A history of the work of redemption. Containing the outlines of a body of…

So it was an human form in which Christ appeared to the seventy elders, of which we have an account. Exod. xxiv.9 10.11. "Then went up Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel. And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet, as it were a paved work of a sapphire-stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness. And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink." So Christ appeared afterwards to Joshua in the form of the human nature▪ Josh. v.13.14, "And it came to pass when Joshua was by Jericho, he lift up his eyes, and looked, and behold, there stood a man over against him, with a sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us or for our adversaries? And he said Nay, but a• captain or the host of the Lord am I now come" And so he appeared to Gideon, Judg. vi.11. &c. and so also to Manoah Judg. xiii.17.—21. Here Christ appeared to Manoah in a representation both of his incarnation and death; of his incarnation, […] that he appeared in a human form; and of his death and sufferings, represented by the sacrifice of a kid, and by his ascending up in the flame of the sacrifice; intimating that it was he that was the great sacrifice, that must be offered up to God for a sweet savour, in the fire of his wrath, as that kid was burned and ascended up in the flame. Christ thus appeared, time after time, in the form or that nature he was afterwards to take upon him; because he now appeared on the same design, and to carry on the same work, that he was to appear in that nature to work out and carry on.

So it was an human form in which Christ appeared to the seventy elders, of which we have an account. Exod. xxiv.9 10.11. "Then went up Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel. And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet, as it were a paved work of a sapphire-stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness. And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink." So Christ appeared afterwards to Jshua in the form of the human nature Jsh. v.13.14, "And it came to pass when Jshua was by Jericho, he lift up his eyes, and looked, and behold, there stood a man over against him, with a sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us or for our adversaries? And he said Nay, but a captain or the host of the Lord am I now come" And so he appeared to Gideon,