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A53504 Christ set forth in several sermons upon the 7th chapter to the Hebrews. By Mr. Robert Ottee, late pastor to a congregation in Beckles in Suffolk Ottee, Robert, d. 1690. 1690 (1690) Wing O535; ESTC R213916 87,424 178

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tho' near in respect of his Omnisciency You know how it is among men tho' they live in the same Town or near to one another in respect of Neighbourhood yet if there be enmity and strife between them you will say they are at a distance So God in respect of his Omnisciency is not far from any of us For 't is through him we live move and breathe and have our being But in respect of Love Peace and Union God and sinful man is at a great distance 'T is said God is angry with the wicked every day Psal 7. 11. He is an offended God He is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity He is at a distance from us and if men were but sensible of this they would never presume upon his mercy in a day of affliction Isa 1. 15. And when you shall spread forth your hands I will hide mine eyes from you yea when ye make many prayers I will not hear When people come into affliction and distress they are ready to cry unto God for mercy But saith the Lord I will hide mine eyes from you There is a vast and infinite distance between God and a poor sinful creature But by the Priesthood of Jesus Christ he offering himself as a Sacrifice for sin and ever liveth to make intercession for us And by virtue of this every Believer may come to God by the Lord Jesus Christ as Mediator to pray to him It is not believing or repentance will bring us to God if we had not an High-priest See Heb. 10. 19. Having therefore Brethren boldness to enter into the Holiest by the blood of Jesus by a new and living way which he hath consecrated for us through the Veil that is to say his flesh Boldness to enter into the Holy of Holies If you go into the Presence-chamber of a King with your Petition if you know the King hath respect and favour for you and the Son at his right hand to pacifie his Father and you come in the way appointed with a full assurance to have your Petition granted So saith the Apostle you may have full assurance to go to God in the new and living way And therefore say Lord I draw night to thee but it is by the new and living way that Jesus Christ hath consecrated by his blood I draw nigh for mercy but it is because thy Son is the great High-priest whom thou hast set over thine own house Let us therefore saith the Apostle come in full assurance of Faith Haply some poor doubting Soul may say How can I draw nigh to God to a-holy God I that have so much sin and guilt upon me were I holy and innocent I should go with more boldness To that I answer If thou wast holy and innocent thou shouldst not need an High-priest If thou hadst no sin nor guilt upon thee thou shouldst not need to go to God in the new and living way But tho' we have sin and much guilt upon us yet the Lord Jesus Christ he is our High-priest It was sin that was the occasion of making the Lord Jesus Christ the great High-priest Oh bless God for Jesus Christ and for bringing so great a good and so great an evil so near together No greater evil than sinning against a holy God! But this occasioned God to consecrate his Son by an Oath to be a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedeck There are but two ways by which a creature can draw nigh to God a holy God and that is either in the way of his own worthiness or goodness or in the way of Christs worthiness and goodness But for our own goodness or worthiness that is lost Go to God in that way our sins will block up our way that way is stopt But go to God in the way of his Sons worthiness and you will have acceptance with him Come to God and say Lord In the name and worthiness of thine own Son I draw nigh to thee How draw nigh to God why the Scripture makes this difference between drawing nigh to God under the old Priesthood and under the Priesthood of Jesus Christ In the time of the old Priesthood there were none of the people to go into the most holy place the High-priest was only to go and that but once a year Lev. 16. 2. Aaron was commanded not to go into the holy place at all times Now compare this with Heb. 9. 7. there he speaks that the High-priest was to go into the holy place but once a year Now saith the Apostle we have boldness to enter into the holy place Let us come into the holy place Our Lord Jesus Christ having made us Kings and Priests we may come nigh to God Christ hath brought us so nigh to God as we may come to him as a Child cometh to its Father The Lord hath provided better things for us that we might be made perfect Therefore let us mind these things You see here the sum of these words How God hath disannulled and abrogated all the Levitical Service Worship and Rites for their weakness and unprofitableness That he might bring in a better hope by the which we draw nigh to God SERMON VII Hebrews 7. 20 21 22. And in as much as not without an Oath he was made Priest For those Priests were made without an Oath but this with an Oath by him that said unto him The Lord sware and will not repent Thou art a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedeck By so much was Jesus Christ made a Surely of a better Testament THE last day I concluded with v. 19. of this chapter where the Apostle tells us that by Jesus Christ there was brought in a better hope by which we draw nigh to God And that was his argument in that place to prove the excellency of the Priesthood of Jesus Christ above that of the old Now in these words which I have read you have another argument and demonstration about the Priesthood of Christ to shew that it doth far transcend that of the Levitical Priesthood Why for the Levitical Priesthood was made without an Oath this with an Oath So the Argument ma● be thus framed That Priesthood which is solemnly confirmed and established by an Oath is more excellent and precious and profitable to the Church than that which was made without an Oath But the Priesthood of Jesus Christ was confirmed with an Oath and therefore more excellent than that which was without an Oath So that the Argument is taken from the more solemn Institution of Christs Priesthood The Lord did swear and would not repent that his Son Jesus Christ should be a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedeck This is the point the Apostle now insists upon the solemn Institution of Jesus Christ in this office of Priesthood by which he is made a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedeck Now here are two Questions to be opened The first is about Gods
