Christ and the Church: or Parallels, in three books.: In the first ye have the harmony between Christ and the foregoing types, by which he was fore-shadowed in the Old Testament, both persons and things. In the second the agreement between Christ and other things, to which he is compared in the holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament. In the third the agreement between the Church and the types, by which it was foreshadowed in the Old Testament; and other resemblances, by which it is set forth in the holy Scriptures. By Henry Vertue, M.A. rector of Alhallows Hony-lane.

CHAP. XVI.

HItherto we have seen, how our dear Saviour was typified or fore-signified in the Old Testament by Persons from Adam to Zerubbabel: now take we notice, how he was then typified by Things: of which I shall give you account in order, shewing how all those things did typifie, and were fulfilled in our blessed Redeemer.

Christ and Noah's Ark.

Broughton makes this Parallel to stand in two things.* 1.1

1.

The Ark had a Door, by which Noah and his Houshold entered into it, to the saving of them∣selves: And Christ is that Door, by whom we en∣ter into the Holy of Holies, to the saving of our Souls.

2.

The Ark rested upon the Mount Ararat, which is a Mountain in Armenia, and signifies, Take away fear. And Christ is that Ararat; upon whose shoulders if we rest, we shall be safe, and shall not need to fear what Men, or Devils, can do unto us.

Christ and the Paschal Lamb.

Hear Lactantius:* 1.2

God (says he) intending to smite the Egyp∣tians, to provide for the indem∣nity of the Hebrews, commanded them to sacrifice a Lamb without

spot, and to mark their doors with the blood of it: and so, when all the first-born of Egypt perished in one night, onely the Hebrews were safe by this means: not that the lambs blood of it self was of force to save men, but it was an Image or Type of things to come: For that Lamb without spot was Christ, innocent, righte∣ous, and holy; who being slain by the Jews, is an Author of Sal∣vation to all who mark their foreheads with this blood, that is, with the Cross, in which he shed his blood. But then the figure was of such force for the present to drive away the danger, to shew, what force the Truth it self should have to protect the People of God in the extream necessity of the whole World.

Saint Chrysostom handling those words of the Baptist, J••h. 1.29. observes,

That he says not simply, Behold the Lamb, but, Behold the Lamb of God:* 1.3 For, because there was an∣other Lamb of the Jews [mean∣ing the Paschal Lamb] that he might shew, that this was the Lamb of God, therefore he so spake. That Lamb was offered onely for that Nation, but this for the whole World: And the blood of that Lamb kept off a temporal plague from the Jews;

but the blood of this Lamb [of Christ, namely] obtained a clean∣sing for the whole world. And indeed this blood of the Jewish Lamb could not of its own na∣ture do that, for which it was appointed; but because it was a figure of this Lamb, hence it obtained this power.

Hear St. Hierome.

The Lambe, (sayes he) is killed,* 1.4 and the Passo∣ver is celebrated, and after fifty dayes the Law is given for fear, written with the finger of God: Christ is slain, the true Passover is celebrated, and after fifty dayes, the Holy Ghost, who is the fin∣ger of God, is given, to work our hearts to charity.

Hear him again.

The Lamb,* 1.5 sayes he, [namely of the Passover] was killed and Sacrificed, not in the day, but in the evening, be∣cause Christ suffered in the end of the world.

Pucanus clears this parallel in sundry particulars.

1.

God required a Lamb with∣out spot or blemish,* 1.6 and separated from the rest of the flock, to shew that for the appeasing of Gods wrath, a more excellent price is required, then can be found a∣mong all mankinde: and to fore∣shew that innocent Lamb, sepa∣rate from sinners, obedient to his Father, keeping the Law perfect∣ly,

and indued with heavenly pu∣rity, and therefore conceived in the Virgin by the Holy Ghost, that he might purge away the sins of others.

2.

God required a male, to foreshew,* 1.7 that that Lamb which was to come, should be power∣ful, and endued with man-like strength, to take away the sins of the world, to destroy the king∣dom of sin, and to free us from the service of sin, Satan, &c. Yet of an year old, that is, tender, weak, knowing infirmity, in re∣gard of his humane nature, be∣cause he was to be taken from a∣mong his brethren, and to be like unto us in all things, sin onely ex∣cepted, Heb. 4.13.

* 1.83.

