and loue as all of one family we must eat of our true Passeouer that they are but few who truly feed and are partakers of this Lambe Mat. 7. 13. 10. The house must be prepared To warn vs so to prepare our hearts 1. Cor. 11. 11. If the house be too little the neighbours must be assumed yea the strangers so be he be circumcised verse 4. To signifie first the super aboundant vertue of Christs death for the house may be too little for the Lambe but not the Lambe for a house as likewise the sweet Communion of Saints in loue the ioyfull Vocation also of the neighbour Gentiles and admission to the fellowship of faith beeing inwardly circumcised and at last to condemne the priuate giuing of the Sacrament to one or two onely 12. The Passeouer was to be taken of the Lambs verse 5. To shew that our Sauiour should bee innocent in life meeke and patient in death and profitable alway Isai. 53. 13. Or it was to bee taken of the Kids ibid. And in the generall the taking of it from among the flocke did signifie the separation of Christ from sinners To shew albeit our Sauiour was sinlesse himselfe yet hee should come of the race of sinners as the Kid comes of the Goat as also that in wrong reputation and true imputation being made sinne for vs hee should be as a Kidde or a Goate 2. Cor. 5. 21. Isai. 53. 4. 14. It must bee without any blemish ibid. Shaddowing thereby the perfection and innocencie of Christ Psal. 40. 7. 15. He must bee a Male ibid. Noting thereby the excellencie of strength and dignitie most proper to that Sexe which should bee in Christ Hos. 1. 11. 16. Hee must be a yeere old ibid. Signifying the experience that Christ should haue of our miseries wherof euen a dayes continuance yeelds sufficient proofe As also that perfection of Christ in like sort and that in fulnes of time he should come and suffer a yeere being a perfect reuolution of the Sunnes full course He. 4. 15. 5. 2. 17. It must bee set apart awhile verse 6. Teaching thereby preparation due meditation of the Lords great work of our deliuery 1. Co. 11. Ps. 103 18. It was then killed and that by Israel Ibid. So Christ behooued to dye ere comfort could flow to vs of appeasing Gods wrath and satisfying his iustice the merit of whose death redounds to his chosen Church onely Isaiah 59. 20 19. The bloud was besprinkled on the Lintell and doore-posts that the Angell seeing the same might passe by verse 7. Signifying that by Christs bloud applyed the wrath of God is made to passe by vs and where Christ the Lambe is inwardly in the house of the Soule the sprinkling of Christs bloud will be seene by Sanctification outwardly in the practice of the life 1. Cor. 1. 30. Note also that the aspersiō of this bloud by Hysope which is a purging Hearb doth giue vs to vnderstand the threefold vertue of Christs bloud First as it is a ransom to Gods iustice and secondly preserueth from the destroyer of Gods wrath so thirdly it purgeth also the polluted soule Also the sprinkling of the bloud vpon the doore-posts noted how going in and out euer we should remember Christs death and not be ashamed of the profession of his Crosse And that by Baptisme our soules must first bee sprinkled with his bloud before wee can looke for to bee partakers truely of his bodie 1. Cor. 12. 13. 20. The Lambe must be rost with fire and that wholly or all of it verse 8. Signifying thereby the agony of Christ in the Garden and the wrath of his Father which hee did indure both in soule and bodie Math. 20. 21. It must not bee eaten raw verse 9. Noting that wee should not vnpreparedly receiue nor grossely conceiue of Christ in the Sacrament Ioh. 6. 1. Cor. 11. 22. It must not be sodden with water Shewing that to his Institution we must not ioyne our inuentions adding altering or impairing nor to the merit of his all sufficient sacrifice the proud merit of our menstruous righteousnes Isai. 57. 12. 23. It must bee eaten all that with vnleauened bread ver 8. To shew that nothing in Christ is vnprofitable or to be reiected and that to the true participation of him we must eschew corruption of doctrine of manners and malice 2. Cor. 5. 24. With sowre hearbs also the Passeouer must be eaten Signifying thereby that with repentance wee must eate our Passeouer in remembrance of our bitter and sowre estate of sinnes slauerie wherein wee were captiuate and of the bitter Passion of Christ whose teeth were set on edge when wee had eaten the sowre Grapes Isai. 53. 