20+ Sacraments or- dinary and ex- traordinary. Antitypes. Holy things, types ofchr/1. feed,Gen.3. z S.he enjoyneth to Adam outward facrifices and fignesofthat his word. If to antient beleevers be- fore Chrift he promife deliverance from finne, death, and hell on condition of faith in the Mefiiah to come, he fealethup this promife by two ftanding Sacraments : Circumcifion, and the Paffeover. If tobeleevers of the new Teftatnent he accomplilh in his Sonne, all thofean- tient promifes, andnow preach falvation to all that be- leeve in the name ofChrift crucified, dead, buried, ray- fed,afcended, and fitting at the right hand ofhis father, as /oh. 3. i 6, This promife he confirmethwith two Sa- craments, Baptifine, and theLords Supper, as fpeciall feales of his grace. Thus is the LordRill like himfelfe in all ages, and provideth fully for our direcion and con- solation, for our ftrength and affurance in the Covenant ofgrace and falvation. But tocome nearer our purpofe. The Sacraments of the old Teflament were either before the fall , or after. Of the Sacraments inParadife before the fall ; we are not to fpeake, as the tree ofknowledge, and thetree oflife : Becaue t. They fealed the Covenant ofworks, net the Covenant ofgrace. 2. They concerned the firft Adam without any refpeet or reference to the fecond Adam There wasno needofChriff, and coníeciuently no type ofhim. Wee are onely to fpeake ofjewifh Sacraments types ofjefus Chrift, and fo reLeet them which never aymedat Chrift, but were before any diftinaion ofjew or Gentile.ThefejewifhSacraments were either i. Or- dinary or f}anding. 2. Extraordinary and occafionall. Ordinary were i. Circumcifion. 2. Paffeover Cir- cumcifion was the Sacrament ofentrance and receiving the Jew into Gods covenant. The Paffeover was aSa- cramentofcontinuance and growth in that Covenant. Extraordinary, which were in forne refemblance both to them, and the two Sacraments of the new Tefta- I ment. t. ToCircumcifionandBaptifme anfwered the Sacraments
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