body cast into Elishaes grave quickned so our soules and bodies IV. The wonderfull power and wisdome of God that can draw light out of darknesse Ionahs casting over board into the sea was the occasion of converting the Mariners Even so Christs death converted many of them that were causes and authors of it Acts 2. 36. 41. And as the Mariners lives were saved by casting Ionah into the sea so all beleevers by the death of Iesus Christ. 1. Let us not measure Gods workes by carnall senses This made the two disciples going to Emaus Luke 24. to make but a bad argument Hee is crucified and behold this is the third day therefore though we thought he should have redeemed Israel wee are deceived Whereas faith would have made a cleane contrary conclusion He is crucified and this is the third day therefore he is the Redeemer The Iewes not knowing the Scriptures and power of God are hardned against Iesus Christ expecting a great Emperour as Iulius Caesar or some great Monarch not able to see that by so base a death life could be procured The carnall protestants are held off from the true imbracing of Christ because they see the truth and sincerity of Christ every where so resisted and hated by great Rulers and Doctors as if it had not been so in Christs owne person and Ministery or as if Christ was not set as a sign or butt of contradiction whereas therefore it must needs be he 2. Let us admire Gods power and wisdome and patiently with Ionah expect after darknesse light And seeing God can turne the greatest evill into the greatest good of his Church let us labour to make benefit of all evills hapning to our selves and others 1. Even of our sinnes themselves to make us more humble and watchfull for time to come 2. Of our sufferings as Ionah and Christ learned obedience by the things they suffered V. In the type and truth we have first terror on the one hand secondly comfort on the other 1. Wee see the waight of sinne committed pressed Ionah into the deepest sea of evils and sinne imputed thrust Christ into a deeper sea even the deepest hell Both seem left of God in the hands of death both cry out as left in the depth of hell 1. Doe thou run from God and duty and though thou beest Gods childe thou maist finde God pursuing thee as if he were an utter and irreconcileable enemy 2. Make as light a reckoning of sinne as thou canst the least of them shuts us or Christ out of heaven Doth Christ undertake thy sinne he sees not heaven till he die for it Sinne imputed will not let Christ enter into heaven but by his owne blood yea through Hell Thy sinne repented of held Christ an innocent out of heaven till he dyed for it but where shall ungodly and impenitent sinners appeare 2. This same collation affords us sundry grounds of comfort 1. Both seeme forsaken neither of them was so but both of them goe to his God There is no time nor place wherein the childe of God may not boldly goe to God and pray to his God and say My God my God 2. No deepe is so deepe but Gods hand can reach help into it even into the Whales belly and heart of the earth 3. The extreamest misery and death it selfe worke to good to the godly See it in Ionah Where was feared pâ—rdition there was found preservation The Whales belly was a prison indeed but to preserve him alive a deep gulfe and a sea but to save him froÌ„ drowning Can any man save a man from drowning by casting him into the sea but God can 4. When the case seemes most desperate then the Lord steps in to help when no helpe can bee expected any other way after three dayes and three nights Ionah must be cast up and Christ raised up Never feare extremities but then exercise thy faith most for then is God the nearest however trust in him though he kill thee Iob 13. 15. 5. The deepest sorrowes of Gods children end in greatest joy God hath a dry ground for Ionah after a sea of misery a glorious ascending for Christ after his lowest descent Whatsoever the sorrowfull songs be that Gods people sing here in Aegypt or Babel they shall end in songs of joy and victory and be changed into the songs of Moses and the Lambe Rev. 15. 3. CHAP. XIII The first borne Types of Christ 4. wayes HAving spoken of holy types in sundry special persons now of personall types in some rankes and orders of men sanctified and specially seperated to the Lord. Of whom 1. Some were sanctified by birth the first-borne 2. Some by office Priests especially the High-Priest 3. Some by vow as Nazarites 4. Some by ceremony as cleane persons legally cleansed from uncleanenesse Of these the first borne were speciall types of Iesus Christ. I. As they were Gods peculiar Exod. 13. 