32:40; Ezekiel 34:25; Daniel 7:13,14; Isaiah 42:6; 62:2; compared with

Matthew 28:19,20.  Moses instituted the passover, when a lamb was sacrificed,

none of whose bones were to be broken, and whose blood protected the people

from destruction.-- Christ was himself that pascal lamb.  Moses had a very

wicked and perverse generation committed to his care; and to enable him to

rule them, miraculous powers were given to him, and he used his utmost

endeavours to make the people obedient to God and to save them from ruin; but

in vain; in the space of forty years they all fell in the wilderness except

two.-- Christ also was given to a generation not less wicked and perverse;

his instructions and his miracles were lost upon them; and in about the same

space of time, after they had rejected him, they were destroyed.

(iii) As to his prophetic office and character.-- Moses foretold the

calamities that would befall his nation for their disobedience.-- Christ

predicted the same events, fixed the precise time, and enlarged upon the

previous and subsequent circumstances.

Moses chose and appointed seventy elders to preside over the people.

Christ chose the same number of disciples.  Moses sent twelve men to spy out

the land which was to be conquered.-- Christ sent his twelve apostles into

the world, to subdue it by a more glorious and miraculous conquest.

(iv)  As to the benefits conferred.  Moses delivered the Israelites

from their cruel bondage in Egypt; he contended with the magicians, and had

the advantage over them so manifestly, that they could no longer withstand

him, but were constrained to acknowledge the divine power by which he was

assisted.  Moses conducted the Israelites through the desert; assuring them

that if they would be obedient, they should enter into the happy land of

promise, which the wiser Jews usually understood to be a type of the eternal

and celestial kingdom, to which the Messiah was to open an entrance.  And

Moses interceded with the Almighty for that rebellious people, and stopped

the wrath of God, by lifting up the brazen serpent in the wilderness.  The

people could not enter into the land of promise till Moses was dead -- by the

death of Christ 'the kingdom of heaven was opened to all believers'.-- But

Jesus has delivered us from the far worse tyranny of Satan and sin, and He

saves all who truly believe in him and unfeignedly repent, from the guilt,

the power, and the punishment of their sins (Matt. 1:21).-- Jesus Christ cast

out evil spirits, and received their acknowledgments both of the dignity of

his nature and the importance of his mission.  He was lifted up on the cross,

and was the Atonement for the whole world.  He has also brought life and

immortality to light.  As our Forerunner, he hath entered into heaven, that

where he is, there his followers may be also (Heb. 6:20; 9:24; John 14:2,3):

and as an Advocate he ever liveth to make intercession for all that come to

God by him (1 John 2:1; Heb. 7:25).

Moses wrought a great variety of miracles, and in this particular the

parallel is remarkable; since besides Christ 'there arose not a prophet in

Israel like unto Moses whom the Lord knew face to face, in all the signs and

wonders which the Lord sent him to do' (Deut. 34:10,11).  Moses was not only

a lawgiver, a prophet, and a worker of miracles but a king and a priest.  He

is called king (Deut. 33:5) and he had indeed, though not the pomp, and the

crown, and the sceptre, yet the authority of a king, and was the supreme

magistrate; and the office of the priest he often exercised.  In all these

offices the resemblance between Moses and Christ was striking and exact.

Moses fed the people miraculously in the wilderness -- Christ with

bread and with doctrine; and the manna which descended from heaven, and the