THE Types Unvailed OR The Gospel pick't out of the Legal Ceremonies whereby we may compare the Substance with the Shadow Written For the Information of the Ignorant for their help in reading of the OLD TESTAMENT By Tho. Worden Minister Christ is the end of the Law to every one which believeth Rom. 10 4. I came not to destroy the Law but to fulfil it Mat. 5. 17. The Law is good if a man use it lawfully 1 Tim. 1. 8. Wherefore the Law was our Schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ Gal. 3. 24. London Printed in the Year 1664. To his most endeared Friend Mrs. Mary Atkins Widdow Greeting My Christian Friend BEing bound by many Obligations and Ties of love and service to serve you as a Christian in what I am able I knew not wherein I could better express it wherein I might indeed be serviceable to you then in presenting you with this Piece the Lines of which have been in part the fruit of my Prison Meditations Wherein as in a Glass you may see to your great admiration the wonderful glory of Christ which lay hid under the ashes of those Jewish Types the which when duly read and inquired into shew you the blessed statue or representation of Christs Church together with the hidden work of Christ intrinsecally wrought by him in the minds of his dear Children upon their Conversion the thoughts of which hath made me deeply to bewail the loss that some weak Christians have sustained who out of ignorance and blind conceitedness of mind slight the reading of the Books of Moses because as they say it is the Law who judge that the Law in no sense hath any thing to do with them or they with it and as S. Paul said to Timothy 1 Tim. 1. 7. They in speaking of the Law understand not what they say neither indeed what they affirm I do not say the Ceremonial Law is any way binding to us I am so little either a Jew or Papist but I say it is instructive to us having the Gospel to compare therewith so saith S. Paul Gal. 3. 24. And the more we read it and peruse it the more we see into the Gospel by it and the more is our comfort raised thereby in the substance which is Christ I do confess I am the meanest of Christ his Servants to attempt such a work as this is but when I consider that he that had but his one talent was accursed for the Non-improvement of that and that out of weakness God brings the greatest strength sometimes and that out of the mouths of Babes and Sucklings he sometimes brings out matter of praise to Jesus Christ Upon these considerations I was encouraged to send forth these Lines unto you hoping that God will make them both acceptable and profitable to you and it may be to other souls likewise I know men of greater parts and gifts have commented on these things already whose Volumes are answerable to their gifts and parts very large which every ordinary capacity could not fathom neither could every ordinary purse procure Therefore did I take the boldness for the profit of such to appear in Print in this Piece You must not expect it altogether free of Correction I hope-both you and any else that shall meet with it will overlook common Infirmity and make favourable construction of my honest Intention for the Lord knows my heart that if I had affected popularity more then singleness of heart to God and his people I should not have dared to put Pen to Paper in this work Therefore for an Apology for those errours and common infirmities that you or any other may meet with in this Tract I must tell you that I was onely left to my Bible and my Meditations which I had in Prison with me being denied the use of any other helps in this business as to that outward means which other men are attended with you your selves do partly know that my Library of Books which I did use to consult with lay for the most part in my Pocket the which I diligently searched in Prison which made my Task more then ordinary but I hope I was not left to my own wisdom alone in my labours in the Production of this Book And I likewise hope God will not leave you or any else that shall read this Piece to your bare reason in the reading of it but will accompany it with his holy Spirit That you may understand it to your great profit and comfort is the desire of him who subscribes himself yours and the Churches faithful Servant while I live in the body THO. WORDEN The Law was our Schoolmaster to bring us to Christ Gal. 3. 24. THat which I shall do in this Piece is to give you my Conceptions of the Mysterie of Grace which lieth hid under the Levitical Types and Shadows of the Law I shall first set down the Types as I find them in order set down in the Books of Moses directing you to the places of Scripture where to find each place for your better satisfaction TYPE I. I Shall begin with the Paschal Lamb which is spoken of in Exod. 12. 2. which was a great Type both to them and all generations since down all along to the coming of Christ which was called a Passover because it did preserve the Israelites from those several Plagues which passed through the land of Egypt the manner of it was thus That because Pharaoh would not let the Israelites go to serve the Lord after he had nine Plagues poured out upon him and his people the Lord sent him the Tenth Plague which was That a destroying Angel should pass through the land of Egypt in one night and should kill all the first born or eldest both of their children and cattel which were in every house in Egypt Now that the Israelites which were amongst them might not be touched with this Judgment the Lord ordered them that every Family should kill a Lamb the night before and strike the Door-posts of their houses with the blood of the Lamb which was to be a signe to the Angel that he was not to kâ—ll any one in that house but that he must pass over that house to the next where the blood of the Lamb was not sprinkled on the doors This you may read in Exod. 12. 2. and in verse 22 23. Besides there was another Type in the Passover of the Lamb for they were to Eat it and the manner of it was thus First The Lamb was to be without blemish and as to the manner of eating it they were to Rost it with fire 2. They were to eat all the Lamb at once they were not to leave any of it remaining until the morrow Head and Leggs with all the Appurtenances were to be eaten Exod. 12. 8 9 10. 3. The Sauce with which they were to eat the Lamb with was Bitter Herbs And the Bread with which they were to eat it was to be unlevened
Red Sea so will all men unavoidably perish by the guilt of their sinnes without they wade by faith through the red Sea of Christ his Blood 1 John 1. 7. The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all sin Rom. 5. 7. Being justified by his blood we shall be saved from wrath through him Heb. 9. 12. By his own blood he entered once into the holy place having obtained eternal redemption for us so ver 22. Without shedding of blood there is no remission Rev. 1. 5. Who hath loved us and washed us in his own blood from our sins for thou wast slain and hast redeemed us by thy blood unto God out of every kindred tongue nation and people Revel 5. 9. So that this shews us if ever a soul would have deliverance from his sins which dogs him up and down from place to place he must fetch it in from the blood of Christ held out to his soul in the Gospel O my friends you that have the guilt of sin set open to you would you have it washed away and you that have the anger of God and his wrath flaming hot against you would you have it quenched O then fly you in all haste to the bloud of Christ O drink it in by believing and this will give your hearts ease nothing else will do it O look on Christ on the Cross bleeding for you get as near the Cross as you can in your thoughts and strive to get under his wounds and open thy mouth wide and drink thy fill of bloud adding to it this firm perswasion that the worth and efficacy of this bloud will save thee thou maist assure thy self that it will and if ever thou gettest peace into thy troubled soul it will come and must come in this way for that peace which cometh into the soul which came not in by this way of faith will in the end prove the greatest sorrow Isa 50. 