2. Sanctifie unto me all the first borne for it is mine Quest. How were they Gods Answ. 1. By common nature But so were all both first and last borne through the world For all the world and inhabitants of it are his Psal. 24. 1. 2. By common grace So all the people of the Jews by reason of common grace were his with whom God had plighted his gracious covenant which was made to Abraham and all his seed wheresoever they were borne of whom hee made choice as his peculiar though all the earth was his Exod. 4. 22. Israel is my first borne that is not only the first people and nation that first professed the true worship of God and had priority of the Gentiles who were yonger brethren but the first borne by a speciall election and choice of that from all other people whom hee would accept as his beloved in the Messiah the first born of all creatures and among whom he would stablish his covenant and raise up his worship thus hee dealt not with other nations 3 By a speciall right The first borne of Israel were Gods by a singular right as no other childreÌ„ of any other family were namely by right of that singular deliverance of all the first borne when he destroyed all the first borne of Aegypt And therefore presently after that destruction he makes challenge of them Exod. 13. 2. Thus is Jesus Christ the Lords first borne by a singular right not common to man or Angell whether we respect his nature or office 1. In his nature he is first born as sonne of God the first begotten of all creatures Col. 1. 15. begot before all Creation And thus he is not onely the first begotten before whom there was none but the onely begotten after whom is none Iohn 1. 14. the onely begotten Sonne of the Father the first borne without a second or brother 2. In his office hee was first borne by speciall prerogative 1. for the kinde 2. for the undertaking 3. for the accomplishing
in thy calling and the rocke shall yeeld thee water rather then thou shalt be destitute in Gods way or worke V. In both learne to contemne the greatest and extreamest perill in Gods causes Sampson offered himselfe to death so did Christ hee went out to meet his enemies so must thou learne not to love thy life to the death Revel 12. 11. and with Paul not count thy life deare to finish thy course with joy For a man to thrust himselfe in hazard or venture his life without warrant from God or by his owne private motion is rash but God calling in standing against the enemies of the Church it is honourable In both learne to prepare for death approaching by faithfull and fervent prayer So did both these Sampsons And the issue will bee comfortable as theirs that all thy life and combat shall not give such an overthrow to thy enemies as such a death though enemies seeme never so much to prevaile CHAP. X. 9. David a type of Christ in 5. respects AS all the Kings of Israel were expresse types of Jesus Christ the head of his Kingdome and of all the people of God as they in their times were So were there two of them that were more manifest figures of him then all the rest I meane David and Solomon Of both which wee are to enquire wherein the resemblance consisteth David was so speciall a type of Christ as scarce is any thing noted of Christ but some shadow of it might be observed in David I. For his person David the son of Iesse Christ the true rod out of the stocke of Iesse Isai. 11. 1. Both of obscure and low parentage Both out of dry and despicable roots Both Kings Both Kings of Israel Both their Kingdomes raised out of humility Both men after Gods owne heart Both Davids for even this roote of Iesse was not onely commonly called by the name of the sonne of David but of the name of David himselfe Ezech. 34. 24. My servant David shall bee the Prince among them which was longafter David was dead Ieremiah 30. 9. they shall serve the Lord their God and David their King whom I will raise up unto them Hosea 3. 5. they shall seeke the Lord their God and David their King that is not the typicall King David dead long before but the Messiah the true David to whom onely prayer and spirituall worship belongs II. For his vocation and calling 1. Both called to be the head of nations Psal. 18. 43. thou hast made me the head of nations which was not literally true of David who was properly King of one little corner in Iudea but of Christ the true David whose Kingdome was from sea to sea and to the worlds end David of a shepherd of sheepe was raised to bee a shepherd of men even of Gods people So was Christ raised of God to be the chiefe shepherd of the flocke 1. Pet. 5. 4. And not of bodies as David but of soules 1. Pet. 2. 25. 2. The time when David was anointed about the thirtieth yeare of his life 2. Sam. 5. 