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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	altar_n	heart_n	zion_n	32	3	8.2352	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50402	The law of God ratified by the gospel of Christ, or, The harmony of the doctrine of faith with the law of righteousness wherein many of the types and rites of the ceremonial law are unfolded, and the moral law adjusted a rule of holy living to all, though justified by faith / as it was delivered in several sermons preacht to the parochial congregation of Mayfield in Sussex by Mr. Mainard late rector thereof, publisht since his death.	Maynard, John, 1600-1665.	1674 (1674)	Wing M1450; ESTC R33505	161,259	298

so the people of God had need every day morning and evening to flee to Christ and to apply his sacrifice and satisfaction to themselves and through him to seek pardon of God for their dayly sins and infirmities every day sprinkling the blood of Christ the Lamb of God upon their souls 2. This may stir up Christians dayly to offer up a morning evening sacrifice to the Lord in confession of sins prayers praises thanksgivings We read of special blessings which the Lord vouchsafed at those times The King of Iudah Israel and Edom with their Army were in danger to perish for want of water and in this great distress they had recourse to the Prophet Elisha now it is said ver 20 and it came to pass in the morning when the meat-offering was offered that behold there came water by the way of Edom and the country was filled with water So Dan●ul having prayed with much importunity for the Church which was then in captivity saith the man Gabriel to wit the Angel Gabriel in the likeness of a man being caused to fly swiftly touched him about the time of the evening oblation and so as it followeth there opened the counsels of God unto him according to his request I conceive it is very probable that the people of Israel in their several houses did use to pour out their prayers to God about the time of the morning and evening sacrifices and that Daniel and others of the godly when they were in captivity did observe those times though then the Temple was destroyed and the daily sacrifice interrupted A second sort of Sacrifices were sin offerings this kind of offering is called in the Hebrew expresly Sin because in a typical or figurative way the guilt or sin of him for whom the sacrifice was offered was laid upon the creature sacrificed So the Apostle sheweth that God hath made him scil Christ to be ●in for us who knew no sin that we might be made the Righteousness of God in him The sin-offering called sin figured the imputation of mens sin to Christ who had no sin of his own bnt voluntarily took upon him the guilt of mens sins as a surety taketh upon him anothers debt 1. See here how exceedingly the Son of God abased himself for sinners as to stand under the guilt of numberless sins If we consider the infinite holiness glory and Majesty of Christ is it not evident that this degree of humiliation and abasement passeth all understanding Admire therefore his infinite love and unconceivable goodness which moved him hereunto Learn highly to exalt and honour him 2. See here the baseness of sin which th● abased the Son of God when he took the guil● of it upon him out of compassion to sinner● No outward estate condition calling imployment doth so abase any as the least sin doth in the Lord his account and yet ho● vain is the corrupt heart of man in being ashamed of many other things more th● of sin yea how many are there that ar● ashamed of holi●ess and ready to glory i● sin 3. If Christ did thus abase himself for th● sins of others as to be made a sin-offering or to be made sin by imputation How shoul● we take shame to our selves and be exceedingly humbled and abased for our own sins As David I have sinned greatly in that I ha● done I have done very foolishly And 〈◊〉 I abhor my self and repent in dust 〈◊〉 ashes 2. The blood of the sin-offering was to sprinkled seven times before the Lord and se● is noted for a number of perfection The Sou● and Consciences of sinners are so deeply sla●ned and defiled with sin that they nee● much purging How often should we labo● by ●aith to sprinkle the blood of Christ upon our souls and to apply it to our selves This blood of the sin-offering was to b● sprinkled seven times before the vail of 〈◊〉 holy place so it is the blood of Christ 〈◊〉 maketh way for believers to the mercy-seat which their sins had shut up against the● Having therefore Brethren boldness to ente● into the holiest by the blood of Jesus by a new and living way which he hath consecrated for us through the vail that is to say his flesh and having an high-priest over the house of God let us draw near with a true ●eart in full assurance of faith having our hearts sprinkled from an evil Conscience and our bodies washed with pure water with hearts and souls sprinkled with the blood of Christ by faith and so purged from the guilt of sin and bodies washed with pure water being baptized outwardly and inwardly with water and the sanctifying graces of the holy spirit 3. Some of the blood was to be put upon the horns of the sweet incense Altar scil the Golden Altar so Christians are to ground their faith and confidence in offering up the Incense of prayer upon the blood and Mediation of Christ having no hope of acceptance but only through him and his satisfaction and intercession The Golden Altar being a type of Christ as he intercedeth for his people The blood of the sin-offering put upon this Altar may intimate unto us that Christ intercedeth with his Father and pleadeth for his people by presenting to him his blood the merit of his death and fulness of his satisfaction which he underwent not for himself who had no need but for them 4. The fat of the Inwards Kidneys c. were to be burned upon the Altar The fat may signifie carnal security senselessness and sottishness in heavenly and spiritual things Make the heart of this people sat and make their ears heavy and shut their eyes and the Kidneys and fat upon them may signifie fleshly lusts and therefore as these things were consumed by fire upon the Altar so let Christians earnestly pray and labour for more and more of the spirit of Christ to consume and burn up their earthly and carnal affections and sinful lusts And it shall come to pass that he that is left in Sion and he that remaineth in Ierusalem shall be called holy even every one that is written among the living in Hierusalem when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the Daughters of Sion and shall have purged the blood of Hierusalem from the midst thereof by the Spirit of Iudgement and by the spirit of burning 5. The skin of the Bullock for the sin-offering and all his flesh with his head and with his leggs and his inwards and his dung even the whole Bullock was to be carried without the Camp where the Ashes were poured and there to be burnt and as this was to be done without the Camp while they were in the Wilderness as they were when these things were written so it seemeth after they were settled in Canaan it was done without the City The Apostle giveth us