11. Sixthly and Lastly The same waters which proved waters of Salvation to the Israelites were waters of Ruine and utter Destruction to the Egyptians Exod. 14. 27 28. It was a full and total Deliverance to the Jews and a full and total Destruction to the Egyptians This leads us to behold the wonderful benefit that those have by the bloud of Christ that wade through it by believing A full Redemption from all their sins at once the Red Sea took off the whole of Pharaohs Army at once not a man left to carry back tidings what became of his fellow so is it a full Redemption that we have by the Red Sea of Christs bloud a Redemption from the guilt of all sin there is not one left to carry back news what is become of the rest all sin past present and to come original sin and actual sin sins of all sorts and sizes publick and private sins sins of Childhood Youth Manhood and Old Age sins committed in all relations conditions and capacities whatsoever yea all sins with all their circumstances John 1. 1. 7. The bloud of Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all sin there is not one of them shall rise up to a souls Condemnation more Rom. 8. 1. There is therefore now no condemnation to a man in Christ Jesus who walketh not after the flesh but after the spirit Secondly It is a total salvation it is for ever the Jews were never troubled with that Army more therefore said Moses stand still behold the salvation of God The Egyptians whom you see to day you shall see no more for ever Exod. 14. 13. Such a salvation hath the Elect by the Red sea of Christs bloud it is a Redemption from sin for ever not for a year or two or ten but world without end Therefore saith our Saviour it is eternal life which I give my people and they shall never perish John 10. 28. Jer. 31. 3. I have saith God loved thee with an everlasting love so John 13. 1. Where it s said of Christ having loved his own He loveth them to the end CHAP. 7. The next condition the Children of Israel was in after their Deliverance from the Red Sea was their travelling through the Wilderness IN which we may take notice of these things First Their cross motion up and down sometimes this way and sometimes that ways sometimes towards their good land and sometimes the quite contray way back again Just so are the dealings of God with and in the spirits of the people that although they are fully justified from all their sins by passing through the Red sea of Christs bloud yet the after-dealings of God many times are very various with his people in point of comfort what up and down leading of God many times do poor souls find within themselves Sometimes they are well-nigh Canaan as they hope within them and they can rejoyce under the shinings of Gods love upon their hearts and they come to conclude pretty well of their spiritual conditions when they find their desires to run forth after God and their affections and love to move out after Jesus Christ then the soul takes to himself the wings of joy and begins to mount upwards in the air of comfort But at another time the soul is wholly at a loss and knows not what to conclude of himself or his condition he sees nothing but confusion within all things out of order the soul can feel little affection or love working towards Jesus Christ little heart to duty all the souls zeal is gone from him his courage gone his faith gone his taste and spiritual savour gone and all seems to fail the soul which makes his hope to die within him and to cry out with the Psalmist Psal 73. 26. My flesh and my heart faileth me Insomuch that the soul cannot believe for one days comfort and then the soul concludes that he goeth quite back again even to the borders of Egypt Thus it was with David sometimes he could say the Lord was his shepherd he should not want that he was made to lie down in green pastures and led besides the still waters Psal 23. 1 2. But at another time he is all off his hope and comfort again and crys out his life is spent in grief and his years with sighing his strength fallen because of his iniquity his bones were consumed Psal 31. 10. Again take him at another time and then you shall up upon the hill of comfort again Psal 23. Lasts crying out surely mercy and goodness shall follow me all the days of my life Look you into the 25. Psalm 17. 18. And there you shall see him down on all four again crying out The troubles of my heart are enlarged O bring thou me out of my distresses so in the 27. Ps 3. v. You have him up in the Mount with God again crying out Though an host should encamp against me my heart shall not fear though war arise on every side against me yetiâ—n this will I be confident Look you again into Psal
or forbidding the thing to be done by in the worship of God if the thing commanded or forbidden be in its self an evil but not the subjects in obeying the thing commanded or forbidden Thus you see how difficult the Devil labours to render the poor souls way to the good Land and how Satan fills the souls paths with discouragements and how much Satan is like to prevail without the infinite power of God be put forth to help and bear up the poor soul in his way to the good Land which leads me to the next particular which is this The wilderness of old might well be called the place of wonders because of the great miracles which the Lord did work for the Jews in their travels in that notwithstanding all the seeming deaths dangers the people past under in the Wilderness yet the Lord by a powerful hand brought them to their promised Land in safety So soul take this for thy comfort that whatever the opposition be that thou meetest with in the way to thy eternal Canaan yet bear up fear not for God will at last deliver thee out of the hands of all thy enemies and carry thee safely through to thy appointed rest of glory that thou mayest serve him in righteousness and true holiness in bliss to all eternity Luke 1. 74 75. O soul therefore hold up thy head the work is the Lords and although he suffers thee to tug with fearful difficulties and great oppositions yet know this that the battle is the Lords and he will fight it in thee for thee its true it may be as with Gideon thou art ready to cry out of thy own weaknes thy family is the smallest in Israel and thou the least in the family but let me speak to thee in the words of the Angel to Gideon Judges 6 12. Up for God is with thee thou mighty man of valour O soul the Lord is engaged to bring thee home to glory God hath sworn by his holiness that it shall be so therefore it must be so read Psalm 89. 33. 34 35 36 37. O therefore arise go out againâ—â— thy enemies fear them not but look them boldly in the face O look a corrupt proud lustful revengeful unbelieving worldly fearful dead backward heart in the face and look all the Devils in hell and wicked men in the world boldly in the face look all thy relations in the face look a wicked world in the face look â—ubtle inticing Apostates in the face O fear none of these things assure thy self there shall nothing of these prevail against thee for God will fight for thee and will be with thee in the battle he will do all thy works in thee and for thee Phil 2. 13. So that the gates of hell shall not prevail against thee O hearken to the voice of the Spirit of God in thy soul which will speak to thee as once Joshua and â—aleb did to the Israelites Numb 14 6 7 8. Fear not the Land which we passed over to search is an exceeding good Land if the Lord delight in us then he wiâ—â— bring us into this good Land a Land which floweth with milk and honey onely rebel nâ—t agaâ—nst the Lord neither fear ye the people of the Land for they are bread for us their defence is departed from them and the Lord is with us ear them not therefore for a close to this particular take these two places of Scripture and the God of heaven make them of use to the fainting doubting dying soul Deut. 31. 