ignorantly taught but a Leuit. Togither with the Lawes Morall and Ceremoniall the Lord gaue Iudiciall Lawes by whose Exercise the breaches of the former might be corrected All these 3. sortes of Lawes were for their Outward Face or Leâ—â—â—â— peculiar vnto Canaan the Land of Promise DEVT. 4. 5. 12. 13. 14. 27. 28. c. Deut. 13. 5. 9. 10. 11. c. In the first Commaundement of the second Table Children are commanded to Honour Parents the Blessing therefore appointed being They the Parents should giue them long life in Canaan not in the Wildernes or other places of the Worlde By all which as I obserue Iehouah his Eye looking in the guift of all these Lawes specially to Canaan so I cannot but mightilie marvel at our ignorant frantick Spirits that vrge Iudiciall Government Litterall government on the Newe Testaments Churches Churches of the Gentiles To these fanaticall Spirits the Reading of Moses as vnto the Iewes is a Covering 2. Cor. 3. 15. vrging Letter in steed of Spirit The Spirit or inward soule of all them Laws continue in Christ but the Letter or externall face is done away This is called in comparison of the former Grace and Truth IOHN 1. 17. Let R. Bro. then and his giddie headed Opinatours not any longer teach that our Princes should Iudaize Canaan was vnder that whipping-Schoole-master not Ierusalem that is from aboue 22. Staffe The Patterne of the a Tabernacle there Delivered was and every holy Law By which the Israelites their God shuld feare As of his Ministers eke stand in awe For Tabernacles service God did take b Levi his Tribe and of them Priests did make a Moses being in the Moâ—nt 40. daies and 40. Nights the Lord here instructed him concerning the form of the Tabernacle wherein the Priests and Levites were to Minister as also wherein the People should assemble The Tabernacle was distributed into 3. special Roomes The vttermost was called the Court into it Prince and People came The inner roome was called Holy therein the Priests ordinarilie Sacrificed The innermost roome was called Most Holy therein the High-Priest entred to sacrifice but Once a year Nowe for the stuffe it should consist of wherewithall be covered how fashioned where placed what Instruments should bee vsed in it c. allthis was commaunded to Moses neither might he Adde destract or Alter any iod thereof neither did he for he was faithfull in All his House Heb. 3. 5. b As the Tribe of Levi was chosen to service of the Tabernacle so neither might they meddle therewith in their vnripe yeares for boyes are vnfit for holy Ministrie At 25. yeares they entred into the Tabernacle for doing common inferiour duties as also to see and behold their Elder Brethren howe they slaughtered the Beastes howe they cut them vp and disposed things And shall wee admit foolish Boyes or Foole-Elders into the Church there to meddle with the worde before they haue learned Orthoto-mein To Cut or Divide The word aright Secondly the Levites having spent some 5. years that way then at 30. they begun to serue At 50. yeares the time of impotencie they were not exalted into higher roomes for there was no higher for them but discharged of the former painefull place for all this Compare Nombers 4. 47. with Nomb. 8. 24. 25 26. The Priests lippes were to preserue knowledge and the People were to seeke the Lawe at his mouth Malachi 2. 7. and herewithall Moses charged Levi Deut. 33. 8. 10. 1. The People bringing Beastes to the doore of the Tabernacle that they might bee slaughtered for sinne did thereby professe the necessitie of the Death of the Promised Seede for sinne as also 2. by putting their hand on the Beasts heade they professed that themselues deserved the same death for Sinne. 3. And in as much as they brought the Beastes to be offered vp not by their owne hand but by the Priestes they thereby professed that it was not in their owne power to sacrifice for the least Sinne but that it must be offered vp by him that was figured out vnder that Priest-hood namely by Christ who was both the Sacrifice and Sacrificer 4. By the High-Priest his once a yeare entring into the Holiest place was more plainly typed foorth the Messiah who Once should offer vp for altogither Heb. 7. 27. a Sacrifice and oblation that neither needed to be offered vp daily as were the former nor cannot be offered by any but by him that is Priest not according to Levi on whome Rome holdeth her Priest-hood but according to the order of Melchisedech but of Christ himselfe that is testified Heb 7. 