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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	ceremonial_a	law_n	moral_a	2,252	5	9.4056	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49230	Vindiciæ Evangelii, or, A vindication of the Gospel, with the establishment of the law being a reply to Mr. Steven Geree's treatise entituled, The doctrine of the Antinomians confuted : wherein he pretends to charge divers dangerous doctrines on Dr. Crisp's sermons, as anti-evangelical and antinomical / by Robert Lancaster ...	Lancaster, Robert, b. 1603 or 4.	1694 (1694)	Wing L313; ESTC R5714	69,011	72

the Administrations of the Old Testament were of things which were of themselves of several natures some were Ceremonial as the Sacrifices their Temples their Tabernacles their Altars and such like some were Moral as their Prayers Repentance Reformations and all the Duties of the Moral Law For the Ceremonies that they were Types of Christ and so ceased by the coming of the substance Christ himself is generally acknowledged onely some attribute unto them no efficacy at all but only a shaddowing out of Christ and his benefits who was to come others say they had a typical carnal and t●mporal efficiency in the Mosaical Church and Common-wealth proper to that Administration and answerable in some way to the benefits in the New That they by the Ordinance of God brought down upon that People temporal and outward blessings answerable to the spiritual and eternal blessings by Christ Which Question is largely discussed by Vossius wherein I shall not interpose because they that attribute most unto those Ceremonial performances yet bound the effect of them within the compass of the Old Testament so that they resigned up their keyes and power unto their Lord and King whose harbingers they were at his appearing But for the Actions and Administrations of the Moral Law that they also were in some sort typical is not so usually observed as the former yet it is no less true Who can deny but that Phineas his praying or executing of justice whether soever it was for the Hebrew will probably bear either a Moral Action and yet typically shadowing out unto us Christ our Great High-Priest by whose interceding for us with the Father he is pacified towards us So not a few Protestant Writers have interpreted it But what speak I of one Action when as Dr. Taylor hath published a Book wherein he discovers all along a Typical shadowing forth of Christ not only in the Ceremonial but also Moral Actions of most of the Antient Patriarcks Priests Judges Kings and Prophets But here I do not desire to dispute the Question but only as briefly as I can to explain my Judgment Therefore in such Moral Actions as these I observe Three Things First Their Moral Nature whereby they are of perpetual use both in the time of the Old Testament and of the New as Prayer Repentance and other Actions of Duty towards God and man are as necessary as ever they were in the time of the Old Testament and shall be by the true Children of Faith as much practised and in a more spiritual manner contrary to that false slander that passeth abroad concerning us That we let men loose from all duties of piety towards God or charity towards man against which false reproaches the Lord will in time arise to the Vindication of his People In the mean time they may be bold to commend their names and reputations unto Him into whose hands they have already committed their souls Secondly In these actions there is their typical effect whereby if they were good Actions in that Administration they wrought proportionable effects as Phineas his praying stayed the plague If they were evil actions they brought evil effects as David's numbring the People brought the plague his Adultery the death of the Child c. These effects I call typical because they are attributed to these actions as they do typically relate unto Christ and setting aside that relation such an effect should not have been attributed unto them As for Example the prayer of Phineas had not stayd the plague if he had not therein stood as a Type of Christ who is the onely one that turns away all evil from those that are his who because he was not so reveal'd in those times therefore it was requisite that it should be shaddowed out unto them in this and such like Types so that the effect is only ascribed to the Type in umbra in the shadow but to the thing typified in veritate in the truth So I think I may say that all actions even of the Moral Law do in this manner point unto Christ In like sort David's Adultery brought the death of the Child as the typical effect of that sin So that David in that consideration bare his own sin But how Onely as a Type of Christ as manifesting that the Saviour of the World that was to bear their sins was yet to come Yet did he not really bear his own sin no not in any degree For so it was wholly reserved for the Lord Christ upon whom it was charged to the uttermost who made a full satisfaction not only for the eternal but also the temporal punishment of all that belong unto him not only for those since Christ but even for all from the beginning of the world so that neither David nor any other of the Children of God in the Old Testament had ever had any sins charged on them had they not stood as Types of him that was to come to bear the sins of many neither ever had they sins charged upon them in the real positive nature of it if I may so speak for so it was only and wholly born by Christ for them but onely as I said in this typical consideration For Christ onely hath with one sacrifice perfected for ever those that are consecrated Heb. 10.14 He onely is the propitiation for our sins 1 Joh. 2.1,2 And this he did not onely for those since Christ but also for the sins that were past Rom. 3.25 to wit under the former Covenant Heb. 9.15 So then in the time of the New Covenant since the death of Christ there is no remembrance of sin neither upon Christ who is risen again from the dead without sin nor upon the faithful seeing they cannot now be shadows of Christ to come who is already come and by the lustre of his presence hath made all shaddows flee away So that the whole amounteth to that which I layd down in the beginning namely That where any thing is attributed to persons or actions which is Christs own peculiar that is to be understood of those persons or actions onely as they do typically relate unto Christ and ought not to be ascribed to any other person or action though otherwise of the same kind which have not this typical relation unto Christ The Reason is taken from that main foundation of Christian Religion to wit The satisfaction of Christ is compleat and all the Scriptures hold it forth as All-sufficient and compleat Thus have I Christian Reader given thee a short abridgment of my thoughts concerning the difference of the Testaments so far as it concerns the present matter in debate and as the present occasion would permit being willing rather to trespass upon thee by this digression than to suffer this matter altogether to pass untouched being of such moment both for the Vindication of the Truth and Us from so many slanders Hereafter if God permit I may have an opportunity to explain my self more largely in