Vid. Engl. Annot. in loc 4. Moses was to fill the hand of the Priests with some parts of the Sacrifices ver 23 24 25. This interprets and lets you see the reason of that expression why Consecration is called filling of the hand Lev. 7.37 so Exod. 28.41 and here cap. 29. ver 9. It is because some parts of the Sacrifices were put into his hands at his Consecration as a pledge or symbol of putting such a business and intrusting such a work in his hands No man can or ought to undertake this or any other Trust or Office till the Lord fill his hand with it and commit the work and business to his trust A man can take unto himself nothing except it be given him from Heaven Joh. 3.27 they are the words of John the Baptist and he saith of Christ that the Father loveth the Son and hath given all things into his hand ver 35. of that 3d. of John Now the Use of all these Rites of Consecration lies in such things as these 1. They were an external sign and representation of the Dignity of the Office therefore there were so many solemn and sacred Ceremonies in setting them apart thereunto and yet these Priests were but shadows of Jesus Christ our great and true High Priest whose Office is of incomparably more surpassing excellency and Dignity See 1 Cor. 3.7 8 9 10 11. 2. All these Rites of Consecration had this use to the Priests themselves to be Monitors or Remembrances to the Priests themselves that they might remember how pure and holy to the Lord they ought to be And the like Instruction they hold out to Believers who all are made spiritual Priests unto God that they ought to be holy to the Lord. 3. From the people they bespeak reverence and regard to the Priests and that for their works sake they having such Honour and Dignity put upon them in such a solemn Consecration to their Office Thus the Apostle in the New Testament chargeth the Thessalonians that they should know them that laboured among them that were over them in the Lord and admonished them and to esteem them very highly in love for their works sake 1 Thess 5.12 13. 4. We may learn also this from these sacred Rites of the Consecration of the Priests that under the New Testament there should be no Gospel-Ministers but such as are called and consecrated by God to that work see Heb. 5.4 'T is set as a Brand upon that wicked Jeroboam that he made of the basest of the people Priests even whosever would he consecrated him but this thing became sin to the House of Jeroboam even to cut it off and to destroy it from off the face of the earth as the Holy Ghost expresly tells us 1 Kings 13.33 34. THE GOSPEL of the MINISTRATIONS of the LEGAL MINISTRY Feb. 28. 1668. Morning and Afternoon Numb chap. 18. THere were three sorts of Officers in the old Legal Ministry 1. The Priests 2. The Levites 3. The Nethinims Of the Priests you have heard four things propounded 1. The special Rites and Qualifications of that Order of Priesthood 2. Their Priestly Apparrel 3. Their Consecration 4. Their Priestly Ministrations in the House of God This last remains to be spoken to for which this Chapter may be the Text and foundation of our Discourse The Chapter consists of two parts 1. The Work of the Priests and Levites 2. Their Maintenance 1. Their Work and Office to ver 8. The several Work of the Priests and of the Levites is here exactly distinguished their several Offices bounded and disterminated by the Soveraign Wisdom and Authority of God setting each their limits which they might not on highest penalties transgress and violate The charge of the Sanctuary and the Altar with the things appertaining thereunto was committed to the Priests the charge of the Tabernacle to the Levites ver 7. 1. For the Priests their work was the charge of the Sanctuary and the Altar and the holy Vessels and Services thereof These they must look to and of these God would require and expect an account at their hands And the Lord said unto Aaron thou and thy Sons and thy Fathers House with thee shall bear the iniquity of the Sanctuary and of your Priesthood ver 1. that is the guilt and punishment of whatever is done amiss in these matters The Stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death ver 7. the Stranger here is not meant of other People and Nations only as in other places but any other Family beside the Family of Aaron the rest of Israel yea the Levites themselves were Strangers in this sense There are many particulars comprised under this general head of the Charge of the Altar and Sanctuary in each of which I shall but briefly shew how they had an eye to Jesus Christ the Priest and Minister of the true Sanctuary 1. First then this includes the holy Vessels and all the hallowed things thereof ver 7. so Numb 4 5-15 and ver 16. In like manner hath God committed the whole Church of God and all the mysteries of our Salvation to the trust and care and charge of Jesus Christ for the Tabernacle is the Church All the concernments of his people all their Graces and Duties and Comforts meet in him and are under his special care and trust therefore they are said to be given to him by the Father Joh. 3.35 2. The offering Sacrifice and ordering that whole matter is here also plainly included as being part of the Charge of the Altar the Priest was to kill and dress the Sacrifices and sprinkle the Blood thereof and to manage and dispose of that whole affair Lev. 1.5 and he that is the Priest shall kill the Bullock before the Lord and the Priests the Sons of Aaron shall sprinkle the Blood c. Heb. 5.1 Every High Priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God that he may offer both Gifts and Sacrifices for Sins and the same Apostle applies it expresly to Jesus Christ Heb. 8.3 For every High Priest is ordained to offer Gifts and Sacrifices wherefore it is of necessity that this man that is Christ have somewhat also to offer that is himself his own blessed Body and Humane nature This is the Sacrifice he offered And so he himself was both the Sacrifice and the Priest the Priest in regard of both his Natures and the Sacrifice in regard of his human nature see Heb. 10.10 11 12. No other can offer any expiatory Sacrifice to make atonement with the Lord but only he He trod the Wine-press alone in this respect and of the people there was none with him as Isai 63.3 3. The Priests were to light the seven sacred Lamps of the golden Candlestick Exod. 27.20 21. Lev. 24.2 3. This shadows forth Christ the true Light Joh. 1.9 shining forth and enlightening his Church by his Spirit in the Ministry of the Word For the Golden
