LOOKING UNTO JESUS OR CHRIST IN TYPE AND ANTITYPE. BY ...

ment, that the reader will allow a brief recapitulation,
and pardon the subject if it is presented "line upon line;
precept upon precept: here a little and there a little," as
its intrinsic importance makes it proper that it be
treated. p. 143, Para. 2, [LOOKING].
Having provided the sacrifice, Christ commences his work
as priest in the sanctuary above, and the invitation is
sent abroad to all the world, Come unto me for pardon and
everlasting life. The way of our coming is described in
Acts 20:21: "Repentance toward God, and faith toward our
Lord Jesus Christ." We confess our sins to God through
Christ as our sacrifice. As the penitent in the former dispensation
laid his sins upon his victim by confessing over
him his transgressions, so we lay our sins upon Christ by
confessing them to God through him. Thus the confession and
offering of the sinner of old finds its antitype in our
confession of sin to God through Christ. By the Mosaic offering,
the sin was borne into the earthly sanctuary; by
faith in Christ as our offering, and by our confessions
through him, we transfer our sins to the sanctuary in
heaven, where he ministers for us. Thus the Lord carries
forward the great work which he commenced when he bore the
sins of the world at his death, by pleading the cause of
penitent sinners through his blood shed in their behalf.
And thus there is in this dispensation, as in the former, a
transfer of sins; there in figure, here in fact. There is
nothing strange or fanciful in this. Every one can easily
understand it. Such was the service of the type, which was
a "shadow" of the heavenly things; and such, therefore, is
the heavenly ministration itself. p. 143, Para. 3, [LOOK-
ING].
As, in the case of sins transferred to the earthly tabernacle,
the question arose, What became of those sins? we
have here the same question to answer respecting the sins
transferred through Christ to the heavenly sanctuary: What
is to become of these sins? Do they remain there forever? -
- No: they will be removed, just as they were in the type;
for the heavenly sanctuary is to be "cleansed" even as was
the earthly. p. 144, Para. 1, [LOOKING].
But it is at once objected that this application cannot be
correct, and this cannot refer to any sanctuary in heaven;
for there is nothing there that needs cleansing; nothing
there impure, to which such language can apply. And in some
minds this molehill becomes magnified into a mountain,