The Gofpel of theperfon,l Types. .59 the reafon is this, becaufe they were never inftituted and defigned by God for that end, to reprefent Chrift and the Gofpel ; they are only occafionally made ufe of. There is a wide difference between the occafional Vice of a thing in the way ofa fimilitude or comparifon, and the Defignment or Inftituts- on of it for that end and ufe. As if Chrift be compared to a Feaft of Bread and Wine, as in the Parable of the Marriage-Supper. This is a very true and fit comparifon : But for Bread and Wine to beedefigned and fet apart by the Command of God to reprefent Chrift and his Be- nefits, this is a thing of an higher Nature, and puts them into a Sacras mental Nature and relation to him. 2. The difference between a Type and a Parable. A Parable is no- thing elfe but a Sacred Similitude : We commonly take it as the Scri- pture doth, for fach a Similitude, wherein not only the Truth and Mindof God is the Scope and Matter of it ; but whereof Cod him/elf is the Author. As in the Four Evangelifts we Read of the Parables of Chrift. To call them Fables, as Grotius doth, hero Fabula indicat, &c. is a flight and an irreverent Expreflion. A Parable there is the fame wich a Similitude, only it bath God himfelf for its Author. But in a Type the Lord doth not only occafionally ajè fuch or fuch a Simile; but fets fuch a thingapart, fits a Stamp ofInJtitution upon it, and fo makes it an Ordinance to hold forth Chrift and his cienefits. 3. What is the difference between a Type and a Ceremony ? This is only that which is between the Genus and Species. For all the Ceremo- nies were Types ; but all Types were not Ceremonies : The Pillar of Cloud and Fire was a Type, but not a Ceremony. A Ceremony was force Law, or external obi-ovation prefcribed unto them, to teach and Ihadow forth force Gofpel- Myftery : So that a Type is more general, a Ceremony is one particular kind of Types. 4.. What is the difference between a Type and a Sacrament ? I anfwer, they differed in the number and multitude ef them, they had many Types ; we have but two Sacraments. But there was no diffe- rence in the Nature of them, urther than this, that our Sacraments are Signs ofChrift already come ; but their Types were Signs of Chrift that was to come : Our Sacraments are Signs Chrift >.'xhibiti ; their Types Chrifli exhibendi. 4.. As to the Words and Phrafes by which a Type is expo it d. Firft, we have this very word Type ufèd in the Scriptú:e, not only in its Native and proper Signification,. 7°1).20 25. He T34 ,,, 7, fx,,p. the print ofthe Nails : But it is r.f d alto in this borrowed a.i piritual Senfe whereofwe are treating, in the Text, Rom. 5, "14. and r cede ,` t o. 6. I 2 theft'
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