were worthy to be Types, and difallowed to those who were not worthy; and that these Places where they were buried remained facred or clean; and that the Places where common People were buried, as 2 Kings xxiii. 10, Tophet, which had been ufed for a Place of Burning, fo offering their Sons to the Sun, was by burying them in it, prophaned, unclean, as all common dead Bodies were. And when the Jews turned Apoftates, and would not pronounce the Name Jehovah (both which they perfift in to this Day) they burned their dead Bodies as fome Heathens did, as 'tis recorded Amos vi. 1o. And a Man's Uncle fhall take him up, and own he that burneth him, to bring out the Bones out of the House Then Shall be fay, hold thy Tongue, for we may not make mention of the Name Jehovah. The Heathen Kings had these Customs, Ifaiah xiv. 18. All the Kings of the Nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own Houfe.--Thou (King of Babylon) fhall not be joined with them in Burial.

The Things inftituted were fome literally, and all fpiritually completed in Chrift. He was born Hereditary King of the Jews, and died King and Interceffor: After his Offering was finished by Death, his Priesthood relating to facrificing was ended, but his intercefforial Office commenced after his Death; his Right to rule Ifrael was void, but his univerfal Rule commenced at his Refurrection. Mat. xxvi. 7. Mar. xiv. 3. Luk, vii. 37, 38, 46. John xi. 2.xii. 3. There

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There came unto him a Woman having an Alabafter Box of Ointment very precious, and Spikenard, and poured it on his Head, as he fat at -Meat. In that he has poured this Ointment on my Body, he did it for my Burial. Anointing conftituted Prieft and Interceffor, and fignified Separation, Holiness, &c. John xii. 3. And the Houfe was filled with the Odour of the Ointment. Cant. i. 12. While the King fitteth at his Table (in circuitu) my Spikenard Jendeth forth the Smell thereof. Odours were an Emblem to fhew that he had performed Actions in his Life acceptable to the Aleim, as free, as Odours raised without Fire are to Men, Rev. v. 8. Golden Vials full of Odours. The Burning, the Wrath at his Death, is predicted by an Infinity of Methods and in plain Words, Ifai. ix. 6. But this fhall be with Burning, and Meat of Fire. iv. 4. By the Spirit of Judgment, and by the Spirit of Burning. lxvi. 15. For bebold Jehovah will come by Fire- For by Fire and by his Sword will fehovah plead with all Flesh. Burning of Odours was a Type that the Act of his Death or dead Body and Blood should be moft grateful to the Aleim, as fweet Odours are most grateful to Men. Matth. xxvii. 60. Mark xv. 46. Luke xxiii. 53. And he [Jofeph] bought fine Linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the Linen, and laid him in a Sepulchre which was hewn out of a Rock, wherein Man never before was laid. John xix. 39. And there came came alfo Nicodemus

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Mixture of Myrrh and Aloes about an hundred Pound Weight, then took they the Body of Jefus and wound it in Linen Cloths with the Spices, as the Manner of the Jews is to bury.—And in the Garden a new Sepulchre, wherein was never Man yet laid; there laid they Jefus. As the High Priest, when he had offered the Sacri fice and went into the Sanctum Sanctorum, was an Emblem of his Purity, clothed with fine white Linen; fo was he to be before he entered Heaven and performed his intercefforial Office there*. The formal Mourning at the Death of a King, feemed to be a Type that Mankind fhould be guilty of putting a King to death; and as was predicted Zach xii. 10. And they fhall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him in that Day fhall there be great Mourning in Jerufalem, as -- and the Land shall mourn; every Family apart, &c. Burying in Caves cut in Rocks prevented each Body from mixing with the Parts of the Bodies of others, and with the Parts of common Earth: Chrift was laid in a new Sepulchre, hewed out of a Rock, where never Man was yet laid, fo none could rife from thence but himself; what they intended by winding him in Ointments and Spices, whether

Qu. If the 40 Days they kept the Body before they laid it in the Bed called Glory, (Isaiah xiv. 18.) did not relate to the Time, Chrift was to be on Earth before his Afcenfion, or being placed in Glory, as embalming to preferve the Body was, of his being to be raised before his Body should corrupt.

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that was all, or because the Sabbath approached, they could proceed no farther; or what the Women meant (Mat. xxviii. 1. Mar, xvi. 1. Luk. xxiii. 56. xxiv. 1. Joh. xx. 1.) by preparing fweet Spices to anoint him, or Spices and Ointments, if there were not a precedent, is not explained, nor does saying, as the Manner of the Jews is to bury, explain it; for it is plain that Lazarus and others had no fuch Spices, and it is doubtful whether they were wrapped in Linen; Indeed it appears by several Citations in Chif. de Lint. Sepul. p. 101. &c. that the Egyptian Priefts wore fine Linen and were buried in fine Linen, and that it was profane to wear Wool in their facred Places or in their Burying Places. Imbalming was furely intended to typify rifing without Corruption; but there appears no Preparation for embalming Chrift, as the Egyptians did; the End of anointing with Ointment or wrapping in Spices, as was done to King Afa, could do no more than prepare for an Office or make a Perfume about the Body before it began to corrupt, which was what was intended. Perfumes have been explained, and Christ's Body was not to fee Corruption: as in all other Things, fo in these the Apoftates have, in their Books writ fince Chrift, made these Rites common to their common People, as appears by Citations in faid Chiffletus p. 10. by the Precept, as they pretend, of Gamaliel the elder, to evade any Ufe being made of thefe Customs by Chriftians.

It is certain all Nations treated their Kings with a typical Degree of divine Veneration. (The Jews and Romans performed all the Acts to Chrift which the Heathens had done to their Prophets; put it to Trial, blindfolded him, and fmote him on the Face and faid prophefy to us who it is that fmote thee; which if he had been pleased to have done they must have confeffed him a Prophet. As they did to their Priest and to their Sacrifices, nay even to their human Sacrifices, as well as to their Kings, they clothed him in a gorgeous Robe, in Purple, and crowned him, put a Reed (for a Scepter) in his right Hand, bowed the Knee before him and mocked him, faying, hail King of the Jews, and fet up an Accufation over his Head in Hebrew, Greek and Latin, This is Jefus of Nazareth the King of the Jews.) And all the filly Stories of Heathen Kings were in this Senfe, that they were Emblems of the King. At last when the true Intent was loft, the latest Heathens fell moftly into common Wealths, and rejected all Knowledge of either true or fuppofed real King, and of the Typical Kings. We find the latest Heathen Kings and Emperors, especially the Roman, not content with Gifts of Gold and Aromatics, but ftupidly fancied that they had a Right to farther Degrees of Worfhip from their Subjects, than had been paid. When their Empire was almoft univerfal, as it had been in Nebuchadnezzar, they not only expected univerfal Wor