The Gofpel of the Pa/Jover. 419 3. The Time of it fhadowed forth Chrift's Sufferings: There was a remarkable Analogy in the Circumftances of Time, and this in four Refpeas. I. In that the Lamb was to be a Year old,' not the fiat Day or Week, but at a fit. Age was the Lamb tobe taken up': So Chrift at a fit Age, in the belt and fitteft Time ; fo far we may fafely apply this Circumiance from that of the Apoftle, In due time, Rom. 5.6. 2. In that the Lamb was to be taken the tenth Day : But not pain till the fourteenth Day, Exod. r 2, 6. fo Chrift entred into his publick Miniftry the thirtiethYear of his Life, which is the tenth thirce told; and fuffered not till the four and thirtieth, Luke 3.23. he was near about thirty Years old when Baptized. , And in the Gofpel of john there are four Paffovers mentioned, at the fourth whereofhe fuffered, Dan. 9.27. in the midit of the Week. The Week is feven prophetical Days, feven Years, the midst whereof is three ears and an half. Moreover he was born on the fifteenth Day of the fefrenth Month : For that was the Day of the Feaft of Tabernacles ; fromwhence to thePaf foyer, which was in the firft Month, is half a Fear. 3. The Lamb was to be fl in on the fourteenth Day of the firít Month, the time when they came out ofEgypt So Chrift died at the very fame time of the Year, at the Feaft of the Paífover : So that the time did look backward to their typical Redemption out of Egypt, and forward to their Spiritual Redemption by Jefus Chrift. It is true, it is called the Preparation -day, john 19. 31. but that is thought to be, becaufe the Jews had a corrupt Cuftom, when two great Feafts came fo near together, to put offthe former a Day longer. But Chrift ob- ferved and fulfilled the time appointed in the Inftitution. 4. It was to be (lain in the. Evening, or (as the Margin has it ) be- tween the two Evenings; for every Day had two Evenings, namely, the Evening of the Day, which began at three a Clock in the After- noon ; and the Evening of the Night, which began at Sun-fet,òfh. 10. 26, 27. The Lord gave them fo large a time, becaufe they had many other Services and Sacrifices to offer. See Ainfworth in loc. SoChrift, Matti). 27. 46, 50. fuffered Death about the Hour of three a Clock, and then the Evening began ; for the fixth Hour of the Day is that which we call twelve a Clock, the ninth Hour is that which we call three 'aClock in the Afternoon; for the Jews reckoned their Hours fromMorning to Evening, and not as we do, from mid-day to mid-night. Thus you fee how the lime of thePafTover (hewed forth divers Cir- cumstances of the time ofChrift's Sufferings. H h h 2 4.7aß
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