Exodus 28

REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. XXVIII.—Come, my soul, is not the smell of my Redeemer’s garments, his unspotted manhood, his mediatorial office, and his everlasting righteousness, as of a field which the Lord hath blessed! Are not these for glory and for beauty to himself and to his people! Is he not every way fitted to attract the admiration of angels and of men! every way qualified to atone for, to remember, his people, and present them before God! Are not even the appearances and actions of his debased state calculated to promote his own and his Father’s honour, and our everlasting happiness! Let me then behold and receive him as the Great High Priest of my profession; behold how, in his manhood, in his mediatorial office, and finished righteousness, he bears the names of all his chosen in all their diversified conditions, and supports and presents them before God? What sweet fruits, and joyful sounds, of gospel-grace issue from his incarnation, righteousness, and intercession! In what a dignified manner hath he put away our sins that we die not! And, though in all things he must have the pre-eminence, let me, and all his children, be arrayed in our priestly robes of righteousness imputed, grace implanted, and of an holy conversation; and let me ever remember that it is death, eternal death, to all, but chiefly to ministers, if they attempt to serve God without putting on the Lord Jesus as made of God to them righteousness, sanctification, and redemption