And so when a Servant would not leave his Master, but would have his ear bored; 'tis said, he should be a Servant for ever, *i. e. till the Jubilee, which was every fiftieth year: So the Meat-offering they were to offer, is said to be Perpetual: *Canaan is said to be given to Abraham for an everlasting possession:* When as the Jews are expelled from Canaan, which is given a Prey to the barbarous Nations. Indeed Circumcision was not everlasting; yet the substance of the Covenant whereof this was a sign, viz. that God would be the God of Believers, endures for ever; and that Circumcision of the heart which was signified by Circumcision of the flesh, shall remain for ever in the Kingdom of Glory: It was not so much the lasting of the sign, as of the thing signified by it, and the Covenant sealed by it: The sign had its abolition, so that the Apostle is so peremptory in it, that he asserts, that if any went about to establish it, he excluded himself from a participation of Christ.* The Sacrifices were to be perpetual, in regard of the thing signified by them, viz. the death of Christ, which was to endure in the efficacy of it: And the Passover was to be for ever,* in regard of the Redemption signified by it, which was to be of everlasting remembrance. Canaan was to be an everlasting possession in regard of the glory of Heaven typified, to be for ever conferred upon the spiritual Seed of Abraham.
And so when a Servant would not leave his Master, but would have his ear boared; 'tis said, he should be a Servant for ever, *i. e. till the Jubilee, which was every fiftieth year: So the Meat-offering they were to offer, is said to be Perpetual: *Canaan is said to be given to Abraham for an everlasting possession:* When as the Jews are expelled from Canaan, which is given a Prey to the barbarous Nations. Indeed Circumcision was not everlasting; yet the substance of the Covenant whereof this was a sign, viz. that God would be the God of Believers, endures for ever; and that Circumcision of the heart which was signified by Circumcision of the flesh, shall remain for ever in the Kingdom of Glory: It was not so much the lasting of the sign, as of the thing signified by it, and the Covenant sealed by it: The sign had its abolition, so that the Apostle is so peremptory in it, that he asserts, that if any went about to establish it, he excluded himself from a participiation of Christ.* The Sacrifices were to be perpetual, in regard of the thing signified by them, viz. the death of Christ, which was to endure in the efficacy of it: And the Passover was to be for ever,* in regard of the Redemption signified by it, which was to be of everlasting remembrance. Canaan was to be an everlasting possession in regard of the glory of Heaven typified, to be for ever conferr'd upon the spiritual Seed of Abraham.
- *Deut. 15.17.
- *Levit. 6.20.
- *Gen. 17.8.
- *Gal. 5.2.
- *Exod. 12.24.
