sound of trumpet, with shout of angels and with songs of praises,
and let me add, to be accompanied also with those that rose from the
dead after his resurrection, who were the very price of his
blood--this does greatly demonstrate that Jesus Christ, by what he
has done has paid a full price to God for the souls of sinners, and
obtained eternal redemption for them: he had not else rode thus in
triumph to heaven.

Consider those glorious circumstances that accompany his approach to
the gates of the everlasting habitation. The everlasting gates are
set, yea, bid stand open: "Be ye open, ye everlasting doors, and the
King of glory shall come in." The King of glory is Jesus Christ, and
the words are a prophecy of his glorious ascending into the heavens,
when he went up as the High-priest of the church, to carry the price
of his blood into the holiest of all.

THE OFFICES OF CHRIST.

Christ as a Saviour is not divided. He that hath him not in all,
shall have him in none at all of his offices in a saving manner.

CHRIST AN INTERCESSOR.

Study the priesthood, the high-priesthood of Jesus Christ, both the
first and second part of it. The first part was that when he offered
up himself without the gate, when he bore our sins in his own body
on the tree.

The second part is that which he executes there whither he is now
gone, even into heaven itself, where the throne of grace is. I say,