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Sermon. 221Israel. What was set before them' Christ, in the types andfigures. What was the Paschal lamb '1 Christ. The blood ofthe lamb was a type of Christ. To wbom did the prophet Isaiahwish men to look '1 Not to himself. God forbid. But he calledto men to look tD Jesus Christ as the only way for them toescape eternal death, as it is written, "Look unto me, and beye saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God and thereis none else." That is the eaU of the gospel and that is whatthey declared. They preached, prayed and pleaded with men torepent and turn from their evil way. They could not do otherwise,seeing by faith, the doom that awaited all who shouldcontinue in the ways of sin impenitent, reckless and indifferentto the claims of God and conscience. "Enoch, the seventh fromAdam, prophesied of these saying, behold the Lord cometh withten thousand of His saints to execute judgment upon all thatare ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which theyhave ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches whichungodly s'inners have ~'Poken against him" (Jude, 14).I must leave this part of my discourse, but verily the moreyou look at these extraordinary men of God, the more you arebound to love and admire them, if you are a follower of theLamb of God, and not only to admire and love them, but toimitate them by the grace of God bestowed upon you, in yourlife, walk and conversation in the world. We may say to-dayin om own land Oh! for a Samuel Rutherford! Oh! for a Robert'Bruce of Edinburgh! They might eaU for an Isaiah, but thesedear men of God had finished their ('A)Urse, and when their daywas over, like tired labourers, sleep was sweet to them. " Thesleep of a labouring man is sweet" (Eccles. v, 12). Blessedbe God, that they do rest from their labours in everlasting gloryfor eternity!11. In the second place, Christ in our text, addresses HisApostles, under the present dis'pensation and directs them tothose who have gone befor.e them. Others laboured unto death,and under all circumstances and now I am sending you out, notto labour; but to reap the fruit of their labour. We do not