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or denunciation of temporall judgements, and the want of such learning was a smart rod to beate them.

Moses also brought in the Priest-hood as a setled ordinance for that present, which for the persons were to succeed him; The things which they had proper were two. First to offer Sacrifices for the people and thereby to cleanse them from the breach of Ceremoniall commands put upon them by Moses to testifie their homage. But the blood of those sacrifices, was a tipe of Christs blood our true and unchangeable high Priest, whereby the conscience is purged from the guilt of sinne, and from all failings in the least and highest degree of morall obedience. And though the carnall Jew saw it not in their sacrifices, yet the spirituall, which brought a right sence of sinne and fitting disposition, both saw it and reached pardon in these sacrifices by faith in the blood of Christ tipified by them. And hence we see in what respect, the Law is said to be weake and unable to give life, to purge the conscience, or pacifie the wrath of God: because it was not the blood of Bulls or Goats, but of Christ, the immaculate Lamb of God, who thorough the eternall Spirit offered up himselfe a sacrifice to the Father, that did purge the conscience, and bring in eternall redemption, which was not shed but tipified under that Covenant, though the spirituall seed by faith laid hold upon it, and were partakers of the benefits thereof.

Secondly, It was the effect of this ordinance to offer up prayers to God for the people upon their Incense. To runne into every particular in this kind were infinite.

The effect of this Covenant, that it bringeth forth children, but in some kind of bondage, pressed and kept under with servitude. For the heire so long as he is under Tutors and Governours differeth not from a servant, though he be Lord of all. The Jewes were children and heires, but tutored and kept under with many Ceremoniall ordinances and observations as appendices to the Law, expedient for that time and state. But there is a twofold servitude; one to damnation, which shuts the sonnes of such disposition out of the Kingdome of Heaven, which was figured by the bondage of Ismael and Hagar. This the Covenant doth not beget in it selfe, but in them that rejected Christ the soule of the Law, and trusted in their workes to be justified thereby. The other of sonnes, which are held under the nourture of the Law and