AN IIISTORICAL AND TYPICAL CONNECTION BETWEEN THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS. Q. IN what manner is the Old Testament connected with the New ? A. The New Testament history is a continu. ation and sequel to that of the Old. It records the fulfilment of the Old Testament prophecies; and it also clearly discovers the Antitype or Truth, partially and imperfectly figured out in the types and shadows of the Old Testament. Q. How do you define a type? A. In the sense intended in the sacred writ ings, a type is a symbol of something future, and distant, and superior; or an example prepared and evidently designed by God to prefigure that future thing.' Q. In perusing the Old Testament history, whom do you consider as the earliest type of the Messiah? A. The first man, Adam, is distinctly pointed out as such. Q. Wherein, in this instance, consists the resemblance between the type and the antitype? 66 A. 1. Adam typified Christ, as being in a peculiar sense the Son of God. St. Luke, tracing the natural pedigree of Christ, ascends step by step from son to father, until he comes to the first progenitor of all, "Adam, which," says he, was the Son of God," Luke iii. 38, that is, his immediate offspring, without human intervention. Thus also it is said of the Messiah, "Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee." Ps. ii. 7. And again, "When he bringeth the first begotten into the world he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him," Heb. i. 6. As Adam, unlike all the rest of mankind, was formed out of the dust of the earth; so Christ, unlike all the rest of mankind, was formed by the power of the Holy Ghost in the womb of a virgin, Matt. i. 18—25. Luke i. 26-35. ii. 6, 7. 2. Adam was created in the image of God, Gen. i. 27. Christ the Son of God was "the brightness of his Father's glory, and "the express image of his person," Heb. i. 3. 3. Adam was a type of Christ in his dominion and sovereignty, Gen. i. 26-28. Ps. viii. 4-8. which passage is expressly applied to our Saviour in the Epistle to the Hebrews, ii. 6-8. The same also plainly appears, 1 Cor. xv. 25-28. 4. The sacred and pure union established in Paradise between Adam and Eve was intended to prefigure the mysterious union, the pure, reciprocal, and indissoluble affection, subsisting between Christ and his church; this application is expressly made by St. Paul, Ephes. v. 25-32. 5. Adam typified Christ in the paternal rela tion which each bears, Adam to all his natural descendants, Christ to all his spiritual race: as the whole race of mankind derive their natural existence by descent from Adam, so all believers derive their spiritual life by union and relation to Christ Jesus, Gen. v. 3, 4. "And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul, the last Adam was made a quickening spirit," 1 Cor. xv. 45—48. 6. The resemblance strikingly consists in that Adam and Christ were each placed in the relation of surety, trustee, or covenant head to their respective descendants. Q. How do you prove that all the race of Adam are federally related to him, and incur the penalty of his transgression? A. Both by reason and Scripture: by reason, in that we see the penalty (i. e. sufferings and death) inflicted on infants, who cannot have incurred it by actual transgression; nor can this be accounted for consistently with the Divinė perfections, otherwise than by allowing, that they, as one with Adam, had fallen in him under condemnation through his violation of that covenant, in which he acted as surety for all his offspring; it is also most positively and explicitly asserted in Scripture, as Rom. v. 12—14, 17, 19, 1 Cor. xv. 21, 22. Q. You said that the antitype was superior to the type; wherein does this superiority appear? 4. Besides the infinite and essential distance that must subsist between the Divine Redeemer and any created being, there are many evident |