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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64249	Moses and Aaron, or, The types and shadovvs of our Saviour in the Old Testament opened and explained / by T. Taylor ...	Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.; Jemmat, William, 1596?-1678.	1653 (1653)	Wing T567; ESTC R10533	252,302	330

alone Christ being to preach the Gospel fasted so long in the Wildernesse alone 2. Moses comming armed with authority for the Hebrews good was rejected both in his person and doctrine and message The Hebrew could say who made thee a judge And Pharaoh will not hearken Exod. 7. 4. Nay Pharaoh raged and oppressed the more Our true Moses comming to save the Jewes sped no better for thus they protested against him We have no King but Caesar Joh. 19. 15. And we will not have this man to raigne over us Yea his gracious words and potent works were still contemned and envied by the wicked Scribes and Pharisees as at this day by all the wicked in the world and there is no stilling of the rage of the Devil and his instruments where Christ is truly preached 3. Moses refused to be call'd the sonne of Pharaohs daughter and left the Court of Pharaoh to be partaker of the afflictions of Gods people Heb. 11. Christ descended from the Glory of heaven to save his elect and to suffer with them and for them as Moses could not do Yea he tooke on him our infirmities and sorrowes and on earth refused his right to be a King when they would have made him because his Kingdome was not of this world 4. Both were willing to dye at Gods commandement both went up into a mount to dye Moses on mount Abarim Christ on Golgotha Both carefull to supply their absence to their people Moses by appointing Joshua his successor Christ by sending his spirit to lead his people into all truth IV. In sundry particular actions 1. Moses lift up the serpent in the wildernesse So was Christ lift up Joh. 3. 14. 2. Moses obtained flesh in the wildernesse to feed many thousands So Christ in the desert fed many thousands with a few loaves and fishes 3. Moses married an AEthiopisse a stranger blacke Christ marrieth the Gentiles strangers and in the Encomium of his Church it is said I am blacke but comely Cant 1. 4. 4. Moses sweetned the bitter waters of Marah by the tree cast in Exod. 15. 25. Christ sweetens our afflictions by the wood of his Crosse Hebr. 2. 10. 5. Moses was called a God Aarons God for directing him in things of God Exod. 4. 16. and Pharaohs God Exod. 7. 1. For executing on him as God Gods judgements But Christ is indeed God most wise in counsell most potent in revenge 6. Moses delivered Israel through the Red-sea by his Rod Exod. 14. So Christ his Church from death by his Crosse through the red-sea of his bloud 7. Never was God so clearly seen by the eve of flesh as to Moses who talked face to face But never did Creature see his face but Christ Joh. 1. 18. 8. As Moses was transfigured on an hill Sinai and so glorious as Israel could not behold his face So was Christ on mount Tabor so as his disciples were amazed and wist not what they said 9. As Christ after death rose most gloriously So Moses body after his death was most gloriously raised in which he was talking with Christ on the mount in his transfiguration Matth. 17. 2. 10. Moses face was covered with a vaile Our Moses with the vaile of his flesh hid the glory of his Deity and put on vilenesse in stead of majesty that men might behold him and see and hear him and beleeve I. The doctrine of Religion which we teach is of God For 1. We teach no other than what Moses taught nor no other than what Jesus Christ taught the one being faithfull as a servant the other as the sonne in the house For as there were not two Churches of the old and new Testament So is there but one faith one doctrine in substance onely differing in manner of delivery 2. This doctrine was perfectly fully and faithfully delivered to the Church seeing both were so faithfull If there be a doctrine of traditions unwritten If a doctrine of merits of purgatory of intercession of Saints then was Christ unfaithful and did not reveale the whole will of his father Paul a servant revealed the whole will of God Acts 20. 27. Was the Sonne lesse faithfull 3. This doctrine is fully and sufficiently confirmed by many and mighty miracles both in Moses the servant and in Christ the Sonne and being no new doctrine it needs no new miracles It is too idle to call for other miracles when they cannot prove that we bring any other doctrine If we should bring in strange and lying doctrines never known to Moses or Christ as they do we would cast about for lying wonders and pretend fabulous miracles to proove them as they do II. Whatsoever office or function God sets thee in be faithfull so was Moses the servant so was Christ the Sonne Hast thou an high place in Gods house as Moses be faithfull see 1 Tim. 1. 12. Art thou but a door-keeper in Gods house be faithfull in faithfull performing of whatsoever God reveales to be his will Hast thou received any talent lay it out to thy Lords advantage else canst thou not be faithfull Let thy care and study be to be found not onely faultlesse but faithfull in all things according to thy Christian profession that faithfullnes may be thy praise and crown in Magistracy Ministery private life in the whole practise of religion and also thy comfort living and dying when the Lord shall witnesse unto thee as to Moses in his life time Numb 12. 7 8. and dead Deutremon 34. 5 10. Moses the servant of the Lord died and there arose no such Prophet III. Labour to expresse the fruit of faith Heb. 11. 26. to preferre the state of Gods people above all earthly profits and prerogatives account the despised condition of the Saints above the admired happinesse of wicked men Moses would joyne himselfe to them when he might have been in the height of honour Christ would not be in heaven without them but endured more affliction than Moses could to enjoy them Hence observe four sorts of people that are not of Christs nor of Moses minde 1. Polititians who take the honour and profit of the Gospel but will none of the afflictions of Christ. 2. Proud persons who will not looke so low as on afflicted Christians 3. Temporizers that looke a squint on them if any suffer for well-doing 4. Scorners that despise the society and exercises of Gods people as too base company and courses for them Let all such know 1. That Christ in heaven scornes them not nor withdrawes himself from them yea heaven would not please him without them 2. That the fellowship of a Kings Court such as Pharaohs in riot feasting drinking gaming is hatefull to a sound mind in comparison of the society of the miserable and persecuted Saints though a fleshly eye cannot see it 3. That it will be no great comfort to beleeve the Communion of Saints and not enjoy it 4. That they which despise it here