commemoration of him how much more in that above is it solemnized for us by himself our High Priest That as the bow was set in the Cloud that God looking upon it might remember his Covenant and forbear to bring a second deluge upon the earth Gen. 9. 16. and the blood of the Paschal Lamb was stricken on the door posts that the Lord seeing it there might pass over them with his plague So when he beholds these wounds given our Savior for our sin displaid before him he may forbear to revenge sin any more upon his Brethren And if Pilate shewing that our suffering Savior with an Ecce Homo thought the beholding such a pitiful and cruel spectacle was enough to have melted the hardhearted Jews his malicious enemies into some mercy and compassion so as to prosecute his death no further How much more will such a pale and wanner sight as was seen afterward upon the Cross of an only Son voluntarily undergoing all this for our sin move a pitiful and merciful father no further to prosecute the vengeance thereof upon his brethren upon his own members A second Action there is sprinkling of his blood upon and before the Mercy-Seat not 7 nor 77 times but continually and note that all blood-shed when it comes before the Lord hath a loud cry See the blood of the Saints Rev. 6. 10. And Abels Gen. 4. 10. And the Apostle compares the sprinkling of our Saviors blood for its speaking and crying unto the sprinkling of Abel's tho His cried not the same way for it pleaded for mercy as the other for vengeance For we receive a true attonement are sanctified are purifyed as many of us as serve the Lord by the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus See 1 Pet. 1. 2. Heb. 12. 24. -13. 12. Not that our Savior there really sprinkled his blood for us let none grossly imagine this for flesh and blood enter not into heaven 1 Cor. 15. but that he now by it poured out by him on the Cross in the heavenly Sanctuary procures all the effects obumbrated by the former sprinkling of the blood of the legal Sacrifices Therefore t is observed that the Apostle saith he entred by it not with it Heb. 9. 12 23. Who is therefore called for this Celestial ceremony before the propitiatory or throne of grace our 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 propitiation 1 Jo. 2. 2. and our 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 propitiatory Rom. 3. 25. Thus he sprinkled his blood to make attonement for and to sanctify us but as we read that the legal High Priest purified also the Sanctuary it self and reconciled the Holy place said to be defiled by being in the midst of the peoples uncleanness See Lev. 18. 25 28. the Apostle makes this also run parallel for our Savior Heb. 9. 23. by which as is signifyed the purifying of all the Creatures and particularly of all our imperfect holy services unto us so perhaps something more may yet be gathered from Col. 1. 16 20. -2. 10. Job 15. 15. -4. 18. -25. 5. 2 Pet. 3. 7 12. Rom. 8. 22. well considered for all Principalities and Thrones i. e. Angels were made by him at first and for him and by him they now consist and of them also he is the head and by him they are said to be reconciled thro him they are now confirm'd in grace and perhaps at the last day thro him shall be advanced in glory And perhaps the upper regions of the world may be said in some sense to be contaminated as the earth by mans or the faln Angels sin to which heavenly things also the vanity bondage groaning of the Creatures mentioned Rom. 8. may extend which also are said by Peter to be reserved and that they shall be dissolved and as it were purified by fire But abscondita Domino Deo nostro manifesta nobis 3. After this appearing there with this Sacrifice and sprinkling of his blood follows his Intercession also there for us Rom. 8. 34. Heb. 7. 25. Esai 53. 12. -59. 16. another office of the Priest for the People whose making attonement was not without praier since this also is called making attonement Exod. 32. 30. and so where we translate making attonement the vulgar renders it praying for c. See Lev. 16. 7 34 17. Quando Pontifex sanctuarium ingreditur ut roget prose pro universo coetu Israel see Job 42. 8. Gen. 20. 7. which appears also by the continual practise of the Priests and Prophets praying foâ—… the people Jer. 7. 16. -27. 18. Ezra 10. 4. Joel 1. 13 14. -2. 17. 2 Chron. 30. 27. 1. And this first in presenting continually his own praiers to the Father for us in which respect he is called also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 our Advocate with the Father as well as the Holy Ghost is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Advocate to the Father here on earth with or in us As the spirit is also stiled by his title of Intercessor here as he there Rom. 8. 26 27. and therefore what office in prayer when any one sins or suffers this Advocate doth here on earth residing with us 1 Jo. 5. 7 8. see Rom. 8. 26. the other Advocate doth the same in heaven residing with the Father and with the same unexpressible zeal The better to conceive which imagine Aaron Numb 16. 47. when wrath was gone out from the Lord standing with his Censer in his hand between the living and the dead and staying the plague or Moses that great type of him Deut. 18. 15. like unto me his pathetical intercessions and deprecations so many times for the sinning Israelites continuing 40 daies at a time with the Lord in supplication for them and for their Priest see Exod. 32. comp with Deut. 9. 18 20. Numb 14. 13. c. and proceeding even to wishing himself accuâ—…ed in their stead as also did St. Paul but our Savior only was he that really became also a curse for others and then be sure our High Priest now makes the same nay far greater as much more concerned in our safety being Master over the house in which Moses tho a faithful yet was but a servant The exact matter and manner of whose intercessions above tho it is not manifested unto us yet what esteem of it and confidence in it may we not have therefore our Mother the Church thinks fit to finish all her prayers in it if we consider first that infinite love wherewith he now loveth us How can it be silent Eph. 3. 19. from which neither things present nor things to come neither heights nor depths c. can ever separate us Rom. 8. 38 35. comp with 34. 2. The promises which he made in that last comforting Sermon immediately before his death and departure from hence the summ of which is to assure his Disciples and consequently all believers see Jo. 17. 20. of the great care he would take for them in heaven where also he particularly
