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A85953	Gospel-revelation in three treatises, viz, 1 The nature of God. 2 The excellencies of Christ. And, 3 The Excellency of mans immortal soul. By Jeremiah Burroughs, late preacher of the gospel at Stepney, and Giles-Cripple-gate, London. Published by William Greenhill. William Bridge. Philip Nye. John Yates. Matthew Mead. William Adderly.	Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.	1660 (1660)	Wing G6083; Thomason E1029_1; ESTC R208881	280,310	387

typifie that Christ as hee was man hee had no Father and as hee was God hee had no Mother and hee had no beginning in his Priestly office it was from everlasting and it shall indure to everlasting So hee is a Priest for ever after the Order of Melchisedeck and not after the Order of Aaron 2 And in the next place All the Priests in the Law did typifie Christ and all did cease in him certainly hee must needs bee a great High Priest that was typified by them and in whom all ceased and vanished As when the Sun arises the light of the stars doth no more appear there was no further Priesthood when Jesus came and took that Office to himself in his humane Nature in this world 3 But further Christ is wonderful in his Priest-hood in this that hee had no need to offer for himself as others had for hee was blameless and without sin 4 Yea and consider what Christ offered and there you shall see him wonderful the Offering that Christ offered it was the blood of God I say it was that that wee may call safely according to Scripture language the blood of God and that will not seem to bee a hard expression if wee understand what the personal union of the two Natures are in Act. 20.28 faith the Apostle to the Church of Ephesus Take heed therefore unto your selves and to all the flock over which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers to feed the Church of God which hee hath purchased with his own blood These kinde of phrases wee have that come from the Personal union of the two Natures so that the blood that Christ did shed and offer unto God as a Sacrifice for the sin of man it is that that the Scripture calls the blood of God Now the blood that other Priests did offer was the blood of Goats and Bulls and Lambs and Kids but now what a wonderful Priest have wee that comes to offer Sacrifice to the Father for us and comes to offer blood that is the blood of God Hee is wonderful in his Priestly Office in regard of his Offering 5 Further from this follows that Christ offered a Sacrifice unto God that was sufficient to satisfie God for all the wrong that ever was done him by mans sin they offered poor things unto God you know in the time of the Law things that were worthless But now the Sacrifice that Christ offered unto the Father when hee that High Priest came to offer it was a Sacrifice that did satisfie Gods infinite Justice did make up all the wrong that all the sins of the Elect had ever done to God it was that that infinite Justice said it was well-pleased withall It was worth all that Christ did render it up to his Father for not onely a Sacrifice that was a sweet savour because God would bee pleased to accept of it but a Sacrifice that had in its self such a savour that could not but bee sweet in the nostrils of God the Father for it did fully satisfie the Justice of God the Father for the sins of mankinde here is a wonderful High Priest now that hee should come and offer such a Sacrifice that should bee of such infinite merit and worth as it was 6 Yea and hee was wonderful because that hee did offer himself not onely his blood but himself soul and body hee made himself a Sacrifice none of the Priests did so in the time of the Law was there ever heard of such a Priest that came to offer sacrifice that did offer himself for such as hee would make attonement for Jesus Christ hee was anointed by God the Father as a Priest of his Church to offer sacrifice now hee must have so nothing to offer and Christ saw that whatsoever hee could offer if so bee that hee had offered that that had been the worth of Heaven and Earth whatsoever it had been it could never have been an Attonement for those souls which hee did undertake for therefore Christ offers himself as there is nothing but God can bee a satisfying portion to an immortal soul so no sacrifice but Christ himself could bee a Sacrifice to pacifie Gods wrath for the sins of mankinde if Christ should have said Father Thou hast made mee Lord over all the world and I will give it all for a Ransome for the soul of this poor sinner God would have said It will not do it but it must bee thy self I and Christ yeelds to it A body hast thou prepared mee Isa 53.10 And bee made his soul an offering for sin And a body hast thou prepared for mee both body and soul of Christ was offered to God the Father for a sacrifice that hee might smell a sweet savour of rest even concerning us who are wicked and wretched sinners Either Christ must offer himself soul and body to bee a Sacrifice for thy sin or else thy soul and body must have been offered as a sacrifice to Gods Justice and then it must eternall● have been under the stroke of Gods Justice but to that end to free that soul and body of thine if thou beest a beleever to free thee from the eternal Justice of God therefore Christ did offer his soul and body as a sacrifice to his Father 7 And yet further Christ was wonderful in his Priestly Office for hee was not onely the Sacrifice but the Altar It would bee wonderful to hear of a Priest that should offer himself but the Priest to bee the Sacrifice and the Altar too that should sanctifie the Sacrifice it is a greater wonder and because this expression seems to bee very hard I take this out of Heb. 9.14 How much more shall the bloud of Christ who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God he offers his body and soul as it were upon his Divine Nature that as the Altar did sanctifie the Offering so the Divine Nature of Christ did sanctifie the offering of his Humane Nature so that he indeed became both the Altar and the Sacrifice 8 And then further Christ is wonderful in his Priestly Office and that is in this That he offered but one Sacrifice and at one time now the Priests in former time they offered many Sacrifices and they offered often but now if you would read of Christs Priestly Office read especially the seventh eighth and ninth Chapters of the Epistle to the Hebrews and there you shall have as much almost as in all the Scripture besides of the Priestly Office of Jesus Christ The Priests in the Law they offered often but Christ offered but once and having but once offered hee sits down in glory upon his offering of himself but once before the Father it was available for ever for so the Scripture tells us in divers places of the Hebrews and hee was able to save to the uttermost upon his once offering of himself And then further Christ is wonderful in his Priestly Office in this which

