8o Of the Creatures, and the Condition ~ Yea, Thirdly, Chrifl was firfl, and more principally intended of the r<.vo . BooK ll, for A dam being but as the Type, and fo ,, the more imperfcll every way; ~Chnlt, the fecotld A dam, mufl needs be, not only at the lame ttme wnh him, intended, but primarily, and in the firfi place; for fo it is in all Types elfe: Their Anti-type is that for which they are ordained, and they are but Ftgttres for Ihe prefmt, as you have it, Htbr. 9.6. and fo are but fubordtnate to their Anti·type, as firfl and chiefly intended : And therefore, they are faid llut to frrve tmto the patttrn, C!ic. H•br. g, ~· even as the Houfe is more in the mind of the Workman, and intended before the Platform or Draught of it on Parch· ment, which only ferves towards the Building of it, And therefore the TJ pe is Hill rather faid t<l be made l.ke the thing Typified , than the thing Typified to be made lilte unto its Type: So Heb. 7· l· Me!chijed•chbeing. to be a Type of Chnfi, was fatd to be mtldt ltke ufllo the Son of God: God framed him and his Condition, to refemble Chrifl, and not Chrifl to refemble Mtlchil dech : "hich holds in ·all other Types alfo, and therefore fo in this; wherein God did intend A dam, and his Earthly and Souly Condition ( as the more imperfect,) to fore-run Chrifl, and that Spiritual and Heavenly Condition by him. And therefore alfo Chrifl is called, tbe Lafl Adam, not in refpect of Order; but, to !hew he wa• the perfection of the other; as [ Lajl JCome– t imes lignifies, in whom all is bounded agd determined : So Matt b. 21. l7· La{/ of afJ he fmt hi. Son, as the utmofi remedy and compleate!l. This al· ways holds in other of Gods works, which are fubordinate to each othcr,that the Lafl notes out Perfection: So here , [the Firs1] notes out imperfection, [the Lafl] the Sum, Complement, and Perfection of all; as [ .,;,,,] fignifies the [ E11d] and [ .,;,H,,] [Perjefl] And that this is the Apo!lles meaning here, is evident by the Connexion of Per(e46. with what went before , in verj; 44· and 4~· For having affirmed, verje 44· thatit was Gods Purpofe to make two Ranks of Men and Conditions of them, Animal, and Hraveniy, ( or Spi– rzttwl) [there u(that is, there h ordained to be) a Natnral Body, a11da Spiritual Body] and then having proved it to be Gods meaning, in that when he mad• the Firjl A dam a livins Soul, he then in him, as the Type alfo, made or ordained (as we faid) Chrift "quicl:ning Spirit, v•rfe 45. (there– by f11ewing , that in Gods Decree the one was as ancient as the other :) Then in verft 46,he adds, by way ofExplanation (or Correllion) Howbeit that was 11ot fir{/ which u Spiritual, (that is, not fir!\ in execution,or in order of Time, becaufe that was to be moll perfect)bt<t that which was Natural, (that was or· dained to come into the world firfl) a,nli afterward that which is fpiritttal, as the Perfection of the other; Gods manner of proceeding in his Works being to begin ab imperf•flioribus, with what is imperfect, and fo to go on adper· felfiora, to what is more perfed: He ordered that Adam ihould come firfl, with his Natural, or Animal Body , to uiher in Chrifi afterwards, with his Spiritual Body. And that !late which Adambrought in,being thelirfi Draught (as thi!t of a Coal in a Picture) .that flate which Chrifi brings in, is as the lafl Hand put to it, filling up the Peece with the brightefi Colours of Perfection, And as Nature is a Ground-work to Grace, fo was the Animal Subflance to that which was Spiritual, even to be cloathed with ir, and fwallowed up by it; yet fo, as the firfi Draught ferved withal, as aShadow, to tell that the other more r~rfed was to come, and primarily intended, And therefore, in the 49th Ver(e, he brings in thisastheclofureof this his Proof, that, Ar ( cer· trtinly M) we have born the Image of the earthy , Jo ( w·tai11ly) fb,tlt we bear the Image of the heavmly. I fhall wind up all with a Confideration or two, which put together, will fitly ferve, both as the General Conclufion of this whole Difcourfe, and parti· cularly alfo further to confirm this !aft Branch in haMd. You havefeen howAdam was·a Type of Chrifi, both in his Falling (os hath been f11ewn out of Rom. ~· 14.) and before his Fall, in his firfi Creation (as here in this Place) And Ad1Jm, in both Hates, did as a publick Per(on, re· prefent Chrifl: Now obferve but how Chrift his Anti· type cloth in a corrdpon• dency, and anfwering to both thefe, run through two eflates alfo, futrable to thefe two of Adam: And in each of thefe Ellates, Chnll, as a publtck ~er· ion,
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