448 The Gofpel of the ubilee. 4. This Sabbatical Year was a:fpecial Seaton and Time of inflrution in the Law ofGod, Dent. 31. Io, I r, 12. the Lord would have them in- ftruaed and taught to know his Mind, and the true Religion, and the ways of his Worthip : Therefore he appointed fo many Times and Seafons for it, weekly and monthly and yearly, and moreover one Year in feven, as you fee. There things we are taught by the Sabbatical Year, betide the myflery of Spiritual Reg by Chrift, of which further in the next Particular, viz. 3. The jubilee. There was alfo a third Sabbath, betide the week- ly Sabbath, and the feventh year Sabbath ; they had likewife a Sab- bath of feven times feven, that is the Yubilee. This was their great Sabbatical Year ; for they were to reckon feven times Leven Years, and then to obfeve a Sabbatical Year, Lev. 25.9. This alfo was a Type of Chrift, as appears in three Things, that were done in this Year of jubilee. I. There was Redemption and Releafe, every one fet at Liberty, every Bondage releafed, and every Yoke broken. Here is a Shadow ofthe Spiritual and true Redemption by Jefus Chrift, who of Spiritu- al Slaves by Nature makes us the Lord's Freemen by Grace. Chrift hath proclaimed Redemption to Sinners, and Deliverance to poor Cap- tive Souls, Ifa.61. r. z. There was the Trumpet of the Jubilee to proclaim it. The.Gof- pel is this great Trumpet, the proclaiming of the Jubilee is alluded to, ¡fa. 61. r, z---I/a. 27. Ult. in that Day the Great Trumpet (hall be blown. The great Trumpet is the Gofpel, Caiv. in loc. 3. Some have obferved further, that the coming of Chrift was at the Jubilee, that Chrift came at the time of the Jubilee. I know there íis.fome difference amongft Chronologers about it ; but Pure it is, it fell thereabout : Some placing the Jubilee upon the Preaching of yohn Bap- tift, who did proclaim the Lord's coming : But others place 4 as feem- ethnibre exaaly upon the very Year of Chrift's Death, by which we were redeemed and fet free indeed. They began the account ofthe Jubilees from about anno rnandi 1560. for they came out of Egypt about the Year 2513. they were forty Years in the Wildernefs, fix or liven in conquering and dividing the Land of Canaan. Then began their firft Sabbatical Year ; from thence to the Death of Chrift there were eight and twenty Jubilees, his Death being about the Year of the World 396o. So you fee fomething of the Gofpel-myftery of thefe Sabbaths of .the :Jews, the three forts of Sabbaths ; every Week,, every feventh Tear, and every fiftieth Year : And thus alto you fee how thefe legal
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