296 i Epheflans,Chap. z. VER,15. ment perfonally united, in whom the fecond Perlon worketh, andby which, as by a conduit, he conveyeth our fpiriruall life. Doe. f So that wefee what it wits whichput an end unto there fbadows,it was Chri4 cruel Ì Chrill crud ed Theexhibitionof Chrifl did not do this, nor yet his Sal antiquates 1 LegauRitas. teaching, for the Ceremonies were applyed in his blefred flefh, andhe ; taught men to go and obferve the Law of Mofes; but when hishour was come, that he fhould in that Prieft-like officeofoffering himfelf to his kingdom , and eternall interceffron, then henailed all thefe to his croffe, and abolifhed them; at his death the vail rent in funder, and as Daniel had fore-told, he fhould be damn, and abolifh the Sacrifice: For what things were againft uniting of his people, againft us as Bills witneffingguilt, and Types of Chrift dying, thefe were to end in death. Ifl beliftedup, I will drawal unto me; the hand-writing ofOr- dinances, fhadows, the bodyof all is Chrift. of Howwe are to efteem this liberty, and to reckonof it : Lookhow this liberty as things bequeathed by death are accounted of; as we will hand for the a rich tcgacic., priviledgesofour Towns : And in a City, how a Charter on filch and Poch confederation granted in Poch a Kings dayes, &c. how much more in thefe granted by God, through the purchafe of the fufferings of Chrift! We mulljland in the liberty,whereof chril! hashmade Of free, Gal. S. r. We fee all fhadows abolifhcd ; the fhadow and the body Simile. will not ftand together. As Painters, who take an imperfc l draught of a thing, when they have now finifhed their mafter- table, theycall away all their former rudiments ; fo God having now brought the true image of heavenly things , doth call off thofe imperfetl fhadows which had formerly been in ufe. Vfe z: This lettethus fee a right propertyofPharifaicall fpirits, that (land precifely on every trifling Ceremony , not caring for the great things of the Law, and the true fpirituall obedience of it, they will tithe Mint and Cummin precifely , wafh hands and cups , their hearts be- ing all foul , and full of lulls. For look as idle bodies which will nor follow due labour, they will go with their tales,as a Pedler with his pack, from one to another; yea their fingers !hall go, and their feet (hall fpeak, they will occupy themfelvesbufily in that which is fuper- fluous : So here,when men will not exercife themfelves in the power ofgodiinefle, it is firange how they will abound, andhow eagerly theywill Rand upon killings and cringings, &c. This may be Peen in the Church of .Rome, who not knowing the powerfull ordinances of God , have turned all into fach dumb lhows, as are the Malre, their Proceflions, as full of fuperfluous obfcrvations, as empty of fub- ftance. Doff. Fer to make of twain one.] Mark firft., bow highly the Eat of the ct chc, church is to be rated. God letteth all his own initttutions birepealed, to ha fee ( that this may be procured; it isplain from the Argument in theText ac e. high Y A P g rata that theunionof the faithful! is highly rated with him. I r . He that givethhis Son to death for this purpofe; 2. IIe that beatethdown all his own ordinances, rather then this fhould
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