Exodus 28

God's covenant people are separated from the world, and sanctified by the Spirit. The priests under the law were not only to wash in the great laver, but were arrayed with glorious apparel (Exodus 28:2). This was typical, to show God's people are not only washed from gross sin,…

1. How illustrious every holy person is; he is [illegible], he is a fair glass in which some of the beams of God's holiness shines forth. We read Aaron put on garments for glory and beauty (Exodus 28:2). When we wear the embroidered garment of holiness, it is for glory and beaut…

2. A positive part, Vivification, which is the spiritual refining of the soul, which in Scripture is called a renewing of our mind (Romans 12:2), and a partaking of the divine nature (2 Peter 1:4). The priests in the law not only were washed in the great laver, but adorned with…

No such thing is mentioned in all that is recorded concerning their call and consecration. For where they are expressly declared in their outward circumstances (Exodus 28, 29), there is mention made of no such thing. But their dedication consisted in three things.

This was typed out by the plate of gold, wherein was inscribed Holiness to the Lord, that was on the forehead of the High Priest. It was that he might bear the iniquity of the holy things of the people (Exodus 28:36, 37, 38). He bore it in the expiation he made of all sin; and t…

God has two heavens, and the humble heart is one of them. 2. A righteous man is devoted to holiness: the priests under the law were not only washed in the great laver, but adorned with glorious apparel (Exodus 28:2), the emblem of a righteous man who is not only washed from gros…

And then his death was not only to be a ransom, but a price, not only [in non-Latin alphabet], but [in non-Latin alphabet]: a surety to an ordinary creditor pays the debt, and frees the debtor from bonds; Christ was to bring us into grace and favor with God, and to merit Heaven…

An ephod is nothing else but a garment made partly of linen, not unlike a surplice, but more rich and costly. Those garments of Aaron, are said to be for glory, and for beauty (Exodus 28:2), because they typified and shadowed out the beauty of Christ, our true high priest, in al…

Hence it came about that when true theologians had lost the understanding of the proper use of these sacrifices and had so diminished their faith in the coming Messiah, they fell — nowhere secure, nor free from the stings of conscience and the sense of the law's curse — into dre…

7. More particularly, our Lord, by his intercession, takes away the guilt of our holy things, for when we approach to God in worship, there is a carnalness, and pollutedness in the best things we do, much irreverence, much unbelief, much want of humility, zeal, sincerity, and te…

I should wish no higher happiness out of heaven, than to be carried in the circle of Christ's arms, and to lie with the lambs, in his bosom, and be warmed with the heart-love, that comes out of his breast. [illegible] is to carry on the shoulders; and Aaron is said in the same w…

Rule 5. [illegible], or [illegible], is undeniably expounded of all that are saved only, and is restrictive; such a Physician cured all the city; that is, no man is cured but by him. Exodus 28:4 Jethro says to Moses, What is this that you do? you sit alone. [illegible] and all t…

Hence we may perceive that the Priesthood under Christ, differs much from that which was under the Law. For under it only one tribe was admitted to offer sacrifices (Exodus 28:1). The Gentiles were rejected as unclean, neither did they once enter into the Temple: so far was it t…

In this matter David attempted nothing contrary to what the law enjoined. God had bestowed the priesthood on Aaron and his sons, (Exodus 28:1.) The other Levites were set apart to inferior offices, (Numbers 3:9.)

The golden Bells on this Ephod, by their precious Matter and pleasant Sound, do well represent the good Profession that the Saints make; and the Pomegranates, the Fruit they bring forth. And as in the Hem of the Ephod, Bells and Pomegranates were constantly connected, as is once…

Now there was scarcely any thing of old that more gloriously represented God, than that of the engraving of his name on a plate of gold to be worn on the front of the mitre of the High Priest; at the sight whereof, the great conqueror of the East fell down before him. Mention of…

13. That Aaron and his Posterity have the principal place and honor in Sacred things (Leviticus 21:8). 14. That the Priests wear the Garments appointed to their special Ministry (Exodus 28:2). 15. That the Ark be carried on the shoulders of the Levites (Numbers 7:9).