was stung I come saith he to do thy will O God which the First disobeyed Thy law is within my heart Ps. 40. 8. Heb. 8. 10. Matt. 6. 17. And accordingly he was made under the law all the law that might be both Moral and Ceremonial And to him thus undertaking on the one part the promise was made by God on the other the promise not only for himself which needs not to be doubted see Heb. 11. 6. but for his seed also See Gal. 3. 16 19 22. Namely that all the world should be blessed in him as in the first they were cursed Blessed first in receiving the promise of the spirit as the earnest and seal of the inheritance Gal. 3. 14. Act. 2. 32. and then the inheritance it self of eternal life which promises he upon his obedience received first himself and then traduced to his posterity Of whom indeed Abraham and afterward David for with him also was a Covenant made concerning his seed were but types the promise of being Father of the faithful and heir of the world Rom. 4. 13. being made to Abraham only in this seed see Heb. 1. 2. Gal. 3. 17. and so said to be fulfilled now in his Resurrection or rewardment Act. 13. 32 33. In which seed the Gentiles as well as the Jews were first blessed according to the promise Gal. 3. 8. And so only he the true Father of all the faithful Heb. 2. 13 14. Esai 9. 6. of whom Abraham their Father was also a Son And this second Adam coming to perform this obedience and to obtain these promises for undone man that he might destroy the former works both of the Devil and of man by his instigation 1 Jo. 3. 8. and shew that our standing is by humility as our fall was by pride was made in a quite contrary way to the first For as the first came out of the Earth of no worth in himself So he came from Heaven no less then the eternal Son of God And as the first being from so mean an extraction made Lord of all the world and placed in a Garden of pleasure yet hearkning to the Serpent who represented the Divel whose wiles still tempt us and to his wife who being also his own flesh then represented the flesh which now tempts us and enticed likewise by the fairness of the forbidden fruit which represents the pleasures of the world now tempting us whilst he thought by tasting of this to attain I know not what wisdom and happiness in the event lost himself and us by his ambition and pride after the similitude of whose transgression his posterity daily offends by the same temptations So this second Adam of so noble a descent by the contrary waies to these conquered and recovered all the former's losses that is 1 By annihilating himself when he was before Lord of all things to answer the other's magnifying Himself being nothing and by assuming also amongst men a low and afflicted condition His kindred so mean the people were much offended at it that a Prophet should have such a poor alliance Mark 6. 3 4. By becoming a man of sorrows and acquainted with griefs without form or comliness despised and rejected of men abhorred of his own Nation of his kindred laughed to scorn and made mouths at see Esai 49. 7. -53. 2 3. Ps. 22. 7. one of a manual trade a Carpenter Mark 6. 5. Jo. 7. 15. and a long time an Apprentice at it for anything we know till 30 years old so much time passed in obscurity and silence Luk. 3. 23. for any thing that is mentioned of him except his three daies spent at Jerusalem when twelve years old about his heavenly Fathers business In the time of his preaching afterwards by being of such professed poverty as that he had not where at night after his toilsome work to rest his head Matt. 8. 20. as he told a Scribe what he was to expect if he follow'd him but when he had taught all day in the City went at night and lay on an hill Luk. 21. 37. Mark 11. 17. even depriving himself of that ordinary provision which his Father makes for the Beasts and for the Fowles And as for his followers their eating green Corn and that on no fasting day argued they made many hungry meales Matt. 12. 1. So that to follow him might well be called taking up a daily Cross Luk. 9. 23. therefore 't is observed he chose men hardy not learned to endure all labors Especially when as they were likewise to do all their work preach cure diseases c. gratis gratis accepistis gratis date and without taking any thing for their labour tho mens charities by Gods providence were not awanting unto them Matt. 10. 8 9. Again by being of such professed and wonderful humility so avoiding of all honor or applause that besides the living so obscurely and unknown of this wisdom and power of God for 30 years he afterwards resorted to no Princes Courts at all was seldom amongst the Rabbins not often in great Cities very rarely at Jerusalem except a little before his passion chid for it by his Friends Jo. 7. 4. Made no ostentation of his knowledge but veiled and covered it in Parables and Proverbs which was not without some prejudice to him see Jo. 16. 29 30. and when they admired it he told them he spake not of himself It was not his own wisdom but his that sent Him Jo. 7. 