beasts for sacrifice to offer to the Lord. Plainly signifying that Christ was to bee an Israelite and within the fold of Gods owne people for he was to be of the seed of Abraham and salvation was of the Jewes Ioh. 4. 22. Yea and the Lords owne Law requires that the King should bee taken from among his brethren Deut. 17. 15 and much more the King of the Church being King of all Kings Sect. VII II. Iesus Christ was as evidently expressed in the preparation of the Paschall Lamb wherin the Iews were tyed to sixe observations I. Observation The Lambe must be severed from the flocke ver 6 to signify Iesus Christ seperated by God the Father to the office of Mediator and that two waies 1. by Gods eternall decree hee was a chosen servant of God to the most excellent service in heaven and earth Isa. 42. 1 My elect servant And thus is called a lambe seperated from before the foundation of the world 1. Pet. 1. 20. 2. In due time actually seperated from all the rest of the flocke by 1. a supernaturall conception by the holy Ghost whereby he became an high Priest seperated from sinners all the rest of mankinde remaining sinners 2. by a miraculous birth of a Virgin being the seed of the woman 3. by an unconceivable union of the two natures divine and humane in one person by which he became our Immanuell God with us 4. by a solemne and heavenly inauguration into his office at the brinke of â—ordaine by which he was openly proclaimed the chiefe Doctor and Prophet of his Church Thus it became this lambe of God to be actually seperated from all the rest of the flock because for all the rest he was to pay a greater ransome and price then any other that could be found amongst all mankinde II. Observation The lambe thus seperated must be reserved and kept alive foure daies even from the tenth day of the first month till the fourteenth day of the same month ver 6 Wherein was signified the very particles of time of Christs both Ministery and passion 1. for his Ministery Christ must not bee sacrificed presently so soone as he is borne nor so soone as he is baptised and seperated but after that seperation must live about foure yeares to preach the kingdome of God and then be offered up that his death might not be as a seale to a blancke but might confirme all that holy doctrine delivered by his owne mouth and Ministery to the world 2. For his passion The time of it depended not on the will of man for his enemies sought many a time before to slay him as Herod in his infancy Mat. 2. 16. the Jewes tooke up stones to stone him Ioh. 8. 59 the Nazarites would breake his necke from an hill Luk. 4. 29. And many other attempts were made against his life but his time was not then come the lambe must be reserved foure daies And this very moment of time was determined and registred in Gods most certaine and unchangeable computation Act 2. 23. being delivered by the determinate counsell and foreknowledge of God Whose wisdome so ordered that 1. as the lambe was taken in the tenth day of the first month so Christ came into Ierusalem about the tenth day of the same month to suffer as appeares Ioh. 12. For upon the sixth day before his passion he came to Bethany ver 1. and the next day he went to Ierusalem which was the fifth day before his passion ver 12. 2. as the lambe must be slaine the fourteenth day of the first month which answereth to our March and at the full of the Moone So that no man might be deceived in our Paschall lambe he must be sacrificed at the Passeover the same day that the lambe must be slaine In the full Moone to note the fulnesse of time now come which was so long before appointed and in such a month as when light prevailes against darkenesse and every thing revives and springs to signifie that Christ by his suffering chaseth away our darkenesse and death and brings in light and life and a blessed spring of grace and glory III. Observation The Lambe must be slaine ver 6 signifying that Jesus Christ being as that Lambe of a yeare old in his vigour and strength who by reason of his age and strength might have lived longer must not onely dye but by a violent death and that by Israell Noting 1. that Christ must be put to death by the Jews 2. that the benefit and merit of his death redounds to his Church onely The Redeemer must come unto Zion Isa. 59. 20. Object How was hee then a lambe slaine from the beginning of the World before the Iewes were in beeing Sol. Two waies 1. in regard of Gods decree whereof a promulgation was made in promises and types and an acceptation as if it had beene already done 2. in regard of man He was slaine onely one time as to the act but in all times as to the fruit because the perpetuall power and efficacy of Christs sacrifice was begunne with the world and extended to all beleevers of all ages who onely diversly apprehend it IV. Observ. The lamb must be slain between two evenings 1. to put them in remembrance of their deliverance in Aegypt which was in the evening 2. to note that our Paschall lambe should be slaine towards the evening of the world that is in the last times Heb. 9. 26. 3. that Christs sacrifice was to succeed in the same time of their evening sacrifices which were daily to be offered Exod. 29. 