God would have it kept up four dayes, namely from the tenth day of the first moneth to the close of the fourteenth day, to im∣ply that Christ should not be deli∣vered to death presently upon this birth, but for some space of time, set by God, should admini∣ster his publick function of prea∣ching the Gospel.

* 1.94.

God ordered the Lamb to be slain in the evening, to note that this Lamb of God should be slain in the evening of Time, that is, in the fulnesse of Time.

5.

He ordered, that the door∣posts should be sprinkled with the blood of the Lamb, to shew,* 1.10 that onely with the blood of Christ the hearts of the faithful are sprink∣led, washed, marked, purged, and sanctified, by faith resting on his merits, the sprinkling being made with a bunch of hyssope, that is, by the purging vertue of the Spirit of God. And, more∣over, that by the blood of Christ sprinkling our hearts, the de∣stroyer is turned away, and we protected from Gods wrath, &c.

6.* 1.11

By the other Rites of the Passover he shewes, that whole Christ is to be eaten by faith, &c.

7.

That he is to be eaten in common with our neighbours;* 1.12 that is, the Gentiles, namely, that the Gentiles are to be brought in by the sound of the Gospel to the fellowship of Christ.

8.

That he is to be eaten,* 1.13 not raw, nor sod with water, but as it were rosted with the fire of Gods judgement.

9. That he is to be eaten.* 1.14

1. With the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth, 1 Cor. 5.8.2. With bitter herbs, that is, with bitternesse and compunction of heart, or with hearty repentance, &c.

* 1.1510.

That they who eat of this lamb are to put on the habit of travellers, having their loynes girded with the girdle of truth, and so ready to enter upon the way of Gods commandments, and with the breastplate of faith and righteousnesse, restraining and beating down sence, lust, and evil desires, and having their feet shod with the preparation of the Gos∣pel, ready to make greater pro∣gresse in the Gospel, ready to en∣ter into the spiritual warfare, to undergo dangers, and to shun the occasions of slips and scandals, with which as with briers, or thornes, or Serpents, the feet of the godly are sometimes woun∣ded: and moreover resting on the spiritual staffe of Gods pro∣mises, and so guiding their steps in their journey, and upholding them that are rea∣dy to fall: of which David saies, Thy rod and thy staffe have comforted me, Psal. 23. 4.

11.

That this lamb is to be eaten of standers and of hastners,* 1.16 that is, of them that are not sluggish in the journey of this life, nor make a stay in the spiritual Aegypt or Ba∣bylon, but speedily leave the King∣dom of Satan, and (as becomes holy travellers) long to come out of the prison of this life to the solennity and conversation of the heavenly countrey.

12.* 1.17

That the Lamb was to be eaten in one house, that is, that the spiritual communion of the faith∣ful in one body, and in one head Christ,* 1.18 is to be establisht and kept.

13.

God would have no bone of that Lamb to be broken, that he might shew as by a Type, what he would perform in his Son, Joh. 19.33.

Hear Scarpius.

It was required, sayes he, that the Lamb should be without spot; where spots notes not variety of colours,* 1.19 but defor∣mity, defect, disease. So Christ was holy, blamelesse, Heb. 7.26. It was also to be a male, to signi∣fie Christ who is called a male∣childe, Rev. 12.5. because he was stronge and couragious to do the works of righteousnesse, having nothing loose, remiss, unstable, being, as a King, to rule the Nations with a rod of Iron. Lastly, it was to be of an year old, not exceeding an year, by which was signified the simplici∣ty, sincerity, and innocency of Christ, or, that he was to preach the meek acceptable year of the Lord, Isa. 61.2.

Hear him again.

God appointed, saies he, the Lamb to be eaten, to signifie,* 1.20 that whole Christ, as he is reveiled in the word, and offered to us in the

Sacrament, is to be apprehended by faith.

2.

God would have the people to eat the flesh of the lamb not raw,* 1.21 nor sod, but roasted, be∣cause flesh rosted is of more so∣lid nourishment, by which its signified that Christ was to be as it were rosted with the sorrows of the Crosse, as Justin Martyr hath it. dial. cum Iryph. Jud. Here∣by its also signified, that the love of Christ is most ardent towards us.

3.

Leven was forbidden in the Passeover,* 1.22 to shew what that onely Sacrifice of Christ should be, namely, sincere, pure, and entire: for it was a Type of Christ, the true paschal lamb.

4.

God ordered it to be eaten with sowr herbs:* 1.23 so Christ is to be received with true repentance and bitter sorrow arising from the sense of sin.

