the several members of the Church Militant and Triumphant are but one Tabernacle The Covering of the Tabernacle was two-fold Inward and Outward whereby was signified the internal and external estate of the Church The glorious gate signified the hearts of God's people made glorious by faith whereby wee entertein Christ The Tabernacle fitly knit together by it's joints and rightly erected signified the Church of Christ fitly compacted by that which everie joint supplieth and making increas with the increas of God Ephes 4.16 Col. 2.19 The Veil signified the flesh of Christ whereby his Deitie was covered and a waie paved for us to heaven The Veil was filled with Cherubims to shew how serviceable the Angels are to Christ and his people The Holie of Holies shadowed out the third heaven into the which Christ onely entred and wee by him The Ark of the Covenant covered with gold figured Christ in whom the God-head dwelleth bodily and in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom c. The Testimonie laid up in the Ark signified Christ the end of the Law which also hath it's testimonie from him The golden Censer signified that all our services must bee perfumed and perfected by Christ before they can bee accepted The golden pot of Manna in the side of the Ark was a sacrament of that eternal life that is laid up for us in Christ Col. 3.3 Aaron's rod blossoming was a sign of God's fatherlie affection whereby it com's to pass that wee bloom and flourish under the cross The Sanctuarie or Tabernacle of the Congregation was the waie into the Holie of Holies and signified the Church-Militant through which wee enter into heaven The brasen Altar for Burnt-offerings shadowed out the humanitie of Christ which is sanctified by his Deâ—tie and supported under all his sufferings for us The Altar of Incens signified that Christ appeareth for us before his Father and maketh all our services accepted by the sacrifice of himself once offered for sin The Table furnished with so manie loavs as there were Tribes in Israël signified that God keep 's a constant table in his Church for all believers The golden Candlestick with his seven lamps figured the glorious light of the Gospel whereby God hath shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledg of the glorie of God in the face of Jesus Christ 2 Cor. 4.6 The Laver wherein the Priests washed themselves before they ministred in the Tabernacle signified that wee cannot draw nigh to God in his services without due preparation The outer Court signified the visible Church wherein hypocrites also partake of external privileges Lo these are the things typed out by the Tabernacle and and they cannot bee better understood then by God's own interpretation of them when hee saith Exod. 25. Let them make mee a Sanctuarie that I may dwell in the middest of them For in those words as learned Junius observeth is conteined an explication of all the above-said Cerimonies SECT IIII. Treating of Holie Times COncerning holie Times the Law is either general or special The general Law is partly concerning the most strict rest from all servile works and partly concerning the Sacrifices which were on those holie daies to bee offered The former figured that Rest whereunto God in his due time will bring us The later served not onely to exercise the Jews prone to excess with the hard yoke of great expens but also by the great charge they were at to shadow out the great worth of Christ far beyond all worldly treasures The special Law concerned 1. holie Daies 2. Holie Years Holie-daies were either quotidian or solemn And these later were partly the New-moons partly the Sabbath and partly the Feasts which Feasts were either more solemn as the Passover Pentecost and Feast of Tabernacles or less solemn as the Feast of Trumpets and the Feast of Attonement Holie years were 1. the Sabbatical or seventh year Or 2. the Jubilee or fiftieth year The explication of all these is as followeth 1. The continual Sacrifice was offered twice everie daie that the people might everie morning and evening bee admonished of their sin-guiltiness and withal might bee exercised in the remembrance and belief of the continual sacrifice of Christ for their sin It signified also our daily service or continual sacrifice of Prais and Holiness offered up to God in the name of Christ 2. The New-moon-sacrifice served to set forth that all our time and actions don therein are sanctified unto us by Christ 3. The Sabbath was a memorial of the Creätion it was also a type partly of Christ's resting in the grave and partly of our rest in Christ the begining whereof wee have here the perfection of it in heaven And whereas special order was taken that no fire should bee kindled on that daie it was to signifie that Christ his rest and ours in him was and should bee free from the fire of affliction 4. The holie Feasts were in general appointed for these ends and uses 1. To distinguish the people of God from other nations 2. To keep