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Tricoenivm Christi in nocte proditionis suæ The threefold svpper of Christ in the night that he vvas betrayed / explained by Edvvard Kellett.
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Kellett, Edward, 1583-1641.
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and Aaron l Num. 33.1 Num. 33.1 The united hand of them or the hand of Moses upheld by Aaron or the hand of Moses and Aaron upheld by God These two Princes did not like Alexander the great and the greater Swede put themselves in jeopardy and fight like common souldiers but they chose a gallant young generall even Ioshua who led the battle with some chosen men and fought with Amalecke whilest Moses and Aaron and Hur stood on the toppe of the hill a place of sufficient safety and security with the rod of God in the hand of Moses m Exod. 17.9 Exod. 17.9 c. And though this were done after they were out of Egypt yet we may guesse at the order of things precedent by things consequent Suppose therefore Ioshuah leading the van-guard with armed men Princes of the Tribes heads of thousands in Israel n Num. 1.16 Numb 1.16 Preparing the way to their followers And these went more then five in a ranke with doubled trebled retrebled files and more and broader as occasion advised them to dilate or contract their fore-front sometimes like a Moone crescent sometimes perhaps like a wedge or in other severall formes and shapes wider or narrower more open or closer as the reason of warre directed In the midst of their army we may conjecture were placed their weaker ones their children and women and the mixt unarmed multitude which some doe equall in number to all the men of warre with their carriages and beasts flockes and herds and very much cattell o Exod. 12.37 Exod 12.37 Not an hoofe was to be left behind p Exod. 10.26 Exod. 10.26 For though it be said q Psal 105.37 Psal 105 37. There was not one feeble person among their Tribes which excluded sicknesse yet none can deny but children and women were weaker then men and the unarmed are weake being compared with the armed and though in their first setting out not one was feeble yet afterwards with marching divers were faint feeble and weary and became hindmost and being in the Reere and feeble behind them were cut off r Deut. 25.18 Deut. 25.18 Among which weaker and affrighted sort might be Miriam and Zipporah and other famous heroinae who to hearten the fearefull multitude might sing joyfull songs of deliverance and administer propheticall comfort sure I am that the people he brought forth with joy and his chosen with gladnesse or singing f Psal 105 43 Psal 105 43. Thus as some of the Egyptians were glad at their departure ver 38. So out of doubt were some of the Israelites also In cantu electos suos as Cajetan reads it cum jubilo saith Vatablus And yet before this came to passe there might be and was an hurrying haste and confusion for the words of the Psalmist have more especiall reference to what was done when they had safely passed over the red sea t Exod. 15.1 Exod. 15.1 Where Moses and the Israelites sang unto the Lord and Miriam the prophetesse the sister of Aaron tooke a timbrell in her hand and all the women went out after with timbrels and dances Miriam and the women answering Moses and the men ver 20. Now as Miriam performed a joyfull part when the danger was past So since God himselfe u Mic. 6.4 Mic. 6.4 saith He sent Moses and Aaron and Miriam before the Israelites recording her joyning in commission as it were with those two great Princes and Leaders I hope I have not much erred to place this prophetesse Miriam as a consorter in the beginning of the uprising of their army Indeed God afterwards appointed the Tabernacle to be in the middest of the campe of the Levites w Num. 2.17 Numb 2.17 And the uncleane were put out of the Campe x Num. 5.2 Numb 5.2 c. And Amaleke smote the hindmost of Israel all that were feeble behind thee when thou wast faint and weary y Deut. 25.18 Deut. 25.18 Lastly I opine that the other part of armed men and warriours under other Princes of the Tribes of their Fathers z Num. 1.16 Numb 1.16 led the rereward securing as farre as in them lay the unarmed casting themselves betwixt the mixt multitude and danger supplying the roome of a Port-cullis to a gate of a City the mighty men of warre opposing themselves as a flood-gate to keepe the waters from over-flowings and the perilous from doing perilous things which part of warte to act that is to secure a flight or retreate requireth