Exodus — Chapter 31

God : be the Sauiour of the bodie. His bodie the Cue. Againe(«. 4.) Totus Chriftus caput & corpus elt, Whole Chrift is the head em the bodte. The head, the onlie-begotten Sonne oj God,eo the bodse bis Church: the bridegroom and bride,two in one flesh.Yea for no other cane ( faith he li, de catech.rud.c.3.) were al thofé things written, before the comming of our Lord, whith we read in holie Scriptures , butthat bis comming might le commended, and the future Church prefigured, that is, the people ot God throughout al nations, which is his bodie, The fame doth S, Paul teach vssnot only jaying (Gatl.3.) The law was our pedagogue( or conductor )to Chirilt, bse shel Cur, 12. that as the(satural) bodie is one & hath manie members &a the membersot the bodie, wheras they be manie, yet are one bodiesto alfo Chrift, dua (Coloff1.) that Chriits bodieis the Church. 4s therjure the great blesing of redéption & faluacis was promtfed in Chryi(Genia. ©) foie vas withal expreffed that sl nations and kindreds of the earth should ve. & 22, the bodie. The head is the onlie-begotren Iefus Chriit, the Sonne of . new Teftament alwayes vilible and grear, The fame Scriptures for- shew Chrift & his Church, Multitude of progentie pro- mifed to Abra- ham pertaineth to the Church partakers therof , yea fo innumerable asthe duit of the earth , the ttarres ot Cc 3 heauen, of Chrift, “ty Very abfurdro fay ,, the “tChurch of Chrift was at anie time @b- feure, Succeffion.of feito Go- nerners during the law of nae tnre. Prieft-hoed of Moyfes law eftablifhed in Aarons feed, Moyfes chiefe} pin-fpiritual & temporal go— Uernement,: 188 EXODVS. “heauen, aad {ands of the fea. Which S. Paul fayth ( Rem.o,) is not ment of Abrahams natural children , but of the children of promife, fuch as the Ro- man Chrifisns , and others, lewes and Gentiles, SoS. Iuhn faw in avifion as a certaine number of tweluc thoufand ligned of cuerte tribe of Ifrael,but after thefe a gteat multitude which no man could number, of al na- tions , tribes , peoples , and tongs. Te fay theryore , as fome old and new heretikes doe,that the Church of Chrift fomerimes confifteth of few, or inuifible Perfons , were ta [ty God Rept not prom/e with abraham ( Gen, 17.) and to make the bedie and thing figured , more obfcure then the shadow ana figure; seeing in the whole time of the Law of nature, that is in thefe three firft ages of the world, the Church being bus a figure of that which is new, Jet Was alvayss viftble and notorious , as hath been declared. And that with perpetual fucce Sion af fupreme heads , rulers, and gouerners, Asis before noted in the irft age from Adam te Noe : in the (econd from Noe ta Abraham : fo im this third,by the right line of Abraham, Ifaac,lacob, Leui,Caath, and Amram,to Aaron: and Moyfes ( Exo. 6. ) the Holie Ghoft not there reciting more genealogies being cone to the origin of the Priefllie Tribe , that is te thefe two whom his. diuine goodnes feleded and ordained , 4s wel to {peake to Pharao in behalf of the childrenof \frael, and to bring them out of the Land of Egypt, as afterwards by one of them to gine ins people 4 Written Law, and inthe other » perpetual prouifion of (piritual Paftours.For in Aaron the elder brother God fta- blished an ordsmavie facce/ion of Priefthood , from that time to Chrift , which before pertained te the firjt- borne in euerie familie : adsoyning the ref of Lesites. tribe to afaft them, in adminiftration of facred things. But M eyfes the yonger bro confirmed by: ther was extraordinarily called ( which God therfore shewed and [pecial miracles ) not onlie te Prieft- hood, but alfe te be as the Ged of Pharao,, Supertour of Aaron, chiefe Mediatour between God and his people, as wel in delinering them frum the feruitude of Agypt, and in receruin gthe Law, and de~ limering it to them, asin alether during his life. CHAP. {upreme gouernement [pirunal and temporal. Gen,13, (5.17. C7 22, Apec. 7.1 Fx. 28, Nw, 3. Manna. EXODVS. 189