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brought into the sanctuary by the High Priest for sin, are burned without the camp. Wherefore Jesus, also, that He might sanctify the people with His own Blood, suffered without the gate. Let us go forth, therefore, unto Him without the camp, bearing His reproach. For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come. By Him, therefore, let us offer the Sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name. (See page 73 of texts and illustrations.)

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1 Pet. ii. 5.-Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy Priesthood, to offer up spiritual Sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.2

("Spiritual Sacrifices" cannot be supposed to have reference to the state of mind of the worshipper, because this was always necessary, under the Law, as well as under the Gospel. Spiritual Sacrifices here, is meant, in opposition to the carnal rites of the Jews, who saw not in them more than the outward sign of God's covenanted mercy. But Christ being come, and having by His death, revealed the spiritual nature of all Sacrifice as figures of Him, we no longer worship God in the offering up of the creature, but in the full apprehension of "Christ crucified in the Flesh.” To argue from this the discontinuance of the Christian Sacrifice, would furnish a better

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course for the Jew, had he renounced the Legal Sacrifice in consequence of the words of Isaiah, "To what purpose is the multitude of your Sacrifices unto Me, saith the Lord ?" Or, as we read in the Prophet Micah, "Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the Most High God? Shall I come before Him with burnt-offerings, with calves of a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams? or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgressions, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good: and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God." This is the spirituality that must ever accompany an acceptable Sacrifice to God; but does not with the Christian, any more than it did with the Jew, supersede the necessity of Sacrifice itself; for in the latter case, at all events, it is to suppose that God rejected His own appointed worship.)

1 Mic. vi. 6-8.

BAPTISM.

(The visible administration of the Water-The invisible operation of the Spirit.)

THE CHRISTIAN ORDINANCE BY WHICH THE SACRI

FICE OF CHRIST IS MADE AVAILABLE.-IN TYPE AND PROPHECY.

Gen. vii. 17, 18.-And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. the ark went upon the face of the waters.

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[1 Pet. iii. 20, 21.-God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. The like figure whereunto even Baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh-that is "not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost" but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.]

(What is this "answer of a good conscience toward God?" Is it in our own state or disposition? or in the being cleansed, and sanctified by the Holy Spirit,

11 Tit. iii. 5.

in the Waters of Baptism, of which the waters which bare up the Ark of Salvation, were, as the Spirit declares, the prefiguration; the eight souls that it contained, being "saved by water?"

Exod. xiv. 22.-And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.

(1 Cor. x. 1, 2.-Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea.-i. e. In the Spirit and in the Water. Exod. xiii. 21. And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light; to go by day and night.)

Exod. xix. 10.-And the Lord said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to-day and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes.

14. And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes.

(Ezek. xxxvi. 25-29.—Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of

flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes, and ye shall keep My judgments, and do them. And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be My people, and I will be your God. I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.)

2 Kings v. 10, 14.-And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go, and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean. Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.

(Luke iv. 27.—And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.)

Isa. i. 16-20.-Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: but if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

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