16. and this over and over again No ostentation of his works so miraculous but 〈◊〉 them as much as he could and when brought once before a King to do some altogether forbare them No ostentation of his holiness but used a common and free conversation neither strict for his diet nor his company for he was not to avoid the encountring of any temptation called therefore a Wine-bibber and keeper of ill company questioned for not fasting and He and his Disciples disesteemed in comparison of the Baptist and his Matt. 9. 14. In his riding in triumph into Jerusalem at the same time when other paschal Lambs also destined for the slaughter were solemnly brought in see Exod. 12. 3 6. taking only an Asse nay possibly only a little Colt of an Asse to ride on in this his great time of State from which the Prophet long before noted his great humility and lowliness Zech. 9. 9. Learn of Him for he was meek and lowly By coming in the quality of a Servant a voluntary Servant to secular Rulers Esai 49. 7. to his servants even to washing their feet Matt. 20. 28. to his Father in all things see Esai 50. 4 5 6. tho he were a Son saith the Apostle yet learning obedience by the things which he suffered Heb. 5. 8. In nothing pleasing Himself nor seeking his own will Jo. 5. 30. but doing alwaies whatever pleased his Father Jo. 8. 29. Obedient when by him commanded death such a death Phil. 2. 8. as the other disobedient merited
required of us A Configuration to all his vertuous and holy life here many singular patterns of which are set down before a Configuration to his sufferings and death Phil. 3. 10. as it is first in our Baptism and for sins after Baptism ought to be in the painful fruits of repentance abstaining from worldly pleasures using the body hardly c. which are therefore called mortifications A Configuration to his resurrection and life after it In having our conversation in Heaven Phil. 3. 20. living to God only no more to affections of this life ever worshipping praising loving admiring glorifying offering up and dedicating our selves to God For so Saints live that are dead See Rev. 4. 8. c. -5. 9 12. c. -7. 9. c. Quicquid gestum est in sepultura resurrectione c. ita gestum est ut configuretur vita humana quae hic geritur For our participation of Christs merits is only by being his members they can be communicated to none else and our being members necessarily implies conformity in actions suffering c. to the Head For that one should suffer and not the other is quite contrary to the nature of members 1 Cor. 12. 26. and argues schism in the body Should any member therefore so presume on the obedience or sufferings of the head as that himself now needs nor suffer nor obey such a one without bearing its part and proportion therein Col. 1. 24. either never was or is ceased to be a true member Christ did nothing for our salvation which we are not for it in some sense to do also our selves Gal. 6. 14. -9. 19 20. CHAP. VII Jesus Christ the Melchizedechical Holy Priest passed into the Heavens and making Intercession c. for ever for us with God GOD being of infinite Holiness and purity to shew his hatred against sin would not admit the approach of sinners into his Sanctuary and presence nor accept immediately of their praiers and service offered to him which if any after Discipline was settled should have presumed to do they were no less then to dy for it See Lev. 3. 10. 1 Sam. 6. 7. Numb 4. 15. -16. chap. Job 9. 31. -42. 8. But yet being of infinite mercy too not to shut out sinners thus from all commerce with his goodness he selected from the beginning some singular persons taken from the rest of men no man taking this honor to himself but he that was called of God Heb. 5. 1 4. and being first anointed consecrated and sanctified after an extraordinary manner and cleansed with great Ceremony after the more express delivering of his pleasure in the promulgation of the law see Exod. 29. chap. Lev. 8. 12. who should be ordained for men in things pertaining to God Heb. 5. 1. -2. 17. who should have the administration of holy things and nearer access to Gods presence should bring unto the Lord the peoples gifts and offerings Heb. 5. 1. make attonement and reconciliation for their sins and errors c. Heb. 2. 17. Heb. 5. 2. Amongst which ministers of the Sanctuary some were kept at a greater distance as the Levite who had the charge of the Tabernacle and the vessels thereof and was to minister to the Priest but might not come nigh the vessels of the Sanctuary or the Altar that they dy not Numb 18. 3. Some approached nearer as the Priest confined to Aaron and his seed who had the charge of the Sanctuary and of the Altar who were to preserve themselves continually undefiled Lev. 21. 1. c. and amongst them all such to be excluded from attendance as had any corporal blemish tho but a squint eye or a flat nose or a dwarf Lev. 21. 18. c. The same perfection being required for the sacrificer that was for the Sacrifice Lev. 22. 20. to whom only it belonged to offer the daily morning and even Sacrifice and all other the peoples offerings upon it and to make attonements for them to sound with Trumpets which none else might use over the burnt and peace-offerings that they might be for a memorial to the people before the Lord. Numb 10. 10. In sin-offerings to carry some of the blood into the outer Sanctuary and to sprinkle part thereof before the Lord before the Veil and to put also of it on the horns of the Altar of Incense before the Lord Morning and Evening at the time of the sacrifice to burn incense before the Veil upon the Altar of the Sanctuary to dress the Lamps morning and evening and every Sabbath to renew the shew-bread before the Lord to discern between clean and unclean holy and unholy At the coming out of the Sanctuary lifting up their hands towards the people and putting Gods name upon them solemnly in a set form Numb 6. 6 24. c. 2 Chron. 30. 27. Ecclus. 50. 5 19. c. 1 Chron. 23. 13. to give the sacerdotal benediction And as solemnly to bless so also to curse Deut. 27. 