4 9. 25. They behooued to eate the Passeouer their loynes being girded their staues in their hands and their shooes on their feete verse 11. To shew how wee should eate our Passeouer like pilgrims to wit not looking for a permanent Citie here our loynes girded with veritie and the preparation of the Gospell on our feet the staffe of Gods Word in our hands and with alacritie and readinesse making forward to our heauenly mansion Phil. 3. 13. 26. They behooued likewise to eate the same in haste as not doubting of the speedy worke of their deliuerie and as ready waiters when they should bee called out of doores To signifie likewise in Faith and readinesse to come when Iesus cals and with the affections of Feare and Loue which are the two vsuall causes of haste desirously and holily wee should eate our Passeouer 1. Cor. 11. 27. Nothing was to be reserued till to morrow of the Lamb verse 10. Noting thereby the fulnesse of theirs and our deliuerance nor that wee should reserue one sinne to liue in awhile keeping vp as it were a part of Christs death for it Popish reseruation also of the Host is condemned hereby 28. If any remaine thereof ouernight the same must bee burnt with fire verse 10. Teaching to auoid prophanation of holy things hereby Hoc pacto etiam compellens accersere egenos saith a Father This burning is apishly imitated in the popish Host. 29. No vncircumcised person might eate of the Passeouer So no vnsanctified person can bee truely partaker of Christ Iesus Mat. 22. 30. The bones thereof might not be broken Typing hereby in Christ suffering how not a bone 〈◊〉 him should bee broken as was foretold Iohn 19. 36. 31. None might goe out of doore that night Perseuerance in Christs Family or Church and in the bosome thereof beeing pointed at hereby not going out in affection to the world againe Ren. 2. 10. 32. One Law shall bee for all saith the Lord verse 49. Shewing thereby whereby the Church of Christ is gouerned and that with God there is no exception of Persons Act. 10. 34. 33. It was to bee obserued with the word of instruction to be ioyned thereto verse 26 27. So is the Sacrament to be celebrate with the word of
Christ the Crosse whereon he was nayled to Golgotha Ioh. 19. 9. Thus Isaac was obedient to his Father euen vnto death Euen so was Christ that most truely Phil. 2. 8. 10. Isaac came the third day to the place of Immolation v. 4. So did Christ to his suffering in the 33. yeere of his age or thereby consisting of three tens and three vnites as also neither in the time of the Law of Nature nor in the written Law but in the time of Grace euen that perfect fulnesse of time decreed 11. Isaac onely got the heritage to him and his and Ismael with others the moueables Gen. 25. 5 6. So hath Christ the heauenly inheritance onely prepared for his Chosen the wickeds portion beeing worldly things Psal. 4. 7. Ioh. 17. 12. Isaac had Esau and Iacob who struggled in the wombe of Rebecca Gen. 25. 22. So Christ hath Elect and Reprobates in his visible Church who disagree in manners Math. 22. 13. Isaacs wife was taken of one kindred with himselfe Gen. 24. 4. So is Christs Church of that same flesh and nature which he did assume Mat. 1. 23. 14. Isaacs wife was faire Gen. 26. 7. So is Christs Church beautifull within Reu. 21. 15. Shee was owed by his fathers seruant and brought vnto him Gen. 24. So is the Church by the true Pastors and brought vnto Christ dispensatione Verbi Cant. 1. 7. 16. Shee forsaketh all and vailed commeth to her Husband adorned with his Iewels that were giuen vnto her Gen. 24. 65. So must the Church forsake all in preferment of affection and in humilitie deckt with his graces must come vnto Christ Cant. 3. 17. Isaac meeteth his Wife comming to him Gen. 24. 63. So doth Christ his Church with preuenting grace and acceptation Ephes. 2. 18. Her name was Ribekah which is fed verse 64. So is Christ his Church with that heauenly foode and comfort of his Word Cant. 2. 5. 19. Isaac brought her into the Tent of his Mother and was comforted after her death vers 67. So Christ hath brought the Church of the Gentiles in the place of the Iewes of whom hee was borne and doth reioyce concerning their ingrafting Isaiah 22. 6. 20. Isaac was offered and yet dyed not for hee was receiued from death after a sort Heb. 11. 19. So Christ God and Man in one Person was offered and yet according to his Godhead dyed not but by vertue thereof in his manhood rose from the dead Math. 28. 