8. The Lord he is he that doth go before thee he will be with thee he will not fail thee neither forsake thee fear not neither be afraid Deut. 33. 27. The eternal God is thy refuge underneath thee are the everlasting armes and he shall thrust out thine enemies before thee and shall say destroy thou them O therefore soul let me advise thee not to yield to thy temptations for assure thy self in time thou shalt reap if thou faint not Let the gates of Hell do what they can yet they shall go forth weeping bearing precious seed shall doubtless come again bringing their shears with them Psal 126. 56. And the raâ—sommed of the Lord shall return to Zion with songs and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads and they shall obtain joy and gladness and sorrow and sighing shall flye away Isa 35. 10. CHAP. 13. The next thing that we are to take notice of is their bunch of Grapes which was brought them from the good Land by the hands of their Spies yet notwithstanding they could not believe THis bunch of Grapes which were brought out of Canaan by the Spies might lead us to the sheddings abroad of the Holy Spirit of God upon our hearts if we truly believe for the end why God sent the Grapes of Canaan to the Israelites while they were in the Wilderness it was to assure their hearts to the making good those promises which God before made to their Fathers concerning their certain arrival at the Land of promise and so it was to be an earnest or pledge to them which believed of their right to the Land of promise that assuredly as they did eat of that bunch of grapes which came from â—anaâ—n so assuredly if they would believe the Lord would bring them safe home to the full vintage Now of the same use is the Holy Ghost which God sends down into the hearts of the faithful You may call the breathings of the Spirit of God in the hearts of the godly the fore-running bunch of Grapes of the eternal Canaan which doth yield forth his blessed refreshing comforting chearing juyce into the hearts of the people of God God gives out the holy Spirit to assure the godly that the Land is a good Land unto which they are a travelling God gives his people the sweet sensible tastes of glory to come before-hand O how hath God drenched the souls of his people with draughts of this salvation sometimes when in an ordinance of God This made David prize so much the house of God Psalm 27 4. It was the coming down of those heavenly Grapes or spiritual Dews from the Spirit of God which did so much draw and atttact his heart thither-ward so much Psalm 36 8. For thou shalt abundantly satisfie them with the fatness of thy house and make us to drink of the Rivers of thy pleasures The work of which heavenly dews of the Spirit is to witness to and in our hearts about the great right we have by free Grace to the good Land of promise which is Heaven Rom. 8. 16 The spirit it self beareth witness with our spirit that we are the people of God so 1 John 4. 13. Hereby we know that we dwell in him and he in us by his Spirit which he hath given us That is the Holy Spirit is given us to assure us of the right we have to heaven the Father gives it to his as the imagining pledge that
3 4 5. with Levit. 14. 21 22 23 Secondly the Priest was to take the blood of the sacrifice and to sprinkle the mercy-seat therewith Leviticus 16. 14 15. Thirdly He was to offer up strong prayers by the burning incense Altar to God for the people praying God to pardon their sins and that he would accept their persons and their sacrifices and would be their God and would bless their souls with his heavenly blessing sRead Levit. 16. 12 13. with Levit. 6. 6 7. verses Likewise the Priest was to cast fresh Incense into the fire that was on the Incense Altar that so aâ— cloud of Incense might arise to God Levit. 16. 12 13. Fourthly The Priest was to take notice of every uncleanness that should be found amongst them either in person garment cloathes or in their houses Levit. 13. from 1. to the 16. ver with Levit. 14. from 34. to 40. ver Fifthly If any man had sinned either ignorantly or wilfully the Priest upon his coming was to offer sacrifice for him and it was pardoned Levit. 4. 13 14 15 16 17 18. with 28 29 30. verses So Levit. 5. 17 18. verses Sixthly By the powerful intercession of the Priest he was to interpose between the wrath of God and the people at such times as the people by sin had provoked God read Numb 16. 46 47 48. verses There was one ordinance observed amongst the Jews that we may not omit though it be a little out of its place which was this A standing sacrifice of two lambs which were to be offered the one in the morning and the other in the evening thorow out the whole year Exod. 39. 38 39. TYPE VIII The Land of Canaan THis Type is called by Paul their rest Heb. 3. which was the end of all their sore travels and weary journeyes and great temptations a Land of delight full of fatness abounding with all manner of ease and plenty a Land flowing with milk and honey Numb 13. 27. where was no want of any good thing Deut. 8. 7 8 9. Now this Canaan was an inheritance given by God to the people freely Deut. 19. 1. Secondly It was an inheritance divided proportionably to each of them by Lot Numb 26 54 55 56. Thirdly They were to march in an armed posture to this Land and they were to fight for it yet not without their leader Joshua Numb 35. 11 12 13 14. Deut. 7. 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24. Yet this is observable that when they came out of the red Sea there was not a sword amongst the people but those waters which through the mighty power of God were made to deliver them the same waters by Gods appointment were made to cast forth weapons to them as Josephus writes page 51 of his second Book TYPE IX The assigned Cities of refuge which were six in number THe use of which was that if any man had committed murther by an accident if he did immediately repair to any of these Cities the Officer which was appointed for Executioner did overtake him he was not to dye provided he did not go out of the City vntil the death of the present High Priest Numb 35. 11 12 13 14. Another thing was the Covenant which God did make with them in Exod. 24. 8. In which are these things to be considered 1. The Covenant it self Exod. 24. 8. 2. The parties covenanting First The one party was God Exod. 24. 3. The party on the other side was the people ver 3. Secondly The terms propounded between both parties First On Gods part to the people ver 3. with ver 7. Deut. 7. 12 13 14 15. Secondly The peoples accepting of the terms ver 3. Thirdly The person mediating between both the parties ver 1. 2 3. Fourthly You have the ratification of the Covenant In which are these things to be considered 1. The conditions between both parties read v. 7. 2. The peoples accepting those conditions v. 7. 3. The sealing of the Covenant in which we may note two things First There was the life of something slain ver 5. Secondly With the blood of it the Covenant was signed between God and the people ver 6. 7 8. Deuteronomy 26. 17 18. Next I shall speak as the several kindes of sacrifices and so shall conclude the Types of the Ceremonial Law Now those sacrifices were of two kindes or sorts which they offered 1. Of things sollid 2 Of things liquid or moist those sollid things they were of two sorts First of things living Secondly Of things that were dead The sacrifices of things living were either bullocks Lev. 16. 11. Goats Lev. 18. 15. Rams Lev. 16. 3. Lambs Levit. 18. 2 3. or young Pigeons Lev. 1. 14. Now these sacrifices were all to be put to death and their blood to be poured out upon the Altar to make an attonement to God for the people and they were to be sacrifices either without spot or blemish Besides there was a Goat offered to God which was alive for the people called the scape-goat the manner of offering this Goat to God you may see in Lev. 16. 7 8. 9 10. with 21. 22. verses A second sort of sollid sacrifices were of things without life as meal or flower now these things were to be bruised or broken Now the liquid kinde of sacrifices was of oyl wine or water and this was to be poured out upon the ground Exod. 29. 