(3) To reprefent by Types, Figures and Emblems many of the Offices of Christ, and the Glories and Bleffings of his Gospel.

116 Q. How does it appear that any of thefe Jewish Ceremonies are Emblems or Types of Chrift and his Gofpel? A. 1. This appears from many Places in the New Teftament, where Jefus Chrift and the Bleffings of the Gofpel are called by the fame Names. So Chrift is called our HighPrieft, Heb. iii. 1. and iv. 14. He is the Lamb, that was flain, Rev. v. 6. 1 Pet. i. 19, 20. Our Paffover, I Cor. v. 7. and Sacrifice to take away, Sin, Heb. ix. 26. The Atonement or Propitia tion for Sin, Rom. iii. 25. 1 John ii. 2. His Body is called the Temple, becaufe God dwelt in it as in the Jewish Temple, John ii. 19, 21. Col. ii.

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2. This appears yet further from the evident and intended Refemblance which the Scripture represents between feveral of the Jewish Ceremonies and the Things of the Gofpel. The Blood of Chrift obtained eternal Redemption for us, as the Blood of Bulls and Goats cleanfed and freed the Jews from ceremonial Defilements, Heb. ix. 12, &c. His Blood is called the Blood of fprinkling, Heb. xii. 24. to fprinkle or cleanfe us from a guilty Confcience, as the fprinkling of the Blood of the Jewish Sacrifices purified the People, Heb. ix. 20. and x. 22. The most holy Place where God dwelt of old on the Mercy-feat is the Figure of the true Heaven where God dwells on a Throne of Grace, Heb. ix. 8, 24. and iv. 16. The High-Prieft's Entrance with the Blood of the Sa crifice and with the Names of the Tribes on his Breaft into the most holy Place, to appear before God there for the Jews, is a plain Figure of Chrift's Entrance

Chap. V. Entrance into Heaven with his own Blood to appear before God for us, Heb. ix. 12, 25. The Jewish Incenfe was a Type or Figure of Prayer, Rev. v. 8. and viii. 3. The Jewish Sabbath or Day of Reft, as well as the Land of Canaan, was a Type of the Reft and Release of Believers from Sin and Guilt, and from an uneafy Confcience under the Gospel, and the final Reft of the Saints in Heaven, Heb. iv. 3, 4, 9, 10.

This might be proved more at large by fome other Scriptures, where the Jewish Rites in general are called Figures or Shadows of the good things of the Gospel, Col. ii. 16, 17. Heb. viii. 5. and ix. 1-14. 23, 24.

117 Q. Did the Jews themselves understand the Spiritual Meaning of thefe Ceremonies? A. Perhaps a few of them who were more enlightened might understand the Meaning of fome of the chiefeft and moft confiderable Types; but the Bulk of the People can hardly be fuppofed to have understood the fpiritual Meaning of them: at leaft, the Bible gives us no Intimation of it.

118 Q. How could they be appointed as Types and Figures of fpiritual Things, if the People who were required to use them in their Worship did not underftand the Jpiritual Meaning of them? A. 1. The Jewish Difpenfation was the Childish or InfantState of the Church of God, as it is described, Gal. iv. 1, 2, 3, &c. Now, Children are sometimes employed in feveral things by their wifer Parents, the chief Design and Meaning whereof they understand not till riper Years.

A. 2. If thefe Ceremonics were not underftood by the ancient Jews to whom they were given, yet they might be defigned as Types and Figures of Christ and the Bleflings of the Gospel

in order to confirm the Religion of Christ and the Gospel when it fhould be afteward publifhed to the World, by feeing how happily it answers thefe ancient Types.

119 Q. Wherein doth this appear? A. St. Paul does actually confirm Chriftianity this way, efpecially in his Epiftle to the Hebrews, by fhewing how these ancient Types and Ceremonies are ful-. filled in the Gofpel of Chrift.

Note, As a Prophecy is the foretelling of things to come in Words, fo a Type is the foretelling of fomething to come in fome real Emblem or Figure or Refemblance of it: Now as there are many ancient Prophecies which were not understood by the Perfons to whom they were firft fpoken, nor by the Perfons who spoke with them, 1 Pet. i. 11, 12. yet when they are fulfilled, they come to be better underftood, and bear witness to the Hand of God both in the Prophecy and in the Accomplishment: So though" Types may be obfcure when they are firft appointed, yet when they are accomplished or fulfilled they are better understood, and fhew the Hand of God both in appointing the Sign, and bringing to pafs the thing fig nified.

120 Q. Can thefe things be faid therefore to be fulfilled or accomplished in Chrift, fince the Meaning of all thefe Ceremonies or Types is not yet known even to Chriftians themselves? A. The New Teftament has revealed to us and taught us to understand the chief and moft confiderable both of the Types and Prophecies; but neither. one nor the other are understood fully And yet we make no doubt but the Prophecies are or fhall be accomplished in Chrift; and why not the Types allo? Probably 'tis referved as one part of

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the Glory of that happy Day when the Jews fhall be converted, that the reft of their Prophecies, as well as the Rites and Ceremonies of their ancient Worship, together with their Accomplifhment in Chrift and the Gofpel, shall be more compleatly understood.

CHAP. VI.

Of the Political or Judicial Law of the

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Jews.

E have had a particular Relation of the Moral and Ceremonial Laws of the Jews, Say now, what was their Judicial or Political Law? A. That which related to their civil Government as a Nation.

2Q. Who was their Governor? A. God himfelf condescended to take upon him the Title of their King, and he appointed various kinds of Governors under him as he thought fit, Judges viii. 23. 1 Sam. xii. 12, 13. Ifai. xxxiii, 22.

Note, Since the fame Perfon was both their God, and their King, the Tabernacle and the Temple may be confidered not only as the Refidence of their God. but as the Palace of their King alfo: The Court of the Tabernacle was the Court of the Palace, the Holy of Holies was the Prefence-Chamber, the MercySeat was his Throne, the Cherubs reprefented his Attendants as God, and the Priests were his Minifters of State as a King, the High-Prieft his Prime Minifter, the Levites were his Officers difperfed through all the Kingdom, the Table of Shew-Bread, together

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with fome part of the Sacrifices which were given to the Priest, did represent the Provifion for his Houfhold, &c.

Whatsoever other Governors were made from time to time, either Captains, Judges, or Kings, they were but Deputies to God, who put them in and turned them out at pleasure,

3Q. What did the Political or Civil Laws, or Commands, oblige the People to? A. To many particular Practices relating (1.) To War and Peace. (2.) To Hufbands and Wives. (3.) Parents and Children. (4.) Mafters and Servants. (5.) Food and Raiment. (6.) Houses and Lands. (7.) Corn and Hufbandry. (8.) Money and Cattle. (9.) The Birds and Beafts. (10.) The Firft-born of all Things. (11.) The Maintenance of the Levites and Priefts. (12.) The Care of the Bodies and Lives of Men.

4 Q. What were fome of the more peculiar Laws about War and Peace? A. That they should make no Peace with the feven Nations of Canaan, but that they should deftroy them utterly; and that when they went to War, every Soldier who was afraid might go home, Deut. vii. 1, 2, 3. Deut. xx. 8.

5Q. What were fome of their peculiar Laws about Hufbands and Wives? A. That a Man fhould marry his Brother's Widow if his Brother died childless: and that Men were permitted to put away their Wives by a Writing of Divorce, Deut. XXV. 5. xxiv. I. And that Adultery was to be punished with Death, Lev. xx, 10.

6Q. What were Some of their Special Laws about Parents and Children? A. The firft-born Son was to have a double Portion and that any1