5.

He ordered them to rost and eat the head with the feet and in∣wards,* 1.24 by which its signified that whole Christ, and all the parts of him, are as it were rosted with the paines of death, and is by faith speedily to be received.

* 1.256.

None of it was to be left un∣to the morning, nor was it as or¦dinary meat, to be eaten out of the time of the Sacrifice: to shew

that Christ gives his whole self to be received by faith.

7.

Neither any uncircumcised, nor any unclean with any legal uncleannesse,* 1.26 were to eat of the Passover, to shew, that Christ is received onely of them, whose hearts are purified by faith.

8.

The Lamb might not be ea∣ten, but in the place,* 1.27 where was the Ark, and the Tabernacle, to shew that Christ doth al way give himself to us, but especially in the holy assemblies.

9.

He commanded them to gird their reins, by which he signified that we should be prompt and ready to labour with the exercise of virtue: And because the reins are the seat of the affections, therefore it teaches us, that we ought to tame and subdue our affections and passions.

10.

God ordered them to be shod with shoes fit for a journey, to shew, that our journey through the desert of this world is long and difficult, but we should have our feet well fenced. But Grego∣ry saies, that feet are works, and as shoes are made of the skins of dead creatures, so the Ancient Fathers are dead, by whose skins our feet are fenced, that following them, we may come to eternal life,

for while we look on their works, we fense our feet and keep our steps from sin.

* 1.2811.

He gave them order to have their staves in their hands, to signifie, that the godly are al∣ways to have in their hand an ho∣ly discipline as a rod for the chast∣ning of the flesh, and for the di∣recting of all the businesse of this life; or else this staffe signifies the spiritual care of Christ,* 1.29 as of our shepheard, for us.

12.

He bad them to eat it in haste,* 1.30 because Christ is our sudden passage to God.

13.

The bones of the Lamb were not to be broken,* 1.31 whereby that is signified, which is related of Christ, Joh. 19.36.

14.

Lastly, the feast was to con∣tinue seven dayes, to signifie, that the whole time of our life, or the seven degrees of our age, are so to be consecrated to God, as that we must alway abstain from the leven of sin.

* 1.32

Hear Weemse. 'The paschal Lamb, saies he, was a figure of Jesus Christ. The Paschal lamb was taken the tenth day, and separated until the fourteenth, and in the evening of the fourteenth it was killed. Je∣sus Christ, the true Paschal lamb, came six daies be∣fore the Passeover to Bethany,* 1.33 and the morrow after he went to Jerusalem, where they met him with branches of palme trees, and this was five daies before the Passover, then he stayed four daies in Jerusalem and was killed in the day of the Passover at night.

Hear also Rivetus,* 1.34 laying down the Parallel between Christ and the Passover in sundry Particulars.

1.

The Lamb was to be taken out of the flock, by which Christ is shadowed, in that,* 1.35 among all the brute Crea∣tures, none more shews innocen∣cy, none is more meek, none more profitable: So Christ is most innocent, meek and lowly of heart, and many ways profit∣able to Mankinde. And as the Lamb was taken out of the flock; so this Lamb of God, true Man, is taken from among men.

2.

It was severed from the rest, and kept up to be killed: without spot, an He-lamb,* 1.36 and of an year old: All these did shadow forth Christs perfection, and exemption from sin: He was separate from sinners, he was a Lamb unspotted, innocent and unpolluted: He was a Male, in whom there is nothing of delica∣cy, nothing effeminate; so that he is together and at once a Lyon and a Lamb: and of an year old. And this also belonged to his per∣fection; for Lambs in the space of an year come to their perfect age.

3.

The Lamb was to be killed and roasted:* 1.37 in which it was a Type of Christ, who suffered and dyed: 1 Cor. 5. The roasted Lamb signified Christ, a man of

sorrows, and as it were roasted with the fire of afflictions; who, out of the great love which he bears towards us, suffered for us most bitter punishment, in which he had no water, that is, no miti∣gation, no solace.

* 1.384.

The Lamb was to be eaten about the Evening, being also killed in the Evening: so Christ was made manifest in the End of the World, to take away sin by the offering of himself. For Je∣rom well observes, on Mark 14. That by the Evening of the day the last days are signified. The Evening of the day (says he) sig∣nifies the End of the World.

5.