40. The oyl was oftentimes put to the making of a certain sort of little thin cakes which they called wafers appointed likewise for sacrifice sometimes of thanksgiving sometimes it was ordered to be put to the sacrifice for a vow Levit. 7. 12. 16. Those were called meat-offerings and peace-offerings Levit. 7. 9 10 11. and this the Priests were to eat Levit. 24. 5 6 7 8. besides those moist sacrifices were to be poured out upon the ground And thus have I finished the order of the Types I next come to the explanation of them I shall begin with the Paschal Lamb which the Jews did eat in Egypt first I shall shew you who it did type out and then make some spiritual use of it to your advantage CHAP 1. Concerning the Lamb which was eaten by the Jews in Egypt the night before their departure as also the manner how the Lamb was eaten by the Jews THis Lamb typed out Jesus Christ to come by whom alone salvation is to be had therefore when John the Baptist who was a fore-runner of Christ came to reveal and to make him manifest to the world he holds Christ forth to the people under the Metaphor of a Lamb John 1. 36. Behold the Lamb of God to this agreeth the words of Paul 1 Cor. 5. 7. when he was a pressing the Corinthians to a discharge of duty in casting forth the incestuous person from among them which else as leaven would leaven the whole Church with guilt at least he grounds his exhortation on this point For Christ our Passeover
16. 7. Use 1. Therefore soul if ever thou wouldst have comfort in thy troubled seasons look not for it in any thing below Jesus Christ read that of Isa 50. 11. Behold all ye which kindle a fire that compass your selves about with sparks walk in the light of your fire and in the sparks that you have kindled but this shall ye have at my hand ye shall lie down in sorrow As Israels water springs lay altogether in their Canaan so the believers springs lyeth altogether above in his heavenly Canaan Rev. 22 2. Therefore if thy springs of comfort and refreshment are but few O consider thou art in thy Wildernesse while here a place which affords great droughts but little water but it is enough that thou art travelling to a land of Rivers and Springs of water and fountains of living pleasures which are at the Fathers right hand that runneth for evermore CHAP. 12. The Wildernesse attended with doubts and fears Again the Wildernesse afforded many doubts and fears which arose First From the barrenness of it And secondly on the other hand because of the several attempts which the Inhabitants of the Country daily made in order to their utter Ruine and Destruction THis leads us still to behold the condition of the soul while on this side his Heavenly Canaan of Rest and Peace where do that Christian live that cannot speak more or less of this kind of condition here in this life O the doubts and fears that do arise in the heart of a poor soul about his eternal condition when the soul is under the withdrawings of these sensible enjoyments of the love and favour of God to his spirit when the soul feels not these inward stirrings of the spirit of God as formerly the soul had and could once experience O what doubts and fears do this many a times create upon the heart of the Christian which makes the soul to cry out Now I shall perish now God hath forsaken me and is angry with me and intends to cast me off for ever O I shall never have his love more I thought once that I should never have inherited eternal life O how have my soul been comforted heretofore concerning the truth of this But now all my hope and comfort is gone my grace is gone from within me my God is gone my heart and my flesh faileth me because the favour of God is departed from me and I left a miserable poor wretched soul destitute of all help hope and comfort so that like as the Israelites hearts would fail them for want of bread and water in their Wildernesse so doth the poor soul in his spiritual Wilderness condition when his bread of life and water of life fails him when grace seems weak and comforts fail and the inward springs of supply grows low then the soul dies as it were within himself Thus it was with David Lord saith he â—hou didst hide thy face and I was troubled Psal 30. 7. And thus it was with the Spouse in Cant. 5. 6. I opened to my beloved but my beloved had withdrawn himself and was gone my soul failed when he spake I sought him but I could not find him I called but he gave me no answer Look how it was with the Jews in their temporal and litteral wilderness no longer then they could see their bread and water could they have peace within but were alwayes complaining and murmuring and doubting what would become of their conditions and the condition of their generations to come insomuch that they displeased God oftentimes against them and made him to slay the fattest of them Psal 78. 31 32 For they could not believe for a day but still doubted of Gods faithfulness every moment Thus it is with the soul in the spiritual wilderness no longer then the soul is feeding upon the sensible enjoyments of Gods Holy Spirit the soul is ready to conclude destruction to its self Now the duty of the soul is to believe and to trust God that although we never feel or taste or discern any thing within us yet still to rely upon this promise that God will ever be mindeful of his Covenant so did David 2 Sam. 23. 5. O what a blessed frame of spirit was the Prophet Habakkuk in c. 3. 17. 18 19. When he uttered these words Although the fig-tree should not blossom neither should fruit be in the vine the labour of the olive should cease and the field should yield no meat and the flock should be cut off from the fold and there should be no herd in the stall yet will I rejoyce in the Lord and joy in the God of my salvation the Lord is my strength he will make my feet like hindes feet and he will make me to walk upon high places Truly my friends the best life is a life of believing O this brings you in the most solid comfort and peace therefore saith Habakkuck cap. 2 4. The just man shall live by his faith and saith the Apostle We walk by faith and not by sight 2 Cor. 5. 7. O souls my exhortation to you is what was the Apostles to the Hebrewes Heb. 3. 12. Take heed of suffering in you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God O labour to live more and more by believing and lesse by sense because its a life that best suits the state you are in remember you are in the Wilderness a place which affords great grounds of fears and many doubtings and therefore you had need of a great deal of faith in the promises of God and the faithfulnesse of God or you may faint by the way and at last die in the Wildernesse and so never see the good land Heb. 4. 1. Let us therefore fear lest a promise being left us of entring into his rest any of us should seem to come short of it Now what is it that so much endangers a souls falling short of the good land the Canaan of rest look you into the 3. chap. of this Epistle and the 18. ver You shall see it was want of a believing spirit Again the Israelites fears did arise from those enemies which assaulted them in the Wildernesse as Og King of Bashan and the Amalâ—kites Thus it is with the soul in his spiritual Wildernesse O what out-cries doth the soul oftentimes make with respect to these horrid assaults the souls enemies oftentimes makes against him in his inward man How doth sin and lust and temptation assault the poor soul with what violence and strength doth worldly mindednesse break in upon the soul what sad assaults doth Pride Revenge Concupiscence and Unbelief oftentimes visit the soul withall which makes the soul cry out with David many times I shall one day perish by the hands of these Sauls which pursue my soul night and day like a Partridge upon the Mountains I say what sad fears do the risings of these corruptions oftentimes occasion in the souls of Gods people which makes
