oftheir State by Creation. Now having thus explained what a Type is, I proceed to lhew, liow Adam~ and his whole Srory was intended by God as a more imperfect Type going be· Chap. 8. fore, to {icrnific and fet forth Chrifl tU to come. Now I find fome, who do in-(;;;;;;,~ deed ackn~wlcdge a Similitude between the firfi and fecond A dam, and that Myrothu. "f· A dammay in that refped: be called a Type of Chnfi; but yet only Nat11ralis S· •d £phrf. Typu•, and fo to fignifie him but as a natural thtng or fiery, may be brought to reprefent and. illuf\rate another like unto it; _by way of P~rallel, but not fX' i 11 fliwto , as fo mtended by God tn a way of Infiltution, as the Types of the Old Law were, which did ferve to the Example and Shadow of Chrifl, He!Jr, 8.).. and were on purpofe framed to that end: But fo ( fays he) Admn was not intended by God; for that would infinuate that God intended Chrlfllhould be Incarnate, before the fall, and ordained Adam but as his fore-runner.Now therefore the Point which I intend to rhanifefi, and firfl to prove ia the gene. ral only, is, That At/amand his Story are not only things which hold a like· nefs with things about Chrifl. and out of which Similitude may be drawn for lllufiration; but which were intended by God to fore-fignifie Chrift to come , and toaffume an Human Nature: And this not only in refpcct unto the Fall, but for oth<:r refpeds alfo. Wherefore Adamwas ordained to be Chrifi's Type, ns to come, and that not fimply upon the Fall, but before, in his firfl Creation and efiate ef Innocency. And though it be true indeed, that he had not come thus in the form of a Servant into thu world, but upon a Suppofition of the Fall, nor had his Human Nature been the Seed of the WomaH, nor he 6orn of the Virgin Mary elfe: Which Promife of Chnft was therefore, in refped: of fuch a way of coming into the World, given after the Fall only.. And though in the execution of things, Chrifl firfl took frail jlejh, and came in the form 'of a Jervant, and God fo decreed it as he had done the Fall; yet in his pri. mary Intention, his chief and primary Decree, his eye and firft aim was at his Sons having fuclt ~!late and condition in his Human Nature, as he bath now in Heaven glorified. This was firfi in God'~ Intention, though lafi in Execution, And of this !late and condition of Chrifl's Human Nature glorified as to come, was Adam before his fall. the Type , as in the Sequel will ap· t>ear. Now for the Proof of this, namely That Adam and all his Story before the Fall, was a Type of Chrift in the Senfe before given ; not only by way of !1luflration, (as any other Similitude or thing like may be brought to illufirate another ) but by way of Ordination , as fo intended by God, to fore·Typifie, and Shadow out Chrifl as to come. ' • firfl, Let us fee whatthefewords; Rom. s. 14.(who is the 'JYpeof him thr1t wM to come) will afford: our of which this feems to be made plain. r, In that Adam is called, not only a Type; which (as formerly hath been explained) imports more than a bare Similitude': But alf<;l a Type [of him that WtUtocome] he fays not, ofhimthatw.ucome; this argues him 10be a Pro– phetical Type, and that Chrifl was intended as the Anti-type fore-fignified thereby: Andfo Adamnot tobeonlyasa Similitude that would fervetoil· luflrate Chrifr then whenht i6 come, The like Phrafe we have, ufed of the Ceremonial Types, whofe inflitution (all grant) was more. for to Typifie Chrifl to come, than to ferve for a Prefent ufe in Worlhip (though fo they alfo did;) Now of them it is faid , CollojJ. 2, 7· They were a fhadow, or, 'l)pt [of thm!(s to come;] fo likewife, He/;. 10. r. and He/;. S. s. where they ar& faid ••7poJ.,, to f<rvein Worlhip to this end, for a double ufe they then had: r. T~make up a Worfhip to God in thofe Times: 2. As Types to fore-lignifie rhmgs to con:e.Therefore He!J,g.g.they are called a Fi!(IIYtfor the prefent time (then, v.:hen !n ufe,as parts of worlhip,) to figure our things to come; And that was t.mr Pnmary ufe, Now the like, fay I, of Adam and his Story, and the World made for him in lnnocency; That although it was a glorious inflan·ce, · and tmmfeflat10n of many of Gods Attributes, as of his Holinefs, in ma· king him after Gods Image , fo of his Power, and Ju!licc, and Wifdom, more than all God's other Vilible Works (all which God made for him) and this it was limply in it felf conlidered, although G;d lhould never have inten. ded any thing further the,reby , but have re!led in it: Yet I fay further, That befides
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