Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…

Some of the Learned are of opinion that Christ the Son of God did in the shape of a man deliver the Law. But I leave that.

2. In the Law it self, as it is a Covenant of Grace, we find something of Christ; in the preface he proclaims himself to be our God; and in the first Commandment we are bound to take this God to be our God; and in the second, he gives us a double Reason or Motive to obey; for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, I show mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my Commandments. And in the fifth Commandment he gives a promise of long life in Canaan, which is either to be looked at as a type of Heaven, or literally, for a prosperous condition here on earth; but howsoever it is by virtue of the Covenant, and as a testimony of Gods love; now all these promises are made in Christ: God is not our God but in and through Jesus Christ; God will not show mercy unto thousands, nor unto one of all the thousands of his Saints, but as they are in Jesus Christ: God will not give us long life here, or eternal life hereafter, but in, for, and through the Lord Jesus Christ: what if Moses writ not down the word Christ] yet certainly Moses writ of Christ] his words imply Christ, as Christ himself told the Jews, ¹Had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me; for Moses wrote of me; and as Philip told Nathanael, we have found him of whom Moses in the Law and the Prophets did write, ²Jesus of Nazareth, John 1.45. Surely Christ was, if not the only subject, yet the only scope of all the writings of Moses; and therefore in the Law it self you see we find something of Christ.

2. In the Law it self, as it is a Covenant of Grace, we find something of Christ; in the preface he proclaims himself to be our God; and in the first Commandment we are bound to take this God to be our God; and in the second, he gives us a double Reason or Motive to obey; for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, I shew mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my Commandments. And in the fifth Commandment he gives a promise of long life in Canaan, which is either to be look'd at as a type of Heaven, or literally, for a prosperous condition here on earth; but howsoever it is by virtue of the Covenant, and as a testimony of Gods love; now all these promises are made in Christ: God is not our God but in and through Jesus Christ; God will not shew mercy unto thousands, nor unto one of all the thousands of his Saints, but as they are in Jesus Christ: God will not give us long life here, or eternal life hereafter, but in, for, and through the Lord Jesus Christ: what if Moses writ not down the word Christ] yet certainly Moses writ of Christ] his words imply Christ, as Christ himself told the Jews,