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Our apostle had asserted the perfection of Christ's sacrifice in the former verses, he proves it in these by the testimony of the Holy Ghost, recorded, Jer_31:31, where after he had promised a new covenant instead of the old, and had said, This is the covenant I will make with them after these days, namely, when the days of the Old Testament are expired, then he says, I will put my laws into their hearts, and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
Now seeing God promiseth, under the new covenant, sanctification and remission of sin to all believers, of which covenant Christ is Mediator, and by whose death the covenant is ratified and confirmed, therefore this one sacrifice once offered up is abundantly sufficient.
And if remission of sins be obtained by Christ's one sacrifice, there needs no repetition of it, nor any other offering for sin.
Learn hence, That the sacrifice of Christ was of that excellent virtue and transcendent merit, that by once offering it took away sin, all sin, and made it eternally remissible; and upon faith actually and eternally remitted: To what purpose then should then should there be any more offerings for sin? Yea, they who look for and trust to any other, fall into that sin for which there is no remission provided in the covenant, nor shall any other offering be accepted for them forever; for they despise both the wisdom and grace of God, the blood of Christ, and the testimony of the Holy Ghost; whereof there is no remission.
Here now we are come to a full end of the doctrinal part of this epistle, concerning the nature of Christ's prieathood, the necessity and efficacy of his sacrifice, the power and prevalency of his intercession.
O glorious mysteries; the light of the church of the Gentiles, the glory of the people of Israel, the foundation and bulwark of evangelical faith!