17. namely that onely to HIM that Everlasting Priest-hood was committed a Priest-hoode that needeth no Successor as did Aarons because they were ever dying for this Priest continueth for ever with his One sufficient perfect Sacrifice Heb. 7. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. That Bread and Wine therefore left by Christ vnto his Church hath beene improperlie called a Sacrifice seeing they are but Signes of that Sacrifice Signes of that Body and Blood Nor yet Naked Signes but Signes exhibitiue sealing as verily Christ vnto the soules of the Faithfull as they verilie receiue into their mouth the Bread and wine Their Mouth no more surely receiveth the Signes then their Soule the Tâ—ing signified 5. By the Peoples washings and Purifyings they professed what puritie was required of such as bare the Name of IEHOVAHS Israel 6 By the Priests Garments as also other their pure observations they were taught howe Pure Spotles and without Sinne the exspected Priest Messiah shuld be Neither might such having fallen from IEHOVAHS service to Idoles minister before the Alter againe but onely after Repentance were to bee exercised in common Leviticall duties Ezech. 44. â—0 11. 12. 13. Some hereupon haue taught that in like Sorâ—e He that should slide from the true Christian worship vnto the Idolatrous Christian worship should ever aâ—ter that stand vncapable of any ministeriall place in Christs Church But their ignorance in This as in Other things deepely appeareth in labouring to make an open Dissimilitude a Similitude 1. Them Levites fell away from a ministeriall calling but some of these Christians did fall but as Private men 2. The Levites fell from open trueth to open grosse Idolatâ—â—â— even to the Idols of the Gentilesâ— as for these Christians they fell divers of them vpon a doubting of the truthâ— theâ—e they fell vnto being likewise Professours of Christ 〈◊〉 for the Name of Christ whereas the Levites fall was 〈◊〉 inexcusable and more too as if a Christian should become a Iewe or Turke 3. The Levites falling they served before the Idoles so haue not many of these during their fall 4. The Levits returning by Repentance were not debarred all Ministeriall service but they wold debarre the poore Christians simplie for ever from all office Ministeriall 5. If it may please them to ponder the Lord his Word better before they publish their owne Word
not there for this cause Blessed Iohn in his 13. Chap. 30. Verse saith As soone as he namely IVDAS had received the soppe he went immediatly out Now the Soppe was no part of this Newe Supper but appertaining to the old Testaments Supper if therefore Iscariot went out from them Immediatly vpon the receipt of the Soppe and so saith Iohn then went he out to go vnto the high Priests before the Institution of the Newe Supper and this let the godlie hearted consider d As the Paschal Lambe preached vnto them their deliverance in and out of Aegypt the Land of Boundage whereof I spoke in his place so this Bread and wine sacramentallie preacheth our deliverance from the power of Sinne and Sathan by the Body broken and the Blood shed of IESVS vpon the Crosse. And as the Sacramentall Lambe was called by IESVS the Passe-over Luke 22. 11. though it was but the Signe of the Angels passing-over Israels houses so he calleth this Sacramentall Bread and Wine his Body and bloode though in deede but a Signe of his body and blood the memoriall of whose death we therein are to celebrate vntill his last comming That Circumcision was called the Covenant though but a signe of the Covenant that the Paschal Lambe was called the Passe-over though it was but a signe of the Passe over that Baptisme is called our sanctification and cleansing Ephes. 5. 26. though it be but a signe of our sanctification that the Bread and wine in that Sacramentall Supper are called the body and blood of Iesus thogh they be but the Signes of his body and blood it is as to teach vs that they are signes so that they are not naked or bare signes but Signes exhibitiue offering and giving to the faithfull Person aswell the thing signified as the outwarde signe and signifier No marvell then if they be Sacraments of Grace and divine favour e As al that entred the Church entred by Baptisme so all that once weâ—e within the Church being able to discerne the Lords body were to be fed in this Supper that in remembrance that Christ Iesus dyed for them f Mount Olivet had betweene it and Ierusalem the Valley of Iehosophat His ascending the Mount to