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| moses : israel israel: moses Complete text of 61126710:First, we have the Example of the children of israel ; who when moses , that had approved his Calling to them by Miracles, and by the happy conduct of them out of Egypt, was absent but 40 dayes, revolted from the worship of the true God, recommended to them by him; and setting up (Exod Complete text of 61126712:And again, after moses , Aaron, Joshua, and that generation which had seen the great works of God in israel , (Judges 2 11) were dead; another generation arose, and served Baal Complete text of 61127310:To Moses, the children of israel say thus Complete text of 61127818:And for the Law which moses gave to the people of israel at the renewing of the Covenant, (Deut Complete text of 61128589:9) And this did moses himself write, and deliver to the Priests and Elders of israel , to be read every seventh year to all israel , at their assembling in the feast of Tabernacles Complete text of 61129032:In short, the Kingdome of God is a Civill Kingdome; which consisted, first in the obligation of the people of israel to those Laws, which Moses should bring unto them from Mount Sinai; and which afterwards the High Priest of the time being, should deliver to them from before the Cherubins in the Sanctum Sanctorum; and which kingdome having been cast off, in the election of Saul, the Prophets foretold, should be restored by Christ; and the Restauration whereof we daily pray for, when we say in the Lords Prayer, "Thy Kingdome come;" and the Right whereof we acknowledge, when we adde, "For thine is the Kingdome, the Power, and Glory, for ever and ever, Amen;" and the Proclaiming whereof, was the Preaching of the Apostles; and to which men are prepared, by the Teachers of the Gospel; to embrace which Gospel, (that is to say, to promise obedience to Gods government) is, to bee in the Kingdome of Grace, because God hath gratis given to such the power to bee the subjects (that is, Children) of God hereafter, when Christ shall come in Majesty to judge the world, and actually to govern his owne people, which is called the Kingdome of Glory Complete text of 61129439:But the works of God in Egypt, by the hand of moses , were properly Miracles; because they were done with intention to make the people of israel beleeve, that moses came unto them, not out of any design of his owne interest, but as sent from God Complete text of 61129565:By the Kingdome of Heaven, is meant the Kingdome of the King that dwelleth in Heaven; and his Kingdome was the people of israel , whom he ruled by the Prophets his Lieutenants, first moses , and after him Eleazar, and the Soveraign Priests, till in the days of Samuel they rebelled, and would have a mortall man for their King, after the manner of other Nations Complete text of 61129839:) "And God said unto moses , Come up unto the Lord, thou, and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the Elders of israel Complete text of 61129843:) "Then went up moses , and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the Elders of israel , and they saw the God of israel , and there was under his feet, as it were a paved work of a saphire stone," &c Complete text of 61129929:As for example, after the death of Eleazar and Joshua, the next generation which had not seen the wonders of God, but were left to their own weak reason, not knowing themselves obliged by the Covenant of a Sacerdotall Kingdome, regarded no more the Commandement of the Priest, nor any law of moses , but did every man that which was right in his own eyes; and obeyed in Civill affairs, such men, as from time to time they thought able to deliver them from the neighbour Nations that oppressed them; and consulted not with God (as they ought to doe,) but with such men, or women, as they guessed to bee Prophets by their Praedictions of things to come; and thought they had an Idol in their Chappel, yet if they had a Levite for their Chaplain, they made account they worshipped the God of israel Complete text of 61130038:For as moses chose twelve Princes of the tribes, to govern under him; so did our Saviour choose twelve Apostles, who shall sit on twelve thrones, and judge the twelve tribes of israel ; And as moses authorized Seventy Elders, to receive the Spirit of God, and to Prophecy to the people, that is, (as I have said before,) to speak unto them in the name of God; so our Saviour also ordained seventy Disciples, to preach his Kingdome, and Salvation to all Nations Complete text of 61130039:And as when a complaint was made to moses , against those of the Seventy that prophecyed in the camp of israel , he justified them in it, as being subservient therein to his government; so also our Saviour, when St Complete text of 61130044:As the Children of israel had for Sacrament of their Reception into the Kingdome of God, before the time of moses , the rite of Circumcision, which rite having been omitted in the Wildernesse, was again restored as soon as they came into the land of Promise; so also the Jews, before the coming of our Saviour, had a rite of Baptizing, that is, of washing with water all those that being Gentiles, embraced the God of israel Complete text of 61130047:From what cause the rite of Baptisme first proceeded, is not expressed formally in the Scripture; but it may be probably thought to be an imitation of the law of moses , concerning Leprousie; wherein