afoot the remembrance of benefits alreadie received 3. To bee a type and sigure of bâ—nefits yet further to bee conferred upon them by Christ 4. To unite God's people in holie worships 5. To preserv puritie in holie worships prescribed by God 5. The Passover of those that were clean celebrated in the begining of the year figured out the time manner and fruit of Christ's Passion The Passover kept by those that had been unclean signified that Christ profiteth not sinners as long as they persist in their uncleanness and so it figured out the time of repentance 6. At the Feast of Pentecost there was a daie of waving and of offering the First-fruits The former signified that the handful of our fruits that is our faith and good works are not accepted of God unless they bee waved by Christ our High-priest The later that God's blessings are to bee joyfully and thankfully received and remembred 7. The Feast of Tabernacles besides that it brought to minde the Israëlites wandering in the wilderness it did notably set forth the Church's pilgrimage in this present world which yet is so to bee thought on as that with greatest spiritual joie wee remember and celebrate our Redemption by Christ's death 8. The Feast of Trumpets signified that continual caus of cheerfulness and thankfulness that the Saints should have by Christ's death 9. The Feast of Attonement signified that the sins of God's people in their holie-meetings and daily services should bee expiated by Christ Moreover Attonement was also made for the most holie Place and for the Sanctuarie That signified that the visible heaven also was defiled by our sin and need bee purged by Christ's blood This that the Catholick Church is by the same blood of Christ made alone acceptable to God By the application that was made for several persons was set forth the applicatorie force of faith Furthermore that application and expiation was
Moses Aaron and Hur went up into the Mount where Moses's hands are thus supported while Amalek is discomfited and that Moses the Prophet Hur the Prince and Aaron the Priest all put together were a type of Christ who on the fourtieth daie after his Resurrection asscended into the Mount of Heaven where as our Prophet Priest and Prince hee hold's up the hands of his Intercession for his Church Militant whiles shee fight 's with spiritual Amalek Sin Satan Antichrist World Flesh c. Ver. 13. And Joshua discomfited How should hee do otherwise when hee fought with such weapons Praiers are the bombardae instrumenta bellica Christianorum saith Luther The great guns and warlike weapons of the Saints The Romans in a great distress were driven to take the weapons out of the Temples of their gods and overcame The Parliament souldiers at Edg-hill-battle falling on with courage and crying out Now for the fruit of praier Now for the fruit of praier prevailed mightily slaying near ten to one c. Ver. 14. In a book Or in the book that thou art now in writing viz. the Pentateuch the most antient book that is extant I will utterly put out c. The portion of wicked men is to bee forgotten in the citie where they had so don Eccles 8.10 their memorie die's with them or if it bee preserved it stink's in keeping and remain's as a curs and perpetual disgrace Ver. 15. And Moses built an Altar As a lasting monument of God's great Mercie in that first victorie The Romans had a custom that the Conqueror in his triumphant chariot rode to the Capitol and offered a white ox to Jupiter Liv lib 6. Decad 3. Ver. 16. Becaus the Lord c. Heb. The hand upon the throne of the Lord. God's hand is laid upon his own throne as swearing to root out Amalek Or Amalek's hand is lifted up against God's throne that is the Church called God's throne of glorie Jer. 4.21 and crown of glorie Isa 62.3 therefore hee will have perpetual war with him Tua caussa erit mea caussa said the Emperor Charls the Fifth to Julius Pflugius who beeing his Agent had received wrong by the Duke of Saxonie so saith God to all that belong to him CHAP. XVIII Ver. 1. Heard of all ANd thereby was converted saie the Rabbins beeing the first Proselyte to the Jewish Church that wee read of in in Scripture Ver. 2. After hee had sent her back Becaus shee was troublesom with her peevishness and a hinderance to the good work in hand Chap. 4.25 26. Sylla felix fuisset ni uxorem duxisset Adrianus ni imperitâsset Moses both Ver. 3. In a strange land See the Note on Chap. 2.22 Ver. 4. Eliezer Or Lazarus Wee should write God's mercies upon the names of our children or som other waies perpetuate the memorie of them Ver. 5. At the Mount of God Horeb whither they were removed from Rephidim though the remove bee not mentioned Ver. 6. And hee said That is sent him word so God's messages to us are to bee received as his own immediate words Hee that heareth you heareth mee Ver. 7. And did obeisance Sr. Thomas More Lord Chancellor would in Westminster-hall beg his Father's blessing on his knees Ver. 8. All that the Lord bath don It