I fey, if Things were fo, why may wc not in
Reafon hope, for fomething analogous thereto, in
behalf of the Chriftian Church. It cannot be de-
nied, that there was a great Analogy between the
Jewiih Inftitutions, and the Do&rines of the
Gofpel ; for Inftancc, between the Pafchal Lamb»
and the Lamb of God flain from the Foundation
ef the World ; between the £gy^//V7;i Bondage, and*
that of Sin ; the earthly Canaan^ and the heavenly ;
the fleihly Circumcifion, and the fpirituah In thefe
^nd many other Particulars, the Analogy (eems fb
plain, that it can hardly be difputed. To be con-
vinced that the Law of Mojes and the Jewiih
CEconomy were Figures and Shadows of the £van«
gelical, we need only look into the Epiftle to the
Hekr^vs* May we not therefore, in purfuance of
this fame Analogy, fuppofe a (imilar Treatment of
the Je^i/h and Chriftian Church ?

Let us then fee, on what Terms the former
flood with God, in order to difcover what the latter
may reafbnably exped. The folemn Denunciation
to the Jews was, * If thou jhalt hearken diligenthf
unto the Voice of the Lord thy God^ to obferve and
to do ail bis Commandments^ which I command thee
this Daj^j that the Lord thy God willfet thee on high
above aU the Nations of the Earth. But in cafe of
Diibbedience, it is added among many other
Threats and Maledidions : f The Lord ft>aU fmite
thee with Blafting aifd with Mildew : and thy Heaven
that is over thy Head Jhall be Brafs, and the Earth
that it und^ thee Jhall be Iron, And again, \ "the

f Deut, XXX. 3. • Deut. xxviii. i. f Ver. %t, %%. J Ver. ti.
