I come now, to my second proposition, namely, to shew, that the doctrine of a future state, or the immortality of the soul, was not designedly secreted, or industriously hidden from the eyes of the people of God by the types and figures of the Mosaic dispensation.――My reasons for it are as follow. _First_, because it is highly unworthy of God, to suppose, that it was, the end of those types and figures, designedly to _secrete_, or _hide_ from the people of God, the knowledge _of any truth_, much less the knowledge of a truth, absolutely _necessary_, to the very possibility of any spiritual relation, or religious communication between God and man, as that of the immortality of the soul, must be.――For though the Mosaic state, may be justly called a _region of darkness_, when compared to that _light_ which has arisen from the process of Christ; yet so far as it went, and with regard to the people under it, it was a degree of _light_, and a degree of _life_: it was _some progress_ in victory over death, it was _some opening_ of divine light, an help to such kind of knowledge, as could be had in such a state, as was only formed to support, and keep up a faith, and hope, and expectation of such a redemption to come, as had been promised from the beginning of the world, but could have no open manifestation, till its _own existence_ manifested itself.――It is therefore a gross mistaking the _whole nature_ of the law, to consider its types and figures as _designedly_ hiding any thing from man.――Their design was quite the contrary, namely, to convey _new_ light and _farther_ information. And though they may be said to be a _shadowy_, and imperfect representation, yet its whole intent is, to give some knowledge of the substance; and by its signs to make the things to come more expected, than they would have been without such types and figures. Bishop _Warburton_, speaking of typical representation, saith, _it necessarily implies the throwing a thing into shade_, or _secreting_ it from _vulgar knowledge_. Typical representation, in the _law_, is not, cannot be the _throwing a thing into shade_, or _secreting_ it from _vulgar knowledge_. For this supposes the thing typified to have been already _in existence_, or it could not be _thrown_ into shade. But this hath no place in the Mosaic types and figures; they are not the putting any thing _already existent_, under a cover, but are a _degree_ of light cast upon such a matter, as had _never shewn_ itself, and which could therefore only be typically pointed at, till it came into actual existence.