pray must teach vs to ascend in our spirits when wee praye for Praier is a conversing with the God of Heaven seatedâ—aboue all our Earthlie thoughtes g Iscariot vpon the receipt of the Soppe going forth he went to the high Priestes for betraying of Iesus They let him haue a band of armed men who with Lanterne light go to seeke the Lord of Light the natural light an iâ—strument of betraying the supernaturall light of the Church The greatest men not alwaies the wisest men nor yet the multitude alwaies walking in the waies of life as nowe here 8. Staffe They come with a Clubs his word doth throw theÌ„ down Before b high Priests sweet lesus he is brought Before c Pilate then chiefest in the Towne Where d rascall rout His death and ending sought In fine he was condemned to the e Tree Where twixt f two theeues he g died right patiently a They come to take him with Clubs glaues that never vsed to resist with weapons Thus nowe a daies they hale his members as though they had to deale with swash-bucklers when alas they haue learned and taught not to smite with the sword lest they should in Iustice perish with the sword b Though there should by the Law haue bene onely One High Priest at one time yet now so corrupt they were as there were two high Priests the one having purchased his rome by Simonie Symon Magus his oyntment c This Pilate as Iosephus Ben-Matthias writeth Lib. 2. de Bello IVD Cap. 8. was sent from Rome to Ierusalem by Tiberius Cesar who on a night getteth convayd into Ierusalem Cesars Images by reason whereof a great tumult within three daies arose For the Iewes held it vtterlie vnlawefull to place any such Image in the Citie To the Citizens other people without repaire to the house Cesarea where Pilate lodged They request that the Images might be had away Hee denieth They continue vnmoueable 5. daies and so many nights After Pilate commaunding his Souldiers to prepare their swords for slaughtering them Iewes the Iews willinglie hold downe their necks as willing to lose life ere they admitted them prophane Images Pilate wondring thereat without more adoe packe the Images out of the Citie Flavius Iosephus remembers this but will not once remember Iesus and his People Hee writing against Appion the Mock-Iewe doth say that for envy others in their antiquities woulde not remember the Iewes and their glorious Acts so of him I may say that such a Mock-Christ disdaineth to remember Iesus and his most woorthie Actes though liuing within and after Iesus his time Yet farefall Iosephus Ben-gorion for hee not onely remembreth IESVS for a Man but afterwardes by Correction addeth If it be lawfull to call him a Man affirming withall That his People put that IESVS to death not vnderstanding the Prophets as also That his Disciples greatly grewe and multiplied Before this Pilate was Iesus brought Pilate indeede after examination being much vnwilling to condemne IESVS but loving the praise of men more than the praise that is of God he finally condemned him d The rascall rout coveting rather that Barrabas the Murderer should haue life yea they cryed out Let his bloode be vpon vs and our Children That his blood fell notablie vpon them hath bene apparant notablie in this That the Lord hath made them slaues to all Nations and their Name odious to every People e The deth on the Crosse or Tree was the most notable infamous and cursed maner of death was then Necessary it was that not onely he should dy the death but most shamefull death that so death and shame might bee consecrated to his suffering Members f Both these Theues blaspheming Iesus at first Mat. 27. 44. soone after one of them hath his heart and tongue converted Luke 23 40. His vnfeigned repentance hee testified first in reproving his fellowes continued blasphemie Secondly in acknowledging God his hand iust against them both because of former ill Thirdly by defending the cause of Iesus for Innocent when neither his Mother nor any of his Disciples durst speake That his Repentance was liuely and sprong of Faith appeareth first by his believing that Iesus was the King of Heaven Secondly by the guift of holv praier bursting then from his beleeving heart in these words Lord remember me when thou comest in thy Kingdome to whome Iesus replied This daye shall thou be with me in Paradise Mark that the second Adam breakes open the doore into Paradise from whence olde Adam caused vs to be barred Betwixt these two Theeues the one a sheep the other a Goat a figure of the latter Iudgment Iesus our brazen Serpent was lift vp The murmuring Israelites being stinged in the Wildemes there was at the Lords commaund a
