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IX. God by David perfected the Jewish worship, and added to it several new institutions. The law was given by Moses, but yet all the institutions of the Jewish worship were not given by Moses; some we•e a••ed by divine direction. So this greatest of all personal types of Christ did not only perfect Joshua's work, in giving Israel the possession of the promised land, but he also finished Moses's work, in perfecting the instituted worship of Israel. Thus there must be a number of typical prophets, pri••e, and princes, to complete one figure or shadow of Christ the antetype, he being the substance of all the types and shadows. Of so much more glory was Christ accounted worthy, than Moses, Joshua, David, and Solomon, and all the great prophets, priests, and princes, judges, and saviours of the Old Testaments put together.

The ordinances of David are mentioned as of parallel validity with those of Moses, 2 Chron. xxiii.18. "Also Jehoiada appointed the offices of the house of the Lord by the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house of the Lord, to offer the burnt-offerings of the Lord, as it is written in the law ⟨p. 85⟩of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as it was ordained by David." The worship of Israel was perfected by David, by the addition that he made to the ceremonial law, which we have an account of in the 23d, 24th, 25th, and 26th chapters of the first book of Chronicles, consisting in the several orders and courses into which David divided the Levites, and the work and business to which he appointed them, different from what Moses had appointed them to; and also in the divisions of the priests the sons of Aaron into four and twenty courses, assigning to every course their business in the house of the Lord, and their particular […] times of attendance there; and appointing some of the Levites to a new office, that had not been appointed before; and that was the office of fingers, and particularly ordering and regulating of them in that office, as you may see in the 25th chapter of 1st Chronicles; and appointing others of the vites by law to the several services of porters, treasurers, officers, and judges: and hese ordinances of David were kept up henceforth in the church of […] as long as the Jewish church lasted. Thus we find the several orders of priests and the Levites, the porters, and fingers, after the […]. So we find the courses of the priests appointed by David still continuing in the New-Testament; so Zechariah the father of John the Baptist was a priest of the course of Abia; which […] wih the course of Abijah appointed by David, that we rea […]