Moses Unveiled · William Guild
Moses Unveiled, Type 4 – Type 15
The Passeouer, Exod. 12. 2. Cor. 5. 7.
| 1. IT was called the Passouer; because the destroying Angell passed ouer all their houses, whose doore-posts were striked with the bloud thereof, and wherein the same was eaten, Exod. 12. 27. | So is Christ called; because Gods wrath passes ouer all them, whose soules are sprinkled with his bloud, and truely by Faith feede vponupon him, 1. Cor. 5. 7. |
| 2. It was killed, before Israel was deliuered, Exod. 12. 6. | So Christ behooued to suffer, before wee could be redeemed, Act. 17. 2. |
| 3. It vvas killed, before Moses Law, or Aarons Sacrifices were …nioyned. | To shew, that by none of them, but by the true Passeouer, that Lambe of God, killed from the beginning, deliuerance comes to mankinde, Rom. 3. Heb. 9. |
| 4. It was killed, and to be killed yeerely the first MonethMonth of the yeere, ver. 2. when the day lengthening, and the Sunne ascending, each thing beginneth to reuiue. | To shew, that by the true Passeouer, not onelyonly is our time, and all other things sanctified: but also that wee should in recent remembrance of that benefit of our Redemption, all our dayes and yeeres bee thankefull to our gracious Redeemer, Ephes. 5. 4. 20. and that by his death, true life & reuiuing came vntounto mankinde. |
| 5. It was slaine the 14. day, which was the fourth day after the separation therof, ver. 6. which was then full moone, shaddowing, that thē Christ should suffer, when the fulnes of ceremoniall light was in him accomplished, and in his death to make a full period, euer thereafter to decay and vanish, as also | To shew first, that instantly after his Birth, our Passeouer should not be sacrificed, till the appointed houre: and secondly, that as thereby they were taught to prepare themselues to the eating thereof: so should we to the eating of our Lambe by true Faith and Repentance, 1. Cor. 11. |
| 6. In the euening the Passeouer was killed, ibid. | Shewing thereby that in the latter time Christ should suffer: and as at night there is darknes and all are at rest: So when all mankinde was sitting in darknes of minde and life, and all the world at a generall outward rest of peace, then should our Sauiour come and suffer. As also the killing thereof at euen, did shew how, as at euen, the Sunne goes too: so it was the Sunne of righteousnes that was to suffer and dye, and at his Passion, what vniuersall darknes should bee vponupon the whole earth, Luke 23. 44. |
| 7. At night also the Passeouer was eaten, verse 8. | Prefiguring so vntounto vsus how our true Paschall Lambe should bee eaten by vsus, in mysterio scilicet, accenso alio lumine quam naturali. |
| 8. It was eaten in Goshen, Israel being in Egypt, and in Ierusalem, they beeing in Canaan: both, places of the Churches abode. | To shew that in his true Church onelyonly is our true Pastor to bee found, and profitably fedde vponupon, Col. 1. 18. |
| 9. It was (more particularly) eaten in the Family, each house a Lambe, verse 3. | Shewing that with vnitie in faith and louelove, as all of one family we must eat of our true Passeouer, & that they are but few who truly feed, and are partakers of this Lambe, Mat. 7. 13. |
| 10. The house must be prepared. | To warn vsus so to prepare our hearts, 1. Cor. 11. |
| 11. If the house be too little, the neighbours must be assumed, yea the strangers so be he be circumcised, verse 4. | To signifie first the super aboundant vertue of Christs death: for the house may be too little for the Lambe, but not the Lambe for a house: as likewise, the sweet Communion of Saints in louelove, the ioyfull Vocation also of the neighbour Gentiles, and admission to the fellowship of faith, beeing inwardly circumcised, and at last, to condemne the priuate giuing of the Sacrament to one or two onelyonly. |
| 12. The Passeouer was to be taken of the Lambs, verse 5. | To shew that our Sauiour should bee innocent in life; meeke and patient in death, and profitable alway, Isai. 53. |
