The Gofpel of theTable of Shew-bread in the Temple. 395 T . The Sherr-bread rows a Type of the Church. Which was typified before in other refpeês by the Golden Candleftick, in regard of the Light that Shines there ; and now in other refpe&s by theShew-bread. The Analogy to this appears in four things. t. In that as many Grains make up one Loaf : So ,many Believers make up one Church. t Cor. TO. 17. For we being many, are one Bread andone Body ; for we are all partakers of that one Bread. One Perfon is not a Church. How few and how fmall a number the Church may be redu- ced unto, we need not here difpute : In Noab's time they were redu- ced to Eight Perlons. The first Church, and the Beginning and Foun- dation of the Church in all after Times was, when God himfelf preach- ed the Gofpel to our fiat Parents in Paradife, and then Adam and Eve, and their Seed were the Church of God. There mutt be divers, there waft be more than one to make up a Church. 2. The Analogy appears in the Kumber : For as there were twelve Tribes of Ifrael, fo there were twelve Loaves. Thefe twelve Tribes were often and divers ways reprefented : As by the twelve Stones in the Breatt-plate of the High-Prieft, Exod. 28. 21. and by the twelve Stones which 7ofhua did pitch in 1ordan, and the other twelve which he took out of Yordan, and pitched them in Gilgal, for a Memorial of the twelve Tribes palling through, 5ofh. 4. 9, 20. So Canaan was di- vided into twelve Parts, that People coming of twelve Patriarchs; to which anfwers the twelve Apoftles of the New Teftament; and the new 7erufalem is built upon thofe twelve Foundarions, Rev. 21. 14. fo in thefe twelve Loaves there is the like Mystery; they reprefented both theOld and the New 7eftament-lfrael. 3. Thefe Loaves here toRand before the Lord all the Week upon the Golden Table. This was the chief A&ion about them, and which holds forth the principal Scope of the Inftitution therefore called Panis facierum or Propoftionis, Matth. 12. 4. which our Tranflators have fitly rendred Shen, bread. The Apoftles phrafe is 7f6Oew Tyr dimir the meaning is, ar'°' /rfo8eo+as, Lev. 2.4 6. `Thou (halt fet them upon the pare rohte before the Lord. This fignified his continual Eye and Care over Irs Feojle; they are never out of his Sight, never out of Mind : His gl,e and his Thoughts are continually upon them, from one end of the Week to another : Ifa. 49. 16. Behold 1 bavegraven thee upon the Palms of mine Hands, and thy Walls are continually before me. Though he feems to forfake and forget them, yet he remembers them Hill 3t . 20. For ¡ace I fpake againjt him, I do earnefily remember him flit! 9 therefore my Bowels are troubled for him. E e e 2 4, 'There
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