(15) Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before, (16) This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; (17) And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. (18) Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
Let the Reader particularly notice, how blessedly God the Holy Ghost is introduced in this passage, as a witness to the truth of it. What a proof to his Being, Person, Godhead, and Ministry? Who but a Person can be a witness? And who less than God can witness to his own Covenant? Oh! the folly, as well as ingratitude of such men, who reject the counsel of God against their own souls! And let not the Reader, at the same time, overlook the blessed truth, to which God the Holy Ghost bears witness. The Covenant of grace, in the pardoning of sins, is made everlastingly secure in the blood of Christ. Christ hath redeemed his Church from the curse of the law, being made a curse for her, Galatians 3:13. And, where that redemption is, it is full, finished; and complete. There is no more offering for sin. The sin of the Church is done away by Christ. How then shall there be any more offering for what doth not exist? And to this the Holy Ghost himself is the witness. Precious truth, and precious witness, to the regenerated child of God! Jeremiah 1:19; Romans 8:1.