13. The blood of Jesus Christ is to be known and acted upon as the secured approach; for it is written (see vers. 12-14), He did this——" having obtained eternal redemption for us. For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?"
I notice here the difference in these two; in the first, the blood secures the way for the sinner right up to God Himself; in the second, it gives the conscience of the sinner cleanness. We shall see this referred to more at length presently.