h Havinz ſhewn the typicalneſs, weakneſs of the Moſzical Cove- nant-Adminiſtration, in reſpett of the Tabernacles, Services and Ordinances. he cloſeth his Deſcription of them 1n this Verfe,by ſhew- no their Carnality and Mortality. As they were external things, they could reach no further than the Fleſ}i only, as appears by par- ticular Inftances, and therefore could not, quiet the Conſcience, con- ſidered without Chriſt, nor juſtine, ſanQife, or ſave the Sinner. For Meat and Drink-Cfſerings, and Meats clean and unclean, and Prinks prohibited by Godin which the Jews placed much of their Re- 11:10n, which ſeparate from what they f1gnified, commended no Man unto God, I Cir. 8. 8, As to Meats, ſee Lev.ch. rt. and Deut. 14. 3, to 21. As to Drinks torbidden the Prieſts, Lev. 10, 9. and the Na- z2arites, Numb. 5, 2,3. The Jealouite-Water, Numb. 5. 24, and the Paſchal-Cup, Pſalm 116. 13. and Cup of Thank-offerings ; ſee Lev. hep. 1. and 2. i Which were many for the Prieſts in their Services, and for others in perferming theirs by them, fome by ſprinkling with Blood, Ex-d. 29. 20, 21. with Water, Numb. 8. 7. and 19. 9, to 15. Some by waſhing at the brazen Laver, as the Prieſts, Zxod. 25. 4. and 30. 17. to 22. ſo the ſprinkling of healed Leapers, Lev, 14. 4, to 9. and the Purification of the unclean. All theſe were of God's own inſtituting, but ſtill reach no further than the Fleſh or Body of the Sinner.See ver/e 13. & Other carnal Rites ard Ceremonies, ſuch as could not reach the Conſcience, as they uſed them, yet were to be uſed by them in obedience to God's Will, and to diſcriminate them from others, which were various in the Ceremonial Law. Emer impoſed, may agree with wee, wer. g. Gifts impeſed; or may have the whole Sentence for its Subſtantive, as being matters impoſed or ſettled in Meats and Drinks. All theſe things were not the Inventions of JAſes, but God's own Inſtitutions injoyned by his own Authority on the Jewiſh Church, to lead them by a regular Uſe of them to Life by Chriſt, but by their own Corruptions were made Burdens to them. The Divine Precept ob- lized them to an obſervation of them, and to the ſerving God in, by, and through them. 7m As they were outward bodily, and car- nal things, ſo they were mortal ; as to their Being and Continuance enjovaed by God, they were wiyce yagi, until, is a Term ſettled and limited, and not indefinite, and its limit is a fmgular time, even that point of Time, wherein Chriſt having finiſhed the Work of Redempti- on, aſcended and fate down on the Right Hand of God, and power- fully thence breathed forth the Spirit of Infallibility on his Apoſtles, for guiding them 1n laying the foundation of his Church, by Preach-
| 1ng the Goſpel throughout the World, and perfetting of it,and no 0-
ther. This the Jews and others expetted from the Meſſiah, John 4. 25.11 his time. All the New Teſtament pertetting was by them, and therefore they give a Charge againſt the leaſt aſteration of the Goſpel, truth,and law,which they left as a Rule for ordering of Chriſt's Church to h115 laſt coming. See Matth. 28. 20. n Auyarow; of putting things to right by the Law, Rule, and Ordinance of Chriſt, the Work of this ſpecial point of Time. He the great Church Reformer, through - ly rizghteth things to God-ward, by removing and taking away what was faulty, not 1n 1t ſelf, but by Man's abuſe of it, even all the Moſii- cal Occonomy, and Church- Frame, which carried Men about toGod, ojening and making that to be ſeen with open Face, which was veiled and ſo miſtaken, ' even the Myſtery of Chriſt hid from Ages, by manifeſting and eſtabliſhing that which was the Truth it ſelf,inſtead of the Shadows that did but repreſent it, even that true Church-Frame 1ntended firſt by God, and now fully revealed and ſettled by his Son, as a ſtanding Rule and Pattern to all for ever; which unmoveable Kingdom of His, 15 deſcribed further, Chap. 12, 22, to 29.
11 But o Chriſt being come * an high prieſt of
good things to comep, by a greater and more per: fect 4 tabernacle,” not made with hands 7, thar is to
lay, nor of this building,
o The Spirit by this adverſative But, oppoſeth and applieth the Truth tothe Type, and brings in view the Antitype, the Office, Ta- bernacle, Sacrifice and miniſtration of Chriſt, which vaſtly exceed- eth the Mofatcal one. p The High-Prieſt preferred, is no le Per- fon than God the Son manifefted inthe Fleſh, and anointed to his
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Office with the Holy Ghoſt and Power, 4#s ro, 38, Inthe oi time before the Antiquating and removing the former Order he exhibited and Conſecrated the true tigh-Prieft, of which at] the other were but Types, and bringing with him all thoſe £099 thin-- witch were figured and promiſed under that Occonamy, all Pant Reconciliation, Righteouſneſs, Holineſs, Adoption and oloriou: I vation,- which were under that diſpenſation to come, beins px; Gs and exhibited with, as effected by this High Prieſt at his firſt com. but to be compleated and perfetted at his fecond, which is rm © ted ver. 26. 28, g TheAnti-type of the Moſaical SanQtuary a: 6 Th. bernacle, where there was the Holy Place, and the Holy of 119jic(} correſpondent to, and fizured out by thete, was the more 5/.;:..,. SanFuary of this High-Prictt ; he paſicth through the Tabern.;c! Cod his Church on Earth, of which he is the Miniſter, as hath !. - cleared, ver. 10, and Chap, 8. 2, and ſo cnters into the Heaven .. Heavens, the Holieſt of all, ver. 24. where God fits on his Throat,
of Grace. Tabernacle here cannot ignite the Body of Chrift, 4;
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