4 and Christ was baptized at thirty yeares and invested into his Office 3. The place where David made choice of Ierusalem for his royall seate and Metropolis being anointed of God to the Kingdome of Israel So Christ being anointed the everlasting King of all the Israel of God makes choice of Ierusalem there to rule and shew his power upon the Crosse his chariot of triumph crowned with a crowne of thornes and after in his glorious resurrection ascension sending the Spirit the Gospel And as David added some of the borderers to the kingdome of Israel as himselfe saith strangers were subdued to him So the true David adds to the Church the whole body of the Gentiles and hath by the preaching of the Gospel the sword of his mouth subdued the world to himselfe 4. The gifts fitting him to this function As when David was anointed the Spirit of God came upon him 1. Sam 16. 13. and fitted him to the governement of Gods people So our true David Jesus Christ anointed with oyle above all his fellowes had the Spirit of God descending upon him in a visible shape and by that anointing filled and furnished with the Spirit and all needfull graces for the administring of his Kingdome 5. As David was preferred above all his brethren in foure speciall graces So was Jesus Christ above David himselfe 1. In wisedome and prudence 1. Sam. 16. 18. the servants of Saul observed David to bee wise in matters and the Lord was with him and Chap. 18. verse 14 15. when Saul saw that David was very wise hee was afraid of him Our true David had all treasures of wisedome and knowledge the Spirit of wisedome and understanding the Spirit of counsel rested upon him Isai. 11. 2. who is therefore called the great Counseller Isai. 9. 6. whose counsels are farre beyond Ahitophels his werâ— as the Oracles of God Christs were so And our true David gets beyond his type David in many things by his owne confession did very foolishly Our true David never did any thing but the wisedome of God shined in it with whom not onely God was but because hee was God 2 In fortitude and magnanimity without which counsell were bootlesse by which hee was able to encounter with a Lion a Beare with Goliah and all that rose up against him or his people A man fitted for peace or warre with counsell and strength Whose description in part is contained in the forecited place 1. Sam. 16. 18. strong valiant a man of warre and wise in matters A type of our true David who for fortitude is the invincible Lion of the tribe of Iudah and not a valiant man onely but the strong God Isai. 9. 6. the mighty God See Tit. 2. 13. 3. In gifts of prophecy He was able to sing divine Psalmes and hymnes to the praise of God an holy pen-man of the Scripture A type of Christ the true Prophet of his Church not a pen-man but the Authour of all the holy Scriptures David a Prophet Christ the Lord of all holy Prophets 4. In gifts of true sanctification and holinesse being a man after Gods owne heart commended for his uprightnesse in all matters save that of Vriah A type of Jesus Christ who by the devils confession was the holy One of God 1. Himselfe being sanctified beyond all measure 2. Being the sanctifier of his people the Authour meritour and applier of all sanctifying graces to his members of whom himselfe is head 3. In his type were many foule spots In him no spot nor staine Therefore the Church sings out his holinesse from topp to toe Cant. 5. 10. and concludes him wholly faire and delectable verse 16. III. David was a type of Christ in his warres First in respect of his followers secondly of his enemies thirdly of his victories 1. His followers
Wounds of sin compared to deadly poison in foure things 327 Come for counsell to spirituall Physitians 327 who reproved 328 Confesse speciall sinnes and goe wholly out of thy selfe and all other 329 Look only unto Christ and that two wayes 331 How this looking cures us by faith and how by faith 332 Markes of one cured by looking to Christ. 333 Foure qualities of the eye that looks to him 334 Motives to look upto our Serpent 335 Vse of comfort in five particulars 337 In this Treatise are two things 1 The Introduction chap. 1. where 1 Propositions concerning the Church of God 2 Reasons of the ancient Ceremonies 2 The Treatis it selfe 6. 2. where 1 Christ is figured in holy persons 1 Singular eleven cap. 2 -12 2 Rankes and orders of men separated and sanctified 1 By birth the First-borne c. 13. 2 By office the Priests c. 14 Deputation Execution 3 By vow the Nazarits c. 15 4 By ceremonie Cleane persons c. 16. 2 He is figured in holy things c. 17. 