The Gofpel of theperfonal Types. 129 Things could not be Real, and yet Typical too. You will find many Treafures of Divine Wifdom and Gofpel-light in the Scriptures, by attending this Rule of underftanding and accommodating typical Scrip- tures both to Type and Antitype, not excluding either, they being real- ly meant of both, and moft fully of Chrift the Antitype, who is the Scope and Centre-of all the Counfels and Difpofitions ofGod. Gaut. 2.. That the Lord in there occasional and extraordinary Dif penfations whereof we fpeak, did aim at fundry Ends, arid intended them to be for feveral t1fes ; namely, to be not only Types, but other ways alto to be inftrutlive and ufef t : And herein his inf-,ite Wifdari ap- pears the more, in canting fo many Ends to meet at once : And in- deed fo it is in all the reft of his Difpenfations towards his People, and in the World : And fo in the Ordinances we have at this Day, they do not ferve for one Ufe only. Quell. But what are thefe Ends ? Anfw. Not to infift upon the general Ends of all the Types; In this fort we are now upon, viz, tranJent and occaftonal Types, there were three great Ends. r. For outward and temporal Good. They had by there Things outward Supply and Deliverance : So the pafTing thro' the Red Sea, theManna, the Water out of the Rock were outward Mercies : So the Brazen Serpent gave outward and bodily Healing to them, befide that fpi- ritual and facramental fre it had to adumbrate Jefus Chrift. 2. They were. Inflruáions in Moral Duties, as indeed all Providences are : The_Lord's giving themWater out of the Rock, and Bread from Heaven, were 'nitrating Providences to depend upon God in Straits, and to troll in him at all Times. 3. The third End was the typical Adumbration of Chrift and Gofpel- myfteries. Befides all other Ends and Ufes of them ; betides outward and temporal Good, and moral Initruaion ; they did, by the pofitive Intention of theSpirit of God, point at Chrift, and lead to him. For this the Text is exprefs, all thefe things happened unto them in Types, and ver. 4.. that Rock was Chrift. Queft. How may we judge what providential Difpenfations had fisch a typical Refpeif and Vfe ? 4nfm. This bath been formerly partly fpoken to, and this Rule was given, that it is not fafe for Men to form Allegories out of their own Fancies, unlefs it be force way hinted in the Scripture, unlefs it be ei- ther exprefl'ed, or maybe gathered from thence by clear Confequence ; as when by comparing the Scriptures, a manifeft Analogy doth ap- pear as clear as the Sun at Noon-day. But for Men to fet their Fan- cies
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