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 The ceremonies of the law which God himself ordained are now abrogated and out of date; Christ the substance being come, the shadows fly away; and therefore the Apostle calls the legal ceremonies carnal rites (Hebrews 9:10), and if…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.

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

But, secondly, and more particularly, if it be asked wherein this addition to the consolation of God's people, by his intercession, after his ascension manifests itself — we may take it up in these six steps, which will also serve to illustrate the manner of his interceding. 1.…

[illegible] My God I delight to do your will, every servant cannot say this to his Master, your Law is in the midst of my heart. 2. His willingness to die was a part of his testament and last will, he died with good will, and left in legacy his death, and the fruits of it, his b…

Moor says, a whole world to whom the Lord imputes no sin, may be under the curse of the second death. 2. To put reconciling of the world to God, as Paul does in (2 Corinthians 5), for the reconciling of Christ in his own body with God, as Mr. Moor does, is strange divinity; for…

For faith in that act looks at what in Christ does justify a sinner, and therefore Christ considered as dying, rising, etc. does in this respect become the most pleasing and grateful object to a soul that is humbled, for this makes Christ suitable to him as he is a sinner, under…

But yet our hearts would still be inquisitive (for all that) to hear whether indeed he has perfectly satisfied God or no, and would be extremely solicitous to know whether he has satisfactorily performed what he undertook, and how he got clear of that engagement and of being mad…

Now to what end has God committed this power to him, but that himself may be his own executor, and administrator, and perform all the legacies which he made to those whom he died for? As the expression is (Hebrews 9:15-17), that none of his heirs might be wronged. Fairer dealing…

Now then in answer to this type, there are two distinct parts of Christ's priesthood: First, the offering of himself a sacrifice to death, as Hebrews 9:26 — which answers to the killing of the sacrifice outside the holy of holies, for correspondingly he was crucified outside the…

It is with the sons of men in this kind (that I may so speak) as it was with the soldiers (2 Kings 19:35), they were all dead corpses: truly, that is the case of us all by nature; every soul of us, as long as we live in the world without Christ, so many men, so many dead corpses…

4. This was prefigured in the rites of the law, foretold in the writings of the prophets. In the figures of the law it was represented (Hebrews 9:22): and almost all things are by the law purged with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no remission, especially the…

And though the grant be passed in heaven, yet we have not the sense of it in our own hearts, for it is the blood of Christ can only do it. Hebrews 9:14: How much more shall the blood of Christ who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God purge your conscien…

But now he has shed it plentifully and has satisfied abundantly. By his own blood has he entered into the holy place once for all, and obtained eternal redemption for us (Hebrews 9). Also (Romans 3): And we are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Chri…

And this he did in his death upon the crosse. For by the death of the Mediatour, we receive the promise of euerlasting inheritance, Heb 9:15. and with one oblation upon the crosse he perfected them that are sanctified, Heb 10:14. and they cannot be perfected, without the perfect…

It is also a Will, or Testament in two respects. First, because the promise is confirmed by the death of the mediatour, Heb 9:15. Secondly, the things promised, as remission of sinnes, and life euerlasting, are given after the manner of legacies, that is, freely, without our des…

Sixthly, the law has Moses for the mediator (Deuteronomy 5:27), but Christ is the mediator of the new testament (Hebrews 8:6). Lastly, the law was dedicated by the blood of beasts (Exodus 24:5), and the new Testament, by the blood of Christ (Hebrews 9:12). Here then falls to the…

Hence we see how childishly the Papists trifle in abusing this place to prove their priesthood: for the Pope and his chaplains ordain Priests to sacrifice to Jesus Christ; and not to teach his people (both which Moses joins together in Deuteronomy 33:10). But Christ offered up h…

Life is promised, but it must be sought only in the death and resurrection of Christ. This too is the reason why God commanded of old, that the book of the law should be sprinkled with the blood of the sacrifice, (Exodus 24:8; Hebrews 9:19, 20.) It is also worthy of notice, that…

“Un jeu d’enfans;” — “a game for children.” This very argument is copiously illustrated by the apostle, (Hebrews 9:1;) for, assuming this principle, that the visible ceremonies of the law are shadows of spiritual things, he shows that in the whole of the legal priesthood, in the…

Meanwhile, the Jews were informed that the period of abolishing outward sacrifices had arrived, and that the ancient priesthood would be of no farther use; that though the building of the temple was left standing, it would not be necessary to worship God there after the ancient…

He died for all, that they which live, should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him who died, and rose again. Hebrews 9:14. How much more shall the Blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit, offered up himself without Spot to God, purge your Consciences from de…

Sect. 32 Add hereunto in the last place, that Divine Properties are assigned to him. As Eternity; Heb. 9. 14. He is the Eternal Spirit.

Now all the voluntary Communications of the Divine Nature to the Humane, were as we have shewed, by the Holy Spirit. Sect. 8 Seventhly; He offered himself up to God through the Eternal Spirit, Heb. 9. 14. I know many Learned Men do judge that by the Eternal Spirit in that place,…

The outward Administration of this Ordinance considered materially, reaches no farther, but to the washing away of the filth of the Flesh, but more is signified thereby. There is denoted in it the Restipulation of a good Conscience to God, by the Resurrection of Christ from the…

For he loved us and washed us from our sins in his own Blood, Rev. 1. 5. The Blood of Jesus Christ purges our Consciences from dead works to serve the living God, Heb. 9. 14. Respect I acknowledge in some of these places may be had to the Expiation of the Guilt of sin by the Blo…

As to the priestly office, the mediate effects of Christ's sacerdotal acting that respect us are: (1) moral, as our justification and pardon of sin; and (2) real, in our sanctification and holiness — though the immediate actings of that office respect God alone, the virtue and e…

The continuation of all your mercies and comforts, outward as well as inward, is the fruit of his Intercession in Heaven for you. For look, as the offering up of the Lamb of God a Sacrifice for sin, opened the door of mercy at first; so his appearing before God as a Lamb that ha…

The Holy Ghost is said not to be given at that time, because he had not been so plentifully given. And the Apostle to the Hebrews speaks, as if the way into Heaven had been but then opened, because it was then more clearly opened (Hebrews 9:8). So we are said to receive the adop…

Therein he finished the transgression, made an end of sin, and made reconciliation for iniquity; Daniel 9:24. Even all the Sacrifices, and so consequently the whole worship of the Old testament, evinced this relation between forgiveness and bloodshedding; whence the apostle conc…

6. It has a bottom and that of gold: a bottom is to show its stability and firmness, to sustain and keep up these who ride in it, and gold shows its solidity and preciousness, it's a rich bottom, therefore the new Jerusalem is said to have her streets of pure gold (Revelation 21…