that God might love you and pardon sin in you and that he might give you an inheritance amongst them which are sanctified but because all this is freely procured by Jesus Christ for you already and is freely by the grace of God made over to the soul as his through sound believing Like 1. 74 75 That we being delivered mark that not that we might be delivered might serve him without fear in righteousness and holinesse all the dayes of our lives so Hebrewes 12. 28. Wherefore we receiving a Kingdom which cannot be moved mark that a Kingdom already received Let us have grace whereby we may serve God with reverence and godly fear so Titus 2. 11 12. The grace of God which bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men mark that which hath already appeared This teacketh them that denying ungodlinesse and worldly lusts should live soberly righteously and godlily in this present world So that a believer is so far from being set free by Christ from the Law or ten Commandments as that he is the more obliged to the strict observation of it Therefore saith Saint Paul Romans 3. 31. Do we then make void the Law through faith God forbid yea we establish the Law Romans 7. 12. Wherefore the Law is holy and the Commandment holy just and good The form of the Old Covenant is taken away by Christ from a Believer but the matter still remains itceaseth to be a Law commanding for life to a Believer but it still requires obedience in all manner of Coversation at a Believers hands because he doth live and so it s a Rule to walk by as binding as ever Thus you may see if you will but consider the place where the Tables of the Law were placed they were placed in the Ark which Ark typed out Christ as you have heard before so that by Moses his placing the Tables of the moral Law in the Ark under the Mercy-seat both which places being types of Christ it is very clear that the moral Law or ten Commandments are become the Law of Christs mediatory Kingdom CHAP 19. I now come to speak of the Table for the Shew bread placed in the Tabernacle THis Table called the Shew-bread Table was placed by Moses in one side of the tabernacle Exod. 40. 22. The use of this Table was to hold the bread called the Shew-bread this bread was made into little loaves or cakes and set upon the Table and they were in number twelve which was proportionable to the number of their tribes The bread was set in two Rows upon the Table six on one side and six on the other side of the Table The bread was set new on the Table every Sabbath day and when the new was to be set on the Table the Priests were to eat the old as you may see in Lev. 24. 5 6 7 8 9. Now this bread was typical two ways and both held out Christ to the people First It figured forth Christ one who constantly abideth under the eye of God for the people or in the behalf of beliervers for as the Shew-bread was always to stand on the Table before the Lord therefore called the Shew-bread so Jesus Christ who is called The bread of life John 6. 35. Is never off the Fathers sight in the behalf of believers in whose humane nature the Father was fully satisfied and in whom he professeth himself to be well-pleased with us Mat. 3. 17. This is my beloved Son in whom I am well-pleased Christ is always in readiness to present his Father with the view of his Righteousness on the Altar of his sufferings presenting his Father with his nailed feet and hands with his pierced sides with his hanging down head upon the Cross with his drops of blood in the Garden with the pourings forth of his soul unto death that so the sight of these things might endear believers to the heart of God Use 1. It may be some soul may think that he is cast out of the sight of God and out of the favour and love of God O but thy Christ is not and so long it is well enough Remember and recover thy self with these thoughts Christ thy Shew-bread abideth in Gods eye for ever Christ is alwayes standing upon the Table of acceptation before God for thee so saith the Apostle Heb. 9. 24. Christ is not entred into the holy places made with hands but into heaven it self there to appear in the presence of God for us And therefore soul if thou hast union with Christ thou needest not doubt of thy condition for if the Father do accept the head certainly he cannot reject the members Again whereas the Shew-bread was put into twelve loaves according to the Tribes of Israel as that there was not a loaf more or less This teacheth us that though the number of those that shall lay hold on Christ by real faith be many yea very many yet they need not doubt here is bread enough for them all here is a loaf for every Tribe a piece for every Christian O Christ is an inexhaustible treasure which will not be wasted a fountain which cannot be drawn dry a loaf that can never be eaten Although there hath been many a thousand that have been a feeding upon Christs Flesh and Blood throughout all generations of the world yet our Lord writes himself still Heb. 13. 8. Jesus Christ tke same yesterday to day and for ever Again This Shew-bread signified the great bounty and goodness of God to the Israelites in their wilderness condition in that he gave them to understand that he could and would provide for them a table in a barren Land where no corn was grown that from thence they might be led the more to admire God in his power love and grace manifested to them in that condition and that their hearts might be raised up to a pitch of thankfulness so likewise should it teach Believers to make the same use of Gods bounty and goodness to them in the gift of his Son Jesus Christ that such provision should be made for them that the Table of his grace and love should be so deckt with the flesh blood merits and righteousness of his own onely Son as you have it in the parable Luke 14. 16 17. A certain man made a great supper and bid many and sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden Come for all things are ready Thus you see a great supper is provided much provision made a table furnished no want at all on Gods part all the want lieth on our parts we are not ready O how should this cause Christians to admire God in his wonderful acts of grace to their souls that as John speaks John 3. 16. He should so love the world as to send into it his onely begotten Son that whosoever seeth him and shall believe in him shall have everlasting life And with 1 John 3. 1. To break forth into a holy admiration and cry
out O what manner of love is this that we should be called the Sons of God CHAP. 19. I shall in the next place speak of the Candlestick which was placed in the Tabernacle IN this Tabernacle there was placed a Candlestick which was made of pure Gold and the fashion of it was thus It parted from a foot high in the stem into six branches three of the branches going one way and three of the branches going another way there were three bowls made like unto three almonds with their knobs and their flowers to every branch but in the stem of the Cnadlestick below their parting were four bowls with their knobs and their flowers Exod. 27. 17. Exod 37. 18 19 20. By the Candlestick in this place we are to understand to be meant the Church of God which Church is made up of true Believers which truly and sincerely profess and own Christ and his Worship being redeemed by his Blood from all the earth Rev. 7. 14. This is the signification of the Candlestick the truth of which you may read Rev. 1. 20. where the seven Churches are compared to seven golden Candlesticks which answereth to the Candlestick in the Tabernacle for that was made of pure beaten Gold Ex. 27. 17. Now the Church of God may be compared to a Candlestick several manner of wayes First As a Candlestick is made to mount or hold up the light that all in a time of darkness may see so doth the Church and people of God they hold up the light of truth and the bright shinings of the word and Gospel that all that are in the dark world who sit in the Region and shadow of death might behold the face of God in Jesus Christ shining through the Saints gifts graces and holy conversations in upon their souls Isaiah 2. 