6. 21. In the hand of the Father to the sacrificing was carried the knife and the fire Gen. 22. 6. So to the Crosse and Immolation of Christ in the hand of his Father likewise went sharp Iustice and feruent loue withall concurring Math. 26. The Disparitie ISaac being waxed old and through the dimnesse of his eyes not beeing able to discerne or see was deceiued by Iacob who got so the blessing of his elder brother Esau but our vnalterable all-seeing Iesus can neuer bee deceiued to bestow the blessing vpon one for another or place the same wrong The Allegorie of the Blessing Gen. 27. AS Isaac loued Esau the elder so did Christ the Iewes whom longing to gather vnder his wings hee called in the latter time and craued of them that meat which his soule loued whereof he spoke when hee said My meat is to doe the will of the Father but they went out hauing not yet returned and in the meane while the Gentiles the yonger Brother entred in not daring to doe so by their owne presumption but perswaded by the promises of Grace hauing the sauourie meat of the merit of their Sauiours death to offer which they found not without in the world but prepared within in the Church and so cloathed with the garments of the elder which is adoption and right to the promises their neck and hands couered with the skin of the Kid which is the remembrance of their sinnes that killed their Sauiour or which is his perfect righteousnes they smelled sweetly before their Father through free acceptation and obtained the fruitfulnesse of grace with the assurance of the remission of their sinnes wherein the blessing consists 9. Melchisedech Gen. 14. 1. MElchisedech a King of righteousnes So is Christ that truely Reu. 15. Heb. 7. 2. 2. Also King of Salem or Peace So is Christ Iesus our Prince of Peace Esa. 9. 6. Heb. 7. 3. 3. He was the Priest of the most High God Gen. 14. 18. So likewise is Christ made not after the carnall commandement but after the power of endlesse life Heb. 7. 16. 4. He was without Father or Mother viz. mentioned Heb. 7. So Christ as God is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 motherlesse and as man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without a Father 5. He was without Kindred Ibid. So likewise Christ according to his Deitie 6. Hee was of another order then Aaron So also Christ and of the same order with Melchisedech Heb. 7. 16. to shew the imperfection of the Priesthood of Leui verse 11. the necessity of the change of the Law 12. 7. Hee continueth Priest for euer and hath neither beginning of dayes nor end of life to wit mentioned Heb. 7. 3. So doth Christ continue our High-Priest for euer whose Priesthood cannot passe from one to another and therefore is able perfectly to saue thâ—… that come to God by him seeing he euer liueth to make intercession for them Heb. 7. 24 25. and whose Priesthood is confirmed by an oath Psal. 110. to shew that by so much is Iesus made a suretie of a better Testament Heb. 7. 21 22. 8. He receiued tithe of all from Abraham and blessed him in whose Ioynes Leui was Gen. 14. 20. To shew thereby that as therein hee was greater then Abraham Heb. 7. 7. so the excellency greatnes of our High Priest Iesus aboue Leui or the Priesthood of the Law being of one order as is said with Melchisedech by bringing in a better hope whereby we draw neere to God and being himselfe vndefiled separate from sinners and made higher then the heauens Heb. 7. 19 26. 9. Hee gaue Bread and Wine to refresh Abraham and his company after the battell and not that he offred vp the same as any sacrifice Gen. 14. 18. So Christ doth giue his body and bloud for the refreshment of the faithfull receiuers which once already himselfe offered vp as an all-sufficient sacrifice vpon the Crosse neuâ—… againe to bee repeated Heb. 7. 27. 10. Melchisedech was greater then Abraham and consequently then all Israel which then was in his loynes Heb. 7. 7. So Christ is greater and more excellent then the Church or his mysticall body hee beeing the head thereof Zech. 14. 9. 11. Melchisedech was but one of his order onely before or vnder the Law So is Christ that one onely Priest of his order vnder the Gospell to offer vp propitiatorie sacrifice vnto the Father needing no successors therein seeing he is immortall and is consecrated for euermore Heb. 7. 24 28.
