Leviticus 23

And further, this holy practice of Abel, came to be a law written, even one of the commandments of the Ceremonial law; namely, that the first born should be offered to God, Exodus 34:19. And the first fruits of the corn, Leviticus 23:10 etc. And that nothing that was lame, blind…

See the force of this argument founded upon this notion and consideration, that Christ was a common person representing all the rest; and this strongly presented in that expression of his being the first-fruits, in allusion to the rite in the Levitical law. All the sheaves in a…

For the prophet had shown at large the passion and sufferings of Christ (Isaiah 53), and hereupon he says, Rejoice you barren. The Israelites were commanded to feast and to be merry before the Lord (Leviticus 23:40; 1 Chronicles 29:32), that is, before the Lord's Ark, which was…

The Church then is compared to pavilions, because she has no settled habitation in this world: for she seems to be fleeting, and a pilgrim, in that she is subject to be often transported here and there, by reason of her diverse changes. And yet I doubt not but he aims at that fi…

Seeing then that there is nothing in all that which they do that may be approved of, we may simply condemn them. But Isaiah's dispute was in another kind: for the fast which the Jews observed was laudable in itself, because God had instituted it (Leviticus 23:27 and 16:29-30). B…

2. There is no such refreshing thing in all the work of creation of Christ, no such feast, as the warming of a sinner's heart with love to him is: This (Luke 7:47.) is thought more of by Christ in a poor woman, than all the great feast he was invited to by the rich Pharisee. Aga…

And lastly, there was ordained likewise the Feast of Tabernacles, on the fifteenth day of the same month, and this was to last not only one day, but a whole week together, and was instituted to be a memorial to them of their journey through the wilderness, wherein for forty year…

Or to shed tears, than when the Nation hath shed so much blood. These days are called in Scripture, Soul-afflicting days, Leviticus 23. 29. For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.

1. Circumcision, and the ceremonies; and the priesthood (Exodus 40:15), (Leviticus 16:29) the fast in the seventh month, shall be a statute, for ever. (Leviticus 6:18) All the [reconstructed: males] of the sons of Aaron shall eat the remainder of the meat-offering, it shall be a…

Reason 1. Taken from the place, and standing which the people of God have, in the countries in which they do inhabit; they stand there as the first fruits of a nation (James 1:18; Revelation 14:4). Now in the sanctification of the first fruits, stood the sanctification of the wh…