| 13. Or it was to bee taken of the Kids, ibid. And in the generall, the taking of it from among the flocke, did signifie the separation of Christ from sinners. | To shew, albeit our Sauiour was sinlesse himselfe, yet hee should come of the race of sinners: (as the Kid comes of the Goat) as also, that in wrong reputation, and true imputation, being made sinne for vsus, hee should be as a Kidde or a Goate, 2. Cor. 5. 21. Isai. 53. 4. |
| 14. It must bee without any blemish, ibid. | Shaddowing thereby the perfection and innocencie of Christ, Psal. 40. 7. |
| 15. He must bee a Male, ibid. | Noting thereby the excellencie of strength and dignitie (most proper to that Sexe) which should bee in Christ, Hos. 1. 11. |
| 16. Hee must be a yeere old, ibid. | Signifying the experience that Christ should hauehave of our miseries, wherof euen a dayes continuance yeelds sufficient proofe. As also that perfection of Christ in like sort, and that in fulnes of time he should come and suffer (a yeere being a perfect reuolution of the Sunnes full course,) He. 4. 15. 5. 2. |
| 17. It must bee set apart awhile, verse 6. | Teaching thereby preparation, & due meditation of the Lords great work of our deliuery, 1. Co. 11. Ps. 103 |
| 18. It was then killed, and that by Israel, Ibid. | So Christ behooued to dye, ere comfort could flow to vsus of appeasing Gods wrath, and satisfying his iustice, the merit of whose death redounds to his chosen Church onelyonly, Isaiah 59. 20 |
| 19. The bloud was besprinkled on the Lintell and dooreposts, that the Angell seeing the same might passe by, verse 7. | Signifying, that by Christs bloud applyed, the wrath of God is made to passe by vsus: and where Christ the Lambe is inwardly in the house of the Soule, the sprinkling of Christs bloud will be seene by Sanctification outwardly in the practice of the life, 1. Cor. 1. 30. |
| Note also, that the aspersiō of this bloud by Hysope (which is a purging Hearb) doth giuegive vsus to vnderstand the threefold vertue of Christs bloud. First, as it is a ransom to Gods iustice: and secondly, preserueth from the destroyer of Gods wrath: so thirdly, it purgeth also the polluted soule. | Also the sprinkling of the bloud vponupon the dooreposts: noted, how going in and out, euer we should remember Christs death, and not be ashamed of the profession of his Crosse: And that by Baptisme our soules must first bee sprinkled with his bloud, before wee can looke for to bee partakers truely of his bodie, 1. Cor. 12. 13. |
| 20. The Lambe must be rost with fire, and that wholly, or all of it, verse 8. | Signifying thereby the agony of Christ in the Garden, and the wrath of his Father which hee did indure both in soule and bodie, Math. 20. |
| 21. It must not bee eaten raw, verse 9. | Noting, that wee should not vnpreparedly receiue, nor grossely conceiue of Christ in the Sacrament, Ioh. 6. 1. Cor. 11. |
| 22. It must not be sodden with water. | Shewing that to his Institution we must not ioyne our inuentions (adding altering or impairing) nor to the merit of his all sufficient sacrifice, the proud merit of our menstruous righteousnes, Isai. 57. 12. |
| 23. It must bee eaten all, & that with vnleauened bread, ver. 8. | To shew that nothing in Christ is vnprofitable or to be reiected, and that to the true participation of him, we must eschew corruption of doctrine, of manners, and malice, 2. Cor. 5. |
| 24. With sowre hearbs also the Passeouer must be eaten. | Signifying thereby, that with repentance wee must eate our Passeouer, in remembrance of our bitter and sowre estate of sinnes slauerie, wherein wee were captiuate, and of the bitter Passion of Christ, whose teeth were set on edge when wee had eaten the sowre Grapes, Isai. 53. 4, 9. |
| 25. They behooued to eate the Passeouer, their loynes being girded, their staues in their hands, and their shooes on their feete, verse 11. | To shew how wee should eate our Passeouer, like pilgrims, to wit, not looking for a permanent Citie here: our loynes girded with veritie, and the preparation of the Gospell on our feet, the staffe of Gods Word in our hands, and with alacritie and readinesse making forward to our heauenly mansion, Phil. 3. 13. |