most skill incurreth most difficulties makes as it were a Parthian fight and is reserved as a glory for the ablest men PAR. 27. AS for Vatablus and his Iewes their relation is of the Muster when God commanded Moses to set the army in order Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his owne Standard with the ensigne of his Fathers house a Num. 2 2. Numb 2.2 So besides the particular foure eminent Standards First of Judah on the East for he is first in place ver 3 Whatsoever the Iew or Vatablus hold under whom were quartered the other two Tribes of Issachar and Zabulon Then the Standard of Ruben on the South under which the Tribes of Simeon and Gad did march Then followed the Tabernacle of the Testimony and the Levites were in the middest of the Campe under their owne Standards ver 17. In the third eminent chiefe place was the Standard of Ephraim to the West and by it were the Tribes of Manasseb and Benjamin governed In the fourth quarter was the Standard of Dan to the North and under it were ranged the Tribes of Asher and Naphthâ—li So they pitched by their Standards and so they set forward every one after their Families ver 34. They had of the lesser sort Innumera penè vexilla abundance of Ensignes every Colonel perhaps every Captaine and other inferiour officers That this was the order at their first departure from Egypt cannot be prooved Some imperfect resemblance might there be but now at the Muster was the march made exquisite and perfect PAR. 28. MOre punctually concerning the nimble eating of the Passeover remember in generall both the generall reason immediately subjoyned It is the Lords Passeover and the speciall reason For I will passe through the Land of Egypt this night and will smite all the first borne So if you will avoyd the death of your first-borne kill the Passeover speedily rost it quickely eate it nimbly come not out of the house Lastly forget not the unusuall Ceremonies proving the speedy dispatch Thus you shall eate it ver 11. with your loynes girded your shooes on your feete your staffe in your hand PAR. 29. COncerning the girding of the loynes in the first place That the Iewes used to weare ordinarily loose hanging vestments is evinced because on extraordinary occasions they girded their cloathes to them for pendent and discinct cloathes are more offensive to travailers When Eliah was to runne
annexed unto the priviledges of their Primogeniture which ancient Custome they observed in this poynt not onely at the first Passeover but ever after even when the Priesthood was setled on Aaron and his sonnes or families unlesse they were defiled as 2 Chro. 30.17 or else some other great occasion interceded PAR. 3. THe first objection to the contrary Yea but it is said 1 Esdr as 7.12 The Levites offered the Passeover for all them of the Captivity and for their brethren the Priests and for themselves I answer as it is in the precedent verses They that were of the Captivity were not all sanctified together but the Levites were all sanctified together Want of sanctification might make them unfit who otherwise had right enough to have discharged the duty The second Objection Ezra 6.20 The Priests and the Levites were purified together all of them were pure and killed the Passeover for all the children of the Captivity and for their brethren the Priests and for themselves I answer the Priests and Levites extraordinary sanctification in the pollution of the multitude reached them out an handle on just opportunity to doe that which others might have done if they had beene truely sanctified This answer is confirmed 2 Chr. 30.17 Many in the Congregation were not sanctified therfore the Levites had the charge of killing of the Passeover for every one that was not cleane and the uncleane did eate it but not kill it And God heard the voyce of Hezekiah praying the good Lord pardon every one that prepareth his heart to seeke God though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the Sanctuary ver 18. and 19. Observe I pray you the force of the illative Therefore Therefore the Priests had the charge of killing the Passeover Why first because many in the Congregation were not sanctified Secondly They killed the Passeover for every one who was not there it is not said the Levites or Priests killed the Passeover for all and every one of the Congregation the cleane might sacrifice for themselves and their families but for every one that was not cleane did the Priests and Levites kill the Passeover Lastly some interprete the immolation by the Priests