435 THE Gofpel of the Fee of Trumpets. Coloff: 2. i6, 17. Nn. sr. i6d6; Let no Man therefore judge you in Meat or in Drink, or in refpeEl of an Holy-Day, or of the New Moon, or of the Sab- bath-days, Which are a f adorn of Things to come, but the Body is of Chrift. THERE are three Doarines in the words. I. That the Jewifh Holy-days are of three forts, or may be referred to three general Heads : Feaft-days, New-Moons, and Sabbaths. z. That thefe their holy Seafons were Shadows of Things to come, but the Body is of Chrift. 3. Thereforeno Chriftian fhould fuller any Man to judge him or con- demn him for not obferving thefe Jewifh Times andSeafons. We are endeavouring to open the Subftance of thefe Shadows, and what were thofe things to come, thofe things about Jefus Chrift and the Gofpel, which were fhadowed forth in them. We began firft with their Holy-days, or their Feaft-days ; that is, their annual Feftivals ' whereof we heard they had five. (r.)The Paffover, (z.) Pentecoft. (3.) TheFeaft of Tabernacles. (4.) The Feaft ofTrsm- pets. (g.) The Feaft of Expiation. Thefe three, the PafI'over, Pente- colt, and theFeaft of Tabernacles were the three great Feftivals which were more folemn than the reft ; becaufe then all the Males of Iliad were to of emble together out of the whole Nation, and to appear before theLord in the Place that he Mould choofe in a general ChurchAffembly. We heard fomething what thefe thingspointed to. ThePaffover did point them to the Death andSufferings ofyefics Cbrift, as the true Pafchal Lamb, who fulfilled this Type even as to the very Seafon and Holy K k k 2 Time
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