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A95869	Christ and the Church: or Parallels, in three books. In the first ye have the harmony between Christ and the foregoing types, by which he was fore-shadowed in the Old Testament, both persons and things. In the second the agreement between Christ and other things, to which he is compared in the holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament. In the third the agreement between the Church and the types, by which it was foreshadowed in the Old Testament; and other resemblances, by which it is set forth in the holy Scriptures. By Henry Vertue, M.A. rector of Alhallows Hony-lane.	Vertue, Henry, d. 1660.	1659 (1659)	Wing V274; Thomason E975_1; ESTC R203902	335,049	439

it 1 Sam. 4.13 Where the Ark of God was 2 Sam. 6.12 a Blessing did accompany it When the Israelites presumed to go to War against the Canaanites without the Ark they were overthrown Phil. 3 7 So Gods People have Christ in high account What joy was there at his Birth Luke 2.10 How was the Church pierced at his loss Cant. 5.6 Eph. 1.3 Eph. 2.12 God blesseth his with all spiritual Blessings in Christ but they that are without Christ are without Hope 6. There are three especial Wonders expresly set down to be wrought by the Ark. 1. The dividing of Jordan till the Israelites passed over from the Wilderness to Canaan and then the returning of the Water to his course again Heb. 10.20 Josh chap. 3 and 4. So by Christ a Way is made through the Sea of this World to the Heavenly Canaan 2. The falling down of the Walls of Jericho Josh 6.12 So by Christ strong and mighty Holds are cast down 2 Cor. 10.4 Eph. 2.14 Col. 2.15 3. The falling of Dagon before the Ark 2 Sam. 5.4 6 and Judgments executed upon the Philistims So by Christ the Idols of the World fall down yea Mark 3.11 Heb. 12.29 the very Devils themselves Christ is a consuming fire to such as have him not in due account 7. After that the Ark had removed up and down from place to place a place of Rest was sought for it 2 Sam. 7.2 and found for it 1 King 8.8 Thus Christ after his many Travels and Troubles on Earth Hebr. 1.3 found a Resting-place in Heaven Christ and Aarons Rod. In Heb. 9. p. 319. Of this hear Dr. Gouge 1. Of what kinde soever the Rod were it 's certain that it was cut from a Tree very dry past sprouting and springing according to the course of Nature a dry stick as we say This typifies Christ who came from the stock of Man but as a withered branch The House of David was not known in the World when Christ sprang out of it for Herod did what he could to destroy that whole stock The meanness and poverty of Joseph and Mary was a means to keep them from the notice of Herod Christ also in his own Person was as a dry withered stick from his Birth to the thirtieth year of his age he lived in a private low and mean condition yea afterwards though he did such Works as might have made him famous yet he was exceedingly despised and at the time of his death apprehended as a Traytor arraigned scourged buffeted and many other ways most vilely handled and crucified between two Thieves dead and buried 2. This Rod is said to be Aarons Rod it 's probable that it was like to the Rods of the Heads of the other Tribes Num. 17.2 because their several Names were written upon them Thus Christ taking upon him Mans nature was as other men 3. This Rod of Aaron budded brought forth Buds bloomed Blossoms and yielded Almonds These typified the Glory of the Lord Jesus who notwithstanding his foresaid meanenesse was declared to be the promised Messiah the King of Israel 4. The kinde of fruit that was brought forth is said to be Almonds which are a sweet and pleasant fruit yea wholesome and medicinable Most sure it is that the truth is so Nothing more sweet and pleasant nothing more wholesome and medicinable then the fruit of all manner of grace that sprouteth out of Christ 5. By the foresaid fruit of Aarons rod Num. 17.5 Aaron was manifested to be chosen the high Priest of God So was Christ by his glorious works and manner of preaching by his Death Resurrection and Ascension and gifts that he gave manifested to be appointed of God our high Priest 6. Num 17.10 After the foresaid evidence of Aarons being chosen of God by his rod that rod was set before the Testimony So Christ Heb. 8.1 after the foresaid evidences of glory is set in Heaven at Gods right hand Christ and the Mercy-seat Of this Dr. Gouge thus 1. In Heb. 9. p. 322. The Mercy-seat is an especial type of Christ for he is expressely a propitiation Rom. 3.25 1 Joh. 2.2 2. It was made of pure gold Exod. 25.17 this typified the excellency purity and Eternity of Christ 3. The Mercy-seat was two cubites and an half in length and a cubit and half in breadth The measure was just the same that the Ark was of Exod. 25.10 17. It was a cover for the Ark and therefore every way fit for it of the