CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

Properly, and that two ways, Either in a literal sense or a mystical sense; A literal sense either is simply so when it's a mere prediction of what is to come, and hath no Type for the present to be verified in, of this kind or sort are many Examples especially, Isa. 7.14. Behold, a Virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, Matth. 1.22. applied to Christ; This was only true of Christ and his Mother, not applicable to any else, for as for Musculus and Grotius, who conceive that this was done in a Type, and that same Virgin in those days did marry and bear a Son, which was a Type of Christ is wholly improbable, and diminisheth this glorious Mystery of Christs Incarnation.

Properly, and that two waies, Either in a literall sence or a mysticall sence; A literall sence either is simply so when it's a meer prediction of what is to come, and hath no Type for the present to be verified in, of this kinde or sort are many Examples especially, Isa. 7.14. Behold, a Virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, Matth. 1.22. applied to Christ; This was onely true of Christ and his Mother, not applicable to any else, for as for Musculus and Grotius, who conceive that this was done in a Type, and that same Virgin in those daies did marry and bear a Son, which was a Type of Christ is wholly improbable, and diminisheth this glorious Mystery of Christs Incarnation.

As for the second kind of fulfilling which is a compounded sense of the Type and Antitype that is often; Thus these things which were fulfilled about the Paschal Lamb, the brazen Serpent, about Jonah, Solomon, and David, were also applied to Christ as the Antitype; As also Hos. 11. that of bringing the people of Israel out of Egypt unto Christ, Though these places also may be