a sweet smelling savour Eph. 5.2 God was so pleased with Noahs Sacrifice that he promised to destroy the world by Water no more So God is well pleased with Christs Sacrifice he is so pleased with it that he will be gratious unto sinners for the sake thereof so as not to destroy them but save their Souls 5. Noahs Covenant and the Rainbow the sign thereof was a Type of the Covenant of Grace Gen. 9.12 13. It is a question whether there was any Rainbow before it may seem not Because it had been small comfort and assurance to the new World to see that which they had seen before and to have such a sign of the Covenant Therefore some think that the Rainbow was not from the beginning but as the Lord gave a new Promise so he created a new thing for a Sign thereof Confer on Heb. 1.1 2. of Noah 's Dispensation But how may it appear that the Covenant of Grace was here held forth See Isai 54.9 10. This is unto me as the Waters of Noah c. Ezek. 1. ult As the appearance of the Bow thot is in the Cloud in the day of Rain so was the appearance of the Brightness round about Revel 10.1 and 4.3 Vse From all that hath been said of Noah Here is ground of unspeakable Comfort to the Church and People of God in all their troubles Afflictions are often compared to deep Waters Psalm 42.7 but God will provide for the safety of his people Psal 18.16 17. he sent from above he took me and drew me out of deep Waters Isai 43.2 the Waters shall not overflow thee The Rainbow appears when there hath been rainy weather the Rainbow in a Cloud in a day of Rain Ezek. 1. ult So when the Church hath been in Floods of great Waters Christ appears with a Rainbow Revel 10.1 And as he promised there shall be no more a Flood to destroy the Earth so there is a time coming when there shall be no more floods of Persecution to overwhelm his Church I have sworn I will not be angry with thee nor rebuke thee any more Isai 54.9 So for particular Souls that have been overflown with the Wrath of God and the Waters have gone over their Soul there is a time coming when Christ will appear with a Rainbow about his Head To some he gives such an inward Seal and Testimony of their Adoption that they never loose it but carry it in their bosoms to their dying day keep their Assurance all their days And though I know it is otherwise with some of his Children yet at last when they dye and come to Heaven he will never overflow the soul any more with his Anger 4. The fourth personal Type we named was Melchizedek his Story is in Gen. 14. That he was a Type of Christ is clear from Psal 110.4 where speaking of and to the Messiah he saith The Lord hath sworn thou art a Priest for ever after the Order of Melchizedek as also from that which the Apostle saith Heb. 7.3 that he was made like unto the Son of God and abideth a Priest continually Assimilatus or gerens similitudinem Some Controversie there is who this Melchizedek was and different Opinions there are The Papists have very roving conjectures about it He was not Christ himself because he is said to be made like unto the Son of God Heb. 7.3 but no man is said to be like himself For similitude is between two That he was not an Angel or an appearance of God but a true and real Man may be proved by this Argument because every Priest is taken from amongst men Heb. 5.1 but Melchizedek was a Priest And the Scripture speaks of him as a Man For it mentions the place where he dwelt viz. at Salem which must needs be understood historically because there is no reason to constrain us to run a to metaphorical sense And whereas some object there was no man then superior to Abraham in Faith and Holiness But Melchizedek was greater than Abraham Some answer it thus Non sanctitate sed dignitate praefertur Abrahae For that Abraham was but an inferior person whereas Melchizedek was King and Priest in Salem But we may answer further That there might be some more eminent than Abraham some of his godly Ancestors who were aged and experienced Saints as Sem for instance might towards the end of their lives be more eminent than Abraham was in his youth of whom it is certain by the Genealogies Gen. 11. that he was yet living and he was the greatest person then in the world yea greater than Abraham as being one of his Progenitors and Ancestors Therefore many do conjecture that Sem was this Melchizedek and indeed the conjecture is not improbable though for any certain demonstration it is not to be expected because the Lord hath purposely concealed who he was to the end he might be a more illustrious Type of Christ appearing as it were like a Man fallen down from Heaven and destinated to that end Quest Wherein was Melchizedek a Type of Christ Answ In regard of the Eternity and Excellency of his Person and Office both as King and Priest There be four particulars here included He was a Type 1. In regard of his Kingdom He is called