3. The Law shall go forth out of Zion and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem by which means Isa 9. 2. The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light and they that dwelled in the land of the shadow of death upon them hath the light shined Though this latter prophesie doth principally belong to Christ yet it is to be applied to his Church also for it s through them Christ shineth upon the dark world therefore saith our Saviour to his Dissciples Matth. 5. 14. Ye are the light of the world meaning they were the Candlestick prepared of God to hold up and hold out the light of truth to the dark blinde miserable world Use 1. This informs then what a deal of duty lieth upon the Church both Ministers as well as others First For Ministers what care should they take and what pains should they expose themselves unto in order to the keeping up and holding forth the light and word of the Gospel to the dark nations of the earth what care did Paul take to fulfil his ministry and to discharge his duty this way Acts 20. 24. He counted not his life dear unto himself so that he could fulfil his ministry with you which ministration he had received from the Lord Jesus and that he might be useful this way you may take notice of Pauls practice Acts 20. 20. I have kept back nothing which was profitable to you but have shewed you and taught you openly and throughout every house But O good God how few such house preaching lights doth the eart afford us in this our age but contrariwise instead of men that should make it their business with Paul and the rest of the Apostles to go from house to house to enlighten the dark famiâ—ies of the earth in the knowledge of God and his Son Jesus Christ they rather bend their forces parts wits and purses to darken and put out the light of truth and the knowledge of God in all the families they meet withal where they go like unto those teachers of old spoken of in Ezek. 34. 18 19. Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures and to have drunk of the deep waters but you must foul the residue with your feet and as for my flock they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet How far these or such as these are from being of the true Candlestick appointed to hold up and hold out the light of truth in the world let the reader judge But again this should teach all the Saints for they are a part of the Candlestick also to endeavour in their several places and callings to promote the glory of God in their generations to study godliness and which way they may be useful with their gifts and graces amongst their relations and neighbours and in their families in order to the bringing in of their souls to Jesus Christ therefore saith our Saviour Mat. 5 16. Let pour light so shine before men that they seeing your good works might glorifie your Father which is in heaven To this agreeth the words of Paul Phil. 2 16. with ch 15. ver 15. He exhorts all true Christians that they would labour to hold forth the word of life and that they would labour to live unblameable in their lives and spotless in their conversations and that they would keep themselves without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation amongst whom they were to shine as lights so verse 16. The reason of the former exhortation is given you viz. because they are to hold forth the word of life even as a Candlestick they are to hold up or hold forth the light of truth Secondly A candlestick is appointed to hold fast as wel as to hold up the light that it fall not down because the fall of which many times puts out the light so is the Church of God prepared and fitted to succour and keep up the light of Gods holy truth in the earth that it might not be thrown down by the malice of the devil and wicked men who labour night and day to put it out in the world There be two wayes by which God fitteth the Church as a Candlestick to keep up the light of truth in the world The first is by pouring forth upon them the gifts of the Spirit by vertue of which they are enabled to discover detect and finde out all errour and whatsoever may be contrary to sound doctrine as in Rev. 2. 2. Thou hast tried them which say they are Apostles and are not and hast found them lyars Hence it is that the adversaries of truth are said not to be able to resist the wisdom and spirit by which St. Stephen spake Acts 6. 10. The reason you may perceive lay in this the Church of which Stephen was a member had a very great measure of the gifts of the Spirit which came upon them but a little before read Acts 2. 1 2 3 4. Secondly God fits his Church as
in the opening of it in the Ordinances how have you been made to cry out with Peter Matth. 17. 4. Master it is good to be here what blessed heart-affecting discoveries doth there come out of the Tabernacle sometimes therefore doth David so much prize the Tabernacle or House and Church of God Psal 84. 1 2 4. Oh how amiable are thy Tabernables O Lord of hosts my soul longeth yea fainteth for the Courts of the Lord my heart and my flesh cryeth out for the living God blessed are all they that dwell in thy house for they will be still praising thee Why should those that live in the Tabernacle or house of God so much praise God Answer amongst many reasons so to do this is not a small one because of the exceeding glory God discovers to them in the Church Oh what glorious gifts are there what glorious Ordinances what glorious Ministers are there what a glorious Gospel what glorious discoveries are there made of this Gospel in the Church what a glorious Spirit is there in the Tabernacle of the Church Oh what glorious graces do there live in the hearts of the Materials of this Tabernacle besides the glorious name of God lives there and all this covered over with Rams skins dyed red and coverings made of Goats hair But however let Believers comfort themselves God will have a time to remove the covering made of Rams skins and Goats hair and then the world shall see and know the worth anâ— glory of the Tabernacle or Church There are many precious promises in the word of God about the removing of the Rams skin covering from the Church of God take a few for all one is in Psal 45. That where the Church of God because of her deformity on the out side hath been the scorn of the Earth yet the time shall come when God shall remove her Rams skin and Goats hair covering that the rich men of the Earth shall entreat the Churches favour as ver 12. of that 45. Psalm And the Daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift even the rich among the people shall entreat thy favour Isa 60. 15. Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated so that no man went through thee I will make thee an eternal excellency a joy of many Generations So Verse 14. The Sons of them that afflicted thee shall come bending to thee and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet and they shall call thee the City of the Lord the Zion of the holy one of Israel Verse 13. The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee the Fir-tree the Pine-tree and the Box together to beautifie the place of my Sanctuary for I will make the place of my feet glorious So Verse 12. For the Nation and Kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish yea those Nations shall be utterly wasted So Verse 3. For the Gentiles shall come to thy light and Kings to the brightness of thy rising So Isa 54. 11 12. Oh thou afflicted and tossed with tempest and not comforted behold I will lay thy Stones with fair colours and lay thy Foundation with Saphires I will make thy windows of Aggates and thy gates of Carbuncles and all thy borders of pleasant Stones So Verse 13. 