were vnder the Law and Moses typing things to come the latter is vnder the Gospell and the Messiah exhibiting the things themselues The burnt-offering of Beasts Leu. 1. 10 14. and 6. 9. to 13. 1. THe burnt-offering of beasts behooued to bee of those that are the horned sort Signifying thereby the Princely and Priestly Offices of Christ which that Beast seekes to counterfet Reu. 13. 11. in being horned like the Lambe but speaking like the Dragon 2. They behooued also to be of the tame sort as of the Herd or Flocks and not of wilde sauage beasts who by force are brought to death Shewing thereby that Christ should bee meeke and milde in life and patient in death it selfe like a Lambe led to the Shambles Esay 53. 3. They were required in like manner to be of the male kind and yong Shaddowing thereby the excellencie of strength in Iesus Christ proper to that sexe and age 4. They must bee without blemish and presented of voluntarie will Thereby noting the purity and perfection of Holinesse in Christ who should willingly lay downe his life and offer vp himselfe for the saluation of mankinde Ioh. 19. 11. 5. They were to be presented at the dore of the Tabernacle to be slaine Typing thereby that by the Oblation of Christ and by his bloudshed both our entry is made as by a doore into the Church heere and into the heauens heereafter Heb. 10. 20. 6. They must lay their hands vpon the head of the Beast who brought it Signifying hereby the imputation of our sinnes vpon Christ for the which hee suffered and that wee must lay our hand by a true faith vpon him if wee looke for any comfort of his Death and Passion Esay 53. 3. 7. Then the burnt offering was slaine Signifying that so Christ should d◅e and b◅hooued to bee crucified that by his dea◅h life might come to vs ibid. 8. The bloud thereof was sprinkled roūd about the Altar Noting the all-sufficiency of Christs Death and plenty of his bloudshed with the large-spred preaching thereof vniuersally throughout the whole world towards all parts Math. 28. 9. The skin thereof was pluckt off and it cut in pieces Hereby shewing the grieuousnes of Christs suffering and his extreme dereliction beeing stript as it were of all diuine or humane help comfort or regard when hee cryed Why hast thou forsaken me Math. 27. 46. 10. The body the head and the fat and all was laid vpon the fire Shewing thereby how whole Christ should suffer for vs both in body and soule Isai. 53. 12. 11. The inwards and legges thereof were to be washed in water Shaddowing thereby how Christ should bring no vncleannesse vnto his Passion but he should be clean both inwardly and outwardly in minde and in walking Heb. 7. 12. This burnt-offering was called a sweet sauour vnto the Lord Which in Christs death is sole and onely accomplished whereby Gods wrath is appeased and his iustice satisfied Phil. 2. 8. 13. Of the Flocks it was a Lambe a Ramme or a Goat Signifying that Christ should bee meeke the guide or leader of his flocke and haue sinne but onely by imputation Isai. 53. 14. The burnt-offering of the Flockes shall be killed on the North-side of the Altar Shewing not onely that al these Oblations were but a darke Starry light the Sunne not rising in that ayre but being opposite vnto him in his highest splendor but also that Christ should dye at Ierusalem whereof the Prophet saith On the Northside is the City of the great King Dan. 9. 26. 15. The Priest shall put off his garments and put on his linnen breeches and take away the ashes when the fire hath consumed the burnt-offering Leu. 6. 10. Noting thereby how that Christ beeing stript of his cloathes should suffer in nakednesse and innocencie and after hee had finished the worke of our Redeption on the Crosse should be buried and then swallow vp death in Immortaluse Hos. 13. 16. The Ashes behooued to be carried without the Host and put in a cleane place Shaddowing thereby how Christ should bee buried without Ierusalem in a tombe where neuer man was laid and how his body should neuer see corruption Heb. 13. 17. The fire which consumed the burnt-offering came downe from heauen Typing either that wrath which for our sakes seyzed on Christ Iesus in the Garden and on the Crosse which came from the Father or that loue which mooued Christ to suffer for mankinde which was heauenly and free Ioh. 15. 13. 18. This fire was to be continually vpon the Altar Shaddowing the constant vnchangeablenesse of that loue of his to his Church and recent vertue of his meri◅ and death Heb. 7. 