To all that want peace with God to the sheep everywhere not brought home, ... plainly published, concerning the way of life, and of the gradual comings forth of death through law ... / ... Humphry Smith.

First, Concerning Moses Ministration, (when he was upon earth) which was to last till Shiloe came, or until the time of Reformation.

AS concerning Moses Ministration, to wit, the Law, Condem∣nation, or Death, with the Priests Offering, and worldly Sanctuary, and an outward Tabernacle, and dayly Offerings for sin, and Store-houses for the Levites, Strangers, Fatherless, and Widdows, having the Ark of the Testimony within the vail, and the mercy seat covered, and the golden pot, and the people to seek the Law at the Priests mouth, whereby their knowledge is preserved,

and many profit much thereby, and come day by day, and year by year unto that which they esteem a place of holy worship, and Ordinances of God. And notwithstanding the Priests of Moses Law, were made by the Law of God, yet that Priest-hood chang∣eth, and the Law changeth, and the very glory of all this pas∣seth away; for this d••d once seem glorious unto me, and many more which o••l•• discovered sin, though it made nothing per∣fect, and with much delight was the reading of the Law and the Prophets hearkned unto, and the daily confession of sin, (but the vail is over the heart whilst Moses is Preacht) and sacrifi∣ces morning and evening with the long prayers, which the com∣ers thereunto, were not at all: hereby made perfect, as pertaining to the conscience, though it had a shaddow of good things to come, yet the glory therof comes to be done away. Then how much more will the very glory of the most glorious appearance of that Ministry perish, & be done away, which cometh short of this, and hath not so much as the image of this, which was as a shaddow. O weak and beggarly things, that are found among those Priests now, and their followers, who come short of Mo∣ses Ministry, for he directed them to Christ the substance, and so his Ministration comes to be done away, as Christ comes to be received; for Moses did not seek to uphold his Priests, or Law, or tythes, or any thing else, when Christ should come, who is the end of the Law, but did write of him, and notwith∣standing his Ministry and Priests, he said, he that would not hearken unto him, should be cut off, and said, the Lord will raise up (mark the words) raise up, the Lord shall raise up a Prophet, and when the Prophet was come, he said, I am the Light, and I am me••k and low in heart, and this is to be raised up which is meek, for to them that sate in darkness Light hath sprung up: and the soul that hearkneth not to the Prophet, which springs up shal be cut off, for truth springeth up out of the earth, and Christ is the Truth, and he said, I am the Light, which is the horn of salvation that God raiseth up, to be a Light to lighten the Gentiles, and is the salvation of Israel; and so the soul is to hearken to that which God raiseth up, and that is it which condemneth sin (under it) who is like unto Moses, whose Ministry discovers sin, and so Moses directed unto Christ, (who puts away the sin) and Paul said of the glory of Moses Ministra∣tion,

that it was no glory, in respect of the glory of the Ministra∣tion of the Spirit, and the glorious Ministry of the Spirit was re∣ceived, after he who had a body prepared, had suffered the cruci∣fying of his body, and the Prophets searched diligently to see the glory that was to be after the sufferings of Christ, 1 Pet. 1. 10. 11.

But the thing intended, That Moses when he was upon earth, directed unto Christ, and gave commandment that they should hearken unto him, (who said, I am the Light) & this is one Tittle of the Law, that the light be hearkned unto, who is the end of the Law, and the sustance, and he that offendeth herein, is guil∣ty of all; and this is that in which all the large Ministrations of Moses is included, that Christ the Light the true Prophet be hearkned unto and obeyed, that by hearing and obeying his voyce, (or the word in the heart) they might come from under the Law and the Priests, and that which waxeth old, unto the life and obedience of him, who abides a Priest for ever, even the Lord of that glory, which lasteth for evermore.