230 3 Petfons. 4. Proper manner ofthe fiiiü Paífeoven The Pafseoverolypeofarill. houes ; that every one might talk the fweetnefl'eof Chrifl in hisowneheart,and noman expel}to be helped or faved byanother mans eating, that is, by the faith and devotions ofothers without his ovine. This is contrary toRomifh do±rive. The perlons. r. ©nely ifraelites,no flranger from the Covenant. For what have they to doe with the feales that are excluded the writing ? To Cgnifie, that none without the bounds of the true Church have any part of the redemptionofChrifl ; neither arecapable of thepriviledges ofGods people. This lambe gives his life for his fheepe onely : the merit of his death is chil- drens bread onely. 2. No uncircumcifedperfon might eate the Paffeover: fignifying,that no unfanc`lifiedperfon can truely partake ofChritl and his merits, and that none is fit to come to the Lards table (out Evangelical) PaíTe- over)that is not firfl baptifed, which Sacrament is come in the roome of Circimcifion. 3. Yet a flranger Pro- felite, ifhewouldbe CircuanciCed and joynehimfelfe to the people of God,might eat the Paffeover as a Jew : to fignifie both-the calling in of the Gentiles, (ofwhom divers came ia,tiill,as lethro,Rahab, Ruth, the queenof Saba,Tb,as firft fruits of them', as alfo that theLord, is no accepter ofperlons, but in every nation he that feareth him is acceptedofhim,e_?c .ro.34; 35.Gal.327,-28. The manner, whichwas twofold. a . proper to the frfi Paffeover in Egypt. z. common to that and all other that followed. L Proper to the firfl Paffeover in foure things. r . They mutt eate it (handing, now on the fuddainede- parting out of/Egypt. This wasa law of the firft Paffe- over (for Chrift andhis Difciples fate, and flood not in celebrating the Paffeover,and yet broke no law,as all the Evangelifls obferve) co liignifiethat Chrifliansmuti {land beforeGod as preti and intent upba his fervice, but e- fpeciallyat he time ofour departure out of this Egypt. See
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