against the Prophet that denounced Iudgement against the Alter in Bethel that hand of his withered He beseecheth the prayer of the Prophet who praieth vnto God wherevpon the hand was healed At this time the Prophet plainly saide that A Childe should bee borne vnto the house of David Iosiah by name who vpon that Alter should sacrifice the Idole Priestes This was spoken 300. veaâ—s before Iosiah was borne Ieroboam dyeth an Heade Idolater hauing raigned 22. yeares 2 Nadab his Sonne was half King in his Fathers two last yeares for he begun his Raigne in the 2. yeare of Asa king of Iudah 3 Bâ—asa killed Nâ—daâ— and raigned over Israel 24. yeares He consumes Ieroboams house His raigne beginneth in Asa his 2. yeare 4. Elah his sonne was Vice-roy in Baasa his 2. latter yeates for he begun his raigne in the 26 yeare of Asa. 5 Zimri slewe his M. Elah Against Zimri ariseth Omri Zimri buâ—nes himselfe in the Kinges house togither with the house Omri maketh pla gye Statutes Against him ariseth Tibni but Omri prevailed He raigneth the Rivals time ioyned to his 12. yeares 6 Ahab an evil slip of Omri followeth beginning his Raigne in Asa his 38. yeare Hee married with vncircumcised Iesabel Daughter to the Zidonian King He bad Shee worse the Devill put them togither In his time Eliiah the Prophet was famous He reprooued Ahab for reaving Naboth of his Life and Vineyarde telling him plainely that his House should come to nought and that painted Iâ—sabel was destinat for Dogs-meat and so it felâ—out for Iehu afterwards caused her to bee cast downe from a loâ—t They that doe humble themselues shall be lift vp but the proude God resisteth and will cast downe Hee raigned 22. yeares 7 Achâ—ziah his Son begunne to Raigne in Iâ—hosâ—phat his 17 yeare He Raigned two yeare which fell out in his Father Ahabs 20. and 21. yeare 8 IORAM his brother began to Raigne in his Father Ahabs 21. and 22. yeares of his Raigne which was in the 18. and 19. of Iosaphat of IVDAH and in the second yeare of IORAM Iâ—hosophaâ— his Sonne then halfe King with Iehosophat his Father This man took away the Image of Baal which his Father made but yet stood an Ido ater With this fellowe Iehosâ—phat of Iudah did go to warre with Moab for the King of Moab having become tributarie to Ahab he now Ahab dead rebelled Now Elâ—sha or Elâ—seus the Prophet is famous and therefore before their going vp with him â—he Kings consulted who assureth them of victorie Having raigned 12. yeares Ioram died 9 Iehu is annointed King Hee slayeth Iezabel and all Ahabs house for Nabaoths bloode cryed for bloode as did Habels He maketh Baals Priests beleeue that hee would sacrifice before the Idole All the Priestes gather for that supposed sacrifice They being once in BAALS house he shew them all Notwithstanding for this was but a starting Zeal he afterwards fell to palpable Idolatrie all Isrâ—â—l became so notably wicked as IEHOVAH loathed Israel in somuch as Hazael of Aram in Syria smot them in all the coastes of Israel Iehu having raigned 28 yeares he dyed 10 Ioachaz or Iehoachaz his sonne succeeded beginning his raign in the 23. yeare of Ioasâ— of Iudah He following the waies of Ieroboam the Son of Nebat caused Israel to sinne for which the Lorde gaue them into the hands of Hazael King of Aram and into the handes of Benâ—adab King Hazael his sonne Hee raigned 17. yeares and dyed 11 Iehoash or Ioash Son of Iehâ—â—haz or Ioachaz beginneth Goverment in the 15. of his father that being the 37. of Amaziah of Iudah Hee raigned 16. yeares Being provoked by Amaziah he went against him tooke him captiuâ— and then went to Ierusalem making much spoyl In this mans time holy Elisha after many miracles wroght dieth 12 Ieroboam his Son succeeded Hee begun his raigne in his Fathers last year that being the 15. of Amaziah of Iudah Hee Raigned 41. yeares In his time the Prophet Ionah was sent by the Lord to Niniuie the Metrapolitane Cittie of Assâ—ria there to proclaime Iudgment against the Cittie Hee imagining small credite by such a Sermon doth by Sea flie another way The Lord by a Tempest â—ursues him The Marâ—â—neâ—s cast out Ionah A Whale receiveth him who after 3. daies casteth Ionah vppon Land So was the Earth the third daye to deliver vp Iesus Mat. 12. 