Unleavened Bread and bitter Herbs as to mind them of their hasty departure from Aegypt that they could not stay till their Bread was Leavened and of the bitter Afflictions they there sustained so also to signifie That we ought to keep the remembrance of the Grace of God in Christ without retaining our Corruptions either the Corruption of our Natures 1 Cor. 5.7 8 9. which we are to be putting off and laying aside as our old Leaven or much less the Leaven of Wickedness Guile and Malice contracted by a wilfull or willing Disobedience to Christ but to walk in the Truth and in truth and sincerity of love to Christ and one another even as he hath sincerely loved us but yet to remember the grace of Christ Zech. 12.10 11 Ezek. 16.61 20.43 with a mindfullness of our own Sin and sinfullness and bewailing our piercings of him with our unkindness as also with a taking down what ever bitter Reproofs or Afflictions attend the Preaching of or Believing on Christ Crucified 16. â—ers 43.45 No Stranger might Eat of it oâ— Servant bought with Money till Circumciled the Foreiner and hired Servant might not eat of it Which might signifie and instruct us That as Men cannot be in Covenant with God or be in Christ 1 Cor. 6.9 10 11. Ezek. 14.3 6 7. 20.3 whom he hath given for a Covenant to the People c. but they must thereto put off their confidence in the Flesh and its Priviledges so neither may or can any feed upon Christ live by the Faith of him and enjoy his Consolations though in Service or Office in the Church but in and by Suffering that grace brought in by him to Crucifie him to himself and that none may expect freedom from the Wrath to come that abuse this grace of God and turn it into wantonness not suffering it to Circumcise their Hearts and conform them to him no Stranger to the grace of God nor Mercenary Professor of it while such may be made partaker of his Consolation 17. vers 46. It was to be Eaten in one House To signifie That God loves and requires Unity and agreement in Faith and Confession in them that Communicate with and live by the Faith of his Son Psal 133. Eph. 4.3 4 5. that they should not make rents and schisms amongst themselves and one from another but endeavour to keep the Unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace and that out of that Unity we cannot be pertakers of Christ 18. vers 46. Not a bone thereof was to be broken which was fullfilled in Christ even in his Sufferings Joh. 19.36 As also to imply God's care of the Members of Christ that Believe in him Psal 34.20 19. vers 47. All the Congregation were to keep that Ordinance To signifie That all that are drawn to God by Christ are to have their spiritual Life and feeding in and upon Christ and therefore are to mind him None of them thinking themselves too bad nor none too high or good to have their Life by the Faith and Rerembrance of him and his Sufferings for them 20. If any Stranger would keep it vers 48. All his Males must be Circumcised and so he might Eat of it Which may surther hinâ— That God likes and requires it that not onely we our selves should submit to Christ but also indeavour what in us lies to subject and disciple all under our care and dispose else come we not so heartily to him or with so good allowance nor can expect such Blessing from him Such was this Ordinance of the Passover and the Ordinances and Rites appertaining to it and it was the First Instituted of God by Moses and though a little before the giving of the Law yet was one of those Laws given by Moses and was Confirmed again afterward Exod. 23. â—vit 23.5 c. And therefore may be counted an Ordinance of the Law and 〈◊〉 was of continuance in the Church of the Jews holding forth to them Chrisâ— and the Grace promised and prepared 〈◊〉 Christ and the way of partaking of thâ— Grace and living by it till the time 〈◊〉 the Actual Sufferings of Christ when in the Night in which he was betrayed having desirously eaten it with his Disciples he Instituted another bearing great Analogy and Proportion with it Of which afterward when we shall have considereâ— other Ordinances that intervened For SECT 6. Of the Sabbaths Festivals Purifications and other Ordinances of the Tabernacâ— and Temple OVer and above the Ordinance of the Passover we find many more given to the Jews all Types of Christ and Instructing to him as the Apostle plainly says Coll. 2.15 16. Heb. 10.1 2. We cannot look into them all particularly I shall here together briefly mention the chief of them As 1. They had divers Sabbaths and days of Rest appointed them as their Seventh Day or Weekly Sabbath