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A66404	Of the perspicuity of Scripture, and rules for interpretation of it a sermon preached at St. Martins in the Fields, Mar. 2, 1695/6, being the third of the lecture for this present year, founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire / by John Williams ...	Williams, John, 1636?-1709.	1696 (1696)	Wing W2712; ESTC R38654	13,865	34

more literally to be understood than that Herod was a Fox and the Pharisees Vipers because they were so called by our Saviour And therefore as our Saviour's Auditors as soon understood him when he spoke after this Figurative as if in the plainest and literal Phrase of it so one would think they should and we may be as certain they did understand our Saviour when he said This is my Body not of a proper human Body but only by way of Representation according to the nature of the thing and those places to which this had an immediate reference 3. By this way of comparison we come to understand the Typical Phrase of Scripture which of it self is like the Types obscure There is a great Conformity between the Old Testament and the New and especially as to what is the main Subject of the Mosaical Law the Types Ceremonies and Rites of it And where there is this Correspondence and Conformity we must for the understanding of the one borrow light from the other And therefore when the like Forms of Speech are us'd in the New Testament as are in the Old it is to be supposed that we are well acquainted with the Old or that we must have recourse to that for the understanding of the New Of this the Epistle to the Hebrews is an Instance the Phraseology of which is mostly Legal and Ritual and so we must be acquainted with those Rites or the Modes of speaking to understand it I shall here content my self with a particular or two of this sort It is a known case and very usual in the Old Testament in the Levitical or Prophetical part of it to call a Sin-offering by the name Sin or in the Translation of the Septuagint for Sin Now this is an Elliptical way of Expression very customary in those and other Languages but what is customary and significant in one yet if Translated into another oft-times looks absurdly and so it is necessary in such a Translation to supply it by what was before understood but not expressed as it is in the Cases abovesaid Thus for instance Hebr. 9. 28. 'T is said our Saviour Christ was once offer'd to bear the Sins of many and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without Sin unto Salvation But thus he appear'd the first time he was then without Sin and therefore here according to the Subject the Apostle is discoursing upon it is to be supplied after this manner without a Sin-offering So it is Hebr. 10. 8. and 2 Cor. 5. 21. So we have it according to the latter Phrase of the Septuagint Rom. 8. 3. God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for Sin condemned Sin in the flesh For Sin is a Phrase rough and abrupt but if we add to it by a Sacrifice for Sin it is very agreeable and intelligible Now when there is this Mystical Relation and the Gospel has a respect in its Phrase and manner of speaking to the Types and Ceremonies of the Law the Antitype is to be explained by the Type the New by the Old 4. By this way of comparison we become acquainted with the Prophetical way of Writing and may understand what without it would be obscure I have just before observed the Relation that is between the Law and the Gospel and that if we would understand the Gospel it is fit to repair to the Law as to the Phrase of it and if we would understand the Law in its noblest sence we must repair to the Gospel And from this Relation between these Two is it that the Prophecies of Scripture especially as to the Future State of the Church under the Gospel are clothed in the Phrase of the Mosaical Institutions and Rites Thus the Success of the Gospel and the Enlargement of the Christian Church is described under such Characters Isai. 2. 2. 3. It shall come to pass in the last days that the Mountain of the Lord's House shall be established in the top of the Mountains and all Nations shall flow unto it Isai. 66. 23. It shall come to pass from one New-moon to another and from one Sabbath to another all flesh shall come to Worship before me at Jerusalem v. 20. which and the like Phrases were no more literally to be fulfilled than that we shall eat Bread in the Kingdom of Heaven But now as the Happiness of the Future State is often described by such Phrases as belong to this present state and not to that which they are literally applied to So the Prophecies concerning the state of the Church under the Gospel are frequently exemplified under such Resemblances and Forms of Speech as suited the People of the Jews for whose immediate use they were wrote and notwithstanding which neither they nor others could possibly be led into such a mistake as to think that such should the Kingdom of the Messias be as those Expressions verbally signified when it was evident from the Prophecies of Scripture that that Legal State was to be abolished and also that several of the things in the nature of them were unpracticable As for example when it was said that from one New-moon to another and from one Sabbath to another that is Monthly and Weekly all Nations should come up to Worship the Lord at Jerusalem And therefore in the Explication of such Phrases we must not consider what they exactly signify in their first and original use but to what purpose they serve and are applied and if so we do we shall lightly as soon understand the New heaven and the New earth which St. Peter speaks of 2 Pet. 3. 13. as the Heaven and the Earth in the First Chapter of Genesi● And as well shall we understand Babylon and Euphrates in the Mystical sence of the Apocalypse as we do in the Historical Books of Scripture But above all there is nothing doth so lay open the Secrets and Mysteries of Prophecy as the Event for by that means where it is fulfilled it is as clear as if it had been Historically related And as if we look back from the Event to the Prediction we the better understand that Prediction which without the Knowledge and Observation of the Event we could not perhaps have understood So by comparing what yet remains to be fulfilled with what has been already fulfilled we have a useful key for the understanding of the one by the other the obscure by the plain and what we do not know the meaning of by what we do Thus for instance we may understand the Prophetical Schemes of Speech concerning the destruction of a Nation by comparing one of the Testaments with the other or what is to be fulfilled with what has been fulfilled So when in the Old Testament we find it Prophetically threatned of Babylon Idumea Egypt c. that the Stars of Heaven and the Constellations thereof shall not give their light that all the Host of Heaven shall