40. Neither Earth nor Sea can hide or drown that true Lighâ— which God hath appointed to be declared to a People After Ionah his being cast vpon the shore the Lord renueth his Mandat he goeth to Niniuie and proclaimeth destruction after 40. daies They at the first hearing belieued that they thereâ—ore generaâ—ly humble them selues and for that time are spared This King restored the coast of Israel from the entrie of Hamath vnto the Sea of the wildernes according to the worde of the Lord by IONAH the Sonne of Amâ—â—â—ai the Prophet which was of Gatâ—-Hepher But this Ierobaâ—m followed the steppes of the first Ieroboam In his time begun likewise Amos and Hosheah to Prophecie 13 Israels Kingdom thencefooâ—th vnstayed for 22 yeares full even vntill Zachâ—rie Nowe Hoshâ—ah plainly telleth Israâ—l that shee was not IEHOVAHS wife Here was like Priest like People 14 Zâ—chariah Ieroboaâ—â— his Sonne begâ—n to Raign in the 38. yeare of Azariah King of Iudah 2 King 15. 8. which was fulliâ— 22. years after his Fathers death A wicked man was hee and therefore slaine by Sâ—allum the sonne of Iâ—besh and that in the Peoples sight He raigned but 6. Moneths 15 Shaâ—lum hauing slaine Zechariah begun to raigne in the 39. year of Aâ—â—riaâ— of Iâ—dah Against him riseth Mâ—nâ—heâ— the sonne of Gadi who slew Shallum in Samaria So that hee raigned but a Moneth 16 Menahem immediatlie vppon Shallums death beginneâ—h his regiment and hee raigned 10. years But vnto him the Citie Tâ—rzah in Israel wouâ—d not open her gates He therfore smot it and ript vp all their women with child Now God stirred vp Pul the Assyrian King against Israel who puld 1000. Talents of Silver from Menahem which Menahem puld from Israel 17 Pekachiah his son begun to raigne in the 50. yeare of Azariah of Iudah He raigned two years and was slaine by his Captaine Pekah in Samaria 18 Pekah the Son of Remaliah begunne to raigne fullie in the last yeare of Azariah of Iudah Hee raigned in Samaria Metrapolitane of Israel 20. years In his time Tâ—glah Pileser king of Ashur came vp and tooke divers Cities and carrved the People away to Ashur Hosheâ— the son of Elah slayeth Pekah 19 The States of Israel now governe for 9. yeares thogh vnder Tiglath Pâ—â—eeser who had before tyme captived them 20 Hoshea called also Osee beginnes his raign in the 12. yeare of Ahaz of Iudah and a bad man he was Against him Iehovah sendeâ—â— Sabnanesar King of Ashur who took Hoshea prisoner after 3. yeares besieging Samaria which was the 9. yeare of Hoshea his
brazen Serpent set vp on which who so looked they were cured That figured our Iesus on whome no person by the eye of faith can look but loe they are cured of Satan and sinnes sting let the repentant Theefe witnes that who entred Paradise heavenly the sixt day as Olde Adam the same daye and like ynough the same houre was driven out of the Earthly In Matthewe 10. we are willed to be as Serpents that is to bee like them in something not in every thing Though we be wise as Serpents yet let vs be without sting as was Iesus and the Serpent his figure Nay let vs labour to heal others that are stinged and not sting and bite others lest we be bitten and consumed of others g After many mocks revilings the adversaries giving him bitternes to drink he gaue vp the ghost saying It is finished And here was the perimplishment of Daniels halfe week of yeares for now the Vaile of the Temple rent in two so that the common people might steppe out of the Temples Courâ— into the Holy-place and be their owne Priests in offering vppe a rent heart for nowe Iesus our high Priest entred into the Most holy of the Heavens there to make continuall intercession for vs. At the renting of the Temples Vaile the Iewes might haue learned that then there was an end of Levies ministerie the Priest according to Melchisedeks order having made a newe and liuing way vnto the Father throgh the vaile of his flesh a way for every man that commeth vnto the Father by him for not in the Name or power of any other than Iesus is Salvation to bee accomplished for through Iesus even as wee are members knit vnto him we are made not onely Kings over Satan sin death but also Priestes for lifting vp pure handes without wrath and doubting in all places wheresoever Much of the Epistle vnto the Hebrewes is spent in perswading this neither yet knowe they Christ rightly that knowe not this 9. Staffe He dead a they seale the stone vpon his Tombe But b Third day he ariseth powerfullie Good c Magdalen early to graue doth come Anone Iesus speaks to her cheerefullie d Ten times he did appeare in 40. daies Then calles the Twelue and thus to them he saies