41. and so to put end to them Dan. 12. 4. to note the very houre as well as the day of Christs suffering on the Crosse. To understand which we must know that the Jewes distinguished their artificiall day into foure parts From sixe to nine from nine to twelve from twelve to three from three to sixe This last part was counted the evening of the day and the next three houres the evening of the night In this fourth part of the day used the Paschall lamb to be slaine and the rest of and all their heaviest burthens 3. All that sprinkling of blood in their houses so long as they despise the blood of Jesus Christ shall never get them protection from the revenging Angel We must pray that God would please at length to remove their vaile from their hearts that they may submit themselves to the righteousnesse of God Rom. 10. 3 that so all Israel may bee saved by acknowledging the deliverer out of Zion of whom was prophecied Isai. 59. 20 That he shall turne away the ungodlinesse from Iacob Sect. III. III. The Paschall lamb directly aimed at Christ our true Passeover in respect of the blood and actions about it which were three 1. The blood of the lamb must be saved in a basen verse 22. It must not bee shed upon the ground to
caused So Christ was the cause of those Ceremonies and more excellent then they 2. As the shadow representeth the shape of the body with the actions and motions So those rites and Ceremonies resemble Christ in all his actions passions motions as after we are to heare 3. As the shadow is but an obscure resemblance in respect of the body So the Ministery of the old Testament in rites and Ceremonies is a darke representation of the body namely Christ and his spirituall worship 4. As the body is solid firme and of continuance even when the shadow is gone So the Ceremonies as shadowes are flowen away but Christ the body and his true worship lasteth for ever In all which Christ and his grace are advanced as the publisher and perfecter of our salvation without any shadowes whereas of the Law it is sad It made nothing perfect Heb. 7. 19. III. Those Ceremonies were not given to merit remission of sinnes by them nor to appease Gods anger nor to bee an acceptable worship by the worth of the worke done nor to justifie the observer but to shew justification by Iesus Christ the truth and substance of them to bee types of him pointing at him in whom the Father is pleased to bee Allegories and resemblances of the benefits of Christ exhibited in the new Testament to bee testimonies of the promise and Covenant on Gods part to be Sacraments and seales of faith on the part of the beleeving Iew exciting and confirming his faith in the Messiah IV. God would have this heape of Ceremonies 1. As bonds and sinewes of the ministery and publike meetings in which the voice of the promised seed and the sound of wholsome and saving doctrine might bee preserued in the Church and propagated to posterity 2. To be externall signes of their profession by which God would have his Church distinct from all nations of the earth 3. To be to the unbeleeving Jewes an externall discipline to bridle them and an exercise to frame them at least in externall conversation to the Policy and Commonwealth of Moses for else they must be cut off and excluded V. Gods wisedome in appointing these Ceremonies 1. Appointed a certaine observation of the line and tribe whence the Messiah should come according to the promise 2. Enjoined a certaine provision for the Ministery which had no certaine part of the land allotted to them 3. That the poore might be so provided for as that there might not be a beggar in Israel The former propositions and reasons being delivered by way of Preface wee now come to shew that which our Text properly calleth for that is wherein or how Christ is the truth of those figures and the body of those shadowes of the Ceremoniall Law Christ was figured in the old Testament by holy Persons and by holy Things Of the most holy and eminent Persons who were figures of Christ I wil propound some instances CHAP. II. 1. Adam a type of Christ. THe first of them is the first Adam who was so lively a representation of Christ as that Christ is often called the second Adam Rom. 5. 14. Adam was a figure of him that was to come Wee will gather the resemblances betweene them into foure generall heads I. In respect of Creation 1. Both of them were Sons of God the one by eternall generation the other by grace of Creation 2. Both were Men Adams redde earth the first in his matter the second not in his matter only but also in his bloody passion 3. Both were Sons of one Father and both men but of no man their father neither of them having any other father but God 4. Both created in the Image of God the former Gen. 1. 27. the latter the ingraven forme of his Fathers person Heb. 1. 3. 5. Both endowed with perfect wisdome and knowledge the first Adam so wise as that he gave fit names to all Creatures according to their natures in the second Adam dwelt treasures of wisdome and knowledge Col. 2. 3. 