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GOSPEL BY MOSES,
IN THE BOOK OF GENESIS;
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THE OLD TESTAMENT UNYEILED.

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OOSPEL BY MOSES,

IN THE BOOK OP GENESIS ;

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OLD TESTAMENT UNYEILED.

BY C. H. PUTNAM.

"And not as Moses, wAic/i, put a vail over hia face, that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look to tka end
of that which is abolished :
" But their minda were blinded : for until this day reraaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old
teslament; which t>«ii is done away in Christ. "—2 Cor. iii. 13, 14.

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1854.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854. by
C. H. PUTNAM,
In the Clerk's Office otthe District Court of the United States for the Southern
District of New Yorlc.

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PREFACE.

Much has been said and written in relation to the types and symbols of
Scripture ; and various have been the opinions of the learned in all ages
upon the subject. Ancient writers very generally acknowledged a typi
cal sense to -the Old Testament, but many of them brought the matter
into disrepute by their injudicious and unauthorized treatment of it.
Instead of being guided in their interpretations by the analogy and unity
of divine truth, they followed the leadings of false philosophy and gave
license to vain fancies, which imparted to the subject a visionary charac
ter, and involved it in transcendental mysticism. Some even went so
'far as to deny to the writings of Moses any other than a mystical sense ;
insisting that no such events really occurred as are recorded by him ;
that the entire Old Testament history is but a system of divine myste
ries, and not an authentic narrative of actual facts. But vague and
often extravagant as were the views entertained in regard to the nature
and extent of a typical sense, it was certainly much to the credit of these
ancient systems, and did much to atone for their errors, that they all
agreed in considering Christ and the things of his spiritual kingdom to
be the one great end and aim of every part of divine revelation.
In more modern times the vital spirit of religion gave place to a dull
formality, which savored of rationalism and infidelity. The faith of
the gospel was exchanged for theories more upon a level with human
reason, which discarded all divine mysteries and all necessity of the
Spirit's teaching, and in which Christ and his redemption-work had no
part, — either as intimated in the Old Testament, or accomplished in the
New. But we trust a better day has dawned, and that God will not longer
suffer this part of his Word to " return unto him void," but it will " ac
complish that whereto he has sent it." We fully believe that it was for
the spiritual benefit of his Church that he ordained and constituted a
connexion between the Old and New Testaments, as between type and
antitype ; that he was pleased, in this way, to instruct his saints of old
into the mysteries of his will in the great plan of grace ; that they might
believe the promise and rejoice in hope, though they " died without the

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sight." Not only so, but this same connexion is designed to confirm the
faith of those who have " received the promise." It is like having in
their own hands the " handwriting" or promissory note of Jehovah, to
compare with the actual payment of all that it pledged, when that
" handwriting" was taken out of the way by being nailed to the cross ¦
Hence their duty and their privilege to look into these things, that they
may not be " slow of heart to believe all that the scriptures testify" of
Christ and his great salvation.
And here we would ask, if a secret unbelief in reference to the plenary
inspiration of the Bible, does not lie at the bottom of much of the doubt
and ignorance which so generally prevail upon the typical character and
design of the Old Testament ? If we regarded it as coming immediately
and wholly from God, in all and every part, should we not be likely to
attach an importance, and look for a meaning, in things which we pass over
as trivial and of no particular interest ? In fact, it is hardly possible to
reconcile the divine inspiration of the books of Moses with the idea that
they convey nothing higher and more important than a literal meaning.
It is cTnly when viewed in their typical character that these writings
assume their proper dignity and value. Barren details may, it is true,
serve a subordinate purpose in exhibiting the dealings of God with the
subjects of his moral government ; but if understood only in this view,
these records are shorn of their chief glory, and sink to a level with
other history. How trivial and insignificant in themselves are the inci
dents recorded ! Yet let these very details be considered as divinely
appointed to shadow forth God's everlasting scheme of grace, and how
rich and fruitful do the}' become, both " for doctrine, for reproof, for cor
rection, and for instruction in righteousness !" The smallest item becomes
replete with the glories of the new heavens and the new earth, and im
bued with the great mysteries of " God manifest in the flesh."
Again, if the books of Moses claim no higher character than a mere
literal history ; if, under the veil of familiar facts, common events, and
minutely detailed rituals, there lies no hidden, spiritual, and prophetic
intimation of the mysteries and glories of redemption — then, whence the
necessity of a divine inspiration ? Why was a supernatural agency re
quisite ? It was surely easy for God, by merely natural means, to pre
serve a record of common events and transmit them to us, without any
immediate operation of the Holy Spirit. But, on the other hand, if
these events were designed to convey spiritual instructions, to reveal unto
ns those " deep things of God," which none but the Spirit of God knows
or can reveal, then we see the necessity that "holy men of old should
speak as they were moved by the Holy Ghost."
The apostle Paul was certainly speaking of the Old Testament when
he said to Timothy, " All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is
profitable for doctrine, forreproof, for correction, for instruction in righteous
ness, that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all
good works." But when did any uninspired writing, any mere literal his
tory, however replete with the best moral sentiment, ever deserve this high

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character, or accomplish this great work ? Christ says, " Search the
scriptures ; for in them ye think ye have eternal life, and they are they which
testify of me." But how do these scriptures testify of Christ ? Is it merely
in some few isolated passages, which all allow to be prophetic because they
are so quoted in the New Testament ? On the contrary, does not the New
Testament everywhere justify the inference that if " the law " was rightly
understood it would always teach gospel truth ? — that it invariably tes
tified of the coming of the Just One, and the glories of his kingdom —
not vaguely and incidentally, as if more by accident than design, but
with an exactness and expressiveness which fully demonstrates the fact of
an ultimate object, infinitely transcending a mere literal record ?
When God said to Moses, " See that thou make all things according to
the pattern shown you in the mount," did he furnish him with no other
and better direction than an architectural model of a mere " worldly
sanctuary" ? — was it this that Moses saw in the mount with God, or was
it the New Jerusalem — the house not made with hands, eternal in the
heavens ? Was he to order and regulate the work of making a taberna
cle, by mechanical rules, or was he moved and inspired by a sight of
those things " which God has laid up for them that fear him" — things
which " eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the
heart of man to conceive, but which he reveals to us by his Spirit" ? In
speaking of one part of the service of this worldly sanctuary, Paul ex
pressly declares what the Holy Ghost signified by it ;* and if a part was
significant of heavenly things, why not the whole ? Indeed, if it be not
the design of God, throughout the books of Moses, to make known, " in
a figure," the mysteries of his grace, then do these writings present
greater and more insuperable diiEculties than any which are found in
conceding the fact of their typical character ; and well may the question
of the apostle, in reference to the 4th verse of Deut. xxii., be applied to
a multitude of similar instances : " Doth God take care for oxen, or
saith he it altogether for our sakes ? For our sakes, no doubt, this is
written." (1 Cor. ix. 9, 10.) That Israel, as a people, with all that was
connected with them, were typical of the church of Christ, and ought
to be so regarded by us, is abundantly and variously attested. In speak
ing of God's dealings with them, it is expressly declared, " All these
things happened unto them for ensamples (or types) ; and they were
written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the earth are come."
It is in accordance with this fact that Paul demands of the Galatian
church, in a tone of both surprise and reproof, " Do ye not hear the
law ?" (this being often used as a general term for the whole of the Old
Testament) ; as if, by the events of this history alone, they ought to have
understood the great doctrine of the two covenants !
But if particular parts of these writings are allowed to be typical,
because they are declared to be so in the New Testament, is it not absurd
to suppose that these stand alone in their figurative character and design,
* Heb ix. 8.

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while all connected with them is a mere record of common facts ? Do the
Scriptures, which are allowed by all to be a model of fine writing, thus mix
the literal and figurative together « Do they mingle in one indiscrimi
nate mass, the trivial and unimportant details of history, with the most
sublime truths and principles of a divine revelation ?
On this branch of our subject, we beg leave to quote from a recent
publication, "The Typology of Scripture," by Patrick Fairbairn; his
remarks being more to the purpose than anything we could say. Speak
ing of the works of Professor Stowe and Moses Stuart, Fairbairn says,
" The view embraced by this school of interpreters lies open to one ob
jection, in common with the school that preceded it. While a certain
number of types were admitted, nothing was done to investigate and
explain the internal nature of the connexion existing between them and
the corresponding realities under the gospel. There are fewer points of
resemblance presented to us by these writers, between type and antitype,
than in the works of an older date, but the resemblances themselves are
just as much of an outward and superficial character. There is as little
to be met with of the rationale or grounds of the doctrine in the one
system as in the other. But other defects adhere to the view in question.
The leading excellence of the previous system was the reference which
it supposed the Old Testament scriptures to bear toward Christ and the
gospel dispensation ; and the practical disavowal of this, may be said to
constitute the great defect of the more meagre system which has now
obtained the general suffrage of the learned. It drops a golden princi
ple for the sake of avoiding a few lawless aberrations. It furnishes
indeed a clear and well defined rule for our guidance ('that just so'
much of the Old Testament is to be accounted typical as the New Testa
ment declares to be so, and no more'), with which it is scarcely possible
to be guilty of extravagance. But it is a rule which leaves more un
taught than it teaches, and is itself almost a more vicious error than the
evils it is applied to correct. For it breaks the link of connexion be
tween the Old Testament and the New, in regard to a large portion of
the former, thus depriving the Christian Church of much of the instruc
tion HI divine things which these scriptures are designed to impart, and
unduly contracting the light which they are intended to shed over the
events and the dispensation of the gospel. Were men accustomed, as
they should be, to search for evidences of Christ in all scriptures, and to
regard the inspired records of both covenants as having for their leading
object 'the testimony of Jesus,' they would know how much they are
losers by such a curtailment of the typical matter of Scripture and in
proportion as they grow in depth of spiritual discernment, and enlarged
acquaintance of the truth of God, they will be less inclined to feel
satisfied with such a limited and superficial system.
" The rule of interpretation just mentioned, is manifestly built on the
ground that nothing less than inspired authority is sufficient to guide us
to the discovery and explanation of the types. But why should this be
deemed ;iecessa.y ? No one holds the necessity of inspiration to expla

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prophecies aud decide even with certainty upon their fulfilment, and why
should it be reckoned absolutely indispensable to the closely related sub
ject of types ? * * * Prom tbe analogy subsisting between the two sub
jects — for what is a type but a prophetic act or institution ? — we might
reasonably infer the same liberty to have been granted and the same obli
gation imposed in regard to the typical parts of ancient Scripture. But
we have something more than a mere argument from analogy to guide us
in this conclusion ; for the very same complaint is brought by an inspired
writer against private Christians concerning their slowness in understand
ing the types, which our Lord brought against the apostles in regard to
the prophecies. In the Epistle to the Hebrews, a sharp reproof is ad
ministered to the disciples for their imperfect acquaintance with the
typical character of Melchizedec, and subjects of a like nature; thus
placing it beyond a doubt, that it is both the privilege and the duty of
the church, with that measure of the Spirit's aid which it is the part of
every believer to expect, to inquire into and understand the typical as
well as the prophetical matter of ancient Scripture, whether inspiration
may have thrown any special light on it or not. To deny this, is certain
ly to withhold an important privilege from the Christian church ; to dis
suade from it, is to encourage the neglect of an incumbent duty.
" But the unsoundness of the principle which would limit the number
of the types to those which are expressly mentioned in New Testa
ment Scripture, becomes still more apparent when we consider what
these really are, and in what manner they are introduced. Leaving out
of view the tabernacle, its sacred furniture and the services therewith
connected, the typical nature of which has been placed beyond dispute
by the Epistle to the Hebrews, the following are all the types, for which
anything like an express warrant of Scripture can be produced : 1. Per
sons or characters; Adam (Rom. v. 11, 12 ; 1 Cor. xv. 22), Melchizedec
(Heb. vii.), Sarah and Hagar, the latter also identified with Sinai and
Jerusalem (Gal. iv. 22-26), Ishmael and Isaac (ibid.), Moses (Gal. iii. 19 ;
Acts iii. 22-26), Jonah (Matt. xii. 40), David (Ezk. xxxvii. 24 ; Luke
1. 32), Solomon (2 Sam. vii.), Zerubbabel and Joshua (Zech. iii.). 2.
Transactions or events ; the preservation of Noah and his family in the
deluge (1 Pet. iii. 20), the exodus (Matt. ii. 15), the passage through
the Red Sea, the giving of manna, the putting a veil on the face of
Moses while the law was read, the rock that was smitten and the serpent
that was lifted up in the wilderness, with some judgments also which
were inflicted on the Israelites in the wilderness (1 Cor. x ; John iii.
14, 15, v. 33).
" Now let any person of candor and intelligence take his Bible and
examine the passages to which reference has just been made, and let
him say whether the manner in which these particular characters and
things are there introduced, is such as to indicate that these alone were
prefigurative of similar characters and things under the gospel — that in
naming them, in short, the inspired writers had exhausted the typical
bearing of the Old Testament history ? On the contrary, it seems im-

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possible to avoid the conviction, that in adducing these particular examples,
they were merely singhng out a few, as occasion required, from a vast
storehouse, where many similar ones were to be found. They have all the
appearance, at least, of having been selected merely as examples suited
to the immediate purpose in view, and are consequently to be taken as
mere specimens of the class to which they belong. And this being the
case, they should rather have the efiect of prompting further inquiry than
of checking it. * * * Indeed, were it otherwise, nothing could be more
arbitrary and unmeaning than the typology of Scripture. For what is
there to distinguish the characters land events which Scripture has thus
particularized, from a great multitude of others in sacred history, so that
they alone should have been invested with a typical meaning ? * * *
So much the reverse, that it is scarcely possible to'avoid the conviction,
that if those were typical, so also must many others be, which hold not
a less but even sometimes a more prominent place in the page of sacred
history. Can it be seriously believed that Sarah and Hagar were raised
up as typical characters to teach important lessons to future times con
cerning the gospel dispensation, while there was nothing properly typi
cal in Abraham, from whom, notwithstanding, they derived their whole
importance, their very existence even, as scriptural characters ? What
reason can we imagine for Melchizedec and Jonah having been constituted
types, while such leading characters as Joseph, Samson, and Elijah are
excluded ; or for selecting the passage through the Red Sea, and the
incidents in the wilderness, while the passage through Jordan and the
conquest of Canaan are thrown out of view ?"
In addition to these remarks from Fairbairn, we shall subjoin a single
passage as quoted by him from another author. The leading views
presented in these quotations, particularly the last, embody, as we fully
believe, the grand principle upon which the doctrine of types must
stand. To develop this principle— that Christ and his spiritual kingdom
IS the one great theme of divine revelation— is the sole object of the
author in the present work :
" Christianity sprung out of Judaism. Long before Christ appeared
the world was prepared in which he was to appear ; the entire Old Testa-
rmnt ^s a great prophecy, a great type of him who was to come, and has come
Who can deny that the holy seers of the Old Testament saw in spirit the
advent of Christ long before he came, and in prophetic anticipations
sometimes more, sometimes less clear, descried the new doctrine « The
typological comparison of the New with the Old Testament, was" bv no
means a mere play of fancy. Christianity lay in Judaism as leaves and
lorlh" '' ' "^ " '"!"'''' *^' '^^"'"^ ^"" ^'^ ^"°g them
We pass to consider one more point, not as yet alluded to ; we mean
the relation between the natural world and the spiritual king om The
New Testament declares, "The invisible things of God from Ihe or..7
of the world are clearly seen, being understtd by i tW Taf::
made, even his eternal power and Godhead." Whit are we to imd"!

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stand by these words, but that the Holy Ghost designed, by the works of
creation, the visible things of the material world, and the order and ar
rangement of them, as they proceeded from the hand of Him by whom
and for whom all were made, to show forth, symbolically and emblemati
cally, the invisible and spiritual things of that new heaven and new
earth which were to stand when the old should have passed away for
ever ? The learned Augustine so understood it, as appears from the 11th
and 12th book of his " Confessions," though he says, " the wise will say
' Moses did not mean so.' " A learned writer of our own time expresses this
same view of the subject. Gaussen, in his work upon " The Divine Inspi
ration of the Scriptures," says, " His (God's) great aim, without doubt,
was to reveal to us the eternal glories of the invisible world, not the
barren secrets of that which is to perish."
A strong proof of such a design is certainly found in the analogy
which the Scriptures everywhere recognise between natural objects and
spiritual things — an analogy far too remarkable to be the result of mere
accident, and which none but the God of nature could have established.
To those who look with alarm upon the least attempt to spiritualize
Scripture, we say that we by no means advocate a rash or premature
conclusion, in regard to any such meaning. We do not give a spiritual
sense ; we only endeavor to discover it, — like the sculptor who said, " The
image is in the marble, I only bring it out." We are aware that in this
attempt we are treading on holy ground ; and not unfrequently have our
steps been staid, and our efforts almost paralysed by a solemn conviction
of the danger of " perverting the right ways of the Lord," or trifling with
his Word ! The work of investigation and study has, at least, not been
hastily done ; it has been the delightful business of nearly thirty years.
We request those who differ from us in opinion, to suspend their judg
ment until they have given the subjept a fair investigation. If they
will only consent to lay aside preconceived notions, and look into these
things in the spirit of candid inquiry, we have full confidence that the
result will be a discovery of the fact that many a scripture whose'tZead
letter yielded nothing to their perception but barren historic detail, is
really a " well of salvation," out of which they may draw " Uving water ;"
— that the tree of life, whose leaves are for the healing of the na
tions, extends on hoth sides of that "river" which proceeds from the
throne, and " makes glad the city of our God ;" and that these leaves are
not confined to the sunny banks of the gospel, but grow equally abundant
and equally verdant under the shade of the darker dispensation.
The Author.

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THE OLD TESTAMENT UNVEILED.

THE FIRST BOOK; OR, GENESIS.
CHAPTER I.

The Letter.
1. In the benning God created the
heaven and the earth.

ITOTE.
The original of this verse, according
to Oalmet, would read, — " In the begin
ning God created the substance of the
heayens and the substance of the earth."
This would intimate that the phrase,
" the beginning," implies nothing definite
in point of time ; but only that the un
formed mass of matter out of which the
objects of creation now described, were
made, had previously existed. So far
as respects the natural world, we leave
this question to the speculation of geo
logists ; our object being to find, if, in
revealing to us the order and manner of
this fair creation, God had any other
and greater object to effect, than making
known "the barren secrets of that
which is to perish," — or, whether he de
signed by " the things that are raade,"
symbolically to represent " the invisible
things of himself; even his eternal power
and Godhead;" — the eternal , glories of
the new heavens and new earth, which
he would make when the former have
passed away I
Jesus, the anointed of God, who was
" set up from everlasting," ia in many
2

The Spirit.
JoHn i. 1. In the beginning was the
Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was %od.
2. The same was in the beginning
vrith God.
3. All things were made by him ; and
without him was not any thing made
that was made.
Col. i. 16. For by him were all
things created, that are in heaven, and
that are in earth, visible and invisible,
whether they be thrones, or dominions,
or principalities, or ppwers: all things
were created by him, and for him :
17. And he is before all things, and
by him all things consist.
Peov. viii. 22. The Lord possessed
me in the beginning of his way, before
his works of old.
23. I was set up from everlasting,
from the be^nnirig, or ever the earth
was. *****
27. When he prepared the heavens,
I was there: when he set a compass
upon the face of the depth :
28. When he estabhshed the clouds
above : when he strengthened the foun
tains of the deep :
29. When he gave to the sea his de
cree, that the waters should not pass

The Gospel by Moses ;

passages of scripture called, " the begin
ning," — not only as " the beginning, the
first-born of every creature," being first
made manifest to men, but as being the
Head of the church which is his mysti
cal body, " chosen in him from the foun
dation of the world." Of this body he
speaks by the mouth of David, thus;—
" Thine eyes did see my substance yet
being imperfect ; and in thy book all my
members were written which in continu
ance were fashioned, when as yet there
were none of them."

his commandment : when he appointed
the foundations of the earth :
30, Then I was by Wm, as one
brought up vnth him : and I was daily
his delight, rejoicing always before him :
31. Rejoicing in the habitable part of
his earth; and my delights were with
the sons of men.
IsA. Ixv. 17. For behold, I create
new heavens and a new earth : and the
former shall not be remembered, nor
come into mind.
18. But be ye glad and rejoice for
ever in that which I create : for behold,
I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her
people a joy.
Rev. xxi. 1. And I saw a new hea
ven and a new earth : for the first hea
ven and the first earth were passed
away ; and there was no more sea.

The Letter.
2. And the eanh was without form
and void ; and darkness was upon the
face of the deep ; and the Spirit of God
moved upon the face of the waters.
Note.
This verse represents the condition of
the mass or lump of matter, as it wss in
the beginning, before the work of crea
tion began.
It was a. shapeless impenetrable sub
stance covered with the waters of the
deep, with no light or heat in itself to
modify its native hardness. " Darkness
was upon the face of the deep."
This state of things exactly describes
the condition of the moral world, when
lying in the ruins of the fall, alienated
from the life of God, immersed in sin,
and lying under the curse ; not a ray of
light to make manifest the thick dark
ness, or pulse of spiritual life to animate
the dead and senseless lump. Sin, like
an overwhelming flood, covered the en
tire mass, and darkness reigned over the
face of this blighting element.
Upon the face, or surface of these wa
ters of corruption, the Spirit of God has
mmied from time to time ; but, until the

The Spirit.
Rom. iii. 9. * * We have before
proved both Jews and Gentiles, that
they are all under sin ;
10. As it is written. There is none
righteous, no, not one :
11. There is none that understand
eth, there is none that seeketh after
God. 12. They are all gone out of the
way, they are together become unpro
fitable ; there is none that doeth good,
no, not one.
16. Destruction and misery are in
their ways :
17. And the way of peace have they
not known.
18. There is no fear of God before
their eyes.
Eph. iv. 18. Having the understand
ing dai-kened, being alienated from the
life of God through the ignorance that
is in them, because of the blindness of
their heart :
19. Who, being past feeling, have
given themselves over unto lascivious-
ness, to work all uncleanness vrith gi'ee-
diness. V. 8. For y© were sometime dark-

Or, The Old Teitament Unveiled.

B

purpose of grace in Christ is brought to
bear upon them, and its quickening, re
generating power is put forth to " create
all things new," nothing is . effected by
it, except to stir up their raging waves to
resistance and opposition.
When the Holy Spirit strives with
the natural conscience, its effect is like
the wind upon the waves of the ocean,
— to make them rise and foam and dash
against the shore that bounds them. It
is only when this divine agent, with his
sharp two-edged sword, slays the en
mity of the heart, that it is subdued, sof
tened, and changed into the image of
the Son of God.

The Letter.
3. And God said. Let there be light :
and there was light. KOTE.
Till now all was darkness ; but " where
the word of a king is, there is power ;'
and darkness can no longer rule and
reign supreme.
Light and darkness, iu their very na
ture, are antagonist principles; they
hold a totally opposite and distinct scep
tre, which admits of no sympathy or
partnership with each other. But light
has a positive character aud au absolute
power, to which darkness must of neces
sity yield. Where light shines darkness
is expelled ; yet may the clearest light
shine all around the region where dark
ness reigns, and wholly without effect,
unless admitted within. Hence it is writ
ten, " the true light lighteth every man
that cometh into the world;" lighteth,
but not enlightens; for "it is the en
trance of thy word which giveth light."
Ps. cxix 130.
The light of the glorious gospel may
shine all around a heart that is dead in
sin, where the strong man armed keeps
his palace, and " the darkness compre-
hendeth it not." Tet will this light
prove a sealing testimony against the
finally impenitent; for wherever the
Gospel is preached without saving ef
fect, it proves that men love darkness

ness, but now are ye light in the Lord :
walk as childi-en of light ;
ii. 1. And you liath he quickened, who
were dead to trespasses and sins ;
2. Wherein m time past ye walked
according to the course of this world,
according to the prince of the power of
the air, the spirit that now worketh in
the children of disobedience :
3. Among whom also we all had our
conversation in times past in the lusts
of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the
flesh and of the mind ; and were by na
ture the children of wi-ath, even as
others.

The Spirit.
Rom. iii. 6. For God, who command
ed the light to shine out of darkness,
hath shined in our hearts, to give the
light of the knowledge of the glory of
God in the face of Jesus Christ.
John i. 12. Then spake Jesus -again
unto them, saying, I am the fight of the
world : he that followeth me shall not
walk in darkness, but shall have the
light of life.
5. And the light shineth in darkness;
and the darkness comprehended it not.
6. There was a man sent from God,
whose name was John.
9. That was the true Light, which
hghteth every man that cometh into the
world. 2 CoR. iv. 3. But if our gospel be
hid, it is hid to them that are lost :
4. In whom the God of this world
hath blinded the minds of them which
beUeve not, lest the light of the glorious
gospel of Christ, who is the image of
God, should shine unto them.
5. For we preach not ourselves, but
Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves
your servants for Jesus' sake.
1 John i. 5. This then is the message
which we have heard of him, and de- •
clare unto you, that God is Ught, and
in him is no darkness at aU.
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rather than light, because their deeds
are evil
Paul says, God " commanded Ught to
shine out of darkness." By this he can
not mean that darkness produced or
originated light, but that it was the oc
casion of it; as the abounding of sin
gives opportunity for the magnifying of
grace. In like manner the light of the
Gospel shone out of the " ministration
of death."

with Mm, and walk in darkness, we lie,
and do not the truth :
7. But if we walk m the light, as he
is m the light, we have fellowship one
vrith another, and the blood of Jesus
Christ his Son cleanseth us from aU sin.
Joe xxxviii. 14. It is turned as clay to
the seal; and they stand as a garment.
15. And from the wicked theu- Ught
is withholden, and the high arm shall
be broken.

The Letter.
4. And God saw the Ught, that it was
good : and God divided the Ught from
the darkness.
5. And God called the light Day, and
the darkness he caUed Night : and the
evening and- the morning were the first
day. Note.
As light and darkness are, in their
yery natures, opposed to each other, the
only sense in which we can understand
these words i^ that as God is pleased to
permit both to exist, he has divided be
tween them, by appointing to each its
own distinct place, rule, or dominion, to
be regulated by specific laws.
The rule or dominion of light is called
day ; and its opposite rule of darkness
is called night. Tet he has ordained
that the ordinary period of time which
we term day, should be made up of both
evening and morning; the dawning of
light and the retiring of darkness. Tet
though partaking of both, the period is
called day, to intimate the preeminence
and final sway of light over darkness.
As applied to spiritual things, — the
evU and the good, — Christ and Belial, —
the world and the church, — ^the right
eous and the wicked, — believers and un
believers, — there is both a natural, a
prescribed, and an eternal division be
tween them.
The gospel, as the season of Bght, life,
and salvation, is called the day, whUe
the law, or ministration of death and
condemnation, is called the night The
state of spiritual hght and life inbeliev-

The Spirit.
2 CoR. vi. 14. * * What feUowship
hath righteousness with unrighteous
ness ? and what communion hath Ught
with darkness ?
15. And what concord hath Christ
with BeUal 1 or what part hath he that
beUeveth with an infidel 1
16. And what agreement hath the
temple of God vrith idols ? for ye are
the temple of the Uving God ; as God
hath said, I wfil dweU in them, and walk
in them ; and I will be then- God, and
they shall be my people.
17. Wherefore come out from among
them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord,
and touch not the \uiclea.n.thing ; and I
vriU receive you ;
18. And wiU be a Father unto you,
and ye shall he my sons and daughters,
saith the Lord Almighty.
John xv. 19. If ye were of the world,
the world would love his own ; but be
cause ye are not of the world, but I
have chosen you out of the world, there
fore the world hateth you.
Ps. xcvu. U. Light is sown forthe
righteous, and gladness for the upright
in heart.
Prov. iv. 18. But the path of the just
is as the shining Ught, that shineth more
and more unto the perfect day.
19. The way of the wicked is as
darkness : they know not at what they
stumble. IsA. V. 20. Wo unto them that call
evU good, and good evU ; that put dark
ness for light, and light for darkness ;

Or, The Old Testament Unveiled.

ers is also to them a new dispensation,
and hence they are called children of the
day, iu distinction from those who are
yet in the darkness of unbelief, and who
are termed children of the night or of
darkness.If The work of creation is divided into
parts called days. So also the work of
redemption has its corresponding divi
sions. The evening of the fall, and the
morning light of the first promise of
Christ, is the first day.

that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for
bitter !
1 Thess. v. 4. But ye, brethren, are
not in darkness, that that day should
overtake you as a thief.
5. Ye are all the children of light,
and the children of the day : we are not
of the night, nor of darkness.
6. Therefore let us not sleep as do
others ; but let us watch and be sober.
7. For they that sleep, sleep in the
night; and they that bo drunken, are
drunken in the night.
8. But let us who are of the day, be
sober, putting on the breastplate of
faith and love ; and for an hehnet, the
hope of salvation.
Ps. cxvui. 24. This is the day which
the Lord hath made.; we wiU rejoice
and be glad in it.
25. Save now, I beseech thee, O
Lord : O Lord, I beseech thee, send
now prosperity.

