2 Sdcrar,2enta Lunt rutrata,nonfides. 'lug. S Godappointed a multitude cf ceremonies to the Iewes, fc r 5.rcafons. I Shadows of Chrifi, I I. For the eflìdingofhispurpo e he hathdecreed) that the doarinccf falvation by i efus Chri(1 fhonld bee founded odt in the Church, together with the dottrine of the Law, that partly the right wayof his worfhipp, and partly the way offalvation, might bemade knower and opened to belcevers. I I L By the Gofpel theLord bath revealed the Co- venant of grace, which is in fubftance but one, as God is but one, and thrift is but one, who is the fübflance ofit. As there is but one hope of one eternall life, the endof the Covenant : andone faith which is themeane to leade to that end, Epher4.5 I V. Chrìf}, and his doctrine, and Covenant being the fame yefferday, and to day, andfor ever, Heb., 3.8. for fubffance, altereth and differeth onely in the forme and manner of difpenfation ; according to which, it is diuerfly propounded in the old Teíiament and New. In the former propounded, as of the Meffiahto come, from Adam untohis incarnation. In the latter, as of the Saviour already corne, and fo embraced in the Church from his fir comming, to his fecundcomming againe. V. So long as Chrift was to come, it pleafed God to train his Church by an heap,eof Ceremonies, rites, fi- gures, and fhadows, toffrengthentheir faith in the ex- peationofhim, Of which multitudeofCeremonies, if more fpeciall reafons be demanded ; Theft may be given. I. The nonage and infancieof that Church, which wasnot capableof fuch high myfteries, but was tobee taught by their eyes as well as their Bares. And there- fore it pleafed God to put the ancient Church ( even newlycut ofthecradle ) under Tutors, Gal. 4.2. and ap- pointeddiverfe types and ceremonies, as rudimenti and introduc`Iions,verfe 3. fitted to thegroffe and weake fen- cesof that Church, which was to be brought onby lit- tle and little, through filch fhadowsand figures, to the true
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