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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29671	The sacred and most mysterious history of mans redemption wherein is set forth the gracious administration of Gods covenant with man-kind, at all times, from the beginning of the world unto the end : historically digested into three books : the first setteth down the history from Adam to the blessed incarnation of Christ, the second continueth it to the end of the fourth year after his baptisme ..., the third, from thence till his glorious coming to judgement / by Matthew Brookes ...	Brookes, Matthew, fl. 1626-1657.	1657 (1657)	Wing B4918; ESTC R11708	321,484	292

age read 1 Chron. cap. 23. Giving also the Nethinims The Nethinims Ezr. 8.20 to minister unto them and to do service for the levites as the levites also ministred unto the priests Which Nethinims were the stock and progeny of the Gibeonites whom Ioshuah and the Princes spared because of the oath which they had sworn but yet condemned to perpetuall bondage Josh 9.21 23 27. 2 Chron. 8.14 and to be hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation and for the house of God for ever Solomon therefore according to the order of David appointed the levites to their charges Again David appointed foure thousand of the tribe of Levi to be Singers The Singers distinguishing them by lots into foure and twenty orders courses or lots according as their lot fell and to give attendance in their severall courses 1 Chron. 23.5 6. cap. 25.1 Their office was to praise the Lord with the instruments which David made for the service and praise of God and to prophesy with harps with psalteries and with cymballs and with lively and audible voice to praise and glorifie God and to lift up their voice in their divine songs saying For he is good for his mercy endureth for ever They were arrayed in white linnen 2 Chron. 5.13 but Solomon as Josephus saith made for them two hundred thousand robes of silk or bysse whereby they were distinguished from the priests who ware a linnen Ephod The Porters He appointed likewise foure thousand of the tribe of Levi to be porters distinguishing them by lot into foure and twenty orders courses or lots and assigning unto them the gates by lot 1 Chron. cap. 26. Their office was to watch 1 Chron. 9.26 27 28 29. and to have the oversight of the gates of the temple to take care of the chambers and treasures to lodge round about it and to open and shut the gates morning and evening to have the charge of the ministring vessells to bring them in and out by tale Also to oversee the vessells and all the instruments of the Sanctuary and the fine flower the wine and the oile and the franckincense and the spices To stand at the gates 2 King 22.4 Philo de praemiis sacerdotum and to prohibit all that were unclean in any thing to enter in To gather the mony which the people were to pay toward the reparation of the temple To sweep the porches and the court to carry out the dust and dirt and to keep it sweet and clean every way Lastly he appointed of the tribe of Levi six thousand to be officers and judges 1 Chron. 23 4. Who these officers and judges The officers and judges were the Scripture makes no mention yet forasmuch as the Greek interpreter renders the place 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I conceive them to be such as were appointed to read the law to expound the same and to judge in controversies of religion 2 Sam. 8.17 2 King 18.18 2 King 12.10 if any should arise For there were three sorts of scribes the first were the Kings secretaries So David had Seraiah for his scribe and Hezekiah had Shebna for his scribe And such a one is expresly called the kings scribe The second sort of scribes were scriveners or publick notaries who wrote instruments and drew publick and private contracts I should think those scribes to be such of whom mention is made 1 Chron. 2. 1 Chron. 2.55 Jer. 32.10 Psal 45.1 Such were the evidences subscribed and sealed with witnesses by Ieremiah To whose dexterity and quicknesse in writing David alludeth in the book of Psalmes My tongue is the pen of a ready writer The third sort of scribes were not scribae à scribendo but scribae à scripturis sacris they had not their name from writing but from the holy scriptures which they read and expounded and because it was their office 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to dijudicate and to distinguish therefore called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 judges Ezr. 1.6 Nehem 8.4 8. S. Mat. 2.4 S. Luc. 7.30 S. Luc. 11.46 Act. 5.34 Act. 22.3 Such a one was Ezra a ready scribe in the law of Moses He read the law standing in a pulpit of wood gave the sense and caused the people to understand the reading Such were the scribes whom Herod consulted with demanding where Christ should be born They are called in the gospell lawyers and doctors of law Such a one was Gamaliel at whose feet Saint Paul was brought up These therefore had the care of religion to examine doctrines and to know by what authority any one should take upon him to teach And therefore Saint Luke telleth us that when Christ taught the people in the temple and preached the Gospell they came upon him to examine him and to demand his authority saying S. Luc. 20.2 Tell us by what authority dost thou these things or who is he that gave thee this authority which was because he had no authority from them When Christ came their doctrines and expositions were very corrupt and through their traditions they had made the law of God of none effect Yet he acknowledgeth them to sit in Moses seat that they had a lawfull institution S. Mat. 23.2 and were bound in duty to read and to expound the law And every Scribe saith he which is instructed unto the kingdome of heaven is like unto a man that is an housholder which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old Yet for their pride S. Mat. 13.53 hypocrisie and because they seduced the people he denounceth eight woes against them as it is to be seen Saint Mat. cap. 8. But we will now come unto the mysteries The mystery to be understood The high priest in his person and by his consecration and in his place and office and in all his robes and ornaments and in every office of his function was a type of Christ The conditions of his capability did most excellently set forth the fulnesse of Christ his perfections every way for had there been any imperfections in him he could not have redeemed mankind made imperfect by reason of sin That he might only take a virgin to wife of his own people it did give them to understand that Christ would be betrothed to his own Church the Christian Church as to a pure virgin His offices namely the offices of the high priest in the Temple did mystically set forth the offices of Christs priesthood in his Church his sacrifice intercession expiation and doctrine whereby the Church is enlightned as the temple was by the lamps ordered by the high priest and spiritually fed and nourished as by that shew-bread or bread of proposition which is set forth to be received and believed all the world over The priests of the second order as they were typicall persons and types of Christ upon some respects even so upon other respects they did signifie and