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A36185	The nature of the two testaments, or, The disposition of the will and estate of God to mankind for holiness and happiness by Jesus Christ ... in two volumes : the first volume, of the will of God : the second volume, of the estate of God / by Robert Dixon.	Dixon, Robert, d. 1688.	1676 (1676)	Wing D1748; ESTC R12215	658,778	672

the good of his Church So he is able to save them to the utmost that come to God by him seeing that he ever liveth to make Intercession for them REASONS 1. Because the Sacrifice offered was without all sin and infirmity and Reason 1 therefore fit for Heaven into which no unclean nor weak thing can ever enter Christ's Body therefore being quickned by the Spirit and made immortal was prepared and fit to be offered by the same Spirit in the fittest Place of Heaven unto the fittest Person the God of Heaven for the obtaining of the fittest Blessings of Heaven or the Kingdom of Heaven So the Person that offers is Heavenly The Sacrifice offered is Heavenly The Spirit by which he offers is Heavenly The God to whom he offers is Heavenly The Place where he offered is Heavenly The Blessings he offered for are Heavenly All harmonious and homogeneal the substance and truth of Types and Shadows 2. Because an Earthly Sanctuary may be purged by the blood of Bulls Reason 2 or Goats c. But an Heavenly Sanctuary cannot be purged by any thing but by the blood of Christ Earthly and carnal Blood is sufficient to consecrate an earthly and carnal Sanctuary and to expiate earthly and carnal Sins and Pollutions but heavenly and spiritual Blood only can consecrate an heavenly and spiritual Sanctuary and expiate spiritual and Soul-sins The Blood of Goats and Calves c. did cleanse from outward Filthiness but could not purifie the Conscience nor cause the Remembrance thereof to cease so as there should be no more Conscience nor Punishment of sin It was therefore necessary Heb. 9.23 24. that the bare Patterns and Representations of things which are in the Heavens should be purified with these Sacrifices but the Heavenly things themselves must be purified with better Sacrifices than these For Christ is not entred into the Holy Places made with hands which are the figures of the true but into Heaven it self now to appear in the Presence of God for us Obj. Needs then the Heaven of Heavens to be purged Sol. No for it is most Holy But it needs to be dedicated or consecrated by Christ's blood not for himself to enter in for his habitation it was from everlasting but for us Men that we might have right by him to enter in after him when he shall call for us Therefore he as High-Priest thus solemnly entred by this New and Living way through the Veil that is to say his Flesh to offer the Blood thereof shed on the Cross in the outward-Temple so to consecrate or dedicate that Place for us Thus he is gone before to prepare a place for us that where he is there we might also be He first opened Heaven-door If he had not opened it it had never been opened And now it is opened by him it shall never be shut by him nor by any other against any that seek rightly to enter in for who dare shut when he hath opened or open where he hath shut Who hath the Keys of David that shutteth when no man openeth and openeth when no man shutteth This is the Gate of the Temple into which none but Christ did ever enter nor ever shall but all the Righteous shall enter in at the last day both Souls and Bodies Psal 114.20 This is the Gate of the Lord into which the Righteous shall enter And none but such as have right by Faith can enter for though this place of Rest everlasting be provided for all as the Promises were to all yet all shall not enter because all men have not Faith for without Faith it is impossible to please God And so they cannot enter in because of their Unbelief This is he that comes with full Right and Power of Command saying Open me the Gates of Righteousness Psal 114.19 c. and I will enter into them This is the Lord 's doing and it is marvellous in our eyes This is the Day which the Lord hath made Psal 24.7 c. we will rejoyce and be glad in it Lift up your heads O ye Gates and be ye lift up ye Everlasting Doors and the King of Glory shall come in Who is this King of Glory The LORD strong and mighty in Battel the Lord of Hosts he is the King of Glory Thus Christ is the True Sacrifice the True Light the True Bread the True Way the True Life the True Altar the True Priest and Heaven is the True Temple And all is Truth which Christ came to bear witness of in the Gospel Reason 3 3. Because Christ did never enter into the Earthly Sanctuary for he had no Right as being of Judah not of Levi though otherwise he had all Right nor did he take upon him to Sacrifice or to Rule being born under the Law Who made him a Priest or a Judge till he ascended up into his proper Temple and Throne of Heaven he pertaineth to another Tribe Heb. 7.13 of which no man gave attendance at the Altar for it is evident our Lord sprang of Judah of which Tribe Moses spake nothing concerning Priesthood Christ therefore being a Priest must offer and must have somewhat to offer and some Place to offer in but he had nothing to offer here on Earth for there were other Priests that had nor was he a Priest here nor had he any Altar to offer upon or Temple to offer in as the other Priests had He could therefore offer up nothing but his own Body and Blood and that only in the Most holy Place of Heaven and not elsewhere We have such an High Priest as is set on the Right hand of the Majesty in the Heavens a Minister of the Sanctuary Heb. 8.1 c. and of the True Tabernacle which the Lord pitched and not Man For every High-Priest is ordained to offer Gifts and Sacrifices wherefore it is of Necessity that this Man have somewhat to offer For if he were on Earth he should not be a Priest seeing there are Priests that offer Gifts according to the Law who serve unto the Example and Shadow of Heavenly things as Moses was admonished to make all according to the Pattern delivered to him in the Mount 4. Because a Worldly Service required a Worldly Sanctuary but a Reason 4 Heavenly Service required a Heavenly Sanctuary The Candlestick the Table the Golden Censer Heb. 9.1 the Ark of the Covenant over-laid round about with Gold the Golden pot of Manna Aaron 's Rod that budded the Tables of the Covenant the Cherubims of Glory shadowing the Mercy-Seat besides Washings and Sacrifices of all kinds of which it is too large to speak All these were fitted for that Time and Place But God hath prepared a New and Spiritual Service an Altar Priest and Sacrifice and Temple all Heavenly and in Heaven 5. Because the Way to the Holiest of all was made manifest after the Reason 5 first Tabernacle on Earth was fallen Heb. 9.8 The Thing

