FIGURI OR TYPE OF THE Ble Teftamen BY WHICH CHRIST and the Heavenly Thing Explain'd and Improv'd in sundry SERMON By SAMUEL MAT The Second Ed SCH ay! Mather, Samuel, 1626-1671. The figures or types of the Old Testament, by which Christ છે 1 Those of that CHURCH, to which this Author JE was sometime PASTOR. VERY Church is by the Ordinance of Christ a Pillar of saving Truth, holding it forth to be seen and read of all Men; the Teachings and Ordinances adminiftred in Churches being among the chief of the Ways, whereby the bleffed God instructs and enlightens a dark World in the way of Eternal Life. These following Discourses are part, and but part of those many precious Truths and Teachings held forth by this Servant of Christ, in the course of about fifteen Years Ministry, in that Candlestick in which the Lord made him a shining Light. The Prophets do not live forever; but their Words and Fruit should, yea will live and remain after they are gone to their everlasting Reft. Not long after this Author had gone thro this Subject, God took him to Heaven, (when he wanted above fix Months of being fix and forty Years old) by an Imposthume in his Liver ; which as Some who were conversant with him judged, hung upon him when he studied and preached these Sermons; and which perhaps was the Reafon, that from the beginning to the finishing of them so long a space ran out. Having no more time to review them, and make any Additions unto the Notes that he prepared for Preaching, they are less perfect then otherwise they would; and it is not unlike, but that many things studied by him before-hand, and delivered in Preaching, especially in the Applicatory part (wherein he had an Excellency) are loft, because not written down by himself. Had he lived to have reviewed A ال |