1 Ordinary Sacraments 1 Circumcision c. 18 2 Passeover c. 19 2. Extraordinary answerable to 1 Circumcision Baptism 2 1 Pillar of Cloud Fire c. 20 2 Red Sea c. 21. 2 Passouer and Lords Supper 2. 1 Manna frō heavē c. 22. 2 Water out of the Rock c. 23. Adde hereunto the Brazen Serpent c. 24. CHRIST REVEALED IOHN 14. 6. I am the Truth CHAP. I. HAving formerly delivered that Christ is Truth as opposed to falsehood we are now to shew that he is Truth as opposed to the shadows and figures of the old Law In the entrance into which Treatise we must premise some Propositions 1. That the Lord decreed to have alwayes a Church upon the face of the earth for the upholding of which hee upholds the world For 1. Hee will have his name confessed and praised as well in earth as in heaven 2. Hee will maintaine his publike worship by it to distinguish heathenish Idolaters from true Worshippers 3. To prepare true beleevers in this Church militant to that Church triumphant and to set and polish them as living stones in this mount of the Church for that heavenly mountaine and temple II. For the effecting of his purpose he hath decreed that the doctrine of salvation by Iesus Christ should bee founded out in the Church together with the doctrine of the Law that partly the right way of his worshipp and partly the way of salvation might be made knowen and opened to beleevers III. By the Gospel the Lord hath revealed the Covenant of grace which is in substance but one as God is but one and Christ is but one who is the substance of it As there is but one hope of one eternall life the end of the Covenant and one faith which is the meane to leade to that end Ephes. 4. 5. IV. Christ and his doctrine and Covenant being the same yesterday and to day and for ever Heb. 13. 8. for substance altereth and differeth onely in the forme and manner of dispensation according to which it is diuersly propounded in the old Testament and New In the former propounded as of the Messiah to come from Adam unto his Incarnation In the latter as of the Saviour already come and so embraced in the Church from his first comming to his second comming againe V. So long as Christ was to come it pleased God to traine his Church by an heape of Ceremonies rites figures and shadows to strengthen their faith in the expectation of him Of which multitude of Ceremonies if more speciall reasons be demanded These may be given I. The nonage and infancie of that Church which was not capable of such high mysteries but was to bee taught by their eyes as well as their eares And therefore it pleased God to put the ancient Church even newly out of the cradle under Tutors Gal. 4. 2. and appointed diverse types and ceremonies as rudiments and introductions verse 3. fitted to the grosse and weake sences of that Church which was to be brought on by little and little through such shadows and figures to the true Image and thing signified who in our Text calleth himselfe truth in opposition to all those shadowes Object But the weaker and duller they were the more neede had they of cleare instruction and God could have revealed Christ as clearely to them as to us Sol. But as the Lord had observed this method in creating the world hee would have darknesse goe before light and in upholding the world hee would have dawning goe before cleare day So in the framing and upholding the Church hee would have Christ exhibited to the Fathers as to the Wise men in swadling clouts which hid his glory He respected them as children he erected for them in Iewry a little free-schoole set up in a corner of the world hee appointed the Law of Moses as a Primer or A. B. C. in which Christ was to be shadowed in darke and obscure maner he would that Christ should come to his brethren as Ioseph to his who first obscured himself to them and afterward made himselfe better knowen One compares it to Noahs 1. Opening the window of the Arke 2. Removing the covering 3. Stepping forth himselfe II. Therein the wisedome of God provided for the further advancement of Christ and his Gospel which compared with the Law must bee manifested in great brightnesse and glory Christ the Sonne must come in more glory then Moses the servant Hence Ioh. 1. 17. The Law was given by Moses but grace and truth came by Iesus Christ The Gospel is called grace not because under the Law the same grace was not preached but comparatively that was scarse grace to this which is more full more manifest as the light in the dawning is scarse light in comparison of light at noone-day There was grace but here is more grace 1. In manifestation The light of the Sunne is seven-fold and like the light of seven dayes as was prophesied Isai. 30. 26. 