Christs temptation and transfiguration practically explained and improved in several sermons /

3. This was the Jews stumbling block, 1 Cor. 1. 23. We Preach Christ Crucified to the Jews a stumbling block.

3. This was the Jews stumbling block, 1 Cor. 1. 23. We Preach Christ Crucified to the Iews a stumbling block.

4. This was prefigured in the Rites of the Law, foretold in the Writings of the Prophets. In the figures of the Law it was represented, Heb. 9. 22. and almost all things are by the Law purged with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no Remission, especially the Apostle urgeth the entering of the High Priest with Blood to the Mercy-seat, verse 23, 24. All the legal Sacrifices were slain, & their blood brought before the Lord. So the predictions of the Prophets, Isa. 53. 10. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him, he hath put him to grief, when thou shalt make thy soul an offering for sin, &c. And Dan. 9. 26. The Messiah shall be cut off but not for himself. In short, that Christ should dye for the sins of the World, was ⟨p. 69⟩the great thing represented in the Law and Prophets. Rabbi Simeon and Rabbi Hadersim out of Daniel, that after Messiah had Preached half seven years he shall be slain.

4. This was prefigured in the Rites of the Law, foretold in the Writings of the Prophets. In the figures of the Law it was represented, Heb. 9. 22. and almost all things are by the Law purged with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no Remission, especially the Apostle urgeth the entring of the High Priest with Blood to the Mercy-seat, verse 23, 24. All the legal Sacrifices were slain, & their blood brought before the Lord. So the predictions of the Prophets,