The Letter. '
6. And God said. Let there be a fir
mament in the midst of the waters, and
let it diride the waters from the wa
ters. 7. And God made the firmament, and
divided the waters which were under
the firmament from the waters which
were above the firmament: and it
was so.
8. And God called the firmament
Heaven. And the evening and the
morning were the second day.
Note.
The firmament of heaven is the eon-
cave expanse abov^ the earth. It is or
dained for the purpose of dividing be
tween the waters which are above and
the waters which are below.
These waters, like light and darkness,
have perfectly distinct natural proper
ties; those that come down from the
clouds, or the rain and dew of heaven
fertilize the earth, causing it to " bring
forth and b'ud, that it may give seed to

The Spirit.
Waters above the Firmament.
IsA. xxxui. 20. Look upon Zion, the
city of our solemnities : thine eyes shall
sea»Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a ta^
bernacle that shall not be taken down ;
not one of the stakes thereof shaU ever
be removed, neither shall any of the
cords thereof be broken.
21. But there the glorious Lord ¦will
be unto us a place of broad rivers and
streams ; wherein shall go no galley
with oars, neither shall gaUant ship pass
thereby. Ps. xlvi. 4. There is a river, the
streams whereof shaU make glad the
city of God, the holy place of the taber
nacles of the Most High.
5. God is in the midst of her; she
shall not be moved : God shall help her,
and that right early.
IsA. Iv. 10. For as the ram cometh
down, and the snow from heaven, and
retumeth not thither, but watereth the
earth, and maketh it bring forth and

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the sower and bread to the eater." They
also sustain life and assuage the thirst
both of man and beast.
But the waters of the seas have none of
these properties. They have a blighting
influence upon vegetation, and instead
of satisfying the thirst they increase it.
In these appointments of the God of
nature and providence, are also disco
vered the wisdom and goodness of the
God of grace. The firmament of heaven,
to which are committed the waters that
are to fertilize the earth, symbolizes the
church of Christ, the kingdom of heaven,
which he has appointed and ordained to
be the storehouse or communicating me
dium of those genial influences of divine
grace — the spirit and the word of God,
by which he refreshes his heritage when
it is weary; and by which the incor
ruptible seed is made fruitful, the ridges
of the sterile earth rendered soft for its
reception, and by which the springing
thereof is blessed. These influences
counteract and subvert the blighting and
hardening effects of sin and Satan, and
thus form a barrier or dividing line be
tween the kingdom of Christ and the
kingdom of Satan ; the rule and reign of
grace, and the reign of darkness and un
belief: the dominion of the "woman and
her seed!' and the serpent and his seed.
The word heaven implies the seat of
power, rule, or influence. This word is
used in scripture in three different sen
ses ; for the etherial expanse above and
around the earth, for the mediatorial
kingdom of Christ, and for the world of
glory. The right Understanding of m any
scriptures depends upon discovering this
distinction. The 24th of Matt. 29, and 12th of
Rev. 7, 8, would be unintelligible and
irreconcilable with other things, except
by carefully observing' this subject.
These passages, both of which refer to
the kingdom of Christ, are often per
verted to other senses.
The setting up of the mediatorial
kingdom of Christ in the world, accord
ing to the plan of grace revealed in the
everlasting covenant, which is here
dimly aud symbolically alluded to, and
which is stiU more clearly developed in

hud, that it may give seed to the sower,
and bread to the eater :
11. So shaU my word be that goeth
forth out of my mouth : it shall not re
turn unto me void, but it shaU accom
pUsh that which I please, and it shall
prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Hos. xiv. 5. I vriU be as the dew
unto Israel : he shall grow as the Uiy,
and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
Ps. Ixxii. 6. He shaU come down like
rain upon the mown grass ; as showers
that water the earth.
John iv. 10. Jesus answered and said
unto her, If thou knowest the gift of
God, and who it is that saith to thee,
Give me to drink ; thou wouldest have
asked of him, and he would have given
thee Uving water.
Isa. xu. 3. Therefore vrith joy shall
ye draw water out of the weUs of sal
vation. xii. 17. When the poor and needy
seek water, and there is none, and their
tongue faUeth for thirst, I the Lord
vriU hear them, I the God of Israel will
not forsake them.
18. I wiU open rivers in high places,
and fountains in the midst of the val
leys. Waters below the Mrmament.
IsA. Irii. 20. But the wicked are Uke
the troubled sea, when it cannot rest,
whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
21. Tftere is no peace, saith my God,
to the wicked.
Jude 13. Raging waves of the sea,
foaming out their own shame ; wander
ing stars, to whom is reserved the black
ness of darkness for ever.
Ps. Ixxxix. 9. Thou rulest the raging
of the sea: when the waves thereof
arise, thou stiUest them.
20. Thou hast broken Rahab in pie
ces, as one that is slain ; thou hast scat
tered thine enemies with thy strong
arm. xcui. 3. The floods have lifted up, Q
Lord, the floods have Ufted up theu-
voice; the floods Uft up their waves.
4. The Lord on high is mightier

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9

the type of the ark and the flood, makes
the second day of the work of redemp
tion.

The Letter.
9. And God said, Let the waters
under the heaven be gathered together
unto one place, and let the dry land
appear; and it was so.
10. And God caUed the dry land
Earth; and the gathering together of
the waters called he Seas: and God
saw that it was good. Note.
It was the design of the Creator, that
the earth should be fruitful and multi
ply, and bring forth bread to the eater
and seed to the sower. But before this
cbuld take place, the waters of the seas,
which rendered it parched and barren,
must be removed.
In like manner, before " the vineyard
of the Lord of hosts" could be prepared
to bring forth the fruits of righteousness,
sin and the curse must be taken away.
The removal of the seas to their own
prescribed place, required only the di
vine command ; but when the dominion

than the noise of many waters, yea,
than the mighty waves of the sea.
xviii. 4. The sorrows of death com
passed me, and the floods of ungodly
men made me afraid.
Rev. xvii. 15. And he saith unto mo.
The waters which thou sawest, where
the whore sitteth, are peoples, and mul
titudes, and nations, and tongues.
Matt. xxiv. 29. Immediately after the
tribulation of those days, shaU the sun
be darkened, and the moon shaU not
give her light, and the stars shaU faU
froin heaven, and the powers of l^ie
heavens shaU be shaken :
Rev. xu. 7. And there was war in
heaven ; Michael and his angels fought
against the dragon; and the dragon
fought and his angels.
Isa. Ixvi. 1. Thus saith the Lord, The
heaven is my throne, and the earth is
my footstool : where is the house that
ye build unto me ? and where is the
place of my rest ?

The Spirit.
Job xxxviu. 8. Or who 'shut up the
sea with doors, when it brake forth,
as if 'it had issued out of the womb?
9. When I made the cloud the gar
ment thereof, and thick darkness a
swaddUng-band for it,
10. And bipke up for it my decreed
place, and set bars and doors,
11. And said, Hitherto shalt thou
come, but no further; and here shaU
thy proud waves be stayed ?
Ps. Ixv. 7. Which stilleth the noise
of the seas, the noise of their waves,
and the tumult of the people.
Ixri. 6. He turned the sea into dry
land: they went through the flood on
foot: there did we rejoice in him.
7. He ruleth by his power for ever ;
his eyes behold the nations: let not the
rebeUious exalt themselves. Selah.
u. 1. Why do the heathen rage, and
the people imagine a vain thing ?
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of sin and Satan was to be destroyed,
and the curse removed from his people,
a greater work was to be done and a
mightier power put forth. The eternal
Son of God must "put away sin by the
sacrifice of himself."
The term dry ground, is used in Scrip
ture to signify a "thirsty soul"; — one
that is sick of sin, parched under its in
fluence, and longs for the rain and dew
of heaven to satiate its desires. Hence
it is written, — " I will pour water upon
him that is thirsty, and floods upon the
dry ground; I will pour my Spirit
upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thy
offspring" A process is constantly going on in
the natural world, whereby the waters
that fall from the firmament of heaven
are again gathered there; returning
back after they have accomplished their
work, — so as not to be wasted upon the
heath in the desert, or swallowed up
and lost iu the waters of the seas. From
these it is drawn up by the rays of the
sun, and prepared again to descend in
showers upon the parched places of the
dry ground. This is beautifully symboli
cal of the work of the Spirit and the in
fluence of grace, not a particle of which
is lost or wasted upon the wicked that
desire them not. He sendeth his rain
upon the just and upon the unjust ; the
one yield the fruits of righteousness;
the other only briers and thorns.

The Letter.
11. And God said. Let the earth
brmg forth grass, the herb yielding
seed, and the fruit-tree yielding fruit
after his Idnd, whose seed is m itself,
upon the earth : and it was so.
12. And the earth brought foi-tii
grass, and herb yielding seed after his
kmd, and the tree yielding fruit, whose
seed Mas m itself, after his kmd: and
God saw that il was good.
13. And the evening and the morn-
mg were the thu-d day.
Note.
The earth, which had been a barren,

selves, and the rulers take coimsel to
gether, against the Lord, and against
his Anointed, saying,
3. Let us break their bands asunder,
and cast way then cords from us.
4. He that sitteth in the heavens
shall laugh : the Lord shall have them
in derision.
5. Then shall he speak unto them in
his vwath, and vex them in his sore dis
pleasure. Ixxvi. 10. Surely the wrath of man
shall praise thee: the remainder of
wrath shalt thou restrain.
2 Kings xix. 28. Because thy rage
against me, and thy tumult is come
up into mine ears, therefore I will put
my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in
thy lips, and I wUl tum thee back by
the way by which thou earnest.
Rom. vi. 14. For sin shall not have
dominion over you : for ye are not un
der the law, but under grace.
John xix. 11. Jesus answered. Thou
oouldest have no power at all against
me, except it were given thee from
above : therefore he that deUvered me
unto thee hath the greater sin.
Rev. XX. 1. And I saw a new heaven
and a new earth : for the first heaven
and the first earth were passed away ;
and there was no more sea.

The Spirit.
Matt. xiu. 37. He answered and
said unto them. He that soweth the
good seed is the Son of man;
38. The field is the world; the good
seed are tiie chUdren of the kingdom ;
but the tares are the childi-en of the
wicked one ;
39. The enemy that sowed them is
the devU; the harvest is the end of the
world; and the reapers are tiie angels.
40. As therefore the tares are gather
ed and bm-ned in the fii-e; so shall it be
in the end of tliis worid.
41. The Son of man shaU send forth
his angels, and they shall gather out of

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11

impenetrable mass, while the waters of
the seas rested upon it, now "becomes a
fruitful field, and the fruitful field be
comes a forest;" the fallow ground is
broken up and prepared for the good
seed ; and the culturing hand of the di
vine Husbandman soon causes the wil
derness to blossom and bud as the rose.
We must notice that the trees of the
earth yielded fruit after their kind, and
according to the seed which was in itself.
This is a vitally important truth, figu
ratively brought to view. The exposi
tion of the figure is fully given by
Christ in the 7th of Matt.— The "good
seed," sown by the Son of man; the
wheat, or children of the kingdom, will
show their divine origin by their fruits ;
they are born of God, — of the incorrupti
ble seed, which liveth and abideth for
ever, and their fruit is unto God, and
their end everlasting life. But the tares,
or children of the wicked one; are of
their father the devil, aud his works
they will do. " Do men gather grapes
ot thorns or figs of thistles ?"
The springing of the fruits of the
earth, makes the third day's work of
creation. In like manner the planting
of the vineyard of the Lord of hosts in
the fruitful hill of Zion, which is typified
by the raising up and setting apart of the
seed of Abraham to be the peculiar peo
ple of God, constitutes the third division
of the work of redemption. Then would
the Lord of hosts " plant in the wilder
ness the cedar, the shittah-tree, and the
myrtle and the oil-tree;" "that they
may see aud know aud understand that
the hand of the Lord hath done this,"

The Letter.
1 4. And God said. Let there be Ughts
in the firmament of the heaven, to
divide the day from the night ; and let
them be for signs, and for seasons, and
for days and years.
15. And let them be for lights in the
firmament of the heaven to give light
upon the earth : and it was so.
16. And God made two great lights;
the greater light to rule the day, and

his kingdom aU things that offend, and
them which do iniquity;
42. And shall cast them into a fur
nace of fire : there shall be wailing and
gnashing of teeth.
43j Then shall the righteous shine
forth as the sun in the kingdom of their
Father. Who hath ears to hear, let
him hear.
vu. 16. Ye shaU know them by their
fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns,
or figs of thisties?
17. Even so every good tree hrmgeth
forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree
bringeth forth evU fruit.
18. A good tree cannot bring forth
evU fruit; neither can a corrupt tree
bring forth good fruit.
19. Every tree that bringeth not
forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast
into the fire.
20. Wherefore by then- fruits ye
shall know them.
IsA. Ixi. 3. * * That they may be
called trees of righteousness, the plant
mg of the Lord, that he may be glori
fied. Ix. 13. The glory of Lebanon shall
come unto thee, the fir-tree, the pine-
tree, and the box together, to beautify
the place of my sanctuary; and I wUl
make the place of my feet glorious.
Iv. 13. Instead of the thorn shall
come up the fir-tree, and instead of the
brier shaU come up the myrtle-tree;
and it shaU be to the Lord for a name,
for an everlasting sign which shall not
be cut off.

The Spirit.
IsA. Ixu. 1. Fdr Zion's sake will I
not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's
sake I wiU not rest, until the righteous
ness thereof go forth as brightness, and
the salvation thereof as a lamp that
burneth. Ps. cxix. 105. Thy word is a lamp
unto my feet, and a Ught unto my
path. Prov. vi. 20. My son, keep thy

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the lesser light to rule the night: he
made the stars also.
17. And God set them in the firma^
ment of the heaven to give Ught upon
the earth,
18. And to rule over the day, and
over the night, and to divide the Ught
from the darkness: and God saw that
it was good.
19. And the evening and the morn
ing were the fourth day.
Note.
A general light was diffused during
the first three days of creation, which
from its nature was opposed to darkness,
and exerted a counteracting influence,
but hitherto it had assumed no specific
form or rule.
Ou the fourth day all light was cen
tred in the two ruling powers which
God set iu the firmament of heaven.
From these all the earth was lightened,
and all the changes of seasons and of
day and night were regulated. They
were to be for "signs," or witnesses, to
the earth. The sun, or greater light,
was to rule the day, and the moon, or
lesser light, was to rule the night: added
to these " he made the stars also."
These two great lights are symbolical
ly the law and the gospel. Previous to
the setting up of the typical church in
the family of Abrahara, the world had
been lightened by the general and dim
light of nature.
This light proved that man was "fiesh;"
and that two things must be done in
order to benefit him, or restrain him
from evil. The gospel, or " law of the
Spirit of life in Christ Jesus," must be
given, which should be the power of
God unto salvation; and, until that
should appear, as the morning of the
great day of life, the law must be "added,"
to cause sin to appear in its true charac
ter, exceeding sinful, and as the dark or
evening portion of that sarae day. The
name given to this evening and tnorning
of that which, to the children of raen,
is emphatically called " to-day," is the
"ministration of death" or "ministra
tion of the Spirit." These two lights
are placed in the heavens of the church,

father's commandment, and forsake not
the law of thy mother :
21. Bind them continuaUy upon thy
heart, and tie them about thy neck.
22. When thou goest, it shall lead
thee ; when thou sleepest, it shaU keep
thee ; and when thou awakest, it shall
talk with thee.
23. For the commandment is a lamp ;
and the law is Ught ; and reproofs of
instruction are the way of life.
iv. 1. The mighty God, even the
Lord, hath spoken, and called the earth
from the rising of the sun unto the go
ing down thereof.
2. Out of Zion, the perfection of
beauty, God' hath shined.
2 CoR. ui. 6. Who also has made us
able ministers of the new testament;
not of the letter, but of the spirit: for
the letter kUleth, but the spirit ^veth
Ufe. 7. But if the ministration of death,
written and engraven in stones, was
glorious, so that the children of Israel
could not steadfastly behold the face of
Moses for the glory of his countenance ;
which glory 'was to be done away;
8. How shall not the ministration of
the Spirit be rather glorious?
9. For if the ministration of condem
nation be glory, much more doth the
ministration of righteousness exceed in
glory. 10. For even that which was made
glorious had no glory in this respect, by
reason of the glory that exceUeth.
11. For if that which is done away
was glorious, much more that which re-
maineth is glorious.
Mal. iv. 2. But unto you that fear
my name shaU the Sun of righteous
ness arise with healing in his vrings;
and ye shaU go forth, and grow up as
calves of the stall.
Luke i. 78. Through the tender
mercy of our God; whereby the day.
pring from on high hath visited us,
79. To give light to them that sit in
darkness, and in the shadow of death
to guide our feet into the way of peace.

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13

and with the "stars" (or ministers of the
churches) constitute the ruling powers
of these heavens, by which the earth is
ruled or regulated.
It was in the seventh age of redemp
tion that the full light of the gospel day
appeared, and was preached to the peo
ple from Zion, or the church. Yet was
this great light really in the heavens
when the law, or lesser light, was given
to Israel fit Sinai, which was the fourth
age.

The Letter.
20. And God said. Let the waters
bring forth abundantly the moving
creature that hath life, and fowl lluxl
may fly above the earth in the open
firmament of heaven.
21. And God created great whales,
and every Uving creature that moveth,
Which the waters brought forth abun
dantly after their kind, and every winged
fowl after his kind: and God saw that
it was good. Note.
We have before seen that the waters
of the seas are symbolical of sin, the
chosen element of the wicked.
In these prolific waters are congre
gated all the workers of iniquity, — for
the waters where the mystery of iniquity
sitteth — (the woraan who is drunk with
the blood of the saints) — "are peoples
and multitudes of nations and tongues."
Those wicked spirits, which have been
raised up by God to be eraployed as in
struments of his will, are always repre
sented by the different orders of the
brute creation. These aniraals, as they
came from the hand of God, were good;
not morally good, of course, but good
for the purpose for which they were
created. But when ! Satan embodied
hiraself in the form of the serpent, to
deceive and destroy, this entire order of
creation became subject (at least typi
cally and symbolically) to the same de
moniacal possession; even as Adam's
posterity'partook of his transgression.

Rev. i. 20. The mystery of the seven
stars, which thou sawest in my right
hand, and the seven golden candlesticks.
The seven stars are the angels of the
seven churches; and the seven candle
sticks which thou sawest are the seven
churches. Rom. ui. I. What advantage, then,
had the Jews? and what profit was
there of ch-cumcision?
2. Much every way, chiefly because
to them were committed the oracles of
God.

The Spirit.
Ps. civ. 24. O Lord, how manifold
are thy works! ui wisdom hast thou
made them aU : the earth is fuU of thy
riches. 25. So is this great and vride sea,
wherein are things creeping innumera
ble, both small and great beasts.
26. There go the ships : there is that
leviathan, whom thou hast made to play
therein. 27. These wait aU upon thee; that
thou mayest ^ve them their meat in due
season. 28. Thai thou givest them they ga
ther: thou openest thy hand, they are
filled with good.
29. Thou hidest thy face, they are
troubled : thou takest away their breath,
they die, and return to their dust.
30. Thou sendest forth thy spirit,
they are created; and thou renewest
the face of the earth.
Job xU. 1. Canst thou draw out levi
athan with a hook? or his tongue vrith
a cord which thou lettest down?
2. Canst thou put a hook into his
nose ? or bore his jaw through with a
thorn? 3. Will he make many supplications
unto thee? wUl he speak soft words
unto thee?
4. WiU he make a covenant with
thee? vrilt thou take him for a servant
for ever?
5. Wilt thou play with him as mth a

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T^he Gospel by Moses ;

. The waters are said to bring forth,
not only the flshfes of the sea, but the
fowls of the air. They alike originate
in the one great element of sin ; and
these, together with the beasts of the
field, constitute, in a figure, those
"raging waves of the sea" which lift
themselves against the majesty of God
iu the heavens.
When God would chastise the self-
righteousness of his servant Job, he
challenges him to a combat with his
leviathan foe, that he might learn how
feeble his own puny arm would be
against this "king of the children of
pride." The most powerful whale has
been "divided araong the merchants,''
and his "head has been filled with
barbed irons." But who, except Michael
himself, could encounter the dragon, or,
" with his great and strong sword, pu
nish leviathan that crooked serpent, and
slay the dragon that is in the sea."

The Letter.
22. And God blessed them, saying,
be fruitful, and multiply, and fiU the
waters m the seas, and let fowl multi
ply in the earth.
23. And the evening and the morn-
mg were the fifth day.
24. And God said. Let the earth
brmg forth the livmg creature after his
kmd, cattie, and creepmg thmg, and
beast of tiie earth after his Mnd ; and
it was so.
26. And God made the beast of the
earth after his kmd, and cattie after
their Mnd, and every tiung that creepeth

bh-d? or vrilt thou bind him for thy
maidens? 6. Shall thy companions make a ban
quet of him? shall they part him among
the merchants ?
* * * *
33. Upon earth there is not his like,
who is made without fear.
34. He beholdeth all high things:
he is a Mng over aU the chUdren of
pride. Is A. xxvu. 1. In that day the Lord,
with his sore, and great, and strong
sword, shall punish leviathan the pierc
ing serpent, even leviathan that crooked
serpent; and he shaU slay the dragon
that is in the sea.
Ps. Ixxiv. 13. Thou didst divide the
sea by the strength : thou brakest the
heads of the dragons in the waters.
14. Thou brakest the heads of levi
athan in pieces, and gavest him to be
meat to the people inhabiting the wil
derness. Matt. xiu. 18. Hear ye therefore
the parable of the sower.
19. When anyone heareth the word
of the Mngdom, and understandeth it
not, then cometh the wicked am, and
catcheth away that which was sown in
his heart. This is he which received
seed by the way-side.

The Spirit.
Ps. xxu. 12. Many bulls have com
passed me : strong bulls of Bashan have
beset me round.
13. They gaped 'upon me with their
mouths, as a ravening and a roaring
Uon. 16. For dogs have compassed me:
the assembly of the vricked have en
closed me : they pierced my hands and
my feet. i
20. DeUver my soul from the sword;
my darUng from ;the power of tiie
dog. 21. Save me from the Uon's mouth:

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ament

15

upon the earth after his Mnd, and God
saw that it was good.

Note.
The same day that God created the
fish of the sea and fowl of the air, he
also raade the beasts of the earth, the
third order of creation ; for all the dif
ferent grades of being are classed in
threes. The mystery of iniquity assumes vari
ous forms, and exercises various charac
ters and attributes. In the monsters of
the deep we see the subtlety and cun
ning craftiness of that old serpent the
devil, the dragon that is in the sea,
whose ways are "movable,'' with all
" deceivableness of unrighteousness."
In the fowls of the air, who wing
their aspiring flight to the very heavens,
we behold the daring pride and pre
sumption of the " prince of this world ;"
who scrupled not to present his tempta
tions in the very face of the Son of God
himself I And in the beasts of the field
is found that carnal thirst for human
blood, which leads our great adversary
to go up and down in the earth like a
roaring lion, "seeking whom he may
devour." It was iu this character alone he had
power over the woman's seed, whose
" heel" or human body was given to him
in the garden of Eden to be devoured at
the appointed time in the garden of
Gethsemane, when the strong bulls of
Bashan " came upon him to eat up his
flesh." By the figure of the Assyrian in the
31st of Ezek., is described the man of
sin, or Antichrist. "The waters made
him great, the fowls of heaven made
their nests in his boughs, and under his
branches the beasts of the field brought
forth their young!"
As the brute creation came forth from
the hands of God good, and he blessed
them, as a part of his own work, so the
angels that sinned, once held a place and
an "habitation" in Eden, the typical
church, or kingdom of heavea But
there they transgressed the law of God
and fell under the curse. These ani
mals were the work of the fifth day:
And it was in the fifth era of the work

for thou hast heard me from the horus
of the unicorns.
1 Pet. v. 8. Be sober, be vigUant ;
because your adversary the devU, as a
roaring Uon, walketh about, secMng
whom he may devour :
9. Whom resist steadfast in the faith,
knowing that the same aiflictions are
accompUshed in your brethren that are
in the world.
Ezek. xxxi. 3. Behold, the Assyrian
was a cedar in Lebanon with fair
branches, and vrith a shadowing shroud,
and of a high stature ; and his top was
among the thick boughs.
4. The waters made him great, the
deep set him up on high with her rivers
running round about his plants, and
sent out her little rivers unto all the
trees of the field.
6. AU the fowls of heaven made
their nests in his boughs, and under his
branches did aU the beasts of the field
bring forth their young, and under his .
shadow dwelt aU great nations.
7. Thus was he fair, in his greatness,
in the length of his branches : for his
root was by great waters.
8. The cedars in the garden of God
could not hide him : the fir-trees were
not Uke his boughs, and the chesnut-
trees were not like his branches ; not
any tree in the garden of God was Uke
unto him in his beauty.
9. I have made him fair by the mul
titude of his branches : so that aU the
trees of Eden, ihat were in the garden
of God, enried him.
10. Therefore thus saith the Lord
God ; Because thou hast lifted up thy
self in height, and he hath shot up his
top among the thick boughs, and his
heart is lifted up m his height ;
11. I have therefore delivered him
into the hand of the mighty one of the
heathen ;'he shaU surely deal with hun:
I have driven him out for his wicked
ness. Heb. i. 6. Upon his ruin shaU aU the
fowls of the heaven remain, and all the
beasts of the field shall be upon his
branches.

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The Gospel by Moses ;

of redemption, that the rulers of dark
ness were all marshalled, ready to meet
and oppose the Son of God, who was, on
Jhe sixth era, to appear in Bethlehem.

The Letter.
26. And God said. Let us make man
in our image, after our Ukeness: and
let them have dominion over the fish of
the sea, and over the fowl of the air,
and over the cattle, and over all the
earth, and over every creeping thing
that creepeth upon the eai'th.
Note.
These words, which are generaUy un
derstood to have sole reference to the
man Adam, who was "of the earth,
earthy" will be found by comparison
with other scriptures, to allude to him
only as a figure of the " second Adam
the Lord from heaven."
It is evident that none but the Son of
God can strictly and properly be said to
have been made in his image. It must
of course be moral image that is meant,
for the invisible God had no other, and
the very attempt to make any is prohi
bited. But the m^n Adam was not in
the moral image of God, strictly speak
ing ; for he was made capable and liable
to fall ; while the Son of God had no
thing in him, upon which teraptation
could have power.
The Son of God, though equal with
the Father, was raade "like unto his
brethren," by a body of flesh; so also
these brethren, though guilty sinners in
themselves, are conformed to the image
of the Son of God by being " new created'
in the likeness of their elder brother.
Thus he stooped to their condition, that
he might raise them to his own; and
thus are they, who were " of the earth,
earthy," made " like unto the heavenly."
We conceive this to be the only sense

14. To the end that none of all the
trees by the waters exalt themselves
for then height, neither shoot up their
top among the thick boughs, neither
theu- trees stand up in their height, all
that drink water : for they are aU deli
vered unto death, to the nether parts of
the earth, in the midst of the chUdren of
men, with them that go down to the
pit.

The Spirit.
Col. i. 15. Who is the image of the
invisible God, the fii-st-born of every
creature :
16. Por by Mm were all things cre
ated, that are in heaven, and that are in
earth, visible and invisible, whether ihey
be thrones, or dominions, or principaU
ties, or powers : aU tUngs were created
by him, and for him :
17. And he is before afl things, and
by him all things consist.
18. And he is the head of the body,
the church : who is the beginning, the
first-bom from the dead: that in aU
things he might have the pre-eminence.
John i. 14. And the Word was made
flesh, and dwelt among us (and we be
held his glory as of the only begotten
of the Father), fuU of grace and truth.
Heb. i. 2. Hath in these last days
spoken unto us by ?jis Son, whom he
hath appointed heir of aU tiimgs, by
whom also he made the worlds ;
3. Who being the brightness of his
glory, and the express image of his per
son, and upholding all things by the
word of his power, when he had by
himself purged our sins, sat down on
the right hand of the Majesty on high ;
6. And again, when he bringeth in
the firsf^begotten into the world, he
saith, and let all the angels of God wor-
sWp hun.
ii. 5. For unto the angels hath he not
put in subjection the world to come
whereof we speak ?
6. But one in a certain place testified,
saymg,- What is man, that thou art

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11

in which man is ever spoken of in the
scriptures as "the image and glory of
God ;" it is wholly in his new birth, the
new creation in Christ.
If the work of creation is a symbolic
representation of the work of redemp
tion, and the natural world is a figure
of the spiritual things of the kingdom of
heaven, it is manifest that the Lord of
the spiritual, with the dominions he is
to exercise, must be represented by the
lord of the natural, and his subordi
nate rule.

The Letter.
27. So God created man in Ms own
image, tn the image of God created he
him; male and female created ho them.
28. And God blessed them, and God
said unto them. Be fruitful, and multi
ply, and replenish the earth, and subdue
it: and have dominion over the fish of
the sea, and over the fowl of the air,
and over every living thing that moveth
upon the earth. Note.
Of no other than the Head of the
church, can it be said, " m.ale and female
created he them ;" for in him alone there
is neither male nar female, but all are
one in Christ Jesus.
The language of this verse implies a
simultaneous formation of the t^o ; but
it is written, — ' 'Adam was first formed,
then Eve.'' In the great mystery of god
liness, both these things are true. When
Jesus was "set up from everlasting,"
as the Head of his body, the church,
every member of that body was " chosen
in him," and written by name, as iu the
book of life. But this " purpose of grace"
was not made manifest till "the fulness
of time," as " in continuance they have
been fashioned" by the Father's mould
ing hand, and bronght to him.
Christ and his church have no sepa
rate or " dividual being." They consti
tute the head and members of one body ;
and the head can no more exist without
the members, than the raerabers without
the head. This eternal oneness of the
divine bridegroom and his bride, is de-

mindful of him? or the son of man,
that thou visitest him ?
7. Thou madest him a little lower
than the angels; thou crownedst him
with glory and honour, and didst set
him over the works of thy hands ;
8, Thou hast put aU things in sub
jection under his feet. For in that he
put all in subjection under him, he left
nothing ihat is not put under him. But
now we see not yet all tMngs put un
der hira.

TTie Spirit.
Mal. n. 15. And did not he make
one? Yet had he the residue of the
Spirit. And wherefore one? That he
might seek a godly seed. Therefore
take heed to your spirit, and let none
deal treacherously against the wife of
Ms youth.
Eph. v. 23. For the husband is the
head of the wife, even as Christ is the
head of the church : and he is the Saviour
of the body.
24. Therefore as the church is sub
ject unto Christ, so lei the wives be to
their own husbands tn every thing.
25. Husbands, love your wives, even
as Christ also loved the church, and
gave himself for it;
26. That he might sanctify and
cleanse it with the washmg of water by
the word.
27. That he might present it to Mm
self a glorious church, not having spot
or wrinUe, or any such thing; but that
it should be holy and without blemish.
28. So ought men to love their wives
as then- own bodies. He that loveth
Ms wife loveth Mmself. -
29. Por no man ever yet hated Ma
own flesh ; but nourisheth and cherish-
eth it, even as the Lord the church:
30. For we are members of Ms body,
of his fiesh, and of his bones.
31. For this cause shall a man leave
his father and mother, and shall be
jomed unto Ms wife, and they too shall
be one fiesh.

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The Gospel hy Moses;

clared in Mal iii. to be because he would
have a "godly seed," or seed of God.
This seed were "preserved" in Christ
during the ruins of the fall ; they were
one with him in his death and in his re
surrection to Vde^—hiiiig" quickened to
gether with him, and raised up together
to sit together with him in heavenly
places." They occupy the same throne,
and exercise a joint dominion ; for it is
written that "the kingdom and the great
ness of the kingdom under the whole
heaven is given to the saints of the most
high God."