is not enough to relate God's mercies to us in the lump and by whole sale but wee must instance the particulars both to God and men That had com upon them Heb. Had found them yet not without a providence Job 5.6 God cut 's us out our several conditions it is his hand that finde's us when wee suffer ought Ver. 9. And Jethro rejoiced So must all Sion's sons Isa 66.10 Ver. 10. And Jethro said c. Cheerfulness make's thankfulness Luke 1.46 Jam. 5.13 Ver. 11. Now I know See the Note on Ver. 1. So the people knew that Jehovah was God 1 King 18.37 See 2 Cro. 33.13 Hee was above them God sit's in the heavens Psal 2.4 where hee see 's that their daie is coming Psal 37.16 and mean while scorneth these scorners Prov. 3. Fright's them as hee did those Syrians 2 King 7.6 Over-aw's them as hee did Laban Divert's them as hee did Saul Senacherib c. or otherwise defeat's them as hee did Benhadad disclosing their counsels blasting their designs c. Ver. 12. Before God i.e. as in his presence with reverence and godlie fear To feed without fear is a foul fault Jude 12. See my Common-place of Abstinence Ver. 13. And the people stood by Moses Beeing haply as the French are said to bee verie litigious and thereunto abuting Moses's lenitie whereas had they been soundly whipped as among Mahumetans they are that go to law for light â—â—attâ—rs there would have been but few and short suits amongst them Sure it is that if men's hearts were not bigger then their suits there would not bee half so manie Ver. 14. What is this thing A man by good counsel may becom an Angel nay a God to another Alexander beeing requested by som Embassadors to shew them his treasures shewed them his faithful Counsellors Ver. 15. To enquire of God For a divine sentence is in the mouth of the Judg therefore also the place of Judicature is called the holie place Eccles 8.10 Let those that go to law inquire of God and rest in his will Ver. 16. When they have a matter In our ordinarie suits there is for the most part more malice then matter The late Judg Dier if there came anie such trilling controversies to bee tried before him would usually saie That either the parties are wilful or their neighbors without charitie becaus their suits were not quietly compromised Ver. 17. Is not good Wee commonly saie Hee that receiv's a curtesie sell's his libertie But so did not Jethro Ver. 18. Thou wilt surely wear away Heb. Fading thou wilt fade as a leaf that wanteth moisture Melanchthon was wont to saie that none labored so hard as Travelling women Magistrates and Ministers Politici Ecclesiastici labores maximi sunt saith Luther Atterunt enim corpus tanquam ex imis medullis exhauriunt succum Ver. 19. I will give thee counsel A Midianite counsel's Moses God hereby teacheth him humilitie Ver. 21. Out of all the people Magistrates must bee drained from the dregs sifted from the bran of the ordinarie sort of people Able men Able and active strong and stout-hearted wealthie also and well underlaied See Jethro's Justice of Peace in a Sermon by Mr. Sam. Ward Ver. 22. So shall it bee easier c. How thankless is their labor that do wilfully over-spend themselvs in their ordinarie vocations Ver. 23. To their place To the promised land Or to their own homes well apaid and with good content Ver. 24. So Moses hearkned Of a meek man it is said that a childe shall lead him Isa 11.6 how much more so grave a counsellor as Jethro Dio. in Augusto Augustus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was
Chap. 114. Ver. 8. For the sin-offering first For till un bee expiâ—ted no sacrifice or service can bee accepted Therefore Isa 1. Wash you â—â—ans you and then com and let us reason Ver. 9. Vpon the side of the Altar The North-side and not upon the East 1. that Israël might not symbolize with the Heathens who worshipped toward the East 2. to signifie that they had no more under the Law then dark shadows of good things to com Heb. 10.1 until the time of reformation Heb. 9.10 Ver. 10. According to the manner That is the forms and rites prescribed So Amos 8.14 The manner of Beersheba i.e. the forms and rites of worshipping in Beersheba as the Caldee paraphraseth it Ver. 11. But if hee bee not able So low doth the most High stoop to man's meanness that hee will accept of a verie small present from him that would bring a better if it were in the power of his hand Lycurgus enjoyned his Lacedemonians to offer small sacrifices For God said hee respecteth more the internal devotion then the external oblation Ver. 12. Even a memorial This is spoken after the manner of men who have need of remembrancers God somtimes seem's to lose his mercie and then wee must finde it for him as they Isa 63.15 somtimes to forget sleep delaie c. and then wee must in-minde awaken quicken him Isa 62.7 Ver. 13. And it shall bee forgiven him See a like promiss made to our Ministerie Jam. 5.15 Ver. 15. In the bolie things of the Lord Things consecrate to him by robbing and wronging of God and his Priests bee it