Melchizedek which the Apostle interprets King of Righteousness Heb. 7.2 So Christ is King of his Church and King of Righteousness Psal 45.6 7. King of Salem which signifies Peace It is thought to be the same City which was afterward called Jerusalem so Christ was King of Jerusalem Zach. 9.9 and King of Peace Isai 9.6 My Peace I leave with you Joh. 14.27 Mic. 5.5 This Man shall be our Peace Peace that passeth all understanding and Righteousness first then Peace Isai 32.17 the Fruit of Righteousness shall be Peace Otherwise thou shalt have no Peace from Christ unless he give thee Righteousness first both imputing his own Righteousness for Justification to thee and infusing the inherent Righteousness of Sanctification into thee He will not create Peace for thee 2. In regard of his Priesthood Melchizedek was Priest of the most high God Gen. 14.18 Heb. 7.1 so is Christ both King and Priest This was extraordinary in Melchizedek that he might be the more glorious Type God did not ordinarily allow it the House of Aaron had not the Kingdom the House of David had not the Priesthood they might not intermeddle in the Priests Office King Vzziah was smitten for it but Melchizedek was both 3. In that shadow of Eternity which the Story in Genesis doth cast upon him He is there brought in as a greater person than Abraham the Father of the faithful but neither his Birth nor Death mentioned neither his Father nor Mother without either beginning or end of days Heb. 7.3 It is not meant that he was so really but only in sacred History and in a Type or Shadow For it is impossible for any Creature to be without beginning
second Covenant-Spirit is a Spirit of liberty and freedom not liberty to sin but liberty of spirit in and unto Duty The first Covenant-Spirit is a Spirit of Persecution Gal. 4.29 the second Covenant-Spirit is a Spirit of Love Let those Professors look to it and take heed to their Spirits who have a rigid a violent an imposing spirit towards the people of God the Children of the Promise take heed least you prove Hagarites and meer legal Professors 2. It is true as Abraham did turn aside unto Hagar so a Believer that is in the Covenant of Grace may possibly turn aside in some particular actings to a Covenant of Works when through unbelief and neglect of the Promise they act according to the Law in their own strength or in a way of violence not of love to their Brethren 3. But the Bondwoman and her Seed must be cast out Gen. 21.10 Gal. 4.30 Away with the Law of Works we must renounce the old Covenant and get free from the snares of such a Spirit 3. If we consider Abraham as the Head of the Covenant to that Church and People so he is a Type of Christ the Head of the second Covenant You know God covenanted with Abraham for his Seed so he doth with Christ for all his Elect. Gods Promise to Abraham was to give a Seed to him and an Inheritance to his Seed viz. the Land of Canaan the Land of Promise so God did promise to Jesus Christ that he should see his Seed Isai 53.10 11. and to bring them to Heaven Heb. 2.10 Jesus Christ is the true Head of the second Covenant he engageth and undertakes for all his Seed Abraham was but a typical Head thereof 4. Abraham was a Type of Christ in regard of his absolute Obedience to the Will of God coming from his own Land and from his Fathers House submitting to that painful and unto carnal Reason shameful and contemptible Ordinance of Circumcision dismissing Ishmael a thing grievous to a tender-hearted Parent yea which was yet more sacrificing and offering up his Isaac his only Son Isaac there was nothing so difficult but if God require it Abraham will do it there is not such another Example there is not an higher instance of Obedience in all the Scripture than in Abraham save only in Jesus Christ who was obedient to his Fathers Will in all things even unto Death it self Joh. 6.38 8.29 10.18 As God tryed Abraham in his Isaac so will he try every Son of Abraham in what is dearest to him 5. Abrahams Intercession for the Righteous in Sodom and the efficacy of it with the Lord is some shadow and resemblance of the Prayers and Intercession of Jesus Christ and the prevailing efficacy thereof for the Salvation of the Elect Gen. 18.25 For as Lot was saved by means of Abrahams Prayer from the Destruction of Sodom so are we for Christs sake from everlasting Damnation For Sodom was a Type of Hell which is therefore called a Lake of Fire and Brimstone Rev. 21.8 Lastly That he who was the Father of the Faithful should be so great a Souldier and Conqueror of five Kings and indeed Abraham is the first godly Warrior we read of in Scripture It was a good Omen and a Presage what Believers the Sons of Abraham should do and especially in the latter days when the Kingdom of Christ shall prevail as Dan 2. and chap. 7. 2. Isaac the Scripture takes notice of him as a Type of Christ when it calls both him and Christ the promised Seed and saith he rose from the dead and so he dyed also in a Figure or as a Type He was therefore a Type of Christ in three respects 1. In his Birth 2. In his Death and Sufferings 3. In his Resurrection from the dead 1. In regard of his Birth which was extraordinary and incredible not by the power of Nature but by virtue of the Promise of God Isaac was the Seed of the Promise made to Abraham Gal. 4.28 in whom all the Nations of the earth should be blessed But Christ was indeed the promised Seed he was chiefly and principally intended in that Promise see Gal. 3.16 in whom alone we are truly blessed Psal 72.17 Isaac was born by virtue of the Promise believed on against and above the ordinary course of Nature of Sarahs dead Womb Rom. 4.19 So Christ was born of the Womb of the Virgin