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IOW
Holy
things,
types
©f
Chris,
ordinances,
would wonder
what the Lord
meant
to
en-
joine
fo
many,
and (as
reafon
would
judge)
fo
needleffe
inilitutions
to
his
owne
people;
of
which
they
can
make
nothing
by
curfory,
carfe
by
confederate
reading.
And
hence
(
whereas the
Jews were
fo
fuperilitioufly
obfervant
of
the bookes
of
/tops,
as
that they
had at
their
fingers
endsa
great
num'er
not
of
the
precepts
onely,
but
of
the letters
and
pricks
of
every
booke
and
chapter
:
)
Chriflians
(
unleffe it be
in
point
of
hiftory
)
alrnoft
relec`t
the books
of
c2lofes
;
not for
their
credit
and
truth,
but
for
their utility
and
Life,
as
not
touching
them.
But to him
that readeth
and
confidereth will
ap-
Vie
of
lell
peace
:
1.
How
truely
our
Saviour
affirmeth
(
Job.e.
leg
alt
that
Mofes
w
ote of
him
:
partly
by
promilés and
ceremonies.
prophecies, and partly
cefcribing him
in
figures
and
fha-
dews
;
fo
as,
had the
Jews
beleeved
c
tofes,
they had
alfa
beleeved in him
:
But rejecting
Mofes
(not
in
the
general!;
for
generally they beleeved
him,
and magni-
fied
him
as
their
greateft
Prophet
:
but)
in
the
fpeciall
prophecies
and promífes concerning
the
individual_l
perfon of
Chrift
;
therefore
they
could
not
beleeve in
jefus
Chrift.
2.
How
aptly
and wifely
the
moil
wife
God
did
accommodate himfelfe
to
this
people,inloding
them
with
fo
many
burdenforne ceremonial!
conflituti-
ons,
and
yet
not
one
of
them in
vaine.
For,
r,
Con-
fider
the nature
of
the
people
;
it
was
rude
and
dull, and
needed
corporali and external!
elements and
rudiments
tohelpe
them.
Befides
it
was
not
onely
naturally
fttper-
ititious, and
addiaed to
idolatry
:
but
had
lived
fome
Centuries
of
yeares in
Egypt,
and
was
infeeted
with
E-
gyptian
rites.
And
further, they
were now to
goe
into
the land
of
the
Canaanites,and
were
in
danger
to
learne
their
fa(thions,
Dent. 4.
16
:
And
therefore
the
Lord
would
prefcribe
to their
whole
life
(
both
in facred
and
civili things
)
abundance
of
Ceremonies
;
whereby their
fettles
fhould
be
exercifed,
their
faith
excited, their
obe-
dience
201
------
FitneiTc
to
the
Jews
nature.