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A38026	Polpoikilos sophia, a compleat history or survey of all the dispensations and methods of religion, from the beginning of the world to the consummation of all things, as represented in the Old and New Testament shewing the several reasons and designs of those different administrations, and the wisdom and goodness of God in the government of His church, through all the ages of it : in which also, the opinion of Dr. Spencer concerning the Jewish rites and sacrifices is examin'd, and the certainty of the Christian religion demonstrated against the cavils of the Deists, &c. / by John Edwards ...	Edwards, John, 1637-1716.	1699 (1699)	Wing E210; ESTC R17845	511,766	792

Lamb Christ our God delivers us from the Curse of the Enemy and from Eternal Death Indeed this is the grand and principal thing signified by the Paschal Lamb viz. our Redemption by the Blood of Jesus Christ. And the Sprinkling of this Blood is twice expresly mention'd as absolutely necessary for this purpose Heb. 12. 24. 1 Pet. 1. 1. And the hearts of Believers are said to be sprinkled from an evil conscience Heb. 10. 22. that is purged and cleans'd from the defilements of Sin by sprinkling of the Blood of this Lamb. Besides the sprinkling and striking of the Blood on the posts denotes unto us the particular applying of the Blood of Jesus and the virtue of his Passion to our selves by a lively Faith Which that Religious and Pious Critick whom I have before quoted expresses thus The Blood of Christ saith he is sprinkled on the posts of our hearts when with a firm Faith we imbrace the Doctrine of the Cross being assured that the Son of God poured out his Blood for us so that every one of us may say with the Apostle This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation that Christ Iesus came into the world to save sinners of whom I am chief Moreover at the Celebration of the Passover they were to strike the blood of the slain Lamb on the two side posts of the door within and without on purpose that they might see it and take special notice of it as the Angel did before and that they might call that Wonderful Mercy to remembrance This shall be to you for a Memorial and ye shall keep it a Feast to the Lord for ever ver 14. This solemn Feast was instituted on purpose to remind them of their Deliverance and so the Lords Supper which succeeds in its room is a Commem●ration of our Deliverance by Christ. Do this in Remembrance of me saith he observe this Holy Feast to help you to call to mind my Death and consequently the Infinite Benefits and Advantages which you receive by it In the next place we come to speak of the Eating of the Paschal Lamb and the several Circumstances that were observable in it and let us see how they agree with that which we are speaking of First I say it was to be Eaten and so was the Lamb of God He himself uses this stile and language he calls unto us saying Take eat this is my Body Mat. 26. 26. And he assures us that except we eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his Blood we have no life in u● Whose ●ateth my Flesh and drinketh my Blood hath eternal life for my Flesh is meat indeed and my Blood is drink indeed He that eateth my Flesh and drinketh my Blood dwelle●h in me and I in him Joh. 6. 53 c. This I think is sufficient to prove the Parallel between Christ and the Paschal Lamb as to eating them Next we are to observe that this Lamb which was to be eaten was to be roasted with fire ver 8. And therein also is prefigured what be●el the Lamb of God The Holy Ghost in Scripture is pleased to compare God's Wrath to Fire Deut. 32. 24. Jer. 4. 4. Jer. 15. 14. Jer. 21. 12. Lam. 1. 13. Lam. 2. 4. and in many other places Therefore Roasting in the fire fitly expresseth the Extremity of Christs Sufferings under the Flames of God's Anger He was as it were Scorched and Burnt he underwent the Displeasure of God who is a Consuming Fire Deut. 4. 24. Heb. 12. 29. This is thus expressed in other terms by Isaiah He was wo●nded for our transgressions he was bruised for our iniquities Isa. 53. 