and anon and trouble their Writings Ib. p. 34. Did God generally under the weak and worldly state of the Jewish Church send forth those Prophets whose learning education holy lives great works admirable gifts commanded even prophane men to a reverence of their Persons and Message And doth he now make use of Monsters Comets Meteors or the Apparitions of unclean Spirits as his Praecones Publici Id. ib. p 47. Signa Moralia signs of a Moral nature such as were the gradual lessening of the lustre and glory of the Jewish Polity and Pedagogy Oeconomy of Moses decaying by the ceasing of Prophecy the absence of Heavenly fire the Ark of the Covenant the Schechinah the Oracles by Urim and Thummim From the Second Temple the lapsing of the government from Kings to Dukes from Dukes to the Sanhedrim from them to the Romans there having been no Kings types of Christ after David and Solomon except Hezekiah be admitted a Candidate for that hand this vanishing splendour of the face of Moses that Oeconomy whereof he was the Minister was a sign that the Sun of Righteousness was now arising under whom a state of more Spiritual and Inward glory was shortly to obtain Ib. p. 48. All the Shadows and Rites of the Law were to expire and conclude like the Phoenix in a Nest of Spices in the Graces and Truths and Glories of the Gospel state that the wall of Partition was now to be taken away and all Nations to own themselves Brethren under one Common-Father The Times there intended were times rather present than future Times wherein the Mosaical Oeconomy brought on with mighty Signs and Wonders was to determine Times wherein the Church was to be put under an immutable and excellent form of Administration and therefore the last time in Scripture Signs The Jews were a people so used to Signs that the Apostle tells us 1 Cor. 1.22 The Jews require a Sign And it was the vulgar opinion amongst them That as all extraordinary Prophets were to seal their Commission with a Miracle so all events extraordinary were to be foreshewn by a Sign Hence the Jews came to our Saviour with that bold demand What Sign shewest thou unto us Mar. 8.11 seeing thou dost all these things Jo. 2.18 God perhaps gave them Signs to assure them that the evils which befell them arose not out of the dust but came upon them from the fore-appointing Counsels of heaven and to awaken their dull and worldly minds into a lively sense of his Justice and Providence But now in the broad day light of the Gospel 't is expected that we should not need awakening by any such Monitors into a sense and awe of the Divine Majesty We must now believe without a Sign and derive our Repentance not from mighty Earthquakes and Prodigies but an ingenious and understanding sense of sin Id. ib. p. 74. We are to discard all sowr Jealousies concerning God Sowr jealous conceits of God Synesius hath observed that however the Nations were distanced from each other like the lines in the Circumference 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by very different opinions and sentiments in reference to God and Religion in other matters yet still 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all center'd and met in this great Doctrine both wise and unwise That God was a good bountiful and benign Being The greater wonder to me it is that so many Doctrines among the Heathens and Christians too which I am not here to take notice of should be received with a Non obstante to this native and easie sense of the Divine goodness and Philanthropy lodged in their minds the Leaven of a Sowr conceit which cannot dwell with a belief of Gods goodness Plutarch justly challengeth in Herodotus That 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Deity is of an envious and troublesom disposition That God is only ingeniosus in malis that his Counsels are especially taken up with the contrivances of new plagues and miseries for the hated World than which did never a more pestilential Air breath from the bottomless pit crazing the very vitals of Religion and corrupting the first and earliest notions rising up in the Soul when conceiving of a God Whereas if men did not measure the Nature of God by that froward and envious Spirit which commands themselves they might easily understand all the Evils sometimes sent down upon the World to be in the language of the Moralist only 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A Divine Testimony given in against sin and intended but to discipline the mad World into some sober and wise thoughts and they would believe the fairer reports which Scripture makes of God which tells us He doth not willingly grieve the Children of men that fury dwells not with him that Judgment is his strange work Ib. p. 77. A generous indifferency as to the good and evil things of this world Indifferency to the world The more the heart of a man outgrows the joys and fears of this world the more will all things therein appear to him much too little for the solemnity of a Prodigy The more will he think nothing here of value enough to have its fall come with pomp and observation and the less will he concern himself to know the future condition of such a vanity as this world is 'T is only when mens hopes and fortunes are much embarked in this world that they are impressive to any great fears in reference to its future state The Gentiles of old that could never lift up their heavy and drossie minds above the dull flats of things sensible and worldly were the greatest Professors of all the Arts of Divination by all manner of strange and unusual Accidents And the Jews to whom God had promised a heaven on this side thereof in the literal enjoyment of this Worlds blessings were very solicitous about the meaning of strange Prophecies the signs of the times the issue of things And God was pleased by many Oracles Signs and Prophecies to accommodate himself to this low and worldly temper of theirs But since the introduction of a Better hope the Tenders of such Spiritual promises we have scarce any intimations and notices given us of things future unless some very dark Prophecies in the Revelation which some Learned men conceive already accomplish't God hereby supposing our eyes now to be fixt so upon the more clearly revealed felicities of another world as not much to look down to the futurities of this P. 80. Shall we value our Faith at so cheap a rate as to trust it with the oracles of the Father of lies Can the Devil be presumed able to give us true Resolutions to any Questions de Futuro Did God ever make him of his Counsel or deliver times and seasons into his power or willing if able to do it with any fair and single purposes and intentions Have the beams of the Sun of Righteousness put out all the fires on his Altars the glory and power of the Divine Oracles and Miracles