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,…

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 [es•enose] which the Ancients are wont to interpret [shenos anel•be•] 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 de••de 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 ⟨p. 85⟩Tabernacles which the Children of Israel kept in the seventh month, did signify that God would appear and dwell in our nature. The Temple was also a Type of Christ's body. Joh. 2. 19. Jesus said, destroy this Temple (probably Christ did with his hand point at his own body as he spake these words:) in ver. 21. 'tis said, He spake of the Temple of his body. The Temple was the most costly, excellent, glorious, House in the world; thereby figuring the humane nature of Christ, which was adorned with graces and spiritual excellencies beyond any other man or creature. Particularly the Veil of the Temple typified the humane nature of Christ. He has consecrated a new (Christ was then newly slain, and there is no other way after this, and therefore it is still and always new) and living way for us, through' the veil, that is to say his flesh. Heb. 20. As there was no entering into the Holy of Holies but by the Veil; so there is no entering into Heaven but through that Sacrifice of the flesh, i. e. the humane nature of Christ.