3. Argu. From the Sacrifices that were offered of old. Sacrifices were offered up from the beginning of the World. Gen. 4.3, 4. And this practice was continued in the Church for Four Thousand Years: there were daily Sacrifices, Sacrifices for the Sabbaths, for the beginnings of the Months, and Yearly Sacrifices: there were burnt-offerings, trespass offerings, sin-offerings, peace offerings, freewill offerings & vows: Multitudes of Creatures were offered up in Sacrifice to God: twenty and two thousand Oxen, and an hundred ⟨p. 6⟩and twenty thousand Sheep at the dedication of the Temple: there was much expense and labour in Sacrificing; and these were all types and shadows of Christ: Col. 2.17. These Sacrifices could not purge away sin, Heb. 10.4. God did not regard them but as they were types of Christ. Heb. 10.5. When he cometh into the World, he saith, sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me. The design of these Sacrifices was to represent the Death of Jesus Christ, to instruct the World about Christs Death, to be monitors and remembrancers of the Death of Jesus Christ, that so the People of God might be continually exercising faith on him. And would God have done this if there had not been wonderful virtue in this blood? Why should they be taught with such labour and expense to depend upon his death if there were not such glorious virtue in it? I may add to this the consideration of other types: the passover was a type of Christ: 1 Cor. 5.7. So was the brazen Serpent: Joh. 3.14, 15. And the legal washings: God took abundant occasion to instruct them in the virtue of Christs blood.
3. Argu. From the Sacrifices that were offered of old. Sacrifices were offered up from the beginning of the World. Gen. 4.3, 4. And this practice was continued in the Church for Four Thousand Years: there were daily Sacrifices, Sacrifices for the Sabbaths, for the beginnings of the Months, and Yearly Sacrifices: there were burnt-offerings, trespassofferings, sin-offerings, peace offerings, freewill offerings & vows: Multitudes of Creatures were offered up in Sacrifice to God: twenty and two thousand Oxen, and an hundred ⟨p. 6⟩and twenty thousand Sheep at the dedication of the Temple: there was much expence and labour in Sacrificing; and these were all types and shadows of Christ: Col. 2.17. These Sacrifices could not purge away sin, Heb. 10.4. God did not regard them but as they were types of Christ. Heb. 10.5. When he cometh into the World, he saith, sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me. The design of these Sacrifices was to represent the Death of Jesus Christ, to instruct the World about Christs Death, to be monitors and remembrancers of the Death of Jesus Christ, that so the People of God might be continually exercising faith on him. And would God have done this if there had not been wonderful vertue in this blood? Why should they be taught with such labour and expence to depend upon his death if there were not such glorious vertue in it? I may add to this the consideration of other types: the passover was a type of Christ: 1 Cor. 5.7. So was the brazen Serpent: Joh. 3.14, 15. And the legal washings: God took abundant occasion to instruct them in the vertue of Christs blood.
