2 And were all baptized unto Moſes in the cloud,
and inthe ſea c.
There are two great difficulties in this verſe: r. What is ms by Moſes. 2. How, and why the Jſraelites are ſaid to be bap- rized iro Mofes. Some underſtand by 2oſes the perſon of Mo. {s : others, the Law or DoQtrine of Meſ-s. Thoſe who by Moſes
underftand the perfon of Moſes, are divided in their opinions Whether the Prepoſition
forether, when they were under the condutt of the Cioud, and
when they paſſed through the Red Sea, Others judge it betrer trapſlatcd. into Moſes, that is, either Moſes going before them : Or, 2 as Meſes was a Type of Chriſt, Gal. 3 19. Some would have [ks the Particle here toſignifie together with, even unto Moſes, Moſes him. | 1354008, until the 1ſ-aelires came in Cancan :
{if nor being excepted from that Baprifm 1n the Cloud and inthe
Sea. Others by Moſes hereunderſtand the Doctrine and Law of
Miſes : thus the term Moſes is uſed, Luke 16. 29. Affs 15. 21. Fo they ſay, that ro be baprized into Moſes, 1s to believe Moſes ſo fir, as to follow his condutt through the Sea, and under rhe Cloud. 2- The ſecond difficulty is rorefolve what 15 meant by
being baptized : the word ſignifieth in the common acception of
it, a being waſhed; in the Eccleſiaſtical acception, it ſignifies an holy Inftiturion of the New Teſtament, according ro which Chri. flians are initiated into the Church of God, by waſhing them the Name of the Father, Sen, and Holy Ghoſt. Now how could the Jews be faid either ro be waſhed (that is, baptized) either in Mis, or by Moſes, or with Moſes, or into Moſes? Whenas the Hiſtory of che Old Teſtament telis us, That both Moſes and all the Jrae/ites went through the Sea on dry Ground, and we do not read, thar the Cloud under the condutt of which the 1/-aelites purnied, ever poured down any water with which the Jews, or Moſes their Leader, could be gaſhed, 4»ſw. Some think, that the Cloud which paſſing over the 1ſraclites , was ajl darkneſs to their Enemies, yet poured down water for the retreſhing of the J/-ae. lt, as jt patied over their heads, and thar this 1s hinted ro us by the Pſalmift,. Pſal. 68. 7, 8. g. Others think, thar the Apoſtle 7plicch the term of Bapriſm to a Priviledge, of which, the old raclites had as much: reaſon to glory, as the Corinthians had of thrir Bepriſm, properly ſo called. Others fay, that the 1ſraelires walking under the Cloud and through the Sea, which was dark- neſs and deſtru&ion to their Adverſaries, was a figure of Baptiſm, theSeal of the New Teſtament, by which Chriſt's Vi&ory over
which tignifieth divers things, were herter tranflared by, or znto, or unto, or zogether with. Some think ir were better tranflared Ly, and thus all the Jews were baptizcd by Moſes un the Cloud and in the Sea, that is, by hs Minittry, and thus this very- particle is tranſlated, 4s 7. 53. & 19. 3. Some think it vere better tranſlated in Meſ-s, that is, Moſes going be.
'the Hiſtory of
| the Jewiſh journeyings to Canaan, that the Rock \'% followed them. Burt this is not the only thing that we read in | | circumſtances which we do nor find recorded ; here ; Ir is enough that it is plainly afferred here, and irmuſt bs aflerered here, and ir muſt be pretumed, or how can we imagine,
that the Jj>-2elitcs were {upplicd with water for forty years roge- 1 ther ? Whereas ſome object, Thar if the water, which came out ; of the Rock ar Rephidim, had followed them, there would have
been no need of Muſs ſtriking the Rock ar Kad'jb : Itis anfver-
ed, That God, to try them, probably cauſgd the warer to ſtop.
For the Analogy becwixt the Reck and Chriſt, Divines makes4r to
lie in theſe particulars. 1. That Ciriſt i5 the firm and unmove-
able Fouzaaticu of his Church, called therefore a Stonr, a fried Stone
Iſa. 28. 16. Rom. 9. 33- 1 Pce. 2.6.2. As this Rock font our
no water for the refreſhment of the 7 razlites, till Moſes had ſtruck
It: So allthe benefir we have from Chriſt as Me
from him as ſmitr f God, and d ns ou | | maittcn 0 oa, an Fea. 5 , F; Rock Bos ion affiifted. 3. As the warerof the ;
for cleanſing, and upholding life in fatisfyi
thirſt : $0 the Blood of Chriſt *s aſcfe] to the hr bork for 0 waſhing from the guile of fin, and rhe upholding ſpiritual life in a Soul. 4 As the Rock that followed the I{raelites, af. : forded water not only to that generation that were alive and pre- "n ſent when the Rock was imirren, but to all che ſuecceding gene-
So the Blood of Chriſt 15 not uſeful only to his people in thisor that place or Age, bur
co all that ſhall believe in him, and that till they ſhall comeinto the heavenly Canaan,
,
5 Bue with many of them God was not well
pleaſed g : tor they were overthrown in the wilder- | | | neſs h.
& Theſe many were no leſs than that wholegeneration, which F were at that time twenty years old and upward, according to the threatning, Numb. 14.258, 29. of the accompliſhment of which we read, Numb. 26. 64, 65. h as an inſtance of God's being dit- 48h pleaſed with them, he giverh their falling in the Wilderneſs. Ic Ts is very politble, that many of theſe were the objeCtsof God's e- | ternal and ſpecial love, and eternally ſaved, notwithſtanding their Joining with worſer men, in their rebellion and murmuring ; but chat fignal judgment of God upon them, was enough to prove, that their being baptized into Moſes , in the Cloud, and in the Sea, and being made partakers of thoſe great priviledges of eating ſpiritual mear, and drinking ſpiritual drink, rtypifying Chriſt, "F-4 d1d nor ſer them our of the danger of God's judgments, which is the uſe the Apoſtle maketh of ir.
6 Now theſe things were our || examples z, to the || Ge. » & end that we ſhould not luſt after evil things &, * as they f;wes or allo luſted 7.
7 Our Types or Patterns (as the Greek word ſignifies) we may, 196. 14.
; by God's diſpenſations to them, ] 'har God will b T | 34: of
- 7 qua Enemies G PRES to my —_— thar —_— _ - they —_— patterns to us, of - — 1Apantran Meine foirirual $44
lk maketh uſe of this term baptized. thers more probably j_- 1 Go oh h / think, thar the Apoſtle uſeth this term, in regardof the great A- 1-66u edges, ſo they are alſo examples or patterns to thew us
aogy betwixt Baptiſm (as it was then uſed) the perſons going '
k ; raC&tices, as broughr the vengeance of them ; #1. into the waters,and being dipped inthem; and the 7ſraelires \ P x , ringatrre; Arm