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A44137	A discourse of the knowledge of God, and of our selves I. by the light of nature, II. by the sacred Scriptures / written by Sir Matthew Hale, Knight ... for his private meditation and exercise ; to which are added, A brief abstract of the Christian religion, and, Considerations seasonable at all times, for the cleansing of the heart and life, by the same author.	Hale, Matthew, Sir, 1609-1676.	1688 (1688)	Wing H240; ESTC R4988	321,717	542

And the suffering of Christ without the Gate was not without some Allusion to the placing of this Altar without the Tabernacle Vide Heb. 13.12 And as the situation of the Altar so the Sacrifice upon this Altar not without a Mystery for besides those many Sacrifices which were diversified according to the several natures of the Occasion here was one Sacrifice appropriate to this Altar the continual Burnt-Offering a Lamb of the first year in the Morning a Lamb of the first year at Even Exod. 29.38 Numb 28.3 And the Spirit of Truth takes up this description of Christ more frequently than any John 1.29 Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world 1 Pet. 1.19 Redeemed with the precious blood of Christ as of a Lamb without blemish or spot Revel 5.6 The Lamb that was slain c. Revel 13.8 The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world And between this Altar and the Sanctuary stood the Laver of Brass not only typifying the Sacramental Initiation by Baptism but that Purity and Cleansing that is required of all those that partake of this Altar before they enter into the Sanctuary John 3.5 Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God As the Blood of Christ cleanseth from the Guilt of our Sin so it cleanseth us from the Power of our Sin before we are to expect an admission into the Sanctuary It was as well Water to cleanse as Bloud to expiate 6. The typifying of Christ in the Priesthood of Aaron and his Successors High Priests Divers of the Ceremonies especially in the Consecration of them were meerly relative to their natural pollutions and the cleansing of them Heb. 7 27. Offering Sacrifices first for their own Sins such was the Sin-offering Levit. 9.7 Levit. 8. ●4 Others in reference to their service and designation thereunto and exercise thereof as their washing with Water Levit. 8.6 Their anointing with the holy Oyl Ibid. Verse 12. The Ram of Consecration Ibid. Verse 22. Their residence at the door of the Tabernacle seven days Ibid. Verse 33. And some parts of his Garments But there were some things that in a special manner were typical of Christ 1. The Breast-plate of Aaron bearing the Names of the Children of Israel called the Breast-plate of Judgement Exod. 28.29 And Aaron shall bear the Names of the Children of Israel in the Breast-plate of Judgment when he goeth into the holy place for a memorial before the Lord continually importing not only the nearness of the Church and redeemed of Christ unto him but also his continual presenting of their Names their Persons in his Righteousness before his Father 2. The Plate of Gold upon the Mitre engraven with Holiness to the Lord Exod. 28.38 And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead that Aaron may bear the iniquity of their holy things that they may be accepted before the Lord. As our Persons are accepted by God in the Righteousness of Christ presented for them to his Father so our Services are accepted in the strength of the same Mediation Christ presenting our Prayers and Services to his Father discharged of those Sins and Defects with which they are mingled as they come from us 3. His Solemn Atonement when he entred into the Holy of Holies Levit. 16. Wherein we shall observe 1. A most special Reconsecration almost of all the things incident to that Service before it was performed the Priest was to make an Atonement for himself by the Blood of the Bullock Verse 11. and for the Altar Verse 18. which signifie that Purification of the Humane Nature of Christ from all Sin Original and Actual from all Sin even in his Conception that so he might be a fit High Priest Heb. 7.26 For such a high priest became us who is Holy Harmless Vndefiled Separate from Sinners and made higher than the Heavens The difference was this Aaron notwithstanding his first Consecration to his Office needed a new Atonement when he entred into the Holy of Holies and exercised that high Type of Christ's Ascension and Intercession But Christ being once Consecrate needed no new Consecration Heb. 7.28 For the Law maketh men High Priests which have infirmities but the Word of the Oath which was since the Law maketh the Son who is Consecrated for evermore 2. This was to be done but once in the year Some services had frequent iterations but those special Services that were but once in the Year were Types of those things that were to be done but once though remembred yearly such was the killing of the Passover Christ by one Offering hath perfected them that are sanctified Heb. 10.14 3. This great Atonement not made but by Blood Heb. 9.7 The high Priest entred not without Blood Livit. 