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V.

THE TABERNACLE.

And let them make me And the Word was

a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them. According to all that I show thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it.—Ex. xxv. 8, 9.

And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory.-Ex. xxi. 43.

Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.-Ex. xl. 34.

made flesh, and dwelt* among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.-John i. 14.

Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;

A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.Heb. viii. 1, 2.

Now, when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God:

But into the second went the high priest alone

* Literally tabernacled,-dwelt among us as in a tent.

And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy-seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy-seat.-Lev. xvi. 2.

Read Ex. xl. Heb. ix.

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once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people.-Heb. ix. 6, 7.

But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;

Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.-Heb. ix. 11, 12.

Seeing then that we have a great high priest that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.-Heb. ix. 14.

THE MERCY SEAT.

And thou shalt make a mercy-seat of pure gold:

And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercy-seat; of which

And thou shalt make we cannot now speak particularly.-Heb. ix. 5. Herein is love, not that

two cherubims of gold, And the cherubims shall stretch forth their we loved God, but that

wings on high, covering the mercy-seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy-seat shall the faces of the che

rubims be.

And thou shalt put the mercy-seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee. And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy-seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in com

mandment unto the children of Israel.--Ex. xxv. 17-22.

Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest be

he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.-1 John iv. 10.

Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God.-Rom. iii. 24, 25.

Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find tween grace to help in time of shine forth.-Ps.lxxx.1. need.-Heb iv. 16. Read Ex. xxv. 1—22. Heb. ix.

the cherubims,

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THE SCAPE GOAT.

Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Ísrael, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:

And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited.-Lev. xvi. 21,

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Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many.—Heb. ix. 28. For he hath made him be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. -2 Cor. v. 21.

Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.-1 Pet. ii. 24.

Read Lev. xvi. Heb. ix.

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THE SIN OFFERING.

The bullock for the sin-offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, shall one carry forth without the

The bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.

Wherefore Jesus also,

camp; and they shall burn in the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung.--Lev. xvi. 27.

that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.

Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. Heb. xiii. 11

13.

Read Lev. xvi. Heb. xiii.

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THE SHEAF OF FIRST-FRUITS.

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

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Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:

And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.-Lev. xxiii. 9 -11.

Now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first-fruits of them that slept.-1 Cor. xv. 20.

But every man in his own order: Christ the first-fruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.-1 Cor. xv. 23.

For if the first-fruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches. -Rom. xi. 16.

Read Lev. xxiii. 1 Cor. xv.

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