their Yearly Sabbath Seventh Year Sabbath and their Seventh Seventh year or Year of Jubilee Of which briefly 1. The Seventh-day Sabbath was first Instituted in Paradise unless Moses speaâ— of it by way of Prolepsis or Anticipa◠〈◊〉 That the Sabbath was afterward appointed for that cause or reason amongst â—hers because God on the Seventh-day â—ted from all his Works that he had â—ade but however as it was appointed before the Fall so it falls not under our Consideration but as it was anew renewed by Moses for from the Creation to Moses we read nothing of the Observation of it But as so given it had in it and that too in common with the rest two things considerable The matter of 〈◊〉 as it were and the Form of it That is it may be looked upon as it was a certain seperate time and as it was a time seperate to some peculiar use 1. As a time of God's Worship and had in it the Number of Seven The seventh-day as in others the seventh-year and seventh seventh So it with those other Sabbaths signified and appointed out Christ the Perfection and Fulness of Time or that in the fulness of Time after many Labours and Changes he should bring in the Grace promised as to the open Revelation and Dispensation of it yea and as some think the perlect Rest from Misery Labour and Toyl brought in by Sin to be brought in by him in the Seventh thousand Year or seventh-seventh-day a thousand Years for a Day of the World or upon the Sounding of the seventh Trumpet Rev. 10. 2. As to its Use It with others was appointed for Rest as the Word Sabath also signifies The seventh-seventh-day sabbath that 〈◊〉 and Beasts might Rest from their Laboâ— The Seventh year and year of Jubâ— was for the Resting of the Land And so they Typed out Christ to be and 〈◊〉 bring in the true Rest from Labour aâ— Sorrow to the spirits of men now through the grace of his first Appearing Matth. 11.28 Heb. 4.9 Isa 28.12 and to both Bodies and Spirits
in his Second Appearing according to that of our Saviour Come to me all ye that labour and are heavy laden and I will give 〈◊〉 rest And there remaineth yet a Rest for the People of God and so Christ is called too the Rest wherewith the weary should be made to Rest And by the Apostle Christ is said to be the substance or body of the Sabbaths Col. 2.16 But more particularly The Seventh-days Sabbath was appointed to be a Sign between the Lord and the Children of Israel for ever That it is the Lord that doth Sanctifie them as Exod. 31 13 14 17. And so it might signifie and be a Sign that in and by ceasing from all our Workings and Labours to get Life and Righteousness Rom. 4.5 Act. 26.18 1 Cor. 1.30 to and by our selves and in attending to Christ and God in Christ so God would sanctify us according to that To him that worketh not but believeth on him that justifieth the Ungodly 〈◊〉 Faith is imputed to him for Righteousness And Sanctified says Christ by faith that is in me And Christ is made 〈◊〉 us of God Sanctification as if he should say The Sabbath I injoyn you as a perpernal Covenant to signifie to you and instruct you That you are not you own Sanctifyers or Sanctified by your own Works and Labours but by me in Christ your resting place in a quiet ceasing from your own Thoughts and Words and Works and resting in and upon Christ I shall ye be holy to me Isa 58.13 2. The Anoual or Yearly Sabbath I â—all that day of Expiation 1 Levit. 16.31 23.27 28 31 32. the tenth Day of the seventh Month in which besides their resting from their labours they were all of them to afflict their Souls and Fast and the High Priest was by Sacrifice and by entning into the Holy of Holios with the bloud of the Sacrifice to make an atonement for himself and for all the People and to lay their Sins upon a Scape-Goat to be carried by him into a desert place The most lively and clear â—ype of Christ the great High Priest and the Atonement made by him for all men by his own bloud and sufferings first endured by him and then in the vertues of them presented before the Father in Heaven for the taking away our Sins there that so mercy might be extended by him to us Both the Bullock for a Sin-offering for Aaron and the Goats for the People signified Christ bearing and suffering for the sins of those that are Priests to God the Israel of God our Sins and for the Sins of the People even of the whole World 1 Joh. 2.2 the Goat that was slain a Type of him dying for all mâ— and bearing their Sins in his own Bâ— on the Tree and the Scape Goat 〈◊〉 was sent away having the Sins of 〈◊〉 Congregation confessed upon him another Type of Christ removing and carrying away our Sins by the vertues of his Sacrifice and remitting them to the World so as not to impute to them or charge them upon them Yet so as if any man rested not on that day 2 Cor. 5.19 21. and afflicted 〈◊〉 his Soul he was cut off from his People deprived of the benefit of that geners Atonement or Expiation Lev. 23.29 30. as signifying that the way for men to enjoy the beneâ—t of the general Atonement or Purgation of Sins made by Christ Act. 10.43 13.38 39 40. 