The Gofpel of the occafional Types. I53 us : And all little enough to help us to a true and right Idea of him. q.. Here tis very great and freet Encouragement from what bath been faid this Day, to difeafed Souk, to repair to this Thyfcian ; whatever thy Difeafes be, go to him for help. And that you may obtain help and healing Virtue from him, remember three three Rules and take them along with yotí. a. Seek to him in his own Means and Ordinances. If he fet his Stamp upon a piece of Copper (as he did of Old) do not defpife it. If he fend his Angel into a Pool or Well of Water, do not fay with Naa- man, are not the Waters of Abana and Pharphar, as good as the Waters of Jordan ? Are not other Pools as _ good as the Pool of Betbefda They may be fo in themfelves, and yet may not have the Virtue that meaner Waters have, if the one be appointed of God for this Life, and the other not. a. Do not expell healing, from the Means, from the' Well, or Waters of it, but by the Angel of the Covenant moving the Waters; not from the Ordinances, but only from .the Bleffing and Prefence of God in them. 3. Be fure you be found waiting bis Time and Leifure : Wait at the Pool of Betbefda, tho' you do not find help in. thirty eight Years; yet wait, and be ever ready, left you be out of the way, when the An- gel moves the Waters. .May 7. & 21. 1668. t Cor. X. it. Now all thefe Things happened unto them for Enfamples : And they are written for oser Admonition upon whom the Ends of the World are come. THe occa/lonal Types (beloved) were referred to twoHeads Things and Allions. Of Typical Things we have fpoken. That which follows next in order is, occaftonal Typical Allions. Before we enter into them, it may be ufeful to recai toRemem- brance Three Things formerly delivered. i. That the Types are not to be reftrained only to the Perfon of Chrift, but they extend even to all New Teftament Difpenfations: z. That there is a real hiftorical Verity in there typical Aaions. 3. That they did ferve for divers other Ends and Ufes, as well as for this typical life. X I
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