The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption, William ... - Adkinshorton.net

Part I. Redempthn ttnd Jnftjficathn c/eered.
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and it fs ericlcnt that lhc(e twjagtxts did typific the death and reforrcAion
ot Ghrill, for he was put to death concerning the flcfh,
tut he was qmckned bj the§>iriti i Ptt. 3.18. and Paui opens it
thxcHefowredoi/th^fouieto deathjor onr fins, ttndrofe airaine
fofur JM^ifcativn, Rem.J\^ 25. lo 1 r ad t^rc text,bccaulc Prfjir//
Grtek IS borrowed from the 7u.iniyrf.5g. 12, where the Hebrew
is, po«Ted out.
The High Prieft did imj>*fe hth hia hands upw the head of the
live ftafegoat i aatd confefed over him aM the tmcjuities of the Sans
tflfraely and all their tre^afes, and alt their fins, and fnt them
mfon the head of t he live J tape goat, andfent him a'^aj bj a
man fit
into the "^ildernejfe,»nd(o the hyc goat Buck did btarc upon
him all their iniquities, Xfz/»>. 16. 10. 21, 22. and thus by the i«*»'''9«»»»j»
do^ncot imputation, Chrifl is gone as a guilty finnct into
Heaven.
But the Hebrew D. (f^ors did not underfland the impofrtfon
of hands, withconteflion otfin, of Gods imputation, but they
underllood it to be as a typicall iigne oftheir faith of depcndance
upon Chrifts Sacrifirc of Atonement j and fo much the prayer of
the High Prieft doth import, for when he impofed his hands upon
the head of the Wvtfcafe gost , he faid,( Lord, make Atonement
norpfor thefinSj smdftr the iniqttitits , andfor the trefajfes of thy
feofle Ifracljfee Ainf. in Levit. 16. 2 1. and thus the Lord laid ttpen
him the iniejuitie ofms ail ;
or isKing fames tranflation hath it>
the Lord made the iniqaitj cfns all to meet ufon him j namdy the
iniquities of the whole Church.
From this adt of laying on of hands upon the head of each of
thcfe two gtats-^
I reafon thus.
If the High Priefts laying on of hands uptn the head of the (incffciing,
did reprefent Gods laying the fins ot all the El' (f^ upon
Chrift by imputation, when he made his foul a Mfdiatoriall (acrificc
of Atonement for our fins : Then the fame a6hon of the
High Priell done upon the head of the lire fcape goat, did al(b reprefcnt
the Lx)rds laying the fins of all the ElC«ft upon Chrift by
imputation, when hec afcended into heaven to make intcrcciCon
for ihem.
2. If Gods imputing of all the fins of the Eledi to Chrift, was
the caufc ofGods e;4ttcam wraih upon him ,
when hec made his
foule
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