of the Coventint~ 63 . t Then his mafier fhall bring him unto the judges, he £hall alfo bring him to the door, or unto the door– pofr ; and his Majler lhall bore his ear through with an awl; and he fhall.ferve him for ever,' that isa ·in the language of the law, till dea~h. This is confirm– ed from 'Hof. iii. 2. ' SoJ bought her to me for fifteen pieces of filver,' which was the halt of th~ fiated •price of a bond-woman, Exod. ~xi. 32. In the original it is, ' So { digged her thorow to me;' the fame word being here ufed by the holy Ghofi, as .. Pf<ll. xl. 6. 'Tis a pregnant word, which is virtually two in fignification : and the fenfe is, I bought her and bor'd her ear to my door•pofr, to be my bond– woman, according to· the law, Deu.t. xv. 17. 'Thou !halt take· an awl, and thrufi it through his ear into the door, and he £hall be thy fervant ·for.ever: and alfo unto thy maid-fervant thou £halt do likewife.'Tbat • die boring of her ear as a bond-woman, was no ways inconfifl:ent -with the prophet's betrothing of her to himfelf, Hof. iii. 3• appears frop1 Exod. xxi. 8. Jv(epb was an eminent type of Chrifr as the Father's Servant. And 'tis obfervable, that he was firfi a bond– fervant, and then a honorary fervant. 1n the former fiate, being fold for a ftrvant, Pfal. CV. 17. he was a· type of Chrifi, ·a bond -fervant in his fiate of humi– liation; whofe -;mofl: precious life was accordingly fold by Judas for thirty pieces of filver, the fiated price of the life of a bond·fervant, Exod. xxi. 32. ' If the ox: !hall . pufh a man-fervant or maicl-fervant, he !hall ~ give unto thei~ mafrer thirty.fhekles of 'filver, and the <JX iliall be fl:oned.' In the 'latter fiate? being ma-de _, ruler over .all the land of Egypt,' PfaJ. cv. 21, 22. Gen. xli. flO . he was a type of Chrifi, in that mofi: hon~urable and glorious fervice or minifrty, which was conferred on 'him in his fl:ate of exaltation,. wherein , he was confi:itute· a fervant ·for whofe ' law the ifles fhall wait,' Ha. xlii. 1, 4· ' God having given hitn a name which is abov~ every name : that at the riame ·· E of
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