Chap.3.SeGt.t Looking utJto1efm. Booi:IV~Part.4 693 and therefore he would not delay his refurreCl:ion after the third day. Some think this, and that of Hofea, after two d,ryes he will Hofea 6.1; revive m mrd in the third day he will raife tu ttp, to be the maine texts to'which Chrifi refers when he laid. Thm it u writ- Luk : 4 •4 6. ter;. And to which the Apoflle refers, when he faid, that ChriH rofe againe th~ thirddaJ, according tuthe Scrip- 1 Cor.xr.,.. tures. I dare not be too curious, in giving reafons for this fe etime, and the rath~r becaufe Chrifi i£ a free worker of his own affaires; be doth what he pleafeth, and when he pleafeth; times and acb- . ons are in his own power,and he needs not to give us any account of them; and yet fo far as Scripture difcovers,we may go along, and arnongft many others, I iliall lay down thefe following reafons.~- I. Becaufe the types had fo prefigmed; we fee it in Ifaac, J&nah, and He.ukjtth, a Patriarch, a Prophet, and a King. r. For Jjaac, from the rime that God commanded Jfaac to be offered for a burnt offering, Ifac~c was a dead man, but the third day be was releafed from death; this the text tells us exprefiely, that it was the third day when Abraham carne to mount Moriah,. and had his fon as it were refiored to him againe, Gm.2 z.4. and f,lu/ Ge;,. 11,4. difcovers that th!s was in a jig1tre. Heb. r 1.19. 2. For 'Jonah Hcb. 1I, 19• from the time that {onah wascafi into the fea, and [wallowed up of the filh, 'Jonah was in account as a dead man, but c.he third day the Lord fpake unto the fiili, and it vomited up {onah upon the dr7 · land, Jonah 2. 1 o. And that this was a figure ofChrifi, Chrifl: Jonah .:;ro. hirn:elfe d&overs, for tU 'fontU wtU three days mid three nighu in the whales bell], fo fha!lt he Sonne uj man be three, dayeJ .md th'l'ee M lt.l :.. 40 , nights ir; the heart r,f the etmh. 3. For He-<.,rkiah, from the time that !fa iah faid unt~ hirn,[et rhine hotJ(e in order,for thoufhalt dye, 1. K ing.:.0 , 1 , and not ln~ e ; He"'"ekzah was tn account as a dead man, hts be<i wa~ to himas a grave; but on tbe third day he was rniraculoufJy raifed up aga ne; and as the Prophet faid, on the third day thou (h4 /t goupto theholl{eofthe Lord. Su~ely this was a figm"t: ofChril.l. ver.). And there types prefigunng Chnfi ~ rc as one reafon. . .z..Becaufe the Prophets and himfdfhad fo foretold : for the Prophets we have cited, Pfa!. r6.1 o.Hofea 6.2. and for himfelf he told them very ex?rdfdy, that he muft fuffer many things of , the Eldm, and chief Priejfs, and Scribo, and be rnifed 11gain rhe M1t . J6;ll.~ T ,t t t 3 third '
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