a Ioseph of Aramathea having of Pilate obtained Iesus his body and Nicodemus hauing brought one hundreth pound waight of Myrrhe and Aloes they take the body wrap it in lynnen with the odours and burie him in a new Sepulcher within a Garden neete to his suffering place He so buried the high Priests and Pharisies come to Pilate who by common agreement appointed certaine Souldiers to watch the Tombe vntill the third day lest his Disciples should steale him away and so it should be bruted that Iesus rose the Third day as he had promised Therewithall they sealed the Cover-stone as Darius sealed Daniel in the Lyons denne b The third day which was the first day of the weeke he rose from the deade The 6. day of the weeke Heathen-like called Fryday hee departed this mortal life and so entred into Paradise aboue forefigured by Paradise belowe even as Adam on the 6. day through sinne begunne this mortall life and therewithall was expulsed the Lowe Paradise the first figure of Heavens blisse The 7. daye Pagan-wise caled Satur-day the first Adam rested out of Paradise but our second Adam rested in Paradise for as his spirit rested in his Fathers handes so his body in the Earth did feele no corruption Act. 2. 31. This thwarts our disputers about Descension into Hell Having so finished Moses week Iesus ariseth on the next day after the 7. which day as hereto fore in some respect I called the 8. daye so in simple proprietie it is the First day of the week prophanely called Sun-day As our Lord rose this daye so Revel 1. it is called therefore the Lords day As Iesus rose from the power of death Moses his Law having done what it could so like a Samson of Samsons hee caries that Cities gates away on his shoulders and vp he mounteth for our Iustification No marvell then if his Rising-day be our Rest-day and that day we celebrate in meditating of our second Creation and Resurrection even as the first Sabaoth was appointed to bee spent had Adam stoode in meditating the first Creation and Adam falling then appointed to further meditation as first of Creation secondly of the Fall thirdly of Restauration in the promised Seede Moses from the beginning of Creation to the end of Deuteronomte and then from Ioshuah to the end of the Old Testament hee and all the Canonicall writers vse to entitle the daies onely thus the First Second Third Fourth Fift Sixt Seauenth Daye Throughout the Newe Testament the daies haue no other names but wee will not be so precise as to speak like Moses to speak like Christ to speak as the wordes of God Nay if a man so tearme the daies he shall be called Puritane Heretike Howe will our Im-puritanes be pleased if so we cal them Sun-day Moone-day c. Hearken to Venerable Bede His nomina a Planetis Gentilitas indidit c. To these 7. daies Gentilisme did attribute the Planets names beleeving that they had their Spirit of the Sunne the body of the Moone the blood of Mars wit and tongue of Mercuri of Ioue tempetance of Venus lust of Saturne slownes Let men nowe either tip their tongue with the holy Ghosts tearmes or at least not bee offended with such as disdaine to fashion themselues to the Gentiles c As Marie had much forgiven so shee-loved much Her loue partly appeared in this her earlie repaire to the Sepulcher Before her comming an Angel from Heaven had rowled the sealed stone aside Iesus was risen and the hyred watchmen were gone to the Rulers who bribed the Soldiers to the end they should say that Iesus his Disciples had in the night stole away the body Shee comming to the Sepulcher as did Salome and another Marie the Angel informes them of his Resurrection commanding them to returne and tell the same to Peter and the other disciples They departed Iesus first appeares to Marie Magdalene Marke 16. 9. Ioh. 20. 14. c. with whome he familiarly talketh A shame to men that women should loue Iesus more earnestly Secondly he appeared also to the other Marie and to Salome called also Ioanna Luke 10. as they were going to tel the disciples of the Angels words Mat. 28. 9. 10. Thirdly hee appeared to Peter or Cephas 1. Cor. 15. 5. That this must be on the same day may appeare by the Angels command before And that it is not like to fall out betwixt the two next appearances the length of time here and the shortnes of time there makes it most probable Fourthly he appeared to Cleopas and the other Disciple as they were going to Emmaus 60. Furlongs from Ierusalem Luke 24. 13. c. Fiftly hee appeared to the Eleven the greater number bearing name