The safety of appearing at the day of judgement, in the righteousness of Christ

Hence also he is called, The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, Rev. 13.8. it is clear also, because upon his death the sacrifices of the Law, were to cease: those Laws are now abolished: now there is no use of those sacrifices, the offerings of Christ were the accomplishment of what was typified of old: Heb 13.12, 13.

2. The Passover or Paschal Lamb did also hold forth this truth: and teach the efficacy of the death of Christ for our salvation: by this ordinance of the Passover, the Paschal Lamb was to be slain, and the blood thereof to be sprinkled upon the lintel and posts of the door: and there withal many other ceremonies were to be attended: the immediate design of this in the first celebration of it was to be a means to procure the destroying angels passing over the houses of the Israelites, in the after celebration of it, it was to be a commemoration of this mercy, and in conjunction with the feast of the Passover; it was also a commemoration of the delivering of Israel out of Egypt: but the rincipal and ultimate design of it was to teach them, their deliverance from eternal destruction, and their spiritual redemption ⟨p. 67⟩by Jesus Christ: the efficacy of the blood of Christ for our salvation is herein held forth: this appears, 1. Because the deliverance out of Egypt was a type of our spiritual and eternal deliverance: and therefore it is made the preface to the ten Commandments, Exod, 20.2. we are not concerned in that argument any further, than as it shadows forth spiritual redemption: they were delivered out of Egypt, that they might be brought into Canaan, which was a type of Heaven. 2. Jesus Christ is called our passover, 1 Cor. 5.7. Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us, he is called a Passover because in him was fulfilled what was shadowed by the Passover. 3. Christs blood is called the blood of sprinkling, Heb. 12, 24