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ferings which are supposed to be preliminary to the work of
atonement, or the cleansing of the sanctuary. p. 245,
Para. 2, [LOOKING].
As already stated, the belief is entertained by some that
we are now in this preliminary work, and the matter of continued
probation is got along with on the supposition that
these preliminary offerings might have reference to individual
cases, and be applied to particular sins. p. 245,
Para. 3, [LOOKING].
Let us inquire for the foundation upon which this supposition
rests. It is said that the work in the holiest was not
the offering of blood for particular individuals, but for
all the people. But it is just as true that these preliminary
offerings, to which reference has already been made,
were of precisely the same nature. They were not offered by
individuals, but, like the daily morning and evening sacrifices,
were offered in behalf of the whole people. There
is, therefore, just as much mercy implied in the sinoffering
in the holiest, as in the other offerings presented
on that day. We do not deny, but on the other hand
fully maintain, that these offerings did imply mercy and
the forgiveness of sin for the people. But if so, there was
forgiveness of sin to be found while the high priest was
presenting his offering in the most holy place. And while
in the type it was necessarily general in the antitype it
must be individual, for it is for such, that the work is
here performed, and the records reveal the true condition
of all hearts. p. 246, Para. 1, [LOOKING].
If it be said that the work in the holiest was to cleanse
the sanctuary, we reply that it cannot be said that it was
only to cleanse the sanctuary, which would make quite a
different statement of it. It is true it was to cleanse the
sanctuary, but this is not the whole truth on this point.
It was also for the people, availing for sins committed up
to the moment of its offering. The high priest made atonement
for the sins of the people on that day just as much as
he did for his own sins. Read carefully Leviticus 16 and
Heb. 9:7. p. 246, Para. 2, [LOOKING].
Now, it is confidently affirmed that what was done in the
type for the people as a body, is done in the antitype for
the people as individuals; and the blood of sin-offering
ministered in the most holy place, avails for their sins,
even as it did in the outer apartment, till it comes to an