Moses Unveiled · William Guild
Moses Unveiled, Type 10 – Type 11
10. Iacob, Gen. 26.
| 1. IAcob, a supplanter. | So is Christ of Death, Sinne and Satan, &c. Col. 2. 15. Luk. 1. 71. |
| 2. Also, hee was called Israel, a Prince of God, or preuailing with God, Gen. 32. | So is Christ that heauenly Prince preuailing at his Fathers hands by his intercession for all good things to his own, He. 8. 6. |
| 3. Hee purchast the birth-right by red Pottage, and obtained the blessing by presenting vp sauourie Venison vntounto his father, cloathed in Esaus garment, Gen. 25. 30. & 27, 28. | So hath Christ purchast heauens inheritance to v… by his red bloud; and obtained the blessing by offering vp the sauourie merit of his obedience, in the borrowed garment of our nature, Rom. 3. 24. |
| 4. Hee was a plaine man, and abode in Tents, Gen. 25. 27. | So was Christ plaine, meeke and mercifull, frequenting the company of men, and sinners, Math. 9. 11. & 12. 18, 19. |
| 5. Iacob was hated and persecuted by Esau, Gen. 27. 41. | So was Christ by Satan, and the Scribes and Pharises, albeit they were his brethren according to the flesh. |
| 6. He leaues his fathers house, and goeth to serue in Haran, Gen. 28. 10. | So Christ left the glorious heauens, and came in the shape of a seruant vntounto the earth, 2. Cor. 8. |
| 7. In his persecution by Esau, by the way he seeth the Angels of God ascending, and descending vntounto him, verse 12. | So after Christs temptation in the Wildernes by Satan, the Angels came and ministred to him, Mat. 4. |
| 8. Iacob was a Shepheard, Gen. 29. | So is Christ the Shepheard of our soules, 1. Pet. 2. |
| 9. Iacob serued long for his Wiues Rahel and Leah, Ibid. | So did Christ beare the shape of a seruant 33. yeres and more, to redeeme vntounto himselfe a Church of Iewes and Gentiles, Esay 42. |
| 10. Iacob being afraid of death by E…au, went alone all …ight to pray, Gen. …2. | So Christ fearing death and wrath, went aside in Gethsemane to doe so, Math. 26. |
| 11. Hee wrestled long, and at last vvas comforted, ver. 28. | So did Christ in an Agony, and at last was heard in that which hee feared, Heb. 5. |
| 12. Iacob purged his Family in the vvay, Gen. 35. | So doth Christ his Church in the world, 1. Cor. 1. 30. |
| 13. Iacob was the Father of all the Israel in the flesh. | So Christ is the Father of all the Israel in the Spirit, Isai. 9. 6. |
| 14. Iacob was obedient vntounto his Parents in all things, Gen. 28. | So was Christ both to his heauenly Father, and to his earthly Parents, Lu. 3. |
| 15. Iacob erected an Altar in Bethel, which by interpretation, is, The house of God, Gen. 35. 1. | So hath Christ established the true worship of his Father into his holy Church, Esay 60. 1. |
| 16. Iacobs dayes were but few & euill vponupon earth. | So was the estate of Christ on earth afflicted, and so shall be the estate of the Church, vntounto th… worlds end, Ioh. 16. 33. |
| 17. Iacobs flock was spotted or particoloured, Gen. 30. 32. | So have the godly heer… their owne spets, and ar… in part but sanctified, … Ioh. 3. |
The Disparitie.
IAcobs father loued his elder sonne better then him: but not so did the Father louelove any equally to his Sonne, euen his onelyonly welbeloued Christ Iesus. Iacob attained to the birth-right and blessing for himselfe, and that through subtiltie: But Christ Iesus hath purchased that heauenly and blessed inheritance for vsus onelyonly, and that by paying therefore dearely. Iacob and Esau were at once both borne of the wombe of Rebecca: but Christ Iesus alone onelyonly was borne of the wombe of the inuiolable chaste Virgin Mary, without an associate, either in his matchlesse birth, or eternitie of age.
11. Iacobs Ladder, Gen. 28.
| 1. IAcobs Ladder, which hee saw in a Vision, stood vponupon the earth, but the top reached to Heauen: | So Christ, albeit L… as humbled in shape of sinfu…l flesh, touching the earth as it were, yet he was the most High God, reaching so to heauen, and reconciling, a… |
| and so it ioyned as it were heauen and earth together, Gen. 28. 12. | as the two natures in himselfe by personall Vnion: so God and vsus together by his death and mediation, Ro. 5. 10. |
| 2. The Angels went vp and downe by it. | So by Christ Iesus they are become ministring spirits, comming and returning for the good and protection of the godly, Heb. 1. as also by him our prayers ascend, and Gods blessings descend. |
| 3. No ascending vp to heauen, but by the Ladder. | So no attaining to that inheritance, but by Iesus Christ alone, Ioh. 10. 7. |
| 4. Iacob in his Pilgrimage saw the Ladder onelyonly in a Vision. | So wee see Christ heere in our pilgrimage but in glasse, as it were, darkely and in part, 1. Cor. 13. |
| 5. The Lord stood aboue it, and made his promise of Canaan to Iacob, verse 13. | So in Christ, and through him, are the Lords promises of heauen, made and ratified to vsus, Ioh. 2. 1. |
| 6. In the place which was the House of God, and gate of Heauen, was the Ladder seene, verse 19. | So in Christs Church (which is the foresaid truely) through Faith can wee onelyonly get a spirituall sight of Christ. |
| 7. At the foote of this Ladder, Iacob did repose and sleepe. | Shadowing the rest and peace of conscience, which the godly hauehave vnderunder the shadow of Christs intercession. |
The Disparitie.
IT was a Ladder whereon to climbe, but not giuing strength to that effect: but Christ Iesus, that blessed Ladder, is both. That Ladder at Iacobs awaking vanished, and begate feare by the Vision thereof: but Christ Iesus, at our awaking in the Resurrection, shall more cleerely appeare, whose sight by faith heere expels feare, and begets confident ioy, and whose cleerer sight then shall beget farre greater.