2. In impletion and accomplishment of that which was but a promise of grace in comparison Act. 13. 32. 3. In application and apprehension by beleevers in all Countries not onely in Iudea 4. In the groweth and perfection of faith and grace in the hearts of ordinary beleevers above them Hence Heb. 10. 1. the Law had but a shadow of good things to come and not the Image and truth it selfe that is It had a rude and darke delineation of good things to come as a draught made by a painter with a coale but the Gospel exhibits the picture it selfe in the flourish and beauty that is the truth and being of it Hence also Paul to the Col. 2. 17. speaking of observances of the Ceremoniall Law saith they were but shadowes of things to come but the body is Christ. Whence hee would have us conceive 1. That as the body is the cause of the shadow and the cause more excellent then the thing
even in these shadowes the Lord himselfe straitly enjoyned these were the Lawes prescribed for the Anniversary Passeover both in Exod. 12. 14 and Numb 9. in neither of which is any mention of any of the former Lawes proper to the first Passeover The last condition in eating concerned the measure The Lambe must be whole eaten signifying 1. Our perfect communion with Christ who are as neerely united unto Christ as the meat we eate which is turned into our owne substance 2. That nothing in Christ is unprofitable 3. That Christ must be received wholly without dividing of his natures or destroying any of his offices Arrius divides the Lambe in denying his Godhead Manichoes impugned his humanity Neither eate the whole lamb The Papists destroy all his Offices Whosoever deny any fundamentall Article of Religion they divide the lamb To eate the whole lamb is to beleeve whole Christ according to the rule Faith is but oâ—â— yet a copulative Deny one overthrow all Hitherto served that Iniunction that no part of the lamb must bee reserved till the morrow but if any remained it must bee burnt with fire vers 10. The Lord in his infinite wisedome would prevent all the occasions of idolatry which is easily admitted in the reservations of holy things As in Popery what a deale of idolatry is crept into the Church by reserving superstitious relicks and especially their consecrated or conjured bread as if this condition did not condemne expresly that Popish reservation of the hoast or breaden god Add hereunto that the Jewes requiring the body of Christ on the Crosse to be taken away that night before the Sabbath Ioh. 19. 31. fulfilled against their knowledge this Prophecy Nothing of the Paschall lamb must be left till the morning Sect. V. V. The Paschall Lamb is an expresse type of Christ in respect of the fruit and use of it which is security and safety from Gods revenge ver 23 For as by the sprinkling of the blood and eating of the flesh the Jews were defended from the revenging Angel and the destroyer passed over the house where hee espied the blood sprinkled So the blood of Christ applied to the conscience causeth the wrath of God to passe by those that are so sprinkled And as they could sit in the house safe and not feare the stroke of the destroyer because of the blood sprinkled so whosoever by true faith feeds upon Jesus Christ and are died with his blood rest secure and feare not the destruction and revenge due to wicked men Heb. 10. 22. Let us draw neere with a true heart in assurance of faith sprinkled in our hearts from an evill conscience I. As the Jews dwelling in Aegypt were in great danger of the revenging Angel who was to passe through the land So all the Israel of God dwelling in the midst of the Aegypt of the world and too too much tainted with the fashions of it have no small cause to feare the judgements and revenge of God which must pursue the sinnes of it and also to use meanes for their owne safety in the night of trouble and revenge as the Israelites did Quest. What meanes Answ. The same that Israel did We must 1. Sprinkle the house of our hearts with the blood of the Lamb Heb. 10. 22. sprinkled in our hearts c. Whosoever were sprinkled with the blood of the lamb were safe Was there so much power in the blood of the type and not much more in the blood of the trueth 2. Get into the house of the Church and fellowship of the faithfull for such as are true members of the Church which is the house of Saints are secure from the plagues of wicked men Isai. 27. 3. I the Lord do keep the vineyard I will water it every moment lest any assaile it I will keepe it night and day and Isai. 37. 