1. Joh. 1.8 9 10. is to own and confess their Sins and be afflicted for them in the sense and acknowledgment 〈◊〉 them and to rest upon and believe in him otherwise they must perish Indeed there was in this as in all other Types many differences between the Type and the Truth by reason of the imperfection of the Types and perfectionâ— the Truth not to be reached fully by them here the day the Priest the Sacrifice weâ— different things but all pointed out Chriâ— here the High Priest first offered for 〈◊〉 own sins and then for the Sins of 〈◊〉 People But Christ had no Sins properâ— his own none as a Priest for he knâ— or did no sin Heb. 7.26 27. neither was guile foundâ— his mouth He was holy harmless undedefiled separated from sinners made 〈◊〉 â—han the Heavens Who needed not to do 〈◊〉 those Priests did daily to offer first for his own sins and then for the sins of the people But this the hithermost the offering for the Sins of the People he did at once or what sins might in any sence be called his as imputed to him and owned by him and so undertaken to be satisfied for and removed as the sin of Adam and all as in him and what naturally and necessarily springs up therefrom for which he in the first place and most properly undertook to ransom men from the judgment due to them or also the sins of his Members as such that are owned by him as parts of himself the sins of Believers for these and for sins of the People sins of another nature committed willingly by Men in their own persons against the Grace and goodness of God extended to them through him Rom. 5.14 sins after the similitude of Adam's transgression that he might obtain power to forgive them also Rom. 5.18 for all these he did offer up himself once so as that by that one Offering he hath both obtained a â—ease of that first Judgment in which all stood condemned so as no man shall perish therein and he hath obtained power to forgive those other offences after the similitude of Adam's transgression upon their confession of and turning from them Yea Heb. 10.14 he hath for ever perâ—ed the sanctified ones provided them 〈◊〉 a perfect purgation so as there needs no more Sacrifice for sin to their perfeâ— saving Yea so perfect was that his one Offering that there-through he haâ— obtained eternal redemption power of forgiving sins and setting free from Sâ— and Death for ever and therefore stand not to offer any more but is gone into Heaven it self there to appear in the presence of God for us and having as it were sprinkled his Bloud upon the Mercy-seat appearing in Heaven as a Lamb that was slain he is set down on the Right hand of God Rev. 5.6 expecting till all his Foes be made his footstool Heb. 9.10 11 12 25 26. and 10.10 11 12 13 14. Indeed if any man refuse now in the day of Grace and Atonement to own himself the Sinner and fall down before God to seek and accept his pardon in Christ he goes without its benefit and is cut off from the Congregation for which yet the Atonement was made This indeed belongs to the Ordinance of Sacrificing yet as appropriated to such a peculiar day and joyned with this appointment of rest I think it falls fitly to be spoken to amongst the Sabbaths enjoyned them 3. Their Seventh year Sabbath was appointed for rest to the Land
and for release and liberty to Servants and Bondmen as it were a year of rest Levit. 25.3 4 5 6. Exod. 21.2 3 4 5 6. so it Typed out the Rest and release from Labour and Sorrow to be brought in by Christ as before But as it was a year of Release for Servants so it Typed out the Liberty to be brought in by Christ from Sin Satan and the Paedagogy of the Law procured by his Death and offered in the preaching of the Gospel and to be effected by the Spirit of God in the belief thereof But as there he that accepted of it had and enjoyed it but he that said Nay he loved his old Master better and so would not go out from him he was to be brought to the door and his Master was to bore his Ear through with an Awl and he was to serve him for ever So here he that embraces the Grace of God in Christ in the accepted time and day of Salvation he