The Gofpel of the perfonal Types. 5'S fair and full Analogy in fundryparticulars of his Life and Death between him and Chrift ; So likewife fofeph is generally lookt upon as a Type of Chrift ; though there be no Scripture that loth exprefly call him fo But if the Hiftory of N[epb in Genefis be compared with the Hiftory of Jefus Chrift in the four Evangelifts, the Analogy will be very clear and. evident. The Old Teftament and the New fhould be compared together. .The Prota(ts or Propofition of thefe facred fimilitudes is in theBooks of /Moles, and in the Old Teftament ; but the,dpodojis the Reddition orApplica- ti.on is to befound chiefly in the New. Sometimes the Types are not fo explicitly taught, but implyed ; and then a thing may be known to be a Type by diligent obferving and comparing the Phrafe of the Prophets in the Old Teftament, and of the Apoftles in the New. Men mutt not indulge their own Fancies, as the Popifh Writers ufe to do, with their Allegorical Senfes, as they call them ; except we have force Scripture ground for it. It is not fafe to make any thing a Type naeerlyupon our own fanlies and imaginations; it is Gods Prerogativeto make Types. And fo much for that firft Rule. Rule 2. The Types were not only Signs, but Seals; not only Signs to reprefent Gofpel Myfteries unto them ; but alfo Seals to afire them of the certain and infallible exhibition thereofin God's appointed time. As we fay ofour Sacramentss; Sacramentum eft verbum vifìbile,the Sacrament is a vifible Promife, and holds forth the Covenant of Grace to the Eye and other Senfes, as theWord to the Ear : So it was with the Types of old. TheTypes were vifible Promifes, and not only Signs, but Pledges and Affurances of the good they reprefented. They did reprefent thofe great Myfteries not only by way of refemblance to the underftandings, but by way ofaffurance to the Faith of God's People. Reafons to prove this, that the Types were Seals. r. The Apoftle faith it exprefly concerning Circumcifton, Rom. 4. r r. be received the Sign of Circumcifon, et Seal of the Righteoufnef of Faith.. And there is a parity of R fon in this refpect between Circunecifo,v and other Types., .z If they were Signs, which did certainly forefgnifre, they were Seals : But the Types were 1igns which did certainly forefagnifie Therefore they were more than Signs, even Seals alfo . They did no; fhew what a one the Meniah might happen to be ; but what a one ire, fbould certainly be c. They were fo many Divine Te }itnonics tó the. coshing of Chrift..
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