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A13010	XI. choice sermons preached upon selected occasions, in Cambridge. Viz. I. The preachers dignity, and duty: in five sermons, upon 2. Corinth. 5. 20. II. Christ crucified, the tree of life: in six sermons, on 1. Corinth. 2. 2. By John Stoughton, Doctor in Divinity, sometimes fellow of Immanuel Colledge in Cambridge, late preacher of Aldermanburie, London. According to the originall copie, which was left perfected by the authour before his death.	Stoughton, John, d. 1639.; Burgess, Anthony, d. 1664.	1640 (1640)	STC 23304; ESTC S100130	130,947	258

that by God himselfe he that promised him prophecyed of him for Christ was that Seede of the woman which brake the head of the Serpent and therefore was borne of a woman onely a Virgin that had not knowne a man the Virgin Mary and therefore at the very time when hee fulfilled this promise when hee hung upon the Crosse he said to his Mother woman behold thy sonne meaning Iohn to whose care he committed her woman not mother intimating that he was that seed of the woman of whom God foretold so long ago that seed of the woman that brake the head of the Serpent the counsell of the Divell Goe now to Abraham what was the Religion of Abraham and his familie the Lord himselfe hath left it recorded Abraham saw my day and rejoyced this then was Abrahams joy and Abrahams Religion even the expectation of the promised seed which was the soule of the covenant that God made with him the seale whereof was Circumcision an image of his bloodshed and therefore Isaac the sonne of promise if he had not beene called Isaac the sonne of laughter because Sarah laughed in the Tent doore when she heard the newes of a sonne saying Shall I that am barren beare a sonne in mine old age he might have beene called Isaac the sonne of laughter because Abraham saw his day who was indeed the sonne of promise and rejoyced For Isaac was not that promised seed of which God said in thy seed shall all the Nations of the earth be blessed for by the same reason should many more be that seed even all that proceeded out of the loines of Ahraham in the line of Isaac which were like the starrs of the Heaven in number but God said not in thy seeds as of many saith S. Paul but of thy seed as of one which was Christ in thy seed in this thy seed shall all the Nations of the earth be blessed For Isaac was but a type of that seed and represented him in many resemblances Isaac was borne of Sarah a barren woman and past beareing Iesus was borne of Mary an unspotted virgin springing like a branch out of a drie land as Esay speakes like a stone hewen out of a rocke without hands as Daniel sayes Isaac bare the wood which should have consumed him Iesus bare the wood of the Crosse on which he was crucified Isaac was bound Iesus was bound Isaac should have beene offered for a sacrifice Iesus was offered a sacrifice for the sinns of the world Isaac on Mount Moriah Iesus as some thinke on Mount Moriah from Isaac arose the proverbe in the Mount will the Lord be seene in Iesus it is much more true for no man hath seene the father at any time but the sonne and no man can see the Father but he to whom the sonne hath revealed him and in him we see all the love of God for behold what love the Father hath given us that he hath sent his only begotten sonne into the world that who so believeth in him might not perish but have life everlasting Many such like types had those times like prospective Glasses to conveigh their glimmering sight to the only object of happinesse Christ Iesus as Iacob who got the blessing in his elder brothers garment and Ioseph who was stripped of his coate sold by Iudahs motion stood before Pharaoh at thirty yeares old whose coate dipped in blood turn'd the wrath of his Father from his brethren even as Christ was stripped by the Souldiers sold by Iudas treason stood before God in his office about thirty yeares old and in whose blood we being dipped are delivered from the wrath of God the Father From hence then we passe to the time under the Law where we shall finde nothing but Christ neither Indeed all things then were more obscurely delivered untill the day came and the shadowes fled away as Salomon speakes even untill Christ came who was the substance of those ceremonies and untill the ceremonies fled away which were the shadowes of that substance yet were they not destitute of all light Take an Emblem of their condition The children of Israel in their journey into the Land of Canaan where guided by the conduct of a Pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night their day was something overcast with a cloud and yet their darknesse was something overcome with a light they had a day but not without some eclipse of a cloud they lived in a night of darknes yet not without some glimpse of light for the Lord led them to the heavenly Canaan with a pillar of cloud by day and by night with a pillar of fire And perhaps the Psalmist may insinuate so much where he sayes Thy word is a Lanthorne to my feet for a Lanthorne argues much darknesse and is used in the night only as for the day madnesse it were splendente sole lucernam accendere but againe it argues some light for otherwise why was it kindled Neither is Peter farre from this allusion when he compares the Word of the Prophets which the Israelites enjoyed to a light shining in a darke place Agreeable to the first adumbration ther was a day but with a pillar of cloud and a pillar of fire but by night and here wee have a light but of a Lanthorne a light shining but in a darke place this was then the state of Religion Now all the light they had was borrowed from Christ as the starres do theirs from the Sun and all lead us to Christ againe as little Rivers to the Ocean See this 1. In their Sacraments their ordinary Sacraments were Circumcision and the Passeover answerable to those we have Baptisme and the Lords Supper which both had reference to the same inward grace though there were a difference in the outward elements for what meant the blood shed in Circumcision and sprinkled on their doore-posts in the Passeover but the blood of Christ shed for the remission of sinnes and sprinkled in our hearts to purge and cleanse all our iniquities for Christ was the true Paschall Lambe in whom therefore the law of it was fulfilled Not a bone of him shall be broken and of whom Iohn sayes Behold the Lambe of God that taketh away the sinnes of the world Christ is the Lambe slaine from the beginning of the World for that purpose and the very name of Passeover notes as much for in Christ it pleased God when he judges all the World in mercy to passe over us and when he passed over all the World in justice to take his elect in mercy and make them his children Yea Christ himself therefore when hee had celebrated the Passover with his Disciples instituted the Sacrament of his body and blood to shew that he was that truth of which the Lambe was but a representation And in that Passeover we may discerne a modell of our Supper they must eat it with sowre hearbs to wit repentance and

