The Gofpel of the jubilee. 449 legal holy Times and Seafons were all Shadows of good things to come. Take force general Ufesfrom the whole. Vfe r. See and remember the Vnlawfulnefs and Vnwarrantablenef of the Obfervation ofthefeyewi[b Times andSeafons under the Gofpel : For they were typical, Amos g. 2t. The Papips obferve the Paflóver, which they call Eafler ; Pentecoft, commonlycalled Wbitfuntide; and inftead of the Feaft of Tabernacles they keep the five and twentieth of Decem- ber for the time of Chrift's Birth ; all which forceothers retain.And they have alfo added a jubilee, which becaufe it is a profitable Time to the Pope's Purfe, he hath ordered it to be kept every five and twenty Years inftead of fifty. Thefe are Errors of dangerous Confequence, for they do implicitly deny that theSubftance is come. If thefe things were Shadows of things. to come, the retaining of them now, is an Error ofdangerous Confe quence : For to retainany of thefedark and legal Shadows is an impli- cit denial that Chrift the Subftance is come. Thefe things were more fully fpoken to the last time. Vfe 2. See and obferve the Burthenfomnefs of that old legal Difpenfa* tion, asalto our Chriflian Libertynon' under the Gofpel: The Lord requires no Dayof us but the Lord's Day, and occafional Days of Humiliation or of Thankfgiving upon Emergenciesof Providence calling thereunto. Stand faft therefore in the Liberty wherewith Chrift bath made you free, Gal. 5. r. and be not again entangled in the Take ofBondage. Víe 3. And faftly, See what clear and plentiful Evidence the Yews bad concerningYefus Chrift, that he was the true Mefliah ; and how true this ofthe Apoftle in theText is,that they are a Shadow ofThings to come.Put- all thefe things together, and you will fee thefe Jewifh Days made up a rude Draught or dark Shadow of thegood things that were to come under theGofpel in fundry Particulars relating to the Body, which is of Chrift. As for instance, they lead to the time of his Conceptionby the Holy Ghoft on the first Day of the Month. To the time of his Birth and Nativity, being born pn the first Day of the Feaft of Tabernacles, and circumcifed the eighth. He fuffered at the timeof the Passover. He lay and refted in heGrave on the Jewifh Sabbath. He poured forth his Spirit at their Feaft of Penteco&. The Jews might have found the Body by thefe Shadows, had they been attentive to mind the Things belonging to their Peace . They . might have thought when they saw fuch a Gonjunaion, furely this is Mmm He
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