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To the CHRISTIAN READER.
I Have heard of a demur made, as though something were put forth under this Authors name, which is none of his. I assure thee in the word of a Mini∣ster, that for the workes that have my Epistle pre∣fixed (and I hear of no other published with his name) there is not one note nor notion which is not the Authors own, according to his papers. And the like I affirm concerning this Treatise of Types, which now I publish. The use of it is mani∣fold: To open divers places of Scripture: To shew the mean∣ing of legal shadowes and ceremonies: To declare the faith of the Elders, who received a good report: To manifest our faith, one with theirs, one Faith, one Lord, one Baptisme, one salvation: To magnifie and commend Christ to every soul, that it may be saved, and he honoured: To discern and bewail the blind∣nesse of Gods ancient people the Jewes, and pray for their re∣turn to the truth, not ••atching at shadowes: Of whom, in pre∣sent I may say with detestation of their madnesse, as he said against the Philosophers, Nos qui non habitu, &c. We Christi∣ans, whose excellency stands not in outward things, but spirituall, glory that we have found what they (with all their diligence) have sought, and could not finde. Why are we unthankfull? Why doe we stand in our own light, if the truth of the Deitie hath in this our age attained to maturity? Let us enjoy and make use of our own good, and follow the truth in truth: avaunt superstition, be packing all impiety, let true religion be preserved and flourish. Yet withall, seeing there is a promise, that all Israel shall be saved, let us pray for the performance, and that with all earnestnesse, as that converted Jew gave exhortation to his son, So long pour forth thy prayers for the remnant of Israel, till God look from his high ha∣bitation, and see, and have mercy on his people for the Lords sake, his Annointed, that in our dayes Judah may be saved, and the chil∣dren of Israel may dwell safely in their own land, and spend their dayes in good, the Lord making his good Spirit to rest upon them.
WILLIAM JEMMAT.