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+ Some render it, (25125 t2 hath ſtripped or made naked, as winners and racers us'd to put off their Cloaths. 1 Hence {ome of the Ancients read putting of his fieth (poſhbly by the care- leſneſs of ſome Ecribes writing, that which tignifies fleſh inſtead of that which ſienifies principalities in all the Authentick Copies) but beſides that Chriſt hath not put off the hamane nature, only the infirmities of the fleſh, 2 Cor. 5. 16. #2b, 5. 7. it doth not agree with what follows. One conceits that by prizcip.lities ard powers are meant th2 Ceremonies of the Law, becaule of the divine authority they originally had, and that Chriit uncloathed or unveiled them, and {hew'd them to be miſty figures that were accompliſhed in his own Perſon. But I ſee no reaſon thus co allegorize, for *tis eafie td diſcern the word 1s borrowed from conquering Warriers having put to flight and difarm'd their Enemies (as the word may well tjgnifie diſarming in oppoſition to arming, Rm. 13. 12. Fph. 6. 11, I4) and hgnines here, that Chrift diſarm'd and diſpoil'd the Devil and his Angels with all the powers of darkneſs; we have len by principalities and powers are meant Angehs, -. 1. 16. with Rom. So 2'Þ> Eph. » To and here he means evil 6ncs, in regard of that power they ex- erciſe in this World under its preſent ftate of ſubjettion to tin and vanity, Tube 4.6. Fon 12. 31. 2 Cor. 4: 4+. Lph. 2.2. & 6. 12. 2 Tim. 2. 26. whom Chrift came to deitroy, 2nd effectu- ally did on his Croſs defeat, Luke 11. 22. Fob 35. 11. 1 Cor. 15. 65. Heb. 2. 14. 1 Fon 3. $. delivering his ſuvjcets from the power of darkneſs, ©. 1- 13. according to the firſt promiſe, Gen. 2. 15. #3 Yea, and Chriſt did as an ablolute Conqueror, ride- ing as it were in his triumphal Chariot, pudlickly ſhew that he had vanquiſh'd Satan and all the powers of darkneſs in the view of Heaven and Farth, Luke 10. 17, 18. 9 Even then and there where Satan thought he ſhould alone have had the day by the death of the innocent Jeſus, was he and his Adherents tri- umphed over by the Lord of Life, to their everlaſting ſhame and torment, what the Papiſt: would gather hence that Chriſt did in this rriumphant ſhew upon the Croſs, carry the Souls of the Patriarchs out of their Limbus, 1. &. their appointment to Hell 3s a 1c mnicriptural Fiction 3 for thoſe thar he made ſhew of in his 1itorioqs Chariot are the very ſame that he ſpoiled to their eternal ignominy and confuſion. p What follows ſome render (as in the margin) i himſelf or by himſelf, 7. e. by his own pvur-r and virtue and not by the help of any other; the Prophet faith, Z* 10d the wine preſs Jone, and had not any of the pecple with him, Wa. 63. 3. vet it ſeems here better to adhere to our own Trantlation iz it, confiders what went before of hz Croſs, that he triumphed over $2ran on it or by it, becauſe the death that he there ſuFered was the true and only cauſe of his Triumphs; there he trod Satan under his Feet, there he ſet his Seed at liberty, and they who 22 about to bereave them ot it, and bring them into Bondaze do no other than reſtore tro Satan his ſpoils.
16 Let no man therefore judge you q * | in meat or i2 drink 7, or | in reſpe&t of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the ſabhath days /.
q He infers none ſhould be condemned ; none condemns ano- ther for exerciling Chriſtian liberty : None hath power to judge and cenſure herein, q. d. ſuffgr not any on2 (he excepts none) to impoſ2 upon you that, as neceſſary in the uſe and practice of it, wh is not after Chriſt, v. 8. not warranted by his Law of Liberty, Rom. 14. 23, 4+ Gal. 5.1. Fin 1. 25. Paul himſelf would not be impos'd on, 1 Cor. 6. 12. X 7. 22. Gal. 2. 5, 11, 14. &C. he would not (as one of the words doth note) be domircer'd over by any, or ſuffer any to exercit> Authority over him, who held the head and own'd Chriſt to be Lor4 of the Conſcience, and le Dictator of what way he will be ſerved in. » He therefore would not have the prattice of Ceremonials obtruded, inftancing in ſome, as the difference of meats and drinks in the uſe or not uſe of which (how after Chriſt had nailed thoſe decrees to his Croſs) ſuperititious ones would from the antiquated Rites of the Jews and Pythigoriaz Philoſophers place holineſs in, and add them to the Chriſtian Infritution. {Or the difference of Feſtivals and Sabbaths whether annual, or montaly, or weekly from the Levi- tical Inſtitutions.
17 Which are a ſhadow of things to come 7, but the body zs of Chriit z. .
t Which as they were but obſcurer repreſentations or ſha- dowy reſemblances of future benefits procured by Chriſt, Zeb. 3. 5. & 9. 11. & 10. I» Whatever temporary glory they had from the former infritution, till the time of reformation, #eb. 9, 10. yet that was done away, and they now had none, in re- {p:& of the glory that excelleth and remaineth, 2 Cor. 3. 9, 10. So that this doth no way gainſay the Sacraments now of Chriſt's own Inftitution which may be called Figures and Shadows, not of things future, of Chriſt (not yet come, but) as already ex- hivited, whom they manifeſt to the mind and faith to be pre- ient, to thoſe who rightly partake of them: We cannot ſay he condemns all diſtinctions of Meats and Drinks, viz. Bread and Wine in the Lord's Supper; or of days, only the decrees and ordinances of Moſes or any other which the falſe Teachers cryed up that were nor after Chriſt. #« Who is really the Subſtance and Antitype of all the Old Teftament-ſhadows which have com- plement or accompliſhment in him, Fohn 1. 17. Rom. 10. 5. Gal. 4. 10, I1, 12. As all the promiſes were in him yea and Amen, Dan. 9. 24. 2 Cor. 1. 20, all was conſummate in him, Fobm 19. 30. who came in the place of all the ſhadows. He is Lord of the Sabbath, Mar. 27. 59 and therefore having broken th2 Devil's Head-plot by his propitiatory Sacrifice, and entred into his reſt, ceaiing from his own works of redemption by price, as God hid from his of creation, #75. 4. 10. he did away, 2 Cor. J. LI7, 15. all that was typical and ceremonial of the old Sab- bath {as other Types of limſelf) keeping only that which was ſubſtantial !or an lily xf of one day in ſeven, and appointing |
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