56 The Gofpel of the perfonal Types. 3. If they were not Seals and Pledges to affure, it will follow, that it would have been no difappointment to God's People, and no refle- ¿tion at all upon his Truth and Faithfulnefs, if the Meffah had been quite another manner of Perfon than the Types held forth. But to admit fuch a fuppofition, to fiippofe that the Meffiah might have been quite another manner of Perf 3n, than the Types hold forth, is to take away the Analogy between the Type and the Antitype ; and fo by confequence to deny that they wereTypes.; or elfe to make them all Lyes and falte, Images. Therefore if it be but granted, that they were true Signs, it follows even from thence, that they were Seals, or fure and certain Pledges of Chrift, and Gofpel-Myfteries in him. See Calvin in i Cot. rre 3, 1 1. Beta in Col. 2. 17. Erant enim vera d?' pro ration ac modo Sa- cramentorum efficacia 2 e ac etiam 21)P-vAJ'ss. They were both Signs and Seals, and trueand efficacious Signs and Seals, after that manner of efficacy that is in Sacraments. Rule 3. The Types relate not only to the Perfon of Chrift; but to his Be- nefits, and to all Gofpel Truths and Myfteries, even to all New- Teftament- Difpenfations. I mention this the rather, becaufe I have obferved, that it doth much darken the Thoughts ofmany, that theyStudy to accommodate every Type directly to the Perron of Chrift ; becaufe we commonly call them Types ofChrift. But that Expreftion is not meant of his Perlon exclu- fively to his Benefits; but ofboth together Chrift and the good things of Chrift : The Types Ihadowed forth, Chrift and all the good that comes by him. So the Apoftle, Heb. 1o. 1. they are a (hadow ofgood things to come; he doth not limit or reftrain them to the Mefliah's Per- fon only. As 'the C'herubims were Types, not dire&ly of Chrift, but of the Angels that ftand,before the Lord and minifter to him, and to his People. Hence before the Gofpel, there were no Gofpel Types; before the fit ft Pro- mulgation of it, Genef. 3. there could be no Types of Gofpel Blefüngs : There were fome things extant before, which were made Types after- wards; but they had not that Schefis, that habitude and relation to Chrift and the Gofpel, till there was a Gofpel, or a Promife of Life by Chrift, that blefl'ed Seed. Yea as they had Types of Chrift's Perron, and of his fpiritual and faving Benefits : So they had Types even of all New-Tefiament Difpen- fations. Our verySacraments were Ihadowed forth by theirs. As Bap- üfmby Circumcifion, and by their pairing thorough the Red Sea ; and the Lord'sSupper by their Paffover. Yea
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