18. My people shall dwell in the Tabernacle of peace and in sure dwellings and in safe resting places Noah can bee safe no where in the deluge but in the Arke And out of the Church is no salvation or safety 3. Thou must abide in the house all night and goe not forth Except the Israelites abide in the house they cannot be safe except thou abidest in the ship of the Church thou canst not bee safe no more then any of Noahs company if they had stepped out of the Arke Wee must adhere constantly to the true Church and not forsake the fellowship or depart from it by Apostacy or revolt which brings certaine shipwrack of faith Consider Heb. 10. 25. 4. Patiently await for the morning even the bright rising and appearing of Jesus Christ the Sunne of righteousnesse comming againe to our deliverance whether publikely to generall judgement or personally in speciall to our selves For hee shall bring health â—â—der hir wings Mal. 4. 2. II. In the whole precedent discourse is a fruitfull direction for Christians for their holy use of the Sacrament of the Supper which is come in place of the Passeover 1. As hee must bee circumcised that must eate the Passeover so must hee be baptized that must be admitted to the Supper that is a reverent professed Christian. For holy things must not bee cast to dogs Matt. 7. 6. The word and Sacraments are childrens bread and must not be cast to dogs that is obstinate enemies scorners blasphemers to men of uncircumcised lips and eares who wilfully repell the meanes of their cleansing So much the more pity is it that all sorts of notorious evill men thrust into the presence chamber of the great King yea sit downe at the Lords Table and like swine swill in his cup without controll or any rebuke in many places Open blasphemers common-drunkards scoffing Ishmaels noted adulterers obstinate sinners And where is the care to preserve the holy things of God from pollution contempt and profanation Would a man spread a table for dogs or swine If the shadows of these holy things might not bee cast to doggs is it nothing to expose to them the body and substance it selfe 1. Cor. 11. 30. for this cause many are weake and sicke among you and many sleepe 2. As the Lamb was taken in the tenth day but was not slaine till the fourteenth that it might be before their eyes all the foure dayes before for the helping of their meditation and due preparation to the eating of it So no man must come to the Supper without due preparing himselfe For if so long preparation was by God thought fit for the shadow what preparation can be thought fit and sufficient for the substance 1. Chron. 35. 6 It was the counsell of Solâ—mon Prov. 23. 1. When thou sittest downe at a great mans table consider diligently what is set before thee Much more here at the great Gods Table no consideration of the Author matter maner end fruit and use can be sufficient What a fearefull thing is it to come as most men doe not considering
Christ bee detained in the grave and lie under buriall three dayes and three nights parts put for the whole as perhaps also in Ionah till the case seemed desperate in both not onely in their owne apprehensions as I have before shewed but in the disciples apprehension Luk. 24. 21. Wee thought this should have beene hee that should have delivered Israel and behold this is the third day IV. Ionah was a manifest type of Christ in his resurrection For 1. As Ionah was taken into the belly of the Whale whole and passed through the ranges and armies of teeth as sharpe as speares without breaking or crushing one bone of him or the least limb of his body So Jesus Christ passed through the strait gate of death but as one bone of him was not broken the speciall and extraordinary providence of God in both of them watching the whole businesse 2. As the Lord spake unto the fish and the fish against his will must cast up Ionah on dry ground So the belly of the earth can keepe Christ no longer then the third day no more then the belly of the Whale could keepe Ionah his blessed body must see no corruption 3. As Ionah returned from his grave with a song of praise and thankesgiving Chap. 2 So Jesus Christ returned to life from his grave with a song of triumph and victory fore-prophecied Hos. 13. 14. and accomplished 1. Cor. 15. 55. O death where is thy sting O grave where is thy victory 4. As Ionah an Hebrew goes not to preach to the Ninivites being Gentiles till after his resurrection out of the belly of the Whale So Jesus Christ an Hebrew not till after his resurrection leaves the obstinate Jewes and by his Apostles ministery and preaching turnes himselfe to the Gentiles Act. 13. 46. 