32. This is a great mystery : but I
speak concerning Christ and the church.
1 Cor. xu. 12. For as the body is
one, and hath many members, and all
the members of that one body, bemg
many, are one body: so also is Christ.
20. But now are ihey many members,
yet but one body.
27. Now ye are the body of Christ,
and members in particular.
Gal. m. 28. There is neither Jew nor
Greek, there is neither bond nor free,
there is neither male nor female: for
ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

The Letter.
29. And God said, Behold, I have
given you every herb bearing seed, wMch
il upon the face of all the earth, and
every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree
yieldmg seed; to you it shall be for
meat. 30. And to every beast of the earth
and to every fowl of the air, and to
every thing that creepeth upon the
earth, wherem there is life, I have given
every green herb for meat ; and it was
so. Note.
" The first man was made a living soul.
The last A dam was made a quickening
spirit. Howbeit that was not first which
is spiritual, but that which is natural:
and afterward that which is spiritual.
The first man is of the earth, earthy ;
the second man is the Lord from heaven.
As is the earthy, such are they also that
are earthy ; and as is the heavenly, such
are they also that are heavenly : and as
we have borne the image, of tlie earthy, we
shall also bear the image of the heaven-
ly." ' _
In this passage from Cor. xv. the
Apostle is proving that they who have
borne the iraage of the first Adam, will
bear the image of the second, or the
heavenly. The first image was pf the
earth, earthy ; and in this passage where
God gives the herb of the field for food,
it is for the sustenance of the earthly

The Spirit. ¦
The Righteous.
Ps. ciu. 13. like as a father pitieth
his cMldren, so the Lord pitieth them
that fear Mm.
14. For he knoweth our frame; he
remembereth that we are dust.
15. As for man, Ms days are as
grass; as a fiowerjaf the field, so he
fiourisheth. 16. For the wind passeth over it, and
it is gone ; and the place thereof shall
know it no more.
17. But the mercy of the Lord is
from everlasting to everlasting upon
them that fear him, and Ms righteous
ness unto cMldren's oMldren;
18. To such as keep his covenant,
and to those that remember Ms com
mandments to do them.
IsA. xl. 6. The voice said. Cry.
And he said, What shall I cry? All
flesh is grass, and all the goodliness
thereof is as the flower of the field:
7. The grass vrithereth, the flower
fadeth ; because the Spirit of the Lord
bloweth upon it : surely the people is
grass. 8. The grass vrithereth, the flower
fadeth: but the word of our God shall
stand for ever.
Ps. xc. 4. Por a thousand years in
thy sight are bitt as yesterday when it
is past, and as a watch in the mght

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19

body of flesh, which the scriptures al
ways syrabolize by the flower of the
field. Until after the flood, no fiesh was
given to man for meat, because till then,
that flesh which is " meat indeed," is not
brought to view, as prepared for the
nourishment of the spiritual life.
The green herb is also given to the
beast of the earth and the fowl of the
air; but "meat" was never designed for
them, and when they devour it, it is in
disobedience to the coraraand, " the blood
of your lives will I require at the hand
of every beast." As the blood of the
saints will be required at the hand of
the first raurderer, or the Beast of soar-
let colour and full of the names of blas-
pheray. "All flesh is not the same fiesh; but
there is one kind of fiesh of men, another
flesh of beasts, another flesh of fishes,
and another of birds." Tet is all flesh
grass !

The Letter.
31. And God saw every thing that
he had made, and behold, it was very
good. And the evening and the morn
ing were the sixth day.
Note.
In six days God finished the work of
creation ; all that pertained to the first
heaven and the first earth ; every part
in its own proper period of tirae.
In this work is symbolically and ty
pically set forth and represented the
3

5. Thou carriest them away as vrith
a flood; they are as a sleep: m the
morning ihey are like gi-ass which grow
eth up.
6. In the morning it fiourisheth, and
groweth up; m the evening it is cut
down, and withereth. The Wicked.
xxxvu. 1. Fret not thyself because
of evU-doers, neither be thou envious
against the workers of iniquity.
2. For they shaU soon be cut down
like the grass, and vrither as the green
herb. 7. When the wicked spring as the
grass, and when all the workers of ini
quity do flourish, it is that they shall be
destroyed for ever:
8. But thou, Lord, art most high for
evermore. 9. For, lo, thine enemies, O Lord,
for, lo, tMne enemies shaU perish; all
the workers of iniquity shall be scat
tered. 10. But my horn shalt thou exalt like
ihe horn of a unicorn : I shall be anoint
ed with fresh oil.
cxxix. 5. Let them aU be confounded
and turned back that hate Zion.
6. Let them be as the grass upon
the house-tops, which withereth afore
it groweth up.

The Spirit.
Luke xxiv. 44. And he said unto
them, these are the words wMch I spake
unto you, wMle I was yet vrith, you,'
that all tMngs must be fulfiUed wMch
were written in the law of Moses, and
in the prophets, and in the psalms, con
cerning me.
45. Then opened he their under
standing, that they might understand
the scriptures.
Acts m. 18. But those thmgs which
God before had showed by the mouth

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The Gospel by Moses;

great work of redemption, which all "in
the set time" has been fulfilled. The
development of this plan and purpose of
grace in Christ, as made in the appoint
ed order and manner, also occupies six
divisions or ages of the world ; the light
. of which has been gradually increasing
to the perfect day.
All the work of creation is pro
nounced good ; much raore is the Father
well pleased with that perfect righteous
ness which the Redeeraer has wrought
out, by which the former things have
passed away, no more to be remembered
or come into mind. If all these perish
able things praise him, and show forth
his glory, how ranch raore the eternal
glories of the new heavens aud new
earth which the Lord will create, and
in which he calls upon all to be glad
and rejoice I
It was in the sixth era of redemption,
that the Son of God, or the divine Word,
appeared in human flesh — the bright
ness of the Father's glory aud express
image of his person.

of aU his prophets, that Christ should
suffer, he hath so fulfilled.
19. Repent ye, therefore, and be con
verted, that your sins may be blotted
out, when the times of refresMng shall
come from the presence of the Lord ;
22. For Moses truly said unto the
fathers, A prophet shaU the Lord your
God raise up unto you, of your bre
thren, Uke unto me ; him shall he hear
ui all tMngs, whatsoever he shall say
unto you.
23, And it shall come to pass, thlt
every soul which wiU not hear the
prophet, shall be destroyed from among
the people.
24. Yea, and aU the prophets from
Samuel, and those that foUow after,
as many as have spoken, have likewise
foretold of these days.
27. And beginning at Moses, and all
the prophets, he expounded unto them
in aU the scriptures the things concern
ing hunself.
John ix. 4. I must work the works
of him that sent me, wMle it is day :
the night cometh, when no man can
work.

CHAPTER IL

The Letter.
^ 1. Thus the heavens and the earth
were finished, and all the host of them.
2. And on the seventh day God
ended Ms work which he had made;
and he rested on the seventh day from
aU Ms work wMch he had made.
3. Aud God blessed the seventh day,
and sanctified it; because that in it he
had rested from aU Ms work which God
created and made. Note.
On the seventh day God ended the
work of creation. Since then nothing
has been added to that work, and no-

The Spirit.
John xx. 30. When Jesus therefore
had received the vmegar, he said. It is
finished: and he bowed Ms head, and
gave up the ghost.
XVU. 4. I have glorified thee on the
earth : I have finished the work wMch
thou gavest me to do.
Heb. X. 12. But tiiis Man, after he
had offered one sacrifice for sins, for
ever sat down on tiie right hand of
God; 13. From henceforth expecting till
His enemies be made Ms footstool.
14. For by one offering he hatii per-

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21

thing taken from it Not all the inge
nuity of man has succeeded either in in
creasing or annihilating one particle of
matter. On the seventh day of redemption,
Jesus, the mediator of the new covenant,
finished the work given hira to do. On
the evening of the sixth day, all things
being now ready, the Larab of God was
offered up to take away the sin of the
world ; " the Messiah was cut off, but not
for himself."
On the morning of the seventh day he
rose triumphantly from the grave, hav
ing finished transgression, made an end
of sins, and brought in an everlasting
righteousness. Having glorified the
Father upon the earth, and finished the
work given him to do, he entered into
his rest ; for ever sat down at the right
hand of God until his enemies be made
his footstool
Into his rest do all his people enter
by faith in his perfect work ; and " cease
from their own works as God did from
his." Believing in him that justifieth
the ungodly, they no longer go about to
establish their own righteousness, but
submit to the righteousness of God,
which is by faith in Christ Jesus.

fected for ever them that are sanc
tified. Dan. ix. 24. Seventy weeks are de
termined upon thy people and upon thy
holy city, to finish the transgression,
and to make an end of sin, and to
make reconciUation for iniquity, and to
bring in everlasting righteousness, and
to seal up the vision and prophecy, and
to anoint the Most Holy.
25. Know therefore and understand,
thai from the going forth of the com
mandment to restore and to buUd Je
rusalem, unto the Messiah the Prince,
shall be seven weeks, and threescore
and two weeks: the street shall be
buUt again, and the waU, even m troub
lous times.
26. And after threescore and two
weeks shaU Messiah be cut off, but not
for Mmself; and the people of the
prince that shall come shaU destroy the
city and the sanctuary; and the end
thereof shall be vrith a flood, and unto
the end of the war desolations are de
termined. 27. And he shall confirm the cove,-
nant vrith many for one week : and in
the midst of the week he shall cause the
sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and
for the overspreading of abominations
he shaU make it desolate, even untU the
consummation, and that determined
shaU be poured upon the desolate.
Heb. iv. 3. For we wMch have be
lieved do enter into rest, as he said,
As I have sworn in my wrath, if they
shall enter into my rest: although the
works were finished from the founda
tion of the world.
10. For he that is entered into Ms
rest, he also hath ceased from Ms own
works, as God did from Ms.
11. Let us labour therefore to enter
into tiiat rest, lest any man fall after
the same example of unbeUef.

The Letter. -,
4. These are the generations of the

The Spirit.
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heavens and of the earth when they
were created, m the day that the Lord
God made the earth and the heavens,
5. And every plant of the field be
fore it grew : for the Lord God had not
caused it to rain upon the earth, and
there was not a man to tiU the ground.
6. But there went up a mist from the
earth, and watered the whole face of
the ground. Note.
We are here told that the Lord God
made every herb of the field befote it
grew, and every plant of the field before
it was in the earth, and before he caused
it to rain upon the earth, or appointed
a man to till the ground.
This plainly intimates that before the
Lord Jesus Christ was manifest in the
flesh, as the husbandman of his vine
yard, and before the Holy Spirit, with
its gracious influences, had descended
upon it, all its plants were ready pre
pared and arranged ; — all were per
fectly known to him, recorded in his
book by name, so that not one could
possibly be lost or plucked from his
hand. The church of Christ — ^his raystical
body, is "coraplete in him;" perfected
for ever and sanctified to his use and
service ; — " saved in ihe Lord with an
everlasting salvation." Though not
"made to grow," yet are they vitally
in the vine, frora which they can never
be broken. " I give unto them eternal
life and they shall never perish, neither
shall any pluck them out of ray hand."
Neither are there any contingencies re
specting their being planted and made
to grow in the earth, at the set time.
Nothing can fail of all that is needful to
make them flourish in the garden of the
Lord, or to ripen them in due time for
glory.

The Letter.
7. And the Lord God formed man
of the dust of the ground, and breatiied
mto his nostrils the breath of Ufe; and
man became a Uvuig soul.

my substance, yet bemg unperfect ; and
in thy book aU my members were writ
ten, which in continuance were fa-
sMoned, when as yet there was none of
them. Eph. i. 3. Blessed be the God and
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who
hath blessed us vrith aU spiritual bless
ings in heavenly places in Christ :
4. .Accordmg as he hath chosen us in
him, before the foundation of the world,
that we should be holy and vrithout
blame before Mm in love :
6. Having predestinated us unto the
adoption of children by Jesus Christ to
himself, according to the good pleasure
of his vrill.
10. That in the dispensation of the
fulness of times he might gather together
in one aU thmgs in Christ, both which
are ia heaven, and wMch are on earth :
even unto him :
1 Pet. i. 2. Elect according to the
foreknowledge of God the Father,
through sanctification of the Spirit, unto
obedience and sprinkling of the blood
of Jesus Christ : Grace unto you, and
peace, be multiplied.
John xvu. 6. I have manifested my
name unto the men which thou gavest
me out of the world : tiiine they were,
and thou gavest them me; and they
have kept thy word.
Jude i. 1. Jude, the servant of Jesus
Christ, and brother of James, to them
that are sanctified by God the Father,
and preserved m Jesus Christ, and
oaUed :
Rev. xxi. 15. And whosoever was
not found written m the book of Ufe ^
was cast mto the lake of fire.

The Spirit.
1 Cor. XV. 45. And so it is written.
The first man Adam was made a Uvmg
soul, the last Adam was made a quick
ening spirit.

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Note.
This is the description of man in his
best estate ; made up of a body of the
dust of the earth, which must return to
that dust again, and a soul, iu which
originally as here described, there was
the breath of spiritual life, but which,
not partaking of eternal life, was subject
also to spiritual death.
Adam, as «, representative or cove
nant-head of all those who died in him
and are made alive in Christ, destroyed
by transgression, both for himself and
them, both spiritual and natural life, or
the life of both soul and body. But,
" as in Adam all die, so iu Christ shall
all be made alive," in both of these
senses : he being not only a living soul,
but a " quickening spirit." " / give unto
them epernal life, and they shall never
perish," &c. And as the death in the
first Adam was two fold, both of soul
and body, so also in the second Adara,
there is a two fold life of both soul and
body for ever.
All this is clearly declared and fully
proved in the 15th of Cor., where the
apostle discourses this subject. But
many err, by supposing that he is here
speaking of the general resurrection of
both just and i^njust. But to this sub
ject there is no all usion in this place ; it
is treated elsewhere.
In the passage here quoted from Eccl.,
man and beast are described to be alike
formed from the dust; and while dead
iu sin, even the elect are " children of
wrath even as others," as that they them
selves appear like the beasts that perish.
As one event happens also lo both, no
one but God alone can know the spirit
of the beast that goeth downward, and
the spirit of man that goeth upward ;
or those who are truly his, and those
who are not.

46. Howbeit, that was not first which
is spiritual, but that which is natural :
and afterward that which is spiritual.
47. The first man is of the earth,
earthy: the second man is the Lord
from heaven.
48. As is the earthy, such are they
also that are earthy: and as is the hea
venly, such are they also that are hea
venly. 49. And as we have borne the image
of the earthy, we sh.aU also bear the
image of the heavenly.
1 CoK. XV. 19. If in this life only, we
have hope in Christ, we are of all men
most miserable.
20. But now is Christ risen from the
dead, and become the first-fruits of them
that slept.
21. For since by man came death, by
man came also the resurrection of the
dead. 22. For as in Adam all die, even so
in CM-ist shall all be made alive.
23. But every man in his own order:
Christ the first-fruits; afterward they
that are Christ's at his coming.
EccL. xu. 7. Then shall the dust re
turn to the earth as it was, and the spirit
shall return unto God who gave it.
iu. 17. I said in my heart, God shall
judge the righteous and the wicked : for
there is a time there for every purpose
and for every work.
12. I said in my heart concerning
the estate of the sons of men, that God
might manifest them, and that they
might see that they themselves are
beasts. *
19. For that which befalleth the sons
of men befalleth beasts ; even one thing
befalleth them: as tho one dieth, so
dieth the other ; yea, they have aU one
breath ; so that a man hath no pre-emi
nence above a beast : for aU is vanity.
20. All go unto one place ; all are of
the dust, and aU turn to dust again.
21. Who knoweth the spirit of man
that goeth upward, and the spirit of the
beast that goeth downward to the
earth ?

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The Letter.
8. And the Lord God planted a gar
den eastward m Eden; and there he
put the man whom he had formed.
Note.
As soon as God had formed " the man,''
he planted the garden or vineyard which
was to be the field of his labours and his
joys. This garden was wholly the work
manship of God; he planted it with
plants which he had before made ready,
and not with seed which was to spring
up and gradually arrive at maturity.
The treeswere/aW JTOM?!, and rich with
fruit ; for it was iu the season of Septem
ber, and not in the spring, that this gar
den was prepared. All was in a, state
of perfection ; complete and entire, want
ing nothing.
So also when God the Father had
" set up " his only begotten Son, " whom
he appointed heir of all things, and by
whom and for whom he made the
world ;" he prepared for him a kingdom
and a people, whom he " chose in him,
before the foundation of the world, that
they should be holy and without blame
before him in love;" and though this
people were to be gradually and per
sonally called into his visible kingdom
in the progress of tirae, yet they " are
coraplete in him '' from the beginning.
This garden is mystically his bride,
the church; of which he says, "I am
the vine, ye are the branches," — " My
Father is the husbandman,'' or planter.
It appears that Eden was prepared
for Adam, and not he for Eden : so the
body or bride of Christ is prepared for
l(im, and not he for the bride, as some
would seem to suppose, who talk of
Christ and his salvation, as if it were an
expedient resorted to by God, to prevent
the fatal consequences of some unforeseen
accident I the, fall of man being altogether
unlooked for 1
When God had planted the garden,
there he put the man whom he had
made. In like manner, the Father in
The Letter.
9. And out of the gi-ound made the

The Spirit.
Dan. u. 44. And in the days of these
kings shaU the God of heaven set up a
kingdom, which shaU never be de
stroyed. Cant. iv. 12. A garden enclosed is
my sister, my spouse.
IsA. Iviii. 11. * * * and thou shalt
be Uke a weU watered garden, &c.
xxvu. 2, 3. In that day smg ye unto
her a vineyard of red wine ; I the Lord
do keep it ; I wUl water it every mo
ment: lest any hurt it I wUl keep it
night and day.
V. 1, 3, 7. My weU beloved hath a
vineyard in a very fruitful hUl, &c.
* * * the vmeyard of the Lord of
hosts is the whole house of Israel.
Rev. u. 7. To him that overcometh
vrill I give to eat of the tree of Ufe
wMch is in the midst of the paradise
of God.
1 Cor. xi. 8, 9. For the man is not
of the woman, but the woman of the
man ; neither was the man created for
the woman, but the woman for the
man. John xv. 1, 2. I am the vine ; my
Father is the husbandman.

speaking of the Son, says, " I have set
my king upon my holy hill of Zion."
He is made "head over all things to the
church, which is his body, the fulness
of him that filleth all in all." In his
days shall the righteous flourish, and
abundance of peace as long as the moon
endureth." The plants of his grace shall
" grow as the corn, and flourish as the
vine, and bring forth fruit ns Lebanon."
" He shall come down like rain upon
the mown grass;" and "he shall be as
the dew unto Israel." " They shall take
root downward and bear fruit upward ;"
that all meu may know that they are a
"field which the Lord hath blessed;"
that they are " trees of righteousness,
the planting of the Lord, that he may
be glorified." The Spirit.
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Lord togrow every tree that is pleasant
to the eye, and good for food ; the tree
of life also, in the midst of the garden ;
and the tree of knowledge of good and
evil.

Note.
The trees of Eden grew out of the
ground; so. the trees of righteousness
are formed of the dust of the earth, or
are partakers of flesh and blood: for
which reason Jesus himself " took part
of the same."
The tree of life was in the midst of
this garden. Sorae understand this tree
to be the Lord Jesus Christ ; but the
analogy is not perfect : it raore properly
symbolizes the Divine Spirit; accord
ing to the 22d of Rev., this tree is
represented to be on each side of the
"river of the water of life," by which
we may understand the word and the
spirit, which always witness together.
Inasmuch, however, as Christ has eter
nal life in himself, and is the fountain of
life to his people; and inasmuch as this
tree remained iu Eden when Adam
went forth, — so when Christ went forth
from the bosom of the Father, to bear
the curse, yet as the true God and eter
nal life he still remained in heaven.
Of this tree Adam freely partook be
fore the fall, but as soon as he becarae a
sinner, he is shut out and excluded from
it. So likewise Christ, the second Adam,
after he had taken upon hiraself the sins
of his people, and assumed their place
under the condemnation of the law,
could no longer enjoy the glory which
he had with the Father before the world
was ; but raust be sent forth to bear the
curse. The trees of the Lord are said
to be full of sap. This sap is in the
root, and is thence ooraraunicated to the
branches. We see, then, the need of
the tree of life in the garden of the
church. Christ says, " I give unto them
eternal Ufe, and they shall never perish,"
&o. The Holy Spirit is given to abide
with the church for ever, and is in them
" a well of water, springing up unto ever
lasting life.'' All the vigour and all the
fruitfulness of the trees of the garden,
depend upon the nourishment which
they imbibe from th root. When the

ness the cedar, the shittah-tree, and the
myrtle, and the oil-tree ; I will set in
the desert the fir-tree, and the box-tree,
and the pine-tree, together, that they
may see and know and understand
that the hand of the Lord hath done
tMs. Ixi. 3. ''' * that they may be caUed
the trees of righteousness, the planting
of the Lord, that he may be glorified.
Ps. lu. 8. But I am like a green
olive-tree, in the house of my God.
xcu. 12, 13, 14. They that are planted
in the house of the Lord, shaU flourish
in the courts of our God: they shafl
bring forth fruit in old age ; they shall
be fat and flourishing, to show that the
Lord is upright, &c.
Rev. xxu. 2. And in the midst of
the street of it, and on either side, was
there the tree of life, dz-c.

branches are favoured with the bright
rays of the "sun of righteousness," and
the atmosphere is warm around them,
then their leaf is green, and they abound
in fruit ; but when these rays are with
drawn, and the chills of winter fall upon
them, the sap withdraws into the root,
the leaves fall from the trees, the fruit
fails and the branches wither — but not
die, "because I live they shall live also,"
the " tree of life " is in the midst of the
garden 1 sumraer and light, and heat,
will return again ; and the promise can
not fail, that "summer and winter, cold
and heat, seed time and harvest shall
not cease."
But why is the tree of " knowledge of
good and evil" placed by the side of the
tree of life ? Must this fair garden be de
filed with evil fruit ? And if so, can there
be good and evil united in the same tree S
What but the depths of infinite wisdom
could have divined suou a mysteet as
THIS ! That the chosen, cherished and fa
voured people thus planted, and walled
" around by grace," must first partake of
the evil of sin, and all its bitter fruits, in
order that they might in the end be made
partakers of the good that is treasured
in the everlasting covenant, the riches
of grace and glory in Christ Jesus!
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the riches' both of the wisdom and
knowledge of God ! how unsearchable

are his judgments, and his ways past
finding out ! 1

The Letter.
10. And a river went out of Eden
to water the garden ; and from thence
it was parted and became into four
heads. Note.

The trees and plants of Eden must be
watered, and for this purpose a river is
placed in the garden. So bountiful are
the provisions of the Great Husband
man, that not only is the " rain of heaven"
prepared for its benefit, but that it
"might not be careful in the year of
drought," a river is placed in its midst.
Who can mistake in this, the allusion
to that river, the streams whereof raake
glad the city of our God : the holy place
of the tabernacles of the Most High !
That the vineyard of the Lord raay be
watered every moment, a pure river of
the water of life, clear as crystal, pro
ceeds from the throne of God and of the
Lamb. In this river, together with the
"tree of life " that grows on each side of
it, we may have a beautiful emblem of the
word and the spirit of God. As the river
proceeds from the throne of God and of
the Lamb, so the spirit is sent from the
Father and the Son to be a Coraforter,
a spirit of truth, the glorifier of Jesus;
who shall lead his people into all truth,
by bearing witness with the word, and
opening the understanding to receive it.
- The " twelve raanner of fruits,'' which
are borne by the " tree of life,'' point us
to the' different gifts of the spirit poured
out upon the twelve apostles on the day
of Pentecost, by which they were quali
fied to dispense the word; the "leaves"
of this ti-ee, or the various scriptures, all
of which are profitable for doctrine, for
reproof, and for instruction in righteous
ness, when applied to the soul by the
spirit, heal all its diseases; "for the
leaves of the tree are lor the healing of
the nations."
The fact that this river is in the gar
den, conveys a most consolatory truth,
of no less importance than the assurance

The Spirit.
Rev. xxu. 1. Md he shewed me a
pure river of life, clear as crystal, pro
ceeding out of the throne of God and
of the Lamb.
Ps. xlvi. 4. There is a river the
streams whereof shaU make glad the
city of our God, &c.
Zech. xiv. 8. And in that day, it shall
be that living waters shaU go out of
Jerusalem; part of them toward the
former sea and part toward the hinder
sea: in summer and in vrinter shall
it be. Ps. Ixv. 9. Thou visitest the earth
and waterest it : thou greatly enrichest
it with the river of God, which is fuU of
water. Thou preparest them com when
thou hast so provided for it.
Jer. xvu. 8. For he shaU be as a tree
planted by the waters, and that spread-
eth out her roots by the river; and
shaU not see when heat cometh, but her
leaf is always green ; and shaU not be
careful in the year of drought, neither
shaU cease from yielding fruit.
Ps. i. 3. And he shaU bo Uke a tree
planted by the rivers of water, that
bringeth forth his fruit in his season ;
his leaf also shall not wither, and what
soever ho doeth shall prosper.

that the spirit is to abide with the church
forever: "his dwelling place is in Zion."
The lively stones of the spiritual house
are "builded together for an habitation
of God through the spirit."
Under various influences, either of
consolation, of reproof, or of instruction
in righteousness, he will ever continue
his operations in the hearts of all that
are his. In seasons of darkness and dis
tress, the believer is often tempted to
say, "the Lord has forgotten me," "his
mercies are clean goue for ever," "he
will be favourable no more 1" But this
is his infirmity ; he has yet to learn that
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as well as the suraraer, the cold as well
as the heat, are all araong the blessings
of that covenant which " is ordered itl
all things and sure." It is in the darkest
night, when not a breeze of heaVen is
felt, that the dew falls in the greatest

The Letter.
11. The name of the fii-st is Pison:
that is it which encompasses the whole
land of Harilah, where there is gold.
12. And the gold of that land is
good; there is bdelUum 'and the onyx
stone. ¦ Note.
The word Pisou signifies extension,
widening of the mouth; and the name
of the land which it encompasses, signi
fies travailing in birth.* These very
names, then, direct us to the truth of
which this branch of the river is an em-
blera. The Father has promised to the
Son, that he should " see of the travail
of his soul and be satisfied:" that he
' should have a seed to serve him, a gene
ration for his praise ; that the borders
of his kingdom should be enlarged till it
filled the whole world : his dominion
should be from sea to sea, and frora
the river to the ends of the earth, Zion
should break forth on the right hand
and ou the left ; " GentUes should come
to her light, aud kings to the brightness
of her rising.'' It is through the preached
word, and the agency of the holy spirit,
that all this is to be effected : by these are
all the treasures of the land of Havilah,
all the gold and the precious stones, (the
jewels of the Kedeemer's crown,) to be
gathered in. Not one particle of this
gold can be lost ; he will refine and pu
rify it frora all its dross, but, like a skil
ful artist, he sits by and watches the
process; and when the precious metal
has become so far cleansed as to refiect
the refiner's image, he brings it out of
the fire, to show forth his own glory.
The more precious the metal, the hotter
must be the furnace : and those vessels of
honour which are more especially for the

* Cruden's Concordance.

abundance. Perhaps not any one pro
mise is more richly comprehensive than
this, with regard to the vineyard of the
Lord : " Lest any hurt it I will keep it
night and day."

The Spirit.
Isa. liv. 2, 3. Enlarge the places of
thy tent, and let them stretch forth the
curtains of thy habitation: spare not,
lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy
stakes ; for thou shalt break forth upon
the right hand and upon the left ; and
thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and
make the desolate cities to be inha
bited. Ix. 4. lift up thine eyes and see ; all
these gather themselves together, they
come to thee ; thy sons shaU come from
far and thy daughters shall be nursed at
thy side. Then shalt thou see and flow
together, and thy heart shall be en
larged, because the abundance of the
sea shall be converted unto thee, the
forces of the Gentiles shaU come unto
thee. Zech. xni. 9. I will bring a third
part through the fire, and refine them
as sUver is refined, and wiU try them as
gold is tried.
Mal. iii. 17. And they shall he mine,
saith the Lord of hosts, in that day
when I make up my jewels, and I wUl
spare them as a man that spareth Ms
own son that serveth him.
Isa. Ix. 9. Surely the isles shall wait
for me, and the ships of Tarshish first
to bring thy sdns from far, their sUver
and gold with them, unto the name of
the Lord thy God, and to the Holy One
of Israel, because he hath glorified
thee.

master's use, are often subjected to a heat
seven times hotter than is wont. For
this purpose the Lord's "fire is in Zion,
and his furnace in Jerusalem."
By this stream or branch of the river
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outcasts of Israel brought home to their
Father's house. Wherever these waters
come, they are a savour of life in all
thera that believe; but a savour of death
iu them that perish ; they never flow in
vain. In like manner the Lord has said,
"As the rain and the snow cometh down

The Letter.
13. And the name of the second
river is Gihon : the same as that which
encompasseth the whole land of EtMo-
pia. Note.
The word Gihon signifies valley of
grace ; and the word Ethiopia signifies
blackness and sorrow.
When the grace of God reaches the
soul in its guilt and misery, it "turns
the shadows of death into the light of
the morning;" gives "the oil of joy for
mourning, and the garment of praise for
the spirit of heaviness." It changes the
Ethiopian's skin to the comeliness that
is "without spot or wrinkle, or any such
thing." By this stream of the river of
life, the guilty stains of sin are washed
away ; the rags of self righteousness torn
off, and the soul made comely with the
"comeliness which is put upon her."
The feet are taken from the horrible
pit, and placed upon a rook, and a new
song put into the mouth.
The soul is made to understand how
its original blackness may be removed,
and that which had been as a cage of
unclean birds, be converted into a tem
ple for the living God. Whereas, it had
in its blindness aud ignorance, imagined
itself capable of obtaining heaven by
the deeds of the law, it now learns with
astonishment, that while we were yet
without strength, Christ died for the
ungodly I that salvation is of the Lord :
and is by grace through faith, and that
not of ourselves ; it is the gift of God.
Had this river bent its course toward
some verdant fertile spot, upon which
rested the sun's clearest and brightest
rays, we should have regarded it as a na
tural and pleasing addition to an already

from heaven, and retumeth not thither,
but watereth the earth that it may bring
fo^th seed to the sower and bread to the
eater, so shall my word be, that goeth
forth out of my mouth, it shall not re
turn unto me void ; but it shall accom
plish that which I please, and prosper
in the thing whereunto I send it."