the Leprous man was commanded to be kept out of the campe of Israel for a certain time; after which time being judged by the Priest to be clean, hee was admitted into the campe after a solemne Washing Complete text of 61130257:Of Excommunication This part of the Power of the Keyes, by which men were thrust out from the Kingdome of God, is that which is called Excommunication; and to excommunicate, is in the Originall, Aposunagogon Poiein, To Cast Out Of The Synagogue; that is, out of the place of Divine service; a word drawn from the custom of the Jews, to cast out of their Synagogues, such as they thought in manners, or doctrine, contagious, as Lepers were by the Law of moses separated from the congregation of israel , till such time as they should be by the Priest pronounced clean Complete text of 61130398:There is no doubt but that they were made Laws by God himselfe: But because a Law obliges not, nor is Law to any, but to them that acknowledge it to be the act of the Soveraign, how could the people of israel that were forbidden to approach the Mountain to hear what God said to moses , be obliged to obedience to all those laws which moses propounded to them? Some of them were indeed the Laws of Nature, as all the Second Table; and therefore to be acknowledged for Gods Laws; not to the Israelites alone, but to all people: But of those that were peculiar to the Israelites, as those of the first Table, the question remains; saving that they had obliged themselves, presently after the propounding of them, to obey moses , in these words (Exod Complete text of 61130402:" It was therefore onely moses then, and after him the High Priest, whom (by Moses) God declared should administer this his peculiar Kingdome, that had on Earth, the power to make this short Scripture of the Decalogue to bee Law in the Common-wealth of israel Complete text of 61130405:Of The Judicial, And Leviticall Law The Judiciall Law, that is to say, the Laws that God prescribed to the Magistrates of israel , for the rule of their administration of Justice, and of the Sentences, or Judgments they should pronounce, in Pleas between man and man; and the Leviticall Law, that is to say, the rule that God prescribed touching the Rites and Ceremonies of the Priests and Levites, were all delivered to them by moses onely; and therefore also became Lawes, by vertue of the same promise of obedience to moses Complete text of 61130411:) "The words of a Covenant which the Lord commanded moses to make with the Children of israel , besides the Covenant which he made with them in Horeb Complete text of 61130419:) they were commanded to write upon great stones playstered over, at their passing over Jordan: This Law also was written by moses himself in a Book; and delivered into the hands of the "Priests, and to the Elders of israel ," (Deut Complete text of 61130929:But this also maketh onely for the Legislative power of Civill Soveraigns: For the Scribes, and Pharisees sat in moses Chaire, but moses next under God was Soveraign of the People of israel : and therefore our Saviour commanded them to doe all that they should say, but not all that they should do Complete text of 61131040:where moses not being able alone to undergoe the whole burthen of administring the affairs of the People of Israel, God commanded him to choose Seventy Elders, and took part of the spirit of moses , to put it upon those Seventy Elders: by which it is understood, not that God weakened the spirit of moses , for that had not eased him at all; but that they had all of them their authority from him; wherein he doth truly, and ingenuously interpret that place Complete text of 61131548:The same moses (the civill Soveraigne of israel ) when he consecrated Aaron (the High Priest,) and his Sons, did wash them with Water, (not Exorcised water,) put their Garments upon them, and anointed them with Oyle; and they were sanctified, to minister unto the Lord in the Priests office; which was a simple and decent cleansing, and adorning them, before hee presented them to God, to be his servants Complete text of 61131828:To worship God, in some peculiar Place, or turning a mans face towards an Image, or determinate Place, is not to worship, or honor the Place, or Image; but to acknowledge it Holy, that is to say, to acknowledge the Image, or the Place to be set apart from common use: for that is the meaning of the word Holy; which implies no new quality in the Place, or Image; but onely a new Relation by Appropriation to God; and therefore is not Idolatry; no more than it was Idolatry to worship God before the Brazen Serpent; or for the Jews when they were out of their owne countrey, to turn their faces (when they prayed) toward the Temple of Jerusalem; or for moses to put off his Shoes when he was before the Flaming Bush, the ground appertaining to Mount Sinai; which place God had chosen to appear in, and to give his Laws to the People of israel , and was therefore Holy ground, not by inhaerent sanctity, but by separation to Gods use; or for Christians to worship in the Churches, which are once solemnly dedicated to God for that purpose, by the Authority of the King, or other true Representant of the Church Complete text of 61132175:And when the Son of a woman of israel had blasphemed God, they that heard it, did not kill him, but brought him before moses , who put him under custody, till God should give Sentence against him; as appears, Levit |