who is a propitiation for our Sins We have an Advocate that is we have one that stands up for us in our stead and appears on our side Also it hath reference to a Favourite of the Kings Court that is oft in the Kings presence and ready to speak for his Friend So Joseph was an Intercessor for his Father and Brethren unto King Pharaoh when they came into the Land of Egypt Gen. 47. Joseph was a Favourite of the King of Egypt And he appeared in the presence of the King for his Father and Brethren You shall find the Prophet Elijah offers to make himself an Intercessor to the King for the Shunamitish Woman 2 King 4. 13. Wouldst thou be spoken for to the King In this sense Jesus Christ is said to be our Intecessor He is said to appear in the 〈◊〉 of God for us Heb. 9. 24. For Christ is not entred 〈◊〉 the Holy places which are the figures of the true 〈◊〉 into Heaven it self Now to appear in the presence of God for us and to make Intercession for us This is not to be understood as if Jesus Christ in Heaven did pros●rate himself to the Father for us and make actual prayers for us It is not so to be understood In the days of his Flesh he sent up strong cryes to God in his state of Humiliation Heb. 5. 7. but it is not agreeable to his state of Glory that Jesus Christ should now send up Prayers and Supplications to God for us But when it is said that he appears in the presence of God for us and makes Intercession for us the meaning is this That he doth present himself in Heaven as our Surety and as our Sacrifice and as one that hath made satisfaction to all the demands of the Law and also manifesting his Will That all that come unto God by him should have the benefit of his Death He doth appear before God as the Sacrifice for our sins that the benefit may come to every Soul that come unto God by him that is the meaning Therefore it is said Heb. 12. 24. The Apostle tells them they are come to Jesus the Mediator of the new Covenant and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel Abels blood did speak when Abel said nothing his blood did speak and cry And so the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ speaketh his Death speaketh His Suffering speaketh That is always before the Holy God for an expiatory Sacrifice for sin to them that believe on him An Expiatory Sacrifice And this was typified of old by the High-priests carrying the Blood of the Sacrifice into the most Holy place sprinkling that Blood upon the Mercy-seat see Levit. 16. 15. Then shall he kill the Goat of the Sin-offering that is for the People and bring his Blood within the Vail and do with that Blood as he did with the Blood of the Bullock and sprinkle it upon the Mercy-seat When the Priests of old did kill the Offering whether it was a Goat or whether it was a Bullock he was to take of the Blood of the Beast and carry it within the Vail What is that You must know that in the Temple there were three parts there was the outward Court which the Gentiles might come into as well as the Jews then there was the Temple where the people generally went to Pray and where the Sacrifices were slain and then there was the third place which was called the most Holy place the Sanctum Sanctorum and that was separated by the Vail the Vail was drawn before it and when the Priest had Offered the Blood of the Sacrifice he was to go within the Vail where was the Mercy-seat and where God did give his Answers to his Peoples Requests and this Blood of the Sacrifice was to be sprinkled upon the Mercy-seat Why so Why to signifie that God would shew Mercy unto his People by way of Atonement and Sacrifice that he would shew them Mercy that way because of the uncleanness of the Children of Men therefore God would have no Communion with them but by the Blood of Atonement And this was a Type of Heaven it self Christ saith the Apostle is gone into the most Holy place to Heaven it self there to appear in the presence of God for us And as the High-priest of old did carry the Blood of the Sacrifice into the most Holy place on Earth so our Lord Jesus Christ did carry his Blood into Heaven which is the most Holy place of all which speaks better things than the Blood of Abel which cries for vengeance but the Blood of Jesus Christ calls for mercy for every one that comes to God by him This is the meaning of his making intercession for us But now in the Third place Why doth the Apostle say in the Text that Christ is able to save to the uttermost all that come unto God by him seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them Why is Christs ability to save us put upon his ever living to make intercession The Scripture mind it doth lay a great stress here and the weight and burden of our Salvation is laid in this upon Christs ever living to plead and maintain the great end of his death and suffering for poor sinners he ever liveth and the Reasons are these First If Jesus had died and never rose again our hopes of Salvation by him had perished with him and been buried in his Crave If Christ had died and never rose again our hopes of Salvation by him had died also and been buried in the Grave with him Mind what the Apostle speaks to this purpose 1 Cor. 15. 14. If Christ be not risen then is our Preaching in vain and your Faith is also vain If Christ be not risen our Preaching is in vain How is that Our preaching Salvation by Jesus Christ is in vain it is to no purpose if he be a dead man still and your Faith is vain your Believing in him is vain if he be in the state of death still Why so Because in the Grave there is no work nor no knowledge the dead know nothing the dead can do nothing therefore if Jesus Christ were in the state of Death if he were in the Grave and not risen again it is in vain for us to preach Salvation by Jesus Christ and your believing in him for Salvation is vain But in as much as he ever liveth and is come out of the state of Death he is able to save to the uttermost all those that come unto God by him You may observe in Scripture that that time that our Saviour Christ died and was laid in the Grave his Disciples and Followers on Earth their hopes died with him as you may read in Luk. 24. of the two Disciples going to Emmaus what a sad discourse they had together when Christ asked them what communication they had together they said unto him Concerning one Jesus of Nazareth which