On the fourteenth day of the Month,* 1.39 on which the light of the Moon begins to decrease by her approach to the Sun; to shew, That the light of our na∣tural understanding must be di∣minished by our neerer approach to Christ, if we will be enligh∣tened with the new light of the Lamb.

* 1.406.

The Posts were to be sprinkled with the blood of the Lamb, namely, in testimony of Remission, which is in the shed∣ing of the Blood that purifies our Consciences, Hebr. 9.14. and in sign of certain Salvation to be

conferred by the blood of Christ. The blood is now put upon both Posts, when not alone with the mouth of the Body we drink the Sacrament, but also the blood with the mouth of the Soul. The blood of the Lamb distinguished between the Israelites and the E∣gyptians: And Baptism, in which we are washed by the blood of Christ, distinguisheth between the Children of God, and those that are profane and strangers from the Common∣wealth of Israel: but with God this distinction is made, not so much by the external sign, as by the thing it self, which is signified.

7.

The Destroyer passed over the Houses that were marked: so they that are sprink∣led with the blood of Christ,* 1.41 are freed from Condemnation, and Death shall have no power over them.

8.

The Lamb was to be eaten in the several Families,* 1.42 by all of the Families that were circum∣cised: so Christ is to be applyed by Faith, by every one that would partake of eternal life.

9.

The Lamb must not be eaten raw, nor sod in water,* 1.43 to teach us, That Christ is food, that needs no other seasoning besides himself; that nothing is to be mingled with him. They that by humane Wisdom make

voyd the Mysteries of the Divi∣nity and Humanity; they that once joyned the Law with Christ, they that now joyn humane Tra∣ditions, or their own Merits and Satisfactions; these all seethe the Lamb with water.

* 1.4410.

The whole Lamb was to be roasted, and eaten, to teach us to have an entire Faith in Christ, not to divide Christ, but to joyn together all the Articles of our Faith.

* 1.4511.

The Lamb was to be eaten without Leaven, and Christ with∣out Hypocrisie and Malice.

12.

It must be eaten with bit∣ter Herbs;* 1.46 so Christ with the bearing of the Cross, and Self-denyal. It shews also, That none shall share in the sweetness of the Pardon of sins by Christ, except he first feels with compunction of heart the bitterness of them.

13.

The Lamb was to be eaten in haste; and they that did eat it were to be habited as Travellers,* 1.47 that we may know, that they which come to Christ must be ready to walk in the way of Sal∣vation, with a study to make a dayly progress, out of a desire and expectation of the heavenly life.

* 1.4814.

With their loyns girded:

so they that eat Christ, ought to stand with their loyns girt about with Truth, and having on the brest∣plate of Righteousness: Eph. 6.14. To which purpose Christ also says, Luke 12.35. Let your loyns be girded about. With shooes on their feet; by which is signified, That our affections are to be spi∣ritually ruled, lest they be offend∣ed with the rugged ways of this World: Eph. 6.15. With a spi∣ritual Staff, by which they may guide their steps in their journey, and uphold them∣selves in the way: but this Staff is true Faith.

Ainsworth observes the Parallel between Christ and the Paschal Lamb in sundry Particulars.

1.

The Lamb must be perfect:* 1.49 so Christ was a Lamb without blemish.

2.

The Lamb was to be slain in the Evening: and at that season Christ dyed: Matt. 27.46, 50. and in the Evening of Times, in the last days.

3.

The sprinkling of the Blood notes the applying of Christ's Blood, sprinkled upon all Believers: Heb. 9.13, 14.

4.

It was to be eaten with unleavened Bread: the Apostle declares the meaning of it, 1 Cor. 5.8. Not with the Leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened Bread of Sincerity and Truth.

5.

The bitter Herbs were to type out the bitter Sorrows of Christ, and our Mortification and Affli∣ctions with him.

6.

It must be roasted with Fire: a figure, both of the Spirit of God, compared to Fire, Matth. 3.11. through which Christ offered himself to God, Hebr.

9.14. and of the Fire of Gods Wrath, which Christ was to suffer, while he was made a Curse for us by his Death.

7.

It must be roasted with the Head, the Legs, and the Purtenance thereof; viz. That it must be roast∣ed all and whole, not cut in pieces; to signifie our full Communion with Christ, whole and undivided.

8.