14. All thy Children shall be taught of the Lord and great shall be the peace of thy Children in righteousness shalt thou be established thou shalt be far from oppression for thou shalt not fear and from terrour for it shall not come near thee But the Question wiâ—l be when shall these Prophesies be made good I Answer When Israel shall come to his good land then it shall be then shall God take away the Tabernacle covering made of Rams skins and Goats hair which was upon the Tabernacle all the while of its being in the wilderness and then will God shew the glory of the Tabernacle his Church to all the world Isa 60. 3. The Gentiles shall come to thy light and Kings to the brightness of thy rising Is a Metaphor taken from the rising Sun as that when the Sun riseth upon the earth all the earth is filled with the beams of its glorious light so shall the world with the glory of the Tabernacle You know this covering upon the Tabernacle lasted but during their abode in the wilderness for when they came into the land of promise and rest the covering was taken away in a great measure and the glory of it suffered more to appear then formerly as you may perceive when Solomon turned the Tabernacle into a most Magnificent Temple Now this land of rest or the end of the wilderness journey I find to be two ways held out in Scripture either for the ultimate glory above or for that Kingdom of glory which Christ calls his Kingdom as he is the Son of man which he so often promiseth his people as the reward of their sufferings for him for our Saviour makes a clear difference between the Kingdom of ultimate glory above and the Kingdom of glory which Christ hath promised to give his people for their Faith Love and Constancy to him in suffering-times pray read well and consider that passage of our Saviour Rev. 3. 21. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me on my Throne even as I have overcome and am set down with my Father on his Throne Mark that there is the Fathers Throne of glory and there is the Sons Throne of glory mine saith Christ and my Fathers now one of these Thrones or Kingdoms of glory hath Christ made the proper reward of the Saints sufferings and that is what he calls his Kingdom a Kingdom distinct from the Fathers Rev. 3. 21. I will grant him to sit with me upon my Throne which is promised the Saints so often in the word of truth Math. 19. 28. Rev. 2. 26 27. Rev. 20. 4. Rev. 21. 2 3. Now all these Scriptures relate to the Kingdom of Christ this none will deny Secondly That this Kingdom is held out to the Saints and promised them as the reward of their sufferings it must also be granted Thirdly That this Kingdom thus promised to the Saints as the reward of their sufferings cannot be applyed to the ultimate glory will appear if we look into each Scripture neither can men read these Scriptures so without being guilty of putting meer Nonsense upon the face of Scipture Pray let us look into these places Math. 19. 28. And Jesus said unto them Verily Verily I say unto you that ye which have followed me in the Regeneration when the Son of man shall sit upon the throne of his glory ye also shall sit upon 12. thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel Now this very promise is again handed out by our Saviour after his Ascension to John the Divine in the Isle of Patmos Rev. 3. 2. To him that overcometh I will grant to sit with me on my throne Look into Rev. 20 4.
sins in his own bloud and not only for ours but for the sins of the whole world Sixthly The Priest was to interpose between Gods wrath and the people in a time of sin and by his intercession to endeavour to pacifie God again read Numb 16 46 47 48. This is proper to Christ also and it did but Type out Jesus Christ in the great work of reconciling God to the creature together with his present interceding work whereby he standeth to this hour between the Father and the Church this saith St. Paul of our Saviour to Timothy 1 Tim. 2. 5. There is but one God and one mediator between God and man the man Christ Jesus Therefore when ever sin and satan presents the with an angry God for sin labour to affect thy heart with the thoughts of it repent and be humbled about but be not out of hope look up to thy High Priest and there thou maist see him interposing between Gods anger and thy soul in order to pacification CHAP. 35. About the standing Sacrifice of the Lamb. THere was likewise an Ordinance of God instituted amongst the Jews which was this a standing sacrifice of two Lambs which were to be offered to the Lord Morning and Evening the one in the Morning and the other at Evening every day throughout the year Exod. 29. 38 39. This was to be done whether the people could be there at the sacrifice yea or no which teacheth these two things First The continual ground which God still hath in his eye for the continuing his reconciling love to the Church and that is the death of his Son which is called the Lamb of God John 1 29. Christ is called a Lamb as he was a sacrifice to God for him This sacrifice which did at first fully give the Father satisfaction for sin is always in the eye of God Christ presents himself to the Father under that consideration always Therefore is it said the mercy-seat was sprinkled wiâ—h the bloud of the sacrifice Levit. 16. 14 15. That when ever the Father had any thing to do with the mercy-seat there should he always see the bloud of the Lamb Christ which speaketh better things then that of Abel Heb 12. 24. Secondly It teacheth us this much family-duty is to be kept up and maintained as an ordinance of God by all professing Souls This standing sacrifice had a double respect First As it respected our Lord Jesus so it Typed out the constant voice of the bloud of Christ in the ears of God for everlasting Reconciliation with the Elect that as they were always sinning so here are two Lambs always sacrificing before God for them But secondly as it respected the people so it was as the performance of family-duty by them for they were as it were but one family and they had one head to it which was Moses but at morning and at evening this practice of the sacrificing of the Lambs must be kept up and performed throughout the year O so much is it a duty for families to offer God the Evening and Morning sacrifice at this day as it was then O methinks to consider how little God is honoured in this respect by the families of the earth it is a matter most lamentable Certainly mens not performing family-duty is a shutting out of God from being King in that family for God is known amongst the families of the Earth by prayer for God upon himself as having a special part of his Prerogative denied him in that family which denies him family prayer therefore is God styled a God of prayer and the God hearing prayer and one unto whom all flesh shall come and indeed the contrary is threatned with a dreadful stroke I mean the omission of the duty read Ier. 10. 25 Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen and the families which call not upon thy name Men little know what secret mischiefs they heap upon themselves and their families who live in the open neglect of this duty saith God in Deut. 32. 23. I will heap up mischiefs upon their heads I will spend mine arrows upon them And who so likely to be the persons upon whom God will heap mischief as prayerless persons if you compare this of Deut. 32. 23. with Ier. 10. 22. Into what flames have God turned some mens houses in one night over their heads turning them and theirs into ashes before the morning which judgment might have been prevented had they performed this duty the night before O think upon this you prayerless souls for fear least God rush out upon you and tear you in pieces and there be found none to deliver you out of his hands CHAP. 36. Of the good land of Canaan which the people were to enter into after their forty years travels in the Wilderness THis land was by St. Paul called their rest Heb. 3. 11. This land was the end of all their sore travels and weary journyings and great temptations a land of delights a land full of fatness abounding with all manner of ease and plenty a land flowing with milk and honey where there was not any want of any good thing Deut. 8. 