Christ Set Forth

And as it is thus in these natural relations, so also in spiritual; we may see it in holy men, as in Moses, who was a mediator for the Jews, as Christ is for us; Moses therein being but Christs Type and shadow, and therefore I the rather instance in him. He under God had been the deliverer of the people of Israel out of Egypt, with the hazard of his own life, & had led them in the wilderness, and given them that good Law that was their wisdom in the sight of all the Nations, ⟨p. 79⟩and by his prayers kept off Gods wrath from them. And who ever (of all those Heroes we read of) did so much for any Nation, who yet were continually murmuring at him, and had like once to have stoned him? and yet, what he had done for them did so mightily engage his heart, and so immovably point and fix it unto their good, that although God in his wrath against them, offered to make of him alone a greater and mightier Nation then they were, yet Moses refused that offer (the greatest that ever any Son of Adam was tempted with,) and still went on to intercede for them, and among other used this very argument to God, even the consideration of what he had already done for them (as with what great might and power, he had brought them out of Egypt, &c.) thereby to move God to continue his goodness unto them, so Exod. 32. 11. and elsewhere, And this overcame God, as you may read in the 14. ver. of the fore-named Chap. Yea, so set was Moses his heart upon them, that he not only refused that former offer which God made him, but he made an offer unto God of himself, to sacrifice his portion in life for their good: Rather (says he) blot me out of the book of life: So ver. 32.

And as it is thus in these naturall relations, so also in spirituall; we may see it in holy men, as in Moses, who was a mediator for the Jewes, as Christ is for us; Moses therein being but Christs Type and shadow, and therefore I the rather instance in him. He under God had beene the deliverer of the people of Israel out of Egypt, with the hazard of his own life, & had led them in the wildernesse, and given them that good Law that was their wisdome in the sight of all the Nations, ⟨p. 79⟩and by his prayers kept off Gods wrath from them. And who ever (of all those Heroes we read of) did so much for any Nation, who yet were continually murmuring at him, and had like once to have stoned him? and yet, what he had done for them did so mightily engage his heart, and so immoveably point and fixe it unto their good, that although God in his wrath against them, offered to make of him alone a greater and mightier Nation then they were, yet Moses refused that offer (the greatest that ever any Sonne of Adam was tempted with,) and still went on to intercede for them, and among other used this very argument to God, even the consideration of what he had already done for them (as with what great might and power, he had brought them out of AEgypt, &c.) thereby to move God to continue his goodnesse unto them, so