26. And this Atonement was to be made upon the Horns of the Altar Levit. 16.18 viz. The Golden Altar of Incense Exod. 30.10 Hence Christ called the Blood of sprinkling Hebr. 12.24 The Offering that was to be used in this solemn Atonement for so much as concerned the Sins of the People were two Goats which were to be presented before the Lord at the door of the Tabernacle Levit. 16.7 And Lots to be cast one for the Lord the other for the Scape-Goat the former was to be the Sin-offering for the People and his Blood to be brought within the Veil Verse 23. And the other was to bear the Iniquity of the Children of Israel but to be sent into the Wilderness Ibid. Vers 21. Although in the Sacrifice of Christ his Body only died and his Soul escaped yet both were but one Sacrifice he did bear our sins in both his Soul was heavy unto death as well as his Body crucified and as God had prepared him a Body in order to this Sacrifice Heb. 10.5 So he made his Soul an Offering for Sin Isa 53.10 4. As after all this the Priest entred into the most Holy and presented this Blood of Reconciliation before the Mercy Seat and no Man was to be in the Tabernacle when he goeth in Levit. 16.17 So Christ having trodden alone the Wine press of his Father's Wrath Isaiah 63.3 Is entred into the Holy Place not made with Hands now to appear in the presence of God for us Hebr. 9.24 And as the People did representatively by their Mediatour Aaron pass into the Holiest so our High Priest hath consecrated for us Access into the Holiest by a new and living way through the Veil of his Flesh Hebr. 10.20 Who as he is our Advocate with the Father John 2.1 To bear our Names before him as the High Priest did the Names of Israel to present his own Blood before the Father of Mercy as the High Priest did the Blood of the Sin-Offering before the Mercy Seat to bear the Iniquity of our holy things as the High Priest did upon his Forehead so likewise to present our Prayers to the Father Ephes 2.18 Through him we have access

say upon found grounds the Lord is my Portion Psal 16.5 Like the Tree that Moses cast into the Waters of Marah Exod. 15.23 It makes those bitter Waters sweet and puts more Joy in my Heart than in the time that their Corn and their Wine increased Psal 4.6 But if it please him together with the Light of his Countenance to give me a competency of Externals to feed me with Food convenient for me with Agar Prov. 30.8 though with David Psal 23. my Cup runs not over yet if the Lord be the Portion of my Cup Psal 16.5 O Lord shouldest thou deny me all things even necessary for my present subsistence yet I have Portion enough in thy Favour and the Light of thy Countenance for which I owe thee more than all the thankfulness and strength of my Soul and such a Portion as would bear up my Heart in the midst of all my Exigences When thy Son bore our Nature in the Flesh though the sence of thy Love supported him yet he wanted things of convenience he became poor that we might be rich But if it shall please God to add the Blessings of his left hand to the Blessings of his right hand as rather than deny me the latter I beseech thee give me not the former If he shall bless me in the Fruit of my Body and my Ground and command a Blessing upon my Store-houses and all that I set my hand unto Deut. 28.4 8. I will learn to serve the Lord my God with joyfulness and gladness of Heart for the abundance of all things Deut. 28.47 to contemplate and bless that good hand of God that giveth me power to get Wealth Deut. 8.18 To look with more comfort and delight upon that Hand that gives than in the very Blessing that is given to set a watch over that evil and deceitful Heart of mine that is able to turn my Blessing into my Snare to beware lest when all that I have is multiplied my Heart be lifted up and I forget the Lord my God Deut. 8.13 14. To beware lest when my Riches increase I set my Heart upon them Psal 62.10 and trust in uncertain Riches 1 Tim. 6.17 To remember that I am but a Fiduciary a Steward of them they are not given me to look upon but to use them as one that must give an account of them to watch over my self that I use them soberly with moderation and as in his presence that I turn not the Grace and Bounty of God into Excess or Wantonness to look upon all the Goodness Comfort and Use of them as flowing from the Blessing and Commission that God sends along with them Eccles 2.24 That a man should make his soul enjoy good in his labour this also is from the hand of God To beware that the multiplication of Blessings do not rob my Creator of one grain of that Love Service and Dependance that I owe unto him to carry a loose affection towards them for it is infallibly true that where the Heart is truly set upon God and makes him his Portion it enables a Man equally to bear all Conditions