Richard Vines on Christ as the substance of Old Testament types

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They in the old church of Israel had Christ as well (though not as clearly) as we. In 1 Cor. 10:4, the Rock that followed our fathers in the wilderness was Christ; the Passover was Christ; the personal types (such as Isaac on the wood) and the real types (the bloody sacrifices) were Christ. He was then in His swaddling clothes, swathed up in shadows and types, not naked. In the New Testament, those types, being anatomized and unbowelled, are full of gospel, full of Christ. Christ is the marrow in the bone, the kernel in the shell, 'the same yesterday, and today, and forever,' the sum and sweetness of all ordinances. Therefore, those who say these types were filled with temporal promises, but had no spiritual promises, derogate too much from them, as if they were swine filled with husks. It is a wondrous paradox that those who had so much faith (Hebrews 11) should have no Christ. We give them the right hand of fellowship, and they were the elder brother, but we have the double portion.

-- From "The Passover: Its Significance, and the Analogy between It and Christ our Passover" by Richard Vines in Don Kistler, The Puritans on the Lord’s Supper (Soli Deo Gloria Ministries, 2023), 5–6.

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