A discourse relating to the much-lamented death and solemn funeral of our incomparable and…

These Words are allusive, and promiscuously refer, partly to things known and famous among the Greeks, but are more principally accommodate to these Christian Israelites, or Hebrews, to whom they are writ, and (in a Scheme of Speech, familiar and well known to them) have Respect to their Passage out of Egypt (as the 3d and 4th Chapters of this Epistle also have) towards the ⟨p. 8⟩Land of their promised Inheritance, whereof the Remains of their venerable Ancestor and Head, holy Jacob, or Israel, had, by Divine Instinct and Direction, in that mentioned solemn Funeral Procession, been conveyed before, to take a sort of Typical and Prophetical Prepossession of it for them.

These Words are allusive, and promiscuously refer, partly to things known and famous among the Greeks, but are more principally accommodate to these Christian Israelites, or Hebrews, to whom they are writ, and (in a Scheme of Speech, familiar and well known to them) have Respect to their Passage out of Egypt (as the 3d and 4th Chapters of this Epistle also have) towards the ⟨p. 8⟩Land of their promised Inheritance, whereof the Remains of their venerable Ancestor and Head, holy Jacob, or Israel, had, by Divine Instinct and Direction, in that mentioned solemn Funeral Procession, been convey'd before, to take a sort of Typical and Prophetical Prepossession of it for them.

They are in the whole a Figure, an Allegory, which is expounded, Gal. 3. In their way to their Terrestrial Canaan, this People come to Mount Sinai. The Emblem of their Jewish Church-state, under rigorous Severities, which they were to pass from, and so shall we. The Text expresses what they were come, and were tending, to. The Representation whereof hath a double Reference intermediate to the State and Constitution of the Christian Church, and final to the Heavenly State: The former being both a Resemblance, and some Degree of the latter.