study what Christ has done and is doing. Oh, what is he doing now?
He is sprinkling his blood, with his priestly robes on, before the
throne of grace. That is too little thought on by the saints of God:
"We have such a High-priest, who is set down on the right hand of
the Majesty in the heavens, a minister of the sanctuary and of the
true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched and not man." Busy thyself,
fellow-Christian, about this blessed office of Christ. It is full of
good, it is full of sweet, it is full of heaven, it is full of
relief and succor for the tempted and dejected.

The priestly office of Christ is the first and great thing that is
presented to us in the gospel; namely, how he died for our sins, and
gave himself to the cross, that the blessing of Abraham might come
upon us through him. But now because this priestly office of his is
divided into two parts, and because one of them, to wit, this of his
intercession, is to be accomplished for us within the veil,
therefore--as we say among men, out of sight, out of mind--he is too
much as to this forgotten by us. We satisfy ourselves with the
slaying of the sacrifice; we look not after our Aaron as he goes
into the holiest, there to sprinkle the mercy-seat with blood upon
our account.

But since his dying is his laying down his price, and his
intercession the urging and managing the worthiness of it in the
presence of God against Satan, there is glory to be found therein,
and we should look after him into the holy place. The second part of
the work of the high-priests under the law, had great glory and
sanctity put upon it. Forasmuch as the holy garments were provided
for him to officiate in within the veil, also it was there that the
altar stood on which he offered incense. Also there were the