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A50253	The figures or types of the Old Testament by which Christ and the heavenly things of the Gospel were preached and shadowed to the people of God of old : explained and improved in sundry sermons / by Mr. Samuel Mather ...	Mather, Samuel, 1626-1671.; Mather, Nathanael, 1631-1697.	1683 (1683)	Wing M1279; ESTC R7563	489,095	683

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

them that heard it THE scope of this Epistle is to perswade them to persevere in their Christian profession and not to fall off to Judaism from the Gospel to the Law To this end he sets before them the excellency of the Gospel above the Law the excellency of Christ above Moses In the prosecution whereof he inserts many wholesom exhortations and applications of those former truths and dispensations of old to us in Gospel times And having from Psalm the 95th spoken of their being shut out of Gods rest because of their Unbelief in cap. 3.18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest but to them that believed not he applies this cap. 4.1 Let us therefore fear least a promise being left us of entring into his rest any of you should seem to come short of it And inforceth this caution by paralelling their state with ours in the words of the Text. For unto us was the Gospel preached as well as unto them You see how the Text comes in as an inforcement of that exhortation take heed of falling short of entring into rest seeing the Gospel is preached unto us as it was unto them and it became unprofitable unto them because they did not take heed of that sin which is here dehorted from even the sin of Unbelief In the words are three Propositions 1. That the Gospel was preached both under the Old and New Testament to them as well as to us to us as well as them The Apostle joins these together unto us as well as unto them 2. That there be some who though they hear the Gospel yet do not profit by it they are but high-way ground stony ground thorny ground hearers as Matth. 13. The word may be preached to many that live under the clear and powerful dispensations of the Gospel yet they not profit by it There is but one sort of good ground of fruitful hearers many there are to whom the Gospel is preached but they hear it unfruitfully and unprofitably 3. That the main cause of this unprofitableness under the Gospel is because of their Unbelief The reason of unfruitfulness and barrenness under the preaching of the Gospel is for want of Faith in them that hear it The word did not profit them not being mixed with faith Unbelief is the cause of this unprofitableness Many complain of their own unprofitableness and many take no notice of the cause of it It is for want of Faith It is the first of these three that I design to speak unto the Lord assisting Doctr. 1. That the Gospel was preached to them under the Old Testament as well as to us under the New I put it so as best suiting with the scope I intend The Apostle here supposeth it as a known and granted truth that they had the Gospel and he adds that we have it too as well as they But that they had it he supposeth it as a thing beyond all question as a thing received and believed and understood amongst them and that needed no dispute For unto us was the Gospel preached as well as unto them As if he should say no doubt it was preach'd to them and so it is to us also Gal. 3.8 And the Scripture foreseeing that God would justifie the Heathen through Faith preached before the Gospel unto Abraham saying in thee shall all Nations be blessed The Gospel is the glad tidings of Man's Recovery by Jesus Christ out of the state of Sin and Death into which he was fallen into a state of Favour and Communion with God again into a state of Life and Happiness Now this was made known to them of old these glad tidings sounded in their ears as well as ours Psal 89.15 Blessed are the people that hear the joyful sound The Reasons for the proof of it may be such as these Reas 1. Because they had the same Gospel blessings and mercies promised preached and revealed unto them that we have now that are revealed and made known unto us and in the same way and upon the same account as we have them now There be two Branches of this Argument 1. That they had the same Gospel mercies preached and held forth and this 2. In the same way and upon the same account 1. They had the very same Gospel blessings and mercies that we have in these latter days This will be easily made out and appear if we enquire what the good things of the Gospel are we shall find that they were exhibited unto them as well as unto us And what are they In general That God would be their God How oft is this promise made to them and so he is to us Now this includes three things 1. Regeneration 2. Reconciliation and Remission of Sins 3. Everlasting Salvation I. Regeneration or the New Heart the Heart of Flesh the writing of Gods Law in the heart You know most of these are Old Testament phrases Jer. 31.33 I will put my Law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts and will be their God and they shall be my people This was preached and held forth to them by that Seal of Circumcision Deut. 30.6 And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart and the heart of thy seed to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul that thou mayest live and by all their legal washings and purifications which signified their cleansing from sin from the filth and power as well as from the guilt of it Ezek. 36.25 26 27. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you and ye shall be clean from all your filthiness and from all your Idols will I cleanse you A new heart also will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and I will give you an heart of flesh And I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes and ye shall keep my judgments and do them This includes the whole frame of Saving Grace a new disposition in the heart new principles new walkings This succeeds the Old man corrupt Nature this is one great Gospel blessing common to them with us II. A second great blessing of the Gospel is Reconciliation and Remission of sins Isai 1.18 Come now and let us reason together saith the Lord though your sins be as scarlet they shall be as white as snow though they be red like crimson they shall be as wooll Jer. 33.34 I will forgive their iniquities and I will remember their sins no more And innumerable more promises they had of this throughout the Old Testament This part of the Gospel was preached and shadowed forth to them by all their Sacrifices and Oblations which are thefore said to make atonement for them It is a phrase often used in the nine first Chapters of Leviticus He that sinned shall bring such or such an Offering and the Priest shall