Water ode ofthe RoCk,4 type. 289 as miraculously, as formerly hee had done their famine and hunger. Heecommands Motes to take his rod and f fe' Litt it eak,6.. to the Rock, and then fhould iffue waters in a- bundance to fatisfie ali the Campe, bothman andbeaíts ; and fo he did, Exec/. i 7.6. tl Now wee may not thinke that this fac concerned onely lfrael in the wilderneffe, but evenall the Church and Ifrael of Godpaging through the wilderneífe ofthis The thin curs world : And that for thete reafons. i The Apoftle as The ( t,Cor.io.4.) calleth it a fpirituall rocks, bothfor be- theirs: reafons.' ins miraculous in etea.,, and for beinga type of what was to come. It was both miraculous and fignificant, and Propter rniract #- therefore called fpirituall. 2. The fame water which lofameffeatsen, theydrank, we alto drink, as in the fame Chnp.and ver. P propterfn- tttii fittttïi7. becaufe in the holy Supper of the Lord, the matter of Apip, our fpirituall drink is the fame with theirs, and that is the blood ofChrift, refembled by theirs : The diffe- rence is onely in the maner of drinking. 3. Including this ;water of the Rock, the Apoflle faith : they are all types to admonifh us, and are written for vs, verf,6 & i r 4. Moll plainly he affirmeth, verf.4, and that Rock was i\ opt pet filft1n Chril; not in feebflance but in fzgnification, faith Agui- tiam,fedper nae. Nowwee having as much to doe with Chrift as fignifcantiam. they, wee mutt farther enquire into this type. i . To parallel it with the truth by comparing them. 2. By applying ir in forne fruitfoll obfervations to our felves. a Rock The The Kock was a type of Chrifl three wages. s. As s a it was a Rock, 2. As out ofit iffued water. 3. Ira the typpe in manner Of obtaining. I. As a Rock, it elegantly typed out Jefrts Chr'iit, I, fitly compared to a Rock in five refer-nblances. Innature le flue T. For the defpicable appearance : The Rock is in ap- pearance dry and barren, The molt unlikely thing in all the world to afford water ; fo as it was incredible to C/%lofes and baron themfelves to fetch water out of a + Rock. If God had commanded them to have beaten V fire,
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