5. As Ionah after this delivery went and preached the doctrine of repentance with great fruit and successe to the conversion of all Niniveh and preventing the fearefull wrath denounced to come within fourty dayes So our Lord Jesus after his resurrection and ascension sending out his Apostles to preach repentance and remission of sinnes mightily prevailed and suddenly converted many nations of the Heathen and brought them to faith and repentance For Application I. Let us acknowledge a greater then Ionah here Matth. 12. 41. Lest as the Ninivits shall rise up against the Jewes they rise also against us if wee convert not nor repent at Christs doctrine as they did at Ionahs For 1. Who are they to us They barbarous Heathens and Gentiles never instructed before wee have beene trained in the Scriptures from childhood 2. What were their meanes to ours Ionah preached but three dayes to them Christ hath preached not three dayes as he nor three yeeres as to the Iewes but aboue threescore yeares He preached one sermon Christ a thousand 3. What was their Preacher to ours 1. Ionah was a weake man Christ is God and man 2. Ionah a sinful man cast into the sea for his owne sinne Christ an innocent man cast into the sea for our sinne 3. Ionah a Prophet a servant Christ the Lord of all the holy Prophets therefore of Ionah 4. Ionah a stranger to them Christ of our owne kindred and family 5. Ionah preached unwillingly Christ preached freely and spent himselfe for us 6. Ionah preached nothing but destruction of them and their City Christ a sweet doctrine of grace salvation and the promise of a kingdome of heaven 7. Ionah came indeed out of the belly of the Whale but did no miracle for confirmation of his doctrine Christ came both from the bosome of the Father and from the heart of the earth and did innumerable signes and miracles in which wee see his glory 8. Ionah a most angry and impatient man would faine die because the Ninevits did not Christ a mirrour of patience will die least his hearers should 9. To Ionah no Prophet gave witnesse or foretold of him To Christ all the Prophets gaue witnesse Act. 10. 43. and spake before of him Shall now Nineveh repent in sackcloth and ashes by Ionahs Ministery of three dayes and shall not wee by Christs constant Ministery of threefore yeares Shall Nineveh condemne Judea for not acknowledging a greater then Ionah and shall it not condemne us not repenting whose sinne shall bee farre greater then that of the Jews who rejected Christ in his abasement and humiliation but we reject the Lord of glory now exalted II. In the type and truth the freedome of Gods favour in the calling of the Gentiles Ionah was a preacher of grace to the Gentiles and Christ was a preacher of grace not to Jews onely but the Gentiles also being given for a light to the Gentiles that he might be the salvation of Gentiles to the farthest parts of the earth For 1. God is not the God of Iews onely but of Gentiles also Rom. 3. 29. 2. Christ was the promised seed in whom all nations must be blessed Gen. 22. 18. Hence comes in our title to grace and not from any desert of ours For what is amiable in the wilde Olive It is onely Gods free calling who calls her that was not beloved to bee beloved Object If we bee grafted into Christ and received into grace all is well we are in state good enough Sol. Some are grafted into the Church by profession of mouth onely as all were not Israel that were of Israel and some planted into it by the faith of the heart The former are not altered from their wilde nature the other are renewed to the Image of Christ. Therefore let none content themselves with externall profession joyning in the word sacraments and prayer but labour for soundnesse of faith and grace by which onely wee become branches of the true Olive whereas to be hanged as a scien by a thred of profession will not keep it from withering III. In both we have a certaine Embleme and proof of our resurrection Rom. 8. 11. If the Spirit of him that raised up Ionah and Jesus be in us he shall also quicken our mortall bodies and if the head be risen the members must rise also For as God spake to the fish and the fish gave up Ionah as from the dead so shall God speake to the earth and sea and all creatures and they shall give up their dead Isa. 26. 19. he shall say to the earth give and to the sea restore my sonnes and daughters and they that are as seed under clods shall awake and sing And these dry bones shall be againe covered with sinews flesh and skin as Ezek. 37. 6. For as it was impossible for Christ to be held ever under death Acts 2. 24. as impossible is it for his members Let us comfort our selves in the approach of death to our selves or our friends and by rising before hand from the grave of our sinnes provide for a blessed and joyfull resurrection 2 King 13. 21. a dead