6. Both possessed of a most happy and innocent estate in which the one had power to persever but not will the other had both power and will 7. The first Adam was made in the sixth day of the weeke to the Image of God the second Adam towards the sixth age of the world appearing to restore that Image which the first Adam quickly lost II. In respect of office and soveraignty 1. The first Adam was owner of Paradise the heire of the world soveraigne Lord of all the Creatures to whom they came for their names the second Adam is Lord of heaven as well as earth heire of the outmost bounds of the earth Psal. 2. 8. Commander of all Creatures whom the windes and seas obey whose word the divels tremble at and he keepes his soveraignty which the first Adam lost 2. Adam was appoynted to keepe the Garden and dresse it Gen. 2. 15. Christ the second Adam was set apart to sanctifie and save his Church the Garden and Paradise of God Eph. 5. 26. 3. Adam was King Priest and Prophet in his family so is Christ in the Church the family and houshold of faith Rev. 1. 5. As Adam was the first Minister of the word in the Church delivering the promise of the blessed seed with certaine rites Ceremonies to his children and they to their posterity So the second Adam is the chiefe Prophet and Doctor of his Church who alwaies prescribed the pure worship of God for matter and manner in the Churches of all ages III. In respect of Conjugation 1. Adam sleeping Eve is formed Christ dying the Church is framed Eve is taken out of Adams side while he sleepes out of the second Adams side while he was in the sleepe of death issueth the Church 2. Eve was no sooner framed but as a pure and innocent spouse she was delivered by God to Adam yet in innocency so God the Father delivered the Church as a chaste innocent spouse to be married to the second Adam for ever to be bone of his hone and flesh of his flesh 3. Of Eve marryed to Adam he receives both a Cain and an Abel into his house so the second Adam hath in his visible Church both elect and reprobates sound and hypocrites as by many Parables is signified as of the field the net c. IIII. In respect of propagation 1. Both of them are rootes both have a posterity and seed Isa. 53. 10. 2. Both of them convey that they have unto their posterity Rom. 5. 12. 14. As by the first Adam sinne and by sinne death came over all men so by the second Adam came righteousnesse and by righteousnesse life on all beleevers and herein especially was the first Adam a figure of him that was to come 3. As the first Adam merited death for all his posterity so the second Adam life for all his Application followes I. To note the honour and antiquity of
supply enough of all grace without labour and gathering when Christ shall be all in all to all Israel gathered unto him Sect. II. Now wee are to consider this miraculous food both in the Jews gathering of it as also in their use of it I. In their gathering are three things the place the time the measure 1. The place where It was about the campe and tents of the Jews in the wildernesse signifying that Christ the heavenly Manna is given to us in this our wildernesse and while we are in this world wee must procure him to our selves or never And farther that his grace is rained downe in the Church and no where else is saving grace ordinarily to bee found Onely the Israel of God enjoy Christ in the meanes his abode is among the tents of shepherds 2. The time of gathering is 1. The weeke day the sixe dayes not the Sabbath for it came not on the Sabbath but as knowing and distinguishing times it would as feed them so teach them namely to rest on the Sabbath day as it did and signified that in that eternall Sabbath wee shall enjoy Manna without meanes and shall eate our fill of that hidden Manna laid up and prepared for the Saints Revel 2. 17. 2. Every day in the weeke to signifie that we must daily feed on Christ and his grace and that wee must daily renew the care of the salvation and sustenance of our soules 3. Every morning of every day early must they gather it the first thing they did To signifie that wee must embrace Christ speedily while the meanes last and offer themselves Christ is worth our first care and his commandement is first to seeke the kingdome of God The foolish virgins sought Oile and Manna too late 3. The measure 1. Every man hath a measure out of the common heape signifying that Christ is the same treasury to poore and rich small and great and every beleever and Israelite hath his portion and measure measured out unto him for he must live by his owne faith and a severed measure of knowledge and sanctification from others 2. Every man hath the same measure There was one measure for all a Gomer for every person So every Christian hath his Gomer and the same measure For although there is difference in the graces of sanctification some being in the higher formes of knowledge some in lower some of little faith some of great faith some whose zeale is as a smoaking flaxe in some a bright flame yet justification by Christ is equall to all and doth not admit a more or a lesse The youngling in grace is as truely and fully justified as the ancient beleever though not so fully sanctified 3. Every man hath a full Gomer a full measure to signifie that in Christ is no want but wee are compleat in him Col. 2. 