10. I believe to be saved by laying hold upon his merits.

Laying their right hand upon the head of every beast that they brought to be offered up, taught them, that their sins were to be imputed to another, and the laying hold on the horns of the Altar, being sanctuary or refuge from vengeance, taught them that ano∣thers merits were to be imputed to them, yet that all offenders were not saved by the Altar, Exod. 21. 12. 1 King. 2. 29. the fault not being in the Altar but in the offender, it is easie to see what that signified unto them.

Thus far each holy Israelite was a Christian in this point of doctrine, by earnest study finding these points under the vail of Moses. The ignorant were taught this by the learned every Sabbath day, having the Scriptures read and expounded unto them. From these ground works of Moses, and the Prophets Commentaries thereupon concerning the Messias, came the schools of the Jews to be so well versed in that point, that their Scholars do mention his very name Jesus: the time of his birth in Tisri: the space of his preaching three years and an half: the year of his death the year of Jubile, and di∣vers such particulars to be found in their Authors, though they knew him not when he came amongst them.