5. He was oppressed and he was afflicted ver 7. It pleased the Lord to bruise him and to put him to grief ver 10. Some Commentators take no notice of this Parallel but certainly it is not to be omitted nay it is of very great moment and the manner of speech very fitly and significantly expresses the Heat the Height of God's wrath kindled against Sinners We see this Torrefaction is adapted to the usual language of Scripture where the Extremity of the Divine Anger against the wicked is set forth by fire with which saith the Learned and Pious Bochart it behoved Christ to be as it were scorched and burnt who had made himself a Surety for Sinners that he might undergo the Punishment which they deserved Nay besides the Mystical signification there is a kind of literal fulfilling of the Expression here used if we may credit an antient and pious Father who acquaints us that the Roasted Lamb at the Passover was spitted in such a manner that it resembled the figure of a Cross and he particularly tells us how If we consider that this Antient Writer of the Church was born and bred in Palestine and was skill'd in the Iewish as well as Pagan Rites and Customs and likewise if we remember that he spoke these words in a Conference with a knowing Iew who could and would have contradicted him if he had deliver'd any thing concerning the Iewish practices which was not true we cannot but look upon this as a very considerable Testimony and we must conclude that he would not have dared to apply this particular passage of the Roasting of the Lamb to our blessed Savi●ur he would not have compar'd this Cross to the Spit unless there had been ground for it The next thing observable is that the whole Lamb was to be eaten ver 10. Ye shall let nothing of it remain's which may import how Intire and Compleat the spiritual eating of the Lamb of God should be Whole Christ or none must be receiv'd by Faith Which the forecited Author thus piously descants upon It is not sufficient to eat Christ in part as if we were desirous to enjoy his Glory but not to be partakers of his Sufferings or as if we would have him for our Redeemer not for our Lawgiver and Master as if not attributing enough to the Merits of Christ we would partly place our confident hope of Salvation in our own Works or in the Mediation and Intercession of others And further when it is said that the Lamb must not remain till morning it doth strangely and marvelously agree with what the Evangelists relate that Christ was taken down from the Cross on a sudden contrary to the Custom in such cases and partly because of the Sabbath on the ensuing day that thereby the Parallel between our Saviour and the Iewish Passover might be more manifest It is said further ver 46. and Num. 9. 12. Neither shall ye break a bone thereof That Christ Iesus who suffer'd on the Cross was presignifi'd and foretold by this is plain from what is recorded by St. Iohn who tells us that Divine Providence so order'd it that tho the Souldiers broke the Legs of those that were crucified with Christ yet they br●ke not his Legs Joh. 19. 33. A most remarkable completion of the Type

Lamb without blemish and without spot as he is call'd 1 Pet. 19. who was to present to himself a Church not having spot or wrinkle Ephes. 5. 27. This was he and there was none ever like him who ●id no ●in neither was guile found in his mouth 1 Pet. 2. 22. Secondly The Paschal Lamb was to be a Male ver 5. Serviu● on that place of Virgil Casâ jungebant foed●r● porcâ hath this Note that the Gentiles thought the S●●-Sacrifices were most prevalent and acceptable Whence some conjecture that here is a Male-Sacrifice enjoined in opposition to the custom of the Gentiles for it is well known that many things were commanded the Iews because they were contrary to the practice of the Heathen People round about them And there might be some regard to this here tho I cannot say with a late Writer that all the Circumstances here relating to the Passover were inj●ined in opp●sition to the practice of the superstitious and idolatrous Gentiles Others think a Male was to represent Christ who was Man as well as God So that this qualification was fulfilled as the Learned Bochart observes in the very strictness of the Letter And this excellent Writer adds that it was a Male because the Sacrifice of this kind was reputed more worthy and excellent than the Female Offerings Mal. 1. 14. But the plainest and most obvious Reason why the Paschal Lamb was a Male is because it is the stronger and more vigorous and so it was fittest to represent him who is the Christians Strength I can do all things through Christ who strengthn●t● me saith the Apostle God hath laid help on one that is mighty one that 〈◊〉 able to save to the uttermost them that com● to God by him one who was indued with sufficient Power to accomplish the great Work he undertook And as the Paschal Lamb was to be a Male so on the very same account the third Qualification of it was that it must be of the first Year ver 5. for then it was supposed to arrive to its vigour Such a Lamb was Christ Iesus he was crucified when he was in the strength of his Years in the full vigour of his Age when he was young and lively Thus you see there is a perfect resemblance in all these Particulars between the Paschal Lamb and the Lamb of God even our Lord Iesus Christ. And I may add this too that the Paschal Lamb was to be taken out of their own Folds ver 3. and Deut. 16. 