because the object of his Soul is immutable and invaluable though his external Condition alter an accession of Externals may carry up such a Soul in a more sensible apprehension of the Goodness of him whom the Soul loves it cannot steal away one jot of that Love which it owes to the giver the Creature it self is of too low a value to diminish the Love to the Creator a Heart that is rightly principled cannot find any good in the Creature but what he will derive from and carry to the object of his Love. 3. The Pride of Life There are two great Cardinal Truths whereof if the Mind be soundly convinced it puts a Man in a right frame and temper of Spirit in the whole course of his Life 1. That there is an essential universal Subjection due from all Creatures to the Will and Power of God This is the ground of all true Obedience and all true Humility which is nothing else but a putting of the Mind into a Posture and frame answerable to that Position wherein by Nature it is framed a conformity of the Mind to the Truth and Station wherein it is set 2. That all Goodness Beauty and Perfection is originally in God and nothing of Good Beauty or Perfection is in any thing but derivatively from him according to that measure that he is freely pleased to communicate This keeps the Heart in a continual Love of him Dependance upon him and Thankfulness unto him From the Ignorance of those is the ground of all the Pride in the World which is nothing else but a false placing of the Mind in such a Condition or Station or the opinion of such a Station wherein in truth he is not and so it disorders the Mind it makes a Man that is essentially subordinate to God and depending upon him to place himself above God and to be independent upon him And though this false opinion cannot alter his condition in truth for he that hath said My Will shall stand cannot be removed by the pride or resistance of Man yet as to the Man himself it puts him out of his place and in the room of God And therefore above all other distempers of the Soul this is the most hateful to God for as the proud Man resisteth God and labours to get into his place so God resisteth him 1 Pet. 5.5 Prov. 3.24 And this Ignorance or not full subscription to these two Truths will appear to be the foundation of all the Pride in Men. 1. From the Ignorance of the former of the subjection we owe to God proceeds that Pride that manifests it self in Rebellion and Disobedience against God. God challengeth the subjection of our Wills to his as justly he may and Man will have his own Will take place Jer. 42.14 No but we will go into the ●and of Egypt Luke 19.14 We will not have this Man to rule over us And as among Men Pride is the Mother of Contention because it puts a Man out of that place wherein he is and he doth consequently put himself in the place of another and thence come Contentions so from this Pride of Men putting themselves into the place of God comes the contention between God and man He that hath said he will not give his Glory to another will not give his Place to his Creature but resisteth the proud And from this ignorance of that subjection we owe to God proceeds that Haughtiness and Arrogance which we find in the Spirits of Men Exod. 5.2 Who is the Lord that I should let the people go Job 21.15 What is the Almighty that we should serve him Dan. 3.15 Who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands This Ignorance was that which bred that haughty speech in Nebuchadnezzar Dan. 4.30 Is not this great Babylon c. Till God by his immediate hand

put into them and if he put not communicative good into the Creatures they will prove but empty Vessels unto me or such as are sealed up and cannot communicate that Good that is in them Without his particular Bounty unto me the Creature unto me will be but like the Prophet's Book which he that is learned could not read because it was sealed and he to whom it was opened could not read it because he was unlearned Either the Good that is in them is sealed up to me and it cannot be drawn out or I am sealed up to it and cannot draw it out Eccles 6.2 A man to whom God hath given riches wealth and honour so that he wanteth nothing yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof So then the conclusion of all is That all the Good that is in the things we enjoy and in the enjoyment whereof men account themselves happy and in the want whereof they account themselves miserable is but a derived Good from the chiefest Good but a portion of that Good which is in the chiefest Good But a Good at the second hand which at the first hand is to be found in all perfection in the chiefest Good And therefore if I can but enjoy the Presence and Communion of the chiefest Good I shall with and in him enjoy all that Good and far more in the Fountain though all the Conduits through which they are ordinarily derived to man by the Creatures are stopped to me It is an act of great Mercy and Wisdom in God that when the