Hebrews 9

God and we were at variance by sin, now Christ does mediate and umpire between us; he reconciles us to God through his blood, therefore is called the Mediator of the new covenant. There is no way of communion and intercourse between God and man, but in and through a Mediator: Ch…

The creation was but the work of God's fingers (Psalm 8:3). Redemption the work of his arm (Hebrews 9:12): Having obtained eternal redemption for us. Christ's purchasing redemption for us, implies that our sins did mortgage and sell us: had there not been some kind of mortgaging…

He was numbered among transgressors. He who was numbered among the persons of the Trinity, he is said to bear the sins of many (Hebrews 9:28). Now, this was the lowest degree of Christ's humiliation: for Christ to be reputed as a sinner, never such a pattern of humility.

If a man had a suit depending in the court of Chancery, and had a skillful lawyer to plead, this would much encourage him. Christ is now at the court appearing for us (Hebrews 9:24), and he has great potency in heaven; this should much encourage us to look up to him, and hope fo…

Resp. In his once offering up of himself a sacrifice to satisfy divine justice, and reconcile us to GOD, and in making continual intercession for us. (Hebrews 9:26) Now once in the end of the world has he appeared to put away sin; by the sacrifice of himself. Quest. What are the…

All the princes on earth, or angels in heaven, could not satisfy for sin, only Christ. Nay, Christ's active obedience was not enough to make atonement for sin, but he must suffer upon the cross; for without blood is no remission (Hebrews 9:22). O what an accursed thing is sin, t…

Response 1: To worship him without ceremonies. The ceremonies of the law which God himself ordained are now abrogated and out of date; Christ the substance being come, the shadows fly away; and therefore the Apostle calls the legal ceremonies carnal rites (Hebrews 9:10), and if…

A man will not lay down his money for a purchase which may be lost, and the fee-simple alienated. Christ died that he might purchase us as a people to himself forever (Hebrews 9:12): Having obtained eternal redemption for us. Would Christ (think we) have shed his blood, that we…

Unbelief makes the Word preached of no effect. (Hebrews 9:2): The Word preached did not profit, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. The Word to an unbeliever is like Dioscordium put into a dead man's mouth, which loses all its virtue.

This is my blood of the New Testament shed for many for the remission of sins. Consecration, or making us holy, is the fruit of Christ's death (Hebrews 9:14). How much more shall the blood of Christ purge your conscience!

11. If you would keep from the evil of sin, meditate frequently of death. First, the unavoidableness of it (Hebrews 9:27): Statutum est, it is appointed for all once to die. We are not so sure to lie down this night in our bed, as we are to lie down in our grave.

As, 1. That he offered himself a sacrifice to God, to make atonement for our sins, and that in his death and sufferings (Isaiah 53:10): "When you shall make his soul an offering for sin" (John 1:29): "Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world" (Ephesians 5:2):…

If there were no judgment wherein men are to appear, and give up their accounts, there would be no need of their justification: but Paul lives in expectation of such a thing, and has also given us to understand that all men have as much reason to expect it as he, it being a trut…

Secondly, the comeliness and beauty of Gospel worship does not in the least depend upon them, nor their observation. The Apostle does in sundry places expressly compare the spiritual worship of the Gospel, with that of the Law, while the Church had a worldly sanctuary and carnal…

But God has altered and changed them at sundry reasons, according to the counsel of his own will, so as he saw necessary for his own glory, and the edification of his Church. See (Genesis 2:16, 17; Genesis 17:10, 11; Exodus 12:3, 4, 5; Exodus 20; chapter 25:9; Hebrews 1:1; Hebre…

Q. How do these priesthoods differ in respect of the sacrifices offered thereby? A. The one offered the bodies and blood of beasts; but Christ offered up himself, and so was both Priest and Sacrifice (Hebrews 9:12, 14, 26). Q. Is there not some difference in regard of the number…

Q. Why else may we not pray for the dead? A. Because such prayers cannot avail at all, but are altogether vain (1 Peter 3:19; Hebrews 9:27). Q. For whom else must we not pray?