but through ignorance or error Sacrum qui clepserit rapseritve parricida este For to do such a thing presumptuously was death Numb 15.30 and by the laws of the twelv Tables in Rome such were to bee punished as parricides Ver. 16. And hee shall make amends No remission without restitution God abhors holocaustum ex rapina Latimer's Sex And if yee make no restitution ye shall cough in hell said father Latimer Ver. 17. Though hee wist not Ignorance though invincible and unavoidable well may excuse à tanto but not à toto Luke 12.48 CHAP. VI. Ver. 2. Against the Lord AS David in defiling his neighbours wise and afterwards killing him is said to have despised the commandment of the Lord and to have don evil in his sight 2 Sam. 12.9 which also hee penitently acknowledgeth Psal 51.4 Sin is properly against none but God Godw. Heb. Antiq. p. 98. beeing a transgression of his law Hence the manslaier was confined to the Citie of refuge as to a prison during the life of the high-Priest as beeing saith one the chief God on earth That was a true position of the Pelagians Omne peccatum est contemptus Dei that everie sin is a contempt of God Prov. 18.3 In fellowship Heb. Job 8.20 Dextram conjungere dextrâ Quid non mortalia pectora cogit Auri sacra fames 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. In putting of the hand It is said in Iob that God will not take a wicked man by the hand i. e. hee will have no fellowship with him Ver. 3. And lieth concerning it and sweareth falsty Thorough inordinate love of money that root of all evil but such monie shall perish with them Zech. 5.2 Ver. 4. And is guiltie Found guiltie by a self-condemning conscience which now like Samson's wife conceal's not the riddle but tel's all as shee said of our Saviour Iohn 4. Ver. 5. In the daie of his trespass offering Before hee compass God's altar Mat. 5.23 with the Note there Ver. 6. With thy estimation i. e. as thou shalt rate it Moses did the Priests office for present Hee was likewise a Prophet Deut. 18.15 and King in Ieshurun Deut. 33.5 and so became a type of Christ that true Trismegist the Priest Prophet and Prince Dan. 9.25 Ver. 7. Shall make an attonement Thorough the sacrifice of Christ Heb. 10.1 4 10 14. Ver. 9. All night until the morning God must bee thought upon in the night season Psal 4.4 David willingly brake his sleep to do it Psal 119.62 The daie is thine the night also is thine saith hee Psal 74.16 Ver. 10. Besides the altar On the East-side furthest from the Sanctuarie Levit. 1.16 in reverence of the divine majestie Ver. 11. In a clean place Becaus they came from the Lord 's holie hous See the contrarie commanded concerning the stones and dust of a leprous hous Levit. 14.40 Ver. 12. It shall not bee put out No more should our faith love zeal that flame of God as Solomon cal's it Cant. 8.6 that should never go out the waters should not quench it nor the ashes cover it Cant. 8.10 2 Tim. 1.6 Ver. 13. The fire shall ever bee burning The Gentiles by an apish imitation hereof had their vestal fire salted meal and manie other sacred rites Basil chargeth the divel as a thief of the truth in that hee had decked his crows with her fethers Ver. 14. The law of the meat-offering Besides what is set down chap. 2.1 2. Thus one text explain's another as the diamond is brightened with its own dust Ver. 15. Even the memorial See the Note on Levit. 2.2 Ver. 16. Shall Aaron and his sons eat See 1 Cor. 9.13 14. with the Note there Ver. 17. It shall not bee baken with leaven Which is 1. souring 2. swelling 3. spreading 4. impuring Ver. 18. Shall bee holie God will bee sanctified in all that draw near unto him procul binc procul este profani Ver. 20. When hee is anointed i. e. When anie high-priest for hee onely was anointed Exod. 29.7 on the head at least Ver. 21. In a pan Figuring out the sufferings of Christ who was so parched with the fire of afflictions for our sins Ver. 23. It shall not bee eaten To teach the high-priest to look â—or salvation out of himself Ver. 25. In the place i. e. at the North-side of the altar And why see the Note on Chap. 5.9 Ver. 26. Shall eat it Except in that case vers 30. Ver. 27. Shall bee holie This taught an holie use of the mysterie of our redemption for the sin-offering in special sort figured Christ Ver. 28. But the earthen vessel So contagious a thing is sin that it defileth the verie visible heaven and earth which therefore must bee likewise purged by the last fire as the earthen pot which held the sin-offering was broken and the brasen scoured and rinsed in water Ver. 30. And no sin-offering Here the ordinarie gloss make's this observation Remissionem dare Dei solius est qui per ignem significatur That to pardon sin belong's to God alone who is a consuming fire The Rhemists tell us of a man that could remove mountains Rhem. Annot. in Joâ— 20. Sect. 3. which they may assoon perswade us as that their Priests have as full power to pardon sins as Christ had One of their Priests meeting with a