Mary in a miraculous unconceivable manner not according to the ordinary course of Nature but by the power of the Holy Ghost overshadowing her Luk. 1.35 An Angel did reveal the Birth of Isaac to Sarah and she thought in her self it was impossible Gen. 18.11 12. Sarah heard it and it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of Women and Sarah laughed within her self saying after I am waxed old shall I have pleasure my Lord being old also So did an Angel reveal to the Virgin Mary that Christ should be born of her and she admires and saith how can this be seeing I have not known Man Luk. 1.34 Isaac's Birth was promised and waited for many years from the first Promise of a Seed made to Abraham to the Birth of Isaac was five and twenty years For he was seventy five years old when he left Haran Gen. 12.4 and he was an hundred years old when Isaac was born Gen. 21.5 So Christ the promised Seed was long expected and waited for from the first Promise of Christ in Gen. 3.15 Vid. Ainsworth in loc to his coming in the Flesh was well nigh four thousand years 2. Isaac was an eminent Type of Christ in regard of his Death and Sufferings Isaac without resistance without repining or reply willingly yields himself to his Father even unto Death So was Christ obedient to his Father even unto Death So each of them was led away like a Lamb to the slaughter as is said of Christ Isai 53.7 Act. 8.32 Isaac carried the Wood whereon he was bound to Moriah Gen. 22.6 so did Christ carry the Cross whereon he was nailed to Golgotha Joh. 19.17 and so the Wood was first laid upon them both and then they were laid upon the Wood. Isaac was to be offered alone the Servants being left behind at the foot of the Hill Gen. 22.5 So Christ must tread the Wine-press alone his Disciples being fled and scattered from him Joh. 16.32 The place where Isaac was offered was Mount Moriah Gen. 22.2 and there was the Temple built a Type of Christs Body and there also his Body was crucified upon another part of the same Mountain And as to the time something of analogy may be noted some accommodated it thus that as Isaac came the third day to the place of his Immolation so Christ came to his Sufferings the thirty third year of his age consisting of three tens and three units And it was three years after his Entrance upon his publick Ministry which is three days putting a day for a year according to the
Prophetick stile Luk. 3.23 he began his Ministry the thirtieth year of his age And there be four Passovers mentioned in the Gospel of John in the sacred Story of his Life and Death Or we may apply this circumstance more literally in reference to his Resurrection from the dead which is the 3. Third thing wherein Isaac was a Type of Christ thus that they were both delivered from Death the third day Look as Isaac was reputed among the dead in his Fathers thoughts and purpose for three days who had given him up unto the Lord but he received him again as from the dead after three days So Christ was in the state of Death three days but then rose again to dye no more so that as Isaac in three days was both alive and dead and revived in a figure Christ was so in truth In this respect the Apostle clearly makes him a Type of Christ Heb. 11.19 accounting that God was able to raise him up even from the dead from whence also he received him in a Figure For Isaac's Death and Resurrection was not a real Death and Resurrection but a figurative Death and a figurative Resurrection The truth of which Figure is in Christ who both dyed and rose again really and indeed I am he that liveth and was dead and behold I am alive for evermore Amen and have the Keys of Hell and of Death Revel 1.18 3. Jacob he also was a Type of Christ and is intimated in the Scripture so to be in that Christ is called by his Name Isai 49.3 Thou art my Servant O Israel in whom I will be glorified they are the words of God the Father unto Jesus Christ Jacob was a Type of Christ 1. In his Sojourning 2. In his Wrestling 1. In his sojourning and travelling to and fro in an afflicted condition almost all his days For he seems to have been the most afflicted Saint that we read of in Scripture except Job He leaves his Fathers House and goes to Haran and lives there as a Servant for his two Wives Rachel and Leah Gen. 28.10 and 29.18 27. So Christ left the Bosom of his Father descended from the highest Heavens and sojourned here upon earth in the form of a Servant to purchase to himself a Spouse a Church of Jews and Gentiles Jacob also went down into Egypt by Gods direction and there Joseph fed him Gen. 46.3 So Christ was carried into Egypt by Joseph the Son of another Jacob being warned so to do by the Lord in a Dream and was there fed and provided for by Joseph his reputed Father Matth. 2.13 And as the Lord brought Jacob back again in his Posterity who carried his Bones with them Gen. 46.4 I will surely bring thee up again So he brought Christ out of Egypt in his own person And that this History had a typical respect to Christ you may see in Matth. 