Numbers 8

Of these washings there were various sorts or kinds under the Law. For the priests were washed (Exodus 29:4), and the Levites (Numbers 8:12), and the people after they had contracted any impurity (Leviticus 15:8, 16). But the Apostle seems to have particular respect to the washi…

This was the sign of the communication of healing virtue from the Lord Christ by their Ministry. Thirdly, Imposition of hands was used in the setting apart of persons to the office and work of the Ministry (1 Timothy 4:14; chapter 5:22; Acts 6:6); the Rite herein was derived fro…

And such a ministry it signifies, as is performed with honor and ease, and is opposed to ministering with labor and burden. So the ministry of the Levites in bearing the burden of the Tabernacle is called a ministry with labor (Numbers 8), when the more easy and honorable employ…

So they killed the Bullocks, and the Priests received the blood, and sprinkled it on the Altar. But those slayers seem not to have been the people, but the Levites, who were to assist the Priests in their service (Numbers 8:19), and who in all greater sacrifices, did the outward…

He that comes by water and blood, he is the Son of God: But Jesus Christ came by water and blood. His coming implies, 1 his Father's sending, 2 [illegible] own undertaking that great work of our recovery not only by Water, as the Levites who were washed (Numbers 8:6-7) but by Bl…

On the other hand, grant that the authority of the ministry dependeth on the law, ordinance and institution of Christ, that he calls men to this office by the collation of spiritual gifts to them, and that the actings of the Church herein is but an instituted moral means of comm…