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The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural…
The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural evidence the being of God ... : the second part, of Christianity, proving by evidence supernatural and natural, the certain truth of the Christian belief ... / by Richard Baxter ... ; also an appendix defending the soul's immortality against the Somatists or Epicureans and other pseudo-philosophers.
London: printed by R. White for Fran. Titon, 1667
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
To these must be adjoined the Prophetical Types, even the typical Persons, and the typical Ordinances and Actions. It would be too long to open, how his sufferings from the malignant world was typified in the Death of Abel, and the attempted oblation of Isaac, and the selling of Joseph. And his work of Salvation, in Noah, and his preserved Ark and Family: And his Paternity as to Believers, in Abraham: And his Kingly conduct and deliverance of the Church, by Moses and his deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt, and conduct of them in the Wilderness; and by Joshua's victorious bringing them into the Land of Promise: His Reign and Kingdom by David, and his building of the Church by Solomon, and his Priesthood by Aaron and his Successors, &c.
To these must be adjoyned the Prophetical Types, even the typical Persons, and the typical Ordinances and Actions. It would be too long to open, how his sufferings from the malignant world was typified in the Death of Abel, and the attempted oblation of Isaac, and the selling of Joseph. And his work of Salvation, in Noah, and his preserved Ark and Family: And his Paternity as to Believers, in Abraham: And his Kingly conduct and deliverance of the Church, by Moses and his deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt, and conduct of them in the Wilderness; and by Joshua's victorious bringing them into the Land of Promise: His Reign and Kingdom by David, and his building of the Church by Solomon, and his Priesthood by Aaron and his Successors, &c.
And it would take up a just volume to open all the typical Ordinances and Actions, which prefigured Christ:1 from the institution of Circumcision, and the Passover or Paschal Lamb, to the end of all the Mosaical Ceremonies, Christ is the signification and the end of all. I will only crave your consideration of the custom of Sacrificing in the general: it came into the world immediately upon mans sin: we find Cain and Abel, the two first persons born into the world, employed in it. From thence to this day it hath continued (in doctrine, though the practice be restrained) with the Jews: it was no peculiar Ceremony of their Law, but hath