Part II. OF THE D E F I N I T I 0 N OF A T y p E. *227 expired " ,.,.,Juyp.an _in the Ex:mplar or Shadow of heavenly Things, bccaufe by their Prie!lhood, the cde!lJa! and fplfltual Pne1lhood of Chn!l was prefigured as m Types; the like Appellation we have, Heb. ix. 23. 3· L"P.""•,' Sign, Matt. xii. 39· where_ Chri!l: applies the three D ays ftay of Jonas in the Whales Belly, as a Type of h1mfelt, '"P."" T" Iwv"' n r.eo~"'"· the Srgn of the Prophet Jonas. Here Chrift accommodates his Speech to the Words of _the Scribes and Pharikes. who afked a S1gn of h1m; otherwlfe a S1gn and a Type differ m SJgmfica– tion, the one being of a larger, the other of a narrower Signification : Every Type is a Sion, but every Sigp is not a Type: Every Sign may reprefent the Thing fignificd alth~uo-h unlike ; but the Condition of a Type is, that it mull: bear a Parity, Propor– tion, ~r Likenefs to the Thing typified. 4 . IIxe"~''"' a Parable, Heb. ix. 9· which Term in the Hebrew Books of the Old Tdl;;menr, frequently anfwers the Word ~lliTJ, but is p11tin this Place forfuch typical or prefiaurative Things, and Actions, as are related in the Old Tefl:ament: So Heb. xi. , 9· the"Phrafe of Abraham's receiving his Son in a Figure,. which Son was by him ad– judged as good as d~ad,_ ." .,.•e•{3oJ.n,"' a Parable or S1m1htude,Is well expound<;d, that he was a Type or S1m1htude of Chrd1:. In ecclefiafl:tcal Wmers we meet w1th the Jame Appellations, or fuch as are very near, only we are to take Notice, ( r.) That they confound the Allegory with the Type frequently_: So Augufline, Tom. I. oper.lib. de vera Relig. cap. 56. fays, an Allegory, under wh1ch Term undoubtedly he com– prehended Types, is fourfold, viz. refpecting Hijlory, Fafl, Preaching, and Sacra– ments. (2.) Gregory Nazianzetz puts the Antitype for the Type, Orat. 42 . "'To "'Y''" 1Z"«~a, Pag. 692. his Words are, o dr xo:.Ax,H;-, ~~~~ :teEfJ.tXTIXI p.fvx.o:.Ta rwv J'aY.vovTwv oqJEwv HY. w) TV7r~ d~ T8 v~f~ 't'lf'-wv, ,.a9ovT@,r' aAt·.' w' o:YTITt.'7r@}' ; that is, Yet really the brazen Serpent was not hanged up to prevent the bitir:g of Serpents, nor yet as a Type ofChrijl, who fuffered for us, but as an Antitype. (3.) In rhe L atin Tongue the W ords Exemplar, hgura, PrP!figuratio, are much uferl, th:tt is, a Pancrn, Figu~e,_ or reprefenting a Thing to come. But the vVord 'fype was mofl: ufual to denote PriVlleges to come, by the Dona– tion of Parents to fuch as were Denizens of the City of Rome, when it was Imperial. The Correlative, or that which anfwers a 'T")pe, is the Antitvpe, that is, the Thing reprefented by the Type, or rhat which anfwers to it; as 1 Pet. iii. where when the H1ftory of eight Souls faved by 'Nater, (in rhe Deluge, Gen. vi. 7, 8.) is mentioned, the ApoO:le fubjoins, Vtr. 21. w avnT'Jrrov vuv Y.a:l r,p.a) <rw~n (3a:7r1urp.a, i.e. to -zrhich the Antitype Bap1ifm doth now alfo fave us, fo the Greek ; by which the Apo(\le denotes, that Baptifm, which is a Medium, or Means of Salvation in the Gofpel Difpenfation, is .the Antitype, or anfwers to the Type, of that great Prefervation of thofe few faithful Perfons that were faved in that univerfal Deluge, commonly called Noah's Flood. This Antitype, or Thing prefigured, has other Appellations in the New Tefl:ament, as firft, Col. ii. I 7· where it is called uwp.a, a Body, which is oppofed to ., u"'" a Sha– dow, and fignifies only the very Thing or genuine Effmce, whofe ""'U<~Mp.a, Obunz– bration, or Shadow, or Piflure was prefigured in the Time of the Old Tef\ament; hence it is faid, Ver. 9· of rhe fame Chapter, that in him, viz. Chrift, dwelleth all the Fulnefs of the Godhead, uwp.x1••w<, bodily. In the Time of the Old Te!l:ament God dwelt in the Temple of Jerufalern, and upon the Ark of the Covenant, in the Mercy-fear, but it was Tv,..•xw,, typical&·· But when the Fulnefs of Time was come, the whole Fulnefs of the Deity dwelt bodily, truly, and in a moll: eminent Manner perfonally in Chri!t's human Nature. i. Confult Heb. x. I. where you will find a Metaphor taken from Painters, who firft with a Charcoal are wont to draw a ux••re&~'"'• that is, a rude Adumbration or Delinea– tion·of the Thing they intended to paint, and afterwards perfect it with true and lively Colours, till they make a fair Picture. By the firft of thefe, the A poll:le in this Place, means the qx•x•, or Shado-ws of the Old Tefl:ament; by the latter, rhe Truth and Com– pliment of the Old Teftament Types, which the Apoftle calls""""'' Images• . . Heb. ix..23· TO: Ell 'TO I~ aeo::vOJij', Cfhings in the lleavens, or, as the Explication fub– JOmed has 1t, Ta '~"e"""• heavenly 'Things,.are called fuch Things as are underftood to typ1fy the heavenly Priefthood of C hri(t, and other Things mentioned in the Old Tef– tament: So Ver. 24. they are called T"' "'"!7""• true, by which is hinted, that the Images, Prefigurations, or Adumbrations of thole good Things, were but exhibited <>nly m the Old Teftament: See John i. 17. where it is faid, That Grace and Truth eame by Jeft~s Chrijl: In which Place, Grace is oppofecl to the Curfe of the Law, and Truth, to the Ceremonies, Shado-w,s and prefigured Types thereof. 2 The
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