14. This for the Priest But the High Priest approached yet nearer to the Lord much distinguished from the rest in his typical garments who once yearly on the grand day of Expiation was to enter within the Veil into the Sanctum Sanctorum before the glory of the Lord appearing between the Cherubims he first making a cloud of Incense and there to present and sprinkle with his finger 7 times upon the mercy-seat it self and seven times on the floor before it Lev. 16. 14. the blood of the sacrifice made for the Priest and the people before the Lord and to make attonement with it for the Priests and for all the people and not only for them but also for all the holy things the Tabernacle the Holy Sanctuary the Altar it self to purge and resanctify and as if God was also displeased with these for sin to reconcile them Lev. 16. 20. with blood to hallow them saith the Lord from the uncleannesses and transgressions of the children of Israel in the midst of whom they remained Such a contagion is our sin to the whole creation See Levit. 16. 16 19. and when he went in he was to bear the names of the children of Israel engraven and upon his two shoulders and again engraven like the engraving of a Signet upon the brestplate of judgment upon his heart for a memorial of them before the Lord continually Exod. 28. 12 21 29. He was also to have engraven upon the front of his Miter in Gold Holiness unto the Lord. And it shall be upon Aarons forehead that he may bear the iniquity of the Holy things of the children of Israel See Numb 18. 1. Lev. 16. 16. And it shall be alway upon his forehead that they may be accepted before the Lord. Exod. 28. 38. And besides these Urim and Thummim were likewise to be upon his heart and in any thing doubtful the people were to repair unto him and he by Urim was to ask counsel for them before
powerful in working according to the promise Jo. 14. 20. after his departure 2. Of the manner of their conveyance which will much advance our confidence if we consider our near relation For we receive them not by his procurement only from the Father but even from his own hand Every good and perfect gift cometh from the Father c. Jam. 1. 17. but thro and by immediate donation of the Son and by the same way as all our praiers and sacrifices ascend and enter in blessings come forth of this Sanctâ—…ary Upon his asking all things are given him Psal. 2. 8. whom the Father alwaies hears and at his own pleasure he dispenseth them Act. 2. 33. â—…ph 1. 3. And this the having in his own power the gift of all things from whose hands we may be sure we shall want nothing belongs peculiarly to the tenure of his Priesthood being Melchisedechial and joyned with Kingship Sacerdotium Regale or Sacerdotale regnum i. e. having royalty and power joyned with it as before the law these two were joyned in the Princes of families so after the law they are united in Christ a King over all but Him whom as a Priest he serves Therefore we find him sitting at the right hand and the promise of having his enemies made his footstool so frequently joined with his Priesthood and intercession for to shew the everlasting power of his Priesthood See Heb. 8. 1. Rom. 8. 34. Ps. 110. 1. comp with 4. Act. 2. 33. Ps. 2. 8. Therefore since he ever liveth to make intercession he is able to save saith the Apostle not willing only Heb. 7. 25. Able to succour Heb. 2. 18. see Jo. 17. 2 24. Father I will that c. Jo. 14. 13 14. If ye shall ask any think in my name his asking or our asking in his name is all to one effect as is shewed before I will do it where he shews both his dependance on his Father as a Priest and power over all things else as a King Besides this officiating as an Intercessor in Heaven as a Sanctuary as he is High Priest wherein he is compared to Aaron Our Savior by the same Apostle in his treatise of his Priesthood is called the Captain of our Salvation bringing many sons of God unto glory Heb. 2. 10. Lord of the houshold of God and conducter of them into a promised place of rest and forerunner entred before them into Heaven as it is the land of promise and this as he is a regal High Priest wherein he is compared to Moses and Joshua his successor conducters of Israel towards Canaan See Heb. 2. 10. -3. 1 2 6. -4. 8 9 14. -6. 20. comp with Heb. 12. 1 2 18 22 25. -11. 14 16. We being in this world after our deliverance from Egypt the dominion of Satan and sin and passing thro the Red Sea of Baptism 1 Cor. 10. 2. yet as in the Wilderness a dry and thirsty land where no water is as the Psalmist spiritually complains of it see Psal. 63. 1. -39. 12. -119. 19. whoever take it for any thing else much mistake it now under Christ I speak of him according to his manhood our Conductor as they were under Moses and Joshua and all things that were done there were examples 1 Cor. 10. 6 11. First therefore as Moses when the mount of God burnt with fire nothing but blackness and darkness and tempest nothing but wrath and judgment towards us and fear least the fire of the Lord should break forth upon us having all sinned as Israel had and none durst draw near to speak for us Behold him coming forth out of the midst of us the true Mediator and going for us into the Mount and there like Moses Exod. 32. 30. making an attonement for us And tho there is yet to come another shaking of all things shaking heaven and earth and all in pieces under this second Moses Heb. 12. 26. far more terrible then that under the first wherein he shall come in judgment to destroy his enemies from which then there shall be no Mediator to hinder him as Exod. 32. 10 11. yet then to those that obey him this Mount Sinai shall be changed into Mount Sion and the city of the living God c. see Heb. 12. 