any force with God but onely the sufferings and death of Christ the first being in that place wholly renounced and disclaimed and onely the second set up 10. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all Paraphrase 10. And by this gracious will of God which Christ came to perform in the body which God prepared for him v. 5. by offering that body once for all and not by those legal sacrifices which were oft repeated all our sins are explated see note on c. 9. e. and we received into Gods favour as many of us as by performing the condition of sincere obedience still required of us are rendred capable of that great benefit purchased for us by the sufferings of Christ 11. And every Priest standeth daily ministring and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices which can never take away sins Paraphrase 11. Again under the Law the high Priest was wont every year once see c. 7. 27. on the great day of expiation to officiate and offer up yearly the same kinds of sacrifices bullocks c. none of which have power to free the conscience from the guilt or the offender from the punishment of sin 12. But this man after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever sate down on the right hand of God Paraphrase 12. But Christ having by his own death made one complete sacrifice which will suffice for the sins of all the world without need of repeating it sealing to all that shall ever live● a covenant of mercy and remission upon repentance hath ever since continued at the right hand of God and shall doe so for ever 13. From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his foo● stool Paraphrase 13. Exercising his regal office in mens hearts and meaning to exercise it also over sin and death it self in abolishing or subduing them both in the resurrection 14. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified Paraphrase 14. For that one offering of his in his death hath done the whole work once for all completely for all obedient Christians all sanctified disciples of his that having the intercession of Christ in heaven the sen●ing the Spirit c. adjoyned with it which are the grounds of furnishing us with all grace c. 15. Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witnesse to us for after that he had said before 16. This is the covenant that I will make with them after those daies saith the Lord I will put my laws into their hearts and in their minds will I write them 17. And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more Paraphrase 15 16 17. And of this the Scriptures of the Old Testament doe testifie for after he had premised as the first thing promised in his covenant the writing his laws in their hearts and on their minds and revealing his will and giving them his sanctifying grace for the reforming of their wicked lives he then adds as a second part of his covenant the free pardon of all the sins and transgressions of their former life whatsoever they have been 18. Now where remission of ●hese is there is no more offering for sin Paraphrase 18. And this being done once for all there is no need of any farther sacrifices or Judaical observances for which some of you doe so zealously contend 19. Having therefore brethren boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus Paraphrase 19. The doctrine then of the superlative excellence of Christ's priesthood above the Mosaical being thus evidenced and the benefit of it being to us so great even to give us liberty see Joh. 7. a. to approach unto God in prayer and apprehension of his promises to have title to heaven it self through what Christ hath purchased for us 20. By a new and living way which he hath consecrated for us through the veile that is to say his flesh ● Paraphrase 20. Which confidence and liberty to enter he hath helped us to by a way never known before and that a clear or living way in opposition to the dead shadows and rudiments under the Law which I say he hath helped us to by passing himself from the outer to the inner tabernacle from this life to another breaking through the veile or partition between them that is through his flesh being
these things were thus ordained the priests went alwaies into the first tabernacle accomplishing the service of God 7. But into the second went the high priest alone once every year not without blood which he offered for himself and for the note e errors of the people 8. The Holy Ghost this signifying that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest while as the first tabernacle was yet standing 9. Which was a figure for the time then present in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices that could not make him that did the service perfect as pertaining to the conscience 10. Which stood onely in meats and drinks and divers washings and carnal ordinances imposed on them untill the time of reformation 11. But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come by a greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands that is to say not of this building 12. Neither by the blood of goats and calves but by his own blood he entred in once into the holy place having obtained eternal redemption for us Paraphrase 11 12. But when Christ came to enter on the high-priesthood to obtain for us all those blessings of purging the conscience which could not be had by the Law of bestowing on us our great reward which is not to be had in this life and so which were future in respect of the Law and of this life and to that purpose made use of a tabernacle that was of a more honourable nature then that under the Law to wit his own body not made with hands as that was but formed by the Holy Ghost in the Virgins womb after an extraordinary manner and so differing not onely from that tabernacle as flesh from wood but also from other humane bodies as that which was conceived by the Holy Ghost from that which was begotten after the ordinary manner when I say Christ entred on his high priesthood he ascended into heaven in stead of the Holy of holies and did this once for all in stead of the once a year of the high priest and this with his own blood or having laid down his own life in stead of that blood of goats for the people and of bullocks for himself which the priest took with him to the Holy of holies having thus found out a way of purchasing eternal redemption for us from the guilt and power of sin by his death and resurrection 13. For if the bloud of bulls and goats and the ashes of an heiser sprinkling the unclean note f sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh Paraphrase 13. For if the legal pollutions the eating or touching of unclean things c. be expiated by bloud and ashes so far as to keep them that are polluted so from being turned out of the Congregation and from any legal punishment 14. How much more shall the bloud of Christ who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God Paraphrase 14. How much more shall Christs death the shedding of his bloud for you and after that his presenting himself to his Father in heaven in a body that shall never die any more raised from the dead by the Spirit and power of God and now being not onely alive but immortal deliver you from the guilt of sin and fit you to serve God in a vital Christian course giving over all the sins of the former life 15. And for this cause he is the Mediatour of the New Testament that by means of death for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first Testament they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance Paraphrase 15. And for this end was Christ made use of to intercede between God and us and establish and seal a new Covenant with us that by the intervention of his death for the expiation of all sins and transgressions even such as could not be expiared under the old Covenant they which are effectually called the truly penitent reformed believers may have heaven and eternal blisse made over to and possesled and instated on them by way of inheritance 16. For where a Testament is there must also of necessity note g be the death of the Testator Paraphrase 16. He shed his bloud I say because that a Testament be valid or that any man enjoy any thing by the death of another the death of the Testator is required necessarily and must be avouched or produced by him 17. For a Testament is of force after men are dead otherwise it is of no strength at all while the Testator liveth Paraphrase 17. There being no stability in a Will as long as the Testator liveth because he may change it if he will and besides it is to be supposed of him that he meant not the benefit of it to his heir till after his own death 18. Whereupon neither the first Testament was dedicated without bloud Paraphrase 18. And therefore agreeably to this nature of Covenants which are among the Eastern Nations still signed with bloud and of Testaments which are not in force till the Testators death we read in the Law that the ceremony of bloud was used in the sanction of the first Covenant that under the Law 19. For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the Law he took the bloud of calves and of goats with water and scarlet wooll and hyssope and sprinkled both the book and all the people Paraphrase 19. For when the Commandments Exod. 20 21 22 23. were by Moses recited to all the people according to Gods appointment then as it follows Exod. 24. 6. he took c. and sprinkled c. which noted this sanction of Covenants as of Testaments by death by the Ceremony of bloud and fore-signified the shedding of the bloud of Christ for the making of a new Covenant with us 20. Saying This is the bloud of the Testament which God hath enjoined unto you Paraphrase 20. Saying This bloud is the Ceremony of establishing the Covenant which God hath made with you 21. Moreover he sprinkled with bloud both the Tabernacle and all the Vessels of the Ministery Paraphrase 21. And so likewise he sprinkled the Tabernacle and all the utensils that were used in the worship of God with bloud 22. And almost all things are by the Law purged with bloud and without shedding of bloud is no remission Paraphrase 22. And generally under the Law the course was that all things that were purisied should be purisied by that ceremony of shedding bloud and so in like manner that when any sin was committed a beast should be slain for a sacrifice by way of confession that that sin deserved death 23. It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purisied with these but the heavenly things