The Spirit.
Cant. i. 5. I am black, but comely,
oh! ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the
tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solo
mon. Eph. v. 8. Ye were sometimes dark
ness, but now are ye Ught in; the
Lord. Col. i. 13. Who hath delivered us
from the power of darkness, and trans
lated us mto the kingdom of Ms dear
Son. 2 Cor. iv. 6. For God, who com
manded Ught tq shine out of darkness,
hath shined into our hearts to give the
Ught of the knowledge of the glory of
God, in the face of Jesus Christ.
IsA. li. 11. Therefore the redeemed
of the Lord shall return and come with
singing unto Zion, and everlasting joy
shall be upon theu- heads, and sorrow
and sighmg shaU fiee away.
xl. 1, 2. Comfort ye, comfort ye, my
people, saith your God. Speak ye com
fortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her,
that her warfare is accomplished, that
her iniquity is pardoned : for she hath
received of the Lord's hand double for
aU her sins.
Rev. vii. 14, 16, 17. * * * and he
said to me. These are they wMch come
out of great tribulation, and have wash
ed their robes, and made them wMte
in the blood of the Lamb. They shall
hunger no more, neither shaU the sun
Ught on them, nor any heat. For the
Lamb, which is in the midst of the
throne, shaU feed them, and shaU lead
them unto Uving fountains of waters:
and God shall wipe away aU tears from
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beautiful spot : but when its pure and
healing waters are sent out to " encom
pass" the black, the parched, and tho
barren wilderness, we are assured, that
it is the hand of him who has declared
that he will " open rivers in dry places,
and fountains in the midst of the de
sert." Were not all hearts in his hands, and

The Letter.
14. And the name of the third river
is Hiddekel ; that is it wMch goeth to
ward the east of Assyria.
Note.
In the two branches of the river
which we have already considered, we
have seen a part of the work to be ac
complished by the word and the spirit.
We shall now find that they are profit
able for reproof, as well as for doctrine
and instruction in righteousness.
The word Hiddekel, signifies sharp
voice ; and very needful is such a voice
to the welfare of the garden of God.
But we must observe that this does not
encompass the land towards which it
goes, but turns to the east of it. Assy
ria signifies that which looks or appears
happy ; and may fitly represent the land
of carnal delight and deceitful pleasures.
The capital of this land is " Babylon the
Great ;" its king is a " tall cedar in Le
banon," the "man of sin," or antichrist !
who here sits iu the stronghold of his
power, and like the fabled syrens, who
lured unwary mariners upon the rocks,
he lies in wait to deceive and to destroy.
This great city " sits as a queen," but she
is the " mother of abominations ;" " her
house is the way to death.'' She is the
" strange Woman " that flattereth with
her lips ! " none that go unto her return
again, neither take they hold of the path
of life." " From such turn away." "Come
out from among them, touch not the
unclean thing." Te are espoused as
chaste virgins to Christ ; be not entan
gled again in the yoke of bondage. This
is the warning voice of wisdom, as she

could he not turn them, even as the
rivers of water are turned, how would '
thoy continue to -wander, until their feet
stumbled upon the dark mountains, to
return no more for ever !
It is the glory of divine grace, that it
is displayed upon the guilty — that the
mercies of God are sovereign, and inde
pendent of all human merit.

The Spirit.
Prov. iv. 14, 15. Enter not into the
path of the wicked, and go not in the
way of evU men : avoid it,' pass not by
it, turn from it, and pass away.
i. 16. My son, walk not thou in the
way with them ; refrain thy foot from
their path : For their feet run to evU,
and make haste to shed blood.
20, 21, 22, 23. Wisdom crieth with
out; she uttereth her voice in the
streets ;
She crieth hi the cMef place of con
course, in the openings of the gates :
m the city she uttereth her words, say
uig, How long, .ye simple ones, vrill ye
love simpUcity, &c.
Turn ye at my reproof, &c.
Gal. ui. 1. Oh! fooUsh Galatians,
who hath bewitched you that ye should
not obey the truth, before whose eyes
Jesus Christ has been evidently set
forth as crucified among you ?
V. 12. I would they were cut off that
trouble you.
Prov. xiv. 12. There is a way that
seemeth right unto a man, but the end
thereof are the ways of death.
V. 21. Por the ways of man are be
fore the eyes of the Lord, and he pon-
dereth aU his goings.
i. 31. Therefore shaU they eat of the
fruit of their own ways, and be filled
with their own devices.

cries in the streets of the city, by the
way, in the places of the paths, <fec.
And this is the language of this em
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of Assyria, to the place of light, and to
the path of life : it bids us turn away
from the error of the wicked, and enter
not into their secrets.
It is the deceivableness of unrighteous
ness that betrays the simple. The
christian never sins wilfully ; this would
be inconsistent with the proraises of the
new covenant, and with the nature of
the new birth. The incorruptible seed
" reraaineth in him, and he cannot sin,
because he is born of God." It is the

The Letter.
. and the fourth river is Eu

phrates. Note.
Euphrates signifies /rwii/w?. The last,
though not the least part of the work of
grace, to be accomplished by the agency
of the word and spirit, is to " break up
the fallow ground," and prepare it for
the good seed, that it be not sowed
among thorns, which would rise up and
choke it. The church of Christ must be
fruitful, its savour must be " that of a
field which the Lord hath blessed." Jesus
says to his disciples, "I have ordained
you, that you should go and bring forth
fruit, and that your fruit should remain,"
not being like the stony ground hearers,
whose verdure is blasted by the first
heat of persecution, but whose "leaf
should be always green, neither should
they cease frora bearing fruit." >
It is for this same purpose that a
chosen and peculiar people, a royal
priesthood, a holy nation, are set apart;
" that they might show forth the praises
of him who hath called them out of
darkness into his marvellous light." For
this purpose were they redeemed to God
out of every nation, kindred and tongue,
"not with corruptible things as silver
and gold, but with the precious blood of
Christ; that henceforth they should not
live to themselves, but to him who hath
died for them and risen again." And it
is for this purpose that the Divine Hus
bandman hns planted his "vineyard in
a very fruitful hill ;" that he has fenced
it and gathered out the stones thereof,

deceitfulness of sin that leads him cap
tive. The snare is laid for his feet, but
it is not in his sight; the fowler too
well understands his prey, to give the
alarm, but transforms himself into an
angel of light, and thus allures into
error those who would flee from him in
his own proper shape, "lest thou
shouldst ponder the path of life, his
ways are movable that thou canst not
know them."

The Spirit.
Hosea xiv. 6, 6, 7. I wUl be as the
dew unto Israel. He shall gi-ow as the
Uiy, and cast forth Ms roots as Lebanon.
His branches shaU spread, and his beau
ty shall be as the olive-tree, and his
smell Uke Lebanon. They that dwell
under his shadow shall return. They
shall revive as the corn, and grow as
the vine ; and the scent thereof shall
be as the wine of Lebanon.
Jer. xvu. 8. He shall be as a tree
planted by the waters, and that spread-
eth out her roots by the river; and
shall not see when heat cometh, but
her leaf shaU be always green; and
shall not be careful in the year of
drought ; neither shall cease from yield
ing fruit.
Hosea xiv. 8. * * the word of the
gospel which is come unto you as it is
in aU the world; and bringeth forth fruit
as it doth also in you, since the day ye
heard of it, and know the gi-aoe of God
in truth.
Matt. vii. 16, 17, 18. Ye shall know
them by their fruits, &c. Every good
tree bringeth forth good fruit, &,c. A
good tree cannot bring forth evU fruit,
&c.

and planted it with the choicest vine,
Ac. : that it may bring forth grapes; for
herein is he glorified, that it bare much
fruit. Nor is this all : the rain and the dew of
heaven are prepared to refresh the pi ants
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parched earth; and, lest thes^ should
not be sufficient, he " greatly enriches
it with the river of God, which is full of
water :" even this river Euphrates, whose
course is not limited like the rest to any
one point, but which waters the whole
garden of the Lord.
The fact that believers are continued
upon the earth, after they are prepared
for heaven, proves that they have a work
to do. They are the lights of the world,
and the salt of the earth : they are ves
sels prepared for the Master's use, and
are therefore not their own; neither

should they seek their own, but should
be ever found waiting, a willing and
living sacrifice at his feet, to know what
he would have thera to do. The religion
of Christ is a living, active principle,
and raust discover itself by its opera
tions: even as the "good tree" shews
its kind by its fruit. The fruit which
glorifies God, is by faith in his Son ;
without him we can do nothing : " ex
cept ye abide in me, ye cannot bring
forth fruit." "As the branch cannot
bring forth fruit of itself neither can ye,
except ye abide in rae."

The Letter.
15. And the Lord God took the man
and put him into the garden, to dress
and to keep it. Note.
To prepare the plants for the garden,
and to place them there, was the work
of God; he then commits them to the
care of Adam. So in relation to the
church, and the trees of righteousness,
we are told by Jude that they are
" sanctified by God the Father, preserved
in Christ Jesus," &e. ; and Jesus himself
says, he that hath heard and learned of
the Father, cometh unto me, and " no
man can come unto me except the Father
which sent me draw him." "Thine they
were and thou gavest them me,'' Ac:
* * * " those that thou gavest me I
have kept," <&c.
Thus the Father is represented as
setting apart, or choosing the elect, in
Christ, and theu committing all power,
both in heaven and earth, to him, and
making him head over all things to the
church. Paul, in the 2d of Heb., alludes to this
subject, and draws fromit his argument
in proving the pre-eminent authority of
the gospel. He says, that under the law
wMch was ordained by angels, (or minis
ters,) every transgression was punished
without mercy, but that God never put
the world to come, (or the gospel king
dom,) in subjection to such angels; but
Jesus, his only begotten Son, the bright
ness of his glory and the express image

The Spirit.
Heb. 7, 8, 9. Thou madest Mm a
little lower than the angels; thou
erownest Mm vrith glory and honour,
and didst set him over the work of thy
hands. Thou hast put all things m
subjection under his feet. For in that
he put all things under him, he left no
tMng that is not put under him, &c.
But now we see Jesus, who was made
a little lower than the angels for the
suffering of death, &c. &c.
Phil. u. 9. Wherefore, God hath
highly exalted him, and given him a
name which is above every name.
Eph. i. 20, 23. * * and hath set him
at Ms own right hand in the heavenly
places ; and hath put aU things under
his feet, and made Mm to be head over
aU things to the church.
Ps. n. 6. Yet have I set my king
upon my holy MU of Zion.
IsA. xxvu. 2, 3. * * I the Lord do
keep it; I, vrill water it every moment;
lest any hurt it, I wiU keep it night and
day. Matt, xxvui. 18. * * all power is
given unto ine, in heaven and in earth.
Ps. cxxi. 3, 4. He wiU not suffer thy
foot to be moved : he that keepeth thee
wUl not slumber.
Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall
neither slumber nor sleep.

of his person, who had been made a lit
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ing of death, by his obedience thereto,
had been crowned with glory and ho
nour, and set over the works of his hands :
that all things had been put in lubjec-
tion under his feet From this fact of
the dignity and glory of the Son of God,
who, as head over all things to the
church, speaks to us from his throne, as
king in Zion, Paul infers the tremendous
consequences which will result to those
who neglect so great salvation I
The mediatorial reign of Christ is a
theme of rich consolation to the believer.
He rejoices to know that the govern
ment is on the shoulders of Him who is

The Letter.
16. And the Lord God commanded
the man, saying. Of every tree of the
garden thou mayest freely eat :
17. But of the tree of the knowledge
of good and evU, thou shalt not eat of
it: for in the day that thou eatest
thereof thou shalt surely die.
Note. ^
" By this singular and mysterious ar
rangement of divine wisdom, life and
death, the blessing and the curse, are
made to depend upon the single act of
eating of this forbidden tree.
This law, upon which, the welfare of
an entfre world rested, was given to
Adam alone ; for Eve was not formed.
Of course he stood responsible for his
whole posterity, as their covenant head
and representative; and also for the
honor of the law, as comraitted to hira
for safe keeping.
In this figure we behold the second
Adam, the Lord from heaven, assuming
the suretyship of his people in the ever
lasting covenant, when the Father laid
upon him the responsibility of keeping
the law in their behalf. In view of this
he says in vision, "I have laid help upon
one that is mighty." He well knew the
end from the beginning, and made pro
vision for all the weakness and defi
ciency of the first bondsman, by the di
vine surety of the second. Neither did
the Son of God shrmk from assuming

at once the sa-viour and advocate, ag
well as the king and judge of his people.
In all thefr guilt and weakness, they can
flee from the terrors of the one, to the
grace and love of the other. This king
dora will " endure for ever." His do
minion will have no end. The media
torial ofiSoe of son and servant will be
given up to the Father, but he will be
&od, when he ceases to be son : the
middle throne will still be occupied by
the " Lamb that was slain," for in that
form he obtained a " name that is above
every name that ia named, cither in
heaven or in earth."

The Spirit.
Deut. xi. 26. Behold, I set before
you tMs day a blessing and a curse :
27. A blessing, if ye obey the com
mandments of the Lord your God
which I command you tMs day ;
28. And a curse, if ye vrill not obey
the commandments of the Lord your
God, but turn aside out of the way
wMch I command you this day, to go
after other gods which ye have not
known.' 29. And it shall come to pass when
the Lord thy God hath brought thee
in unto the land whither thou goest to
possess it, that thou shalt put the bless
mg upon mount Gerizun, and the curse
upon mount Ebal.
30. Are they not on the other side
Jordan, by the way where the sun
goeth down in the land of the Canaan
ites, wMch dweU tn the champaign over
against Gilgal, beside the plams of
Moreh ?
31. For ye shaU pass over Jordan to
go m to possess the land which the
Lord your God giveth you, and ye shall
possess it, and dweU therein.
32. And ye shaU observe to do all
the stiitutes and judgments wMch I set
before you this day.
xxiii. 5. Nevertheless, tiie Lord tiiy
God would not hearken unto Balaam-
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this fearful accountability though he
well knew the penalty that attended it.
With him it was no uncertain experi
ment ; he was well aware that in taking
it he must "^surely die."
When God was pleased to place Israel
under a covenant of works, the blessing
and the curse, he directed that they
should stand upon two mountains on
the other side Jordan after they passed
over to possess the land and to dwell
thereon. Six tribes were to stand on
Mount Gerizim, and six upon Mount
Ebal. Upon Gerizira was the blessing
to be proclaimed, and the curse upon
Mount Ebal, which signifies melting or
dissolving away. For so shall the curse
melt away from his people, in the day
that Jesus should stand upon the Mount
of Olives.

into a blessing unto thee, because the
Lord thy God loved thee.
Gal. m. 11. But that no man is jus
tified by the law in the sight of God,
it is evident : for. The just shall live by
faith. 12. And the law is not of faith : but.
The man that doeth them shall live in
them. 13. Christ hath redeemed us from the
curse of the law, being made a curse for
us: for it is written. Cursed is every
one that hangeth on a tree.
Zech. xiv. 4. And his feet shall stand
in that day upon the Mount of 'Olives,
wMch is before Jerusalem on the east,
and the Mount of OUves shall cleave in
the midst thereof toward the east and
toward the west, and there shall be a
very great valley ; and half of the moun
tain shaU remove toward the north, and
half of it toward the south.

The Letter.
18. And the Lord God said, Il is not
good that the man should be alone : I
wiU make him a help meet for him.
Note.
Many and various are the figures un
der which the union between Christ and
the church is represented; but perhaps
none so frequent or so expressive as that
of marriage.
In all these similitudes,'however, the
one leading idea is the vital and insepa
rable nature of this union. Here, in
deed, all mere similitudes fail, because
every thing in nature is subject to de
cay. But the bond which holds Christ
and his church is eternal and unchange
able. " I have loved thee with an ever
lasting love, therefore with loving kind
ness have I drawn you." It is also vital;
and cannot be dissolved but by the ex
tinction of eternal life itself. Nothing
of an earthly nature, neither angels, nor
principalities, nor powers, nor life nor
death, nor things present nor things to
come, shall be able to separate us from
the love of God wMch is in Christ Jesus
our Lord.

The Spirit.
Heb. X. 6. Wherefore, when he
cometh into the world, he saith, sacri
fice and offering thou wouldest not, but
a body hast thou prepared me.
Eph. v. 13. TUl we aU come in the
unity of the faith, and of the knowledge
of the Son of God, unto a perfect man,
unto the measure of the stature of the
fulness of Christ :
16. From whom the whole body fitly
jomed together and compacted by that
wMch every joint suppUeth, according
to the effectual working in the measure
of every part, maketh increase of the
body unto the edifying of itself in love.
1 Cor. xi. 11. Nevertheless, neither
is the man without the woman, neither
the woman vrithout the man, in the
Lord. 12. For as the woman is of the man,
even so is the man piso by the woman;
but aU thmgs of God.
Sol. Sons vi. 9. My dove, my un
defiled is but one ; she is the only one
of her mother, she is the choice one of
her that bare her. The dau£

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But where and >how is an help meet
for him to be found? Is it among an
gels, that approach the nearest tb the
divine nature ? No, he passed by thera
in choosing his beloved. Is a new order
of being to be formed for this purpose,
for surely he will not wed with dust
and ashes ? A greater marvel than this
is exhibited in the choice of Jesus ! The
portrait of his bride may be seen in the
16th chap, of Ezek. But behold the,
transformation made in this portrait by
the forming hand of the divine bride
groom ! With the comeliness which he
puts upon her, she is "perfect in her
beauty r Washed, and sanctified, and
presented to himself, " Without spot or
wrinkle or any such thing!"

The Letter.
19. And out of the ground the Lord
God formed every beast of the field, and
every fowl of the ah-, and brought them
unto Adam to see what he would call
them; and whatsoever Adam called
every Uving creature, that was the
name thereof.
30. And Adam gave names to -aU
cattle and to the fowl of the air, and to
every beast of the field : but for Adam
there was not fouhd a help meet for
him. Note.
To Adam had been given dominion
over every order of brute creation ; the
fish of the sea, the fowl of the air, and
the beast of the field. To Christ also is
given power over all flesh ; and not only
all flesh, but over principalities and pow
ers, and the rulers of the darkness of
this world. They are all in subjection
to his authority and made subservient
to his will.
When he appeared in human fiesh as
the second Adara, all these unclean spi
rits recognised him immediately. " We
know thee who thou art, the Holy One
of God." Nothing is more probable
than the fact that the form of flesh worn
by the Son of God upon earth, was after

her, and blessed her ; yea, the queens
and the concubmes, and they praised
her. 10. Who is she thai looketh forth as
the morning, fair as the moon, clear as
the sun, and terrible as an army with
banners ?
Ezk. xvi. 4. And as for thy nativity,
m the day thou wast born thy navel
was not cut, neither wast thou washed
in water to supple thee ; thou wast not
salted at aU, nor swaddled at all.
8. Now when I passed by thee, and
looked upon thee, behold, thy tune was
the time of love ; and I spread my skirt
over thee, and covered thy nakedness :
yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into
a covenant with thee, saith the Lord
God, and thou becamest mine.

The Spirit.
Mark iu. 11. And unclean spirits,
when they saw him, fell down before
Mm, and cried, saying. Thou art the
Son of God.
Luke iv. 33. And in the synagogue
there was a man wMch had a spirit of an
unclean devil ; and he cried out with a
loud voice,
34. Saying, Let us alone ; what have
we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Na
zareth ? art thou come to destroy us ? I
know thee who thou art, the Holy One
of God.
35. And Jesus rebuked hun, saying,
Hold thy peace, and come out of him.
And when the devU had thrown hun in
the midst, he caaie out of Mm, and hurt
him not.
36. And they were aU amazed, and
spake among themselves, saying. What
word is tMs! for with authority and
power he commandeth the unclean spi
rits, and they come out. '
Mark v. 12. And all the devUs be
sought him, saymg, Send us mto the
swine, that we may enter into them.
13. And forthwith Jesus gave them
leave. And the unclean spirits went
out, and entered into the swine : and

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the similitude of that given to Adam, the
same that Adam wore in the garden,
and that these spirits of evil thus knew
the king who had been placed over
them, and whose authority they then
refused to obey, and for which they
were reserved to the judgment of that
day. In that day, though, it was especially
" the hour and power of darkness," yet
Jesus suffered them not to go beyond
prescribed bounds. They were forced
to obey his will, and thus gave testi
mony to his Messiahship.
Among these spirits of evil, though of
a superior order of mere intellectual
power, there was found no help-meet
for Adam ; neither is there any fellow
ship between Christ and Belial.
The mouth of the beast and the false
prophet sends forth the spfrits of devils
to work mfracles among the kings of the
earth, that they may be prepared and
gathered to " the battle of that great day
of Ood Almighty."

The Letter.
21. And the Lord God caused a
deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he
slept ; and he took one of Ms ribs, and
closed up the flesh instead thereof:
22. And the rib, wMch the Lord God
had taken from man, made he a woman,
and brought her unto the man.
Note.
Eegarded as nothing more than a
literal narrative of common facts, this
would seem a remarkable method of
procuring a help-meet for Adam. But
if we look through the veil of material
things to that which is hidden behind,
we may see that no other could be
adopted. Through this figure was to be
shown forth the vital union of Christ
and the church: that she is one with
him, members of ~ his body; that she
was originally and always with him and
in him ! How then could this be repre
sented but by taking a part of Adam's
self ; the bones of his own body !
Again, another idea must be involved,
4

the herd ran violently down a steep
place into the sea (they .were about
two thousand), and were choked in
the sea.
Rev. xvi. 14. Por they are the spi
rits of devils, working miracles, which
go forth unto the kings of the earth,
and of the whole world, to gather them
to the battle of that great day of God
-Almighty. 2 CoR. vi. 14. Be ye not unequally
yoked together iwith unbelievers ; for
what fellowsMp hath righteousness vrith
unrighteousness? and what commu
nion hath Ught with darkness ?
15. And what concord hath Christ
with Belial ? or what part hath he that
beUeveth with an infidel ?
16. And what agreement hath the
temple of God -vrith idols? for ye are
the temple of the living God ; as God
hath said, I wUl dweU in them, and
walk in them ; and I will be theu- God,
and they shall be my people.

The Spirit.
Acts xx. 28. * * Feed the church
of God, which he hath purchased with
Ms own blood.
Phil. u. 6. Who, being in the form
of God, thought it not robbery to he
equal with God :
7. But made hunself of no reputa
tion, and took upon Mm the form of a
servant, and was made m the likeness
of men :
8. And being found in fashion as a
man, he humbled Mmself, and became
obedient unto death, even the death of
the cross.
Col. i. 20. And, having made peace
through the blood of Ms cross, by him
to reconcUe all thmgs unto himself; by
him, I say, whether ihey be thmgs in
earth, or things in heaven.
21. And you, that were some time
alienated and enemies in ymir mind by
wicked works, yet now hath he recon
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— it was accomplished by means of
death, for with nothing less than the
blood of Christ could the church be pur
chased. A "deep sleep" then must fall
upon Adam to show that the good shep
herd laid down his life for the sheep.
It was the hand of God that laid this
deep sleep upon Adam, and that also
brought to him the help-meet which he
had moulded and fashioned after his
own image. So it is the work of the Fa
ther to bring to Jesus all that are his,
when he has taught them by his Spirit,
and conformed them to the image of
his Son.

The' Letter.
23. And Adam said. This is now
bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh :
she shall be caUed Woman, because she
was taken out of man.
24. Therefore shall a man leave his
father and Ms mother, and"shaU cleave
imto his wife: and they shall be one

25. And they were both naked, the
man and Ms wife, and they were not
ashamed. Note.
As a literal fact, Adam would hardly
have recognised the rib wMch had been
taken from him in the unconsciousness
of deep sleep, in the fafr woman, thus
made ready and presented to him with
out spot or wrinkle, or any such thing !
But the divine Eedeemer was fully
aware of the whole process, when his
body was broken and his blood shed for
his people. TMs people were recorded
by name in his body, and worn upon his
heart, as in the book of life, and not one
shall finally be taken from him. They
are of his body, his flesh and his bones,
in an everlasting union which death
could not dissolve.
JesuB left the bosom of the Father and

death, to present you holy, and un
blamable, and unreprovable, in Ms
sight. John vi. 44. No man can come to
me, except the Father which hath sent
me draw him ; and I vrill raise Mm up
at the last day.
1 Pet. U. 25. For ye were as sheep
going astray : but are now returned
unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your
sOuls. Heb. ix. 15. And for tMs cause he is
the mediator of the new testament, that
by means of death, for the redemption
of the transgressions that were under
the first testament, they wMch are
called might receive the promise of
eternal inheritance. i
16. For where a testament is,i;here
must also of necessity be the death of
the testator.

The Spirit.
Eph. v. 30. For we' are members of
Ms body, of Ms flesh and of his bones.
CoL. i. 22. In the body of Ms flesh
through death, to present you holy and
unblamable and unreprovable in his
sight. ni. 10. And have put on the new
man, wMch is renewed in knowledge
after the image of Mm that created
him. ^
i. 24. Who now rejoice in my suffer
ings for you, and fiU up that wMch is
beMnd of the afflictions of Christ in my
flesh for his body's sake, wMch is the
church. Eph. v. 22. Wives, submit yourselves
unto your own husbands, as unto the
Lord. 23. For the husband is the head of
the wife, even as Christ is the head of
the church : and he is the Saviour of the
body. 24. Therefore as the church is sub
ject unto Christ, so let the wives le to
their own husbands in everything.
Rev. xix. 7. Let us be glad and re
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the glory which he had with him before
the world was, that he raight seek and
save that people which had gone astray,
like lost sheep ; and when he has again
brought them back to the Shepherd and
Bishop of their souls, he calls upon them
to forsake all for him ; and that they
henceforward live irot to theraselves,
but to him who died for them, that they
might have life.
They were "both naked," for as yet
they had no guilt to require the garment
of imputed righteousness. Adam was
naked, as being exposed to the conse
quences of becoming bondsman for the
woman ; but as yet there was no trans
gression, and therefore no shame or
fear.

marriage of the Lamb is come, and his
wife made herself ready.
8. And to her was granted that she
should be arrayed in fine Unen, clean
and white: for the fine Unen is the
righteousness of saints.
9. And he saith unto me, Write,
Blessed are they which are caUed unto
the marriage-supper of the Lamb. And
he saith unto me. These are the true
sayings of God.
Luke xiv. 26. If any man come to
me, and hate not his father, and mother,
and wife^ and children, and brethren,
and sisters, yea, and his own life also,
he cannot be my disciple.
33. So Ukewise, whosoever he be of
you that forsaketh not all that he hath,
he cannot be my disciple.

CHAPTER III.

The Letter.

1. Now the serpent was more subtie
than any beast of the field which the
Lord God had made : and he said unto
the woman. Yea, hath God said, ye shaU
not eat of evei-y tree of the garden ?
Note.
The kingdom of heaven had now been
typically ordered and established ; the
last act of which was to set forth the
death of the Lord Jesus Christ, by which
the church was brought nigh by his
blood, and with him shared the throne
of the kingdom, according to the decree,
"Let them have dominion," (fee. This law
and decree of the Father, when he
" brought the First Born into the world,"
and set him on the holy hill of Zion, was
joyfully hailed by all "the morning stars,"
who sang together, "glory to God in the
highest, on earth peace and good will to
men." But behold! when "men slept," or be
fore the good seed of the kingdom, which
was planted iu the covenant-head, had
sprung up, — an enemy appears in the
form of the serpent! The command,-
'Cdnicerningthe First Born — "Let all the
angels of God worship him" — wrought in
this wily adversary "all manner of con-

The Spirit.

IsA. xxvi. 1. In that day the Lord,
with his sore, and gi-eat, and strong
sword, shaU punish leviathan the pierc
ing serpent, even leviathan that crooked
serpent ; and he shall slay the dragon
that is in the sea.
Ezek. xxviii. 2. Son of man, say unto
the Prmce of Tyrus, Thus saith the
Lord God : Because thine heart is lifted
up, and thou hast said, lama, God, I
sit in the seat of God, in the midst of
the seas ; yet thou art a man, and not
God, though thou set thine heart as
the heart of God :
3. Behold, thou art wiser than Da
rnel ; there is no secret that they can
Mde from thee ;******
Thou sealest up the sum, full of wis
dom, and perfect in beauty.
13. Thou hast been in Eden, the
garden of God; every precious stone
was thy covering, the sardius, topaz,
and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx,
and the jasper, the sapphire, the eme
rald, and the carbuncle, and gold : the
workmansMp of thy tabrets and of thy
pipes was prepared tn thee in the day
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cupiseence." His heart was " lifted up,"
to desire himself "to sit in the seat of
God," and to be "exalted above all
that is called God, or that is wor
shipped." Thus the "angels sinned;"
and thus they " kept not their flrst estate,"
but "left their habitations"— theiv own
proper place, as subjects of the great
King.

