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

it is not in the type. It is answered that all offerings
for sin were to be presented at the door of the tabernacle,
and not in the most holy place. Very true; but an assumption
must be superadded to that fact, to make it available
as an objection; and that assumption is this: that our
prayers, supplications, and confessions of sin, are our offerings;
that, consequently, we can present them nowhere
else than at the door of the tabernacle, and can present
them there only while the High Priest ministers in the
first apartment; and after he has changed his position to
the second apartment, no such offerings can longer be accepted,
no more mercy be offered, nor probation be continued.
p. 244, Para. 2, [LOOKING].
Here, again, there is manifest an utter misapprehension of
the whole question; for this position makes our prayers and
confessions the antitype of those ancient offerings. What?
can any one for a moment suppose that when a person offered
up his victim at the earthly tabernacle, it signified that
people under the gospel dispensation would pray, and confess
their sins? This we are indeed to do; but the ancient
offerings had no reference to such duties as these at the
present time; for they all pointed forward to Christ; and
when those who argue in this way will take the right antitype,
they may lay as much stress as they please upon the
locality where it is to be offered; for Christ also "suffered
without the gate." Heb. 13:12. We have therefore but
to follow him into both the holy places (each in its appropriate
time) as he presents his offering there. p. 244,
Para. 3, [LOOKING].
But if Leviticus 17, which is supposed to prove that forgiveness
of sin can be found only in the first apartment,
be examined as far as verse 7, it will be seen that the
great object of the special charge to bring their offerings
to the door of the tabernacle, was to prevent the people
from sacrificing in the fields to devils. This therefore in
no way contradicts the testimony of Leviticus 16, that the
high priest with the blood of sin-offering did make atonement
in the holiest in behalf of all the people because of
their transgressions in all their sins. And to get the
benefit of it, they were to afflict their souls at the same
time, showing that their probation for that year, in type,
did not cease till the atonement was finished. p. 245,
Para. 1, [LOOKING].
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