mortification that they may the better taste the sweet mercy of God in their delivery from the bondage of sinne and Sathan shadowed out in the bondage of Egypt so it is unto us a Sacrament of our union to Christ our head then they were to eate it with sweet unleavened bread that they might bee taught to take heed of the sowre leaven of malice so is ours to us a Sacrament of communion with Saints the bodie of Christ The difference betweene ours and theirs is that their Sacraments were not without blood because Christ as then had not shed his blood but ours are because the truth being come the type is needlesse Againe what were the pillar of cloud and fire and the red Sea in which they were baptised as Paul saith but that which the Gospell cals the Baptisme of water and fire even the effusion of the blood of Christ and the infusion of his graces the merit of his passion and the efficacie of his Spirit in our hearts to make it ours by application What was the water that Moses stilled out of the Rocke by striking it with his Rod when the Israelites were like to perish in the wildernesse for want of water but the blood of Christ issuing out of all his body in a bloody sweat in the Garden when the very wrath of God the Rod of God for the chastisements of our sinnes was upon him lay heavie upon him and streaming out of his blessed side when the Souldier pierced it with his speare I say the blood of Christ spilt for our sakes who otherwise had perished And that Mannah that heavenly food with which they were sustained in the wildernesse what was it but Christ as Christ himselfe expounds it Iohn 6. that he was the bread of life that descended from Heaven and Paul accommodates both of them 1 Corinth 10. For they all ate the same spirituall food and they all drank the same spirituall drink even the same with us for they drank of the spirituall Rock and that Rocke was Christ Christ is the onely Rocke on which his Church was built 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not Peter but Christ. The Brasen Serpent tell me what can you see in it but Christ who was lifted up on the Crosse as that was lifted up in the Wildernesse and as that saved all that looked to it from the stinging of the poysonous Serpents so hath Christ saved us from the power of the old Serpent the Divell and all the power of darknesse he hath healed all our infirmities for by his stripes we are cured and by his wounds we are healed You see then how all their Sacraments ordinary and extraordinary receive all their life from Christ and give all their light to him againe All the laborious and teadious paedagogy of their Ceremonies was to no other end then this neither in which this truth was written as it were in great Letters that he that ran might read them because all words of a thing not sinsible but so farre off could not be halfe so legible So the blood of all the Sacrifices propitiatory and gratulatory of Bullocks and Rams Goats and Lambs Sheep and Dove were all but types and copies drawn from Christ and drawing to Christ who was the true sacrifice in which al the other were sanctified which otherwise were of no value and by which Gods justice is satisfied and they were so many in such varietie to seale to them his alsufficiencie So were all their curious ablations and chargable oblations of rost baked sod fryed to teach our perfect washing by his blood and perfect nourishment by his body which suffered the heat of Gods wrath and so was dressed to our appetite and sauced with such diversity that he might take away our satietie Sweet was the figure of the two Goates one of which was offered as a Sacrifice for the sinnes of the people and the other the Scape Goat the Scripture cals it being charged with all their sinnes Aaron laying both his hands upon his head and confessing the sinnes of the congregation over him was let goe into the wildernesse both which expresse Christ in a double respect either because Christ was slaine that we might escape or because Christ the same was dead and is alive as the Revelation speakes because he dyed for our sinnes and rose againe for our justification as the Apostle elsewhere applyes it Much like another in the purgation of the Leper where two Birds or Sparrows were to be brought the one was to be kild the other to be let flie being dipped first in the blood of the former reserved in a vessell for that purpose even as Christ dyed for us and wee being dipped in his blood escape for by him the nets are broken and we are escaped Yea and all their holy persons did but represent unto the people the person of the Messiah all their Priests especially the High Priest they sacrificed and blessed the people in his name who was that Benedictum semen in whom all the nations of the earth were to be blessed even Iesus Christ who is God blessed for ever and who gave himselfe for us a pleasing and acceptable sacrifice to his father And the High Priest many wayes he bare the names of the Tribes of Israel on his shoulder when he appeared before God so did Christ of all his faithfull he entred into the Holy of Holies once a yeare not without blood so did Christ by his owne blood open the way for us into the highest heavens and make a passage into Paradise in which we could not keep our selvs and out of which we were kept by the flaming sword of a Cherubim upon which the Poets harping have hatched a pretty Fable that the aurea Hesperidum mala are kept by the vigilant guard of a fierie Dragon but Hercules overcame him which in sober truth is thus much that the way to the Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden is guarded by the glittering blade of a glorious Cherubim but Christ hath removed him Lastly the Holy places themselves were teachers of the same truth so that if those the Priests I meane should hold their tongues these the stones I say would cry thus much 1. The Tabernacle was a visible signe of Gods presence among his people and therefore in it were placed among many other things the Mercy seat even Iesus Christ in whom it hath pleased God to have mercy on whom he will have mercy and the Table of Shew-bread is the same Christ whose body is the true bread by which we are fed to eternall life which as one observes was panis propositionis in the Law but is become panis assumptionis in the Gospell even the bread of the Lords Table So was the Temple and therefore they were to offer their Sacrifices at the Temple and their prayers in or toward the Temple because all were sanctified and accepted in Christ who was the true