Therefore that wicked man which perishes for his sin, cannot be said to have risen again with Christ: and therefore Christ did not bear his person upon the cross. Thirdly the expiatory sacrifice sanctifies those, for whom it is a sacrifice, as the Holy Ghost plainly and absolute…

Now, such men are deceivers of their own souls; for after this sprinkling follows sanctification, and rising from dead works to newness of life: so that they that live in sin, and yet say they have faith, deceive themselves. For, if a man's heart be sprinkled with the blood of C…

In which material temple, none must come there to worship, but the circumcised Jews and Proselytes; for the uncircumcised and unclean were an abomination, and must not enter in at the gates thereof (Ezekiel 44:6, 7). And for the defects the people of Israel and Judah committed i…

And by his approbation of that law, and of the duty in observance of it, he did no more confirm it, or ascribe an obligatory power to it under the Gospel, than he did so to all other those ceremonial institutions which both he himself observed as a man made under the Law, and en…

4. It is highly false that the blessed state pretended to be here set forth, was antecedently to his being a Priest, and the sacrifice which he offered; yes, such an estate was inconsistent with the oblation of himself. For he offered himself to God in his blood (Hebrews 9:14),…

For herein he offered that Sacrifice to God whereby it was established. And hereby the Promise properly became [〈in non-Latin alphabet〉], a Testament, as our Apostle proves at large (Hebrews 9:14, 15, 16). And he declares in the same place, that it answered those Sacrifices whos…

And they generally scarce observe one of them themselves. But in the Law, as given by God himself, it is certain, that there were a multitude of arbitrary precepts, and those in themselves not accompanied with any spiritual advantages, as our Apostle shows (Hebrews 9:5), only th…

The Vulgar Latine rendets it by Iustificationes; from the inclusion of Ius, Iustum in the signification of it. In the new Testament it is used, Luke 1:6, Romans 1:32, chap. 2:26, chap. 5:16, chap. 8:4, Hebrews 9:1, ver. 10, Revelation 15:4, chap. 19:8. And in no one place does i…

Men shall not be raised again to live another life in this world, and as it were therein to make a new adventure, but it is to give an account of what is past, and to receive what they have done in the body whether it be good or evil. And because there are no outward visible tra…

They were in Heaven before, the sanctuary of God; but were not admitted within the Veil, into the most holy place, where all the counsels of God in Christ are displayed and represented. There was no entrance before either as to grace or glory within the Veil (Hebrews 9:8). For a…

1. In that it was confirmed, ratified, and made irrevocable thereby. This our Apostle insists upon at large (Hebrews 9:15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20). And he compares his Blood in his Death and sacrifice of himself, to the sacrifices and their blood whereby the old Covenant was confirm…

Three things therefore concur hereunto. (1.) The presentation of his person before the Throne of God on our behalf (Hebrews 9:24). This renders it sacerdotal.

And we may observe, farther to clear the design of the Apostle in this commination, 1. That all the gifts of God under the Gospel are peculiarly heavenly (John 3:12; Ephesians 1:3), and that in opposition, (1) to earthly things (Colossians 3:11, 12), (2) to carnal ordinances (He…

He made his soul an offering for sin (Isaiah 53:10), which was typified by the life that was in the blood of the sacrifice. Therefore it is said, that he offered himself to God (Hebrews 9:14; Ephesians 5:2), that is, his whole entire humane nature, soul and body, in their substa…

Secondly, the death of Christ has quite taken away the second death from those that are in Christ: as Paul says, There is no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, which walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit (Romans 3:1). Thirdly, the death of Christ is a means…

1. Because a limited time and season was fixed upon them, which is now expired. So was it with the church-state and ordinances of old; they were appointed to the time of reformation (Hebrews 9:10). They had a certain time prefixed to their duration, according to the degrees of w…

There are grounds on Christ's part; his everlasting merit, and close union between him and us, and constant intercession. For his merit see (Hebrews 9:12). He is entered into the holy place, having obtained an eternal redemption for us.

