68 Of the Creatures,-and the Condition ~ of it, becaufe not Prophetically intended by God to fore-figoilie them as to BooK 11. come : Which Types do ferve not only ta help us to conceive aright of the ~ things to come, but alfo are Prediaions that they will come to p>ls, and fo may help our Faith as well as our Underfiandmg: So that, a word from God to explain thefe was needful, but thofe other are left ta Man's wit to fit and apply them. Thirdly, In the Defcription of a Type, I add [to fignifir] which differen– ceth thefe Ty'pes from bare and meer Examp1•s, which do only forewarn, ot call to an Imitation : And therefore, though they be of things palfed, yet are they not in this Senfe, of things to comf: although becaufe they are Patterns the word be ufed of them, as Phtl. j · 17. you have the word [ ,J,.,] put fo; . an Example: and fo all God's dealings ~ith the ljr4flitts are called,;,;,, Ex– ampln, orT;pn, astheMargent hathtt: But how? not as fore·figni lying fo much as fore· warning; and therefore it follows, Thfy Wfrr writ/m for , 11 ; admonitio11, But fo, Adam could not b~ a Type ofChrifi, for him to imita" or to be fore.warned by, but to fore-fignifie, Many things indeed in the flory .of the Old Tefiament were Types fore·fignifying, as well as fore-warning; as I heir 110t entritrg into Canaan, andGod'sJwraring m his wrath, is made a Type of not enrring into Heaven, in H•6r. 3· II. andChap-4- 3· and fo I de. ny not, but that thofe Palfages they recorded, might Typifie out the Hypocri– fie of many profetling the Gofpel (which feems alfo to be the Apofile's fcope) yet Principally they are to forewarn. And if fo , yet it follows not that All rhings then fell out, as Typesfore-fignifying: For hefaysnot fimply [.,;: ...,7•) but [,;,,.. ..u,OJ aD thrft thitJgs l that is, thofe Particulars mentioned in the former Verfes: fo as, none but (uch things as God bath in fome word or other declared to be Signs and 'JYpes , are to be fo judged , though otherwife never fo like in view. Fourthly, I put in, That the Things thar are thus made Types of things to comr, arc things morr imperfeel; and the things typified by them more glori– oUI andprr[rff. Thus Coloff. 1.. '7· the Types of the Law are ca,lled but The fbadows ofgoodthittgs to comr ;· and Chrifi fignifycd by them, the Body; that is, He is as the Body of the Sun, and They but as ihe Shadow which the Sun ma~es: So the dwelling of God in the ,:I'emple was a Type, yet but as the Prefcnce of a l'-'!an in his lhadow: Butoppofitely it is faid, ], Chrrj/ dweUs thf fulttt[s of thr Godhead hodily; Coloff. 1.. 9· So H•hr.9.1.4- Thofe things that are Typical,are but Figuus of the things typified: And no other were all tbof" brave men, who were made Types of Chrifi. Fifth!y, I inferted, That in a way of R.efemblance the Things fignified do anfwer firly unto them that fignifie, as the lmprefs does to the Stamp that made it. Therefore, 1 Prur 3· u~ Baptifm is called .l,.JT...,,, that is, a lih Figurr, Now fometimes they refemble, either r. In a likenefsor fimilitude: SoAdamwas likeChrijl; Ephef 5· ~2. This is" great myflery: 6ut Ijpeak cona.rni11g Chrij/ atJd the Church. 2.. In a way of Antitpejis or Oppojition: So Ram. 5· J 8, Thereforr M 6y the offmceof.otre, Judgmentca111e upon all mm to ()f)ndemnatio11: even (o 6y the r~ghtroufn•fs of 011e,. the fru gift camr up011 all mm utrto jllf/rfication of /Jfe. A damconveyed Sm, andCbrij/ conveyed Grace. Or, 3· In a way of Eminency or Tranfcendency : So Chrifi excels A dam; , Cor. 15. 4), 46. A1rd fo it iJ writtm: Thr firjl manAdamWM mad• a living Sot~l, thdaf/ AdamwM made a quidning Spirit. How6fit that was 11ot firjl which u [piritual: hut that which is 11at11ral, m1dafurwardthat which is fpiri– tual. Yet they fame way anfwer, and are correfpondenr, as Type and Anti· type, which is enough. Now
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