...and so many ordinances of external acknowledgment, Hebrews x. 1 to 4, (in this 4 verse is thus) "For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins." Every possible idea of salvation by such means is at once precluded from the mind. Neither have men...

...Spirit offered himtelf without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works ? Heb. ix. IS, 14. It is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins ; wherefore when he cometh into the world he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou teouldest not, but...

...Spirit offered himtelf without spot to God, purge your continence from dead works ? Heb. ix. I3, 14. It is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins • wherefore when he cometh into the world he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but...

...conscience of sins ; but in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year ; for it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins, &c. Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, &c In burnt offerings, &c. thou I,ast had no pleasure,...

...themselves cleanse the conscience from guilt. It is a dictate of right reason, no less than of revelation, that it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sin.,f For this purpose the blood of Christ had a retrospective efficacy, and was the only ground of...

...as expressing their insufficiency to make a proper atonement for sin ; according to the apostle, " It is not possible, that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins," Heb. x. 4; and as reproving, therefore, the vain dependence of those who rested upon them for pardon and divine...

...conscience of sins. But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. Wnereforc, when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a...

...make the comers thereunto perfect." J The priest and the sacrifices could never take away sins ; " for it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins." § Wherefore the Jews only obtained a legal purification " of the flesh :" but our merciful Redeemer...

...impossible. Nothing whieh man can do can atone for sin. It is a truth that reason must readily admit, that " it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sin." Sacrifices therefore of themselves can make no atonement ; neither can any kind of penance or...

...conscience of sins. Butin those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. Wherefore, when he cometh into the world, be saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a...