19. This fire was to be fed that it went not out and no other fire was to bee vsed but this in the Sanctuarie Teaching vs how carefully wee should entertaine the loue and Spirit of Christ by sanctimony of life and obedience and that wee should try the spirits and admit no other sprit but the Spirit of Christ in his Word to rule and teach his Church 1. Ioh. 4. 20. The skin of the burnt-offering went to the Priest Len. 7. 8. Shewing thereby not only the maintenance that they should haue who preach the Gospell as they that serued at the Altar liued of the Altar 1. Cor. 9. 13 14. but also that the righteousnes of Iesus must bee apprehended by his Chosen and holy Priesthood of the godly by the hand of true Faith vnto Iustification and Sanctification Rom. 5. 33. The Burnt-offering of Fowles Leu. 1. 14. to the end of the Chapter 1. THe burnt-offering of Fowles was of Turtles or Pigeons Shewing thereby the simplicitie meeknes and innocencie of Christ Isa. 53. 7. 2. The neck thereof shall bee pinch't with the nayle that the bloud might goe out but not that the head should be pluckt off from the body Shaddowing how Christ should dye and shead his bloud yet thereby his Deitie as the head or principall part should not bee diuided from his humanitie nor yet by his death should he who is our Head be taken from the bodie of his Church but should rise againe and bee with them by his Spirit for euer Ioh. 14. 3. The Maw and Feathers were to bee cast away as vncleane To shew therby that Christ should bring no vncleanenes as is said before to his suffering but should be offered vp spotlesse to his Father Isai. 53. 9. 4. The Priest did cleaue it w th it wings but not diuide it asunder Noting thereb◅ that albert Christ dyed yet hee should not thereby be quite extinguished but should rise againe liue and ascend vp to heauen as also to the same is to bee referred the signification of this Not a bone of him shall be broken Exod. 12. 5. The bloud thereof was strained or pressed out at the side of the Altar before it was pluckt and laid vpon the Altar to be burned Shaddowing thereby the straining or pressing out of Christs bloud
as meat vnto the Priest as likewise teaching vs that Christ Iesus is the true meat and comfortable nourishment of euery hungry soule once for all offered to the Father and dayly in his Word and Sacraments offered and exhibited to vs Ioh. 6. 2. If it bee of Flowre it shall be fine Flowre Leu. 2. 1. Shewing thereby that we should offer our best things to the Lord and not the blind and the lame and noting thereby also the purity and perfection of Christ Heb. 7. 26. 3. Oyle shall bee powred and Incense put thereon Signifying that with gladnesse and delight our worship of the Lord should be either in deuotion towards himselfe or distribution towards his Saints as also typing thereby that soft and louing kindnes and sweet comfortable mediation of Christ for his Church Heb. 7. 25. 4. It must be presented to the Priest and he shall bring it to the Altar verse 2. Shaddowing that it is by Christ and his oblation that all our workes and duties of Gods worship is onely acceptable he interceding for vs ibid. 5. It was a memoriall that which burnt thereof for a sweet sauour before the Lord Prefiguring that euen so Christ Iesus his death and merit thereof should be an eternall memoriall before his Father to be mercifull to vs Heb. 9. 24. 6. The meat-offering which was cooked and prepared was baked fryed or sodden Shewing the painefull and manifold sufferings of Christ thereby and how our worship of God should not be raw or zeale-lesse Reu. 3. 16. 7. It must be without Leuen verse 3. Prefiguring that our worship of GOD must be without malice of our neighbour as also the perfect purity of Christs life and doctrine 2. Cor. 5. 9. 8. It must haue no honey which albeit it be sweet in taste is bitter in effect ingendring Choller which also surfetteth the Eater of too much thereof and being burnt hath no good smell verse 11. Pointing out thereby vnto vs the nature of Christ in whom there is no such sweetnesse as ingendreth bitternesse or hurt to any faithfull eater Of whom also we can neuer receiue too much to surfet and whose death and oblation smelleth most sweetly before God and to euery distressed conscience He. 7. 