33 2 P etíou t .itaW Thus much touching the Ordinances in Scripture, and the Experimenting their Divi- nity. In the laft Place I. (hall mention The great Work of Poorer Recorded in Scripture : many of thefe are Types of the Magnalia or Spiritu- al Wonders wrought in or for the Souls of Men. Thùs the Ark, which Paved from the Deluge was a Type of Salvation from Wrath in and through Chrift ; Ifaac, born of a dead Body and Womb, a Type of the New -crea- ture brought forth by fupernatural Grace; and the bringing Ifrael out of Egypt, a Type of the great Redemption wrought by Chrift. Thefe a Believer may Experiment in their Spiritual Imports and Myfleries, which are more great and glorious than the Things themfelves. Not to be prolix in this ; I fhall only inftance in two Things, viz. The Creation of the World, Hiftorically Pet forth, Gen. i. and Th'e Miracles wrar ght by Chrift, related in the Gofpe). As touching Creation, as clear a Glafs as it is of the Eternal Power and Godhead, the PhilJo- phers were much miftaken about it : Ariftotle afïTerting, That the World was Eternal ; as if it were polEible, That there fhould be an infinite orderly Succeflion of Things, or a third, fourth, fifth, &c. without a firht ; or as if a World, a Creature, could be made as the Son of God was Begotten, or joyn Eternities with its Creator. The Stoicks dreaming at leafl of an Eternal Matter or Chaos; as if that Axiome, ex nihil) nihil fit, which runs true in Nature, did
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