37° netíouo saft0:, CHAP. XII. The Divine Experiments of Faith in Scripture- Ordinances, Baptifm, Prea- ching of the Word, Prayer, and the Lords Supper; and lafly in the great Works of Power recorded in Scrip- ture. N the next place I proceed to the Divine Ordinances in Scripture: Thefe the Believer may experience to be Divine. God bare fuch a Teflimony to the Typical Ordinances under the Law, that his People experimentally knew that they were from him. In Circumcifion God fet his Seal and Love -mark on his ancient Peo- ple, and at the doing of it they bleffed him, that a Child was brought into Covenant. In their Burnt- offerings; fire from Heaven confu- med them as a witnefs of their acceptation. Hence the Pfalmi(1 prays, The Lord accept thy Burnt" acrifice, Pfal. 20. 3. 1132,1' in .cinerem vertat ; let him turn it to afhes, thereby tefli- fying his acceptance thereof. In their firfi Tem- ple they had many Symbols of Gods Prefence; as the Ark with the Tables in it, and Propitia- tory or Mercy feat; by the'Vrim and 2hummim they could ask Counfel of God ; the Shechinab, the
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