The covenant of nature made with Adam described and cleared from sundry great mistakes. And thereby proving, I. That the kind of death that was threatned in that covenant, in Gen. 2.17. ought not to be understood of any other kind of death but of a double spiritual death, 1. By depriving Adam of Gods concreated image: and 2. By corruption of nature that followed thereupon. II. Proving that the said covenant was totally extinguished and made utterly null, as soon as Adam had but tasted of the forbidden fruit, and received the said threatned punishment. III. Expounding Gal. 3.10. and proving that the curse therein threatned must not be understood of the curse of the said covenant of nature, but of that curse that is threatned in the covenant of grace to the fallen posterity of Adam, for their not doing of Moses law by faith in Christ, which was given to them for the covenant of grace and reconciliation only. ... VIII. Expounding Rom. 8.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6, 8. in ch. 25. By William Pynchon.

SECT. 17.

The Holy of Holies.

1. CHrist is here called the Holy of Holies by way of allusion to the most * 1.1 holy consecrated Types both of his humane Nature, and also of the holy performance of his Priestly Office and Sacrifice.

2. Therefore as soon as God had instructed Moses how to make the holy anoin∣ting oyl in Exod. 30. 22. He told Moses in v. 26. what things must be anointed or consecrated therewith, that thereby they might be made the Holy of Holies: Namely, the Tent of the Congregation, the Ark of Testimony, and the Table and all the vessels thereof, and the Altar of Incense, and the Altar of burnt-offering and

all the vessels thereof, and the Laver and the foot thereof: Thou shalt sanctifie them (by the said Anointing Oyl) and they shall be holy of Holies: And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctifie them to minister in the Priests Office unto me, Exod. 30. 26, 27, 28, 29. Lev. 21. 6.

2. As soon as these things were so anointed, they were called Holy of Holies: so Christ as soon as he was anointed with his consecrating Afflictions, from his Combater Sathan and his potent seed, at the end of the said Seventy-sevens of years, he is called the Holy of Holies.

3. The Meat-offering is called the holy of holies, Lev. 2. 3, 10. Lev. 6. 17. Lev. 10. 12. Lev. 24. 9. And the sin-Offering is also called the holy of holies, Lev. 6. 25. 29. Lev. 10. 17. Exod. 30. 10. and the trespass-offerings is also called the holy of ho∣lies, Lev. 7. 1, 6, &c. Lev. 14. 13. And in that Respect these things are distinguished from other holy things, which are called leighter holy things by the Hebrew Do∣ctors, as it is observed by Ainsworth, in Lev. 6. 17. and in Numb. 18. 9, 10. and every devoted thing is called most holy to the Lord, Lev. 27. 28.

From hence I infer, that seeing the humane Nature of Christ is called the holy of holies. And 2. Seeing his Priestly actions in his sufferings, death and sacrifice, is called holy of holies; It should advise all deliberate Interpreters to take heed how they expound, 2 Cor. 5. 21. How God made Christ to be sin for us, lest they make him a sinner in a proper sence, by his imparting to him the guilt of the sins of all the Elect (as Mr. Norton doth over and over) seeing the sin-Offering is called [Sin] above a hundred times over, and yet it is also properly called the holy of holies, Lev. 6. 25, 29. Lev. 10. 17. Exod. 30. 10. And Christ is called the holy one, and the just, even then when he was crucified for a sinful Ma∣lefactor, Acts 3. 14. and even then when he was made a sin and Trespasse-Of∣fering: And Rombam confesseth, as Galatinus citeth his words, that the holy of ho∣lies is Messias; The sanctified from the sons of David. And Aben Ezra cited before at the end of sect. 11. calls the Messias, the holy of holies.

4. Mr. Broughton on the Lords-Prayer, saith in p. 28. and in his Oration on Daniel, That the Angel gives three Titles to our Redeemer:

1. He calls him the holy of holies in v. 24. 2. Messias; and 3. King in v. 25. And all these three Titles have Relation to his anointing by his consecrating sufferings: that so his death might be accepted of God, as the finishing act of all Trespasse-Offerings, and as the final act of causing all sin-Offerings to be ended, and as the procuring cause of Gods Reconciliation for unrighteousnesse; and so consequently as the procuring cause of an Everlasting supernatural Righ∣teousnesse to all the Elect (for their everlasting justification from the guilt of all their sins) and for the Sealing or finishing act of all Visions and Prophe∣tical predictions, and for the anointing of the holy of holies to his death and sa∣crifice by his said consecrating afflictions: And in v. 27. For the confirming of the New Testament for the many in the last seven, because in the latter half of that seven, he should End the lawfull use of all legal Sacrifices and Oblations, and so bring in the Heathens into equal share in the Covenant with the Jewes, John 10. 16. For the Messias, by his death, did confirm the New Testament for the Many, that is to say, forthe Elect of all Nations: and therefore after his Resurrection he gave a Commission to his Disciples to go into all Nations, and baptize them in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Ghost, and

teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you, Matth. 28. 19.

Conclusion

From my said Exposition of Dan. 9. 24. I will draw up three Infe∣rences.

Notes

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  Christ is called the Holy of Holies by allu∣sion to the most holy typical Rites that were conse∣crated with the most holy anoin∣ting oyl.