2.15 Hos 11.1 when Israel was a Child then I loved him and called my Son out of Egypt It is spoken there historically but not only so but prophetically also For that History of Israels going into Egypt and returning again was a typical History and did represent what was to be done in Christ the true Israel 2. Jacob was also a Type of Christ in regard of his wrestling and prevailing with the Lord When he was to meet Esau he betakes himself to Prayer that night and prevailed from whence he got the name of Israel Gen. 32.28 and he said thy Name shall be called no more Jacob but Israel For as a Prince thou hast power with God and with men and hast prevailed Hos 12.4 Yea he wept and made supplication unto him So Christ often and particularly the night before his Sufferings Heb. 5.7 who in the days of his Flesh when he had offered up Prayers and Supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from Death and was heard in that he feared for he had that which was equivalent You know his Agonies in Prayer that night when he said Father if it be possible let this Cup pass from me nevertheless not my Will but thy Will be done Yea he lives for ever to intercede Heb. 7.25 4. The fourth and last personal Type that is now to be spoken to is Joseph The History of Joseph in the latter end of Genesis is a very admirable and an affecting History In Poems and Romances to please and affect the Mind men take liberty to feign yet they come far short of this which was a real History It is true Joseph is not so expresly mentioned in the New Testament as a Type of Christ as Abraham Isaac and Jacob are but the analogy is so clear and full that we cannot well omit him Joseph multis modis Figuram Christi gestavit vel potius viva fuit ejus Imago saith Calvin in Matth. 2. ult The Analogy is marvellous clear in sundry particulars I shall but instance in four things wherein he was as the Apostle speaks of another eminent Type made like unto the Son of God 1. In his personal qualifications and endowments of Wisdom and Holiness 2. In his Sufferings 3. In his Advancement 4. In his Carriage towards his Brethen 1. In regard of his personal Qualifications and endowments Joseph may be fitly numbred amongst the Types of Christ for he was very eminent both as to Wisdom and Holiness As for Wisdom he had a Prophetical Light shining in him from whence Pharaoh gave him that honourable name Zaphnath payaneah a clear Revealer of Secrets Gen. 41.45 the Egyptian Language though not the same with the Hebrew yet had some affinity with it The first word Tsopnath Secretum comes from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 recondidit The other payaneach is thought to be a compound of two words from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 claruit and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 duxit placide Joseph was eminent for leading by the hand into secret hidden mysteries It was said of him by Pharaoh Can we find such a man as this is in whom the Spirit of God is Gen. 41.38 and forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this there is none so discreet and wise as thou art So in Christ are hid all the Treasures of Wisdom and Knowledge Col. 2.3 He received the Spirit without measure Joh. 3.34 He is the wonderful Counsellor Isai 9.6 the wonderful Numberer Dan. 8.13 the true Palmoni or numberer of Secrets And as for Holiness Joseph was tempted by his Mistress to bodily Adultery but he resisted and overcame the temptation So Christ was tempted to Idolatry which is spiritual Adultery but overcame the Tempter Matth. 4. And Believers also are victorious through him Thanks be to God who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ 1 Cor. 15.57 2. In regard of his Sufferings both from his Brethren and from Strangers also his Mistress and other Egyptians His Sufferings were very grievous the Archers sorely grieved him and shot at him and hated
adumbrate and shadow forth the Covenant of Works But 2. We may consider Moses under an higher notion though in respect of the external Dispensation introduced by him he shadowed forth the Law yet in other respects if we consider him in his own Person he was a Type of Christ The Scripture is clear for this also Deut. 18.15 18. A Prophet shall the Lord thy God raise up unto thee of thy Brethren like unto me That this was spoken of Christ see Act. 3.22 Peter there applies it unto Christ he was like unto Moses There was a Similitude but yet there was not a Parity For Christ was far above Moses Heb. 3.3 For this man was counted worthy of more Glory than Moses inasmuch as he who builded the House hath more Glory than the House and again ver 5. Moses verily was faithful as a Servant but Christ as a Son over his own House v. 6. You may see it in these particulars 1. In regard of his Birth 2. In his personal Qualifications 3. In the whole course of his Life 4. In the close of it 1. Moses was a Type of Christ in regard of his Birth in that he was born but of mean Parents in the time of Israels Bondage in Egypt Exod. 2.1 persecuted in his Infancy by Pharaoh and wonderfully preserved Exod. 2.3 9. So Christ Isai 53.2 He shall grow up as a Root out of a dry ground When the House of David was brought very low and the Glory of it seemingly extinct they were of the poorest sort of people as appears by their Offering which was but a pair of Turtle Doves or two young Pigeons Luk. 2.24 when they taxed all the world that is when the Jews were under Bondage to the Romans Luk. 2.1 4. and you know Rome is spiritually called Egypt then and in this condition of Subjection to the Roman Power was Christ born And as soon as born he was persecuted by Herod Matth. 