None of the Lamb must be left till the morn∣ing; they were to eat up all, if they could, at that Meal; to teach care for the present enjoying of Christ by Faith, and of his whole Covenant without delay. Hereby also God would teach Israel, That when the Morning, the time of Grace in Christ is come, there should be no longer reservation of those legal sha∣dows, which were to have their accomplishment and end at our Lord's Death,* 1.50 and be condemned as un∣lawful, as if they were burned by the Fire of Gods Word and Spirit.

9.

They must have their loyns girded; and this signifies the girding of the loyns of the Minde with justice, strength, verity, &c. Isai. 11.5. Eph. 6.13.

10.

They must have their shooes on: this was a figure of the Gospel of Peace,* 1.51 wherewith our feet should be ready and firm.

11.

They must eat it in haste: so must we in haste, and as with violence,* 1.52 apprehend and apply Christ to our selves by Faith. The Original word signifies an hastening away as with fear and amazement, and so may signifie the sudden fears wrought in the Con∣science by the Gospel of Christ at the first Preach∣ing of it;* 1.53 though afterwards it gives comfort and peace.

12.

No bone of the Lamb was to be broken; to foreshew,* 1.54 That no bone of Christ, our Passover, should be broken, as it was fulfilled.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Of the ten first Fathers, p. 69, & 70.
• * 1.2

  Deus percussurus Aegyptios, ut ab ea plaga immunes faceret He∣braeos, praeceperat eis, ut agnum candidum sine macula immolarent, & signum liminibus suis de san∣guine ejus imponerent. Itaque, cum Aegyptiorum primogeniti una nocte interiissent, Hebraei soli signo sanguinis tuti fuerunt: non quia pecudis cruor tantam in se¦vim gerebat, ut hominibus saluti esset, sed imago erat rerum futu∣rarum. Agnus enim candidus sine macula Christus fuit, i. e. inno∣cens, justus, & sanctus, qui ab eisdem Judaeis immolatus, saluti est omnibus, qui signum sangui∣nis, i. e. crucis, qua sanguinem fudit, in sua fronte conscripserint. Sed tum figura tantum valuit in praesenti ad depellendum pericu∣lum, ut appareat, quantum veri∣tas ipsa valitura sit ad plebem Dei protegendam in extrema totius orbis necessitate. Divin. Instit. l. 4 cap. 26.
• * 1.3

  Non dixit simpliciter, Agnus, sed Agnus Dei: 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, &c. Quia enim & alter agnus erat Judaicus, ut ostenderet, hunc esse Dei, ideo ita dixit. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, &c. Ille pro illa sola gente offerebatur: hic pro toto terrarum orbe oblatus fuit. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, &c. Et illius quidem sanguis corporalem pla∣gam prohibuit à Judaeis: hujus autem sanguis purgationem orbi at∣tulit universo: 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, &c. Et vero hic sanguis Judaici agni, non ex sua potuit natura, quod potuit, sed quia hujus erat figura, hanc vim obtinuit. To. 1. hom. 32.
• * 1.4

  Occiditur ovis, celebratur pas∣cha, & interpositis quinquaginta diebus, datur lex ad timorem scripta digito Dei: occiditur Christus, celebratur verum pas∣cha, & interpositis quinquagin∣ta diebus datur ad charitatem spiritus, qui est digitus Dei. To. 4. epist. 21. de celebr. pasc.
• * 1.5

  Agnus non in die, sed ad ves∣peram immolatur, quia Dominus noster & salvator in consummatio∣ne seculi passus est. To. 4. e∣pist. 33.
• * 1.6

  1. Agnum integrum, imma∣culatum & a reliquo grege sepera∣tum exigebat Deus, ut scirent ad Deum propitiandum requi∣ri excellentius pretium, quam inveniri posset in toto genere huma∣no: & ut denotaret Agnum in∣nocentem, segregatum a pecca∣toribus, Patri obedientem, le∣gem perfecte implentem; & coe∣lesti puritate praeditum, ideoque de Spiritu Sancto in virgine conce∣ptum, ut aliorum noxam expur∣garet.
• * 1.7

  2. Masculum, ut designaret po∣tentem futurum illum agnum, & virili robore praeditum, ad tol∣lenda peccata mundi, & destruen∣dum regnum pecati, & liberan∣dum nos a servitute peccati, Sa∣tanae, &c. Anniculum tamen, i. e. tenerum, imbecillum, & sci∣entem infirmitatem, quoad natu∣ram humanam, quia de fratrum suorum grege sumi, & per omnia milis nobis, excepto peccato, esse debuit. Heb. 4.13.
• * 1.8