and Levites onely of the Paschalia sacrificia the Paschall Sacrifices so Barradius termeth them and not of the great passeover Sacrificium Pascha the sacrifice of the passeover but because there may seeme little difference in this distinction I rather diversifie it thus They slew and flayed the sacrifices of the Chagigah not of the Sacramentall Pascha of the Herd not of the flocke or if they did sacrifice any of the flocke Lambs Weathers or Rammes these were not for the first dish of the first Course the first night of the Paschall solemnity which was to be an unspotted Male under a yeare old c. but for the other second dishes of the second course or for other dayes of their great Septemdiale Festum Festivity of seven dayes PAR. 4. BEllarmin de missâ 1.7 Paterfamiliâs per se immolabat reliqui per patrem familiâs paterfamiliâs propriè per se immolante reliquis per illum immolantibus voluntate participatione in sacrificium consentientibus The Master of the Family killed the passeover by himselfe others by him and in him he properly they as Consentients and Co-parthers yet Bellarmin determineth not whether the eldest or chiefest of the Family were bound personally to doe it himselfe so bound that he could not depute another in his roome I for my part thinke that as the Primogenitus or First-borne did willingly and most ordinarily performe the duty in his owne person So there were divers dispensable occasions which might permit him to consigne over that office of preparing the passeover for some times to another in his place and as his substitute with vicariall power Barradius more peremptory than Belarmin saith Christ himselfe slew the passeover Where is his proofe That Christ himselfe might have slaine the passeover I deny not hee had a double right unto it first as Paterfamilias or Master of the Family secondly as he was a Priest spiritually of the order of Melchizedek and had the fountaine of all authority and Priesthood in him as he was the eternall Priest but â posse ad esse non valet consequentia from what he might have done to what he actually did doe is no good consequence or he might have done it Ergo he did doe it is no good Argument and the question is not de jure of the right but de facto of the deede This perhaps might be one reason why he designed others to slay the passeover lest if he had slaine it himselfe some mis-judging people might have beene deceived and perhaps thought him to be a Priest lineally descended from Levi or Aaron who were not excluded from slaying the passeover in their owne houses but Christs pedigree is not counted from Levi or his sonnes Heb. 7.6 nor is he to be called Priest after the order of Aaron ver 11. but appertaineth to another Tribe of which no man gave attendance at the Altar ver 13. For it is evident the Lord sprang out of Judah of which Tribe Moses spake nothing concerning Priesthood ver 14. Aquinas part 3. quast 22. Art 1. ad secundum thus Quia sacerdotium veteris Legis erat figura sacerdotii Christi noluit Christus nasci de stirpe figuralium sacerdotum ut ostenderetur non esse omnino idem sacerdotium sed differre sicut verum â figurali that is Because the Priesthood of the old Law was a figure of the Priesthood of Christ Christ would not be borne of the stocke of the Leviticall Priests that it might appeare that his Priesthood and theirs was not all one but that they did differ as the truth from the shadow PAR. 5. SVidas on the word Iesus saith the Iewes kept among their Archiva or Registries that Christ about thirtie yeares of age was chosen a Priest of their Law and thence taught in their Synagogues It is truth they delivered him the Scripture to interpret it Luke 4. but whether to intrap him or else in admiration of his learning or indesire to heare Novelties none knoweth Certainely Priests were Hereditary not Elective and Interpretation of Scripture belonged not to the Tribe of Levi onely for Act. 13.15 Paul who was of the Tribe of Benjamin was requested to exhort PAR 6. HE who diligently readeth the divine story shall find how First the Disciples were carefull to have the passeover provided Matth. 26.17 Mar. 14.12 Secondly our Saviour hearkened to their request as there it followeth Thirdly Christ made an exempt of his Disciples retaining some with himselfe and he sent others to make ready the passeover Fourthly those two whom he sent were none of the meanest but rather the chiefest of his Apostles S. Peter and S. Iohn as it is Luke 22.8 Fiftly in the sacrificing of the passeover you may observe these distinct