10. And as the gathering Israelite though he gathered lesse then some other had his Gomer full so hee that hath the weakest grace and weakest faith if true and sound shall attaine the same salvation which the stronger beleever attaines For the same precious faith attaines the same common salvation II. Wee must consider this Manna in the Jews use of it 1. In respect of the dressing It must be ground and baked before it could bee fit food for the Israelites signifying that Jesus Christ must first be ground and broken upon the Crosse and pounded with passion before hee could become a â—it food and Saviour of his Church Every graine of Manna must be ground and broken so must Christ bee broken and bruised in the wine presse of Gods wrath Every graine of Manna must bee baked in the Oven so must Christ bee parched and baked yea and dried up in the Oven of his Fathers displeasure And this was extraordinary and above nature in it that one heate namely of the Sunne melted it another heate namely of fire baked it very strange but significative of the same in Christ. The heat of his love to mankind melted him but the heat of his Fathers wrath as hot as fire baked him and fitted him for our spirituall food 2. The Manna being dressed must be eaten that is applied to their substance and digested for their nourishment signifying Jesus Christ who although like the Manna he must be gathered in common and must bee received whole as Manna must bee gathered whole yet he must be eaten in severall that is specially applied to every beleever for his food and strength by which application hee becomes food in our hunger and physicke in our weakâ—â—esse as the Manna was to them and other had they none 3. They must use it all and reserve none till the morning for if they did it putrified and wormes grew in it vers 19. 20 To signifie that not the profession of Christ profits any thing without faithfull applying of him Yea and as Manna reserved putrified so Christ becomes a scandall and a rocke of offence to the unbeleeving of the world that content themselves to heareof Christ and have the word among them but apply it not to their hearts and lives The sweetest Manna becomes a rottennesse and a favour of death to carnall professours Quest. But why did the Lord cause the Manna daily to putrifie if kept Answ. 1. He will have them daily depend upon his hands and provision that was no time nor place to shift covetously for themselves neither was there any need seeing every day supplied them with a new harvest 2. To signifie to them that man lived not by bread onely but by every word of God How could they thinke that such corruptible food could preserve them that it selfe could not be preserved above a few houres but by Gods institution 3. That they might acknowledge God a free and extraordinary worker in all his administration with them For even this Manna which kept an houre beyond a day suddenly rotted if God command to keep it two dayes every weeke for his worship sake it shall bee miraculously preserved sweet and savoury Yea if for a monument of his mercy he shall command to lay a sample of it in the Arke it shall last and bee kept in the Holy of holies many ages yea many hundreds of yeares sweet and savoury as at first And all this not without signification that although Jesus Christ was in his flesh and humane nature subject to sorrow death and passion yet even in that humanity now glorified he is set in the Holy of holies as the Manna in the golden pot before the Lord for ever Exod. 16. 33. and abides for ever in the heavens for all eternity not subject to corruption any more as that golden pot of Manna was Sect. III. II. Now let us see how Christ is infinitely preferred before this type or figure in sixe severall advancements 1. That Manna had no life in it selfe but this hath Ioh. 5. 26. As the Father hath life in himselfe so hath he
hee that comes from heaven is above all His person is above all for God hath exalted him and given him a Name above al names Phil. 2. 9. His worke is above all that men and Angels can comprehend in power and merit His place is above all the head of the Church eminent above all men and Angels 3. A Rock for firmnesse and stability Hee is the strength of Israel on this Rock as on a sure and firme foundation the whole Church is laid and the gates of hell shall not prevaile against it Matt. 16. 18. Hence he is a Rock of defence and safety to his chosen and every wise man builds his house on this Rock 4. A Rock of scandall and offence to wicked men Rom. 9. 32. Not in himselfe and his nature for hee is a precious corner stone but accidentally and passively because men dash themselves against him as many at this day bark like doggs against the wholesome doctrine of justification by Christ without the works of the Law Many loose and formall Gospellers scorne the basenesse and meannesse of Preachers and true professours of the Gospel because their darknesse can abide no light to come neere it To all these and thousands moe Christ is a rock of scandall by their owne default 5. A Rock for waight and danger and inayoidable judgement upon his adversaries which on whomsoever it falls it crusheth him all to pieces Matt. 21. 