426 The Go[pel of the Fee of Taberrac' s wonderful and myfterious Courfe of Sacrifices appointed for it, then the other Rafts had ; as you may fee, Numb. 29. fromcrf. 12. to the 40. there muft be thirteen Bullocks offered the firft Day, and but twelve the fecond Day, and but eleven the third Day, and fo to the end of the Feaft everyday lets and lefs, till upon the laft day no more but only one; which is thought to fhadow forth the CefFatipn and Evani- tion at latt of all the legal Sacrifices : It intimates that all thofe legal external Sacrifices were to ceafe at laft. That Covenant and that Ad- miniftration of it waxing old, and growing weaker and weaker, and decaying, till it be vanifhed quite away, as the Apoftle (peaks, Hebe 8. t3. Moreover this Feaft had two other Feafts previous to it in the fame Month, the Feaft of Trumpets on the firft day of the feventhMonth, and the Feaft ofExpiation on the tenth day of it ; and then follows, af- ter fuch Preparations and IntroduEtions, this great Feaft of Tabernacles from the fifteenth to the two and twentieth. They had alfo a Cnflome (as the Jewifh Writers Report) offing. Ing certain Songs and Hymns of Praife to God when they were prepa. ringand making thefe Booths and Tabernacles, one whereof was the a t 8. Pfaim. Vert. 25. Hofanna faze now I befeech thee, O Lord, and they would fay, mile Hofannam, fold or prepare the Hofanna. Info- much that the whole Feaft, the Booths, Tabernacles, and the Feaft and all, carne in procefs of time to be called Hofanna's. Now this the Peo ple apply in their Acclamations and Songs of Praife to jeCus Chrift,. Luke to. which though it was done at another time of the Year ; yet, as the People in thofe Acclamations feem to allude to-the Manner and Cnftomat the Feaft of Tabernacles : So they do afcribe it to the Meffiah, Hofanna to the Son of David. And well they might, for the. Birth of Chrift was at the Feaft of Tabernacles t. Chrift did thenTa- bernacle in the Flefh. Moreover, at this Feaft of Tabernacles was So- lomon's Temple dedicated, and the Ark folemnly introduced into it, 2 Cbron. 5.2, 3, 7. which Temple was a Type of Chrift's Humane Nature, fohn2. ¡9, aï . I know it is contrary to the common Ac- count, to place the Birth of Chrift here, upon the fifteenth day of the feventh Month. But confider thefe Arguments for it. It may be argued, Y. From this Feaft of Tabernacles which muff needs point to fome principal thing concerning the Mefliah, as well as the two former Feafts did.. And inhowmany Particulars it fuits this of coming to Thbernasltiu our Fieíhi you have beard. from :
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