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FOR J. OGLE; M..OGLE, GLASGOW; OGLES, DUNCAN & COCHRAN, LONDON; AND T. JOHNSTONE, DUBLIN.
1814.
LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFOR
DAVIS
CONTENTS
PRACTICAL
OF THE
OBSERVATIONS,
Drawn from the Exposition of the Texts, which are handled anit improved in this Volume.
Doctrine
CHAPTER VIII.
VERSE 1.
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1. WHEN the nature and weight of the matter treated of, or the
variety of arguments wherein it is concerned, do require that
our discourse of it should be drawn forth to a length more than
ordinary, it is useful to refresh the minds, and relieve the memo-
ries of our hearers, by a brief recapitulation of the things in-
sisted on,
2. When doctrines are important, and such as the eternal welfare
of the souls of men are immediately concerned in, we are by all
means to endeavour an impression of them on the minds of our
hearers,
3. The principal glory of the priestly office of Christ, depends on
the glorious exaltation of his person,
VERSE 2.
1. The Lord Christ, in the height of his glory, condescends to
discharge the office of a public minister in the behalf of the
church,
2. All spiritually sacred and holy things are laid up in Christ,
3. He hath the ministration of all these holy things committed to
him,
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4. The human nature of Christ is the only true tabernacle, where- in God would dwell personally and substantially,"
5. The church hath lost nothing by the removal of the old taber-
nacle and temple, all being supplied by this sanctuary, true ta
bernacle, and minister thereof,
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9. If any one else can offer the body of Christ, he also is the mi-
nister of the true tabernacle,
9. It was an institution of God, that the people in all their dis-
tresses should look unto, and make their supplications towards
the tabernacle, or holy temple,
6. We are to look for the gracious presence of God in Christ only, 36
7. It is by Christ alone that we can make our approach unto God
in his worship,
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VERSE 3.
1. God's ordination or appointment gives rules, measures and ends,
unto all sacred offices and employments,
2. There is no approach unto God, without continual respect unto
sacrifice and atonement,
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3. There was no salvation to be had for us, no, not by Jesus Christ
himself, without his sacrifice and oblation,
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4. As God designed unto the Lord Christ the work which he had
to do, so he provided for him, and furnished him with whatever
was necessary thereunto,
5. The Lord Christ being to save the church in the way of office,
he was not to be spared in any thing hecessary thereunto,
6. Whatever state or condition we are called unto, what is neces◄
sary unto that state, is indispensably required of us,
VERSE 4.
1. God's institutions, rightly stated, do never interfere,
2. The discharge of all the parts and duties of the priestly office
of Christ, in their proper order, was needful unto the salvation
of the church,
VERSE 5.
1. God alone limits the signification and use of all his own insti-
tutions,
2. It is an honour to be employed in any sacred service that be-
longs unto the worship of God, though it be of an inferior na-
ture unto other parts of it,
3. So great was the glory of heavenly ministration in the media-
tion of Jesus Christ, that God would not at once bring it forth
in the church, until he had prepared the minds of men by types,
shadows, examples, and representations of it,
4. Our utmost care and diligence in the consideration of the mind
of God, is required in all that we do about his worship,
VERSE 6.
1. God, in his infinite wisdom, gives proper times and seasons to
all his dispensations to, and towards the church,
2. The whole office of Christ was designed to the accomplishment
of the will and dispensation of the grace of God,
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3. The condescension of the Son of God to undertake the office
of the ministry on our behalf, is unspeakable, and for ever to
be admired,
4. The Lord Christ, by undertaking this office of the ministry,
hath consecrated and made honourable that office unto all that
are rightly called unto it, and do rightly discharge it,
5. The exaltation of the human nature of Christ, into the office
of this glorious ministry, depended solely on the sovereign wis-
dom, grace and love of God,
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7. The provision of a mediator between God and man, was an ef fect of infinite wisdom and grace,
6. It is our duty and our safety to acquiesce universally and abso-
lutely, in the ministry of Jesus Christ,
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