| 26. They behooued likewise to eate the same in haste, as not doubting of the speedy worke of their deliuerie, and as ready waiters when they should bee called out of doores. | To signifie likewise in Faith and readinesse to come when Iesus cals, and with the affections of Feare and LoueLove, (which are the two vsuall causes of haste) desirously and holily wee should eate our Passeouer, 1. Cor. 11. |
| 27. Nothing was to be reserued till to morrow of the Lamb, verse 10. | Noting thereby the fulnesse of theirs and our deliuerance: nor that wee should reserue one sinne to liue in awhile, keeping vp, as it were a part of Christs death for it. Popish reseruation also of the Host is condemned hereby. |
| 28. If any remaine thereof ouernight, the same must bee burnt with fire, verse 10. | Teaching to auoid prophanation of holy things hereby: Hoc pacto etiam compellens accersere egenos (saith a Father) This burning is apishly imitated in the popish Host. |
| 29. No vncircumcised person might eate of the Passeouer. | So no vnsanctified person can bee truely partaker of Christ Iesus, Mat. 22. |
| 30. The bones thereof might not be broken. | Typing hereby in Christ▪ suffering, how not a bone … him should bee broken as was foretold, Iohn 19. 36. |
| 31. None might goe out of doore that night. | Perseuerance in Christs Family or Church, and in the bosome thereof beeing pointed at hereby, not going out in affection to the world againe, Ren. 2. 10. |
| 32. One Law shall bee for all (saith the Lord) verse 49. | Shewing thereby, whereby the Church of Christ is gouerned, and that with God there is no exception of Persons, Act. 10. 34. |
| 33. It was to bee obserued, with the word of instruction, to be ioyned thereto, verse 26, 27. | So is the Sacrament to be celebrate with the word of institution, and exhortation to bee added thereto likewise, as the Seale and Charter going together, 1. Cor. 11. |
| Last, in that the bloud of the Lambe was first sprinkled, and then it selfe prepared and eaten. | It shewes that first Christ was made a sacrifice to God, and then a Sacramens to vsus. |
The Disparitie.
THe Iewish Passeouer did feed the body: but our Passeouer Christ doth feed the soule. It was a signe of their deliuerance: but Christ is the very worker of our deliuerance. There were many Lambs eaten in the whole campe, all called the Passeouer; because they pointed at one alone who should be the true Passeouer, and who alone sufficeth the whole number of his faithfull. The Lambe being eaten, nothing thereof did remaine: but Christ being fed vponupon, is no whit impaired, but remaineth as perpetuall nourishment to his owne Chosen.
15. Aaron.
| 1. AAron, a Teacher, or the mountaine of fortitude. | So is Christ the true Teacher of his Church, and exalted mountaine of inuincible strength, Math. 10. 21. |
| 2. Hee was Moses mouth to the people, Exod. 4. 30. | So was Christ his Fathers mouth, to the world; in declaring his will, Ioh. 1. |
| 3. He was the blesser of the people, Leu. 9. 22. | So is Christ the true blesser of his people and Church, Gen. 12. 3. |
| 4. Hee was the High Priest of the Lord, Leu. 8. | And so was Christ that onelyonly true High Priest of his faithfull, Heb. 9. |
| 5. He dyed on the top of Mount Hor, called Mosera, Numb. 20. | So Christ dyed on the top of Mount Golgotha, Luke 23. |
The Disparitie.
AAron dyed in the wildernesse for his own offence, for disobeying the Lord at the waters of Meribah: but Christ Iesus our High Priest dyed in the world, for our offences and manifold disobedience imputed to him, and vndertaken by him. Also Aaron brought not the people into Canaan, neither entered there himselfe: but our High-Priest hath both entered himselfe into that heauenly Canaan, and bringeth the members of his true Church there also.