What was the state and condition of the Priesthood in the Church from the foundation of the world, until the time we now treat of, by whom that Office was executed, how they came to it, and wherein it did consist, I have declared elsewhere. The foundation of an especial Priestho…

And from there was the expression of him that came to be consecrated a Priest; [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉] (2 Chronicles 13:9), He that came to fill his hand with a bullock. The rise of this expression we have marked before, on Exodus 28:41. The Lord giving directions to Moses f…

But we positively affirm that to the works of regenerate persons, to their best works some defilement cleaves, so that though the action be not sinful, yet there is some sin in the action. There is a great deal of difference between a sinful action and sin in an action: We have…

Christ deals so with our performances. All the ingredients of self that are in them on any account, he takes away, and adds Incense to what remains, and presents it to God, Exodus 28:36. This is the cause that the saints at the last day when they meet their own duties and perfor…

In sum, we conceive the words look to one, or both of these similitudes, or allusions: 1. In general, to men who had such respect to their seals or rings, that they wore them on their fingers, and carried them still about with them; now, she would be carried about on his heart,…

The allusion is doubtless from the high priest of the Jews, in his spiritual representation of the church before God. He had a breastplate which he is said to wear on his heart (Exodus 28:29), wherein the names of the children of Israel were engraved after the manner of seals or…

Self, unbelief, form, drop themselves into all that we do. We may be ashamed of our choicest performances: God has promised that the saints' good works shall follow them; truly were they to be measured by the rule as they come from us, and weighed in the balance of the sanctuary…

There meets the first donation and the last. Now to obtain this life for them he died in their stead, appeared as the high priest, being perfectly, and truly what the name was on their plate of gold: holiness to the Lord (Exodus 28:36). And so bearing their iniquity, as it is ad…

In fact, (Matthew 10:30) the hairs of their heads are numbered; God has a particular notice of their necessities: and Jesus Christ, he is his remembrancer, one that ever appears before him to represent their wants. (Hebrews 9:24) As the high priest, in the law, was to go in with…

Sin infects men's prayers, the prayers of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord (Proverbs 28:9), indeed, though offered up with incense to perfume them (Isaiah 1:13). Under the law Aaron was to bear the iniquity of the holy things (Exodus 28:38). Israel brought God many a pr…

As for that judgement of Urim spoken of in Numbers 27:21, which was by way of Oracle, the high Priest having Vrim and Thummim about him giving answers in God's name, which were of infallible truth, and made a supreme determination, that was for the resolution of doubtful and dif…

Christ must go to heaven and there hee is a Priest; now if hee were upon the earth hee could not be a Priest for us, therefore we have great advantage by CHRISTS going into heaven. O beloved, then looke on this as a great comfort, that our Lord Jesus Christ is now in heaven in h…

Furthermore, Christ's bearing of our iniquities is an obvious Hebraism, and the same as the bearing, not of the intrinsic and fundamental guilt of sin, but of the extrinsic guilt, or debt and punishment of sin. So, (Exodus 28:38) a miter shall be on Aaron's forehead, that Aaron…

Nehemiah 13:22: when he had been most faithful in his place, and had set all in good order, Yet spare me O God, according to your rich mercies: to show you, that though the good man saw no guile in his heart, he sought the reformation of all things, yet spare me for the defects…

Q. 6. Is this holiness or obedience in us perfect? Yes, (a) in respect of all the parts of it, but (b) not in respect of the degrees wherein God requires it. (a) 2 Kings 20:3; Job 1:1; Matthew 5:48; Luke 1:6; 2 Corinthians 7:1; Ephesians 4:24; Titus 2:12. (b) Isaiah 64:6; Psalm…

Q. 6. Is this holiness or obedience in us perfect? A. Yes, (a) in respect of all the parts of it, but (b) not in respect of the degrees wherein God requires it. (a) 2 Kings 20. 3. John 1. 1. Matthew 5:48. Luke 1. 6. 2 Corinthians 7:1. Ephesians 4. 24. Titus 2:12. (b) Isaiah 64.…