66 Of the Creatures, and the Condition f"'-1\,../r) And withal the rather, becaufe fo, the words fo undedlood, do intimate a . BooK 11. higher and farther inducement to Chrif\ to a[ume our Nature; the Scope of the ~ Speech,Heb. to. being to render the reafon why he lo willingly took Mans Nature: Not only becaufe God liked not 5acrzfice mzd bttr4lt Ojferi11g,which came in but upon occalien ofSin and after the Fall,and could not ttJkr fins llWa); But further that he was Prophecied of, and his Afluming a Body propheticall-y, fore-fignilied, as in t he 4oth Pfalm, fo even by A dams !lory before the F.lll ' recorded m the very beginning of Gent/is, which many other Scriptures do ex: prelly applie it unto, As in his fir(\ Formation, and the Condition of his Per– Ion, , Cor. 1 5, 45, &c. And (o it is wriltm, The fir{/ Man Adam was m.1de a tivi"g So11! , the la(/ AdamwtU made a quickni1lg Spirit. So in h;s marriage with Eve,Ephej: )· p. Thi< i< agreat myflny·; but I jj;eak concerni11g Chnj/11nd the Chttrch, And then in his Soveraignty over 'Ill, .Pfat. 8. 6. Thot< m11de(l him to have dominzon ovtr the works of thy bmids: Tbo" h,,ji pm all t hings tmder bi< feet. And Heb. 2. 8. Thou ha(/ put a/J tbwgs i11 fubjeflio" zm. der his feet. Fo"'i" that he put ,,y i11 jubjeflio11 1mdtr hzm,, he tr{( 11otbit1g tbatis 11ot pt<t utzder him. But11ow we {eetzot yet a/J thi11gs p11t 1111der him, So likewife in the communication ofhis fin he typified out the Communication of Chri!\s Obedience , as Rom. 5'. . I lltall choofe to begin with this la!l: Place of Rom. )· as laying the general Foundation for all the refr, Tbe words there, do (as you fee) plainly affirm, that Adam w,u a Tjpe of Chrifl to comt; Ver{. '4• and the occafion of uttering them was the comparing of Adamand Chrifl together ( which the Apo!\le in this Chapt. cloth at large) as they were both of· them Publick Perfons; the one conveying fin, the other Rigbteo11jiu(s, to all their Po!\erity, And as the ground-work of that his Comparing of them, he brings in this Maxim, That A dam wtU a Type of Cbrijl to come: That is, Chri!l: being as furely to come after him, as Adamwas then come already. Therefore God appointed Ad,zm, as to be aPublick Perfon to convey to his Po!l:erity what he fhould do, or be , fo further alfo, to be a T ype of an other Adam, whow .M ro come after him , namely Jefus Chri!\: And faid to be to come ; not becaufe that proved to be the Event of it, that Chri!\ did do fo; hut b~caufe it was forefeen, aimed ot, and appointed by God, even by the Hi!\ory of A dam. And hereupon it is the Apof\le fets the one again!\ the other , as the Type and Ami-type, exactly comparing them in w(lat he had propounded to compare them in.And although in that Place it be but one Particular wherein he cloth compare them, namely in A dams conveying fin,wherein he typified .out Chrijl to come, whofhould con– vey Ri,ghteoujtze{s; yet this Axiom he brings as th~ warrant for it: For this Collation is more General and fo exteodcth to all Particulars elfe of Adams Story: As wherein he was alfo a Type , as well as in this. For it is ufual with the Apof\les (as it is with all other Difceurfers) in arguing, to bringGmerat Axioms for the proof of fomeone Particular. Thus for the comfort of the Saints in Affiictions, Rom.8.25,28.C!lc. be brings in a General Axiom, which reacheth to all things elfe, namely That AIJ rhi11gs work together for their good, Verf. 28.And another,Ver(. 29. We arc predefli>Jatedto be co11jormedto the Image of hu So11; which conformation reacheth to all things bothofGrac·e and Glory: But he there alledgeth it only in point of Affiictions, and for a Conformity to his Sufferings; which is but one Particular. And fo here, when he calls A dam a Type of him who was to come , he applies it indeed but to one Particular in this Place: But it is a General Maxim, extendible to many things more, wherein Chri!\ was typified out by Adam ; as by other Scriptures doth appear. But before l explain any of rhofe Scriptures, I will fir!\ fhew what is meant by [ T;,pe] as here it is tal<en. AType of a thi11g to come, is aProphetical refemblaace wherein fomething more imperfect going before, is intended by God to lignifie feme other thing more noble and perfect to follow after. In the proper fignification of the word, it fign ifies a Print , Stomp, or lmprellion, bearing,the refcmblance of that which made it. As the Letters wherewith Men Print, are called ,./7.., Typu n~<mdetttr, iays the Priviledge) bccaufe they leave the Print of themfclves upon
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