Exodus 30

2. Duties of religion are not accepted without the new creature, because there is that wanting which should make them a sweet savor to God. The holy oil for the tabernacle was to be made of several spices and ingredients (Exodus 30:23). Now, if any of these spices had been left…

Faith is a necessary requisite in prayer. The oil of the sanctuary was made up of several sweet spices, pure myrrh, cassia, cinnamon (Exodus 30:23). Faith is the chief spice or ingredient in prayer, which makes it go up to the Lord as sweet incense (James 1:6).

We may pray absolutely for grace; for this is the will of God, our sanctification (1 Thessalonians 4:3). There might be no strange incense offered (Exodus 30:9). When we pray for things which are not agreeable to God's will, it is offering strange incense.

(1.) A soul that is melted into God's will shows variety of grace. As the holy ointment was made up of several aromatic spices, Myrrh, Cinnamon, Cassia (Exodus 30:23), so this sweet temper of soul, submission to God's will in affliction, has in it a mixture of several graces. In…

And that which gives us this boldness, is that (as it is Hebrews 4:15-16), we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but was in all points tempted like as we are: then follows, "Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, tha…

7. God no more wills all, and every man to be saved, and come to believe; so they will all, and every one believe; than he wills all and every one to be damned; so they believe not and refuse the Gospel: the one will is as universal as the other. 8. It is no justice, that the ra…

Vers. 24. You bought me no sweet savor with your money, neither have you made me drunk with the fat of your sacrifices: but you have made me to serve with your sins, and wearied me with your iniquities. By the word Caneh, he means that wherewith they made the precious ointment w…

Because the purgation wherewith we are cleansed, that is, the death of Christ, was ratified and approved in regard of his intercession towards the Father, it was necessary this should be added. For as in the Old Testament, the high priest, who never entered without blood, made p…

] that he became suddenly dumb without disease, and after a more than ordinary delay came out of the temple in a state of amazement. The word temple, as we have already mentioned, is put for the sanctuary, where the altar of incense stood, (Exodus 30:1.) From this place the prie…

He is indeed a mortal man, born of earthly parents; but a supernatural method, so to speak, recommends him strongly as if he had fallen from heaven 9. According to the custom of the priest's office The law enjoined that incense should be offered twice every day, that is, every m…

but an annual tribute laid individually on every man among the Jews, so that they paid to tyrants what they were formerly in the habit of paying to God alone. For we know that this tax was imposed on them by the Law, that, by paying every year half a stater, (Exodus 30:13,) they…

The Pharisees, perceiving that all their other attempts against Christ had been fruitless, at length concluded that the best and most expeditious method of destroying him was, to deliver him to the governor, as a seditious person and a disturber of the peace. There was at that t…

And name is called a good fame or renown, glory, praise and worship. Now must every man then abstain from the name of God, so that he neither touch it, nor draw it to himself, the which is also meant (Exodus 30): where Moses was commanded by God to make precious ointment, and it…

The first similitude is a bundle of myrrh. Myrrh was a precious and savory spice, made use of in the anointing oil (Exodus 30:23), and in embalming Christ's body. A bundle of it signifies abundance of it — not a stalk or a grain, but a bundle that must be of more worth and virtu…

By mountain is often understood the Church (as Isaiah 2:1 and Micah 4:1) called so for her endurance and stability; for typifying of which, the Temple was built on mount Moriah. And it's called a mountain of Myrrh, and hill of Frankincense, to difference this one mountain (which…

This sweet smelling myrrh that drops, is the flowing of habitual grace, which formerly was not vigorous and active, but now it flows and vents, and is to the heart as oil applied to moisten and make easy a rusted lock, to make it open without difficulty. This grace is ordinarily…

Thus the Papists are violent in their religion, witness their penance, fasting, dilacerating themselves till the blood comes, but it is a zeal without knowledge: their metal is better than their eyesight. When Aaron was to burn the [reconstructed: Incense] upon the altar, he was…

First the glory of color in the lilies, and the sweetness of savor in the myrrh. The glory, and beauty of the lilies in those countries was such, as that our Savior tells us, that Solomon in all his glory, was not arrayed like one of them (Matthew 6:29) and the savor of myrrh, s…

You have not a better Christ, nor a better Father in Heaven, than they have. The rich and the poor were to give one ransom under the law (Exodus 30), to show they have all the same Redeemer. The weak should not despise nor disdain the strong, nor the rich be ashamed to own the p…

Think not, O Christian, that your sins are washed away only by Christ's blood, but by water and blood. The brazen laver (Exodus 30:18) that the people of Israel were to wash in might be a fit emblem of this spiritual laver — tears and blood. And when holy mourning is thus qualif…

Secondly the actual Inauguration, or solemn admission of Christ unto his office, committing all judgment unto the Son (John 5:22), section 4, making him to be both Lord and Christ (Acts 2:36), appointing him over his whole house (Hebrews 3:1-3), which is that anointing of the Mo…

But sometimes with respect unto the second, and then it signifies a sacrifice for sin, to make expiation of it. And so it is rendered by the LXX, sometimes by , Ezekiel 44:27. sometimes , Exodus 30:10. Ezekiel 43:23.

See how this limbeck dropped; the sorrow of her heart ran out at her eye. The brazen laver for the Priests to wash in, (Exodus 30:18). did typify a double laver: The laver of Christs blood we must wash in by Faith; and the laver of tears we must wash in by Repentance. A true Pen…

There remains laying on of hands, which as I grant in true and lawful orderings to be a Sacrament, so I deny that it has any part in this play, where they neither obey the commandment of Christ, nor have respect to the end to which the promise ought to lead us. If they will not…