shall be set free but he that refusing it prefers the service of Sin Satan and Mosaical Law above it shall be given over to serve and perish in his corruptions and legal bondage 4. The like was Typified but more fully in the great Sabbatical Year or Year of Jubile when on the day of Atonement the Trumpet of the Jubile was to be sounded through all the Land and they were to proclaim liberty through all the land to all the Inhabitants thereof and every man was to return to his possession and every man to his Family Leâ— 25.8 9 10 11 c. for therein was prefigured 1. The general Release of Men from Thraldom to Curse and Wrath to which in Adam they were sold and by their own actual sins were further imbondaged many of them procured 〈◊〉 the Sacrifice of Christ and the Atoâ—ment thereby made and proclaimed 〈◊〉 the Gospel which like the Jubilee Trumpet Isa 61.1 2. being founded proclaims the acceptable year of the Lord the day of the vengeance of our God even the vengeance executed upon Christ or upon out enemies by Christ to comfort all that mourn Blessed are the people that know mind own and so take hold of and prove that joyfull sound they shall walk in the light of God's countenance c. Psal 89.15 16. 2. The general actual Release of all from under the first Death and Judgment to be presented before the Tribunal sear of Christ to be judged anew and the full and total release of all the Israel of God that have here believed in Christ from all their terrours sufferings and thraldoms to Sin and Death into the quiet and full possession of all the Kingdom and Glory promised and this to be effected at the great Day of the Lord When the Lord Jesus shall descend again from heaven with the voice of a Trumpet and of the the Arch-Angel of God when the seventh Angel sounding the mystery of God shall be fulfilled 1 Thess 4.16 Rev. 10.7 3. The general restitution of all things spoken of by the Prophets Acts 3.20 21. Rom. 8.19 20 21 22. when the Creature it self shall be delivered from the bondage of Corruption into the liberty of the Glory of the Sons of God at the â—d Great day of Christ's appearing all which are signified to be the effects of the Atoning Sacrifice of Christ in that that Jubilee Trumpet was to be sounded and the said Liberty Release and Restitution proclaimed on the day of Expiation or Atonement 2. They had also divers Feasts appointed them Monthly and Yearly as 1. They had Monthly New Moons which appear to have been Festivals 1 Sam. 20.5 times appointed for Sacrificing and gladness and for the blowing of Trumpets over their Sacrifices Numb 10.10 Psal 81.1 2 3. 2 Cor. 5.17 Typifying the renovation of the creature in and by Christ through his vertuous Sacrifice He that is in Christ is a new creature old things are passed away behold all things are become new as also the Reformation and change of Worship to be brought in by him in the faith of which they were to blow their Trumpets and sing aloud to him with Thanksgiving thereby also figuring the joy and gladness the renovation made by Christ should bring in Psal 40.1 2 3 4. Rev. 14.1 2 3. Heb. 9 9 10 11 12. Yearly Festivals were their Feast of Passover First-fruits and Tabernacles in which besides the Rests required in them by vertue of which they were also Sabbaths some days beâ—nging to them and the abundance of â—crifices then to be offered which appertained to the Ordinance of Sacrificing they did solemnly appear and feast before the Lord rejoycing in the abundance of his goodness Prov. 9.12.3 4 5 6. Matth. 22.12 3 4. Isa 25.6 Joh. 4.14 6.35 48 51 55 c. and in the remembrance of the great things he had done for them providing for and feasting their poor Brethren also with them Neh. 8.10 11. Exod. 23.14 15 16. Levit. 23. which in general led them to behold by Faith the abundance of the Grace to be procured and brought in by Christ the Feast of Fat things full of Marrow to be made in Christ for all People For Christ is himself the Feast or matter of it the meat indeed and the drink indeed which whosoever eateth shall find satisfaction in so as not to hunger after other dainties and whoso drinks of shall not thirst for ever after other Waters Yea they might mind them of the great joy and delight to be brought in by his Incarnation or making his Tabernacle amongst us his sufferings for us and pouring down of his Spirit upon us but more fully at the harvest and full income of all the promises when the Tabernacle of God shall be with men for ever Rev. 21.4.5 so that these also had their foundation in Christ and poined at Christ to come 3. Besides which they had also other Ordinances yet under the Tabernacle and Temple and pertaining thereto pointing out Christ Levit. 