22. c. where are such and such glorious company And thither shall he also carry up his Brethren after the remainder of the 40 daies or 6 weeks of his abode there are expired Meanwhile from thence not from an higher place of the earth but from the highest heaven into which he is gone up he continually speaks unto us not with that terror as the Angels from Mount Sinai gave the law but with the soft voice of his spirit the ministration of which by him is opposed to that of the law by Moses 2 Cor. 3. 8 9. And wo be to all them that refuse to hear him far beyond those that refused to hear Moses Heb. 12. 25. -10. 29. 2. And then as resembled by Joshua or Jesus called so as a type of him he is the Conductor also of the people of God into the true land of promise Heb. 4. 8. the place of rest the rest of God Heb. 4. 5. Into which God hath sworn no unbelievers shall enter And into this our blessed Savior is entred already before us and set down the posture of resting at the right hand of God entred not only as a forerunner Heb. 6. 20. or leader to give an example that we should follow him thither the Anchor of our hope being already cast within the veil by the taking possession of this our forerunner Heb. 6. 19 20. But also a forerunner or Harbinger as Joshua his type also was to view that good land as it were and there to prepare a place for us Jo. 14. 2 3. in that house where are many mansions the heavens that we see being but a center to it from whence God looks down upon them as they upon the earth Ps. 113. not any therefore but an honourable a choice place there see Rev. 4. 4. where the Church-men were sitting on either side of Gods Throne in the midst of all the glorious train of Heaven and the Angels standing in a circle about them Rev. 5. 11. -7. 11. Father I will that those be with me where I am to behold my Glory c. Jo. 17. 24. not in the same region but in the same place of it where his glorious body is not in the Country only but of the Court following and waiting on the Lamb there where ever he goeth which is named as some special honour Rev. 16. 4. -7. 15. -3. 4. And from thence after this place prepared for us and us for it he hath promised to come again and accompany us thither in person Thus is he a forerunner to all the faithful in respect of their bodies entring into that celestial Canaan he being the first-born from the dead but
his own power as our Savior answered his Disciples when they were inquisitive about his Kingdom Act. 1. 7. as in other acts going forth already conquering and to conquer Neither are all his enemies to be subdued at once but one after another First Antichrist then Satan the last death See Rev. 19. 20. -20. 10 14. 1 Cor. 15. 26. And so are the same enemies also overcome by degrees They first hindred from conquering his elect which power over them he received at the very first then hindred from assaulting For already by the power of his spirit neither the flesh nor Satan are suffered to overcome us except by our own default but only permitted for the exercise of our virtues still to assail us And that meanwhile many by these assaults perish 't is not from any defect of the power or goodness of this king who is so dilâ—…gent that of all that his Father gives him he calleth them all by their names goeth before them leadeth them out fleeth not from them when the wolf cometh looseth not one Jo. 10. 13 12. -17. 12. Ps. 23. 1. and in heaven in the presence of the Angels rejoyceth like the woman that had found her lost piece and the shepheard that had regain'd his straying sheep for the recovery of every sinner See Luk. 15. 7 10. But from the eternal wisdom and law of the Father which law his power must not transgress not to take away free will from man which done all further demerit and reward ceaseth and by which left he must still have a possibility to sin till the consummation of the world But this only Free-will being continued to man without which as vice so all virtue expireth and what is there that he could have done for his vineyard that he hath not done for there is nothing in or without us that can oppose him concerning ns if we our selves do not See Rom. 11. 23. When we believe not when we will not Matt. 23. 37. Mark 6. 5. Rom. 11. 23. Jo. 16. 12. These are the bounds the Father not to overthrow the nature of man hath set to the power of his Son they arguing no impotency nor unwillingness in him but incapability in us Else all things that can make man happy shall be accomplished by the omnipotent power of this King of Saints in their proper season But to express the manner of this kingdom yet more fully we are to know that as God by our Saviors coming into the world and first appearance of the kingdom of God removed away the weak elements and imperfections of the former times and by this light caused all those shadows to vanish so he compleats not this kingdom neither all at once but makes it to grow like Elijah's cloud from the bigness of a man's hand till it cover all the earth and like those waters Ezek. 47. 3. c. by which doubtless are meant the larger and larger effusions of the spirit till the day of the Lord come Act. 2. 17 18 comp 19 20. Umbra in Lege Imago in Evangelio veritas in Caelo S. Ambrose and advanceth it by gentle degrees to more and more perfection till the end come therefore compared to a mustard-seed and a piece of leaven Luk. 13. 19 21. It was the Disciples error Act. 1. to think that the Kingdom of Christ that was but then vagient in its infancy should presently appear in its full strength without any intermediate growth which had it then come to pass and so nothing have been capable of any further perfection the world must also presently have concluded the fulness of all perfection being only in the last scene of the last Act thereof For there is no decrease or revolution to imperfection or standing at a stay in the work of God Man his image cannot endure this in his petty contrivances but increasing alwaies and advancing to that just height he hath determined for them A prognostication of which governing the world he hath left us in the 6 daies work of the Creation of it And so our Saviors kingdom is not yet come to its period of perfection See Dan. 7. 