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book_n	law_n	moses_n	people_n	3,133	5	5.0838	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89645	A little starre, giving some light into the counsels and purposes of God revealed in the Scriptures. Or A catechisme, wherein these ensuing principles. 1. What God is, and how he manifests himselfe. 2 Why he made the world and man. 3. Mans condition, what, 1. by creation. 2. By his fall. 3. By being restored by Jesus Christ. 4 The uses and ends of the law. 5. What the Gospell is. 6. Justification what it is. 7. Sanctification what, and how it is wrought. 8. What repentance is. 9. The use and ends of the Scriptures. 10. What true prayer is. 11. Baptisme, and the Lords Supper, why, and how used. 12. Generall redemption what, and how to be adjudged of. 13. Resurrection and judgement what. 14. Heaven and Hell what, in truth and misterie. All which are briefly by way of question and answer opened and explained. / By VVilliam Mason.	Mason, William, Anabaptist.	1653 (1653)	Wing M948; Thomason E1505_1; ESTC R208669	86,553	204

explain those words and to interpret his own meaning ●herein both as they concerned them in their duty to himself and also as they conteined their duty and behaviour one towards another Moses goes up into the Mount where the Lord commands him in particular how they ought to behave themselves one towards another naming also certain feasts-dayes and other observations about them and Moses writes all the words of the Lord in a Book and declares them to the people and they promise obedience And as this Law conteined Gods Worship and their duty therein Moses is again called up into the Mount where he is forty dayes and forty nights in which space God shewes him a Pattern commands him to make him a Sanctuary that he might dwell among them and also gives him rules of a most exact and holy Worship which he expects should be strictly performed by them in which both holy place and holy Worship he doth really yet darkly declare that unless he dwell among them and communicate himself unto them they could not be a holy people For indeed that very Tabernacle and afterward the Temple were representations or significations of the humane body of Christ in which the Lord would manifest himself and dwell among them as the Vessels wherewith they ministred were holy So the Lord would have them know that he could not be Spiritually worshipped with Carnal hearts and hands The Ark was a visible Type of Christ by whom the Lord would manifest himself The two Tables of the Covenant were put into the Ark to shew that Christ was both the Law and the Covenant to his own and that the righteousness which the Law required was wholly in him The Mercy-seat where God appeared was placed above upon the Ark to shew that God would not manifest himself in mercy and goodness to any but onely to them that were in Covenant with him in Jesus Christ The Table and the Shew-bread that stood upon it was to teach them that Christ was both the Feeder and the food The Candlestick with his seven Lamps alwayes burning did signifie the wisdom of the Spirit without which there was no finding out the mind of God in these mysteries The Oyl wherewith the Lamps were dressed and made to burn was of pure Oyl-olive beaten and without mixture to shew that the true knowledge of God in the mystery of Christ was not attained by the help of humane wisdom and learning but by the light and wisdom of the Spirit onely The Altar and all those Beasts that were offered thereon did signifie Christ his death and sufferings who should by offering up himself to God once for all both redeem them from the curse of the Law and for ever perfect them that are sanctified The blood of those Beasts wherewith they were sprinkled did signifie the blood of Christ wherewith the Atonement was to be made and whereby their Consciences were to be purged from the dead works of the Law to serve the living God in Spirit and Truth The Priests which offered the sacrifice were holy men and consecrated and set apart for that service to shew that God will be sanctified in all them that draw near to him The sacrifices might not be offered without a Priest to teach that there is not any service can be acceptable to God unless it were offered up to him in the Spirit and Power of Jesus The glorious and beautiful garments wherein Aaron did minister did hold forth the infinite purity and transcendent excellency and righteousness of the Lord Jesus in whom onely God is well pleased The Onix-stones whereon the names of the Children of Israel were engraven were put upon the shoulder-pieces of the Ephod to teach that true Israel indeed are kept by the power of the Lord Jesus through faith unto salvation for he is the wisdom and the power of God unto salvation in all that do believe The twelve precious stones which were set with the names of the Children of Israel in the Breast-plate of judgement did declare that Spiritual Israel that were in Christ were a precious people in the judgement and esteem of God The curious Girdle wherewith all those goodly garments were girded to the Priest did hold forth the faithfulness and truth of God in making good all his promises in Christ in whom all the promises of God are Yea and Amen The holy Anoynting Oyl wherewith the Tabernacle and all the furniture and the Vessels there of were Anoynted did signifie the Anoynting of the Spirit which they that did believe should afterward receive it might not be poured upon mans flesh neither might any man make the like to it nor put it upon a stranger upon pain of being cut off from his people to shew that fleshly carnal outside-hypocytical-holiness is an abomination to the Lord. The Sabbaths were a sign unto them that the Lord Jesus was their Sanctification six dayes might work be done but on the seventh they must rest to shew that in the works of Civil concernment they were to labour but in the business of sanctification they were not to act one jot but rest wholly upon Christ the Messiah In seed-time and in harvest they must rest on the Sabbath even in times of greatest necessity to shew that their best services and most religious performances were like a menstruous cloth and in no wise to be rested in but in the holiness of Christ were they to rest They were forbidden to kindle a fire throughout their habitations on the Sabbath to shew that no selfe-holiness or self-sanctification attained by any religious duties or performances whatsoever must be joyned unto the holiness of Christ but they were to rely wholly upon the Lord Christ onely The Leprosie and all those unclean issues did shew forth the horrible and filthy nature of sin The Offerings and Washings appointed for their clensing did signifie the blood of Christ without which there could be no remission nor Sanctification In a word for it would de too tedious to speak of all in particular There was not the least circumstance in all their commanded Service and Worship but which did mystically hold forth Jesus Christ thus the Law was their Schoolmaster unto Christ that they might be justified by believing in him who was made of God Wisdom and Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption unto them and not by their own outward observations of the Law Q. Was this Law given and this Covenant made with the Israelites or seed of Abraham according to the flesh or did it concern the Gentiles also A. The Law or Covenant so farre as it was outward and literal did concern all Israel as well one as another and they were all of them to observe the same and that strictly in case they would be prosperous in their temporal estates for the promises of