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Matthew Poole and continuators on Hebrews 11:28

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Hebrews11:28

28 Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the first-born, should touch them.

This Divine Faith influenced him in all his Work about God's Ordinances, receiving the Law about him, from God's Mouth, and obeying it: By it he made the Passover, i. e. as God's Instrument, he instituted it, and put it into being, Exod. 12.21. he celebrated & solemnly managed in each particular, and finished it, reaching the end of it according to God's Law in that behalf, 1 Cor. 5.7. Here he saw Christ, and testified of him, the true Paschal Lamb of God; by whom God's Wrath passed over the Children of Israel, when it rested upon the Egyptians, Exod. 12.21. &c. By Faith he took a bunch of Hysop and dipt it in the Blood of the Paschal Lamb, and striked the Lintel and two Side-posts of the Doors with the Blood, Exod. 12.22. He used it as a Signal of God's sparing Israel, and passing over their Houses by his Angel, v. 23. and he saw in it the true Blood of sprinkling, of Christ our Passover, which saveth Souls from the Destroyer, Iohn 5.46. and brings them out of the Egypt of this World into the heavenly Canaan.

The end of both these, was, That the destroying Angel, who slew all the First-born of the Egyptians, might not touch an Israelite, Exod. 12.29, 30. Under all this Faith evidenced to Moses God's Faithfulness in his Promise, it ordered all his Duty, and it realized to their hope in that time of Danger, that God would save them, who were under [illegible: 1 letter]hat Blood, working their Assurance of it.

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