III. What are the points of resemblance between the Paschal Lamb and Christ?

A consideration of the resemblances between the rites which God commanded to be observed in regard to the Paschal Lamb, and Christ, contributes very much to the confirmation, and illustration of the chief end of the Passover.

A comparison between the type and the Thing signified.

THE TYPE WAS, THE THING SIGNIFIED IS,
1. A lamb from the flock 1. Christ a true man. Is. 53:2, 3, and John 1:14.
2. Without blemish, set apart 2. Without sin. Is. 53:5, 7, 8. Heb. 7:26.
3. To be slain and roasted. 3. Who suffered and died. 1 Cor. 5:7.
4. No bone was broken. 4. He died without having his bones broken. John 19:36
5. Was slain in the evening. 5. In the end of the world. Heb. 1:2; 9:26.
6. The posts were to be sprinkled with blood, 6. His satisfaction is imputed unto us. Is. 53:5. Rom. 3:24.
7. That the destroyer might passover the houses of the Israelites. 7. That we might be delivered from eternal death. Heb. 2:14.
8. It was to be eaten, and that in every family. 8. There must be an application of Christ to every one by faith. Rom. 1:17
John 6:47.
9. It was all to be eaten. 9. According to all the articles of our faith. Tim. 3:16.
10. Without leavened bread. 10. Without hypocrisy. 1 Cor. 5:8.
11. With bitter herbs. 11. With the endurance of the cross. Matt. 10:38.
12. With haste, and in the attire of travellers. 12. With a desire to progress in the Christian life, and with the expectation of eternal life. Luke 8:15. Heb. 13:9, 15.
13. By the circumcised alone. 13. None but the regenerate eat him, and to these alone is he profitable, and they alone receive not the sacrament to their condemnation. John 6:56. Heb. 13:10. 1 Cor. 11:26.


Has the Passover been abolished?

That the ancient Passover, with all the other types which prefigured the Messiah which was to come, was abolished at the coming of Christ is evident,

1. From the whole argument of the Apostle in the Epistle to the Hebrews respecting the abolishing of the legal shadows in the New Testament. “The priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.” “In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old.” (Heb. 7:12; 8:13.)

2. From the fulfillment of these legal shadows. “These things were done that the Scriptures might be fulfilled. A bone of him shall not be broken.” “Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.” (John 19:36. 1 Cor. 5:7.)

3. From the substitution of the New Testament; for Christ, when he was about to suffer, and die and sacrifice himself as the true Passover, closed the ordinance relating to the paschal lamb with a solemn feast, and instituted and commanded his supper to be observed by the church in the place of the old passover. “With desire, I have desired to eat with you this passover, before I suffer.” “This do in remembrance of me.” (Luke 22:15, 19.) Christ here commands the supper, not the ancient passover, to be celebrated in remembrance of him. As baptism has, therefore, succeeded circumcision, so the Lord’s supper has succeeded the passover in the New Testament.