2. who sought his Death but wonderfully preserved and by means of his reputed Father as Moses by the Mother that adopted him both of them by wonderful Providences saved and delivered that they might be Saviours and Deliverers unto others 2. Moses was a Type of Christ in his personal Qualifications which were very eminent He was the most accomplish'd Person that ever was except Jesus Christ himself 1. In Learning and Knowledge Act. 7.22 He was learned in all the Wisdom of the Egyptians So Christ Isai 11.1 2 3. the Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding the Spirit of Counsel and of Knowledge rested upon him to make him of quick Understanding in the Fear of the Lord insomuch that he disputed with the Doctors at twelve years of age Luke 2.42 46 47. Those Doctors were as too many are now adays eaten up with mens Traditions and ignorant of the Scripture The Jews acknowledged and admired it Joh. 7.15 And the Jews marvelled saying how knoweth this man Learning having never learned and ver 46. the Officers answered never man spake like this man 2. Clear and extraordinary Vision and Sight of God Numb 12.6 7 8. Face to Face Mouth to Mouth God spake to Moses even apparently and not in dark speeches and the similitude of the Lord did he behold expressions arguing unparallell'd Clearness in the Lords revealing himself and his Mind to Moses There was never the like vouchsafed to any other To others even Prophets the Lord made known himself in a Vision or spake to them in Dreams ver 6. but to Moses at another rate So Christ Joh. 1.18 no man hath seen God at any time but the only begotten Son which is in the bosom of the Father he hath declared him 3. There was in Moses an admirable mixture of Meekness and Zeal eminent in meekness of Spirit and that seasoned and tempered with holy Zeal Numb 12.3 forty years he bare their manners in the Wilderness Acts 7.36 with 13.18 though murmuring and rebelling against God and himself with an invincible Patience So Christ Matth. 11. Learn of me for I am meek and lowly in heart When his Disciples tempted him he would not fetch down Fire from Heaven against his Despisers and Opposers yet he was angry at the Defilement of the Temple and whipt them out And so was Moses at the Golden Calf Meekness without Zeal is nothing else but Lukewarmness and Cowardise Zeal without Meekness degenerates into sinful Passion We should be meek in our own Cause but zealous in the Cause of God 4. Faithfulness to his Trust this was eminent in Moses but more eminent in Christ Heb. 3.5 6. Moses was but faithful as a Servant in his Lords House But Christ as a Son in his own House He will not lose one Soul of all those that the Father hath committed to him Joh. 6.39 40. In his last Prayer he professeth Joh. 17.12 those that thou givest me I have kept and none of them is lost but the Son of perdition not the least Believer can or shall miscarry If thou sayst How may I know whether I was committed to the trust and care of Jesus Christ by the Father The Answer is If thou dost commit thy self to him the Lord hath done it Thou couldst never trust thy self with him thou couldst not commit thy Soul to his keeping if the Lord had not first intrusted thee with him in his eternal Counsel and Covenant of Redemption But thou hast done it and it is thy daily work therefore thou maist safely conclude with Paul 2 Tim. 1.12 he will keep the thing I have committed to him He will be faithful to God and faithful to thee he never failed any that trusted in him 3. Moses was a Type of Christ in the whole course of his Life And here many things come to be considered 1. His Work and Office 2. His Sufferings and Conflicts in the Discharge thereof 3. The Lords owning and bearing witness to him by Miracles and Signs and Wonders in all which there was a manifest Prefiguration of the Lord Jesus Christ 1. In his Work and Office He was in general a Mediator between God and the People a typical Mediator All the good that God was pleased to confer upon that People it was by his Ministry and Interposition between God and then Gal. 3.19 the Law was ordained by Angels in the hand of a Mediator Deut. 5.5 I stood between the Lord and you at that time to shew you the Word of the Lord for ye were afraid by reason of the Fire and went not up into the Mount Exod 19.7 8. So Christ is the Mediator of the Covenant of Grace Heb. 9.15 and for this cause he is the Mediator of the New Testament But he hath the preheminence above Moses Heb. 8.6 but now hath he obtained a more excellent Ministry by how much also he is the Mediator of a better Covenant God was pleased to redeem his people Israel out of their Bondage in Egypt by Moses his Ministry God sent him and he left his
same space Matth. 12.40 3. In his Resurrection For look as Jonah overcame all the dangers he was in and came forth again alive out of the Whales Belly So did Christ out of the Grave within three days he overcame greater Enemies even the power of Satan Death and Hell and upon this sang Praise to God cap. 2. So did Christ triumph Oh Death where is thy Sting Oh Grave where is thy Victory Hos 13.14 and Psal 22.22 23 25. and Psal 18.48 49. 4. In his preaching after his Resurrection For look as Jonah after his Resurrection preached Repentance to the Ninevites and that with great success and efficacy for they did repent upon his preaching the whole body of them with an outward Repentance and many of them doubtless with a true and saving Repentance and so were saved both from that present temporal Destruction and from eternal Damnation and Jonah did preach to the Israelites also as well as to the Ninevites 2 Kings 14.25 but which was first the Scripture doth not express So Christ when risen from the dead sent his Spirit and preached by his Spirit in his Apostles and Ministers and not only to the Jews but to the Gentiles such as those Ninevites to the Conversion and Salvation of multitudes of them as was foretold of him Psal 22.22 and to the deeper Condemnation of Unbelievers Matth 12.41 because a greater than Jonas is here 4. The fourth and last Conjunction that I shall speak unto of typical Persons under the Law is Zerubbabel and Jehoshuah of whom the one was the chief Magistrate the other the chief Priest and both of them Rebuilders of the Temple and Restorers of the collapsed estate of the Church of God in those times in all which there was an eminent