7 8 9. This doth St. Paul in Heb. 3 11. express as a type of that Gospel Kingdom of rest and peace which all the true Israelites shall certainly rest and Centre in at last as the Psalmist speaketh Psal 58. 11. So that men shall say Verily there is a reward for the righteous so my Brethren there is a Canaan more glorious then Israels was for believers to enter into of which Canaan of old was the type and as all things typical under the Law did fall short in glory of the substance of that thing which it typed forth so also will it be in this case The Canaan in the Anti-type will infinitely excel for glory and brightness the Canaan in the type These two Canaans typed out one another for these things or in these respects First For place Secondly For condition upon which the Subjects were to enter each place Thirdly For the priviledges of it First For the place it self where this Canaan shall be into which all the faithful shall enter which St. Paul calls the people of Gods rest or a rest for the people of God and that is in this world upon this earth for so was Canaan of old it was in this world upon this earth I do not say that there is no other Canaan of glory for the Saints to enter but do believe there is and my hope is towards it but I say that rest spoken by St. Paul in Heb. 3. 11. which he makes to agree to Canaan of old as the Anti-type of it must be a rest in this world upon this earth and not any where else And this will appear if we consider the conditions upon which each Canaan is promised or tendred that of old and this by the Apostle in Heb. 3. And that was upon a faithful following of the Lord believingly in
of ultimate glory comes to take place that all the Nations shall be gathered together before God and the Godly taken up into Heaven and the wicked at the same time sent away into eternal darkness Now if the wicked must go down into Hell at the same time that the Godly must be received up into Heaven where then will the Nations be for the Saints to Rule over with Iron Rods so in Luke 11. 2. You are bid to pray for a Kingdom saying when thou prayest say Thy Kingdom come Now this very Kingdom must be on Earth for is not the Kingdom of grace as the Kingdom of grace is commonly understood because the Kingdom of grace was then in being and had been in being all along in all ages of the world before But this Kingdom which Christ bids his Disciples to pray for was a Kingdom yet to come Thy Kingdom come Neither can it be the Kingdom of glory for that is not said to come to us but we are said to be carryed up to it 1 Thes 4. 17. Yea it s so far from being the Kingdom of ultimate glory that its a Kingdom which cometh down out of glory upon the Earth Rev. 20. 2 3. And I John saw the holy City new Jerusalem coming down from God out of Heaven prepared as a Bride adorned for her Husband and I heard a great voice out of Heaven saying behold the tabernacle of God is with men and he will dwell with them and they shall be his people and God himself will be with them and be their God This you see how Canaan of old and this Gospel Canaan which the Apostle calls a rest to the people of God do agree for matter of place Secondly They are made to agree for the conditions upon which the subjects were to enter each place faith was required as necessary to the entring of old Canaan Heb. 3. 18 19. The same is required as necessary to this Gospel Canaan Heb. 4. 1. Again a following of God fully was required as necessary to enter the old Canaan Numb 14. 21 22. 23 24. The same is required as necessary to the entring of this Kingdom Mat. 19. 28. Thirdly They do agree for priviledges only in the general Canaan of old was a very pleasant delightful good land which afforded aboundance of comfort wealth and safety a full reward for all their travels temptations and afflictions which they went under for the Lord so is it with this Kingdom or Canaan much more full of glory will this be found to have I shall briefly present you with some of the glory and excellency of it in some few particulars In the general it is set forth to you as a glorious thing or a great piece of glory Isa 60. 1. Arise for thy light is come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee But to be a little more particular about this Kingdom and here we must take notice of these First Something done or is to be done by Christ at the setting up of this Kingdom Secondly Then the priviledges of it But as to the first there will be a general and total destruction fall upon all the enemies of the Lord which shall be found in a way of hostile opposition against the setting of this kingdom for if you observe you may see how excellently well Israels coming into Canaan doth agree to this particular with respect to what the Scripture saith shall be done upon the wicked at the setting up of this kingdom for it is to be observed that just before their entering into the good Land the greatest slaughter that ever was made of the enemies of the Lord was at that time as you may see Josh 10. 8 9 10 11 12 13 14. This was but a type of what shall be the portion of the wicked at the Saints entrance into their great Canaan priviledges Read Isa 43. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. So Isa 63. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Isa 66. 15 16. Joel 3. 2. with 14. Revelations 19. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21. Secondly when this is done and the great battle fought and the Lord Jesus hath strook through the loins of his enemies then will he take their kingdoms from them and give them unto the Saints in the whole world made up of both Jews and gentiles Dan. 2. 44. with Dan 7. 22. 27. Rev. 20 4. Matth. 19. 28. Rev. 2. 26 27. In which Kingdom it is clear that the Saints shall rule the Nations of the earth as the earth hath governed them for many years together in this world Psalm 45. 16 The Kingdom being delivered up into their hands then are they freed from the oppression and the oppressour which evil will never anoy the Saints more the Lord will so much restrain and moderate the rage of the wicked Isa 11. 6 7 8 9. Isa 35. 9. Isa 6. 18. Isa 54. 14. Secondly the Saints shall then in an eminent manner be a righteous holy people no hypocrite shall be there Isa 35. 8. Isa 60 21. Zach. 14. 20 21. Revelations 22. 15. Revelations 21. 17. Thirdly The Saints shall be then set wholly free from a timmerous and distracting fearful spirit in duty Zach. 12. 8. Isa 35. 4. Fourthly Their knowledge in all divine as well as in humane things will be wonderful to the administration of those which shall have to do with them yea so great shall the wisdom of the Saints be at that day that those persons who have been accounted the learned and wise of the times before shall be ashamed to acknowledge that ever they were such men Zach. 13. 4. 5. Isa 29. 24. Fifthly There shall so great a spirit of fear and dread drop from their countenances upon the wicked as that the very majesty of their presence will daunt them through the whole earth Cant. 6 10. Sixthly There shall be a mighty spirit of glory upon all the attempts and atchievements which the Saints shall bring forth at that day though now it be clothed with shame and disgrace in the eyes of the world yet then it shall seem otherwise Isaiah 54. 11 12. Isaiah 16. 14 15. Isaiah 66. 10 11 12. Seventhly This Canaan shall afford the Saints all manner of riches plenty and peace Isaiah 60. 78. with 12. 13. verses Zach. 14 14. Revel 21. 7. Revelations 22 2. Psalm 72. 6 7. Eighthly The very heavens and the earth shall receive their primitive excellency and first purities Ezek. 34. 27. Isa 65. 17. 2 Pet. 3. 13. Ninthly In this Canaan God will so bless the substance of it as that he will remove out of the way all these thorns and prickling briars which did any way render our comforts unpleasing to us or did any way imbitter them to our taste as the shortness of life God will take away that Isaiah 65. 20. with ver 22. As likewise God will remove all occasions of loss either as to goods or estate Isa 65. 21 22 23. Also