9. All meat-offrings behooued to haue Salt wherewith they were salted verse 13. Signifying thereby that as salt seasoneth and keepeth from corruption so Christ is he who like sauourie salt seasoneth vs and all our workes and makes them acceptable and that with the salt of sanctification in Christ wee should season all our worship of the Father keeping our selues from the corruption of hypocrisie and wickednesse Mar. 9. 49. 10. The meat-offering of the first fruits shal be eares of come dryed by the fire and wheate beaten out of the Husks verse 14. Whereby was figured not onely that our worship of God as is said should be in sinceritie and zeale going out of our selues to lay hold on Christ but also what wrath Christ should suffer and diuers paines for our sake who is the first fruits of all flesh by whom all the field of the whole race of mankinde is truely sanctified and perfectly by his oblation redeemed Isa. 53. Heb. 9. 11. The Priest and his sonnes shall eate of the meat-offering in the Holy place without Leauen Shewing that so the Lords Ministers and their Families are to be maintained and liue by their calling as also that Holy Priesthood of the godly in the Church enioy the benefit of Christ onely and there must feed vpon him by faith in a purged conscience 1. Cor. 9. 14. Ioh. 6. 12. Euery meat-offering of the Priest shall be burnt altogether it shall not bee eaten Whereby was shaddowed the perfection of that oblation made by Christ wherin no part is left to man in that matter by merit or penall satisfaction Heb. 7. 25. 37. The Peace-offering Leu. 3. and 7. 11. to 23. Wherein this offering was alike with the Rites of the burnt or sinne-offering the signification needs not repetition and wherein they were vnlike is first 1. ALl the fat with the rump hard by the back-bone was offered and burnt before the Lord Leu. 3. 9. Shaddowing not onely the full obedience of Christ extensiuely vnto death it selfe but that wee also in our obedience vnto the Father and offering of our best things vnto him shou'd perseuere vnto the end Reu. 2. 10. 2. A part of the Peace-offring went to him that brought it Whereby was figured that Christ should dye for all and the people as well as the Priest should haue a portion and a blessing in him Isai. 45. 22. 3. But they must neither eate the fat nor the bloud verse 17. Signifying that all they who haue a part in Christ must neither bee carnall nor cruell but sacrifice their carnalitie by mortification and be meeke as the Master is 2. Corin. 5. 1. Ioh. 2. 4. The peace-offering shall bee offered vp with Cakes of Leauened bread Leuit. 7. 13. Shaddowing that as leauen seasoneth the bread and makes it to rise and heaue vp so Christ Iesus is he who makes vs and all our actions sauourie befâ—… God lightning our hearts with ioy of his Spirit and making ouâ—…soules in loue thankefulnesse and true comfort to heaue vp to God Psal. 103. 5. Of all the sacrifice he shall offer but one Cake for a heaue-offering Leu. 7. 14. Signifying the simplicitie or sincerity of our thankfulnesse and worship of God which should bee true and from the heart Psal. 18. 41. 6. The flesh of the offering for thanksgiuing must bee eaten the same day and for a Vow within two dayes at the furthest none might be eaten the third day but burnt if ought remained Leu. 7. 16. Teaching vs euer not to prolong our dutie of thankefulnesse and sanctification but in recencie for benefits dayly renued to practise the same stale lingring thanksgiuing which seldome is sincere is reiected by God Deu. 8. 10. 7. If any vncleane person eat of the flesh of the peace-offering hee shall bee cut off from his people ver 20. Forewarning vs of that fearfull destruction and punishment that abides al carnall professors who will bee thought partakers of Christ and yet leade an vncleane and vnconscionable life Math. 7. 8. The flesh that toucheth any vnclean thing shall not be eaten but as vncleane it selfe shall bee burnt Leu. 7. 19. Shewing vs that the holy things of God are not to be prophaned nor that wee should eate with the guiltinesse of wickednesse and iniquitie 1. Cor. 11. 9. The offerer shall bring the sacrifice with his owne hands verse 30. Teaching vs thereby that euery one is accepted and liueth by his own faith Rom. 5. 10. It must be heaued vp before the Lord ibid. Noting the heauing vp of our hearts in due thanksgiuing to God and professing of the benefits receiued Hos. 14. 2. as also the heauing or lifting vp of Christ Iesus vpon the Crosse for vs. 11. It must be shaken to and fro