to another looking towards the mercy-seat so the holy Angels attend upon God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ for the service of his Church ministring for them who shall be heirs of salvation They are ready with their wings stretched out to execute the will of Christ and do his pleasure for the protection and good of his people 2. The holy Angels look into the mysteries of Christ in his Gospel as the Cherubims toward the Ark and mercy-seat which thing the Angels defire to look into And the Apostle having spoken of the glorious Mysteries of Christ in the Gospel made known to him by revelation and made known by him in his Ministery who preached among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ addeth this to the intent that now unto the Principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the Church the manifold wisdom of God How inexcusable is the negligence of those that will not take pains to be acquainted with the mysteries of Christ which the glorious Angels did search into Ninthly The fire that was used in the sacrifices of the Law may be considered 1. As the fire burned the Sacrifices which were offered to the Lord so the fire of Gods wrath fell upon Christ for the sins of the world when he offered himself in sacrifice to his Father to satisfie his justice and therefore he was in a grievous agony and his sweat was it as were great drops of blood falling down to the ground and he complained my soul is exceeding sorrowful even unto death And when he was upon the Cross he cried out with a loud voice saying My God My God why hast thou forsaken me 1. See here the Love of Christ toward sinners interposing himself between the burning wrath of God and them that which was of such a scorching heat to him would have been a consuming fire to them 2. How should the hearts of believers be inflamed with love to Christ who endured the flames of divine wrath to save them from everlasting burnings 3. How restless should all be until they are sound in Christ that his righteousness may shelter them from the fire of Gods wrath How unsufferable will that be to them which was so grievous to him Secondly This fire came from Heaven there came a fire out from before the Lord and consumed upon the Altar the burnt-offering c. And so in the Temple built by Solomon fire came down from Heaven and consumed the burnt-offering and sacrifices so the Lord sends down that heavenly fire of his spirit upon his people to consume their dross warm their hearts with holy flames of love and zeal refine their spirits So Christ is said to Baptize his people with the holy Ghost and fire Thirdly This fire was to be kept burning upon the Altar continually and never to go out Christians having once the heavenly fire of grace and holy affections kindled in their hearts by the spirit of Christ should labour to keep it continually burning take heed of quenching the Spirit Tenthly The Vail may be taken notice of The Apostle intimateth a twofold va●l for he speaketh of a second Vail I conceive then this second and inward Vail was that which was hanged before the most holy place and the first was that hanging mentioned there being three Courts in the Tabernacle the first and outermost where the people were the second where the Priests were between the which two was the first Vail the third which was the most holy place into which went none but the High-priest and this was divided from the middle Court by the second Vail So the Mysteries of the Gospel were hidden in a great measure before Christ his coming in the flesh by a Vail of Ceremonies which are now revealed in Christ at whose death the Vail of the Temple was rent in twain from the top to th●● bottom CHAP. VI. Something may be spoken also of Sacred Observances which were required of Israel under the Ceremonial Law these being 〈◊〉 many and of great variety I intend to touch some of them and pass by the 〈◊〉 And 1. Consider that restraint that was laid upon them in the use of the Creatures many of these they were forbidden to eat as being unclean not in their own Nature but by the ordinance of God in this Law of Ceremonies 1. This sheweth whereas Israel and other Nations were all alike by Creation being all ●ade of one blood in the first man and wo●●n from whom they all descended as so many branches of one common root or stock ●nd were all alike corrupted by sin unclean in the sight of God and children of wrath yet the Lord according to the Counsel of his own will was pleased to make a diffe●●nce or distinction separating the Nation 〈◊〉 Israel from the rest of mankind conse●rating the people of Israel as a peculiar people to himself and rejecting the rest as ●nclean So it is said to Israel Thou art an ●oly people to the Lord thy God and the Lord ●ath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself above all the Nations that are upon the Earth Then followeth this prohibition restraining them from eating divers Creatures The Lord hath chosen Iacob for himself and Israel for his peculiar Treasure He sheweth his word unto Iacob his statutes and his Judgements to Israel He hath not dealt so with any Nation and for his Judgements they have not known them Balaam extolling the priviledges of Israel among other passages saith For from the top of the Rocks I see him and from the Hills I behold him Loe the people that dwell alone and shall not be reckoned among the Nations although Balaam spake it yet the Lord put the word in his mouth The people of Israel dwelt alone being separated by the Lord from the rest of the world as a peculiar people and Church of God and was not reckoned among the Nations they were not put into the common account and therefore the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 translated Gentiles and Heathen signifying properly Nations and being used in Scripture for all people except the people of Israel agree exactly with this passage and shewe●●● that Israel was not reckoned among the Nations 1. This sheweth that the Lord as a Soveraign a supreme and absolute Lord dealeth with his creatures according to his pleasure What man is able to give a reason why this people should be preferred above all others That for so many hundred years the rest of the world should be excluded as aliens from the common-wealth of Israel c. and Israel alone taken into Covenant with God It was not for any Righteousness the Lord sound in them as Moses told them understand that the Lord thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it