  3. Haberi in custodia volebat Deus quatuor diebus, viz. a deci∣mo die mensis primi usque ad deci∣mi quarti extremum, ut innue∣ret, Christum non statim a nati∣vitate sua morti tradendum, sed aliquanto tempore, a Patre praefi∣nito, publicam Evangelii functio∣nem administraturum.
• * 1.9

  4. Inter vesperas mactari ut no∣taret, hunc Agnum tandem ad vesperam dierum, i. e. plenitudine temporum mactandum.
• * 1.10

  5. Illius sanguine postes asper∣gi, ut significaret hujus solius sanguine aspergi, tingi, insigniri, purgari, & sanctificari corda fide∣lium, per fidem nitentem meri∣ejus, aspersione facta fasci∣culo hysopi, (h. e.) virtute purgante spiritus. Ad haec san∣guine Christi liminibus cordium nostrorum asperso, exterminato∣rem averti, protegi nos ab ira Dei, &c.
• * 1.11

  6. Reliquis ceremoniis indica∣vit, hunc scilicet Christum, totum fide comedendum.
• * 1.12

  7. Eundem communiter cum vicinis, i. e. Gentibus, comme∣dendum, hoc est, Gentes accer∣sendas voce Evangelii ad Christi communionem.
• * 1.13

  8. Manducandum esse, non crudum, nec aqua coctum, sed igne judicii divini veluti to∣stum.
• * 1.14

  9 Edendum esse illum, 1. Cum panibus azymis synceritatis & veritatis, 1 Cor. 5.8. 2. Cum amaris lactucis, i. e. cum amari∣tudine & compunctione cordis, seu cum seria poenitentia, &c.
• * 1.15

  10. Docere voluit, vescentes agno, habitu peregrinantium in∣duendos esse, qui accincti lum∣bis cingulo veritatis, Ephes. 6.14. expediti sint ad ingredien∣dam viam mandatorum Dei, qui∣que fidei & justitiae cinctonio co∣erceant & reprimant carnis sen∣sum, libidinem & pravas cupi∣ditates, sint etiam calceati prae∣paratione Evangelii, & parati ad majores progressus in Evangelio faciēdos, praeparati ad ineunda prae∣lia sustinenda pericula, & vitandas occasiones lapsuum et scandalorum, quibus, ceu tribulis, spinis aut ser∣pentibus, piorum pedes nonnunquam sauciantur. Adhaec baculo spi∣rituali promissionum verbi Dei innixi, gressus suos in itinere re∣gant, & labentes erigant, de quo, Psal. 23.4. Virga tua & baculus tuns consolata sunt me.
• * 1.16

  11. Manducandum etiam esse hunc Agnum àm stantibus, & festinantibus, i. e. ab iis, qui non in hujus vitae itinere torpeant, non cunctantur in Aegypto aut Babylone spirituali, sed celeriter regnum Satanae relinquant, & ut sanctos viatores decet, ex hujus vi∣tae ergastulo ad coelestis patriae sol∣lennitatem & 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, anhelent.
• * 1.17

  12. In una domo comedendum, i. e. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 spiritualem fidelium in uno corpore, & capite Chri∣sto sanciendam & servandam.
• * 1.18

  13. Os nullum illius agni fran∣gi voluit Deus, ut typice ostende∣ret, quid in filio vellet praestare, Joan. 19.33.

  Instit. Theol. p. 623, 624. 625. 626.
• * 1.19

  Requirebatur agnus sine macula, ubi macula non varietatem coloris significat, sed deformitatem, defe∣ctum, morbum; it a Christus san∣ctus, inculpatus, Heb. 7.26. fuit etiam masculus, ad significandum Christum qui masculus dicitur, Apoc. 12.5. quia fortis ad faci∣enda justitiae opera, nil habens molle, fluxum, instabile, sed ut Rex recturus Gentes in virga ferri. Denique anniculus, non excedens annum unum, quo significatur Christum simplicem, syncerum, innocentem, vel Christum annum placabilem, mansuetis praedicatu∣rum. Symph. prophet. &c. p. 148.
• * 1.20

  Carnes agni Deus comedere ju∣bet, ut significet, totum Christum prout in verbo revelatum, & in sacramentis oblatum, fide appre∣hendendum.
• * 1.21