12. 13. 14. 15. in which they were to exercise themselves till his actual appeâ—ting as diverse Washings and Puriâ—â—ons cleansings from uncleanness Heb. 9.12 13 14. as issues Leprosies c. all Typing out the cleansing away of our Sins by the Bloud and Spirit of Christ especially that Num. 10. of the ashes of the red Heifer is most significant For there God appointed that a red Heifer should be burnt and the ashes of it preserved and laid up in a clean place and then to be mixed with clean Water and by a clean Person with Hyssop to be sprinkled upon the unclean for the cleansing of him c. which Water and way of Purification was prepared for all the Congregation yet so as he that refused to be cleansed thereby was to remain in his unclearness and to be cut off from the Congregation vers 9.20 21. and evident Type and instruction that in and by Christ his sufferings and
3.21 John 1.49 Rom. 1.7 1 Cor. 1.3 Matth. 28.20 Heb. 2.18 5.10 7.1 2 Ephes 5.25 26. Luk. 22.29 30. not onely Lord of all Men and Creatures but also King of the Nations general and of the Saints peculiarly The Law-giver to Men and to take the care of all ordering the Kingdom of God amongst and for them as best stands with his wisdom and their good while it is a Day of Salvation to them But especially as a King over his Subjects to take care of protect govern and defend them supplying all grace to them who hear his Voice as the Great Prophet and submit to his Kingdom Support them in Temptations and Afflictions Subdue their Enemies Fight their Battels hear and grant their Petitions subdue their Corruptions sanctifie them by his Spirit raise them from Death and give them glorious Kingdom and Inheritance 3. To be the Great High Priest Heb. 2.17 and 3.1 7. 1 Tim. 2.5 1 John 2.2 Luk. 24.46 47 48. Act. 17.30 31. Heb. 10.19 20 21. Psa 68.18 19 20. Isa 53.12 Luk. 23.34 Psal 119.4 to which by the offering up of his mo◠precious Body a spotless Sacrifice and by the Oath of God he was Consecrated and therein to be the Great Mediator 〈◊〉 God and Men the standing Propitiation for the Sins both of those that believe 〈◊〉 him and of the whole World That so to the world in general during the day of his Grace and Patience towards them respectively that door of Life opened and liberty for their Repenting and going back to God and opportunity in so doing of finding Mercy and Acceptance with him with means mercy and grace preventing them to inable and lead the◠thereto procured by his Death and Sacrifice for them might by his presentation of the same unto God his Father and Mediation or Intercession for Transgresson in the Vertues thereof made by him be kept open and continued to them so a◠that they not speedily listening to hi◠Voice as the Great Prophet and obeying him as the King and their sinning against the grace and goodness of God extended to them by him might not pull down Wrath upon them to the Reprobating and destroying of them But God might yet be patient toward them and be yet calling reproving striving with them by his Spirit using means and waiting with much long-suffering and goodness for their Conversion with respect to which Psal 68.18 he is said having led captivity captive to have received gifts in the man not onely for men as men simply considered in their First Fallen Estate but for the Rebellious also that the Lord God might dwell amongst them Whence they also are yet laded with Benefits and meet with manifold Salvations and Deliverances He as the Propitiation for them Gen. 6.3 Eccles 3.1 2 3. 2 Cor. 6.1 2. Rom. 2.4 5 6. Psal 68.21 covering them from the wrath of God so as their sins are not so minded before him as that he therefore casts them away and destroys them which Propitiation I say he is for them so long as he pleases that a day of Grace should be afforded them there being for every purpose an appointed time A time to love and a time to hate a day of grace and a day of vengeance to those that go on still in their trespasses till the day of grace be expired As appears in the Parable of the barren Fig-tree Luk. 13.6 7 8 9 c. Let it alone saith the great Vine-dresser this year also till I dig about with Chastisements and dung it with renewed benefits and if it bring forth fruit well but if not then afterwards thou shalt cut it down For Believers 1 John 2.1 2. Col. 1.21 22 23. Heb. 7.25 Acts 10.43 1 Pet. 2.5 Rev. 8.3 4 5. Heb. 5.1 2 3. 9.15 Eph. 5.25 26 27. 