most part of men are led meerly by sense and understand not the presence of God and that All-sufficiency that is in him he is pleased to derive a suitable Good unto their Natures by such sensible instruments unto which men may resort and therein may find those Goods that are accommodate to their nature and condition as to Medicines and Physick for their health and cures to Bread and Meat for the supply of their hunger to Musick and Wine for refreshing their Spirits to Fortifications Confederacies and civil Conjunctions for preventing or repressing of injuries and the like for through these Chanels God is pleased to derive at the second hand and as it were at a distance that Good which men find in them But how great is that Mercy that discovers God himself to be near unto me and to compass me about and discovers in him a Sea of All sufficiency infinitely more than proportionable to all my Exigences and gives me an access immediately to that All-sufficiency where I shall find at the first hand all that Good that is strained and runs through the Creatures at a distance where I may and shall if I be not defective to my self most certainly have whatsoever the Creature can afford or what shall abundantly supply that defect to my greater advantage and contentment Is my Estate small and scarce holding proportion to my necessities The All-sufficient God is near unto me and he can protr●ct my Cruise of Oyl to my support But if he do not yet if he be pleased to be my exceeding great Reward Gen. 15.1 the portion of my inheritance and my cup Psal 16.5 I can chearfully and comfortably conclude with the same Prophet My lines are fallen in pleasant places and I have a goodly heritage and with the Prophet Habbac 3.17 Though the fig-tree shall not blossom neither shall there be fruit in the vine the labour of the olive shall fall and the field shall yield no meat c. yet I will rejoyce in the Lord I will joy in the God of my salvation I can bear all my wants with chearfulness and contentedness of heart because the All-sufficient God is present with me in whom I find more abundance of better comfort than I can find in all the Creatures of the World one that is not only essentially present with me but is pleased to evidence his presence unto me I have a plentiful inheritance and have not ●ar to it Is my reputation and name wrongfully blasted and withered yet the Great and Glorious God is present and if I can lay open my Conscience before him and can clear my self to him and can appeal to him who is present with my heart and all my actions and can receive an approbation from him I value not the esteems of men He is a shield for me my Glory and the lifter up of my head Psal 33. And if I am precious in his sight I am honourable enough Isa 43.4 He can clear up my reputation as the noon day and will do it if he see it fit for my Good and his own Glory But if he doth not his will be done I am contented and value not all the Scorns and Reproaches all the Contumelies and Disgraces all the Calumnies and Slanders laid upon me by men in comparison of that content satisfaction by the Presence of the God that sees and knows and justifies me Is the World stormy full of Wars and rapine and injuries exceeding the repression of Civil Justice The Presence of God is a strength to my Soul against all this and a greater security than the Munitions of Rocks and the strength of Armies He is a Shield Gen. 15.1 a Refuge Psal 9.9 a Rock a Fortress and Deliverer 2 Sam. 22.2 a Defence Psal 94.22 our Strength Psal 37.37 a Hiding place to preserve from trouble Psal 32.7 a present Help in time of trouble Psal 46.3 a Shelter in times of danger Psal 61.3 a Refuge from the storm a Shadow from the heat when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against a Wall Isa 25.4 The Lord of hosts is with us the God of Jacob is our Refuge Psal 46.17 under the shadow of his wings is our trust and safety Psal 36.7 Psal 57.1 a hiding place from the Councils and Contrivances Psal 64.2 and from the Injuries and Violence of men Jer. 36.26 If he please he can secure my Estate and my Body from violence But if he do not I am sure that my Treasure and my Life shall be secured for my life is hid with God in Christ I know he hath Wisdom enough and Power enough and Mercy enough to preserve me and he hath no need to be acquainted with my danger for he is with me neither have my desires any long or uncertain journey to him for he is with my thoughts and knows them before they are formed Isa 65.25 Before they can call I will answer And as long as I know that the Wise God is so near me I am sure of deliverance if it be convenient and if it be not Why should I be troubled if I miscarry And as thus my heart sensible of the Presence of God can entertain the dangers that seem to come from the hands of others so it will bear up the heart in all other sad occurrences of this life Is my mind full of perplexities and difficulties how or what to resolve the God of