The rule of faith, or, An exposition of the Apostles Creed so handled as…

1. That as by the Tree death entered into the world, so upon the Tree it might be conquered, and driven out of the world, and life and immortality brought back again.

1. That as by the Tree death entered into the world, so vpon the Tree it might be conquered, and driuen out of the world, and life and immortality brought backe againe.

2. That the old shadows might be fulfilled, Isaac was laid upon the wood for sacrifice: and the brazen Serpent was fastened to the tree, and so the sacrifices were laid upon the wood.

2. That the old shadowes might be fulfilled, Isaack was laid vpon the wood for sacrifice: and the brazen Serpent was fastened to the tree, and so the sacrifices were laid vpon the wood.

3. He was fastened with nails for four reasons: The one that the Scriptures might be fulfilled that said of him, They have digged into my hands and my feet, Psal. 22. 17. The other that he might thereby declare, that the handwriting that was against us, was cancelled, and therefore he nailed it on high on the Cross, that it might appear to be of no force, and so that we might be delivered from the Ordinances of Moses, which were but as so many confessions ⟨p. 391⟩or Bills of our hands against us. Thirdly, that by his wounds, we might be cured of the spiritual wounds, with which the old Serpent had wounded our Natures,