same size This shewes that Christ is every way fit for the purpose to which he is put Ex. 25.21 4. The Mercy-seat was put upon the Ark for it was to be a cover unto it This shewes that the rigor of the Law in accusing and condemning all that have not perfectly fulfilled the same is suppressed by the mediation of Christ and the attonement which he hath made for us 1 Joh. 2.2 Well therefore is he called a propitiation for us And hereupon the Apostle saies Rom. 8.1 There is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Exod. 25.22 5. The end and use of the Mercy-seat is thus expressed by God There will I meet with thee And I will commune with thee from above the Mercy-seat So that it was a place for God to manifest his presence and to declare his will thereat This typified Christ to be the mean of Gods manifesting his presence and declaring his will to us Joh. 14.9 10 Never was there so lively a representation of Gods presence as in and by Christ Never was Gods will so fully and clearly made known Joh. 1.18 as by Christ On Exod. 25.17 c. Ainsworth also ownes the comparison between Christ and the Mercy-seat in several particulars Rom. 3.25 1. This is saies he applyed by the Apostle unto Christ who is called Gods propitiatory through faith in his blood to declare Gods justice for the remission of sins that are past and so another Apostle saies 1 Joh. 2.2 He is the propitiation for our sins So this Mercy-seat on which God did sit between the two Cherubims was a figure of Christ by whom our transgressions of the Law are forgiven and covered 2. Speaking of the Cherubims he addes These may diversly be applyed unto Christ whose mediation was signified by the Mercy-seat 2 King 6.17 Psal 68.18 Heb. 1.6 14 and to the ministers of God both the Angels in Heaven Gods fiery Chariots whose service he often uses for his Honour and to attend upon Christ and upon his Church into whose mysteries they desire to look 1 Pet. 1.12 and his Ministers also on earth Ezek. 28.14 Rev. 4.6 8 Ezek. 1.5 6 10. for Kings are called by the name of Cherubs And the four living creatures with eyes and wings which were Cherubims as appears by comparison with that of the Prophet Ezekiel are of them that are redeemed

of God that what they are tyed to pay by the command of God or man or what they have by their own promise bound themselves to contribute for the maintenance of the ministry among them they are hardly drawn to give nay many altogether refuse nay many pull away that which was voluntarily given by their Ancestors See the devotion of the old Church Their service was costly and troublesome and yet the godly Jews were most diligent and devout in it But how great is our want of devotion Gods service among us is easie and cheap and yet men take no delight nor exercise any devotion in it What delayes are made in mens coming to the Church a gross abuse how irreverent are men in prayer while they vouchsafe not to bow the knee but sit on their seats being worse then the Camels Gen. 24.11 which Abrahams servant taught to kneel while he was at prayer Finally see the devotion of those Jewes They were without Luk. 1.9 10 while Zachary was burning incense in the Temple and were not permitted to enter Vers 11.12 and Zachary was detained longer then ordinary by reason of the vision which he saw and though they wondred at his long stay Vers 21. yet they waited for him as not willing to depart without his blessing But now though men are admitted into the places of Gods worship and are coagents with the ministers of God in the publick services yet are they hardly perswaded to attend but turn their backs upon God before the Sermon is ended if the Minister shall never so little exceed the limits of any hour Let us be ashamed of this we enjoying so clear a revelation of Christ above the godly Jewes to be outstripped by them whose light in comparison of the light shining upon us was but as darknesse and let us for the time to come double our diligence and labour at least to come up to the most eminent among them We can readily say that that Son is bound to do best for whom in his education his father hath done most CHAP. XXIV COROL III. LAstly hence we learn that Christ indeed is the Messias foretold by the Prophets Christus verus Messias a Prophetis praedictas The words Messias and Christ are the same in signification though the one be Hebrew and the other Greek All the places of Scripture therefore that acknowledge him to be the Messiah or the Christ serve for the proof of this proposition And now see we the Scriptures of the new Testament to abound in attestations of this truth Andrew saies to his brother Peter Joh. 1.41 We have found the Messias which is being interpreted the Christ Philip saies to Nathaneel Joh. 1.45 We have found him of whom Moses in the Law and the Prophets did write Jesus of Nazareth the son of Joseph Hear our Saviour himself