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26 Th4 (JHfritarhut "TrJte #/ tur Part II<br />
firced from the guile <strong>of</strong> all dnrand in this (enle the blood <strong>of</strong>l^if^hrifi<br />
his Son, doth clenfe tufrom sllfin iIohui.y.Rrv.i.if.h'ii facrifice did<br />
procure hisFathers Alonement,becaule it was a Mediatorial Sacrifice,<br />
for he <strong>of</strong>fered himfeifhy- his eternal fpirit, Heb. 9. 14. In the lews account<br />
ChiiO died only a paffiTe death, but in Gods account he died<br />
a mediatorial adive death ^ and th'-refbre it was accepted <strong>of</strong> God<br />
as a plealing (acritice/or the procuring ©fourAtonement and rcdeniplion:<br />
neither filvcr nor gold, or any other corruptible thing<br />
could procure our Aconemeot and redemption • no other thing<br />
could procure it but the highel^ degree <strong>of</strong>obedience which the mediator<br />
could perform, which was his mediatorial (acritice <strong>of</strong> A-<br />
tonemenc : it vim no legal obedience, nor any other human adion<br />
that was a futficicnt price for our redemption, but it was that<br />
precious thing or ad <strong>of</strong> his Mediatorial Obedience in W\i obligation<br />
which was a fuper-natural obedience ; and therefore i: wai<br />
accepted <strong>of</strong>God the father as the meritorious procuring caufc <strong>of</strong>our<br />
Atonement and red- mption : and fo confequcntly it .was that pr&.<br />
cious thing <strong>of</strong> price by vvhichChril\ did redeem us from the curie <strong>of</strong><br />
the lavy, and from his Fa:hers wrath.<br />
2. Tkis way <strong>of</strong>our redemption was taught and typified by^<br />
that price that all Ifrad gave for the redemption <strong>of</strong> their liresimcdiatly<br />
after their coming out <strong>of</strong> E^ypt. the rich might not pa(s,nor<br />
the poor might not diminifh from half a ItvUel : bothmuft give<br />
a like price for their redemption: (and thefc halt fhekels were after<br />
nfcd to buy the dayly morning and eyening lacrihcei, which were<br />
publick faCrifice for the whole Church <strong>of</strong> Ifral J and this <strong>Redemption</strong><br />
money was given yerr by yecr,bccaufe ti.e law madenotbing<br />
.pcifcd at once :fee Ainf. on Exo. o. 15. Nek. 10.<br />
7,<br />
5 2>3 3.<br />
And this redemption money ( or part <strong>of</strong> it at leal^j was called<br />
fin money i 2nd Trcfpafs money, 2 Kingt 12.16. bccaufeitwai<br />
employed to buy the publick/iw <strong>of</strong>ferings, and trejpafs <strong>of</strong>ferings as<br />
well as the dajly Enrnt Offerings '^<br />
and it was Employed aifb to<br />
build thcSanduary, or to repair the Temple, as I have formerly<br />
noted on (^or. 5. 21.<br />
And this ceremony might teach them and us.that Chrif} fliouU<br />
redeem us by making his r)ul a fin <strong>of</strong>fering , and a trc^afs <strong>of</strong>fering<br />
for the procuring <strong>of</strong> his Fathers a:r>n^meiu for ( ur ful redemption.<br />
3<br />
. It IS evident by another Typical ccrwmony <strong>of</strong> redemption<br />
that<br />
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