Praefiguration of Jesus Christ But what of Christ was shadowed forth by these two For I shall put them both together they being contemporaries and joint instruments in the Work and Service of God in that Generation There were three things of Christ typed and shadowed forth by them 1. Both his Offices of King and Priest Zerubbabel was the Prince of the People of God in those days and the chief person of the Line of David And Jehoshuah was at the same time High Priest And that there was something of peculiar Glory in his Priesthood relating to Jesus Christ our great High Priest is not improbable In Zach. 3. he is presented in Vision to the Prophet as standing before the Lord and resisted by Satan but Satan doth not prevail against him ver 1 2. for he is clothed with change of Raiment ver 4 and hath a fair Mitre set on his head ver 5. So Christ though opposed and resisted by Satan yet went through with his Work and had blessed acceptance with God and success therein 2. His building the Temple the Church of God For these two did build the Temple Ezra 4. conjunctly each of them in their several capacities being stirred up to it by the Prophet Haggai as you may see Hagg. 1.12 14. And it is said of Zerubbabel that as his Hands laid the Foundation of the Temple so his Hands should also finish it Zach. 4.9 and the building of the Altar is ascribed to them both conjunctly Ezra 3.2 So doth Christ spiritually as the Apostle tells us in that very metaphor of building the House of God Heb. 3.3 4. 3. His bringing back the Captivity of his People out of spiritual Bondage under Sin and Satan in their natural estate and out of antichristian Bondage under Rome which is mystical Babylon Thus Zerubbabel and Jehoshuah were the Conductors and Captains of the Salvation of that People from literal Babylon Ezra 1.5 8. and 2.2 and 5.14 But there will be occasion to speak further to these things when we come to the real Types Besides the personal Types that have been spoken to there be divers others also that are noted by learned men as of the first Classis before the Law some have noted Abel the Proto-martyr as also Seth Methuselah and Lamech Noaks Father and Heber the seventh from Enoch as Enoch was the seventh from Adam He was a pious man in his Seed the primitive Language and the true Religion and Church of God was preserved when the rest of the world was lost and fell into Idolatry and from him the Church had their Denomination Hebrews as Christians have from Jesus Christ And it was prophesied that Chittim should afflict Heber Numb 24.24 Chittim is the Romans Christ is the chiefest of Heber whom Italy or Chittim afflicted as in other respects so chiefly at his death for he was crucified under Tiberius the Roman Emperor Judah the Son of Jacob to whom it was said Thy Fathers Sons shall bow down unto thee Gen. 49.8 Also Job in his Sufferings and Patience both unparallel'd and his prevailing Intercessions for his offending Friends are by some looked on as Types of Christ And as to the second Classis viz. those under the Law some have added Aaron the Priest of the Lord but what might be said of him will come in when we come to handle the Office of the Priesthood Also Gideon and Jephtah Judges of Israel of old And Samuel the Prophet who was a Judge also and a Nazarite Hezekiah and Josiah those great reforming Kings Eliakim Isai 22.20 for the like phrase which is there used ver 22. of Eliakim is applyed to Christ Isai 9.5 Revel 3.7 Some have set Cyrus also among the Types of Christ the Founder of the Persian Monarchy who may be thought to have been a godly man much good and no evil being recorded of him in the Scripture and he did a very good work and a great and glorious work it was the breaking the Yoke of Babylon and setting the Israel of God at liberty and rebuilding the Temple and indeed the Elogies and Expressions of the Prophet Isaiah concerning him are very high and excellent Isai cap. 45. beginning and cap. 46.11 Daniel also a person of extraordinary Eminency in his Generation I do not omit these Persons as concluding they had no typical relation to Jesus Christ For indeed I think divers of them had But in some the Analogy is but weak and dark and in some few particulars and though in others it is more clear yet it would have been too large to go thorough every person I have thought it sufficient to my intended scope to instance only in some of the clearest and most eminent referring the rest to your own Meditations in the Scripture to observe and improve what you find written concerning them Vse 1. See the Glory of Jesus Christ the Antitype in that so many excellent persons do but weakly and imperfectly represent him as if all the Candles in the world were put together it would not equalize the Glory of the Sun But how bright then is the Sun it self which shines brighter than all the Candles of the world yea than all the Stars in the Firmament So