making this acknowledgment Joh. 4.25 26 for the woman of Samaria having said I know that Messias comes that is called Christ when he comes he will tell us all things our Saviour presently subjoynes his testimony I that speak unto thee am he So some of the people gave that testimony of him Joh. 7.41 Joh. 11 27 This is the Christ Such was the confession of Martha I believe that thou art the Christ the Son of God which should come into the world Joh. 6.68 This was the confession of St. Peter We believe and are sure that thou art that Christ the Son of the living God So the sum of St. Pauls Doctrine at Thessalonica was Act. 17.3 That Christ must needs have suffered and risen again from the dead and that this Jesus whom he preached to them is Christ And it s a strong argument to prove it because all the Types of the Messias are accomplished in him and all the Prophesies concerning the Messias are fulfilled in him As for that which concerns the Types its plain by that which hath been said of the parallels between Christ and the Types by which he was prefigured in the old Testament between which we have seen an exact agreement so that I may well spare the labour of speaking any more of them As for the Prophesies that went before concerning the Messiah how they are all accomplished in him who sees it not which of them are not fulfilled in him It s a Prophesy of the Mssieas Gen. 3.15 The seed of the woman shall break the serpents head this is accomplish't in Christ he is the seed of the woman for God sent his Son made of a woman Gal. 4.4 and he broke the head of the old serpent for therefore as the children were partakers of flesh and blood Heb. 2.14 so he took part of the same that by death he might destroy him that had the power of death that is the Devil And he spoiled principalities and powers Col. 2.15 Gen. 22.18 That also is a plain Prophesy of the Messias In thy seed shall all the Nations of the Earth be blessed And this is by the Apostle plainly applyed to Christ where he observes that it s not said And to thy seeds as of many Gal. 3.16 but as of one To thy seed which is Christ And to whom else can it agree besides Christ to be the Author of blessednesse to all Nations therefore Christ alone is to be acknowledged to be the true Messias In a word to avoid tediousnesse its foretold that the Messias should be born of a Virgin a Isa 7.14 in Bethlehem b Mic. 5.2 when the Scepter should be taken from Judah c Gen. 49.10 that he should suffer death for the sins of the people d Isa 53 even the death of the Crosse e Joh. 3.14 that his garments should be parted among them and that they should cast lots upon his Vesture f Psal 22.18 that they should give him Gall and Vinegar to drink g Psal 69.21 that he should suffer with malefactors h Isa 53.12 that his hands and feet should be pierced i Psal 22.16 that he was betrayed to suffer all this by one of his own k Psal 41.9 and that for thirty pieces of silver l Zach. 11.12 that in suffering all this he should be silent and patient m Isa 53.7 that being to suffer all this his Disciples should fly away n Zach. 13.7 that he should be buried o Isa 53.9 that he should rise again p Psal 16.10 that he should ascend into heaven q Psal 68.19 that he should sit on his Fathers right hand r Psal 110.1 that he should make intercession s Isa 53 12. and many the like passages are foretold by the Prophets of the Messias and if we consult with the new Testament we shall finde that not any of these have failed but all have been fulfilled in this Jesus whom they defend to be the Messias nor shall any be able to

Church and all the members of it both in soul and body be brought unto Christ and not till then to enjoy him and to be with him fully immediatly and for ever And so the Apostle brings this in as a consequence of Christs descending from Heaven with the voice of an Archangel and with the Trump of God that we namely 1 Thes 4.16 17 the whole Church both in soul and body shall be ever with the Lord Oh therefore let us long for that day let us say Rev. 22.20 even so come Lord Jesus come quickly this is frequently affirmed of the godly as of the Saints at Corinth 1 Cor. 1.7 that they waited namely with patience yet with desire for the coming of the Lord Jesus And so St. Paul testifies himself and all the godly that they looked for their Saviour from heaven Phil 3.20 And so by the same Apostle are the godly described namely that they are such 2 Tim. 48. as love the appearing of Jesus Christ Such therefore let us be CHAP. IX Lib. I. c. Christ and a Lamb. WE have heard Christ and the Paschal Lamb compared before and I intend not now to touch upon that but onely shall take notice of the resemblance between Christ and a Lamb in general And frequently is our Saviour set out under this notion So the holy Baptist saies of Christ Joh. 1.29 Behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world And a little after Behold the Lamb of God And so St. Peter Vers 36. 