Reason 1. Hebrews 9:15, 26 and 10:10: The Holy Spirit says Christ offered himself but once. Therefore not often — and thus there can be no real or bodily offering of his body and blood in the sacrament of his Supper.

1 John 1:7: Christ's blood purges us from all our sins. Hebrews 9:14: It purges our consciences from dead works. And Christ baptizes with the Holy Spirit and with fire, because our inward washing is by the blood of Christ and the Holy Spirit is as fire to consume and abolish the…

You deceive your self if you think to be refined any other way but by this refiner, and in this refiner's fire. The blood of Christ does not only wash us from guilt, but purge our consciences from dead works to serve the living God (Hebrews 9:10). And they that are Christ's, hav…

All men are under the same condition, to whose share it falls to be born, to him it remains to die. We are indeed distinguished by intervals, but equalized in the issue, it is appointed to all men once to die (Hebrews 9:27). There is a statute law of heaven in the case.

Secondly, in this death as there is a privation, so there is also a positive evil quality in the soul, whereby it is not only void of goodness, but made ill. In the natural death when as a man dies, there is another form left in the body; so in this spiritual death, there is an…

Another thing observable is, it was set before the Vail by the Ark of the Testimony, before the Mercy-seat. It was to stand in the holy of holiest, but just before the Vail, right against the Mercy-seat; and by this you must be helped to understand that Scripture in (Hebrews 9:4…

When the new covenant was established, the forgiveness of sins was made. But the apostle teaches that without the shedding of blood this cannot come to pass (Hebrews 9:22). Therefore, by sacrificial blood (perhaps of cattle, from whose skins God fashioned tunics for the first pa…

XIV. 4. "That reconciliation, expiation of sins, and remission must be procured through a blood sacrifice." All the ordinances taught this; especially that solemn sacrifice offered annually on the day of expiation (Leviticus 16); hence that word of the apostle (Hebrews 9:22): Al…

The case is different for those things which are founded in the nature of things. For since all the Mosaic rites were instituted for a time of reformation (Hebrews 9). 10, and they had only a shadow of the good things to come, not the very image of the things themselves (chap. 1…

When, moreover, the wretched, lost, weary, and accursed behold Him lifted up on high, as it were "from the ends of the earth" (Isaiah 45:22), and see that propitiation has been set forth in His blood for the declaration of God's righteousness in the forgiveness of sins (Romans 3…

Christ dismissed all external splendor and all carnal adornment, however resplendent with visible glory, by newly appointing to His worship very few ceremonies, and those simple ones. See (John 4:23; 2 Corinthians 3:6-11; Hebrews 9:1-12). But as long as it pleased God to employ…

So, having shown how it comes to pass that Christ suffered and suffered so much, and was brought so low under suffering; and having told that he was engaged to pay the Elect's debt, and that the Father had laid their iniquities on him; lest any might think that the Father would…

The Apostle says (Hebrews 10) that it was impossible that the blood of bullocks, and of goats could take away sin; they were not properly sin-offerings, but as they were types of that offering which was to come; and so when Christ is called an offering, He is differenced from al…

3. That there be a killing, or destroying, of the thing that is offered in a sacrifice; which especially in the sin-offering was necessary; to wit, that it should be killed, or destroyed; as we see in (Exodus 29) and Leviticus frequently. This had a signification, and the Lord w…

The apostle takes this for granted (Romans 14:10): We shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. And (Hebrews 9:29): It is appointed for all men once to die, and after that comes the judgment. There is a solemn decree passed, that, as all men shall die, so every man sha…

Behold the lamb of God that takes away, or bears, and by bearing, takes away the sins of the world. (1 Peter 2:24) He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so the just suffered for the unjust; (Hebrews 9, last verse) He was once offered to bear the sins of many. Whether…