.2 x The Gofpel of f the Patver. get out of it Gird up the Loins of yoar Minds, i Pet 1. 13. faith the Apoftle, that is, be at Chrift's difpofe, be ready to follow his Call, to follow the Lamb whitherfoever he goeth, Rev. 14. q.. Let us up and be go- ing, for we have a great Journey beforeus, and this is not or Reft, Mich. 2. r i , Here we have no continuing City, but lick one to come, Heb. 13. 14. 2. They were to eat it with fower or bitter Herbs. Chrift himfelf was a Man of Sorrows, and malt be fed upon with bitter and dolorous remembrance of our Sins, and of his Sufferings for them, r Cor. t r. 28, 31. the Grief we have put him to, fhould be Matter of Grief to us. Repentance and godly Sorrow moil go along with the exercife of Faith. And as Chrift fuffered before he entred into Glory ; fo all that will follow him muff bear the Crofs before they can wear the Crown. We cannot Reign with him except we fuffer with him. 3. They muft eat it without Leaven, and have no Leaven for feven Days, ver. 15. Leaven is of an infeaiug, fowring, fpreading Nature. It is put for falfe Do&rine, Beware of the Leaven of the Scribes and Pha4 rifees, Matth. 16. 6, 12. and the Apoftle interprets it as fignifying al- fo Hypocrify,r Cor 5.7,8. Purge out the old Leaven, and let us keep the Feafi with the unleavened Bread of Sincerity and Truth. So Christ interprets it to his Difciples, Luke 12. I. Beware ye of the Leaven of the Pharifes, which is Hypocri[y. And the Apoftie, r Cor. 5.8. applies it in parti- cular to the fowring, fwelling Luft of Malice. Let us keep the Feaft not with old Leaven, neither with the Leavenof Malice and Wickednefs . As they having eaten thePaffbver did prefently abftain from all Lea- ven for feven Days together ; fo we having once laid hold on Chrift,., and fed upon him by Faith, muft put away the old_Leaven of Sin and Corruption, purging our Hearts as they did their Houfes of it, not a Day, but feven Days, ferving the Lord in Holinefs and Rghteoufnefs ali the Days of our Lives. Thus we are to keep the Feaft under the Gofpelo 4. The whole Lamb was to be eaten, and none of it left, ver.9, io, fo by Faith we muft receive wholeChrift, and all his Benefits, Yohn r. 12. 1 Cor. t. 13. Is Chrift divided ? every Believer hath whole Chrift to himfelf. Some are willing to feed upon Chrift for. Pardon, and to eat that part of the Lamb : But to feed upon Christ tor Holinefs and Mortifica' ion, this they delirenot. 5. It was to be eaten by the whole Family, ver. 3, q.., and if the Fa- roily were too little, they were to call ire others : This fignified both the Communion and Enlargement of the Church. It fign;fied the fpiritual Communion of the Church, as being one Body, one fpiri- tual Family, 1 Cor. 12. 12, t3, the whole Church of Chrllt molt eat and
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