Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ

1. IT was so in the Institution of the Beautiful Worship of the Law, with all the means of it. Herein have they the Advantage above all the splendid Ceremonies that men can invent, in the outward worship of God; they were designed and framed in Divine Wisdom to represent the Glory of Christ in his Person and his Office. This nothing of Human Invention can do, or once pretend unto. Men cannot create Mysteries, nor give unto any thing natural in it self, a Mystical signification. But so it was in the Old Divine Institutions. What were the Tabernacle and Temple? What was the Holy Place with the Utensils of it? What was the Oracle, the Ark, the Cherubims, the Mercy-Seat placed therein? What was the High-Priest in all his Vestments and Administrations? What were the Sacrifices, and annual sprinkling of Blood in the most Holy Place? What was the most whole System of their Religious Worship? Were there any thing but Representations of Christ in the Glory of his Person and his Office? They were a Shadow, and the Body represented by that shadow, was Christ. If any would see how the Lord Christ was in particular foresignified and represented in them, he may peruse our Exposition on ⟨p. 99⟩the ninth Chapter of the Epistle unto the Hebrews, where it is handled so at large as that I shall not here again insist upon it. The Sum is, Moses was faithful in all the House of God, for a Testimony of those things which were to be spoken afterwards, Heb. 3. 5. All that Moses did in the erection of the Tabernacle, and the institution of all its services, was but to give an antecedent Testimony by way of Representation, unto the Things of Christ that were afterwards to be revealed. And that also was the substance of the Ministry of the Prophets, 1 Pet. 1. 11, 12. The dark apprehensions of the Glory of Christ which by these means they obtained, were the life of the Church of Old.

1. IT was so in the Institution of the Beautiful Worship of the Law, with all the means of it. Herein have they the Advantage above all the splendid Ceremonies that men can invent, in the outward worship of God; they were designed and framed in Divine Wisdom to represent the Glory of Christ in his Person and his Office. This nothing of Human Invention can do, or once pretend unto. Men cannot create Mysteries, nor give unto any thing natural in it self, a Mystical signification. But so it was in the Old Divine Institutions. What were the Tabernacle and Temple? What was the Holy Place with the Utensils of it? What was the Oracle, the Ark, the Cherubims, the Mercy-Seat placed therein? What was the High-Priest in all his Vestments and Administrations? What were the Sacrifices, and annual sprinkling of Blood in the most Holy Place? What was the most whole Systeme of their Religious Worship? Were there any thing but Representations of Christ in the Glory of his Person and his Office? They were a Shadow, and the Body represented by that shadow, was Christ. If any would see how the Lord Christ was in particular foresignified and represented in them, he may peruse our Exposition on