14 9. Heb. 2. 8. Rev. 11. 15. -16. 17. -19. 6. Luk. 19. 11. c. 1 Cor. 15. 25 26. Dan. 2. 34 44. Act. 3. 21 23. but in a constant progress toward it both in respect of the subduing of his enemies And the more and more enlarging of his dominion till all the Heathen be his inheritance and the uttermost parts of the Earth his possession And for the first To repeat more largely what was briefly said before tho all power in heaven and earth be already givea unto Him in respect of himself Matt. 28. 18. Tho God hath made him both Lord and Christ Act. 2. 36. and we see him crowned already with glory and honor Heb. 2. 9. yet all things are not as yet put under him in reference to his body tho sitting at the right hand of God in his person he is suffering still in his members Col. 1. 24. Saul why persecutest tâ—…ou me At his resurrection long ago he then led captivity i. e. Sin Satan and his instruments Death and its associates captive so as to suffer no more at all from them in his own person nor to suffer in his body the Church so far as that it should be conquered by them Luk. 22. 32. Matt. 16. 18. he then disarming them of their formerly mortal weapons but yet not so far that it should by them be no more assaulted nay the stronger assaults are now toward the latter end of the world as his members are more by him enabled to bear them His servants also conquering the same way as himself they never so much as now since he sits on the Throne being given up to martyrdom and overcoming death by death Christianity is yet only under the conduct of their spiritual Moses travailing afresh in the wilderness toward another Canaan expecting not entred into rest Moses was but a type of Christ the Israelites of the Church Egypt and Babylon and Antiochus of Antichrist that is to be revealed in the last times against whom Christ comes first with aids of grace before he comes with the glory of his presence going forth conquering and to conquer but by several degrees and one enemy after another first triumphing over the Beast and then over his image and the false Prophet first by the constancy the witness and blood of the Saints Rev. 12. 11. Then by the sword of vengeance Râ—…v 19. 15. Then over Satan first so far as to bind him from doing hurt then casting him into destruction Rev. 20. 2 10. and last of all over Death the last of all his enemies that shall be destroyed vers 14. And as the subduing of his Enemies so the enlarging of his dominion is effected by certain degrees He brought salvation to all people but not therefore it tendered to all persons
remission of former sins committed against this law by faith Psal. 32. 1 2. Rom. 4. 7 8. So he was enabled for the future to walk in those same laws see Luk. 1. 6. Rom. 8. 4. The law standing still in force as subordinate unto grace 1 Cor. 9. 21. for our works following faith and repentance tho not for those preceding them to which law we are alwaies to perform both sincere and universal obedience These two ministrations therefore of the law and of the spirit are opposed for their effect one taken single by itself without the other serving only for conviction and condemnation c. and for the persons by whom they came one by Moses the other by Christ but not for the time or for the time also but not as if in time I mean since Adams fall the one preceded the other for their absolute being but only in respect of the clearer manifestation first of the one then of the other at several times In the former times the law being more largely propounded the promises seen a far off and darkly as it were thro a cloud or veil 2 Cor. 3. 13. The Messias expected to appear in the flesh the gift of the spirit narrower for compass less in intention But the latter times from it now visibly sent down from Heaven enjoying clearer manifestations of truth larger effusions of grace 1 Cor 9. 10. To conclude As we find before the law from the beginning a double generation one sons of God and the other of men one righteous and the other wicked and in Abrahams time one born of the bond-woman another of the free-woman now those born of the free-woman are only such as are made free by Christ see Gal. 4. 31. -5. 1. one born after the flesh the other after the spirit or by promise Now the spirit is the promise of the Gospel as well as the Messias and comes only by the Messias one ex operibus the other ex vocante Rom. 9. 11. which two generations from the beginning were also shewed in the opposition between the elder and the younger as in Cain whose race was gigantick in comparision of the other Gen. 6. 4. and Abel or Seth Ismael Isaac Esau Jacob Ham and Shem c. Which may be observed also in Reuben and Judah Zarah and Pharez Manasses and Ephraim David and his brethren Aaron and Moses And not only in persons but nations ancienter and greater nations against that chosen for Gods people Israel and the Egyptian Israel and the Canaanites Israel and the Philistine Israel and Babylon Jew and Antiochus Jew and Gentile then Gentile the people of God and the Jew Apostate lastly the Church and Antichrist The Elder persecuting the younger or the former born the latter but yet the latter still overcoming the former for that which is first is natural 1 Cor. 15. 46. So under the law also we find a twofold generation one of faith holding of Abraham another of works of the law holding of Moses Gal. 3. 9 10. and two Covenants on foot the one the Mount Sinai and the other the Jerusalem-Covenant Gal. 4. 25. and two explanations upon them to guide men to which covenant they should adhere the one Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things written in the law to do them and He that doth shall live in them Rom. 10. 