1 John 1.7 9. He is the Propitiation and Advocate to present them in himself as Righteous and to make their persons acceptable unto God obtaining for them the Dispensation of the Forgiveness of their Sins and whatever favour or Blessing may be fit and good for them even Grace and Glory Perfuming their Prayers and Praises with the odour of his own Sacrifice and so offering up Sanctifying and making acceptable their Gifts and Sacrifices taking away the Iniquities of their holy Things so as that through his Mediation no failings in their Faith and Love no mixtures cleaving to their Services no follies or failings of theirs through Temptation repented of may deprive them of the promised Inheritance 4. He is also appointed Judge of Quick Acts 10.42 2 Cor. 5.10 John 5.21 22 23. Rev. 1.5 3.7.19 and Dead All Authority is given him to Execute Judgment also both here to Absolve Acquit and Justifie from Sin and Condemnation even due to Men for and deserved by such Sins as they have committed against God's grace and goodness extended to them He hath power to unloose upon their Repenting such Bonds and take off such Punishments as they had brought upon themselves by their so sinning as also to bind or retain their Sins and order and inflict what Punishments he pleases upon them until they Repent and that both upon the Unconverted World that Believe not and upon his own Subjects that Sin against him Job 33.16 17 28 29. Lam. 2.33 Psa 75.8 Isa 1.4 5. 9.13 27.9 1 Pet. 4.16 17. 1 Cor. 11.30 31. But the Judgments now ordered through and by him who is Mediator are during the day of Grace to all full of Mercy the cup in his hand is full of mixture and tend to drive men home to God and to keep back their Souls from going down to the Pit by breaking their Enterprises and hideing Pride from them though yet some of them be smarter and sorer than others Rev. 21.2 Luke 13.9 24 25 26. 2 Thes 2 10 11 12. Jam. 4.12 Rom. 14.9 John 5.28.29 Matt. 25.31 34 41 46. 16. 27 28. 1 Thess 4.14 15 16 17. 2 Thess 1.7 8 9. Rev. 20.11 13 14. 21. 22. 1 6. Matth. 8.29 Jud. 1.6 for he hath power to let loose Satan upon men to bind harden or otherwise to buffet or affright and vex them and to let out evil men too one against another or against his People that Believe to judge exercise and try them Yea he hath Power for mens Rebellions persisted in to cease mediating for them and so to turn the Keys of the Kingdom against them put an end to his Patience give them up to strong Delusions and to Destruction For he is able to Save and to Destroy as seems good to him And so also Power as Lord and Judge over the Dead too to raise them up and finally Judge them at the Last Day both by Pronouncing Sentence upon them and Executing it also when Pronounced To which purpose he is appointed to and shall come again from Heaven in the glory of the Father with all his mighty Angels to
bring all Men even those that are in their Graves by Land or Sea before him and to render to every man according to their Works perfectly to free those that here believe on him and seek after God by him from all sin and sorrow from the malice of Satan and all his Instruments and from the Power and Dominion of Death and Grave and to give them a Glorious Kingdom and Inheritance with himself and to execute Vengeance upon the Devil and his Angels Eternally plaguing and destroying them and with them all that have here taken part with them against him and persisted therein till Reprobated by him these to go into everlasting Torments and the Righteous into everlasting happiness Matth. 25.31 to the End 9. That all this Infinite Power Isa 53.11 12. Phil. 2.9 10 11. Rom. 5.16 Heb. 9.14 15. 1 John 2.1.2 as Lord and Christ Prophet King Priest and Judge which dignity and power of Judge may also be referred to his Lordship or Kingship though I have here distinctly mentioned it by it self as Isa 33.22 And more observeably his Power to Forgive Sins and Rebellions against the goodness and grace of God extended by and through him both to the World and to his own Servants He hath obtained and acquired through the superabundancy of the vertues and merits of his Obedience Sufferings and Sacrifice above and beyond the demerit of Adam's Sin and of our Sin and Sinfulness as in and from him and the infinite acceptableness of them unto God For he being such and so glorious a Person his so loving and ready Obedience Psa 130.4 5 6 7. Isa 55.7 Acts 5.31 Rev. 5.11 12. and his so great Sufferings were infinitely well-pleasing unto God so as to obtain Plenteousness of Redemption even Forgiveness of Sins the grace going beyond the Offence which was but of one to Condemnation but the grace of many Offences to Justification yea and so as that both God and all his Angels and Holy Ones judge him worthy to receive All Power and Wisdom and Riches and Strength and Honour and Glory and Blessing as but a due Reward for his foresaid Obedience and Humiliation and the shame sorrow and Sufferings sustained therein To which add 10. That this Jesus Christ our Saviour Heb. 2.17 18. 