264 , State andOrdinances ofthe Church, bread on the fourteenth, it was a peculiar Ceremony of that Ordinance, and belong- ed not unto the enfuing feat[, v. 15, 16. And in this feat, there arecontderable 1. The total exduhonof all Leavenout of their houfes, 2. The time of its continu- ance, which was fevendayes. 3. The double extraordinary Sabbath wherewith it was begun and ended ; for on the firjb day, and liftday of the feven, there was to be a folemnand holy Convocation unto the Lord, to beobferved in a cetfation from all labour, and in holy duties ; and here alfo it were loft labour to reckon up the Cautions, Rules andIntrudions which the 3ewiJhDoüors give about thenature,kind's and forts ofLeaven, of the fearch that was to be made for ir, andthe like, molt of them being vain imaginations of 'friperilitious minds ignorant of the Truth ofGod. 4, 18. This Sacrifice of the Paffeover with its attendant Feat of Vnleavened Eread, "to be annually obferved on the fourteenth day of the moneth 4bib, unto the end of the twenty fecond, was the,fecondfoietinOrdinance of that people, as thePeople and Church of God. And the Jews obfcrvc, that noother pofrrive Ordinances, but only Circumcifon and thee;ffeover.had that tanetion of the MD, Excifion, or Exterminati- on annexed unto them. ConcerningCircumcífion, the words are plain, Gen. 17. 14. The uncircumcifed Man-Child whole flefb of hie foreskin Jhali not becircumcif.d, nn-ir e rt !U9], that fouljhall be cut of f fromhis People, be bath broken my Covenant, And with reference to the Palteover,bed, rt. I5. Whetever eatetb leavened,bread from the firff day until the ferreth day, that foul pall be cut off from S ael. Whereas they oblerve, as AbmEzra upon this place, that it 'is annexed to above twenty negative Precepts ; intimating that there is a greater provocation and tin in doing any thing in the Worthip of God again[ his Commandment , then in omitting what he had commanded, though both of thembe evil. The Obfervation I acknowledge in ge- neral is true, but the Applicationof it to the Farmer is not fo. For although we fhould fuppofe that the words ofExod. in. 15. do relate unto the Paffeover alto, al- though they teem to refped only the fevendayes of the fealt ofUnleavened Bread, yet they do toot require the obfervation ofthe Paffeever it felt under that penalty ; but up- on a fuppoiition of the obfervation of the Pafeaver, theywere to cat the Lamb with unleavened Bread, which was a negative Precept, namely, that they fhould have no leaven in their bread, andfo was jutly attended in its tranfgrehon with this cutting off. And this cutting off, the Jews generally. interpret when it is fpoken indefi- nitely; without a prefceiptionof the manner how it fhould be done, or by whom, -to refpcd àZuni m, the band of Heaven, or the vindidive Jutice of God, which indue tune will findout the Trantgteflor. But we know that God long bare with them in the omicronof this Ordinance of the Palfeoverits felt Q. 19. What are the obfervation of the late Jews in the imitationof their fore-Fathers obfervance of this Ordinance of God, the Reader may fee in BextorfsSynagoga lu- daica, and in part in the Annotations of Ainfworth -; and thiy need not here be re- p_ated. This only I flail obferve,. that all of them in their Expofitions of this Inffitution, do make the Application of its fcveral parts unto other ads of God indealing with them. Such as indeed the Text ofMofes plainly leads them to. And thispettedly overthrows their pretenfions, as to their other Ceremoniesand-Sacri- fices I namely, that they were inffituted for their own fakes and not as figns of things to come ; thefigurative nature of thistheir greatel Ordinance being manifeli, and acknowledged by themfelves. ao. On occafion of this great Coleman Ordinance, there was given unto thePeople two additional Intitutions ì the nett concerning the Writing of the Law on their fore- heads and Hands, the other of the Dedication unto God of all that opened the Ma, trios: The fist of thefe, ispretcribcd, Chap. 13. 9 And it fball be for a figa spin thine band, and as a memorial between thine eyes, that the Lords Law -may be in thy mouth : ver. a6. and it fhall be for a token upon thine band, and as frontiers between thine eyes. Whereuntomay be added Dcut.6.6, 7, 8, 9 And thefe words which' T command thee this cloy, Jhal be in thineheart, and thou Pat teach then: diligently unto thy Children, and Jhalt talk of theirs when thou fittejb in thine houfe, and when thou walk.fi by the way, and when thou lye/b down, and when thou ri(eft up; and thou fruit bind them for a fgn upon thine hand, and they fhafl be as frontiers between thine [yes, and thou limit write them upon the polls ofthine houfe, and on thy gates. In the ob- f rv.ation of fundry things, fuppofed to relate unto thefe precepts, confrleth the prin- cipal part of the Supertition of the prefenr Jews. For they have mixed the obfer- vation of this duty whatever be intended by it, with many foolith and noifome imaginations
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