5. Gal. 3. 12. quoting Deut. 17. 26. Levit. 18. 5. The other The just shall live by faith or Blessed is the man whose iniquities are forgiven See Rom. 3. 3 7 8. Gal. 3. 10 12 11. Rom. 4. 3. -9. 33. quoting Psal. 32. 1 2. Habbak 2. 4. Esai 28. 16. Gen. 15. 6. Nay see both these coming from the mouth of Moses who himself was a Son of faith The one Levit. 18. 5. the other Deut. 13. 11 12. explained by the Apostle Rom. 10. 5 6 7. c. The latter of which The word is nigh thee in thy heart c. that is saith he the word of faith and that same faith which the Gospel preacheth vers 8. And therefore as we are now referred for salvation to the preaching of Christ and his Apostles so Abraham then before these referred Dives his brethren for their salvation and escaping of hell to the preaching of Moses and the Prophets Luk. 16. 29 31. And both St. Paul and St. James treating about the point of justification take their examples out of the old Testament instancing how it was in Abraham amongst the Hebrews and Rahab amongst the Gentiles See Rom. 4. 1. c. Jam. 2. 21 25. And as the other held of Adam and the law so these latter in all ages held of Christ and the Gospel and as we now had alwaies the same Saviour their King to conduct them the same spirit to inspire and inform them the same Sacraments for substance to confirm them Baptism in the Red sea and in the Cloud thro which see Exod. 14. 19 -13. 21. Matt. 3. 11. they passed to Canaan and the Eucharist the body of our Lord in the Manna coming down from Heaven and his blood in the water streaming out of the rock 1 Cor. 10. 1. c. So Circumcision was administred and their sacrifices used by them as Baptism and the Eucharist by us of which instituted by the Lord Jesus theirs delivered to the fathers were types for remission of sin and conferring grace for appeasing Gods wrath and thanksgiving for mercies with reference to the same blood of the new Testament and the onely true sacrifice So St. Austin de nuptiis concupiscentia l. 2. c. 11. saith Circumcisionem ad purgationem originalis peccati valuisse magnis parvis quemadmodum nunc Baptismus And that threat Gen. 17. 14. That soul shall be cut off from his people is ordinarily understood that he is cut off as well for being extra pactum as being praecepti violati reus And tho Circumcision in Abraham who was before the receipt thereof justified by faith was only a seal of that former justification as also the Sacrament of Baptism was to Cornelius saith St. Austin contra Donatistas l. 4. c. 24. See Act. 10. 47. comp 44. and is to many other Yet this hinders not saith Estius 4. Sent. 1. d. 31. sec. but that in parvulissicut nunc Baptismus ita olim Circumcisio non nudum esset signaculum justitiae interioris sed efficax atque operatorium And St. Austin ibid. Cur ergo ei praeceptum est ut omnem deinceps infantem octavo die circumcideret nisi quia ipsum per seipsum sacramentum multum valebat And for this purpose also were their sacrifices used See Lev. 4. 20 26. and the Priest shall make an attonement for him as concerning his sin and it shall be forgiven him Vulgar Rogabitque pro eo Sacerdos pro peccato ejus dimittetur ei See Lev. cap. â—… cap. 17. and Numb 15. cap. and Heb. 5. 1. That he might offer sacrifices
by which his 2 Effected by him §. 15. The Eucharist iucorporating us into his life The Sacrament of Union §. 16. All tâ—…ese Benefits depend on our being made his 〈◊〉 §. 17. Which we are by the derivation to us of his nature â—… His Spirit §. 18. Given to us upon Faith and Repentance §. 19 Our new birth at our Baptism Not 〈◊〉 perfected §. 20. By this spirit the image of Christ first formed in the soul. It s mighty working in the soul oâ—… the like graces to those in Christ. His 〈◊〉 in the soul not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this life Umbra in lege Imago in Evangelio veritas in coelo S. Ambros. §. 21. 2 Shall be also in the body hereafter Wâ—…en we shaâ—…l more propâ—…y be the 〈◊〉 of God It s mighty working in the body of the like glory to that in Christ. §. 21. Before the resurrection as we so our Head not compleat §. 22. The diverse relations of Christ to us as second Adam Father Children Husband Wife Root Branches Foundation building Elder younger brethren Configuration as wrought by â—…im so to be advanced likewise by us §. 1. The Holy God not admitting to his service the approach of sinners But of some chosen and consecrated persons in their behalf Some ministring at a greater distance tâ—…e Levite Some nearer The 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 line only §. 2. And nearer yet the High Priest His Office §. g. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Priesi 〈◊〉 imperfect decaying and except typically 〈◊〉 §. 4 This Order Expired Jesus Christ the true High Priest 〈◊〉 li 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nature 2 In the 〈◊〉 thereof Called to this office and anointed by God Of the order of Melchisedeck i. e. Regal and Eternal §. 5. This Holy Priest offering the sacrifice a sin-offering §. 6. After this entring into the Sâ—…nctum Sanctorum Without which his office had been imperfect and ineffectual §. 7. He entring thro the heavens to the true sanctuary The vail of the other being now rent and it made common 1 The description of this Sanctuary §. 8. 2 Of his person entring §. 9 〈◊〉 in the sacrifice And sprinkling the blood before the Lord. §. 10. Making Intercession 1 In presenting his own prayers to the Father for us §. 11. 2 In presenting also our praiers and oblations to the Father The sacrifices and oblations of Christians §. 12. §. 13. 3 In procuring our admission to deliver them our selves unto the 〈◊〉 §. 14. The benefits of his intercession Procuring us the Holy Spirit from the Father And all blessings spiritual and temporal Himseâ—…f imâ—… conâ—… them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 §. 