is as much as in any thing and that is that he doth now exercise it in heaven at the right hand of the Father by his intercession for so the Scripture saith in the eighth of the Hebrews That we have such an high Priest who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens and there he is making intercession As the Priest you know in the time of the Law did exercise his Priestly Office not only by offering Sacrifice but by going into the Holy of Holies and there had the names of the Tribes ingraven upon his brest and so presented them before God and made intercession for all the Tribes Also Christ he is our wonderful High Priest for he having offered himself a Sacrifice to the Justice of his Father hee is gone to Heaven and hath the names of all Beleevers upon his brest upon his heart and there presents them all before his Father and is their Advocate makes intercession for them hee is alwayes holding before the Father all his Sufferings as it were pleading before God the Father for them Why thou art a poor Creature here and art it may be fallen down in thy closet pleading with God for mercy and thou art discouraged for the straitnesse of thy heart and the like but now learn how to make use of thy faith look upon Jesus Christ hee is the object of thy faith I but you must beleeve in Christ as the High Priest that is gone before into Heaven and now is at the right hand of the Father making intercession for thy soul It may bee thou art discouraged because thy prayers are poor and weak I but thy faith must bee exercised upon that God-man who is pleading with God the Father for thee and that by his own merits that are worth more than ten thousand thousand Worlds and except you doe exercise your faith upon Christ as a Priest thus you doe not exercise your faith aright Oh what strangers are most people in the world to the exercising of faith I appeal to you when did you exercise your faith upon Christ as such an High Priest you would see him to be a wonderful Saviour indeed if by the eye of faith you did behold him to be thus Thus he is wonderful in his Priestly Office oh what wonderful things are these if they were made real to us by faith How wonderful would be the comfort and joy of the Saints of God in the exercising of their faith upon this that I doe but now name unto you whereby as wee goe along you may see how farre short you have come from exercising your faith upon Christ as such a Saviour as the Scripture doth present him to you 9 Again his Priestly Office endures for ever hee lives for ever to make intercession the Priests in the Law they dyed but Christ he is a Priest for ever and hee makes intercession himself he hath no Deputy nor no Successors as others had but he himself makes intercession for ever for his people and his Priest-hood is confirmed by an Oath Psal 110.41 The Lord sware the Lord by an Oath confirmed the Priesthood of Christ after the order of Melchisedeck to the end that we might bee the more sure of such a wonderful mercy of God to Mankind that is the reason that he added an Oath to the Priest-hood of Christ because that aymed at higher things than the Priest-hood of Aaron did that was but an external Priest-hood but this ayming at such high things yea that Sacrifice that must bee tendered up to God for a full attonement for the sin of Mankind therefore God confirmed this by an Oath for beleevers when they hear such things those that are weak I but Lord think they are these things so is it possible that God should have such thoughts of Mankind to work so wonderful for mans Salvation therefore saith God I have confirmed this by an oath And then this Priest-hood of Christ is a Priest-hood of a better covenant the other was but after a carnal Commandement and in comparison of this it was but an external covenant for there was certainly a covenant of Works besides that of Grace that God did renew with the people of Israel even when he gave the Law the Ceremonial Law did not only typifie the Covenant of Grace that should bee revealed hereafter more fully but it was annexed to the Covenant of Works as it appears plainly in the Epistle to the Hebrews but yet still I say they had a Covenant of Grace that was coucht darkly in the Ceremonial Law therefore Christ is said to be a Mediator of a better Covenant he comes to deal between God and Man in a better Covenant than was before And then further the Priest-hood of Christ it comes to have more efficacy than that of Aaron had for it prevails to the purging of conscience which that could not doe And it brings the Saints into the Holy of Holies and that with boldnesse and for that you have a most excellent Scripture of the Saints being brought into the Holy of Holies by the Priest-hood of Christ in the tenth to the Hebrews Having therefore boldnesse to enter into the holiest by the bloud of Jesus Heb. 10.19 by the Sacrifice that this our Priest hath offered to the Father we come to enter into the Holiest of all and that with boldnesse It was not so in the time of the Law no but after the High Priest had offered Sacrifice hee alone goes into the Holy of Holies but now mark here not only Christ our High Priest but we may come with boldnesse which none of the people could doe in the Law that is thus there is such an efficacy in the Sacrifice of our High Priest as that every beleever may come though hee hath never so many sins of his own he may come with boldnesse into the Holy of Holies into the most immediate presence of God the Father through the sacrifice of this our Priest that hath made such a way by his Bloud for us to come and enter into the Holy of Holies the People in the time of the Law were to stand at a distance for this Sacrifice was not actually offered but since Christs coming and his actual offering up his Sacrifice now the Saints of God may come with boldnesse into the holy immediate and glorious presence of God that can bee let God appear never so gloriously yet the Saints have liberty and boldnesse to come into the most glorious presence of God and therefore Christ is wonderful in this Priestly Office of his Two or three things more should have been spoken That Christ hath made us Priests unto God wee have the glory of his Priest-hood upon our selves if wee belong unto him Priests that wee may offer up Sacrifice to God now acceptable were it not through the vertue of this Priestly Office of Christ we could not doe it But it is by the Priestly