2 2 The Gofpel of the 7erbifi Pentecoft. Mid feed uponChrift jointly, as well as feverally and perfonally, . and exercife a fpiritàal and vifible Communion together. It fignified alto the Enlargement of the Church, gathering in of others, Luke 4.23. compel them to come in. 6. No uncircumcifed Perfon might eat thereof, Exod. I2. 48. fo now, none uncircumcifed in the Flefh, no unbaptized Perfon, and none Uncircumcifed in Heart, none apparently. Unregenerate may be received to the Lord's Supper. See Ezek. 9.4. 7, 9. which (peaks of New Teffament Days in Old Teftament phrafes. Their fecond Peaft two that of Pentecoft, fo called in the New Tea- /Dent, Alts 2. i. from the Greek wsrniwavi, the fiftieth, becaufe it was kept fifty Days after the Paffover. It is called the Feaft of Weeks, be- caufe they were to reckon feven Weeks from the Morrow after the Paffover, and then they were to offer to the Lord their two Wave- loaves, Lev. 23. 17. There was a threefold Myftery in this Feaft. i. To teftifie their Gratitude andThankfulnefs unto God for the Land of Canaan, and for the Harveft of the Fruits of the Earth ; there- fore they were to prefent the firft Fruits thereof to him at this Feaft. Hence it is called the. Feaft of Harveft, Exod. 23. i6. and the Feaft of Firft Fruits, Numb. 23. 26. and the Feaft of Weeks of the firft Fruits of the Wheat-barveft, Exod. 34r. 22. As in the for- mer the firft Fruits of their Barley-barveft, fo in this the firft Fruits of their Wheat- harvejt mutt be offered to God. This was at it were the compleating of that. There are fanr Inftru&ions to be learned from hence. s. That God mutt be acknowledged in outwardMercies, in theFruits of the Earth ; we mutt pay him theRent of Thankfulnefs, asour great Landlord, and that is all the Rent that he requires. He is in giving fo liberal, that he gives us all things richly to enjoy ; but in taking fo (paring, that he requires but a Sheaf for the whole Harveft ; (For, .íís i 4. i 7. it is he that giveth us Rain and fruitful Seafons, filling oar Hearts with Food and Gladnefs :) and would it not be ftrange Ingrati- tude to receive from God whole Harvefts of his Benefits, and return nothing, not fo much as one Sheaf to ;him .? 2. The fecond Inftru&ion is this.; this 'Raft inftru&s when it is that the Soul becomes truly fruitful and thankful, to acknowledgeGod GCE indeed, namely, when the Blood of Chrift bath been fprinkled upon the Soul, when his Death bath been applied, and not before. For they were firft to eat the Paffover, and fo to begin that Feaft; and then upon the Morrow after the Paffover they were to offer the firft Fruits
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