'DISCOURSE V. l305 his holiness ; who abandon all idols. and walk with God in the world, maintaining a holy intercourse with him by prayer and praise, faith and obedience ; who have the spirit of God dwel- ling in'them, and they are his temple, they are, his chosen peo- ple, his peculiar inheritance, redeemed from the bondage of their own lusts, and the slavery of Satan the prince of darkness ; and travel through this world, as through a wilderness, under the direction of God, towards the promised inheritance, the hea- venly country : They have hope in his mercy and his promises, they are the objects of his love and mercy,-theyare sanctified and devoted to God, a holy people, a chosen generation, elected or chosen, and calledby his grace, e royal priesthood, to offer up spiritualsacrifices to him, with acceptance, and these are usually called, the invisible church of God. III. As God has designed, in all ages, to draw out of this sinful race of man some holy 'souls to be objects of his mercy, so it bath pleased his wisdom to carry on his transactions wills men, throughout all his dispensations towards them, in a way of type, emblem, and figure ; frequently appointing carnal, temporal, and visible things, characters, persons, and families, to become em- blems and figures of things and characters spiritual and invisible. This in several particulars is most evident from express scrip- ture. The first man Adam was a type or figure of Christ the second Adam ; 1 Cor. xv. 45-49. and Rom. v. 14. Aaron the high-priest, and David the king among the Jews, were types of Jesus Christ, the high-priest and king of his people. This far- ther appears inmany places ; so the manna from heaven, and the water from the rock in the wilderness, were a figure of Christ feedinghis people with his own flesh and blood ; 1 Cor. x. 1 -4. John vi. 49, 51, 53. The tabernacle, the sacrifices, the wash- ings and purifications, and many of the ceremonies of the Jew- ish worship, are figures or shadows of Jesus Christ, and his atonement for sin, and the sanctification of the Holy Ghost, and the spiritual blessings that belong to the gospel, Col. ii. 16, 17., i Cor. v. 7. Heb. ix. 8, 9, 13. and x. 1, &c. and Canaan is á type of the heavenly inheritance; Heb. iv. 1. and xi. 13, 16. Those who have written on the doctrine of types, have made these things appear beyond all just and reasonable exception. Now, from the beginning of the world, God seems to have designed there should be some outward and visible types and figures, of these two sorts of mankind, the good and the bad, the holy and the unholy, or the church and the world, and some plain distinction between them made in a visible manner. These different persons were at first called the seed of the woman; and the seed of the serpent; Gen. iii. 15. Then the family of Cain, who went from the presence of the Lord ; Gen. iv. 14, 16. and were called the sons and daughters of men; Gen. vi. 1, 2.
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