15. As High Priest intercessor answering to Aaron So by his royal Priesthood Captain of Gods people answering to Moses 2 To Joshua And the forerunner into the place of rest 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 §. 16. The substitutes of this Priest in his own necessary absence here on earth 1 To present his sacrifice 2 To make intercession for the people §. 17. This honor of Priesthood from Him to be communicated to all his Brethren In some sort alâ—… they officiating in it here on earth But shall more compleatly after tâ—…e day of judgment Being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 as He. And serving God for â—…ver 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Temple 2 Priests also in some sense in the soul after Death §. 18 A glympse of the after-death condition of the souls of the Blessed §. 19 This High Priests at the last day return out of the Sanctuary and reappearance to the people §. 1. Before our Saviors incarnation God the 〈◊〉 by him created sustained governed the whole world And more specialâ—…y the Church §. 2. Our Saviors descent from his eternal throne for mans sake §. 3 A kingdom promisâ—…d to man at â—…first §. 4. Our Savior became man and by obedience and sufferings gained it And so by him all Adams postevity that follow him §. 5. The power and extent of Christs kingdom â—… Over Angels Good Eâ—… 2 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 3 Souls â—…odies 4 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 5 Sins to remit to retain them 6Over living over dead The last Judge 1 Of men brought back to life 2 And also Angels The good and the bad â—…ter of 〈◊〉 and â—…ments 7 〈◊〉 all the Creaâ—…ures A new world to be made by Him As men have seen some pieces of it by him repaired §. 6. The manner of exercising this his Regal powâ—…r §. 7. Which is by certain degrees advancing §. 8. 1 In respect of subduing his Enemies 1 Antichrist 2 Satan 3 Death 2 In respect of enlarging his dominion 1 To the Jew in part 2 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 3 To the Jew Apostatized §. 9. At last perâ—… 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 § 10. The three Ascents of his throne §. 11. The whole work 〈◊〉 all his members câ—…mpleated â—…mies conquered resigning up his ingdom to the Father §. 12. §. 1. The Old world had not only the types but the benefits of the promises Had the presence and conduct of the sâ—…n of God â—…nd the presence and assistance of the Holy Spirit §. 2. The Government of the old world by the Son §. 3 All judgments and vengeance §. 4. Executed by the second person of the Trinity 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 §. 5. Of an 〈◊〉 having 〈◊〉 Attributes §. 6. Some old Testament apparitions must be granted to be of the second person From these granted others in reason cannot be denyed As those to Abraham To Noah To Jacob c. That to Moses on Mount Sinai on the 〈◊〉 In the Wilderness In the Temple c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 Him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 §. 7. The descent of the Hoâ—…y Ghost under the old Testament Some sprinklings then of all its gifts It s 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in some 〈◊〉 men And specially on the sons of the Prophets § 8. The 2 Covenants from the tâ—…e Two generations alwaies One of works the other of faith §. 9. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Seth the first Father of the Holy Race Enos Enoch 〈◊〉 §. 9. Of tâ—…e covenant of Grace made or rather renewed with him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 type of Baâ—… Of the Eucharist §. 11. Shem The Lord called the God of Shem. §. 11. Abraham Of the Covenant of Grace renewed with and the Gospel preached to him And of the Sacraments belonging to it David The same Covenanâ—… renewed to him The Prophets Of Gods frequent renewing of the covenant of grace to his people by them §. 12 And by extraordinary Teachers constantly reforming the Church at certain times when much declining 〈◊〉 his true worship and least deserving it As by Enoch Noah Abraham § 13. Moses Samuel and David Zerubbabel and Joshuah His own Son §. 14 God for â—…ver preservinâ—… the 〈◊〉 not 〈◊〉 to its 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 own 〈◊〉 purpose and pleâ—…sure §. 15. The eminent promulgatioâ—… of the Covenant of Grace 430 â—…ears seniour to that of the law The Gospel preached to the same people when the law was The law to the children of faith coâ—…sistent with subservient to and no way annâ—…lled by the Covenant of Grace or the Gospel §. 16. Tho to the children of works a killing letter Yet 〈◊〉 to drive them made sensible of their inability forward into tâ—…e Covenant of Grace §. 17. The two ministrations of the law by Moses and the spirit by Christ how and how not opposed The Ancients had a waies the same way of salvation as the latter times §. 18. §. 19. The same justification and sanctification The same obedience tâ—…en required and performed §. 20. The Parallel precepts under tâ—…e law to those under the Gospel §. 21. The same sufferings and mortifications c. required and undergone Consider the old Testament mortifications Temporal afflictions of the godly Of single persons godâ—…y Of nations godly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Under the new Testament temporal prosperity in some sense to the godly § 22. 3 The same rewards eternal then promised Punishments eternal threatned The common belief of all nations concerning these Of the Ancient 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a resurrection of the body The scriptures of the old Testament Concerning a resurrection Concerning eternal bliss after it of the faithful Eternal punishment of the wicked Paena damni Paena sâ—…nsus §. 2â—… Conclusioâ—…