The mystery of Christ opened and applied. In several sermons, concerning the person, office,…The mystery of Christ opened and applyed. In several sermons, concerning the person, office,…

5. We may for the further Confirmation of this Truth, take notice how it has been mysteriously signify. In the days of the Old Testament, the Son of God did sometimes appear in the form of a man to the Patriarchs; So he did to Abraham; and so to, Jacob and to Joshua and others (and some think that he appeared in the likeness that he was to take) we do not read that God the Father or that God the Holy Ghost did ever appear in a humane shape to the Fathers, only God the Son did so: thereby to signify his future Incarnation; that in due time he would really be, as then he seemed to be.

5. We may for the further Confirmation of this Truth, take notice how it has been mysteriously signify. In the dayes of the Old Testament, the Son of God did sometimes appear in the form of a man to the Patriarchs; So he did to Abraham; and so to, Jacob and to Joshua and others (and some think that he appeared in the likeness that he was to take) we do not read that God the Father or that God the Holy Ghost did ever appear in a humane shape to the Fathers, only God the Son did so: thereby to signify his future Incarnation; that in due time he would really be, as then he seem'd to be.

Moreover, The Tabernacle was a Type of Christ's humane nature, which is therefore ⟨p. 84⟩called the true Tabernacle which the Lord […] pitched and not man. for the humane nature of Christ came not into the world by means of any man, but was conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost: & is therefore said to be the great & perfect tabernacle. Heb. 8. 2. & 9. 11. And when John prophesieth in the Revelations (Chapt. 13. 6.) that the time should come when men would Blaspheme God's Tabernacle, He doth foretell the gross Idolatry of the Papists in their Mass, and their blasphemous Doctrine about Transubstantiation, b• which the highest abuses that can be are offered to the humane nature of Christ, in which nature God dwells. In my Text it was said the Word was made flesh, and the next words are, and dwelt among us. The Greek word is [esenose] which the Ancients are wont to interpret [shenos anelbe] i. e. Corpn assumpsit; He tabernacled among us. The Feast of Tabernacles did typify the Incarnation of Christ, whence the Jews suppose that Christ will be born at the time whe that Feast is by them observed; and they dede at Christians for keeping the Feast of Christ's Nativity in the tenth Month of the Year, saying that they place the Birth of Christ in the month, wherein they ought rather to […] his Conception. However, the Feast of