14. Thou art the anomted cherub
that covereth ; and I have set thee so ;
thou -wiist upon the holy mountain of
God ; thou hast walked up and down
in the midst of the stones of fire.
****** 15. Thou wast perfect in thy ways
from the day that thou wast created, tiU
uiiquity was found in thee.
1 6. By the multitude of thy merchan
dise they have filled the midst of thee
vrith violence, and thou hast sinned:
therefore I vriU cast thee as profene
out of the mountain of God ; and I wUl
destroy thee, O covering cherub, from
the midst of the stones of fire. . ^

The Letter.
2. And the woman said unto the ser
pent. We may eat of the fruit of the
trees of the garden :
3. But of the fruit of the tree wMch
is in the midst of the garden, God hath
said, Ye shaU not eat of it, neither shall
ye touch it, lest ye die.
4. And the serpent said unto the
woman. Ye shall not surely die :
5. For God doth know, that in the
day ye eat thereof, then your eyes
shall be opened': and ye shall be as
gods, knowing good and evU.
Note.
The first step to trangressing the law,
is, questioning its propriety and the
wisdom of the lawgiver. Hence pride
is the condemnation of the devil. This
is the very spirit of Antichrist — the
snare which " the fowler " sets for the
unwary. The kingdom of heaven is to
be received "as u, little child" — ^in all
meekness and submission, without ques
tioning. The will of God is revealed for
"the obedience of faith," and not for the
cavils of carnal wisdom and subtle rea
soning. Another feature of Antichrist is the
assumption of explaining, after his own
-wiU and purpose, the commands of God;
and making " the simple " suppose that

The Spirit.
Eph. vi. 11. Put on the whole armour
of God, that you may be able to stand
against the wUes of the devU.
12. For we wrestle not against flesh
and blood, but against principaUties,
against powers, against th6 rulers of
the darkness of tins world, against
spiritual wickedness in Mgh places.
Peov. i. 10. My son, if sinners entice
thee, consent thou not.
1 1. If they say, Come with us, let us
lay wait for blood, let us lurk privUy for
the innocent without cause :
12. Let us swallow them up. aUve as
the grave; and whole, as those that go
down into the pit :
13. We shall find all precious sub
stance, we shaU fill our houses -with
spoU: 14. Cast in thy lot among us; let us
aU have one purse :
15. My son, walk not thou in the
way with them ; refrain thy foot from
their path :
16. For their feet run to evU, and
make haste to shed blood.
17. Surely in vain the net is spread
in the sight of any bhd.
18. And they lay wait for their men
blood ; they lurk privUy for theu- own
Uves. 19. So are the ways of every one

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none but Mmself and his agents under
stand these things, or are able to inter
pret divine revelation ; and thus induce
them to submit their consciences to the
rule and guidance of his domineering
power. The inducement of self-exaltation is
used by the man of sin in effecting his
purposes. The glory of God, and honour
of his name, are kept out of sight ; wjiile
glorying in the flesh is the highest object
to be attained. Eve confesses her know
ledge of the law of God, and thus seals
her own condemnation for disobeying.
But, though /ree to stand, yet she lacked
the power; — she was deceived by the
subtle adversary — the father of lies; and
fell into transgression. The upholding
arm, that eould alone have sustained her
at this time, was withdrawn, but not
shortened; it was yet to be outstretched
iu a more signal manner, for her deliver
ance, and for the everlasting overthrow
of her destroyer.

that is greedy of gain; which taketh
away the life of the owners thereof.
EccL. IX. 11. I returned, and saw un
der the sun, that the race is not to the
svrift, nor the hattie to the strong, nei
ther yet bread to the wise, nor yet
riches to men of understanding, nor yet
favour to men of SkUl ; but time and
chance happeneth to them aU.
12.' For man also knoweth not Ms
time : as the fishes that are taken in an
evU net, and as the birds that are caught
in the snare : so are the sons of men
snared in an evU time, when it faUeth
suddenly upon them.
13. TMs wisdom have I seen also
under the sun, and it seemed gi-eat unto
me.

The Letter.
6. And when the woman^saw tiiat
the tree was good for food, and that it
was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to
be desired to make one wise ; she took
of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and
gave also unto her husband with her,
and he did eat.
7. And the eyes of them both were
opened, and they knew that they were
naked : and they sewed fig-leaves toge
ther, and made themselves aprons.
Note.
The old leaven of malice and wicked
ness, infused by the enemy of all righte
ousness into the entire lump of clay — or
body of flesh, out of which the Divine
Potter would form the vessels for his
own use and service — had already begun
to work! "When lust hath conceived
it bringeth forth sin ; and sin when it
is finished bringeth forth death!"
Thus had the enemy succeeded in
sowing "his tares" upon the fair field of
the Son of man ! -planting his lie where
God had breathed the breath of life ! aud

The Spirit.
James i. 12. Blessed is the man that
endureth temptation; for when he is
tried he shaU receive the crown of life,
which the Lord hath promised to them
that love him.
13. Let no man say when he is
tempted, I am tempted of God: for
God cannot be tempted with evU, nei
ther tempteth he any man.
14. But every man is tempted, when
he is drawTi away of his own lust, and
enticed. 15. Then, when lust hath conceived,
it bringeth forth sin ; and sin, when it is
finished, brmgeth forth death.
Heb. xu. 2. Looldng on Jesus, the
author and finisher of faith, who having
joy proposed unto him, undei-went the
cross, despising the shame ; and sitteth
on the right hand of the throne of
God. 3. For think diligentiy upon Mm who
endm-eth such opposition from sinners
against himself; that you be' not
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thus subjected the entire /eW to his own
dominion, untU the " one nearest of kin
should appear to redeem his posses
sion." But it is written, "Adam was not de
ceived, but the woman being deceived, was
in the transgression." If Adam was not
deceived— \( he was fully aware of the
penalty that awaited him if he took the
fruit from the woman — why did he eat ?
There can be but one answer to this
question: it was, "for the great love
wherewith he loved her!" Having him
self been entrusted by God with the law
of the garden, to keep it from pollution
and dishonour, he waa bound to take
upon himself the vindication of that law
by the best possible manner, in showing
that he would himself suffer its sentence
rather than that it should be violated
with irapunity. Again : he saw that his
wife, the woman whom God had given
him, and for whom he had been made re
sponsible, was under condemnation, and
must suffer the penalty of transgression.
Therefore he felt himself bound also to
bear her curse in his own body ; and
the only possible way to do this, was to
take upon himself her sins. Satan, her
murderer, must also be slain, and he
only could become the avenger of blood.
Thus, as far as natural things ean repre-

The Letter.
8. And they heard the voice of the
Lord God walking in the garden' in the
cool of the day: and Adam and Ms
wife Md themselves from the presence
of the Lord God amongst the trees of
the garden.
9. And the Lord God called unto
Adam, and said unto him, Where art
tiiou? Note.
Jhe call of God upon Adam, in the
cool of the day, or, as it might be ren
dered, the wind of the day, shows forth
the recognition of Jesus as the propitia
tion for sin, " through the forbearance
of God."
The woman had sinned, and with her

4. For you have not .yet resisted
unto blood, striving against sin.
EccL. ix. 14. There was a littie city,
and few men witMn it ; and there came
a great Mng against it; and besieged it,
and buUt great bulwai-ks agauist it:
15. Now there was found in it a poor
wise man, and he by Ms wisdom deU
vered the city; yet no man remembered
that same poor man.
Rom. v. 6. For when we were yet
without strength, in due tune Christ
died for the ungodly.
7. For scarcely for a righteous man
vrill one die: yet peradventure for a
good man some would even dare to
die. 8. For God commendeth Ms love to
ward us, in that whUe we were yet sm-
ners, Christ died for us.

sent spiritual, Adam is, in this aet, a
"figure of Hira that was to come."
The first attempt to cover sin, was by
the fig-leaf righteousness of the law.
But it proved ineffectual, and the sinner
still remained exposed untO God himself
provided a garment.
From 1 Tim; ii. 11-lS, it would
appear that from this time the woman
was put in subjection to the raan.

The Spirit.
Rom. ui. 20. Therefore by the deeds
of the law, there shall no flesh be jus
tified in Ms sight, for by the law is the
knowledge of sin.
21. But now the righteousness of
God without the law is manifested,
being vritnessed by the law and the
prophets. 22. Even the righteousness of God
which' is by faith of Jesus Christ,
&c. 23. For aU have sinned, and come
short of the glory of God.
24. Being fortified freely by his
grace tiirough the redemption that is in
Christ Jesus.
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whole posterity had eome short of the
glory of God. But instead of visiting
upon her the fierceness of his anger, God
calls upon her bondsman, her substitute ;
on whora he had " laid help" by his own
special appointment : " Adam, where art
thou ?"
The fig-leaf covering had been tried ;
the righteousness which is of the law ;
but it was found " weak through the
flesh ;" it " could never take away sin."
Therefore, "when he cometh into the
world he saith. Sacrifice and offering
for sin, thou wouldst not; then said I,
Lo, I come ; in the volume of the book
it is writien of me ; I delight to do thy
will, 0 God."
It may be thought, that if Adam here
represented Jesus, coming forth for the
salvation of his people, and to answer
for their transgressions ; why did he
hide hiraself! But was not Jesus, the
sinner's substitute, the Larab of God, that
taketh away the sins of the world, found
hid under a veil of flesh, made like unto
his brethren ? like unto the trees of the
garden ? and walking among them ?

The Letter.
10. And he said, I heard thy voice in
the garden ; and I was afraid, because
I was naked ; and I hid myself.
11. And he said, Who told thee that
thou wasi naked ? Hast thou eaten of
the tree whereof I commanded thee,
that thou shouldest not eat ?
12. And the man said, The woman,
whom thou gavest to be with me, she
gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
Note.
In view of the fearful responsibility
he had assumed, and all that he must
endure, in bearing the sins of his people,
Jesus said, "Now is my soul exceeding
sorrowful, even unto death.'' And by
the mouth of the prophets he set
forth the anguish and terror he felt in
prospect of the mighty conflict that
awaited him, when, in the fulness of
time, the sword of Justice would be
called upon to awake against him, and

a propitiation through faith in his blood,
to declare Ms righteousness for the re
mission of sins that are past, tMough
the forbearance of God.
IsA. UU. 5. But he was wounded for
our transgressions, he was bruised for
our iniquities : the chastisement of our
peace was upon him; and with Ms
stripes we are healed.
6. All we, Uke sheep, have gone
astray; we have turned every one to
his own way ; and the Lord hath laid on
him the iniquity of us all.
12. * * And he was numbered with
the transgi-essors ; and he bore the sm
of many and made intercession for the
transgressors. Heb. X. 7. * * Lo, I como to do thy
wUl, O God, &c.
Ps. xl. 8. I deUght to do thy wiU, O
my God; yea, thy law is within my
heart.

" The word was made fiesh and dwelt
among us," &c.

The Spirit.
Ps. IxxxviU. 15. I am afflicted and
ready to die from my youth up : while
I suffer thy ten-ors, I am distracted. ;
16. Thy fierce wrath goeth over me ;
thy terrors have cut me off.
17. They camo round about me daily
like water; they compassed me about
together. Iv. 4. My heart is sore pained within
me, and the terrors of death are fallen
upon me.
5. Fearfulness and trembling are
come upon me; horror hath over
whelmed me.
1 Pet. u. 22. Who did no sin, nei
ther was guile found in his mouth :
23. Who, when he was revUed, re
viled not again ; when he suffered, he
threatened not ; but committed himself
to him that judgoth righteously :
24. Who his own self bare our sins
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full satisfaction for transgression be de
manded at his hands.
"By the law is the knowledge of
sin;" therefore, Adam could be con
scious of nakedness only by transgres
sion. Neither could Jesus become ex
posed to the stroke of Justice in any
other way than standing in the sinner's
place. It was the woman that the Father
had given him; the people chosen in
him from the foundation of the world.

being dead to sins, should live unto
righteousness: by whose stripes ye
were healed.

whom Jesus pledged himself to keep,
and that " they should never perish, nei
ther should any pluck them out of his
hand ;" on whose account and for whose
sake he became a sin offering, that
" they might be made the righteousness
of God in him."

The Letter.
13. And the Lord God said unto the
woman. What is this thai thou hast
done ? And the woman said. The ser
pent beguUed me, and I did eat.
14. And the Lord God said unto the
serpent. Because thou hast done this,
thou art cursed above all cattle, and
above every beast of the field: upon thy
belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou
eat aU the days of thy life :
16. And I wUl put enmity between
thee and the woman, and between thy
seed and her seed : it shall brmse thy
head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Note.
"The Lord shall judge the world in
righteousness,'' Ac. " He hath prepared
his throne for judgment," is declared by
the Psalmist, ages before that great day
of the Lord, when Jesus said, " A/bw is
ihe judgment of this world; now is ihe
prince of this world judged."
In this description of the manner in
which God made " inquisition for blood "
in Eden, is typically represented that
judgment of which Jesus spoke, and
which he carae to execute upon the
head of the serpent.
It appears from the phraseology of
the curse pronounced by God upon Sa
tan, that he is here recognized as a
"beast of the field;" that he had hi
therto held a habitation in Eden, the
"paradise of God," with corapanionship
with Eve, and such measure of power
and influence as to destroy the spiritual

The Spirit.
Ps. ix. 7. But the Lord shaU endure
for ever : he hath prepared Ms throne
for judgment.
8. And he shall judge the world in
righteousness, he shall minister judg
ment to the people in uprightness.
9. The Lord also wUl be a refuge
for the oppressed, a refuge in times of
trouble. 11. Sing praises to the Lord, which
dwelleth in Zion: declare among the
people Ms doings.
12. When he maketh inquisition for
blood, he remembereth them: he for
getteth not the cry of the humble.
13. Have mercy upon me, O Lord,
consider my trouble which I suffer of
them that hate me, thou that liftest me
up from the gates of death:
14. That I may show forth aU thy
praise in the gates of the daughter of
Zion : I wUl rejoice in thy salvation.
15. The heathen are sunk down m
the pit ihat they made : in the net which
they hid is their own foot taken.
16. The Lord is known by the judg
ment which he executeth: the vricked
is snared in the work of Ms own hands.
Higgaion. Selah.
17. The wickad shaU be turned into
heU, and all the nations that forget God.
18. For the needy shall not always
be forgotten: the expectation of the
poor shaU not perish forever.
19. Arise, O Lord ; let not man pre-

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life of her and her whole posterity.
From this, his first estate, he was cast
down to crawl like a vile reptile on the
earth, to which he is bound in chains of
darkness, to the judgment of the great
day. Here he should raolest the wo
man and her seed, by troubling the heel,
when he could no longer attack the
Head. But his own head, the seat of
his power, should be bruised iu that
day, when the woman's seed should de
stroy death and him that had the pow
ers of death, that is, the devil.
By this figure is represented the war
which has been carried on in the king
dom of heaven between Michael and
his angels and the Dragon and his an
gels, from the time when the First Born
was proclaimed king, in the morning of
creation, to the time when the last great
conflict was finished upon the cross ; to
gether with the casting out to the earth
at that time of this old serpent, the de
vil ; where he will still continue to per
secute the woman until he is cast into
the bottomless pit.

The Letter.
16. Unto the woman he said, I wiU
greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy
conception ; in sorrow thou shalt bring
forth cMldren ; and thy desire shall be
to thy husband, and he shaU rule over
thee. Note.
In the cup of sorrow that was dealt
to Eve there was no cure ; not a parti
cle of wrath or condemnation ; this was
all borne away by her husband and
lord. Her portion was a mixture of
righteous chastisement with inflnite
mercy. The woman's sin had made it neces
sary that her seed, one born of the
8ame_^esA and blood, should be found,
who could assurae the place and office
of the avenger of that blood, which had
been shed by the first great murderer.
And this being accoraplished, that this

vail : let the heathen be judged in thy
sight. Rev. xu. 7. And there was war in
heaven ; Michael and Ms angels fought
with the di-agon; and the dragon
fought, and Ms angels :
8. And they prevailed not; neither
was their place found any more in
heaven. 9. And that great dragon was cast
out, the old serpent, who is called the
devU, and Satan, who seduceth the
whole world, and he was cast forth
unto the earth ; and Ms angels were
thrown down vrith him.
10. And I heard a loud voice in hea
ven, saying: Now is come salvation,
and strength, and the kingdom of our
God, and the power of his CMist : be
cause the accuser of our brethren is
cast forth, who accused them before
our God day and night.
Jude 6. And the angels which kept
not their first estate, hut left their own
habitation, he hath reserved in everlast
ing chains under darkness unto the
judgment of the great day.

The Spirit.
Eph. v. 22. Let women be subject to
their husbands, as to the Lord :
23. For the husband is the head of
the wife ; as Christ is the head of the
church. He is the saviour of his
body. 24. Therefore, as the church is sub
ject to Christ ; so also let the wives be
to their husbands in all things.
1 Tim. u. 11. Let the woman leam
in sUence vrith all subjection.
12. But I suft'er not a woman to
teach, nor to usurp authority over the
man, but to be in sUence.
13. For Adam was first formed, then
Eve. 14. And Adam was not deceived,
but the woman being deceived was in
the transgression.
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seed should be multiplied into a nation
-and people, who should serve and glo
rify their gread Head and deUverer.
The converts of Zion, or children of
the church, should be as numerous as
the drops of the morning dew ; for " Je
rusalem which is above is the mother of us
all;" all that are born of the Spirit. But
her joy and rejoicing over these con
verts is mixed with the bitter cup of
deep anguish of soul, and anxious soli
citude for those for whom she travails
in birth until Christ be formed in thera.
The church is to be subject to Christ,
and he is to rule over her. , No other
lords must have dominion over his un
defiled one. Her desire must be only
unto him, and in him she must abide by
faith, even as the branch in the vine, or
she will bring forth no fruit.

saved m chUd-bearing, if they continue
in faith, and charity, and hoUness, with
sobriety. IsA. Ixvi. 8. Who hath heard such a
thing? who hath seen such tilings?
ShaU the earth be made to bring forth
in one day ? or shall a nation be bom
at once? for as soon as Zion travailed,
she brought forth her cMldren.
9. Shall I bring to the birth, and not
cause to brmg forth ? saith the Lord :
shall I cause to bring fortii, and shut
ihe womb ? saith thy God.
10. Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and
be glad with her, aU ye that love her :
rejoice for joy with her, all ye that
mourn for her :
12. For thus saith the Lord, Behold,
I wiU extend peace to her like a river,
and the glory of the Gentiles like a
flowing stream — then shall ye suck, ye
shaU be home upon her sidesj and be
dandled upon her knees.
13. As one whom his mother com-
forteth, so wUl I comfort you ; and ye
shaU be comforted in Jerusalem.

The Letter.
17. And unto Adam ho said, Because
thou hast hearkened unto the voice of
thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree of
wMch I commanded thee, saying. Thou
shalt not eat of it : cursed is the ground
for thy sake ; in sorrow shalt thou eat
of it all the days of thy Ufe :
18. Thorns also and thisties shaU it
bring forth to thee ; and thou shalt eat
the herb of the field:
19. In the sweat of thy face shalt
thou eat bread, tiU thou return unto the
gi-ound ; for out of it wast thou taken :
for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt
thou return. Note.
It will be remarked that this curse did
not fall immediately upon Adam, but
upon the ground for his sake; and all
its force passed upon him by reason of
his relationship with the dust of the

The Spirit.
IsA. Im. 3. He is despised and re
jected of men ; a man of sorrows, and
acquainted with grief; and we Md as it
were our faces from him : he was de
spised, and we esteemed him not.
4. Surely he hath borne our griefs,
and carried our sorrows; yet we did
esteem him stricken, smitten of God,
and afflicted.
Heb. U. 10. For it became him, for
whom are all things, and by whom are
aU tilings, who had brought many chil-
di-en mto glory, to make the autiior of
their salvation perfect by suffering.
13. And again, I wUl put my trust in
him. And again, Behold, I, and the
children which God hath given me.
14. Forasmuch thou aS the chUdren
are partakers of flesh and blood, he also
Mmself likewise took pai-t of the same ;
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earth, out of which he was taken : in
other words, the curse could not rest
upon the Son of God in his own proper
deity, but only as he assumed the seed
of Abraham, the church, whose sins he
bore in his own body on the tree. Thus
he was made sin for them who knew no
sin, that they might be made the right
eousness of God in him : And thus he
ate of the evil of the tree of knowledge,
that they might partake of the good;
for it was in the midst of the garden that
this tree stood ; as in the midst of the
church he singe praise unto him who was
pleased to make the Captain of their sal
vation perfect through suffering.
The mediatorial work of the second
Adara is here represented in tilling the
barren soil of that field, which in the
hands of "his enemy" had brought forth
nothing but briers and thorns. None
but he that was raighty would have
been sufRcieut for this ; and even he,
"travelling in the greatness of his
strength,'' was made to " sweat as it
were great drops of blood falling to the
ground."

The Letter.
20. And Adam caUed his wife's name
Eve ; because she was the mother of
all Uving.
21. Unto Adam also and to his wife
did the Lord God make coats of sMns,
and clothed them. Note.
Life and salvation flow to Zion from
the sufferings and death of Christ ; and
as the one was brought to view in the
last passage, or the .sentence upon
Adam; so here is presented the other
as resulting from it. The living and the
dead constitute the whole family of man
kind. The righteo-js, who are made
alive in Christ by a new creation ; and
the wicked, who are yet in their sins.
Not only life but salvation, a robe of
righteousness, complete and perfect, that
will cover every pollution and render

him that had the power of death, that
is, the devU ;
15. And deUver them, who, through
fear of death, were aU their Ufe-time
subject to bondage.
16. For verily he took not on Mm </ie
nature of angels; but he took on him
the seed of Abraham.
17. Wherefore m all things It be
hooved him to be made like unto his
brethren ; that he might be a merciful
and faithful High Priest m things per
taining to God, to make reconciUation
for the sins of the people.
18. For in that he himself hath suf
fered, being tempted, he is able to suc
cor them that are tempted.
Matt, xxviu. 29. And when they
had platted a crown of thorns, they put
it upon his head, and a reed m his right
hand : and they bowed the knee before
Mm, and mocked him, saying. Hail, King
of the Jews !
Luke xxii 44. And being in an ag
ony, he prayed more earnestly : and his
sweat was as it were great drops of
blood falling down to the ground.

The Spirit.
IsA. iv. 3. And it shall come to pass,
thai he thai is left in Zion, and he thai
remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be eaUod
holy, even every one that is written
among the liring in Jerusalem :
4. When the Lord shall have washed
away the filth of the daughters of Zion,
and shaU have purged the blood of Je
rusalem, from the midst thereof by the
spirit of judgment, and (by the spirit of
burning. Gal. iv. 26. Jerusalem which is
above is free, which is the mother of
us aU.
IsA. Ixi. 9. And their seed shaU be
known among the Gentiles, .ind their
offspring among the people : all that see
them shaU acknowledge them, that they
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her comely with his comeliness, is also
prepared for Zion by her diviile Lord.
It is one robe that is upon them both ;
for they are one body, and that which
descends from the head, covers all the
members, and is without spot or wrin
kle or any such thing ; a seamless robe
of linen, white and clean, which is the
righteousness of the saints.
This robe is represented by coats
of skins, to intimate that it is wrought
only by raeans of death.

10. I wUl greatiy rejoice in the Lord,
my soul shaU be joyful in my God ; for
he hath clothed me with the garments
of salvation, he hath covered me with
the robe of righteousness, as a bride
groom decketh himself with ornaments,
and as a bride adorneth herself with her
jewels. Phil. iu. 8. Yea, doubtless, and I
count afl things but loss for the excel
lency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus
my Lord: for whom I have suffered
the loss of aU things, and do count them
bvt dung, that I may -win Christ.
9. And be found m Mm, not havmg
mine own righteousness, wMch is of
the law, but that wMch is through the
faith of Christ, the righteousness wMch
is of God by faith.

The Letter.
22. And the Lord God said. Behold,
the man is become as one of us, to
know good and evU : and now, lest he
put forth his hand, and take also of the
tree of life, and eat, and live for ever :
23. Therefore the Lord God sent
him forth from the garden of Eden, to
till the ground from whence he was
taken. Note.
By transgression, raarf becarae ac
quainted with both good and evil. But
this knowledge was the prerogative of
God alone; therefore when Satan told
Eve that they would become as gods,
knowing good and. evil, he concealed
the fact, that, ia obtaining this know
ledge against the positive prohibition of
God, they would also incur the curse of
death, the penalty of the law.
When, therefore, the Lord God con
firms the words of Satan, by saying. Be
hold the mau is become as one of us,
knowing good and evil ; he presents this
fact as a reason why he must be de
prived of all good and be exposed to all
evil. But there is another sense in which
Adam, iu his exclusion from Eden, be-

The Spirit.
RoM. vi. 23. For the wages of sin is
death; but the gift of God is eternal
life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Ezek. xvUi. 4. Behold, all souls are
mine ; as the soul of the father, so also
the soul of the son is mine ; the soul
that sinneth, it shall die.
Rev. i. 7. He that hath an ear, let
him hear what the Spirit saith to the
churches : To him that overcometh I
wUl ^ve to eat of the tree of Ufe, which i
is in the paradise of my God.
xxu. 14. Blessed are they that do Ms
commandments, that they may haVe
right to the tree of life, and may enter
in through the gates into the city.
15. For without are dogs, and sorcer
ers, and whoremongers, and murderers,
and idolaters, and whosoever loveth
and maketh a lie.
John vi. 38. Because I came dovim
from heaven, not to do my own wUl,
but the will of him that sent me.
-39. Now tMs is the -mil of hun that
sent .me, the Father: that aU that he
hath given me, I lose not thereof, but
raise it up again at the last day.
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cause of transgression, was like the Son
of God; for in all things he was "a
figure of him that was to come."
When he had voluntarily assumed the
place of sinners, and for the joy that was
set before him, pledged hiraself to en
dure the cross, despising the shame ; to
bear all the evil of that acccursed tree,
that he raight secure the good in the re
ward of Ms sufferings, he could no
longer enjoy the glory which he had
with the Father before the world was ;
but raust go forth to be a " raan of sor
rows and acquainted with grief." Nay,
the Father sends him to do his wifl, in
bearing the curse for his people.

who sent me : that every one who seeth
the Son, and believeth in him, may have
everlasting Ufe ; and I wiU raise Mm up
at the last day.
Pnn.. u. 6. Who, bemg in the form
of God, thought it no robbery to be
equal vrith God ;
7. But made himself of no reputation
and took upon Mm the form of a ser
vant, and was made m the likeness of
Men. 8. And being found in fashion as a
man, he humbled himself, and became
obedient unto deathj even the death of
the cross.

The Letter.
24. So he drove out the man : and
he placed at the east of the garden of
Eden Cherubim, and a flaming sword
wMch turned every way, to keep the
way of the tree of Ufe.
Note.
The nature and meaning of the Cheru
bim have been matter of speculation
among commentators in all ages. But
we conceive that the question is easily
answered by simply attending to the
unity and analogy of truth. It is only
to decide, what it is that would, in the
very nature of things, exclude a sinner
from the paradise of God until satisfac
tion was rendered to the law? Most
surely it is the moral perfections of God;
the attributes of his divine nature ; his
truth, \xii justice, and his holiness. These
all stand opposed to the access of trans
gressors to the enjoyment of both spi
ritual and eternal life. Truth, because
, God had said, "In the day thou eatest
of it thou shalt surely die." Justice, be
cause that law had been transgressed,
and demanded satisfaction ; holiness, be
cause there can be no fellowsMp be
tween righteousness and unrighteous
ness, God and sinners.
No form or similitude is ascribed to
the Cherubim at Eden. Nothing definite
ia suggested excepting in the "flaming
tword," which is doubtless alluded to in
Zech. ziii. 1.

