PAR. 13.
ALL these points of fixed duration, were exactly observed, in Christs last Passeover: For otherwise he had beene a breaker of the Law: but as I pro∣ved before, by undenyable arguments, in divers passages and places; Christ follow∣ed the Law of God, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, answering number of precepts, with a like number of performances: he could not have helped us law-breakers but by keeping all of it: Christ was the onely true observer of the Law, Gal. 4.4. God sent forth his sonne, made of a woman, made under the Law, to the intent that he might fulfill the Law. Gal. 5.3. And when Christ was circumcised, he was made a debtor to fulfill the whole Law; I testifie againe to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor, to keepe the whole Law: Chrysostome (Homil. 16. in Mat.) thus; Christus implevit legem; primb quidem, Ni∣bit Transgrediendo legalium. 2. Justificando, per fidem, quod lex per literam facere non valebat, that is, Christ fulfilled the Law, first of all, in that he transgressed none of the Rites of the Law. 2. in that he justifieth us by faith, which the Law according to the letter, could not doe: As for the other fading, and vanishing ceremonies, he was not bound to them; what is likely he did, shall (God willing) appeare better hereafter: To this liberty was every man left; and shall we now have Christ tyed? Christ was not tyed: likewise for the ceremonies, which the Iewish Church vo∣luntarily assumed unto themselves to performe; we cannot thinke that our blessed Saviour was bound to obey, and keepe them: he who so often chid them for wil-worship, in preferring humane traditions, before the precepts of God, would not be an observer of any, but such as best pleased him, and were sorted to times, and occasions. So much for the first Supper; the Passeover of the Iewes; wherein you may see, what Christ observed, and what not; so farre, as the Old Testament affor∣deth us any light.