3.1 2. 4.15 16. Isa 42.1 2 3. with Matth. 12.18 19. is also a most Merciful Compassionate and Faithful High Priest and Saviour one that can be touched with our Infirmities and succour those that are Tempted in their temptations and will not fail either his Father or us in any of all those things committed to him and required of him but will performe all the Counsel and Pleasure of his Will in what ever may concern us or our Salvation And all these also are true in themselves and of concernment to all whether they do know them or not believe them or not the Truth of them not depending upon Mens Knowledge and Faith of them but therefore they are worthy to be known and believed of Men because true for them and much good and benefit is to be met with in the hearty knowledge and belief of them SECT 5. How Christ hath broken and is the Breaker of the Head of the Serpent in what he hath done is become and is further to do for and to men BY what hath been hitherto said it may appear How Christ hath in himself Fundamentally broken the Head overturned the Plot and overthrown the Principality of Satan the Old Serpent over Man and how he is fitted further to break his Designes and destroy his Power against us For 1. Gen. 3.1 2. c. Whereas it was Satans design his Head and Plot to work an Everlasting Seperation between God and Man whom God hath made as an habitable part of his Earth for Wisdom Prov. 8.30 31. Jude 6.2 2 Pet. 2.4 Gen. 2.17 with 3.1 or his Son to delight in and to that purpose incited and drew Man to Sin against God by which He knew both by what he had proved from God for his own sin and by what he heard and knew was pronounced by God against Man in case of his sinning he should incur his displeasure to Death and so he thought he must have been for ever thrust out from God and seperated to Curse and Misery as himself is through what Christ hath done in his Death Sufferings and Sacrifice for Man in the Nature of Man Man on the contrary is more Exalted Honoured and brought nearer to God than before Gen. 3.21 Matth. 28.18 19.20 1 Cor. 15.45 Gen. 2.15 1 Pet. 3.21 Gen. 2 8 9 16 18. Col. 1.19 2.9 Psa 16.11 Gen. 1.26 27. Psal 8.3 4 5 6. Heb. 1.3 12.2 Ephes 1.20 21. Matth. 28.18 Phil. 2.10.11 Gen. 2.25 Rom. 3.23 John 17.4 5. Heb. 2.5 6 9. Phil. 3.21 Acts 26.13 Gen. 2.7 1 Cor. 15 45 47. John 5.21 25 28. Gen. 2.18 21 22 23. Eph. 5.25 26 27 30 31 32. for now he is become one with God as one of the persons of the glorious Trinity in the Person of Christ glorifyed and made a quickning Spirit for us Man had before a Paradise Man is now in Heaven on the Throne of God Man had all necessaries and delights in that Paradise and fellowship with God Man hath now all the delights and satisfactions of God being the habitation of the fulness of the glory of God all the fullness of the Godhead dwells in him bodily Man had dominion over all the Visible Creatures Beasts of the Field Fowls of the Air and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the Sea Man is now upon God's Throne of Majesty and hath all power in Heaven and Earth given to him Angels Principallities and Powers even the Devils too put under and made subject to him Man had great glory and comliness in his Body and needed not to have been ashamed though Naked Man hath the glory of God upon him yea is the brightness of his glory and the express character of his Person is clothed with Majesty and Honour his brightness greater than that of the Sun Man was made a living Soul but Man is now a quickning Spirit able to transfuse Life into others even into the Dead Man had a Meet-help made him there Man had a Church and Spouse given him here of his Flesh and of his Bones for the Propogation of Children to him an holy Seed for him a people Espoused and brought to him Rom. 7.4 Gen. 1.26 Col. 1.14 Heb. 2.5 6 7 8 9 15. Rev. 20.1 2 3 10. who is raised from the Dead that they might bring forth Fruit unto God Man was made in the Image of God there Man is the Image of the Invisible God here So that herein the Head and Plot of the Old Serpent is perfectly broken in Christ He is so far from having Dominion over Man that now Man hath it over him for ever so as he can never more be able to rise up