The Spirit.
Zech. xiu. 7. Awake, O sword,
against my Shepherd, and agamst the
man ihat is my fellow, saith the Lord
of hosts ; snute the Shepherd, and the
sheep shflU be scattered; and I will
turn my hand upon the little ones.
Ex. xxv. 17. And thou shalt make a
mercy-seat of pure gold: two cubits
and a half shall be the length thereof,
and a cubit and a half the breadth
thereof. 18. And thou shalt make two Chem-
buns of gold: of beaten work shalt
thou make them, in the two ends of the
mercy-seat. .
19. And make one cherub on the one
end, and the other cherub on the other
end: even of the mercy-seat shaU ye
make the Cherubims on the two ends
thereof. 20. And the Cherubims shall stretch
forth their wings on Mgh, covering the
mercy-seat with their wings, and their
faces shall look one to another; toward
the mercy-seat shall the faces of the
Cherubims be.
21. And thou shalt put the mercy-
seat above upon the ark; and in the
ark thou shalt put the testimony that I
shall give thee.
Heb. ix. 6. Now when these thinga
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The Cherubim are next found in the
tabernacle fir worldly sanctuary, which
was a type of the church in its militant
state, or as it was under the first testa
raent. This tabernacle was made ac
cording to the pattern in the nwumt,
which God sho wed to Moses ; of course it
was a clearer and more definite typical
development of the plan or covenant of
grace than the garden. The Cherubim,
therefore, assurae form and substance.
They were of pure gold, beaten out of
the same piece as the mercy seat, and at
the two ends of it. They were of pure
gold, to show that the plan of grace was
wholly of God ; that it originated in the
divine mind, and was the purpose of his
own will. It was of the same piece as
the mercy seat, to show that the divine
attributes are in perfect unison with the
salvation which is in Christ. They look
towards each other, and both down upon
the ark of the covenant, to intimate that
the divine perfections look to the work
of Christ to be raagnified and made ho
norable ; the ark being a type of Christ,
coming to do the wUl of the Father, and
having his law within his heart. The
mercy seat, upon wMeh stood the Che
rubim, covered the ark, being exactly
comraensurate with it ; to show that the
satisfaction rendered to the law is ex
actiy commensurate with the, demands
of justice.
Between the Cherubim upon the raer
cy seat shone forth the Shechinah or di
vine presence, because in view of what
Christ had pledged Mraself to perforra,
the flaming sword was reraoved, and the
light of the divine favor, peace and
good wfll, were made manifest to men.
The Cherubim are next found in the
temple at Jerusalem. A new state of
things being signified by the temple,
thefr form and position are again
changed. They are here made of wood
and gold, because the teraple ia a syrabol
of the body of Christ, God manifest in
flesh. The fulness of the Godhead
dwells bodily iu Jesus, therefore they
are no longer upon the mercy seat iu
the attitude of expectation, but are
upon the floor of the oracle, their wings
extending to either side and meetink in

ways into the first tabemacie, accom-
plishmg the service of God:
7. But into the second went the Mgh
priest alone once every year, not with
out blood, wMch he offered for himself,
and /or the errors of the people :
8. The Holy Ghost tMs signifying,
that the way into the hoUest of all was
not yet made manifest, while as the first
tabemacie was yet standing :
Matt. vi. 17. TMnk not that I am
come to destroy the law, or the pro
phets : I am not come to destroy, but
to fulfil.
18. For verily I say unto you, TUl
heaven and earth pass, one jot or one
tittle shall m no wise pass from the
law, tUl all be fulfUled.
Haggai U. 7. And I will shake all
nations, and the desire of all nation^
shaU come: and I will fiU this house
with glory, saith the Lord of hosts.
9. The glory of tMs latter house shall
be greater _ than of the former, saith
the Lord of hosts: and in this place
vrill I g^ve peace, saith the Lord of
hosts. John i. 14. And the word was made
flesh, and dwelt among us : and we saw
his glory, the glory as of the only be
gotten of the Father, full of grace and
truth. Ps. Ixxxv. 10. Mercy and truth are
met together ; righteousness and peace
have Mssed each other.
John vi. 63. It is the SpLnt that
quickeneth : the fiesh profiteth notMng :
the words that I speak unto you, they
are spirit, and ihey are life.
1 Tun U. 5. For there is one God,
and one mediator between God and
men, the man Christ Jesus ;
Acts u. 22. For Moses truly said
unto the fathers, A Prophet shall the
Lord your God raise up unto you, of
yom- brethren, hke unto me ; him shall
ye hear m all thmgs, whatsoever he shall
say unto you.
23. And it shall come to pass, that

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truth have met together ; righteousness
and peace have embraced each other,"
and Jesus fills all in all in his body, the
church. Again the Cherubim aro found at the
river Chebar. They are no longer in
animate symbols, but living creatures, for
the " dispensation of the Spirit " is in full
and glorious operation. The gospel was
not in word only, but iu demonstration
of the Spirit and of power. The Cheru
bim are no longer two but four, for to
his former office of Mediator of the co
venant Jesus has added those of Pro
phet, Priest, and King in his visible
kingdom. They had together the like
ness of a man, because Jesus had as
sumed the likeness of flesh, that he
might be a minister of the true taberna
cle. They had each four faces aud each
four wings, because Jesus never exer
cises one of these offices without the
other ; they all act in unison and move
as one. The hands of a man are under
the wings, because human instrumenta
lity is employed in the exercise of these
offices. The living creatures were connected
with wheels upon the earth, which were
as a wheel within a wheel. These are
symbols of the movements and opera
tions of divine providence, which are al
ways ordered according to the purpose
of grace ia Christ, and subservient to
the glory and prosperity of his kingdom
and the good of his people.
The living creatures are last of all seen
before the throne of God and the Lamb,
after the mediatorial kingdom was fully
accomplished, and " God is aU in all"
They are no longer accompanied -srith
wheels, for the work is finished upon
earth ; the perfections of the divine cha
racter have been glorified, and the law
magnified and made honorable ; and the
Lord Jesus has ascended back to the
glory which he had with the Father
before the world began, to demand en
trance at those gates from which he had
been excluded until he should finish
transgression and make an end of sin,
<&c. In this state of things the living
creatures surround the throne to bear
their testimony to the one great theme

Prophet, shaU be destroyed from among
the people.
Ps. ex. 4. The Lord hath sworn, and
wUI not repent, Thou art a priest for
ever after the order of MelcMzedek.
u. 6. Yet have I set my kmg upon
my holy hUl of Zion.
Rom. vui. 28. And we know that all
things work together for good to them
that love God, and to them who are the
called accordmg to his purpose.
John xvu. 1. These words spake Je
sus, and lifted up Ms eyes to heaven,
and said, Father, the hour is come;
glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may
glorify thee :
***** 4. I have glorified thee upon the
earth : I have finished the work wMoh
thou gavest me to do :
5. And now glorify thou me, O Fa
ther, vrith thyself, with the glory wMch
I had with thee, before the world was.
Ps. xxiv. 7. Lift up your heads, O ye
gates ; and be ye Uft up, ye everlastmg
doors; and the Kmg of glory shall
come in.
8. Who is tiiis Kmg of glory ? the
Lord strong and mighty, the Lord
mighty in battie.
9. Lift up your heads, O ye gates ;
even Uft them up, ye everlasting doors;
and the Kmg of glory shall come in.
10. Who is tMs Kmg of glory ? the
Lord of hosts, he is the Kmg of glory.
Selah. Rev.Iv. 2. Andimmediately I wasia
the Spirit : and behold, a tMone was
set in heaven, and one sat on the tMone.
3. And he that sat was to look upon
Uke a jasper and a sardme stone : and
there was a rambow round about the
throne in sight Uke unto an emerald.
4. And round about the tMone were
four and twenty seats ; and upon the
seats I saw four and twenty elders sit
ting, clothed m white raiment ; and they
had on their heads crowns of gold.
6. And before the tiirone there was
a sea of glass Uke unto crystal. And
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of song and praise ,from the multitudes
which no man can nuraber, that have
entered through the gates into the city,
and there give glory to Him who has
washed thera in his own blood, and
made them kings and priests unto God
and the Lamb forever and ever.

The Letter.
1. And Adam knew Eve his wife ;
and she conceived, and bai'e Cain, and
said, I have gotten a man from the
Lord. 2. And she again bare Ms brother
Abel. And Abel was a keeper of
sheep, but Cain was a tUler of the
ground. Note.
It is generally supposed that Cain aud
Abel were twins, like Jacob and Esau.
Whether this was the fact or not, it is
evident that " two manner of people' are
represented by them; that the wheat
and the tares spring up in the eame
field. Thus early is developed the seed,
that iu the tMrd chapter are declared to
be at enmity -with each other !
God hath made of one blood all na
tions that dwell upon the face of the
earth; all are descended from one and
the same stock by ordmary generations,
or after the flesh. But Christ has taught
us in the Sth of John, that of these, sorae
are of their father, the devil, and sorae
are the children of God. Of one lump
has he raade both the vessels of wrath
and the vessels of honor. In speaking
of Cain, the apostle John says, he was
" of the wicked one ;" whUe Abel is al
ways called righteous, and a man Of
faith. From all tne testimony of scripture
we conceive that iu these two persons
are typically represented the two classes
or characters of men, that were to con-

about the throne, were four beasts full
of eyes before and beMnd.
7. And the first beast was like a lion,
and the second beast like a calf, and the
thu-d beast had a face as a man; and the
fourth beast was like a fiying eagle.
8. And the four beasts had each of
them six vrings about him; and ihey
were full of eyes withm : and they rest
not day and night, saying. Holy, holy,
holy. Lord God Almighty, wMch was,
and is, and is to come.

The Spirit.
Matt. xni. 27. So the servants of
the householder came and said unto
Mm, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed
m- the field ? from whence then hath it
tares? 28. He said unto them. An enemy
hath done this. The servant said unto
him, WUt thou then that we go and
gather them up ?
29. But he said, Nay ; lest, whUe ye
gather up the tares, ye root up also the
wheat vrith them.
30. Let both grow together until the
harvest ; Jjnd in the time of harvest I
vriU say to the reapers. Gather ye toge
ther first the tares, and bind them m
bundles to burn them : but gather the
wheat into my bam.
* * * *
36. Then Jesus sent the multitude
away, and went into the house ; and Ms
disciples came unto Mm, saymg. Declare
unto us the parable of the tares of the
field. 37. He answered and said unto them.
He that soweth the good seed is the
Son of man ;
38. The field is the world; the good
seed are the cMldren of the kingdom ;
but the tares are the children of fhe
vricked one ;
39. The enemy that sowed them is
the devil; the harvest is the end of the
world; and the reapers aro the angels.
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stitute the descendants of Adam to the
end of the world ; excepting that in
Abel is combined both original right
eousness and the righteousness of faith.
They also represent the seed or origin
from whence such fruit springs, and the
manner in which it is made manifest.
Cain is the typical personification in
human shape of the devil and his works,
as they were presented in the last chap
ter, by the serpent and his work. Abel
is the personification of the righteous
ness and strength of the creature man in
his best estate.
That neither Cain nor Abel were born
in the image of Adam ; or as merely the
fallen descendants of fallin man, is evi
dent ; for when Seth was born, this fact
is declared concerning him, as for the
first time.
Cain's occupation was to till the
ground But the ground had been
cursed, and the whole field was in the
hands of the enemy, and yielded only

The Letter.
3. And in process of time it came to
pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of
the ground an offering unto the Lord.
4. And Abel, he also brought of the
firstlings of his flock, and of the fat
thereof. And the Lord had respect to
Abel and his offermg ; but to Cain and
his offering he had no respect.
Note.
Frora the thorns and briers of that soil
which God had cursed, no fruit could be
gathered which was acceptable to God,
until that curse was removed. Men do
not gather grapes of thorns nor figs of

thered and burned in the fire ; so shaU
it be m the end of this world.
41. The Son of man shaU send forth
his angels, and they shaU gather out of
his kingdom aU thmgs that offend, and
them wMch do iniquity ;
42. And shaU cast them into a fur
nace of fire : there shall be waUmg and
gnasMng of teeth.
43. Then shaU the righteous shme
forth as the sun m the kmgdom of their
Father. Who hath ears to hear let him
hear. Rom. ix. 21. Or hath not the potter
power over the clay, of the same lump,
to make one vessel unto honor, and
another unto dishonor ?
briers and thorns. Abel was a keeper
of sheep, the one occupation of all the
men af faith, who followed the good
Shepherd.

But Abel looked to the Larab of God,
who was to " take away sin by the sa
crifice of hiraself." It was by faith that
he offered a better sacrifice than Cain,
by wMch he obtained testimony that he
was righteous; "and by i( he being dead
yet speaketh." For the blood of aU the
righteous from Abel to Jesus had called
from the ground for vengeance, till that
better blood was shed, to which Abel's,
5

The Spirit. «
Matt. vu. 16. By their fruits you
shall know them. Do men gather
grapes of thorns, or figs of tMstles ?
1 7. Even so> every good tree' yieldeth
good fruit, and the bad tree yieldeth
bad fruit.
18. A good tree cannot yield bad
fruit ; neither can a bad tree yield good
fruit. 19. Every tree that yieldeth not good
fruit, shall be cut down, and shall -be
cast mto the fire.
20. Wherefore, by their fruits you
sh."iU know them.
21. Not every one that saith to me,
Lord, Lord, shaU enter into the kmg
dom of heaven : hut he that doeth the
wUl of my Father, who is in heaven,
he shall enter mto the kmgdom of
heaven. )
22. Many wUl say to me m that day:
Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied m
thy name, and in thy name cast out
devUs, and done many wonderful works
m thy name ?

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sacrifice pointed, which speaks better
things than the blood of Abel,,for it tes
tifies that his blood is avenged, and the
murderer slain.
Thus the curse and the blessing ; the
evil fruit and the good fruit, make ma
nifest the tree from whence they spring.
In the view of God all things were
naked and open from the beginning.
Nothing with him is vague or indefinite,
or left to be determined by the fortui
tous events of time, or the willings and
runnings of men. The vessels of honor
were before prepared unto glory ; and
the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction.
But as it is only by their fruits that
these two classes are raade manifest to
men, it is by these fruits, the "deeds
done in the body," that all men will be
finally judged and made manifest whe
ther they are sheep or goats.

The Letter.
6. And the Lord said unto Cain, Why
art thou wroth ? and why is thy coun
tenance fallen?
7. If thou doest well, shalt thou not
be accepted? and if thou doest not
weU, sin Ueth at the door. And unto
thee shall be Ms desire, and thou shalt
rule over him. Note.
Here is brought to view that one
righteous principle by which God will
judge the world, — ^both men and angels.
All created intelligences are placed un
der an unchangeable law of right. That
law can never be transgressed with im
punity; neither does it ever yield one
iota of its demands ; for they are esta
blished in the very nature of things, and
the well-being of the universe, as well
as the honor of God, rests upon its be
ing implicitly obeyed. One order of
angels di«o6eye(i and fell. Heb.i6. The
elect angels are sustained by the power

23. And then wiU I profess mito
them : I never knew you : depart from
me, you that work uiiquity.
Heb. xi. 6. But vrithout faith it is
unpossible to please him : for he that
cometh to God must believe that he is,
and thai he is a rewarder of them that
diUgently seek Mm.
Prov. xxi. 27. The sacrifice of the
vricked is abommation; how much
more, when he bringeth it vrith a wicked
mmd? XV. 3. The eyes of the Lord are m
every place, beholding the evU and the
good. 8. The sacrifice of the wicked is an
abomination to the Lord: but the
prayer of the upright is his delight.
9. The way of the wicked is an
abomination unto the Lord : but he
loveth him that foUoweth after right
eousness. 10. Correction is grievous unto hun
that forsaketh the way; and he that
hateth reproof shall die.

The Spirit.
Ezk. xvui. 11. Say unto them. As I
live, saith the Lord God, I have no plea
sure m the death of the wicked ; but
that the wicked tum from Ms way and
live: tum ye, turn ye from your evil
ways; for why wUl ye die, O house of
Israel ?
12. Therefore, thou son of man, say
unto the children of thy people. The
righteousness of the righteous shaU not
deUver Mm m the day of Ms transgres
sion: as for the wickedness of the
wicked, he shaU not fall thereby m tiie
day that he turneth from his wicked
ness; neither shaU the righteous be
able to Uve for Ms righteousness m the
day that he sinneth.
******* 20. Yet ye say. The way of tiie
Lord is uot equal. O ye house of
Israel, I wifl judge you every one after
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of God in their integrity. Man also
transgressed, aud would have endured;
the righteous penalty, had not a deliverer
appeared in their behalf, and offered
himself to endure that penalty that they
might live. TMs deliverer was no less
than the only begotten Son of God ;
and yet, when He, " who knew no sin,"
was but found with the " accursed thing"
upon him, he " must surely die," for he
can " by no means clear the guilty I"
By the expression, " unto thee shall be
his desire, and thou shalt rule over him,"
we think a mistake is made in the
translation ; that the idea is tMs : " If
thou hadst done well, thou wouldst have
had pre-eminence over thy brother as
the first born ; and thou wouldst have
ruled over Mm.''

The Letter,
8. And Cain talked with Abel Ms
brother : and • it came to pass, when,
they were iri the field, that Cain rose up
against Abel Ms brother, and slew him.
9. And the Lord said unto Cain,
Where is Abel thy brother? And he
said, I know not : Am I my brother's
keeper ? ¦Note.
We have seen Satan in the form of the
serpent, aud in all the subtlety of the
dragon that is in the sea, destroying
with one stroke of his hellish policy the
spiritual life of the whole elect world I
And now, the same spirit of evil, the
prince of this world, iu the form of man,
and with the bloodthirsty malice of the
" scarlet-colored beast," levels with the
dust the natural life of man I

Matt. xxv. 24. Then he wMch had
received the one talent came, and said.
Lord, I knew thee that thou art a hard
man, reapmg where thou hast not sown,
and -gathermg where thou hast not
strewed :
25. And I was afraid, and went and
Md thy talent m the earth: lo, there
thou hast thai is thme.
26. His lord answered and said unto
him. Thou wicked and slothful servant,
thou knewest that I reap where I
sowed not, and gather where I have
not strewed :
27. Thou oughtest, therefore, to have
put my money to the exchangers, and
then at my commg I should have re
ceived mine own with usury.
28. Take, therefore, the talent from
him, and give it unto him wMch hath
ten talents.
29. For unto every one that hath
shall be given, and he shall have abun
dance: but from him that hath not,
shall be taken away even that wMch he
hath. 30. And cast ye the unprofitable ser
vant into outer darkness : there shaU he
weeping and gnasMng of teeth.

The Spirit.
2 Cor. vi. 14. •* * what feUowsMp
hath Ught with darkness ?
15. And what concord hath Christ
with Belial? or what part hath he
that believeth with an infidel?
16. And what agreement hath the
temple of God vrith idols? For you
are the temple of the Uvmg God : as
God saith : I will dwell in them, and
walk among them: and I vriU be
theu God ; and they shall be my peo
ple. 1 John iU. 8. He that committeth sui
is of the devU; for the devU sinneth
from the beginning. For this purpose
the Son of God was manifested, that
he might destroy the works of the
devU. 9. Whosoever is bom of God doth

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Tlie enmity which God had put be
tween the woman and her seed, and the
serpent and his seed, is now raade mani
fest " Wherefore slew he him ? Because
his own works were evil, and his brother's
righteous." The question'of God to Cain — "Where
is A bel thy brother P' reveals his divine
purpose in regard to all the righteous
blood which has been shed upon the
earth frora this tirae to the day of final
retribution : — it will all be required at
the hand of the first great murderer.
This fact Jesus declared to the Jews;
and it is recognised in all the laws which
were given respecting the shedding of
blood ; especially in the 9th of Gen., 5,
6,7.

The Letter.
10. And he said. What hast thou
done? the voice of thy brother's blood
crieth unto me from the ground:
11. And now art thou cursed from
the earth, wMch hath opened her mouth
to receive thy brother's blood from thy
hand. 12. When thou tUlest the ground,
it shall not henceforth yield unto thee
her strength: a fugitive and a vaga
bond shalt thou be in the earth.
Note.
The first work of Satan was to deceive
the woraan; by which a curse was raade
to rest upon the ground; and now, from
this very ground, that curse rebounds
upon the head of the serpent 1-— not, in
deed, as it first feU; for now it had be
come a double curse; for that ground
was wet -with the blood of the righteous.

not commit sin ; for his seed remaineth
in him ; and he cannot sin, because he
is bom of God.
10. In this the chUdren of God are
manifest, and the children of the devU :
whosoever doeth not righteousness is
not of God, neither he that loveth not
his brother.
11. For this is the message that ye
heard from the be^nning, that we
should love one another.
12. Not as Cain, who was of that
wicked one, and slew his brother. And
wherefore slew he him ? Because his
own works were evU, and Ms brpther's
righteous. 16. Whosoever hateth his brother
is a 'murderer: and ye know that no
murderer hath eternal life abidmg in
Mm.
John viu. 44. Ye are of your father
the devU, and the lusts of youi- father
ye wiU do: he was a murderer from
the beginning, and abode not in the
truth; because there is no truth in Mm.
When he speaketh a Ue, he speaketh of
Ms own : for he is a liar, and the father
of it.

The Spirit.
John xu. 31. Now is the judgment
of this world : now shaU the prmce of
this world be cast out.
Gen. ix. 6. Whoso sheddeth man's
blood, by man shall his blood be shed,
for m the image of God made . he
man. Rev. xu. 13. And when the dragon
saw that he was cast unto the earth, he
persecuted the woman wMch brought
forth the man-cAiW.
15. And the serpent cast out of Ms
mouth water as a flood, after the wo
man, that he might cause her to be car
ried away of the flood;
16. And the earth helped the wo
man ; and the earth opened her mouth,
and swallowed up the flood wMch the
di-agon had cast but of his mouth.
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Both the spiritual life of the soul, aud
the natural hfe of the body, fell under
the hand of the same murderer; and
the curse both of the first and the second
death was to be his portion from the
Lord! In the execution of this righteous
sentence, we also see how " the wicked
is snared iu the work of his own
hands!" It had been said to the serpent
concerning the woman's seed — "It shall
bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his
heel." But for Satan's works, the seed
of the woraan would not have been
born ; and again, it was by the very act
iu which Satan bruised the heel of the
woman's seed, that this seed bruised his
head I For in no other way than through
death could he have destroyed death
and him that had the power of death,
that is, the devil I
In this sentence, the power of Satan is
destroyed; no more should that fleld upon
which he had sowed his tares, and which
from that time had brought forth briers
and thorns, and was " nigh, unto cursing,"
yield its strength to him. The seed of
the righteous had been servants of sin
and Satan; but, when Satan was judged,
they were delivered from his dominion ;
and though the adversary still goeth
" to and fro in the earth, and walketh
up and down in it," he is only used in
the hand of the refiner to purify his
saints.

The Letter.
13. And Cain said unto the Lord,
My punishment is greater than I can
bear. 14. Behold, thou hast driven me out
>. this day from the face of the earth ; and
from thy face shaU I be hid ; and I shall
be a fugitive and a vagabond, in the
earth; and it shall come to pass, ihat
.every one that findeth me shall slay
me. 15. And tho Lord said unto him,
Therefore whoever slayeth Cain, ven
geance shaU be taken on him seven-

the woman, and went to make war with
the remnant of her seed wMch keep the
commandments of God, and have the
testimony of Jesus Christ.
2 Pet. v. 8. Be sober, be vigilant ;
because your adversary the devU, as a
roaring lion, walketh about, seeking
whom he may devour.
Job U. 1. Agam there was a day
when the sons of God came to present
themselves before the Lord, and Satan
came also among them to present him
self before the Lord.
2. And the Lord said unto Satan,
From whence comest thou ? And Satan
answered the Lord, and said. From go
ing to and fro in the earth, and from
walking up and dovm in it.
Rev. xx. 10. And the devU that de
ceived them was cast into the lake of
fire and brimstone, where the beast and
the false prophet are, and shaU be tor
mented day and night for ever and ever.
xvi. 5. And I heard the angel of the
waters say. Thou art righteous, O Lord,
which art, and wast, and shalt be, be
cause thou hast judged thus.
6. For they have shed the blood of
saints and prophets, and thou hast
given them blood to drmk; for they
are worthy.
7. And I heard another out of the
altar say, Even so. Lord God Al
mighty, true and righteous are thy
judgments.

The Spirit.
Rev. xui. 4. * * Who is Uke unto
the beast? who is able to make war
with him?
5. And there was given unto him a-
mouth speaking great tMngs and blas
phemies; and power was given unto
him to contmue forty and two months.
6. And he opened his mouth in blas
phemy against God, to blaspheme Ms
name, and Ms tabernacle, and them that
dwell in heaven.
7. And it was given unto Mm to
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fold. And the Lord set a mark upon
Cain, lest any findmg him should kiU
hun. 16. And Cain went out from the
presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the
land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
Note.
It is generally understood that Satan's
(or Cain's) chief fear, as expressed by
his complaint, was that of a continued
or living death; and that he did not
wish to have his life prolonged under
such a fearful sentence. But the reply
of God would intimate very differently ;
and that he feared being slain by sorae
one ; and that an avenger of blood would
appear in all he met. In answer to
this (the natural fear of a raurderer),
God tells hira that none should slay him
that was not ready to endure a seven
fold vengeance. Therefore he put a
mark upon him, by wMch he should be
known. , But all this has a much deeper mean
ing than anything which concerns a
mere man. The first murderer was not
to die, but at the hands of an avenger of
blood who was able to bear the seven
fold vengeance which the destroyer of sin
and Satan must meet ! For this he was
reserved under chains of darkness ; and
this judgment he met at the hands of
the Deliverer of Zion. Until that day,
this Cain — this personification of all
evil — was permitted to go up and down

come them : and power was given him
over aU kmdreds, and tongues, and na
tions. 8. And aU that dweU upon the earth
shall worship him, whose names are
not written in the book of Ufe of the
Lamb slam from the foundation of the
world. 9. K any man have an ear, let Mm
hear. Deut. xxxui. 34. Is not tMs laid up
in store with me, and sealed up among
my treasures ?
35. To me belongeth vengeance and
recompense: thefr feet shall sUde in
due tune : for the day of thefr calamity
is at hand, and the things that shaU
come upon them make haste.
2 Pet. U. 4. For God spared not the
angels that sinned, but cast them down
to hell, and delivered them into chains
of darkness, to be reserved unto judg
ment.

The Letter.
16. And Cain went out from the pre
sence of the Lord, and dwelt m the
land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
17. And Cain knew Ms wife; and
she conceived, and bare Enoch: and
he biulded a city, and called the name
of the city, after the name of his son,
Enoch. 18. And unto Enoch was bom Irad :
and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mahu-
jael begat Methusael: and Methusael
begat Lamech.

in the earth, but not without the mark
by which he may be known by all
whose names are in the book of life; for
aU others receive his mark themselves
in their foreheads, and worship him.
This mark of the Beast is the doctrine
and works of Antichrist — all that " ex
alteth itself against God and the Lamb,
whose vengeance lingereth not, but ia
justly comraitted to the woman's seed."

The Spirit.
Rev. xvii. 4. And the woman was
arrayed m purple and scarlet colour,
and decked with gold and precious
stones and pearls, having a golden cup
in her hand full of abominations and
filtMness of her fomication :
5. And upon her foreljead was a
name written, mtstert, Babylon the
Great, the mother of harlots and
abominations of the earth.
6. And I saw the woman dmnken
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19. And Lamech took unto hun two
vrives ; the name of the one was Adah,
and the name of the other Zillah.
20. And Adah bare Jabal: he was
tho father of such as dwell in tents, and
of sueh as have cattle.
21. And Ms brother's name was Ju-
bal: he was the father of all such as
handle the harp and organ.
22. And ZiUah, she also bare Tubal-
cain, an instructor of every artificer in
brass and iron : and the sister of Tubal-
cain was Naamah.
23. And Lamech said unto his wives,
Adah and ZUlah, Hear my voice, ye
wives of Lamech. hearken unto my
speech : for I have slam a man to my
wounding, and a young man to my
hurt: 24. If Cain shall be avenged seven
fold, truly Lamech seventy and seven
fold. Note.
Lamech the son of Cain boasts, that
if Cain's death would be avenged seven
fold, he might expect that whoever
should punish him for the murders he
had committed, must be able to endure
seventy and seven-fold!
Though a "false prophet," Lamech at
this time spoke truth. For it is writ
ten — " and then shall that wicked be
revealed, whom the Lord shall consume
with the spirit of his mouth, and destroy
with the brightness of his coming."
This refers not to what Christ should
do in his death, but by the power of an
endless life. Hence, it is also written :
" And out of his mouth goeth a sharp
sword, that with it he should smite the
nations ; and he ruleth them with a rod
of iron ; and he treadeth the winepress
of the fierceness and wrath of Al
mighty God. And he hath on his ves
ture, and on his thigh a narae written.
Kino of Kings and Lord of Lords."

the blood of the martyrs of Jesus : and
when I saw her, I wondered with great
admfration. xviU. 3. For aU nations have drunk
of the vrine of the wrath of her fomica
tion, and the kings of the earth have
committed fornication vrith her, and the
merchants of the earth are waxed rich
through the abundance of her delica
cies. 4 And I heard another voice from
heaven, saymg. Come out of her, my
people, that ye be not partakers of her
sins, and that ye receive not of, her
plagues. 5. Por her sins have reached unto
heaven, and God hath remembered her
iniquities. 6. Reward her even as she rewarded
you, and double unto her double ac
cording to her works : in the cup
wMch she hath filled, fUl to her dou
ble. 7. How much she hath glorified her
self, and lived deliciously, so much tor
ment and sorrow give her: for she
saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and
am no widow, and shall see no sor
row. 8. Therefore shaU her plagues come
in one day, death, and mourning, and
famine ; and she shall be utterly burned
with fire : for strong is the Lord God
who judgeth her.
9. And the Mngs of the earth, who
have committed fomication and lived
deliciously with ther, shall bewail her,
and lament for her, when they shall see
the smoke of her bummg.
15. The merchants of these tMngs,
who were made rich, shall stand afar off
from her, for fear of her torments,
weepmg and mourning.
***** 24. And in her was found the blood
of prophets, and of saints, and of all
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CHAPTER IV.

The Letter.
Ch. Ui. 25. And Adam knew Ms vrife
again, and she bare a son, and called Ms
name Seth: For God, said she, hath
appointed me another seed instead of
Abel, whom Cam slew.
26. And to Seth, to him also there
was born a son ; and he caUed Ms name
Enos : then began men to call upon the
name of the Lord.
Ch. iv. 1. TMs is the book of the
generations of Adam. In the day that
God created man, in the likeness of
God made he him ;
2. Male and female created he them,
and blessed them, and caUed thefr name
Adam, m the day when they were
created. 3. And Adam Uved a hundred and
thirty years, and begat a son m his own
likeness, after Ms image ; and called his
name Seth. Note.
Eve received Seth as an> appointed
substitute for Abel ; even as Christ is
the substitute for that goodness of man
which was as the morning cloud and the
early dew.
In the days of Seth men began to call
upon the name of the Lord ; or, as it
might be rendered, to call themselves
by the narae of the Lord. Hence we
find in the next chapter they are spoken
of as sons of God.
It is reraarkable that in tracing the
generations of Adam, or of those begot
ten in his image and likeness, both Cain
and Abel are omitted, as if not of the
number. This accords with the remarks
made upon these two persons in the last
chapter. We have already given a concise view
of the descendants of Cain, their cha
racter, position in the world, and their
final destination. We have now to
trace in the generations of Seth the his
tory of the " good seed of the kingdom"
down to the Lord Jesus Christ.
In these two manner of people are

The Spirit.
Isa. xUv. 4. And they shall spring
up as among the grass, as wUlows by
the water-courses.
5. One shall say, I am the Lord's ;
and another shall call himself hy the
name of Jacob ; and another shall sub
scribe loiih Ms hand unto the Lord, and
sumame himself by the name of Is
rael. 1 John ui. 1. Behold what manner
of love the Father hath bestowed upon
us, that we should be caUed the sons of
God : therefore the world knoweth us
not, because it knew Mm not.
2. Beloved, now are we the sons of
God ; and it doth not yet appear what
we shaU be ; but we know that, when
he shaU appear, we shaU be Uke him;
for we shaU see Mm as he is.
1 Cor. XV. 47, The ffrst man is of
the earth, earthy; the second man is
the Lord from' heaven.
48. As is the earthy, such are they
also that are earthy; and as is the
heavenly, such are they also that are
heavcMy. 49. And as we have home the image
of the earthy, we shaU also bear the
unage of the heavenly.
50. Now this I say, brethren, that
flesh and blood cannot inherit the king
dom of God ; neither doth corruption
inherit incorruption.
2 Cor. v. 2 1 . For he hath made Mm
io be sin for us, who knew no sin ; that
we might be made the righteousness of
God in hun.
RoM. vui. 29. For whom he did
foreknow, he also did predestinate io be
conformed to the image of his Son, that
ho might be the first-born among many
brethren. 30. Moreover, wheJn he did predes-
tmate, them he also called : and whom
he caUed, them he also justified: and
whom he justhied, them he also glo
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distinctly recognized, the leading fea
tures of their origin and early history
down to the latest generations, as dis
tinctly as when the blessing and the

The Letter.
21. And Enoch Uved sixty and five
years, and begat Methuselah.
22. And Enoch walkei with God,
after he begat Methuselah, three hun
dred years, and begat sons and daugh
ters. 23. And all the days of Enoch were
tMee hundred sixty and five years.
24. And Enoch walked with God,
and he was not; for God took Mm.
Note.
This short history of Enoch is remark
able in raany particulars. First in the
nuraber of his years, being the exact
measure of the circuit of the sun, or
more properly of the earth round the
sun ; the proportion, and not the precise
period of time, being regarded in Scrip
ture. Three hundred and sixty-five, whe
ther in years or days, making the re
quired measure.
The next thing remarkable is, that
during this measure of time Enoch
walked mth God ; pursued a regular un
deviating course ; and, thirdly, that he
did not go down to the grave I
He was also the seventh from Adam,
and he prophesied of Christ and his
coming ; and of the vengeance he would
execute upon the wicked.
If all these particulars are compared
with the passage here quoted from the
19th Psalm, Enoch will appear to be a
type of the gospel, as the "faithful wit
ness in heaven ;" the "great light of the
new testament dispensation. This period
is often called " the day," by way of emi
nence, aud is the one day which God
has specially made in distinction from
all the rest. It is a day whose " sun
no more goes dnwn, neither does the
moon withdraw itself."

curse were placed on opposite moun
tains, to designate the one from the
other.

