of th~ir State byCreation. upon Paper, and the Letters Printed bear the rrfditblaflaof thofe Stamps which ""-A./\ made them: So tliar, . . · . Chap.8. , 1 . It notes out :i Re[em6la11tt between two things; which fometimcs in~ Srciprure ore called AUegories: So Gala~. 4· 24. rh~ Sto;y ~f H.1ga: ~nd Sar:ih · is m,de the Allegory of rhe two CoveJJants: That JS,a eonunued Similitude. So likewi(e they are called ..,.,,,.;., Hrb. g. g. that is, comparifons made ofthings like, fuel! as Chrill:.ufed, and ..:.nt~r~·"'• Suboflmftolles, obfcure, underhand rc– femblances, ( Hd,, 8. )•) and .ShrJ~ows; arid Hebr. 7• 4· MelchJfdech is fa id to be made /rh lo Chnjf, as bemg Ius Type. Seco:ndly, Wheri the thing typified is to come, then it noies out a Prophe– tical refemblance intenaed by God ; and fo it differs Horn a meer liken,fs , or Allufion, or Pattern or Exam~le. There are many Stori5s in the Scrir.ture ·' which fell out exceed1ng hke to many Palfages about Chn£1:. As the mll:ance of 7o6 in his Sufferings, which in as many Particulars refemble5 Chri!t's Su(– ferlngs, as any other whatever in Holy Writ ; as in his being emptied of AU; and from being One who thought it no robbery to be equal wrth the Princes of the Earth, in Riches and Honours; becoming Poor (even fo poor, ~hat it grew into a Proverb , and is currant to this day) and ftrip't naked·of all, being ab'– horred of his Acquaintance, mockt b'y thofe who had been his Valfals, arid forfaken of his Friends, (as Chri£1: of hi:; Difciples) God himfelf hi~:ng h"is Face from him, and holding him for his Enemy, Job 1 S• 24. as he did hide his Face trom Chrift, when he hurtg naked on the Crofs, and cried out, Mj God, mrGod, wh_yha(/ thouforfakenme. Andyetfor all this, that Jo6was .• herein a Type of Chrift to come, we have no warrant to .!Erm , though fome have done it: So likewife may many other Stories more hold the like rfferri– blance: But Types they are not, unlcfs they be P.-ophetically intended by God~ fo to fignifie. Thus He6r. 9· e. the Apollle fpeakmg of a Type in the Olc!, fays, LThe HolyGhofl tbereby (rgnifying, (!le.] and therefore, He6r. 8. ~· he fays, they did ferve as Exampln, but, as in"ll:itured by God, for he alledgeth God's words to Moj'es on t he Mount; Su (fays he) that you make aU accord· ing to ihe pattem i11the Mount. Wherefor~ oo more of the Hill:ories, or whatever Inll:itutions elfe in the Old Tell:ament than we find applyed by the Holy Ghoft, either in the Proj)hets, by way bf Prophecy of what llJOuld be underthe New Tell:arnent (they (peaking of the worlhip, (!ic. of the New Te!tament under the Language of the Old Types) or which elfe in the New Tell:ament it felf ate fo applyed by the Holy Gno£1:,t may we dare to make ute of, or call Types. And the Reafon is, becaufe for things Hill:orical to fignifie; is ex inflituto, they do it natt1ra!l_y; therefore we m·un have a word ot infli'- tution or warrant from God, that fo intended thern ;' or otheiwife we cari found no matter of certainty upon them, neither will they be fancl::fied in the opening ofthem' to work upon the heart, as being human fignificatio"ns only, an'd as linlawlul, as they are. Allufions, I grant, we may n\'al!'e of' therri, for itlull:ration fake: As .limos 6. 6. the Holy Ghoft laying forth their fin, ex~ prelfeth it under the Similitude of Jof'eph's Story, and of the chief J',rttler of Pharaoh [The_y drink: Wine in Bowls, but art not grievedfor the AjjltElion of jofeph] yet none will fay, it was intended as a Type of this Curinge· of ~heirs; but he aptly exprdfeth it by thar, And fo lf,zi.I.IO. he calls the Prin• cesof l(Pael, RulrrsoJ Sodom. Inhkemanner, Th1ngsmNature we may inake Similitudes of, by reafon of a !itnefs in them to refemblc: and (, God inten<led them to help us (whole Underll:andings are tyecl to our S:nfe1 here) in our app:ehenfioris of Spiritual things; for which reafon our Saviour Chrifl: abounded mfuch Similitudes and Parables. As in that Sermon to Mcodtmul , where he exp~e!fed the wotk of Grace, by a Nrw Birth; and t:le' ivorking 6f God's Spmt therein, by tile Blowing of the wi11d, }'•hn l• 8. which' N1~ codemlls riot yet u'nderll:anding, fays Chrift, If I have told 1011 rarthly thi11gs, rmd roll 6tluve n•t, &c. that is, have endeavoured by Simflitudes drawn from earthly things, to make you under!tand heavenly. lb iha't a9' th ey fay i God hath m•de no kind of thing on the Earth, but it hath its fike in rhc Sea ; fo there is_ fcarce any thingheavenly, but he appointed fomerhing in Nature to' refemble 1t; whtch nutwirhfhnding is no Type (although it be a refemblance) ~ 1. of
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