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AGain, the name of a thing is given unto the signe, because* 1.1 of the alience betwixt the thing signified and their signes, for so Circumcision is the Covenant, Gen. 17. 13. the Lamb is the Passeover, Exod. 12. 43. the Dove the Holy Ghost, Mat. 3. 16. the Rock Christ, 1 Cor. 10. 4. the Sacrifice of the Law the putting away of sinne, &c. because such things were prefigured by them; and in the same sence if Scripture be taken litterally, then God is a man of warre, Exod. 15. 3. and hath eyes, eares, nose, mouth, hands, and feet, which is contrary to Scripture, Luk. 24. 39. where our Saviour saith, that a Spirit hath not flesh and bones. But God is a Spirit, Joh. 4. 24. ergo he hath no such things; these tearmes being only incerted, as to suite with our capacities, so that in some sort we might apprehend his manner of action, and leportment towards us his creatures.