the other, which was the Scape Goat, he was to lay
his hands on the head thereof, and by a confession
of the iniquities of the people, to lay them all on
that head, and then by some opportune man, to cause
the Goat to be led into the wildernesse, and there
to Escape, and carry away with him the iniquities
of the people. As the Sacrifice of the one Goat
was a sufficient (because an acceptable) price for
the Ransome of all Israel; so the death of the Messiah,
is a sufficient price, for the Sins of all mankind,
because there was no more required. Our Saviour
Christs sufferings seem to be here figured, as cleerly,
as in the oblation of Isaac, or in any other type
of him in the Old Testament: He was both the sacrificed
Goat, and the Scape Goat; “Hee was oppressed,
and he was afflicted (Isa. 53.7.); he opened not his
mouth; he brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and
as a sheep is dumbe before the shearer, so opened
he not his mouth:” Here he is the Sacrificed
Goat. “He hath born our Griefs, (ver.4.)
and carried our sorrows;” And again, (ver. 6.)
“the Lord hath laid upon him the iniquities
of us all:” And so he is the Scape Goat.
“He was cut off from the land of the living
(ver. 8.) for the transgression of my People:”
There again he is the Sacrificed Goat. And again
(ver. 11.) “he shall bear their sins:”
Hee is the Scape Goat. Thus is the Lamb of God
equivalent to both those Goates; sacrificed, in that
he dyed; and escaping, in his Resurrection; being
raised opportunely by his Father, and removed from
the habitation of men in his Ascension.
Christs Kingdome Not Of This World For as much therefore,
as he that Redeemeth, hath no title to the Thing Redeemed,
before the Redemption, and Ransome paid; and this
Ransome was the Death of the Redeemer; it is manifest,
that our Saviour (as man) was not King of those that
he Redeemed, before hee suffered death; that is, during
that time hee conversed bodily on the Earth.
I say, he was not then King in present, by vertue
of the Pact, which the faithfull make with him in Baptisme;
Neverthelesse, by the renewing of their Pact with God
in Baptisme, they were obliged to obey him for King,
(under his Father) whensoever he should be pleased
to take the Kingdome upon him. According whereunto,
our Saviour himself expressely saith, (John 18.36.)
“My Kingdome is not of this world.”
Now seeing the Scripture maketh mention but of two
worlds; this that is now, and shall remain to the day
of Judgment, (which is therefore also called, The Last
Day;) and that which shall bee a new Heaven, and a
new Earth; the Kingdome of Christ is not to begin
till the general Resurrection. And that is it
which our Saviour saith, (Mat. 16.27.) “The Son
of man shall come in the glory of his Father, with
his Angels; and then he shall reward every man according
to his works.” To reward every man according
to his works, is to execute the Office of a King;
and this is not to be till he come in the glory of
his Father, with his Angells. When our Saviour