2. So was our Redeemer one of the Flock taken out of the Fold of Mankind taken from his Brethren Deut. 18. 15. Heb. 2. 17. He was one of us a true Man of our Flesh and of our Bone And which was yet nearer to the matter he was taken out of the Fold of the Iews and he was of the Seed of David In the next place the Lamb was to be kill'd and in this also it is a manifest Type of Christ. That without shedding of Blood there should be no remission was the appointment of Eternal Wisdom that which Angels admire and Men must ever stand amazed at Therefore the Messias was to die for us to expiate our Sins by his Blood for his Blood cleanseth us from all Sin 1 John 1. 7. But before the Lamb was kill'd it was to be kept in their Houses four days ver 3. and ver 6. You will find upon perusing the History of the Gospel that Christ was crucified the 4 th day after his last coming into Ierusalem the Iews own Home he was as it were all that time kept up before he was slain Or it may be Bochart's Notion may be acceptable who observes that this Passage was thus fulfill'd Christ was taken from his Mother's House the Fold where he was brought up at 30 Years of Age and suffer'd Death the 4 th Year after that If according to the Prophetick Stile we take a Day for a Year this is exactly accomplish'd But this Judicious Author favours rather the other Interpretation viz. Christ suffering on the fourth day after his coming to Ierusalem tho I conceive this Learned Man is mistaken in his Reckoning of it for tho our Saviour rode into Ierusalem on the 10 th day of the Month yet he return'd to Bethany whence he came at the Evening Mat. 21. 17. and came back to Ierusalem the next day Mat. 21. 18. and consequently he was not crucified on the 14 th day as this Author determines but on the 15 th But let us pass to the next Circumstance of Time and that is that they were to kill the Lamb in the Evening at the going down of the Sun ver 6. Deut. 16. 6. Which plainly points at the Time of Christ's Passion and Death viz. towards the shutting in of the day at the declining of the Sun Then did this Sun of Righteousness leave this World For tho some apply it to the Evening of the Iewish Oeconomy and Government and others to the Evening of the World yet I rather pitch upon the most easie and unexceptionable meaning i. e. the Evening of the Day then our Christian Passover was sacrificed for us He was slain in the Evening or as 't is said here of the Paschal Lamb between the two Evenings i. e. as I have shew'd before between the first declining of the Sun and its going down or setting which was about the Ninth hour or Three a clock in the Afternoon Then the Lamb which was slain from the foundation of the World viz. as to the Decree of God and as to the virtue and efficacy of his Death for those that were before Christ's coming were as effectually saved by him as those that lived at or after it was really and actually slain in his body on the Cross. And thus He and the Paschal Lamb were slain at the same hour of the day Mat. 27. 45 46. The next thing observable is the Effusion and Sprinkling of the Blood of the Lamb ver 7 13. The Blood was to be to them for a Token upon the houses where they were that when the Angel saw the Blood he should pass over them and the plague should not be upon them to destroy them Here is the Benefit which came to the Israelites by the Passover they were kept safe and secure from the Destroying Angel when Death and Destruction seiz'd upon the Egyptians Can any thing more evidently set forth the Design of Iesus the Messias who was to come and shed his Blood for us that thereby we might be freed from the Vengeance of God and escape the stroak of the Destroyer and be rescued from Death and Eternal Misery Wherefore a Pious Father saith rightly The Lamb which of old was slain by the Israelites was a Type of the True Lamb Christ our Lord who was sacrificed for us for as there the Blood sprinkled on the posts saved those that sprinkled it so the Blood of the True