  2. Carnem assam, non cru∣dam aut elixam populum edere voluit, quia assa est solidioris nu∣trimenti, quo significatur, Chri∣stum doloribus crucis assandum ut Justinus Martyr vult in di∣alogo cum Tryhpone Judaeo, item significatur, ardentissimam fuisse Christi erga nos charitatem.
• * 1.22

  3. Ideo fermentum vetitum, ut significetur, quale futurum esset illud unicum Christi sacrificium, nempe syncerum, purum, inte∣grum: typus enim fuit Christi veri paschatis.
• * 1.23

  4. Lactucas agrestes edere jus∣sit quae amari saporis sunt; ita Christus percipiendus cum vera poenitentia & amaritudine ex sensu peccati.
• * 1.24

  5. Caput cum pedibus & inte∣stinis agni assare & edere jubet, ut significaret, totum Christum singulas ejus partes doloribus mortis pro nobis assatum, & sine mora fide percipiendum.
• * 1.25

  6. Nil reservandum ad ma∣ne fuit, nec, ut cibus profanus: extra tempus sacrificii comeden∣dum, ut significaret, Christum se totum fide percipiendum exhi∣bere.
• * 1.26

  7. Nec incircumcisi, nec im∣mundi aliqua legali immunditia agnum edere potuerunt, quo si∣gnificatur, Christum solum ab iis, quorum corda fide purgata sunt re∣cipi.
• * 1.27

  8. Agnus comedi non potuit, nisi in loco, ubi erat arca & ta∣bernaculum, quo significatur, Christum semper nobis exhiberi verum praecipue in sanctis caeti∣bus.

  9. Renes accingere jussit Deus, quo significare voluit nos debere expeditos esse ad laborandum in virtutum excercitio; item, quia renes sedes sunt voluntatum, sig∣nificat, debere nos voluntates do∣mare.

  10. Pedes calceare jussit, cal∣ceis ad iter propriis, quo significa∣tur, iter per desertum hujus mun∣di longum esse & difficile, nos ve∣ro firmatos pedes debere habere. Gregorius vero ait, pedes esse ope∣ra, et sicut calceamenta sunt ex pel∣le mortuorum animalium, ita anti∣qui Patres sunt mortui, ex quorum pelle nostri pedes muniuntur, ut eos sequentes, ad vitam aeternam ea∣mus: dum enim eorum opera con∣spicimus, nostros pedes munimus, & vestigia à peccato defendimus.
• * 1.28

  11. Baculum tenere in manibus jussit, quo significatur, pios debere disciplinam sanctam, quasi vir∣gam ad carnem castigandam, & ad omnia vitae negotia dirigenda, in manu semper habere. Item ba∣culo, spiritualis pastoralis cura Christi significatur.
• * 1.29

  12. Festinanter comedere jussit quia Christus est subitus noster ad Deum transitus.
• * 1.30

  13. Agni ossa non fracta fuerunt quo significatur id, quod de Christo narratur, Joan. 19.36.
• * 1.31

  14. Denique per septem dies fe∣stum fuit, ut significaretur, u∣niversum tempus vitae, seu sep∣tem gradus aetatis ita Deo con∣secratos, ut à fermento peccati semper abstinendum esset. Id. Ib. p. 150. 151.
• * 1.32

  Of the cerem. Law. Exerc it. 19.
• * 1.33

  Joh. 12.1.
• * 1.34

  In Exod. 12. part. 1. p. 281
• * 1.35

  1. Agnus ex grege sumi de∣buit, quo Christus fuit adumbra∣tus, in eo, quod inter animalia nullum prae se fert magis innocen∣tiam, nullum sit mansuetius, nul∣lum utilius. Christus fuit inno∣centissimus, mansuetus & humilis corde, & humano generi multis modis utilis. Sicut autem agnus fuit assumptus de grege: sic agnus Dei, verus homo, ex hominibus sumptus est.
• * 1.36

  2. Separatus fuit ab aliis, & in custodia servatus ad mactatic∣nem: sine macula, masculus & anniculus: haec omnia referebant Christi perfectionem, & exempti∣onem ab omni peccato: fuit sepa∣ratus à peccatoribus, fuit agnus immaculatus, innocens & impollu∣tus. Masculus fuit, in quo nil molle & effoeminatum, ita ut simul agnus fuerit & leo: unius anni; quod etiam ad perfectionem refer∣tur: agni enim unius anni spatio in perfectam aetatem adolescunt.
• * 1.37

