The Gofpel of theperfonal Types. Some entrance ( Beloved ) bath been made into the s Aug, 1667: perfonal Types. We are upon the individual Perfons that were Types before the Law, whereof eight were named, Adam, Enoch, Noah, Melchizedek, Abraham, Ifaac, 'Jacob and fofph, whereof only two have been fpoken to, viz. firft Adam, fecondly Enoch. We íhall now proceed to the refs, 3, The third is Noah, whom we did but touch upon the laft time, but (hall endeavour now to clear it more fully. The Story of Noah is written in the6. 7, 8, and 9. Chapters of Genus. And fo Famous it was amongft his Pofterity, that the Heathen have force broken Re membrances and Traditions of it: They had heard ofa Flood,as well as ofthe Creation of the World. Ovid (peaks of them both in his Metamor- pbo/is : And their Bacchus, the very Name with a little alteration of the Letters, comesfrom Noah, Noachus, Boacbus ; and Yantis from the He- brew 7ajin, vinum Somewhat they had heard, as it feemeth, about his planting a Vinyard, and making Wine. That this Hiftory of Noah had a typical Refpea, you may fee in r Pet. 3. 20, 21. In what Refpe6 was he a Type ? In two Things chiefly. I. In regard of his Preaching. 2. His faving hvs Hou(hold in the Ark. I. In regard of his Preaching; he was a Preacher of Righteoufnefs, 2'Pet. 2. 5. he gave warning to the fecure World for a'hundred and twenty Years together, both by his Word and AEtions : Every ftroke in the building of the Ark had a Voice, and was an Alarm to the World every Day : So Chrift, who did preach, by his Spirit in the Mi- niítry of Noah, i Pet. 3. 19,2o. And when he came in the Flefb, be did Preach and bring in everlaiiing Righteoufnefs, Dan. 9. 24. And he bath Preached by. his Word and Spirit in his Apoítles and Minifters ever fince. What Noah did one hundred and twenty Years, Chrifi '. bath been doing there fixteen hundred Years. And as Noah had no great Succefs in his Miniftry : So Chrift and all the.Servants of Chrift have caufe to complain, .whabath believed our Report, Ifa. 53.1. There were but Eight Perlons faved in the Ark, wherein a few that is, Eight Souls were faved by Water, r Pet. 3.., And of thofe Eight, all were not faved Eternally ; there was a Chami and of him thecurfed Canaanites But all the refit of the World perifhed in the Flood.- Doubtlefs they defpifed Noah and all his Preaching, and thought him an old doting Fool to go and build a Ship on dry Gtound, . and expert that the Sea fhould come up thither to fet it afloat ; they Would
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