Clavis cantici, or, An exposition of the Song of Solomon

Allegorical Scriptures, or Allegories (we take Allegory here as Divines do, who take it not as Grammarians or Rhetoricians, for a continued discourse of many figures together) properly and strictly taken (for sometimes Allegory may be taken largely, and so may comprehend whatever is figurative, whether Typical, Tropological, Analogical, &c. As the Apostle taketh it, Gal. 4. speaking of Abraham's two Sons, which is yet properly a Type) differeth from Types, or Typical Scriptures, thus,

First, Types suppose still the verity of some History, as Jonah casting in the Sea, and being in the Fishes belly three days and three nights, when it is applied to Christ in the New Testament, it supposeth such a thing once to have been: Allegories again, have no such necessary supposition, but are as Parables proponed for some mystical end. Thus, while it• said, Mat. 22. 2. A certain King made ⟨p. 9⟩a Marriage, planted a Vineyard, &c. That place supposeth it not necessary as to the being of the Allegory, that ever such a thing was, it may be an Allegory without that; but a Type cannot be without reality in the thing or fact, which is made a Type.

First, Types suppose still the verity of some History, as Ionas casting in the Sea, and being in the Fishes belly three dayes and three nights, when it is applyed to Christ in the New Testament, it supposeth such a thing once to have been: Allegories again, have no such necessary supposition, but are as Parables proponed for some mystical end. Thus, while it• said, Mat. 22. 2. A certain King made ⟨p. 9⟩a Marriage, planted a Vineyard, &c. That place supposeth it not necessary as to the being of the Allegory, that ever such a thing was, it may be an Allegory without that; but a Type cannot be without reality in the thing or fact, which is made a Type.