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Show Pang. OF A CHRISTIAN. Chalk)", was it contrary to the laws of Ceefar. For though Pilate him. felf (to gratifie the Jews) delivered him to be crucrfied, yet be- fore he didfo, he pronounced openly, that he found no fault in him: And put for title of his condemnation, not as the Jewsrequired, that he pretended to hee King, but fimply, That hee 1m Kingof the Item, and notwithftanding their clamour, refufed to ll? which fenfe he is King already, andeverlhall be,of all the Earth, And therefore it is, that our Saviour faith (Mat. 19. 28.) that his Apofiles fliould fit upon twelve thrones, judging the tWelve tribes of Ifrael, When the Son of mate fltall fit in the throne of hi; glory: whereby he fignified that he fliould reign then in his humane naturc; and (Mar. 16. 27. )The Son of man flirt/1 come in the glory of his Father,mth ht": L/flgelf)dfld then hefind! reward every man according to ht}: works. The fame we may read, Mark: I 3. 26. And as whenacomplaint was made to Mofes, againlt thofe of the in it, as being fubfervient therein to his government, .fo alfo our call out Devills in his name, jufiified him therein, faying, ( Luke 9.50. ) For-hid him not, for hee that it not agaiaff m, is on our part. Again, our Saviour refembled Mofes in the infiitution of Sacra- ments, both ofAdmtfftort into the Kingdome ofGod, and of Com‘ memorazzon of his deliverance ofhis Eleé‘t from their miferable con- dition. As the Children of Ifrael had for Sacrament of their Receptioninto the Kingdome of God , before the time of Mofes,‘ the rite of Circumotfioh, which rite having been omitted in the VVilderneffe , was again rellored as foon as they came into the land of I'romife, foalfo the Jews, before the coming of our Saviour, hada rite of Kept/(jag, that is, ofwalhing with water allthofe that being Gentiles, thrones judging the twelve tri e: of I/rael. By which it is manilcli, their names to the Chrilt, whom hec preached to bee already g- not to be before the Son of Man {hall come in Glory, and make u his Apol'tles Judges of the twelve tribes of Ifrael. But a man may here ask, leeing there is no marriage in the Kingdome ot Heaven, whether men {hall then eat, and drink; what eating therefore is meant in this place? This is expounded by ourSaw our ( John 6. 27.) where he faith , Lahaur not for the martyr/Hell i pert/hell) , hat for that meat which eadoreth rrmo everla/tzmg life, l which the Son ofmahjha/lgicue you. Sothat by eating ;tt_(;liriils table,is meant the eating of the Tree ofLife, that is to lay , the enjoying of Immortality , in the Kingdome of the Son or Man. By which places, and many more,it is evident,that our Sir;ours Kingdome is to bee exercifed by him in his humane na‘ ture. . Again, he is to be KinoD then, . no otherwife than.. as. fubonii- Chriflt au‘ p ‘ '1 them) intbe "ms or Vlccgerent of God the Father, asMofeswas in tlic \.-_ Kingdomeof derneffe; and as the High Priefts were before the reign of l God jubordi- Saul: and as the Kings were after it. For it is one of the Prophe""‘mll'd'mf cies concerning Clirilt, that he Ihould be like (in Oflice)to Mom: l in": NWT- 1 will raife them upa Prophet (faith the Lord, Deut. 18. 18.) from embraced the God of Ifrael. This rite St. John the Baptili: ufed in the reception of all them that gave come into the world; and our Saviour inl‘tituted the fame for a Sacrament to be taken by all that beleeved in him. From what caulk- the rire ofBaptifme firll: proceeded, is not exprelfed formally in the Scripture; but it may be. probably thought to be an imita- tionof tl‘e law of Moles, Concerning Leproulic; wherein the Leprousman was commanded to be kept out of the campe of Ili‘ael for .1 ccrtain time ; after which time being judged by the Priefl: to be clean , lice was admitted into the campe after a folemnc Waihing. Andthis may therefore bee a type of the Walhing in l'niptiiiiic, wherein liich men as are cleanfed ofthe Leproulie (W511) by liiith, are received into the Church with the folemmt}- of Baptiline. There is another conjeé‘ture drawn from the CCRIIIODIL‘S of the Gentiles, in a certain cafe that rarely hap< pens, and that is , when a man that was thought dead, chan' ted to recover, other men made fcruple to converle with him, as they would doc to converfc with a Ghofl, unleffe hec were received again into the number of men, by Walhing, as Children new born were walhed from the uncleannelfe of their mouth, and this limilitude with Mofes, is alfo apparent in the .Lt‘tlr ons of our Saviour himfelf, whilell; he was converfant on 15-11119 nativity, which was akind of new birth. This ceremony of the Greeks, in the time that Judaea was under the Dominion of Alexander, and the Greeks his fucceffors , may probably enough. have crept into the Religion of the Jews. But fee- For as Mofes chofe twelve Princes of the tribes,to govern under him: {0 did our Saviour choofe twelve Apofiles , who iliall iit onltwexi : then me, it is molt likely it proceeded from the Legall Cere- amongft their Brethren [the unto thee, mam/[pot my wora'rzmo /5 i Difciples , to preach his Kingdome, and Salvation to all Nations. appoint tthto yotta Ix'irtga'ome,aamy Father hath appointed to met, that you may eat aaddrm/e at n? rah/e in my Ir'ittgdome,‘ and fit or: that the Kingdome of Chrifl appointed to him by his Father,is i thorized Seventy Elders, to receive the Spirit ofGod, and to Prophecy to the people, thatis, (as Ihave faid before ,)to fpeak unto them in the name of God; f0 our SaViour alfo ordained feventy Saviour, when St. John complained to him of a certain man that (1i l f thrones, and judge the twelve tribes of Ifrael: And as Mofes au- of W 0159" have already fliewn that his Kingdome was nor to begin till the wastobeKiflg Refurreé‘tion. But then he {hall be King, not onely as God, in and 14.62. and more expreffely for the time, Luke 22. 29, 30. I t. Chaplin Seventy that prophecyed in the camp of Ifrael, he juflified them Father ) 9f in vertue of his omnipotence-7 but alfo peculiarlyof his own Eleét, "'5 EW‘ by vertuc of the pact they make with him in their Baptifme. fl COMMON-WEALTH. alter its faying, WhatI hat/e written,l have writtert. 'Ikethirdpatt As for the third part of. his. Office, which was to be . Kim" 9> I (underlm 1" 17mg. ing it is not likely our Saviour would countenanCe a Hea- mony of Walhing after Leprofie. And for the other Sacrament, lilfc‘l‘iw‘ 13 of |