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meaning-, also appears from hence , that be is , throughout the greater part of this Epistle , recommending the gospel to the Jews , by shewing them its great superiority to the law of Moses in many striking instances ; and among the rest to their sin-offerings . Their sin-offerings were often repeated , but the blood of Jesus Christ , that was shed but once , ner-_ . - — -- ------ \
^ * fected them for ever from all their sins . It is a standing sacrifice , the virtue of which extends to all sins , and throughout all ages . 6 . While we , Sir , are disputing in these northern regions of the world , so far from the seat of revelation , whether the blood of bulls and of
goats can take away sin , it were easy to shew , from very ancient writings and modern travels , that the native hi habitants of Asia , Africa and America , following the example of the patriarchs , who were their and our
forefathers , are offering up such sacrifices to the present day . For amidst all the lamentable corruption of the revelation that God gave to their fathers , this fact is very conspicuous still , and in India it is very much so .
And lightly as many Christians think and speak of sin-offerings , the Jews think differently of them > and the more virtuous part of them , it appears , make more serious work even novv of the annual day of expiation than many Christians seem to beat all
apprehensive of . In the Jewish Expositor , for Jan . 1824 , p . 14 , it is said , " My father ' s Illness continued four months , and it was during that period that I attained my thirteenth year ; in consequence of which I was permitted on the great day of atonement to keep the fast of the month of Tizri . I was
much affected by the prayer appointed for the occasion , which referred to God's searching the heart at the day of judgment ; and in the public confession , when every sinner who is inwardly convicted of any of the sins
which are there separately recapitulated , smites upon his breast , I was so overpowered with a sense of personal guilt that I left the synagogue , and in a solitary place cried to God for mercy . "
•* On the great day of atonement , when every Jew rejoices in the forgiveness of all his sins previously committed , and believes himself to
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stand as high in God ' s favour as a Zadik , I alone was sad , for I was not sensible' of the remission of my sins . My father > contrary to the advice of his physicians , caused himself to be borne into the synagogue , and there , sitting on his couch , performed his devotions with fasting and prayer . " It also appears , from the Jewish Expositor , for May , 1825 , p . 184 , that
it is usual for the Jews to spend more than ordinary time in prayer , for a month , before the yearly day of atonement ; for it is said there , " A few of the elder boys were allowed to leave the school every evening at four o ' clock to pray at the synagogue , as is usual 6 a such occasions . "
Can any man in his sober moments think that Aaron * God ' s High Priest , thought as lightly of what he had been doing at close of the great day of expiation for sin , as many Christians in our day think and speak of it ? No such thing , Sir . It was indeed a day
to afflict their souls ( Lev . Xvi . 29 ) for their past sins , and to propitiate the offended Deity by various ways , and , among the rest , by the sprinkling of the blood of the sin-offering on the mercy-seat , and before the mercy-seat , seven times , by Aaron , the High Priest of God .
Moreover , the blood of bulls and of goats being called a shadow of the blood of Christ , does not deny that there was any substance in the shadow P . . S . The learned and sensible
Richard Baxter says on Heb . x . 4 , " This text doth not i \ cny that the faithful Jews were then forgiven , nor that the law conduced to it , as used in subordination to the antecedent promise and law of grace , but without this promise the law could not do it . " Baxter on N . T . in loc . It is not
necessary for me to say any thing here about the antecedent promise , it being sufficient for my present purpose to prove that the appointed sacrifice was & real medium of forgiveness . See
also on this text , On tram de Saerif B . i . C . xviii . § ii . ; and the Rev . Geo . Hampton ' s Letter to Dr . John Taylor , on the Doctrine of Atonement , p . 50 . JOSEPH JEVANS . m * i
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202 Mr * Jevans * * t 7 ioughts on Heb . x . 4 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1826, page 202, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2547/page/14/
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