The Spirit.
Ps. xix. 1. The heavens declare the
glory of God; and the firmament show-
etii his handy work.
2. Day unto day uttereth speech, and
night unto night showeth knowledge.
3. There is no speech nor language,
where their voice is not heard.
4. Their line is gone out tMough afl
the earth, and their words to the end
of the world. In them hath he set a
tabemacie for the sun.
5. Which is as a bridegroom coming
out of his chamber, and rcjoiceth as a
strong man to run a race.
6. His going forth is from the end of
the heaven, and his cfrcmt unto the
ends of it; and there is notMng Md
from the heat thereof.
7. The law of the Lord is perfect,
convertmg the soul : the testimony of the
Lord is sure, maldng wise the simple.
8. The statutes of the Lord are
right, rejoicing the heart: the com
mandment of the Lord is pure, enlight
ening the eyes.
Job. xxu. 12. Is not God in the
height of heaven? and behold the
height of the stars, how Mgh they are :
13. And thou sayest. How doth God
know ? can he judge through the dark
cloud? 14. Thick clouds are a covering to
him, that he seeth not; and he walketh
in the circmt of heaven.
Jude. 14. And Enoch also, the se
venth from Adam, prophesied of these,
saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with
ten thousand of his saints.
15. To execute judgment uponall,
and to convince all that are ungodly
among them of all their ungodly deeds
wMch they have ungodly committed, and
of all their hard speeches wMch ungodly
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The Letter.
28. And Lamech lived a hundred
eighty and two years, and begat a son :
29. And he called Ms name Noah,
saying, TMs same shall comfort us con
cerning our work and toU of our hands,
because of the ground which the Lord
hath cursed. Note.
Noah means rest ; significant of the
typical character and work he should
accomplish in removing the curse from
the earth ; and in comforting us con
cerning our work and toil of our hands.
Whether we are to infer that the
earth till the time of Noah had been
literally sterile and unproductive or
not ; of this we may be confident, that
the entire field of the moral world
would have lain barren and fallow for
ever, under the curse and guilt of sin,
but for the antitypical Noah, and the
flood of deep waters through which he
passed to redeem us from it.
In the finished work which he has
¦wrought out, his people may [rejoice.
In view of it he says, " Comfort ye, com
fort ye my people saith your God."
Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem ;
say unto her that her warfare is accom
plished ; that her iniquity is pardoned,
for she has received at the Lord's hand
double (a receipt in full) for all her sins.

The Spirit.
Heb. iv. 3. For we which beUeve do
enter into rest.
10. For he that has entered mto Ms
rest, has ceased from his own works as
God did from his.
Matt. xi. 28. Come unto me, all
ye that labour, and are heavy laden, and
I vriU give you rest.
29. Take 'my yoke upon you, and
learn of me : for I am meek and lowly
in heart; and ye shall find rest unto
your souls.
30. For my yoke is easy, and my
burden is light.
Gal. ui. 11. But that by the law
no man is justified with God, it is ma
nifest : because the just man liveth by
faith. 12. But the law is not of faith : but.
He that doeth these things, shall Uve ui
them. 13. Christ hath redeemed us from
the curse of the law, being made a
curse for us ; for it is written : Cursed
is every one that hangeth on a tree.
RoM. iv. 4. Now to him that work
eth, is the reward not reckoned of
grace, but of debt.
6. But to hun that worketh not, but
believeth on hun that justifieth the un
godly, Ms faith is counted for righteous
ness.

The Letter.
32. And Noah was five hundred
years old : and Noah begat Shem,
Ham, and Japheth. Note.
From those sons of Noah were to be
raised up the three great nations of the
earth after the flood ; Jews, Gentiles,
and heathen. " For of one blood God
made all nations of the earth ;" first in
Adam, and then, when that generation
was destroyed, he preserved the same
seed iu these three sons of Noah, who
were to repeople the whole earth. They
were of the lineage of Seth, but became

The Spirit.
Acts xviii 26. And hath made of
one blood aU nations of men for to
dwcU on all the face of the earth, and
hath determined the tunes before ap
pointed, and the boimds of their habi
tation. Rev. v. 9. And they sung a new
song, saymg. Thou art worthy to take
tho book, and to open the seals thereof :
for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed
us to God by thy blood out of every
kindred, and tongue, and people, and
i nation. IsA. xlv. 22. Look unto me and be

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mixed with the descendants of Cain, and
therefore, in this small remnant that I'e-
mained when the waters of the flood
swept away the old world, were united
aud mixed the tares and the wheat; for
by the decree of the master of the field
they were to grow together till the
harvest. In this arrangement of the literal
world, we behold also a figure of the
" handful of corn on the top of the moun
tains," which, after God should remove
the first dispensation with its people,
the Jews, should spread abroad in the
whole earth, the gospel of the kingdom
until "the fruit thereof should shake like
Lebanon, and they of tho city should
flourish like grass of the earth."
Shem signifies name or renown, for it
was God's purpose, by means of his de
scendants, both literal and typical, to
make himself a great name in the earth.
Ham signifies heat or fire, alluding to the
iron furnace which they should prove
to be, both typically and spiritually, to
God's people. Japheth signifies en
larged, because by his descendants, the
Gentiles, the church should be greatly
enlarged iu the gospel day.

ye saved, aU the ends of the earth : for
I am God and there is none else.
23. I have sworn by myself, the
word has gone out of my mouth in
righteousness, and shall not return.
That unto me every knee shall bow,
every tongue shall swear.
24. Surely, shall one say, in the
Lord have I righteousness and strength :
even to him shaU men come, and all that
are incensed against him shall be
ashamed. 26. In the Lord shaU aU the seed of
Israel be justified, and shall glory.
xlv. 17. Bui Israel shaU be saved in
the Lord with an everlasting salvation :
ye shaU not be ashamed nor confounded
world vrithout end.
18. For thus saith the Lord that cre
ated the heavens; God himself that
formed the earth, and made it ; he hath
estabUshed it, he created it not in vam,
he formed it to be inhabited ; I am the
Lord, and there is none else.
Ps. IxxU. 8. He shall have dommion
also from sea to sea, and from the river
unto the ends of the earth.
9. They that dwell m the wUdemess
shaU bow before hun ; and his enemies
shaU Uck the dust.

CHAPTER V.

The Letter.

1. And it came to pass, when men
began to multiply on the face of the
earth, and daughters were horn unto
them, 2. That the sons of God saw the
daughters of men that they were fair ;
and they took them vrives of aU wMch
they chose. Note.
From the beginning, God has called
Ms own sons, or those whom he has set
apart for himself, to be separate from
the world of the ungodly. But in all
ages, and under even the clear light of
the gospel, there is a disposition to form
unholy associations and confederacies

The Spirit.

2 CoR. vi. 14. Be ye not unequally
yoked together with unbelievers: for
what fellowship hath righteousness -with
unrighteousness ? and what commumon
hath light with darkness ?
15. And what concord hath Christ
vrith Belial ? or what part hath he that
beUeveth with an infidel ?
16. And what agreement hath the
temple of God with idols? for ye are
the temple of the Uving God ; as God
hath said, I wiU dweU m them, and walk
in them; and I will be thefr God, and
they shaU be my people.
17. Wherefore come out from among
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with the world. The corrupt lusts of
the flesh draw away and entice the
people of God to walk after the course
of this present evil world, and to be
come associated with it in that which
is forbidden.
The consequence has been always in
jurious, and has in all ages brought the
judgments and chastisements of God
upon the guilty. In this early age of the
world it was most signally made mani
fest; in the history of typical Israel
great evils originated, and great judg
ments were experienced from the mar
riages of the holy seed with strange wo
men. And even in the gospel day, the
pernicious effects of unequally yoking
with unbelievers, either in families or
churches, is most apparent. Worldly
courses and worldly principles are thus
amalgamated with the simplicity of di
vine truth ; and believers are so assimi
lated with unbelievers that they can
hardly be distinguished.

The Letter.
3 And- the Lord said, My Spirit shall
not always strive with man, for that he
also is flesh: yet Ms days shall be a
hundred and twenty yeai-s.
Note.
Here is a strict intimation that God
would set a limit to the period of the
dispensation of his mercy. As is said in
the 3d chap, of Heb., there is an ap
pointed time for the striving of God's
Spirit with men, through the preaching
of his prophets and the dispensation of
light in various measures and degrees ;
as seen in the light of nature, the law,
and the gospel. Each of these may be
called " to-day" in relation to those who

Lord, and touch not the unclean thing ;
and I wiU receive you ;
18. And wiU be a Father unto you,
and ye shall be my sons and daughters,
saith the Lord Almighty.
EzraIx. 1. Now when these tMngs
were done, the princes came to me, say
mg, The people of Israel, and the
priests, and the Levites, have not sepa
rated themselves from the people of tho
lands, doing according to their abomi
nations, even of the Canaanites, the
Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites,
the Ammonites, the Moabites, the
Eg3rptians, and the Amorites.
2. For they have taken of thefr
daughters for themselves, and for thefr
sons : so that the holy seed have mm-
gled themselves with the people of those
lands : yea, the hand of the princes and
rulers hath been cMef in t'his trespass.
Neh. xiu. 23. In those days also
saw I Jews thai had married wives of
Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab :
24. And thefr chUdren spake half in
the speech of Ashdod, and could not
speak in the Jews language, but accord
ing to the language of each people.
27. Shall we then hearken unto you
to do all this gi-eat evU, to transgress
against our God in inarrymg strange
wives ?

The Spirit.
Acts vii. 51. Ye stiff-necked and
uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do
always resist the Holy Ghost : as your
fathers did, so do ye.
Rom. i. 18. For the wrath of God
is revealed from heaven against all un
godliness, and unrighteousness of men,
who hold the truth in unrighteous
ness. 19. Because that wMch may be
knovra of God, is manifest in them;
for God hath showed it unto them. -
20. For the invisible things of Mm
from the creation of the world are
cleariy seen, being understood by the
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have been placed under thera, and are
to be judged by them. But the gospel
is emphatically the day, or the light by
which raen are to be finally judged;
whUe a raeasure of that same light was
previously diffused through all the dis
pensations of God to men, in every age
of the world. It would seem, also, that
what was deficient to the old world of
Ught, was made up in the length of their
lives ; so that had they been inclined to
profit, they had opportunity to see suffi
cient manifestation of the true God.
But man is flesh, and the carnal mind is
not subject to the law of God ; it dis-
cerneth not the things of the Spirit ; and
the time of this probation is shortened,
because it was proved to be of no use.
Till the preaching of righteousness by
Noah, the life of man had been many
hundred years ; it was then limited to
a hundred and twenty ; not sufficient to
save the fleshy and ungodly race that
enjoyed it, because the longest life
would not, in itself, do this: but suffi
cient to "condemn the world" by proving
their unbelief.

power and Godhead; so that they are
without excuse :
21 Because that when they knew
God, they glorified him not as God,
neither were thankful, but became vain
in their imaginations, and their foolish
heart was darkened.
viii. 7. Because the crii-nal mind is
enmity against God ; for it is not sub
ject to the law of God, neither indeed
can be.
8. So, then, they that are in the flesh
cannot please God.
Gal. v. 19. Now the works of the
flesh are manifest, which are these,
Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, las-
civiousness, 20. Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, vari
ance, emulations, wrath, strife, sedi
tions, heresies,
21. Envyings, murders, drunken
ness, revellings, and such like: of the
which I teU you before, as I have also
told you in time past, that they which
do such things shaU not inherit the
kingdom of God.
Heb. iii. 12. Take heed, brethren,
lest there be in any of you an evU heart
of unbelief, in departing from the living
God. 13. But exhort one another daily,
whUe it is called To-day; lest any of
you be hardened through the deceitful
ness of sin.

The Letter.
4. There were giants in the earth in
those days ; and also after that, when
the sons of God came in unto the
daughters of men, and they bai-e chil
dren to them : the same became mighty
men, which were of old, men of re
nown. , 5. And God saw that the wickedness
of man was great in the earth, and thai
every imagination of the thoughts of
his heart was only evil continually.
6. And it repented the Lord that he
had made man on the earth, and it
grieved him at Ms heart. ;

The Spirit.
Rom. ii. 18. For the -wrath of God
is revealed from heaven against aU un
godliness and unrighteousness of men,
who hold the truth in unrighteous
ness; 19. Because that which may be
known of God is manifest in tiiem:
for God hath showed it unto them.
20. For the invi.sihle things of Mm
from the creation of the world are
clearly seen, being understood by the
things that are made, even his eternal
power and Godhead; so that they are
without excuse :

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7. And the Lord said, I wiU destroy
man whom I have created from the
face of the earth; both man and beast,
and the creeping thing, and the fowls
of the air; for it repenteth me that I
have made them. Note.
The all-wise Jehovah perfectly knew
the end from the beginning, and was
not either surprised or disappointed, as
men are disappointed in the works of
their hands; therefore when the crea
tures he had m&i.egood became evil, and
corrupted themselves, so that he turned
from doing them good, to destroy them
utterly, as if he had changed his raind
aud purpose, and repented of what he
first designed to do, we are not to un
derstand, or measure the import of these
words, by our doings. God speaks after
the manner of men, because he is about
to act as if his designs had been frus
trated and therefore it became necessary
that he should change his raode of pro
ceeding. Giants cannot be extirpated in the
usual raanner, and by the feeble efforts
of common warfare. A mighty arm and
signal measures must be adopted to meet
and destroy such an enemy ! Therefore
Jehovah did not suramon the wisdom and
strength of the few righteous that might
be found, to contend with this powerful
foe, and put down the progress of evU ;
but he takes the work into Ms own
hands; "I will destroy raan whom I
have created," <fec.

The Letter.
8. But Noah found grace in the eyes
of the Lord.

21. Because that, when they knew
God, they glorified him not as God,
neither were thankful ; but became vain
in their ima^natipns, and thefr foolish
heart was darkened.
22. Professing themselves to be
wise, they became fools,
23. And changed the glory of the
uncorruptible God into an image made
like to corruptible man, and to birds,
and four-footed beasts, and creeping
things. 25. Who changed the truth of God
into a lie, and worshipped and served
the creature more than the Creator,
who is blessed for ever. Amen.
29. Being filled vrith aU um-ighteous-
ness, formcation, vrickedness, covet.
ousness, maUciousness; full of envy,
murder, debate, deceit, malignity : whis
perers, 30. Backbiters, haters of God, de
spiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of
evU things, disobedient to parents,
31. Without understanding, cove
nants-breakers, ;without natural affec
tion, implacable, unmerciful.
32. Who, knowing the judgment of
God, they which commit such things
are worthy of death, not only do the
same, but have pleasure in them that
do them.
Ezk. xviii. 4. Behold, aU souls are
mine ; as the soul of the father, so also
the soul of the son is mine: the soul
that sinneth, it shall die.
Rom. vi. 23. For the wages of sin is
death; but the gift of God is eternal
life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Mal. iv. 1. For, behold, the day
cometh that shaU burn as an oven; and
all the proud, yea, and all that do
wickedly, shall be stubble: and the
day that cometh shaU burn them up,
saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall
leave them neither root nor branch.

The Spirit.
Is A. xiu. 1. Behold my servant, whom
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9. These are the generations of
Noah : Noah was a just man, and per
fect in his generations, and Noah
walked with God. /
10. And Noah begat three sons,
Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Note.
In this state of universal guilt and
conderanation, when all flesh had cor
rupted their way, and were about to
be swept into one general destruction,
not a soul of the whole human family
would have been left alive, had it not
been for J^oah. Of this Noah it had
been predicted that he should " comfort
us concerning our work and toil of our
hands, because of the ground which the
Lord had cursed." For when God had
rejected the work of our hands, as
worthless, because both us and our work
were under the curse, Jesus, by remov
ing that curse, and estabUshing a bless
ing, made us and our work also to be
accepted for his sake ; so that we might
"cease from our own works," and rest in
.his perfect righteousness. Noah signi
fies rest, as we [have seen in the last
chapter; and in all this work of the
typical Noah, we see exhibited the Ee
deemer of Ms people and his great sal
vation. Noah is never mentioned apart frora
his three sons ; for they were to share
in all that concerned him, for his sake.
In like manner Jesus and his people are
ever one and the same; head and raera
bers of the same mystical body — toge-

delighteth; I have put my spirit upon
him ; he shaU bring forth judgment unto
the Gentiles.
4. He shafl not fail, nor be discou
raged, tUl he have set judgment in the
earth. 21. The Lord is weU pleased for Ma
righteousness sake; he wiU magnify
the law and make it honorable.
Ps. Ixxxix. 19. Then thou spakest
in vision to thy Holy One, and saidst,
I have laid help upon one thai is mighty ;
I have exalted one chosen out of the
people. 20. I have found David my servant ;
¦vrith my holy oil have I anointed him.
Eph. i. 3. Blessed be the God and
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who
hath blessed us with all spiritual bless
ings in heavenly places in Christ.
4. According as he hath chosen us
in him before the foundation of the
world, that we should be holy and
without blame before Mm in love.
5. Having predestinated us unto the
adoption of children by Jesus Christ
to himself, according to the good plea
sure of his wiU.
ii. 7. That in the ages to come he
might show the exceeding riches of his
grace in his kindness towards us,
tMough CMist Jesus.

ther united in life and in death, and in
resurrection to life eternal.

The Letter.
11. The earth also was corrupt be
fore God; and the earth was fiUed with
violence. 12. And God looked upon the earth,
and behold, it was corrupt; for all
flesh had corrupted his way upon the
earth. 13. And God said unto Noali, The
end of all flesh is come before me; for
the earth is fiUed vrith violence tMough
them: and behold, I vrill destroy them
with the earth.

The Spirit.
Ps. fi. 8. Ask of me, and I shall give
thee the heathen for thine inheritance,
and the uttermost parts of the earth /or
thy possession.
9. Thou shalt break them with a rod
of fron ; thou shalt dash them m pieces
like a potter's vessel.
10. Be wise now therefore, O ye
kings ; be instructed, ye judges of the
earth. 11. Serve the Lord with fear, and
rejoice with trembling.

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Note.
God makes known to Noah his pur
pose to destroy the wicked. So "the
Father loveth the Son, and " showeth him
cdl things that himself doeth."
In this, allusion is made to the eternal
covenant of peace, which was between
them both, and in which provision was
made for the preservation of the elect
and chosen seed, by the redemption of
Christ. As this provision is made for the elect,
so also we see in this destruction of the
wicked the recognition of that sentence
of God, " / will visit the iniquity of the
fathers upon the children unto the third
and fourth generation of them that hate
me," &c. For the curse first pronounced
upont he serpent, descends through Cain
to his latest posterity. These are first
destroyed by water, as the righteous are
saved "so as by water ;" they are next
to be destroyed by fire — to which they
" are reserved." 2 Pet. iii. To this last
condemnation they are sealed by the
same witness which condemned the
world under the preaching of Noah.
It was the spirit of truth and the
word of the truth of the gospel in both
cases ; for the Spirit of Christ preached
in Noah, because the gospel must be
preached to them who are now dead
and in the prison of the grave, that they
might be judged according to men, in
the flesh, whether they are quickened or
raade alive to God by that preaching,
or whether they are condemned by it to
the second death.

12. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry,
and ye perish from the way, when Ms
wrath is kindled but a Uttle. Blessed
are aU they that put their trust in him.
Rom. ii. 2. But we are sure that the
judgment of God is according to truth
against them which commit such things.
3. And thinkest thou this, O man,
that judgest them wMch do such things,
and doest the same, that thou shalt
escape the judgment of God?
^ 4. Or despiseth thou the riches of
his goodness, and forbearance, and
long-suffering; not knowing that the
goodness of God leadeth thee to re
pentance? 6. But, after thy hardness and im-
pemtent heart, treasures up unto thy
self wrath against the day of wrath, and
revelation of the righteous judgment of
God; 6. Who wiU' render to every man
according to Ms deeds:
7. To them who, by patient continu
ance in well-doing, seek for glory, and
honor, and immortality, eternal life;
8. But unto them that are conten
tious, and do not obey the truth, but
obey unrighteousness, indignation and
vwath.- 9. Tribulation and anguish, upon
every soul of man that doeth evil; of
the Jew first, and also of the Gen
tile: 10. But glory, honor, and peace, to
every man that worketh good; to the
Jew first, and also to the Gentile :
11. For there is no respect of persons
vrith God.
12. For as many as have sinned
without law, shaU also perish without
law; and as many as have sinned in the
law, shall be judged by the law;
13. For not the hearers of the law
are just before God, but the doers of
the law shaU be justified.
Job xxxiii. 24. Then he is gracious
unto him, and saith, DeUver him from
gomg down to the pit: I have found a
ransom.

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The Letter.
14. Make thee an ark of gopher-Wood :
rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and
shalt pitch it within and without vrith
pitch. Note.
That everlasting purpose o! grace in
Christ Jesus, in which and by which
was for ever secured the chosen and
elect seed, when ruin and the curse
swept from the earth the world of the
ungodly, was signified by this ark of
gopher-wood. This same covenant was
afterwards revealed more fully aud
clearly to Abraham, and later still to
David. The language is — " make thee an ark,"
&c., intimating that it -was for him and
by him that this plan of grace was to be
accomplished and devised. It was to
be for the glory of his grace, the honor
of his name, and to display his power,
that this covenant was devised, or pur
posed ; and it was also to be wholly ac
complished and carried out by the Ee
deemer himself. For this purpose he
was constituted the raediator and the
messenger of the covenant. He was to
stay the stroke of justice from his offend
ing people, and make reconciliation for
iniquity. It was to be a covenant of
peace, by which God might be just and
justify the ungodly through faith. He
was to be the messenger of the cove
nant ; to go forth and declare the mind
and will of God to men, as a. prophet ;
also, to bear the iniquity of his people,
and, by the sacrifice of himself, make a
coraplete atonement for their sins, as a
priest ; and lastly, he was to reign over
them as king for ever.
The ark was made of gopher-wood
because it was resinous, and noxious in
sects would not destroy it : it was to be
pitched within and without, to prevent
the possibility of injury from the flood.

The Spirit.
5. Although my house he not so with
God; yet he hath made with me an
everlasting covenant, ordered in all
things, and sure : for this is all my sal
vation, and all my desire, although he
make ii not to grow.
Ps. Ixxxix. 27. Also I wiU make him
my first-born, higher than the kings of
the earth.
28. My mercy will I keep for him for
evermore, and my covenant shall stand
fast with him.
29. His seed also wUl I make io en
dure for ever, and Ms throne as the days
of heaven.
30. u his children forsake my law,
and walk not in my judgments ;
31. If they break my statutes, and
keep not my commandments ;
32. Then wUl I visit their transgres
sion vrith the rod, and their iniquity
with stripes.
33. Nevertheless, my loving kind
ness wiU I not utterly take from him,
nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
34. My covenant wiU I not break,
nor alter the thing that is gone out of
my lips.
Zeoh. vi. 12. And speak unto him,
saying. Thus speaketh the Lord of
hosts, saying. Behold the man whose
name is The BRANCH; and he shafl
grow up out of his place, and he shafl
buUd the temple of the Lord:
13. Even he shaU build the temple
of the Lord; and he shall bear the
glory, and shall sit and rule upon his
throne ; and he shall be a priest upon
Ms throne: and the counsel of peace
shaU be between them hoth.
Eph. i. 9. Having made known unto
us the mystery of his wiU, according to
Ms good pleasure, which he has pur
posed in himself:
10. That in the dispensation of the
fulness of time, he might gather toge
ther in one, aU things in Christ, both
wMch are in heaven and wMch are on
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The Letter.
15. And this is (lie fashion which
thou shalt make it of: The length of
the ark shall be tMee hundred cubits,
the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the
height of it tMrty cubits.
Note.
Every part of the ark was according
to a special fashion, plan, or purpose;
¦particularly the measure of its extent.
But no less definite and particular are
all the appointments of the covenant of
grace. If Jesus would make known its
extent — ^how many it embraced— he says,
" as many as thou hast given him." And
lest this should be misunderstood, he
adds — " no man can come unto me ex
cept it were given hira of ray Father ;"
" no mau cometh unto the Father but by
me." "All that the Father giveth me
shall come to me ; and him that coraeth
unto me I will iu no -wise east out."
Again, he represents the manner and
extent of the covenant by the figure of
a human body, and says, by the unity of
the faith, the members of this body will
be brought together, unto a perfect man,
— an entire and coraplete body, having
every joint supply its place until it grow
to the "measure of tlie stature of the
fulness of Christ." This is the entire ex
tent, and nothing ean be added to or
taken from it, without marring the sym
metry of the body which is said to be
"complete, wanting nothing." For this
reason, when the angel is represented as
measuring the holy city, which is an
other figure of the church of Christ, it
was found to be "the measure of a
man."

The Spirit.
John xvii. 2. As thou hast given him'
power over all flesh, that he should
give eternal life to as many as thou
hast given him.
3. And this is life eternal, that they
might kaow thee the only true God,
and Jesus Christ whom thou hast
sent. 12. While I was with them in the
world, I kept them in thy name; those
that thou gavest me, I have kept, and
none of them is lost but the son of
perdition ; that the scripture might be
fulfiUed. Eph. iv. 13. TiU we aU come in the
unity of the faith, and of the know
ledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect
man, unto the measure of the stature of
the fulness of Christ.
John vi. 39. And this is the Father's
will which hath sent me, that of aU
which he hath given me, I should lose
nothing, but should raise it up again at
the last day.
40. And this is the wUl of him that
sent mo, that every one which seeth
the Son, and believeth on him, may
have everlasting Ufe : and I wiU raise
him up at the last day.
64. But there are some of you that
believe not. For Jesus knew from the
beginning who they were that believed
not, and who should betray him.
66. And ho said. Therefore said I
unto you, that no man can come unto
me, except it were given unto him of
my Father.
X. 26. But ye believe not, because ye
aro not of my sheep, as I said unto you.
27. My sheep hear my voice, and I
know them, and they foUow me :
28. And I give unto them eternal
life; and they shaU never perish, nei
ther shaU any pluck them out of my
hand. 29. My Father, which gave them me,
is greater than aU; and none is able to
pluck tliem out of my Father's hand

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The Letter.
16. A window shalt thou make to
the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou fimsh
it above ; and the door of the ark shalt
thou set in the side thereof: with
lower, second, and third stories shalt
thou make it. Note.
The window, for light — the door, for
the way of /access — and the three stories,
by wHcli room is made for the inmates
of the ark. The window is made above,
because all its light is from heaven ; —
not reflected from earth, but iraraediate
ly frora above. The door is set in the
side, that it raight be easy of access, and
not out of reach, or high, that they cannot
attain to it; but brought nigh, and
suited to the infirraities of the maimed,
and halt, and, blind; and such as have
no helper. It is the door of the sheep,
whereby they go in and out and find
pasture. And there are three stories or apart-
raents to the ark, in which the several
parts of its affairs may be conducted. So
we are taught that the church are chosen
or elected by the Father, saved by the
blood of Jesus Christ, and sanctified by
the Spirit. And again, by another apostle
— that they are " sanctified or set apart
by God the Faither, preserved in Jesus
Christ, and called" by the Spirit. For
there are three that bear record to the
truth, and surety of the covenant in hea
ven: the Father, the Word, and the
Holy Ghost; and there are three that
bear witness to it upon earth : the spirit,
the water, and the blood ; the spirit, that
quickens or regenerates ; the blood, that
speaks peace within, and- the word,
which cleanses and purifies wiffwut. By
these witnesses, testimony is borne to
the truth of the record, witness, or
pledge from above.

The Spirit.
19. The sun shaU be no more thy
light by day; neither for brightness
shaU the moon give light unto thee :
but the Lord shall be unto thee an
everlasting light, and thy God thy
glory. Isa, Ix. 2. For behold darkness shall
cover the earth, and gross darkness the
people ; but the Lord shall arise upon
thee, and his glory shall bo seen upon
thee. Ps. XX vn. 1. Tho Lord is my light
and my salvation; whom shall I fear?
the Lord is the strength of my life ; of
whom shall I be afraid ?
John X. 1. Verily, verily, I say unto
you. He that entereth not by the door
into the sheepfold, but climbeth up
some other way, the same is a tMef and
a robber. 2. But he that entereth in by the
door is the shepherd of the sheep.
3. To him the porter openeth ; and
tho sheep hear his voice : and he caUeth
his o^wn sheep by name, and leadeth
them out.
7. Then said Jesus unto them again.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the
door of the sheep.
8. AU that ever came before me are
tMeves and robbers: but the sheep did
not hear them.
9. I am the door : by me if any man
enter in, he shaU be saved, and shall go
in and out, and find pasture.
Heb. X. 19. Haring therefore bold
ness to enter into the holiest by the
blood of Jesus,
20. By a new and living way, which
he hath consecrated through the veU,
that is to say, his flesh.
21. Let us draw mgh in fuU avow-
ance of faith, &c.
1 Pet. i. 2. Elect according to the
foreknowledge of God the Father,,
through the sanctification of the Spi
rit, unto obedience and sprinkling of
the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace
unto you, and peace be multipUed.
Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ,

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The Letter.
17. And behold, I, even I, do bring a
flood of waters upon the earth, to de
stroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of
life, from under heaven: and every
thing that is in the earth shall die.
18. But with thee wiU I establish
my covenant: and thou shalt come
into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and
thy vrife, and thy sons' wives, with thee.
Note.
The curse of the law is upon all flesh,
and will be executed upon all who are
not delivered from it through the re
demption which isJujChrist. By refer
ence to the 19th of Eev., we perceive
that the execution of wrath upon the un
godly, as well as salvation for the right
eous, is committed to the Son. This is
according to his own words — "The
Father judgeth no raan, but has cora-
mitted all judgment to the Son."
We also perceive that it is by the
" sharp sword" which goeth out of his
mouth that he will slay the wicked;
and by the same sword he saves the
righteous : for this sword is the word of
God — a preached gospel, which, is "a
savour of life unto life in them that
believe, and of death unto death in them
that perish." For this reason the word
of God is called also the " rod of his
strength." By it he rules both righteous
and wicked — ^but to the one it is made
spirit and life, whUe to the other it is a
rod of iron, by which he dashes them to
pieces as a potter's vessel.

and brother of James, to them that
are sanctified by God the Father,
and preserved in Jesus Christ, and
called. 1 John v. 7. For there are three
that bear record in heaven, the Father,
the Word, and the Holy Ghost : and
these three are one.
8. And there are tMee that bear
witness on earth, the spirit, and the
water, and the blood : and these tMee
agree in one.

