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and among other things he was a Type in feeding his Father and
his Brethren, that when advanced in the kingdome he provided
for, and nourished his Fathers house, which typified Iesus Christ
feeding the Family of God, and preserving the Church alive.
Now though Ioseph in this action was a Type of Christ, and
did it typically, yet not only typically, but did this morally and
naturally too by vertue of the fifth Commandement, and sixth
Commandement, of childrens duty to their Parents, and of pre∣serving
life; and by vertue of this example of Ioseph every man
in high place and rich, is bound to send for and provide for Fa∣ther
and Brethren in a necessitous condition;☜ and suppose now
a man in Iosephs condition should have Father and Brethren in
want, whom he should neglect, and being pressed by Iosephs ex∣ample
to provide for them, he should answer Iosephs practise was
nothing to him, for he was a Type of Christ, and typified Christs
feeding of his Church not with temporall food only, but with
the Manna from Heaven, the word and Sacraments, I aske of
those who plead this Argument of typicalnesse, whether this
were a good Answer? and if not, neither is theirs against the
practise of the kings of Iudah from being Types of Christ; and
I wish the Pleaders for Toleration would serious consider of, and
resolve this Question, though Ioseph was a speciall Type of
Christ, and in this action of preserving his Father and Brethren
a Type of Christs preserving his Church, yet whether this acti∣on
of his to his Father, Brethren and their children, do not
bind now in the dayes of the Gospel children to their Fathers
&c. or whether the typicalnesse of it hath caused it to cease? and
in the resolution of this case, the ingenuous Reader may see what
to judge of the typicalnesse of the kings of Iudah, and that typi∣calnesse
of persons and actions does not presently make all such
persons and actions that they cannot be examples or rules to o∣thers
who are not typicall.☜ The Prophets and Propheticall of∣fice
were Types of Christ as well as the kings of Iudah; and yet
actions they did that were some way typicall and extraordinary,
bind Christians under the Gospel for the substance and matter,
and are set before them for example, as Eli a Type, and in his
Prayer a Type, yea somewhat in it extraordinary, is by Iames
propounded in prayer as a patterne and a proof of effectuall ser∣vent
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