  3. Mactandus fuit & assandus: in quo typus fuit Christi, qui pas∣sus fuit & mortuus, 1 Cor. 5. Assus agnus significabat Christum virum dolorum, & ignibus afflicti∣onum tostum, qui, amore nostri captus, acerbissimum supplicium tulit, in quo nil habuit aquae, id est, nihil mitigationis, nihil so∣latii.
• * 1.38

  4. Debet manducari circa ve∣speram agnus, etiam inter duas vesperas mactatus: sic Christus in consummatione seculorum, ad abolendum peccatum per immola∣tionem sui, patefactus est, Heb. 9.26. Per vesperam enim dies novissimos intelligi recte Hierony∣mus notat, in Marc. 14. Vespera (inquit) dies, finem mundi indi∣cat.
• * 1.39

  5. Decimo quarto die lunae, quo, suo ad Solem suum accessu lumen Lunae decrescere incipit, cujus nu∣meri similitudo innuit, intelligen∣tiae nostrae naturalis lumen propiore ad Christum accessu, imminui oportere, si nova luce agni velimus illustrari.
• * 1.40

  6. Postes sanguine ejus fuerunt aspergendi, nempe in testimonium indulgentiae & Remissionis, quae est in effusione sanguinis, purifi∣cantis conscientias nostras, Heb. 9.14. & in signum certae salutis per sanguinem Christi conferendae. Sanguis hic super utrumque postem hodie ponitur, quando non solum corporis ore sacramentum, sed ore cordis sanguis hauritur. Distinxit sanguis agni inter Israelitas & Aegyptios. Baptismus, quo ab∣luimur Christi sanguine, distin∣guit filios Dei à profanis, & qui sunt extra Rem. pub. Israelis: sed apud Deum haec distinctio fit, non tam externo signo, quam ipsa re¦significata.
• * 1.41

  7. Transiliit interfector aedes signatas; sic tinctos sanguine Christi nulla attingat condemna∣tio, nec mors in eos habebit po∣testatem.
• * 1.42

  8. Manducandus fuit agnus in singulis Familiis ab omnibus domesticis circumcisis: sic per fi∣dem applicandus Christus unicui∣que, qui vult particeps esse vitae aeternae.
• * 1.43

  9. Crudus non debuit edi, non elixatus aqua, ut doceremur, Christum esse cibum, qui alio non indiget condimento extra seipsum; nil esse cum eo admiscendum. Qui per humanam sapientiam sacra∣menta Divinitatis & Humanita∣tis evacuant, qui olim Legem cum Christo voluerunt conjungere, qui nunc traditiones humanas, qui me∣rita sua & satisfactiones, illi co∣quunt agnum cum aqua.
• * 1.44

  10. Totum assare oportebat, & comedere, ut integra in Christum fides assereretur, Christus non di∣videretur, omnes articuli fidei conjungerentur.
• * 1.45

  11. Manducari debuit Agnus fine fermento, Christus sine hypo∣crisi & malitia.
• * 1.46

  12. Cum herbis amaris, Chri∣stus cum tolerantia crucis, & no∣stri ipsius abnegatione. Indicatum etiam fuit, neminem dulcedinis Re∣missionis peccatorum per Christum fore participem, nisi eorum ama∣ritudinem antea corde compuncto senserit.
• * 1.47

  13. Festinanter & peregrinan∣tium habitu, ut sciamus eos, qui accedunt ad Christum, paratos esse debere ad incedendum in viae salu∣tis, cum studio in dies proficiendi, desiderio & expectatione vitae coe∣lestis.
• * 1.48

  14. Praecinctis lumbis: sic, qui Christum manducant, debent stare lumbis circumcinctis veritate, & induti thorace justitiae: Eph. 6.14. Ʋnde Christus, Luc. 12.35. Sint lumbi vestri praecincti. Pe∣dibus calceati: quibus significa∣tur, carnis affectus spiritualiter esse regendos, ne mundi hujus sale∣bris offendantur: Ephes. 6.15. Cum spirituali baculo, quo gres∣sus suos in itinere regant, & se∣ipsos in via sustineant: hic autem baculus est vera fides.
• * 1.49

  1 Pet. 1.19
• * 1.50

  Col. 2.16, 17
• * 1.51

  Eph. 6.15
• * 1.52

  Matth. 11.12
• * 1.53

  Acts 2.37
• * 1.54

  Joh. 19.35, 36