Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-05-12

our Great High Priest. This doctrine, is
endeayored to be maintained from his ia :
yorite principle of the analogy between the.
type and its antitype He maintains that
1.-The high priest took the blood ofthe VIC
tim. and went within the I'd vail andthere
alone in the holy place ne made atone
ment by sprinkling the blood on and be-
fore the mercy seat Admitted. But
what is the inference made by our author
from this fact? He says, this holy
place first in the tabernacle and afterwards
in the temple, typifed heaven, where our
Great High Priest is gone TO atone for
u.s. This opinion will readily follow
the admission efhis first general principle
But as that opinion, has already, in our
view, been successfully controverted, we
are not obligated to find $ something in the
antitype answering TO eregy part of thc.
type." But let US examine the true anal
ogy between the type and the antitype, in
the case now before us. 1t was the mer-
Lcy-seat within the I'd. vail, on which the
blood of the victim was sprinkled, and up
on which the Lord appeared in cloud
Of incense, and accepted the offering of
the Priest and dispensed pardon to the
people. The Priest alone was permitted
to enter within the I'd vail, and offer sac
rifce. Now what is the true analogy be-
tween these rites and the work of media
ton performed by Christ? .
Let US inquire LIST, concerning the fact
that the Priest alone was permitted to go
within the I'd vail of the temple. Let the
inspired Apostle answer. Heb tx 70,
But into the second went the high priest
alone once every year, not without blood
which he offered for himself and for the
errors Of the people. The Holy Ghost
this signifying, that the way into the no.
| lest Of all was notyet made manifest while
as the first tabernacle was yet standing =;
which was figure for the time then pres
ent, in which were offered both gifts and
sacrifices that could not make him tba,
did the service perfect as pertaining to the
conscience -" The way into the holiest
Of all was not yet made manifest" OIL
made public. Whatever this fact tipi6es
! is Of no great moment to US; whether il
represents that, there shall be t" one medi,
atorn between God and man; or some
thing else The fact is all that the Apos
tie declares. He says the way into the
hottest of all was not yet made public
Only the High Priest was permitted tc
enter; and he could do this only once .ir
each year. Not even all of the holy tribe
of the Israelites were permitted to sacri
fee at the altar much less any of anoth
\ er tribe !; and least Of all, could any, from
/ the Gentle nations. This however wil
be admitted, that the entrance of the higl
/ priest within the I'd vail represented th'
r entrance of Christ into Heaven accord
: ing to the Apostle. Heb, TX: IL, l2.--
= rs But Christ being come a High Priest @
D good things to come, BY greater an
= more perfect tabernacle, not made wit
S hands that is to say, not of this building
G neither by the blood of goats and calve:
, but by his own blood, he entered in one
: into the holy place having obtained etern
= al redemption for u.s. Here the Apps
-, tie says, that Christ "entered in once int
}, the holy place, having obtained eterna
c redemption for US" This act of Chris
K is represented by the entrance of the hig
!, priest within the second vail.
J, Let us notice I'd, the works Of the hig
i priest within the I'd vail, or in the holic
} Of all. Levitt. xvi Is, Then shall h
e kill the goat of the sin-ofering that is ft
if the people, and bring his blood within II
,e vail, and do with that blood as he did Wi
the blood Of the bullock, and sprinkle
ri upon the mercy-seat and before the me
<, cy-seat." What does this work of Il
re high priest represents Our author say
I'd it tipifes the work Of Christ in heaven,
le our Great High Priest, atoning for sim
It, Here we are again at issue. AS Il
Id whole work is .fguratire, we remar
ID, that we can not contemplate Christ,
or answering to only one of these figures,
or once Now the merey-Seat In the holi
,at of all, is an acknowledged type of Chr
he The word mcrcy-seat, means covering,
g, propitiatory. Now Christ, in John
* 2, is said to be 1.-the Precipitation H.
'on atonement) for our sins and not for OF
inc only, but also for the sins of the VIII
the world" Now the word itamOS VIII
the We translate, by the word Precipitation
phi atonement means cOrertng, the same
the the Hebrew noun Gopher. Mercy:s
aw- also was the cooerimg of the ark.
,av- Christ then has become the iIamos &
did the atonement) for the sins of the WI
last world and if ilamos means cOUering
h we have already seen then the mer
III seat in the tabernacle, and afterward
, up the temple, tipifes Christ, as having m
Not atonement for sin. AS the visible 81
sac Of the Lord was manifested to the h
hen priest between the cherubim upon
lere mercy-seat; and as the Lord then h'
the the prayers Of the people by means Of
eve, priest, so now sinners can come to j
sup Christ, as their mercy seat or atonem
rist, make known their wants, and thro
par. Christ as their mercy-seat they can