I i The Gofpel of theperfonal Types. could be an individual Type of Chrift ; but, he may be involved in a religious Order of Types : For the Order is Holy, tho' the 1Ylan be wicked : And here it is not direcìly the Perfora, but rather indeed the Order that is the Type, and the Perfora is involved and inverted in fuch an Order. Queft. What are thefe typical Orders and Ranks of Men ? Anfm. I (hall inftance only in thefe fix. r. The wholeNation and People of Ijrael. 2. The Firrt-born of that Nation. 3. Their Nazarites. 4. Their Prophets. 5. Their Priefts. 6. Their Kings. r. The whole Nation of the Yews. They were a typical People ; their Church-ftate being very Ceremonial and Peculiar to thofe legal Times, (therefore now ceafed and abolifhed) did adumbrate and Ihadow forth two Things. r. Chrift himfelf; hence Chrift is called ¡frac!, Ifa. 49. 3. By Ifrael is meant Chrift, and all the Faithful, as the Members of him their Head. z. They were a Typeof the Church ofGod under the New Tefta- ment. Hence the Church is called Ifrael, Gal. 6. r 6. and Rev. 7. The twelve Tribes of Ifrael are numbred up by Name, to Phew forth the Lord's particular Care of every one of his People in particular. That Place is not meant properly of Old Ifrael, becaufe it relates to the Times of the Antichriftian Locufts ; compare cap. 7. with cap. 9.4. The Analogy lies in this, That they werea peculiar People to the Lord, chofen and fingled out by him from all the world : So is Chrift the Lord's chofen, Behold my Servant whom 1have chofen, mine deli in whom my Soul deligbteth : So are all the Saints, t Pet. 2.9. A royal Nation, a peculiar People, gathered from among all Nations, Rev. 5. 9. Hence the Enemies of Ifraet were typical Enemies ; as Egypt and Babylonunder the Old Teftament, Types of Antichriftian Enemies under the New : And the Providences of God towards that People of Old, Types and Sha- dows of his intended future Difpenfations towards his People under the New ; as you will fee further when we come to fpeak of typical Providences. 2. The Firft-born of thatNation, were alfo a typical fort of Perlons ; therefore Efau in defpifing his Birthright, defpiled a fpiritual Privi- ledge'; and therefore juftly called a prophane Fedora, lieb. 12. i6. And they alto typified Chrift, and the Church. Chrift
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