apprehend is what Christ has done. He has "abolished death and brought life and incorruptibility to light by the gospel." We are not to measure Christ's work by our apprehension of it. True there is no sense of its value, but as we apprehend it in faith, yet it is of deep moment that we should have before our hearts the measure to be apprehended. It is clear to every exercised soul how little one walks here in the simple assurance that Satan's power has been broken by Christ, that He has done this work. We practically realise it as we resist the devil, as it has been said, "Resist the devil, and when he finds Christ in you, he will flee from you." Now, if we are feeble in our faith as to the subjugation of the power of the devil by Christ in His death, it will be found that we are still more so in our faith as to the place with God which His work has obtained for us; that it is according to His glory; that is, every attribute of His nature maintained; His righteousness as well as His love, His light as

well as His grace; all in harmony and balance-one beautiful whole.

When we read that "by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified," what an immense scope and measure is presented to our minds! All that was typified by all the offerings fulfilled in divine perfection. In His one offering we are brought, according to God's holiness, not only from the greatest distance, but to the greatest nearness; we are entitled to be in the holiest of all by the work of Christ. It is of all importance that we see that the work which sheltered us from the judgment of God, the worst and most distant place, is the same which has given us title to enter the brightest and the best place. If His work has done the one, so has His work, and His work only, obtained for us the other.

Now in His one offering there was the burnt-offering, the meat-offering, the peace-offering, as well as the sin offering. The latter gave the blessed God liberty to have us in the holiest, and through it we are entitled to enter;

but besides, in His presence we have fellowship with Him in His satisfaction in Christ, as the Man who glorified Him on earth in death and in life, and who is ever the prosperity-offering for every believer. It is most important to see that it is the finish of Christ's work which can only declare the full effect of it. True, in my soul I may not have reached the finish, but surely if I have not the finish of it before me as He finished it, I have accepted a lower measure than what He has done, and here (though unintentionally) I dishonour Him and suffer loss myself. In all ordinary things the value is unknown until the execution is completed.

The gospel is generally regarded as safety from future judgment, because of faith in the blood of Christ, with present earthly favour and heaven after death. This is rather the blessing of the millennial saint than of the Christian. It is evident Christ's work secured the blessing of the millennial saint as well as that of the Christian. The point to maintain is that His work, and

nothing superadded to it, has secured the blessing of both the one and the other. His work, blessed be His name, has obtained a place for the Christian in company with Himself, typified by the sons of Aaron consecrated. We are thus, as His companions, those who have derived from Him. "Behold I, and the children whom God hath given me." "Both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one; for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren." His work has secured for us a like place or position with Himself. Hence we are here but strangers and pilgrims, and now earthly prosperity is not to be expected. The work which enabled God, according to His glory, to have us in His house, in fellowship with Himself, the Father, and His Son Jesus Christ, is also the same, in virtue of which, Jesus will yet, as Melchisedec, come forth and bless Israel on the earth; while we, the church, are blessed in heaven as co-heirs with Christ. The same work, but with a different blessing to each

company. We might have expected this, from the simple fact, that there was the blood of the bullock on the day of atonement for Aaron and his house, the heavenly company; and the blood of the goat for Israel, or the earthly company. In the type there were two bloods; in the antitype of course, only one blood; the blood of Christ.

Now, not only is nearness to God (as the holiest typifies) secured for us by the work of Christ, but also His place is our place. Surely it is not enough to hold that the work of Christ effects a clearance of all guilt; that is only a part of the great whole. The work of Christ is described, "the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God," not only (great as it would be) to save us from judgment, but to bring us to God. We have seen that by one offering Christ has effected, according to His own infinite perfection, all that was shadowed forth in types. Thus our approach to God by His work can only be measured by Himself, nay,