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A67067	The types unvailed, or, The gospel pick't out of the legal ceremonies whereby we may compare the substance with the shadow, written for the information of the ignorant, for their help in reading of the old testament / by Tho. Worden ...	Worden, Thomas.	1664 (1664)	Wing W3579; ESTC R1856	214,980	310

accompany the life of a Believer in this life for Christ his sake our Saviour calls it a taking up the Crosse Luke 9. 23. which is a thing most bitter and contrary to flesh and blood therefore saith Paul when he made choice of this Lamb Christ I consulted not with flesh and blood Gal. 1. 16. For flesh and blood cannot endure the bitterness of that state in which Christ is to be found Nothing but persecution disgrace trouble loss of good name yea and life it self that attendeth the way of Christ therefore saith Paul 2 Tim. 3. 12 He that will live godly in Christ Jesus must suffer persecution he must suffer there is a necessity you see that the Lamb must be eaten with bitter herbs Those that will not eat the sauce shall not taste of the flesh of this Lamb Luke 9. 23. Unless a man deny himself and take up my cross and follow me he ca●not be my disciple There be a great many would catch at the flesh of this Lamb Chr●st were it not for the bitter sauce which lyeth in the dish with Christ many love to shear in a Christ but not in the Cross thay love the Crown but not the sufferings which belong to the Crown therefore saith our Saviour Strait is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth to life and few there be that finde it Job found bitterness in the dish where the Lamb lay Job 13 26. Thou writest bitter things against me but did Job as many do leave the meat for the bitter sauce no no Job 13. 15. Though thou kill me yet w●ll I trust in thee O how happy had some been had they with Job still kept to this resolution but the wayes of Christ were too bitter for them but I fear those will finde their sweet meat of this worlds good attended with the bitterest herbs at last Again they were to eat the Lamb with unleavened bread Exod. 12. 8. with Numb 9. 11. This st●ll points at a soul eating Christ a right which is the ante-type which shews us thus much 1. That Christ must be really closed with and not feignedly there must not be any thing of the leaven of hypocrisie in it not for any by end but out of love to Christ 2. It must be void of the least love to sin if there be any love reserved to any corruption Christ cannot enter the soul upon such terms 1 Corinthians 5. 8. Let us keep the feast not with the old leaven of malice and wickedness but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth Heb. 12. 15. Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God lest any root of bitterness spring up and trouble you and thereby many be defiled Heb. 3. 12. Take heed brethren lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God therefore saith Peter if you would as new-born babes receive the sincere milk of the word that you may grow thereby you must first lay aside all guile and hypocrisies and envies and evil speakings 1 Pet. 2. 1. 2. That is all sin must be forsaken and cast out of the affection or no Christ received into the heart the love of the world the love of lust pride honour pleasure ease whatever hath been near or dear to the soul he must utterly protest against or no Christ Jer. 4. 14. O Jerusalem wash thine heart from wickedness that thou mayest be saved how long shall vain thoughts lodge within thee So Isa 1. 16. 18. Wash ye make ye clean put away the evil of your doings from before me cease to do evil come now and let us reason together saith the Lord though your sinnes be as scarlet yet I will make them as white as snow though they be red as crimson yet shall they be as white as wool So that you see there must first be a putting away the leaven of sin before there can be a eating of the Lamb Christ Jesus truly therefore such persons as dream of having Christ and yet retain the old leaven of sin are mistaken Fourthly The Jews were to eat the Lamb with their loins girded Exod. 12. 11. Girding of the loins sometimes signifieth resolution to some great work Psalm 18. 32 33 34. Sometimes it signifieth truth and faithfulness in the person so girded Rev. 15. 6. Here it signifieth haste or readiness to be gone from the place where they were in before Exod. 12. 11. Now all which significations may be taken into one head and applied to the eating of the Lamb Christ Jesus For first of all the loins of a souls minde must be girded as to resolution that intendeth to eat the Lamb Christ A soul must resolve to go thorow thick and thin with him through a thousand discouragements with Christ sometimes from within sometimes from without what from inward doubts and what from outward troubles a soul will find it a hard thing to go on in this way for heaven those daily taunts scoffs and jeers that the soul passeth under for Christ from day to day sometimes from its relations sometimes from its fellow servants who live in house with him and so likewise from its wicked deriding neighbours I say these things considered the soul is many times casting away its hope and crying out with the Psalmist Psal 73. 13. Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain and washed my hands in innocency to no purpose Therefore the loins had need be girded that so the soul might not cast away his confidence which hath great recompence of reward Hebrews 10. 35. Now it is the overcoming soul shall wear the Crown 2 Tim. 4. 7 8. Rev. 2. 10. and the soul that endureth to the end the same shall be saved Mat. 24. 13. Therefore saith our Saviour a soul must first count up the cost when he makes out after this Lamb Christ whether he can hold out to the end with him whether he can run the loss of fathers love mothers love brothers sisters husband wife children kinsmen and neighbours love for this Christ whether a soul can part with credit honour riches carnal ease for Christ whether he can follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth Rev. 14. 4. For he that looks back is unfit for the kingdom of God Luke 9. 62. So Heb. 10. 38 If any draw back my soul shall have no pleasure in him and saith Peter The last estate of such men is worse then the beginning 2 Pet. 2. 20. Therefore when Peter would exhort against faintings and discouragements ●e bids men gird up the loins their minde and be sober and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto them at the revelation of Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 1. 1 13. Secondly take girding of the loins as it importeth truth and faithfulness In this sence the soul ought to gird up his loins if he really intendeth a thorow and full closing with Christ he must resolve to be Christs in faithfulness as the