up unto God with strong crying and tears Matth. 26.37 he began to be sorrowful and very heavy and ver 38. then saith he unto them my Soul is exceeding sorrowful even unto death and ver 39. he fell on his face and prayed saying Oh my Father if it be possible let this Cup pass from me Luk. 22.44 And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly and his Sweat was as it were great drops of Blood falling down to the ground Hebr. 5.7 It speaks also the Contrition and brokenness of heart that is in the Prayers of the Saints 3. He took a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar to kindle the Incense It is the fire of the Altar the Spirit of God that inflames the Affections in Prayer that sets the heart on fire and makes the Incense flame sets Grace on work and as the Spices whereof the Incense was made are the Graces of Gods Spirit and the beating of them small is the Contrition of the heart so the Incense must be set on fire with sacred fire the Spirit of God inflaming the heart with earnest desires and ardent affections after God 4. The Cloud of Incense must cover the Mercy-seat that the Cloud of Incense that is the Smoke thereof may cover the Mercy-seat that he die not ver 13. There is much Instruction in this If we think to behold the Mercy-seat without the Cloud of Incense we die It is the death of many a Soul that in the day of Atonement when they are afflicting their Souls for sin they think that God is merciful and they cry to God for Mercy But they do not behold the Mercy of God in the Son of his Love they do not look up to the Mercy-seat as covered and clouded with the Incense of the Merits and Mediation of Jesus Christ and therefore they die and perish even in the day of Atonement when they come before the Mercy-seat 3. The Blood must be sprinkled upon the Mercy-seat Eastward that is upon the forepart of it ver 14. It teacheth us that as the High Priest went into the holy place not without Blood so Christ with his own Blood Heb. 9.7 11 12. hath entred into Heaven for us to make way for us to come thither also by the merit and virtue of his own Blood and Satisfaction Heaven therefore is called the purchased possession Ephes 1.14 because purchased by the Blood of Christ We have boldness to enter into the holiest by the Blood of Jesus Hebr. 10.19 20. 4. The Blood must be sprinkled upon the Mercy-seat seven times A mystical number often used in the legal Services and hath been formerly explained It is a number of perfection God having created the World in six days and resting upon the seventh It therefore notes a full and perfect cleansing and applying of the Blood of Christ for that end And it presupposeth a copious and liberal effusion but it implies directly a plenteous and effectual application of the Blood of Christ Get the Blood of Christ effectually applied unto thy Soul or else thou canst never look God in the face with any comfort or acceptance take this Blood of Christ apply it by Faith see how it atones God It is true the Blood of Christ doth not make God merciful but it makes way for the exercise of his Mercy it doth not cause the attribute of Mercy to be in God but it makes way for the putting of it forth Now then let us put both these together The Mercy-seat must be both clouded with Incense and sprinkled with Blood or else there is no approaching for Sinners into the presence of God none but through the Prayers and Intercessions and through the Blood and Satisfaction of Jesus Christ Non solum periculosum sed horribile est de Deo extra Christum cogitare It is not only dangerous saith Luther but it is an horrible thing to think of God out of Christ Do not think to make use of Gods Attributes in an immediate way but by the Intercession of a Mediator there is no Mercy in God for Sinners out of Christ Thus much of the Priests Offerings for himself 2. The second sort of Offerings upon this great day of Atonement were for the People and these are two Goats for a Sin-offering and a Ram for a Burnt-offering ver 5. The Rites and Ceremonies of these two Goats are full of the Gospel It is pity that choise portions of Scripture which have so much in them are commonly so little understood by us Let us in the help of Christ inquire a little into the mystery of these things Of the Burnt-offering there is something said but it is not much the common rules of the Burnt-offering being here to be observed But the Sin-offering of the two Goats there be many very significant Rites and Ceremonies about them This Sin-offering is first generally and then severally and more particularly spoken to and the several actions about them more particularly opened 1. In general ver 7 8 9 10. The first thing that they had to do which was peculiar to it was that these two Goats they were to cast lots upon them Now a Lot is a referring of a thing by an appeal to the determination of Providence Prov. 16.33 the Lot is cast into the lap but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord. There is a special hand of Providence in a Lot so it is said of Christ Acts 2.23 Him being delivered by the determinate Counsel and foreknowledge of God ye having taken and by wicked hands have crucified and slain The Lot in this business was to determine which of the Goats should be slain and which was to escape But why were there two Goats one to die and the other to escape The reason was plainly this Because that one alone was not sufficient to represent the Mystery intended and aimed at For Christ was both God and Man he both died and rose again but the same Sacrifice could not both die and live again without a miracle Therefore these two Goats were appointed to represent more compleatly the whole mystery of our Redemption in all the concernments of it to shadow forth Jesus Christ in both his Natures and in both the states he passed through both in his Divinity and in his Humanity both in his Humiliation and Exaltation As in like manner there were two Birds appointed in the Purification of the Leper See of the cleansing of the Leper Lev. 14. pag. 398. So here two Goats a flain Goat and a scape Goat the one to shadow forth Christ as dying and slain for our offences the other as rising again for our Justification The slain Goat represented Christ as he was put to death in the Flesh that is in his Humane nature the scape Goat represented him as quickened by the Spirit that is by his Deity raising him up again from death to life This in general Now 2. In particular the sacred Rites and