sense, in consequence of its having actual respect to God, and tending to conciliate his favour, unless sacrifices properly so called had the same relation and tendency. Moreover, as the sacrifice of Christ belongs to the class of piacular sacrifices, it must also be maintained in the second place, that it had respect to God in such a way as that its design was to procure from him the remission of sins: which was evidently the proper end and design of every piacular victim, whether sin offering or trespass offering. The last point is, that every one, in treating of the sacrifice of our Lord, ought to consider his death as designed to be a vicarious punishment: a sentiment enforced by the design of an expiatory victim and by the express representation of the scriptures. The last two points, in which the first is also included, were maintained as other writers have sufficiently shown by the common consent of all the early Christians; and have been embraced with a firm and constant faith by the universal church.

XIII. Concerning the kingdom* given to Christ as Mediator (between which and his priesthood, as explained by us, Crellius thinks there can be no connection or agreement) we hold the following opinion.That Christ can do all things that he will; but that he wills nothing which is not also agreeable to God, and that he wills every thing that is agreeable to him. That it is highly pleasing to God, as tending to illustrate

Let it be observed that in all the remarks we have made conceming the kingdom of Christ, we mean, not that natural kingdom which belongs to the Eternal Word; but that which the scripture declares to have been given to Christ as Mediator, on account of his perfect obedience to God in all things, especially in his voluntary death; and which is at length to be "delivered up to God, even the Father." Philip. ii. 8---11. I Cor. XV. 24.

and magnify that honour which he would have to be peculiarly his own, that Jesus Christ whom he has 'constituted the Mediator* on behalf of men with him, as well as on his part with men, should not only teach his people truths, regulate them by laws, succour them with the aids of his Spirit, and raise them to eternal life, but also, as their patron or advocate, commend them to him. Not that God vacates the throne of his majesty, or has committed the kingdom to Christ as Mediator, so as to abdicate it himself, or put himself in subjection to Christ: that if this were the case no prayers could be duly offered, except to Christ as Mediator; and the contrary must have been erroneously practised by the apostles and the universal church. That Christ is constituted the judge of all, that he now administers all things, but according to the will of God. That it cannot be, that he in whom we live and move and have our be"ing,"§ who is omnipresent and omniscient, should have no will or thought about things relating to us, but should consider himself as having no business with them; that he should have committed all things to the administration of Jesus Christ, so as to determine nothing himself respecting our affairs, but to be altogether careless about them. That therefore the will of God relates to us men as well as to all other things, and that Christ as our high priest is chiefly desirous and concerned that the will of God may be favourable and propitious towards us, and that with this view he commends both our persons and services to the divine regard. That in this principally consists that advocacy of Christ which is denominated his in+ I Cor. xv. 27.

I Tim. ii. 5.

Heb. i. 3. xii. 2,
§ Acts xvii. 28.

tercession. And lastly, that these things prove the existence of an intimate connection between the regal and sacerdotal offices of Christ, and that neither of them is at all incompatible with the other.

INDEX

OF THE

PRINCIPAL MATTERS.

The large numeral Letters indicate the Dissertation; the small Letters,
the Chapter; and the Figures, the Section.

A.

Aaron, consecration of him and his sons to the priesthood, by ablution,
I. v. 1.-clothing with the appointed vestments, 2. 4.-unction, 3.-
and sacrifice, 5, 6.

Abel's oblation, 1. i. 3-6.

Adjuration, forms of, among the Jews, I. xii. 9.

Allar of incense, I. ii. 2.—of sacrifice, or great altar, I. viii. 1. xv. 3.-
an altar a sacred table, viii. 7.-the table of shew bread a kind of altar,
viii. 7.

Animals, what species appointed for sacrifices by the law of Moses, I. ix. 1.
Antitype possesses in reality what the type figuratively represented, I.
xviii. 2. xxi. 7.

Atonement by piacular victims, I. xxii.-by the death of Christ, II, vi.

B.

Birds, what species appointed for sacrifices, I. ix. 1.-to be slain by the
priests only, and why, xv. 2.—in what manner to be sacrificed, xvi. 7.
Blood of victims, where, how, and by whom to be sprinkled, I. xvi. 2—4.—
this the most sacred of all the sacrificial rites, 6.—the sprinkling of the
blood of a victim, the solemn presentation of its life to God, I. xxi. 6.
II. v. 6.

Burnt Offerings-the original term explained, I. x. 5.-the most ancient
kind of sacrifices, x. i. 5.—offered in compliance with express injunc-
tions; also as votive and voluntary oblations, 6.—their particular design;
sometimes piacular, 7.-the only sacrifices, according to the Jews, which
might be offered at the temple by Gentiles, 8.-design of the daily burnt
offerings, xiv. 5. xx. 2.

C.

Christ-typified by all the Jewish Sacrifices, I. i. 10. xviii. 5.-more emi-
nently by those whose blood was carried into the sanctuary, and whose
carcasses were burnt without the camp, xviii. 6. II. iii. 2.-his sacrifice
had respect to God, I. xx. 8. II. vii. 12.-whatever was prefigured in the
types, to be attributed to him, I. xxi. 5.—described as a ransom, xxii. 2.—
general business of his priesthood, an advocacy with God on behalf of
men, II. i. 1.—a priest after the order of Melchisedec, and not of Aaron, 2.
-how consecrated to his priestly office, 3, 4.—his priesthood real, not
figurative-proved by various texts and arguments, ii.—his priestly and
kingly offices distinct, ii. 4.—but not incompatible with each other, vii.
13.-how he commends us to God or intercedes for us, ii. 9.-his sacrifice
belongs to the piacular class, iii. 1.-in what it consists, 3.-offered him-
self to be slain as a piacular victim, 3.—prayers by which he consecrated
or devoted himself to death, 3.—offered himself in heaven as a piacular
victim previously slain, II. vii. 1.-sustained in his sacrifice the threefold
character of offerer, victim, and high priest, iii. 4.-by his voluntary death
accomplished what could not have been effected by it if involuntary, iv.
1.-by his obedience unto death he established the authority of the gos-
pel, 2.—gave an example to his followers, 3.-obtained as Mediator au-
thority over the universe and favour with God, and procured gifts for
men, 4.—the design and efficacy of his death threefold, v. 1.—his death
a vicarious punishment, v.—distinction between Christ being punished
for us, and our being punished in him, v. 10.-his death expiatory, vi. 1.
-proved by redemption being ascribed to it, 2, 3.-by his being called
a ransom, 4.-by his blood being shed for the remission of sins, 5.-by
his being made a curse, 6.-by his being described as a propitiation, 7.—
remission of sins attributed to his death, 8, 9.-nature of his satisfac-
tion, 10.-declared to have suffered for sins, 11.-to have died for us,
and for the ungodly, 12.-operation of his vicarious punishment, 13.—
his death as a piacular victim consistent with the divine justice and grace,
13.-commends to God our persons and services and especially our
prayers, vii. 2-4.-discharges in heaven the office of an advocate,
6-9.-why said to make reconciliation for sins in heaven, 10.-his
mediatorial kingdom, 13.

Congregation-Sacrifices of the whole congregation of Israel, some occa-
sional, I. xiv. 1-3.-others stated; daily, weekly, monthly, and an-
nual, 4, 5.-The whole congregation offered only prescribed sacrifices,
none votive or voluntary, 3.

D.

Damage done to a neighbour, what compensation required for it by the

Mosaic law, I. xiii. 3.

Drink Offerings, I. viii. 4.