with deep sighs and groans crying out O Father these are all of my body for whom I intercede if thou lovest me have regard to their conditions they are my own flesh and bones in helping them and relieving them and easing them out of pain thou relievest me and helpest me and easest me out of pain for in all their afflictions I am afflicted Therefore I pray thee let the Angel of thy presence save them Lord look upon my heart and here thou shalt see the names of the twelve tribes even all my Israel engraven in the Letters of my own blood thou shalt never see thy Son but with their conditions engraven upon his heart And what think you souls will not this prevail may not Believers safely adventure their all upon the work of this Priesthood Oh study this more and your comfort will be infinite Obj. But some may say it may be thought the High Priest under the Law did do so for the people I mean carry their names upon his heart before the Lord yet it s a question whether Christ doth do this always now he is in heaven Is always for so much as this lieth in the Type Exod. 28 29. The Priest was to bear the names of the people upon his heart for a Memorial before the Lord continually which sheweth that this Priesthood piece of service of bearing the names of the people before the Lord was to continue for ever for it was to be a Memorial before the Lord continually not only was this work of the High Priest in the Type to remain for a for ever so long as there will be any need of Christs Intercession but always for ever for so the word continually doth likewise import therefore saith the Apostle Heb. 7. 24. But this man because he continueth ever hath a● unchangeable Priesthood ver 24. He ever livet● to make Intercession for them so that we may safely say that Christ our High Priest is always in heaven lifting up holy hands as it were to God for Believers in a way of presenting their conditions before him whether thou sleepest or wakeest whether thou art able to pray or not yet Christ is at prayer for thee he intercedes night at day for thy welfare He ever liveth to make Intercession for thee Hence it is that David could so comfortably lie down in his bed and take his rest so securely by night he knew that Christ had his condition upon his heart Psalm 4. 8. I will both lay me down to sleep for the Lord only maketh me rest in safety Lastly We may learn this from it that the High Priests going into the presence of the Lord with the names of the twelve tribes upon his heart it shews u● that Christ enters he presence of the Father in the names of all true Believers Christ doth it for them and intercedes for them in their name as well as for their sake As the High Priest under the Law was chosen for the people so Christ was sent forth to agitate for Believers and tells the Father as it were that he is come to him in the form of a servant to discharge his duty to God for Believers If I pray Petition intercede for any spiritual mercy for them it is but to fulfil thy will in this case from eternity for this was the great design that thou hadst before the world was that I should come down from glory and take upon me the form of a servant and die the bitter death of the Cross that the Elect might be saved and then to go up to glory again on purpose to make Intercession for them and therefore if I ask any spiritual favour for them it s no more then I was appointed to do by thee from everlasting Oh what a deal of comfort may a poor soul draw from this consideration of the brest-plates being upon the High Priests heart wherein the names of the Elect of God are engraven Oh methinks if a soul were assured he were upon no bodies heart in the world either Husbands heart Wives heart Fathers heart Mothers heart Brothers heart Sisters heart Friends or Neighbours heart yet to be in so eminent a manner upon Christs heart this is enough to bear up the soul in the worst of times There was likewise placed in the brest-plate the Urim and Thummim Exod. 28. 30. This of the Urim and Thummim was to be understood two ways First As it had relation to the Type it self 2. As it related to the Anti-type which was Christ First As it related to the Type it self which was the High Priest called to office a principal part of whose office it was to teach and instruct the people in the Doctrine of God as to the Worship and Service of him its true there were others of the inferiour Priests did this work of expounding to and teaching the people also but the High Priest was not exempted from this great duty Mal. 2. 7. The Priests lips should keep knowledge and they should seek the Law at his mouth for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts Now the Urim and Thummim did signifie those two qualifications to be in the Priest was which the soundness of his Doctrine which he was to deliver to the people and the holiness of his life as a pattern and example amongst them the Priest was to preach to or press upon the Consciences of the people nothing else but the sound substantial truths of God not his own novels or brainish fancies or dreams but the wholsome Doctrine of God Ezek. 3. 17. saith God Son of man I have made thee a watch-man unto the house of Israel therefore hear the word of my mouth and give them warning from me Oh what care should the Ministers of the Lord take in this matter that they feed the flock of God with sound and wholsome food therefore is the exhortation from St. Peter to all the Ministers of the word in the world 1 Pet. 4. 11. If any man speak let him speak as the Oracles of God It s true there are many men passing under the name of Ministers of Christ now a days in the world but how few of them make it their faithful and painful labours in their studies to bring forth pure truth but on the contrary wrest it and stretch it and puts it upon a rack to make it bend every way to serve their ungodly wicked ends and purposes And so instead of feeding the flock of God which was purchased with his own blood with sound wholsome food they feed them with Gall and Wormwood who rather pervert then convert any they have to do withall Take the most sober sort of them I mean the most Idle and Laze sort such who love neither to feed the fold of Christ either with Gall or Honey that is as the Prophet speaks they are dumb dogs such as will not bark lying down loving to slumber yet they can feed themselves with the fat and