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A42520 Exochē tou Christou, Christ's preeminence in a question propounded, discussed, & resolved, that Christ was the first, that with flesh and blood entred into the kingdome of heaven / by Nicholas Gawen. Gawen, Nicholas. 1668 (1668) Wing G395; ESTC R23944 29,971 56

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Trumpet Psal 47.5 The summe of this Argument may be given in these few words That which befell the first fruits in relation to the earthly Tabernacle befell Christ in relation to the Heavenly for this cause the Apostle calls Christ the first fruits but the first fruits of all other were first presented and offered before the Lord in the Terrestriall Tabernacle therefore Christ of all men first entred and appeared before the Lord in the Coelestiall Arg. 3 A third Argument may be taken from the Priesthood of Christ and the collation and comparison of Christ with the High Priest of the Leviticall Law Christ is the High Priest of all believers so we believe and so the Apostle teacheth us all along his golden Epistle to the Hebrews Now as touching the properties and duties of the High Priest the Apostle plainly tells us Heb 5.1 2. That every high Priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins who can have compassion on the ignorant and on them that are out of the way for that he himselfe also is compassed with infirmities In which Text the Apostle as we may ●bserve sets down five proper Attributes of every-high Priest all which i a most excellent measure and after a most excellent manner are in our High Priests the Lord Jesus Christ 1. The High Priest was a man chosen from among men so is Christ the most perfect man that ever was 2ly He was to Act and deale with God as an Agent in the behalf of men so doth Christ There is one Mediator betwixt God and man the man Jesus Christ 1 Tim 2.5 3ly He was to offer gifts and sacrifices to God for sins so doth Christ and as the Apostle makes the comparison Heb 9.13 14. If the blood of buls and of goats and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh how much more shall the blood of Christ who thorough the eternal spirit offered himself without spot to God purge your consciences from dead workes to serve the living God 4ly Every High Priest must be such an one that could have compassion on the ignorant and on them that are out of the way Such an one is Christ Heb 4.15 We have not an high Priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities but was in all points tempted like as we are yet without sin 5ly He must be lawfully called and ordained for no man taketh this honour to himself but he that is called of God as was Aaron So Christ saith our Apostle glorified not himself to be made an high Priest but he that said unto him Thou art my Son to day have I begotten thee as he saith also in another place Thou art a Priest for ever after the order of Melchizedecb Heb 5.5.6 Now whereas the duties and offices of the High Priest were many and divers as first to pray for the people Secondly to offer sacrifice for sins Thirdly to carry the blood of the beasts that were sacrificed into into the Holy place And fourthly and lastly there to make intercession for the people Know and understand that some of these offices he did fulfill and discharge without the Sanctuary and some within the Sanctuary The offices which he did perform without the Sanctuary were two first to pray for the people Secondly to offer Sacrifice for their sins The offices which he did performe within the Sanctuary were likwise two First to take and carry the blood of the slain Sacrifice into the holy place and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat Levit 16 14. And secondly to make intercession for the people Even the like for all the world was done and performed by Jesus Christ our High Priest who was Typified and prefigured by the High Priest of the Levitical Law some parts of his Priesthood he did and performed on earth without the vail without the Heavenly Sanctuary First as our High Priest he prayed for us And in the daies of his flesh offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and teares Heb. 5.7 And Joh 17. before his last Passeover and passion and likewise in the garden of Gethsemene and upon the Crosse before his death and departure out of this world 2ly After this prayer for us he offered up himselfe a sacrifice for us on the Crosse Christ our Passeover is sacrificed for us saith the Apostle 1 Cor 5.7 which sacrifice being once done performed and as Christ said Finished at his death the third day did he rise againe ascend and enter into the most holy place even the Heaven of Heavens perpetually ●resenting to his Holy and Heavenly Father the merit and value of his owne blood and bloody passion on our behalfe and perpetually appearing in the sight of God and making intercession for us The summe of this Argument may be rendred in these few words There is an infallible and undeniable Analogie and Correspondence betwixt the High Priest of the Leviticall Law and our Lord and dear Saviour Jesus Christ as the Apostle declareth at large in his Epistle to the Hebrewes and specially in the 5 7 8 9. Chapters But the High Priest of the Levitical Law only and but once a year first of all and insteed of all after he had ended his Sacrifice without entred with the blood thereof within the vaile to sprinkle it before the Mercy-seat and to make Intercession and Attonement for the people Exod. 30.10 whereas the people stood without Luk 1.10 And therefore I conclude That our High Priest our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ after he had once finished his bitter and bloody passion and death here on earth rose againe ascended up on high and first of all and insteed of all his elect in his Humane body intred into Heaven to present the merit of his death and passion to his Heavenly Father in our behalfe and as the Apostle saith Heb 1.3 Sate down at the right hand of the Majesty on high there perpetually to make intercession for them Rom 8.34 and Heb 7.25 And this well agreeth with that ancient and excellent saying of St Ambrose in his Commentary on the 39. Psalme where he saith what is so proper to Christ as to stand by God the Father for an Advocate for the people And that of St Austin likewise pointing more to the present purpose on Psame 64. where he saith Christ is the Priest who being now entred into the vail alone there of them that have been partakers of fl●sh doth make intercession for us In figure of which thing in that first people and in that first Temple the Priests only did enter into the Holy of Holies and the people stood without This likewise is the opinion and assertion of that famous Divine learned and religious Fulk who saith that Christ was the first that in his whole Humanity ascended into Heaven Annotat in Apoc