namely, to keep up in the minds of that people, to their latest posterity, the remembrance of the typical deliverance : and with the same object in view, I would now call your attention to the Resurrection of our blessed Lord. Beloved Brethren, it is a sub- ject of supreme importance : and to every one of you I would say,
I. Treasure it up in your minds —
Good reason was there why the Jews should remember their deliverance from Egypt —
[Most grievous was their bondage there b : and most won- derful were God's interpositions for themc Never,
from the beginning of the world, had God exerted himself in behalf of any people as he did for themd. There was good reason, therefore, why so singular a mercy should be had in everlasting remembrance.]
But far greater reason is there why we should bear in mind the resurrection of our blessed Lord —
[Far more grievous was our bondage to sin and Satan,
death and hell And infinitely more wonderful were
the means used for our deliverance e Yea, and infinitely
more blessed the issue of itf Shall we, then, ever
forget this? Would not the " very stones cry out against us?" ]
Yet, dwell not on it as a mere fact ; but,
II. Improve it in your lives —
The Jews, in remembrance of their redemption, were to kill the passover, and to keep the feast of
unleavened bread8 And, if we would answer
God's end in our deliverance, we must improve it,
1. By a renewed application to that sacrifice by which the deliverance was obtained —
[It was by sprinkling the blood of the paschal lamb on the door-posts and lintels of their houses that the Jews obtained
deliverance from the sword of the destroying angel11
And to the blood of Christ, who is " the true paschal sacrifice,"
b Exod. iii. 7.
c The ten plagues, and the passage of the Red Sea, &c. d Deut. iv. 32—34.
e The incarnation and death of God's only-begotten Son. f Not mere temporal benefits in Canaan, but everlasting happiness in heaven. s ver. 1 — 3. h Deut. xii. 21 — 24.