44. If any rise against it they doe but tire and teare themselves but if this Rock rise against any man and fall upon him it breaks him to pouder Witnesse the greatest enemies of Jesus Christ which the world ever had Herod Iudas Iulian Iews Pilate as unable to rise from under his revenge as a man pasht to pieces unable to rise from under a Rock II. It was a type of Christ as it sent out water in abundance to the people of Israel ready to perish for thirst For so Jesus Christ is the onely Rock that sends from himselfe all the sweet waters of life for the salvation of his elect otherwise ready to perish eternally For explanation whereof marke 1. As from that Rock issued waters to wash and cleanse themselves and their garments so from this Rock streame waters of ablution or washing which serve to wash away both the guilt of sinne and staine of sinne For the former the precious blood of Christ streaming out of his side is the onely mundifying water in the world to wash the soule from the guilt of sinne and to scowre away all the execration of sinne from the sight of God 1. Ioh. 1. 7. the blood of Iesus Christ cleanseth us from all sinne For the latter from the same side of Christ our Rock issueth water as well as blood even the waters of regeneration called Tit. 3. 5. the washing of the new birth by the Spirit of grace and holinesse which daily cleanse the staine and filthinesse of sin Of these waters reade Ioh. 7. 38. He that beleeveth in me out of his belly shall flow riuers of water of life This hee spake of the Spirit which he would give 2. As from that rocke issued waters to coole and comfort Israel in their wearinesse and wandrings so from Jesus Christ do issue the waters of refrigeration and comfort to coole and refresh the dry and thirsty soule to allay the heat of a raging and accusing conscience and to revive with new strength the fainting soule in temptation or persecution And therefore the tryed traveller and thirsty passenger is called to these waters Mat. 11. 28 Isa. 55. 1. For nothing but sound grace from Jesus Christ can quench the tormenting thirst of an accusing or distressed conscience 3. As from that rocke streamed abundance of waters to make fruitfull that barren wildernesse wheresoever they ranne so onely from the true rock issue plentifull waters of grace to make our dry and barren hearts fruitfull in all workes of righteousnesse Isa. 44. 3 4 I will poure water upon the thirsty and floods upon the dry ground I will poure my spirit upon thy seed and my blessing upon thy buds and they shall grow as among the grasse and as willowes by the rivers of waters All this blessing of fruitfulnesse is from the Rocke See Eph 1. 4. III. In the manner of attaining this water are many sweet resemblances 1. The people might aske Moses water but Moses cannot give it It is God must give it and miraculously fetch it out of a rocke which how it should be Moses cannot conceive So men may seeke justification and to drink waters of salvatiō in themselves either by nature as Pelagians or by merit as Popish justiciaries do either in the Law of Moses as the Jews or in Evangelical Counsells as the fond votaries of the Church of Rome But no Jew can tell how to procure any water to himself neither can Moses give it By the Law of Moses no man can bee justified nor by any fond devises beyond the Law But God of his grace hath devised a way and poynted to us a rocke of living waters to supply unto us that which was impossible to Moses Law because of our infirmitie Rom. 8. 3. 2. The rocke gives water but not till it bee smitten Exod. 17. 6. so Christ the true rock must be smitten with passion he must be smitten with the wrath of his Father and made a curse for us before there can issue out of his side that bloody streame by which the thirst of beleevers can be quenched And as the rocke was smitten twice and waters gushed out both times so Christ was twice smitten first actually in himselfe secondly virtually in the saith of beleevers of all ages the faithfull before him beleeving in the rock that was to bee smitten and suffer death for sinne the faithfull after him beleeving in the rock that was smitten dead and raised already 3. It was the Rod in Moses hand that smites and breakes the rocke Even so it was the Law given by Moses hand and our transgression against it that breaks the true Rock Isa. 53. 5. Gal 3. 13. he was made a curse for us and our transgression of the Law was laid upon him that we might be freed from it And as this was the same Rod that smote the River to bring destruction on the Aegyptians and enemies of the Church so this same Law and Rod of Moses brings the curse and damnation upon all the enemies of God from whom it is not remooved by Jesus Christ. 4. The rocke was smitten but it was not so much the striking on the rock but the Lords standing upon it that gets water for Israel Exod. 17. 6. There was no vertue in the stroake but all depended on Gods commandement and precept and presence even so it is not the death of Christ nor the abundance of price and merit of his blood nor the striking on this rock before mens eyes in the ministery of the word and