CHAP. XII.

What remarkable feast was instituted at

this time?

The feast of the passover.

What were the people ordered to do? To take a lamb without blemish, a lamb for an house.

What was the lamb a type of ?

The Lord Jesus Christ, who is called the lamb without blemish, and without spot.

What were the Israelites to do with the lamb without spot?

They were to put the blood of the lamb on the door-post, and they were to eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and with unleavened bread, and bitter herbs.

What do we learn by this?

That we are to have our hearts sprinkled with the blood of Jesus, and also to feed on him by faith.

What benefit did Israel gain by the blood being put on the lintel and door-posts?

The Lord, when he saw the blood, passed over the door, and would not suffer the destroyer to come into their houses to smite them.

What do we escape by the blood of Christ? The destruction appointed for the wicked. What may we learn from the unleavened bread and bitter herbs eaten with the pascal lamb?

They were emblems of that sorrow for sin, with which we remember Christ's sacrifice, and the sincerity and truth with which believers feed on him by faith.

What does Paul say about this?

Christ our passover has been sacrificed for us, therefore, let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

What is said of this period of their de liverance?

"It is a night to be much observed unto the Lord, for bringing them out of the land of Egypt."

Of what most remarkable period in a Christian's history does this form a type?

That period, when by God's power and grace he is delivered from the kingdom of darkness and sin, and brought to Christ.

What happened to Egypt on that night? At midnight the Lord smote all the firstborn of the land of Egypt, and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead.

What effect had this on the Egyptians?

They were urgent with the people, that they might send them out in haste, for they said, we be all dead men.

What did they lend Israel?

Jewels of silver and gold, and raiment as much as they required.

How long had Israel sojourned in Egypt ? Four hundred and thirty years.

How many were they, when they left ?

Six hundred thousand on foot, besides children.

Who went up with Israel?

A mixed multitude.

Where did they go first?
From Rameses to Succoth.

Who were to eat the passover?

Every circumcised person, whether of Israel, or bought of them with money, might eat the Passover.

Who were not to eat the Passover ?

No foreigner or hired servant, or stranger or uncircumcised person, could eat thereof. Who partake of Christ the true passover ? All the true people of God, and all who are purchased by his blood, and made new creatures in Jesus.

Who are excluded from the benefit of Christ's blood?

All unrenewed persons and strangers to the grace of God.

In what other respect was the lamb typical of Jesus?

Not a bone of it was broken; this was fulfilled in Jesus, when on the cross.

What enabled a stranger to eat thereof? If he truly desired to keep the passover to the Lord, and consented to be circumcised,. he might draw near, and keep it.

How are strangers and foreigners made fellow-citizens with the saints?

They are brought nigh by the blood of Christ, and are born again of the Spirit, and thus become members of the household of God.

CHAP. XIII.

How long was this feast to last?

For seven days they were to eat unleavened bread.

What may we learn by this?

That the whole time in which Christ's death is remembered, should be a time of holiness and self-denial, in which we put away all the leaven of malice and wickedness.

How long does our passover last?

From the time of Christ's death, until his return in glory, when salvation will be completed.

What are we called to do, during all this period?

To put away every evil thing, and to feed continually on the true pascal lamb.