zz6* OF THE D E F I N I T I 0 N OF A T Y P E. Book I. 6. Divines underOand nothmg,dle by:'T)pes, but the Imag;es er Figures of Things prelem, or to come; dpeCially tne Achons and Htftones ot the Old Teftamem, re– fpeCting fuch as prefigured Chrift our Savior in his ACtions, Life, Paffion, Death, and the Glory that _followed. In which Senfe lame judge this Appellation to be •yypa~"' ·wrztten or mfcrtbed, and refer Rom. v. 14-. to tt, where Adam the firft .Man, is called ..-u,-((? .,.. ~'-'''"'1((?, Figura futuri, the Figure of him that was to come, viz. the ]aft Adam, 1 Cor. xv. 45· and X. 6. TCtuTet Tu?rof np.wv £')1£lln91Ja-etv, Now thefe 'Thi11gs were ouy c_rypes; and Ver. 11. 'TcwTO:. 'UT.x.~1a. TV?TOl o-u11E~a1vov f)(!IVQI( 1 Now alL theft Tbings happened to them for 'l)pes. Thefe two fexts we tranOate Examples, or l:.nfamples. But in the former Place, Rom. v. •4· a 'I)pe feems not properly to denote what we here intend for there is a certain Comparifon made between Adam and Chrifl, which carries rathe; a Difparity than a Similitude in it. "I he Prot~jis, or Propol1tion, is in Ver. 12. As Adam conveyed Death together with Sin to all that were born of him, (ut Adamtts om– nibus ex fe natis cum Peccato Mortem com;nunicat.) The /lpod(l/is, Reddition, or Return, is not exprefsly fet down, but infinuated in the foregoing Words, as if he had faid, fo Chrift conveys or communicates Life to all thole that by Faith are given to, and im– planted in him. A 'Type therefore in the faid Place denotes a ~imilitude generically, and relates to the fifth Particular. In the latter Example .u,-((?, a 'Type, lignifies an Ex– ample, Shadow, ·or Umbrage of Things to come, as the ·words annexed make out, yet not properly relating to the Types in hand. To this fome refer Heb. viii. 5· ADs vii. 44· where.,.,,.((?, a 'r)pe, is taken for the Pattern and Image fhewn to Mofcs in the Mount, Exod. xxv. 40. [in the Hebrew it is called r1'1Jf1, an Exemplar, Pattern, Figure or Forn),] denoting that the StruCture of that Levitical Tabernacle, was a Trpe or Prefi– guration of the Truth which was to be expected under the Gofpel Difpcnfation : So Gregory Nazianzm fays,• 'That the Levitical Law was a Shadow of Things to come, ' as the Apolile declared, and as God commanded Mofes to do all Things,"".,.""'.,.,,.,, • according to the Example fhewed him in the Mount, viz. of Things obvious to ' Senfe, which afterwards were to be dilcovered by Faith. Pifcator fays, That by TU,-((?, ' a 'Type, Heb. viii. 5· the "IX'7U"{(?, or Archetype, is to be underftood; that is, the ' principal or primitive Exemplar or Pattern of thofe heavenly and fpiritual Things, ' which were prefigured by the T abernacle, and the Ceremonies relating to it, as Anti– ' types, viz. the Death of Chriflupon the Altar of the Crols, and his Entrance into ' the heavenly Sanctuary, which Things were fpiritually revealed to M•fes .' But we may be fatisfied that by 'Type, or Example, in the aforefaid Place, we are to underltand the Difpofitioi:t and Form of the future Building of God's Houfe under the evangelical Difpenfation, and fl'.l it belongs to the fifth Signification, according to the Signification of the Hebrew Word m:l, Banah, .edificavit, he hath built. ' I!. Synonimous Terms, 1. The Word 'Typos ufed by the Seventy, anfwers to fl'JJfl, Exod. xxv. 40. and o~;:, Amos v. 26. but neither of thefe concern us in this Place: Yet we may refer to this that general Appellation, ~llltl, Mafhal, which denotes a Si– militude, or the Comparifon of one Thing to another: Alfo a Parable, Proverb, Axiom, dark or figurative Speech: See Ezek. xxiv. 3· In the Arabick T ongue we meet with the Word n:llll, Schibh, which denotes a Similitude, Type, or Parable, from ;1:1111, he was like, &c. 2. FromGreek Writers, as well canonical, as ecclefiaftical, we may mention fame fynonimous Appellations; as from the New T cftament, we find that the Types of Things to come are called, (1.) :!:""'a Shadow of 'Things to come, Heb. viii. 5· ux1a: -rwv n;:n~pa:~1wv, a Shadow of heavenly :!hings, and Heb. x. I. o-x1« TWII f-'lAAoiiTwv, "'Y"~'"' the Shadow of good 'Things to come; becaule Chrift, with his Bleilings and Works performed for the Salvation of Mankind, was propofed to the Godly in an ob– fcure Way, or a fhadowy Defcription of his Lineaments in the Old Teftament. Hence fame think that (Rom. xiii. 12.) the Old Teftamentis reprefented by Night, or Darknefs, and the New Teftament by Day, or Face to Face. (2.) y,.,J"'YI'-"• an Example or Pat– tern; the Priefts of the Old Teltament are called '".,.1'"""' u,-oJ"'YI'-"1' '""l""w', to ferve to thofe 'Things, Heb. viii. 5· that is, to be exerciled in thofe P~rts of divine Worlhip, which w.ere Types and Figures of Things to be expected in the New; here there may be an,Ellipjis of the Prepofition "' and fo the Senfe is, that their Priefthood or Miniftry expired
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