1 Pet. 1.19 By the blood of Christ as of a Lamb unspotted and undefiled And so Saint John Rev. 5.6 Vers 8. In the midst of the Elders stood a Lamb as it had been slain And again the twenty four E ders felt down before the Lamb. Vers 12. And again Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to recieve power and riches c. And again Rev 6.16 Hide us from the wrath of the Lamb And again Rev. 19.9 Blessed are they that are called to the marriage-supper of the Lamb Rev. 21.9 And again One of the Angels said Come hither and I will shew thee the Bride the Lambes wife In all which places its plain that Christ is spoken of And the resemblance between Christ and the Lamb holds in these 4. particulars 1. It s an useful and profitable creature the flesh the skin the wool yea all of it and about it is good for some use or other for food for cloathing c. And who sees not how all this is true of Christ useful he is for all purposes he is a King to govern us a Prophet to teach us a Priest to Sacrifice and intercede for us he is a Shepherd to lead us to the green Pastures a Physitian to heal our Diseases a Counsellor to advise us a Guide to direct us Isa 55 1. Rev. 3.18 a Captain to fight for us He is milk wine and hony he is gold to enrich us garments to cloath us eye-salve to cure our blindnesse yea he is all in all to us Col. 3.11 yea all about him is useful to us the holinesse of his conception to answer for our natural uncleannesse the holinesse of his life to answer for the irregularities of our lives his Death to satisfie the justice of God for us his Resurrection to be a cause of our resurrection at the last day His Ascension into Heaven to prepare Mansion-places for us his sitting at his Fathers right hand to intercede for us his coming again at the last day to take us to himself that we may be ever with him 2. The Lamb is a contented creature content with any pasture though never so poor into which the shepherd shall put it And who sees it not to have been so with our Saviour If God will have him to be born of a poor Virgin he disdains it not If to live in a mean condition so as not to have where to lay his head he sticks not at it he sought not greater things for himself then God had laid out for him nay when the people would have taken him by force to make him a King he would none of it Joh. 6.15 but departed into a mountain alone by himself 3. The Lamb is a meek creature bearing wrongs quietly not studying revenge and herein in an high degree is it a fit resemblance of our dear Saviour Therefore saies St Austin is our Saviour compared to a Lamb Agnus quia mansuetus Tom. 10. serm a Lovaniens Edit serm 90. because of his mildnesse We hear that Evangelical Prophet in this respect comparing Christ to a Lamb Isa 53.7 He is brought saies he as a Lamb to the slaughter and as a sheep before his shearer is dumb so he opened not his mouth But will some say did he not open his mouth when they came to apprehend him in the garden Matth. 26.55 said he not Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me And when one of the Officers struck him with the palmes of his hand Joh. 18.22 23 said he not If I have spoken evil bear witness of the evil if well why smitest thou me how then is it true of him that he opened not his mouth Hear Saint Peter clearing this scruple he opened not his mouth 1 Pet. 2.23 that is when he was reviled he reviled not again when he suffered he threatned not he neither studyed nor exercised revenge but meekly bore all he could have prayed to his Father and he would have given him more then twelve Legions of Angels Isa 37.36 and what revenge could they have wrought against them when one Angel in one night destroyed 185000. 2 King 1. in the Assyrian Hoast At his word as at the word of Elisha fire from Heaven might have consumed them all or the Earth would have opened her mouth and devoured them all as it did Korah and that rout of Rebels But he forbore all this and quietly suffered all committing his cause to him that judges righteously Numb 16. 4. The Lamb is an innocent creature The Lamb saies Bullinger is a symbole of innocency Agnus innocentiae symbolum In Apoc. 5. And was not this eminently seen in our blessed Saviour whom did he ever wrong in word in deed in body in goods in good name how justly might he say as Samuel in his apology Whose Oxe have I taken 1 Sam. 12 3 whose Asse have I taken whom have I defrauded whom have I oppressed c. The Apostle could say of him such an high Priest it became us to have who was holy harmlesse Heb. 7.26 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Nay he was so farre from hurting any that he abounded in the exercise of beneficency he took all occasions that offred themselves of doing good yea he sought opportunities he went about doing good Act. 10.38 saies Saint