The Gofpel of the PafJ'otr-eet. 417 Thefirft of there yearly Feafls was the P ASSO VER. It began upon the fifteenth Day of the first Month, anfwering chiefly toour March. The firft Institution of it is in the r2th. Chapter of Exodus. There were three Things which were the peculiar Obfervations of this Feaft, which do diftinguifh it from the reit. r. The killing and eating of the Pafchal Lamb ( with the Ceremonies thereto belonging ) which was upon the fourteenth Day of the firft Month at even, Exod. 12. Verf. 6, mac. 2. Theputting away of Leaven, and eating unleavened Bread for fe- ven Days, that is, from the fifteenth to the one and twentieth of that Month, Exod. r 2. Verf. 15. Hence it hath its denomination, the Feaft ofunleavened Bread, from this Ceremony : As it is called the Feaft of the Paffover from the Pafchal Lamb that was eaten over night. See of this before on Lev. 7.37. upon the Meat-Offering. 3. The Sheaf offirfl Fruits was waved upon the Morrow after the Paffo- ver ; that is, upon the fixteenth Day of the first Month. But of this there will be occafion to fpeak further in the next Feaft. There were thefpecial Obfervations and Appurtenances belonging to this Feaft, betides thofe general Rules before-mentioned that do con- cern them all. Now for the End andVie of this Feaft. t. It was the Commemoration oftheir Deliverance and Redemption out of Egypt, and from the deftroying Angel there, which was the occafion of the first Institution of the Paflbver, Exod. r 2.26, 27. And unleaven- ed Bread was made ufe of to this End, becaufe their Departure was fo hafty, that they had not time to leaven their Bread. Hence Dent. 16. 3.; unleavened Bread is called the Bread of Tribulation, becaufe they did eat it when they were in great Tribulation. 2. It was a Prefiguration of our Spiritual Redemption by Yefus Christ ; who is the true Lamb ofGod, Johns. 29. and a Lamb flain from the Foundation of the World, Rev. 13. 8. and who was adually flain in the fulnefs of time, at this very Seaton; namely, at the Paffover, as you find it recorded in the four Evangelists. It fhadowed forthChrist in five Refpeas. r. The Pafchal Lamb it Pelfheld forth Jefus Chrift in fundry oftie per- fonal Qualifications fitting himfor his Office Therefore Chrift is fo often called a Lamb, John r. 29. Rev. 5. 6. r. The Pafchal Lamb was to be a Lamb without Blemifh, Exod. 12. 5. fo Chrift, t Pet. 1. 19, 20. re are redeemed with the precious Blood of Chrift, a of a Lamb without Blemi(h, and without Spot, who verily was fore'ordained before the Foundation of the World, but was manifeff in there H h h laf
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