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B05828 The catalogve of the Hebrevv saints, canonized by St. Paul, Heb. 11th further explained and applied. Shaw, John, 1614-1689. 1659 (1659) Wing S3032; ESTC R184043 112,894 165

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contemplative Heathen as 1. That there is a God ens entium an Eternall being of and from himself the being of all things 2. That this God is to be Worshipped as the Soveraigne Infinite Wise Good All-sufficient Creator 3. That because he is Infinitely Wise and Good therefore he is not to be Worshipped Formally but Devoutly and Piously Animadverto ipsos Deos Plin. in Pan. ad Traj Imp. non tam occuratis adorantium praecibus quam innocentia sanctitate laetari And he tells in the very beginning of that Oration That it was an Institution and thereupon a Custome among them Vt rerum agendarum initium à precationibus caperunt quod nihil rite c. And thus farr sober Reason and Nature may conduct us But then holy Religion and Faith super-adds 4. That the devout holy Worship of God is to Worship him according to his will and Word which is the Revelation of his will and that Part which concerns his Worship we usually terme his Ordinances and Institutions 5. That those Ordinances and Institutions the Observation whereof is the Worshipping of God according to his will being no dictates of Reason nor determinations of Nature but Decrees of Gods Wisedom we must not canvas nor dispute them but reverently and humbly performe them Rom. 9.20 6. That the Dutifull Reverend Devout and hamble observance of those Institutions God in his wisedom hath prescribed is a most proper act of Faith And it is observed of Moses here By Faith or through Faith he kept the Passe-over and the sprinkling of blood c. The first Part. Q. How did Moses evidence his Faith in this Ordinance and the observation of this rite A. The Answer is obvious and is branched into three resolves any of which will clear the Devotion and Faith of this service 1. Moses did what he had speciall warranty and strong Authority for he did what for the matter and how for the manner as he was commanded in which respect Moses is said to he faithfull in all his Masters house Heb. 3.2 as a trusty diligent servant what he had order for concerning either the Common-wealth or Church of the Hebrews their rites and offices of Religion or the duties of policy their sacred or civill affaires he proclaimed enacted celebrated observed and executed 2. Moses having sufficient security and good assurance from God that the Sprinkling of the Blood upon the Deoreposts would be a signall difference to the destroying Angell that he could not mistake in his designe staggered not through unbeleife that is disputed not the improbabilities of the attempt canvassed not the impotency of the means nor scrupled the successe but kept to his first hold and principles Gods promise and veracity 3. Moses in this rituall contemplated Christ the true Passe-over and this service was a Typicall representation of the Blood of Sprinkling the Lambe of God Jesus Christ who is our Passe-over 1 Cor. 5.7 This anser I rather approve for these Reasons 1. Because this sutes most with the Apostles designe which was To comfort the Hebrews in their sufferings for Christ And thus he seemeth to Argue à minore ad majus from the lesse to the greater If your former Fathers according to the Flesh of whom you are come by the killing of a Lambe and effusion of its Blood rested ascertained of Gods favour and their Deliverance from the Egyptian Captivity then much more ought you their Successors who have Christ the true Lambe of God Sacrificed for you and his Blood shed to be strong in faith and firmly resolved of Gods greater savour who hath supplyed you with greater assurance and of your Deliverance from your present pressures and future Enemies and from your last and worst Enemy Death and him who had the power of Death the Devill and so this corresponds perfectly with the more formall and direct argumentation Heb. 9.13.14 For if the Blood of Bulls and Geats 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 eternall Spirit offered himself without spot to God purge your Conscience from dead works to serve the living God 2. This Exposition seems to continue the Apostles allusion Heb. 2.10 For it became him for whom are all things and by whom are all things in bringing many Sons unto glory to make the Captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings where he represents Christ made perfect by sufferings as the first-born of the Israelites consecrated for the whole Succession and the Devill who had the power of Death to the destroying Angell And then makes the paralell and thus amplifies it As the miraculous preservation of the First-born was to your Progenitors an assurance of their after Deliverance so the perfecting of Christ by sufferings doth at once both sanctifie and enoble your present sufferings and secures you of an after Redemption and state of Glory So that the result from these premised suppositions is this You Hebrews have stronger grounds of consolation and greater expressions of mercy and grace then was indulged or licensed to your Predecessors even in Moses his time when God deals most powerfully and mercifully with them and was most free and full in the declarations of his mercy They had but the Sprinkling of Blood for a Testimony You have the blood of sprinkling given you for so this favour is called Heb. 12.24 they the blood of a Lambe out of the Flock You the Blood of the Lambe of God who is also the great Shepherd of your Soules They had Moses to Solemnize this You have Christ the Mediator Moses his Lord and Master in his own Person to sacrifice this Q. But what was this Passe-over A. That Feast or Solemnity so called or a memoriall of the Passe-over For at that Feast they did Eat the Lambe in memory of the Angells passing by the Hebrews in the fatall destruction of the First-born of Egypt and then also they departed thence So that it either Denotes the Lambe then Eaten or the whole Feast all the whole Sacramentall-action is the Passe-over Exod. 12.11 27. And thus shall ye eat it with your loynes girded your shooes on your feet and your staffe in your hand and ye shall cat it in hast it is the Lords Passeover And ye shall say It is the sacrifice of the Lords Passeover who passed over the Housee of the Children of Israel in Egypt when he smote the Egyptians and delivered our Houses And Ezod 13.9 ver And it shall be for a figne unto thee upon thine hand and for a memoriall between thine eyes that the Lords Law may be in thy mouth for with a strong hand hath the Lord brought thee out of Egyht Thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he kept the Passeover and the sprinkling of Blood that Feast and Solemnity of the Passeover and that commemorative Rite or Sacraement of the Sprinkling of Blood Q. But how did Moses keep