The Spirit.
Deut. xxxU. 39. See now that I,
even I, am he, and there is no god
with me: I WU, and I make alive; I
wound, and I heal: neither is there any
that can deUver out of my hand.
40. For I lift up my hand to heaven,
and say, I live for ever.
41. If I whet -my glittering sword,
and mme hand take hold on judg
ment, I wUl render vengeance to mine
enemies, and wiU reward tiiem that
hate me.
Rev. xix. 11. And I saw heaven
opened, and behold, a wMte horse; and
he that sat upon him was caUed Faith
ful and True, and m righteousness he
doth judge and make war.
12. His eyes were as a flame of fire,
and on his head were many crowns ; and
he had u name written, that no man
knew, but he himself.
13. And he was clothed vrith a ves
ture dipped in blood: and his name is
caUed The Word of God.
14. And the armies which were in
heaven followed him upon white
horses, clothed m fine linen, wMte and
clean. 15. And out of Ms mouth goeth a
sharp sword, that with it he should
smite the nations: and he shafl rule
them with a rod of fron: and he tread
eth the wme-press of the fierceness and
wrath of Almighty God.
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All that were embraced in the ark
were safe from the flood ; so all that are
in Christ and the covenant of grace are
secure from condemnation: and upon
them the second death hath no power.
For they " are saved in the Lord with
an everlasting salvation."

on his thigh a name written, KING OF
KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
Rev. XX. 15. And whosoever was
not found written in the book of Ufe
was cast mto the lake of fire.

The Letter.
19. And of every living thing of all
flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring
mto the ark, to keep ihem alive with
thee ; they shaU be male and female.
20. Of fowls after their kind, and of
cattie after their kmd, of every creeping
thmg of the earth after Ms kind; two
of every sort shall come unto thee, to
keep them alive. '•
21. And take thou unto thee of all
food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather
ii to thee ; and it shaU be for food for
thee, and for them. Note.
There is a sense in which Christ is the
saviour of all men. For had he not died
— ^had he not becorae the raediator of
the new and everlasting covenant, not
a creature upon the earth would have
been suffered to live, after sin had en
tered. His raediatorial reign, and aton
ing sacrifice, has stept in between the
offenders and the stroke of justice, to
procure a reprieve for all, and special
blessings for his own household. The
wicked are saved by the covenant, just
as the beasts were saved in the ark — to
be used in the kingdom of Christ as
instruments of his will, in subserviency
to the interests of his people. When
Noah and his sons carae out of the ark,
these beasts were used for sacrifice and
for food ; and have been thus used frora
that tirae.
Again, it will be seen frora the 89th
Ps., that God has laid up a rod in the
covenant, to chastise his children when
they forsake his law, and walk not in
his testiraonies. This brings to view
another purpose for which God uses the
wicked, and for which they wcre ap
pointed and preserved. It is to serve as
a rod in his hand, ae in Isa. x. 6.

The Spirit.
1 Tim. iv. 10. * * the living God,
who is the Saviour of aU men, especiaUy
of those that believe.
Prov. xvi. 4. The Lord hath made
aU things for himself: yea, even the
wicked for the day of evU.
Ps. cxlv. 9. The Lord is good to all :
and Ms tender mercies are over aU his
works. 10. All thy works shaU praise thee,
O Lord; and thy samts shall bless
thee. 15. The eyes of all wait upon thee ;
and thou givest them their meat m due
season. 16. Thou openest tMne hand, and
satisfiest the desfre of every living
thing. 2 KiNos xix. 28. Because thy rage
against me and thy tumult is come up
into mine ears, therefore I wiU put my
hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy
lips, and I wUl turn thee back by the
way by wMch thou earnest.
IsA. X. 5. O Assyrian, the rod of
mine anger, and the staff in thefr hand
is mme mdignation.
6. I wUl send hun against a hypocri
tical nation, and against the people of my
wrath wUl I give him a charge, to take
the spoU, and to take the prey, and to
tread them down like the nifre of the
streets. 7. Howbeit he mean eth not so, nei
ther doth his heart think so ; but it is
in his heait to destroy and cut off na
tions not a few.
12. Wherefore it shall come to pass,
thai when the Lord hath performed Ms
whole work upon mount Zion and on
Jerusalem, I wUl punish the fruit of the

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The clean and unclean beasts in the
ark raay also have reference to the Jews
and Gentiles, as ultiraately constituting
the church, but as long divided by cere
raonial partition walls.

The Letter.
22. Thus did Noah; accordmg to aU
that God commanded him, so did he.
Note.
In his mediatorial work upon earth,
the Son of God is in subjection to the
Father ; accomplishes his will as a ser
vant or messenger, and is obedient to
all that was to be done in accomplishing
the purposes of the covenant.
It was for this reason, for this work,
that he took upon him the form of a ser
vant, and was made in the likeness of
man, that he might become obedient
unto death; for it was only through
death that he could destroy him that
had the power of death, that is the
devil. For this voluntary subjection of the
Son of God to the office and work of
the messenger of the covenant, be re
ceived a name that is above every
name — a throne and a kingdom which
ruleth over all.

stout heart of the king of Assjn-ia, and
the glory of his high looks.
13. For he saith, By the strength of
my hand I have done it, and by my
wisdom ; for I am prudent : and I have
removed the bounds of the people, and
have robbed their treasures, and I have
put do-wn the mhabitants like a valiant

The Spirit.
John xvii. 4. I have glorified thee on
the earth: I have finished the work
which thou gavest me to do.
vi. 38. For I came down from hea
ven, not to do mine own ¦wUl, but the
will of him that sent me.
39. And this is the Father's -wUl
which hath sent me, that of aU which
he hath given me I should lose notMng,
but should raise it up again at the last
day. 40. And this is the wiU of hun that
sent me, that every one wMch seeth the
Son, and believeth on hhn, may have
everlasting life : and I ¦wUl raise him up
at the last day.
19. Then answered Jesus, and said
unto them, VerUy, verily, I say unto
you. The Son can do notMng of him
self but what he seeth the Father do :
for what things soever he doeth, these
also doeth the Son like^wise.
20. For the Father loveth the Son,
and showeth hun all thmgs that him
self doeth: and he wiU show him
greater works than these, that ye may
marvel. V. 30. I can of mine own self do no
thing: as I hear, I judge: and myjudg-
ment is just; because I seek not mine
own wUl, but the wUl of the Father
which hath sent me.
iv. 34. Jesus saith unto them. My
meat is to do the vrill of Mm that sent
me, and to finish his work.

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CHAPTER VI.

The Letter.
1. And the Lord said unto Noah,
Come thou and all thy house mto the
ark : for thee have I seen righteous be
fore me m this generation.
2. Of every clean beast thou shalt
take to thee by sevens, the male and
his female ; and of beasts that are not
clean by two, the male and his female.
3. Of fowls also of the air by sevens,
tho male and the female ; to keep seed
alive upon the face of all the earth.
4. For yet seven days, and I wfll
cause it to rain upon the earth forty
days and forty nights: and every Uving
substance that I have made -wiU I de
stroy from off the face of the earth. ,
6. And Noah did according unto aU
that the Lord commanded him.
6. And Noah was six hundred years
old when the flood of waters was upon
the earth.
7. And Noah went in, and Ms sons,
and Ms wife, and Ms sons' wives, -with
him, into the ark, because of the
waters of the flood.
8. Of clean beasts, and of beasts that
are not clean, and of fowls, and of
everythmg that creepeth upon the
earth, 9. There went in two and two unto
Noah into the ark, the male and the fe
male, as God had commanded Noah.
Note.
The- "long suffering of God" had
waited the appointed time; the ark is
ready and the day has eome, when
judgment is to be executed upon the
-mcked — the acceptable yearof the Lord
and the day of vengeance of my God ;
for the great work which is dimly sha
dowed .forth by this figure, is wonder
fully and mysteriously combined of both
these characters — a day of redemption
and a day of vengeance.
The church of God, head and raera
bers of one mystical body, are eternally
secured and perfected for ever, by the

The Spirit.
Isa. xlii. 6. I the Lord have caUed
thee in righteousness, and wiU hold thy
hand, and will keep thee,- and give thee
for a covenant of the people, for a light
of the GentUes ;
7. To open the bUnd eyes, to bring
out the prisoners from the prison, and
them that sit in darkness out of the
prison-house. 8. I am the Lord : that is my name :
and my glory wiU I not give to another,
neither my praise to graven images.
9. Behold, the former things are
como to pass, and new thmgs do I de
clare : before they spring forth I tell
you of them.
Dan. ix. 24. Seventy weeks are de
termmed upon thy people and upon thy
holy city, to finish the transgression,
and to make an end of sins, and to
make reconcUiation for iniquity, and
to brmg in everlasting righteousness,
and to seal up the vision and prophecy,
and to anoint the Most Holy.
26. Know therefore and understand,
thai from the going forth of tho com
mandment to restore and to bmld Jeru
salem unto the Messiah the Prince shall
be seven weeks, and tMeescore and two
weeks : the street shaU be built again,
and the waU, even in troublous times.
26. And after threescore and two
weelfs shaU Messiah be cut off, but
not for himself : and the people of tho
Prince that shall come shall destroy the
city and the sanctuary; and the end
thereof shall be with a flood, and unto
the end of the war desolations are
determined. 27. And he shall confirm the covenant
with many for one week: and in the
midst of the week he shaU cause the
sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and
for the overspreading of abominations,
he shaU make ii desolate, even until
the consummation, and that determmed
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same act which treads down the wicked
as grapes in the wine-press, or straw is
trodden down in the dung-hiU.
It appears that there were seven days
which intervened between the coraing
of Noah's household into the ark and
the descending of the rain. Perhaps the
meaning is intended to be this — ^that se
ven days elapsed after they began to en
ter. Yet it is afterwards said, they
entered on the self same day, or all .at
once. Both of these are true in a sense.
As considered in Christ and the purpose
of God, the church were saved even
from everlasting — ^head and members of
one body; but as developed in time,
there were seven ages of the world to
elapse, before the last stone would be
laid upon the building.

The Letter.
10. And it came to pass, after seven
days, that the waters of the flood were
upon the earth.
11. In the six hundredth year of
Noah's life, in the second month, the
seventeenth day of the month, the same
day were all the fountains of the great
deep broken up, and the -windows of
heaven wore opened.
12. And the rain was upon the earth
forty days and forty nights.
Note.
It may, at first view, be thought that
Noah, safely secured in the ark from the
waters of the flood, can have no analogy
with the sufferings of Christ in bearing
the curse for his people. But the ob
jection only proves what is evident in
all types, that no one natural object
or event can fully represent spiritual
things. The waters of the flood beat upon the
ark, though it was borne up above
them ; and so also the Son of God was
sustained by the power of the Father,
according to promise, while the proud
waters went over his soul. But the full
sense of his words, when he says, " tlie

IsA. Ixiii. 4. For the day of ven
geance is in my heart, and the year of
my redeemed is come.
5. And I looked, and there was none
to help ; and I wondered that there was
none to uphold: therefore mine own
arm brought salvation unto me; and
my fury, it upheld me.
6. And I wiU tread down the people
in mine anger, and make them di-unk
in my fury, and I wiU bring down their
strength to the earth.
7. I wifl mention the loving-Wnd-
nesses of the Lord and the praises of
the Lord, according to all that the Lord
hath bestowed on us, and the great
goodness toward the house of Israel,
wMch he hath bestowed on them ac
cording to his mercies, and according to
the multitude of his loving-kindnesses.

The Spirit.
John xii. 23. And Jesus answered
them saying, The hour is come that
the Son of man should be glorified.
27. Now is my soul troubled ; and
what shafl I say? Father, save me
from this hour : but for this cause came
I unto this hour.
31. Now is the judgment of this
world: now shaU the prince of this
world be cast out.
32. And I, if I be lifted up from the
earth, will draw all men unto me.
33. (This he said, signifying what
death he should die.)
Ps. Ixix. 1. Save me, O God ; for the
waters are come in unto my soul.
2. I sink in deep mfre, where there is
no standing : I am come mto deep wa
ters, where the floods overflow me.
xUi. 7. Deep calleth unto deep at the
noise of thy water-spouts : aU thy
waves and thy bUlows are gone over
me. Ixxv. 3. The earth and all the inha.
bitants thereof are dissolved : I bear up
the piUars of it. Selah.
2 Sam. xxU. 8. Then the earth shook
and trembled: the foundations of hea-

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pains of hell got hold upon me," is to be
found in other representations of tMs
same great event. ,
The rain continued to fall and the
waters to accumulate, during forty days
and forty nights ; the exact time of the
giving of the law, for which fuU satis
faction was demanded.

Tlie Letter.
13. In the self-same day entered
Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Ja^.
pheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's
¦wife, and the three wives of Ms sons
¦with them, into the ark :
14. They, and every beast after Ms
kind, and all the cattle after their kind,
and every creeping tMng that creepeth
upon the earth after Ms kind, and every
fowl after Ms kind, every bfrd of every
sort. 15. And they went m unto Noah into
the ark, two and two of aU flesh, where
in is the breath of Ufe.
16. And they that went in, went in
male and female of aU flesh, as God
had commanded him : and the Lord
shut him in. Note.
By this figure of Noah and his house
hold in the ark, while the waters of the
flood fell upon the earth forty days and
forty nights, is represented Jesus Christ
as the Head of his body the church,
suffering for their sins, the just for the
unjust, being put to death in the flesh,
but quickened, or ever living iu the Spi
rit. This same " spirit of life" had for
a hundred and twenty years preached
to the world of the ungodly, while the
long suffering of God had waited during
the building of the ark, " in which eight
souls were saved so as by water." In like
manner the Son of man had, during three
years, preached to the unbelieving Jews

ven moved and shook, because he was
wroth. 9. There went up a smoke out of
his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth
devoured : coals were kindled by it.
10. He bowed the heavens also, and
came down ; and darkness was under
his feet.
14. The Lord thundered from hea^
ven, and the Most High uttered Ms
voice. 16. And he sent out arrows, and
scattered them; lightning, and discom
fited them.

The Spirit.
RoM. vi. 5. For if we have been
planted together in the likeness of Ms
death, we shall be also in the likeness of
his resurrection :
6. Knowing this, that our old man is
crucified with him, that the body of sin
might be destroyed, that henceforth we
should not serve sin.
7. For he that is dead is freed from
sin. 8. Now, if we be dead with Christ,
we believe that we shall also Uve with
him. 9. Knowing that Christ, being raised
from the dead, dieth no more ; death
hath no more dommion over Mm.
vu. 4. Wherefore, my brethren, ye
also are become dead to the law by the
body of Christ ; that ye should be mar
ried to another, even to him who is
raised from tho dead, that we should
bring forth fruit unto God.
1 Pet. Ui. 18. For Christ also hath
once suffered for sins, the just for (he
unjust, that he might bring us to God,
being put to death in the fiesh, but
quickened by the Spirit :
19. By which also he went and
preached unto the spirits in prison ;
20. WMch sometime were disobe
dient, when once the long suffering of
God waited m the days of Noah, while
the ark was a preparmg, wherem few,

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in the streets of Jerusalem, while he pre
pared the ark of salvation for his people ;
and at the close of that testimony he
suffered the ignominious death of the
cross, by which he redeemed from the
curse of the law all that the Father had
given liim, and, in that same testimony
and deatli, sealed the eternal condemna
tion of all that believed not on his
name. The 3d chap, of 1 Pet. declares this
figure of the salvation of Noah and his
household in the ark to be like that of
baptism, in which ordinance is repre
sented the death, burial, and resurrec
tion to life, of the Lord Jesus Christ, as
also declared by Paul in the 6th and 7th
chapters of Eomans.
The representative character of the
death of Christ is plainly insisted on in
many passages. Paul says, I am cruci
fied with Christ, <feo. ; also that believers
are circumcised with him in putting off
the body of the sins of the flesh, &c.

Tlie Letter.
17. And the flood was forty days
upon the earth: and the waters in
creased, and bare up the ark, and it was
lift up above the earth.
18. And the waters prevaUed, and
were increased gi-eatly upon the earth :
aud the ark went upon the face of the
¦waters. 19. And the waters prevailed exceed
ingly upon the earth ; and all the high
hUls that were ujztfer the whole heaven
were covered.
20. Fifteen c&bits upward did the
waters prevaU: and the mountains
were covered. Note.
What a mystery in the cross of Christ,

that is, eight souls, were saved by
water. 21. The like flgure whereunto, even
.baptism, doth also now save us (not
the putting away of the filth of the
flesh, but the answer of a good con
science toward God), by the resun-ec-
tion of Jesus Christ :
22. Who is gone mto heaven, and is
on the right hand of God ; angels, and
authorities, and powers, being made
subject unto him.
CoL. U. 10. And ye are complete in
hun, which is the head of all principality'
and power.
11. In whom also ye are circum
cised with the circumcision made -with
out hands, in puttmg off the body of
the sins of the flesh by the cfrcumcision
of Christ.
12. Buried with him m baptism,
wherein also ye are risen with him
through the faith of the operation of
God, who hath raised him from the
dead. 13. And you, being dead iif your
sins and the uncircumcision of your
flesh, hath he qmckened together with
him, havmg forgiven you aU trespasses.

The Spirit.
Matt. v. 17. Thmk not that I am
come to desti-oy the law, or the pro
phets ; I am not come to destroy, hut
to fulfil.
18. For verily, I say unto you, TiU
heaven and earth pass, one jot or one
tittle shaU m no -wise pass from the
law till aU be fulfilled.
IsA xiu. 21. Tlie Lord is weU
pleased for Ms righteousness' sake, he
wiU magnify the law, and make it ho
norable. John iu. 14. And as Moses Ufted
up the serpent in the wilderness, even
so must the Son of man be Itfted
up: 15. That whosoever believeth m him

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even in the figurative representation of
it ? That which was 'death to the world
was life to the inmates of the ark ! The
waters that overwhelmed and covered
them forever, raised up aud saved Noah
and his household. The divine Ee
deemer could not sink; for the quick
ening power of the "Spirit of life" was
in him, and bore him above the earth
and the power of the curse. He could
not be holden by death, either the death
of the body or the second death, the
" pains of hell."
Had the ark been of human invention
and human execution, it would have
shared the fate of all that was upon the
face of the earth. Had Noah in all this
transaction been carrying out his own
devices, he and they would have pe
rished together. But the ark was of
divine origin ; it was the wo.rk of God ;
and Noah was the type of him who is
himself "the resurrection and the life;"
who, though put to death in the flesh,
is alive and lives forevermore I It was
through the eternal Spirit that he of
fered himself without spot unto God.
The 'waters prevailed fifteen cubits
above the mountains ! in vain, therefore,
was salvation hoped for frora the hills.
And, again, had this accumulated mass
of waters rested upon a mortal tene
ment, a fabric of human invention, it
would have crushed it to atoms, as all
that upon the earth was crushed. But
behold the solution of that divine mys
tery contained in the 10th verse of Isa.
41st chapter. The depths of the sea
were made a way for the ransoraed to
pass over ! the accuraulated mass of his
people's sins, laid upon the head of the
great sacrifice, was the way for their re
demption I

The Letter.
21. And afl flesh died that moved
upon the earth, both of fowl, and of
cattle, and of beast, and of every creep
ing thing that creepeth upon the earth,
and every man :
22. All m whose nostrUs was the

should not perish, but have ctemal
life. xii. 32. And I, ff I be Ufted up
from the earth, -wUl draw aU men unto
me. 33. (This he said, signifying what
death he should die.)
Gal. ui. 10. For as many as are of
the works of the law, are under the
cm-se : for it is written. Cursed is every
one that continueth not in aU things
which are written in the book of the
law to do them.
11. But that no man is justified by
the law in the sight of God, ii is
evident: for. The just shall live by
faith. 12. And the law is not of faith : but,
The man that doeth them shaU live in
them. 13. Christ hath redeemed us from
the curse of the law, being made a
curse for us : for it is written, Cursed
is every one that hangeth on a
tree. Jonah U. 5. The waters compassed
me about, even to the soul : the depth
closed me round about, the weeds were
wrapped about my head.
6. I went down to tho bottoms of
the mountains ; the earth with her bars
was about me for ever : yet hast thou
brought me up my life from corruption,
O Lord my God.
IsA. 11. 10. Art thou not it wMch
hath dried tho sea, the waters of tho
great deep ; that hath made the depths
of the sea a way for the ransomed to
pass over?

The Spirit.
Rev. vi. 14. And the heaven de
parted as a scroU when it is rolled to
gether ; and every mountain and island
were moved out of thefr places.
15. And the kmgs of the earth, and
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breath of life, of aU that was on the dry
land, died.
23. And every Uving substance was
destroyed which was upon the face of
the ground, both man, and cattle, and
the creeping things, and the fowl of the
heaven ; and they were destroyed from
the earth ; and Noah only remamed
alive, and they that were with him m the
ark. 24. And the waters prevaUed upon
the earth a hundred and fifty days.
Note.
Nothing can be more significant than
this figure of the great and vital truth,
that all out of Christ will perish ! Not
only sinners of raankind, but principali
ties, and powers, and spiritual wicked
ness in high places, will be judged and
utterly spoiled in the death of the cross.
It was the appointed way to bruise the
serpent's head ; to destroy hira that had
the power of death ; for till he was
taken out of the way the ransomed could
not be delivered from the bonds of death
and the grave. The serpent had fed
upon the dust of the saints, till it was
purchased and ransomed from his hand
and power; and though it waits for
" the adoption even the redemption of the
body," jet this is also made sure by the
triumph of the cross !
The days of long suffering to the old
world had been a hundred and twenty
years ; the waters prevailed upon the
earth it hundred and fifty days before
they began to ab ate.

the cMef captains, and the mighty men,
and every bond-man, and eveiy free
man, hid themselves in the dens and in
the rocks of the mountains ;
16. And said to the mountams and
rocks. Fall on us, and Mde us from the
face of him that sitteth on the tMone,
and from the wrath of the Lamb:
17. For the great day of his wrath ia
come; and who shall be able to stand?
XX. 16. And whosoever was not
found written m the book of life was
cast into the lake of fire.
Zech. ix. 7. Awake, O sword,
against my Shepherd, and against the
man that is my feUow, saith the Lord
of hosts : smite the Shepherd, and the
sheep shall be scattered : and I wiU tum
mine hand upon the little ones.
8. And it shall come to pass, that in
all the land, saith the Lord, two parts
therein shaU be cut off and die : but the
third shall be left therein.
John xvU. 12. * * Those whom
thou hast given me I have kept, and
none of them is lost but the. son of
perdition. CoL. U. 15. And having spoUed
principalities and powers, he made a
show of them openly, triumpMng over
them in it.
Acts iv. 12. Neither is there salva
tion in any other : for there is none
other name under heaven given among
men, whereby we must be saved.
Heb. X. 28. He that despised Mo
ses' law, died without mercy under two
or three vritnesses.
29. Of how much sorer punishment,
suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy,
who hath trodden under foot the Son
of God, and hath counted the blood of
the covenant, wherewith he was sanc
tified, an unholy thing, and hath done
despite unto the Spirit of grace ?

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The Letter. *
1. And God remembered Noah, and
every liring tMng, and all the cattle
that was with him in the ark : and God
made a wmd to pass over the earth,
and the waters assuaged ;
2. 'The fountains also of the deep,
and the windows of heaven were
stopped, and the rain from heaven was
restrained ;
8. And the waters returned from off
the earth continuaUy : and after the end
of the hundred and fifty days the wa^
ters w^ere abated. Note.
;¦ It was because God remembered Noah
and the living things in the ark, that the
flood of great waters was restrained.
Much more is it for the righteovjsness'
sake of his well beloved Son, that he
reraembers his redeemed family and
blesses them with the blessings of his
grace ;' and also that he restrains his in
dignation, that it burns not continually
against the workers of iniquity.
When the antitypical Noah entered
the ark to endure the flood of waters,
"God shut him in," there to remain a
prisoner of justice until aU was accom
plished and the entire debt discharged,
for which he had become the surety of
the covenant. When, therefore, this
had been done, it was but an act of jus
tice to his Well Beloved, that the Father
should remember the pledge which he
had given : " thou wilt not leave my
soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thy
Holy One to see corruption.''
As the Son of God, Jesus had power
to lay down his life, and power to take
it again ; but this was not the divine
arrangement. The Father was to bear
/witness of him, by the resurrection of the
dead, by which he was declared to be
the Son of God with power.

The Spirit.
Acts u. 23. Him, being delivered
by the determinate counsel and fore
knowledge of God, ye haye taken, and
by wicked hands have ci-uctfied and
slain: 24. Whom God hath raised up, ha
ving loosed the pains of death : because
it was not possible that he should be
holden of it.
25. For David speaketh concerning
him, I foresaw the Lord always before
my face ; for he is on my right hand,
that I should not be moved :
26. Therefore did my heart rejoice,
and my tongue was glad; moreover,
also, my flesh shall rest in hope :
27. Because thou wilt not leave my
soul in hoU, neither wUt thou suffer thy
Holy One to see corruption.
30. Therefore being a prophet, and
knowing that God had swoi-n -with an
oath to him, that of the fruit of his
loins, according to the flesh, he would
raise up Christ to sit on his throne.
31. Ho seeing this before, spake of
the resurrection of Christ, that his soul
was not loft m hell, neither his flesh
did see cori-uption.
32. This Jesus hath God raised up,
whereof we all are witnesses.
36. Therefore lot aU tho house of
Israel know assuredly, that God hath
made that same Jesus whom ye have
cracified, both Lord and Christ.
IsA. xlui. 1. But now thus saith the
Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and
he that foi-mod thee, O Israel, Fear
not : for I have redeemed thee, I have
called thee by thy name ; thou art mme.
2. When thou passest tM-ough the
waters, I will he with thee ; and tMough
the rivers, they shaU not overfiow thee :
when thou walkest through the ffre,
thou shalt not be burned; neither shall
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4. And the ark rested in the seventh
month, on tho seventeenth day of the
month, upon tho mountains of Ararat.
6. And the waters decreased contmu
ally, until tho tenth month : in the tenth
month, on the first day of tho month,
wore tho tops of the mountains seen.
Note.
AVTien Jesus had finished the work of
redemption he entered into his rest.
All had been accomplished, and it was
all " very good," by the testimony of hira
who had chosen and appointed him to
do his will. Of this rest he had spoken
when he said, "My Father worketh
hitherto, and I work." Or, iu other
words, my Father worketh till his work
was finished and he rested, or ceased;
and I also must work until my work is
finished. It was in the seventh month
that the ark rested; and so, also, had
Jesus for six thousand ages or eras of the
great work of redemption, wrought out
its various parts, and appointed its dif
ferent affairs, and then upon the seventh
he entered into rest. This points us to
the true Sabbath, or gospel rest, into
which the redeeraed of the Lord enter
by faith, and "cease frora their own
works as God did from his." This Sab
bath has no end ; its sun goes down no
more; it is one eternal day without
night! Let the redeemed then beware
how they pollute the Lord's Sabbath by
their own uselejs and carnal deeds of
self-justification. They are "saved in
the Lord with an everlasting salvatio':i ;"
even as Noah's household rested with
him.

The Letter.
6. And it camo to pass at the end of
forty days, that Noah opened tho win
dow of tho ark which he had made :

The Spirit.
Heb. X. 12. But this man, after he
had offered one sacrifice for sins, for ever
sat doviBi on the right hand of God :
13. From henceforth expectmg till
his enemies be made his foot-stool.
14. For by one offering he hath per
fected for ever them that are sanctified.
iv. 3. For we which have beUeved
do enter into rest, as he said. As I have
swom in my wrath, if thoy shaU enter
mto my rest : although the works were
finished from the foundation of the
world. 4. For he spake in a certain place of
the seventh day on tMs wise, and God
did rest the seventh day from all his
works. 5. And in tMs place again, if they
shaU enter into my rest.
10. For he that is entered into his
rest, he also hath ceased from his own
works, as God did from his.
Acts iv. 30. The God of our fa
thers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew
and hanged on a tree ':
31. Hun hath God exalted vrith his
right hand to he a Prince and a Saviour,
for to give repentance to Israel, and
forgiveness of sms.
Isa. U. 2. And it shafl come to pass
in the last days, thai the mountain of
tho Lord's house shaU be established
in the top of the mountains, and shall
be exalted above the hUls ; and aU na
tions shall flow unto it.
3. And many people shall go and
say, Come ye, and lot us go up to the
mountain of tho Lord, to the house of
the God of Jacob; and he wiU teach
us of Ms ways, and we wiU walk in
his paths: for out of Zion shaU go
forth tho law, and the word of the
Lord from Joi-usalom.

The Spirit.
Ps. cxvUi. 19. Open to me the gates
of righteousness : I vrill go mto them
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7. And he sent forth a raven, which
went forth to and fro, untU the waters
were dried up from off the earth.
8. Also he sont forth a dove from
hun, to see ff the waters wer« abated
from off the face of the ground.
Note.
Noah did not wait for his coming out
of the ark to ascertain if the waters were
dried, but sent forth a raven and a dove,
to prove the state of things upon the
earth. In Uke manner Jesus did not
wait for the final accomplishment of his
great work, the actual sacrifice of him
self for the sins of his people, before he
was permitted to prove and see the be
nefits wMch were to result from it to
the earth.
The raven and the dove had both en
tered the ark with Noah, and now he
uses both in maMng the test which he
desired. So also both the spirit of evil,
the spirit of antichrist, and the spirit of
truth, the law of the spirit of life, had
been in the world from the beginning.
The spirit of evil had brought forth fruit
unto death, and the wages had been
reaped, at least typically ; and would
be fully realized in the last day. The
spirit of triith had also brought forth
fruit unto life ; it had never been with
out witness in the earth; it was the
Spirit which preached in Noah to
" those who were sometimes disobedi
ent." For " the gospel raust be preached
to those who are dead," that they also,
as well as those that were alive when
Jesus was manifest iu the flesh, may be
judged by it ; and that the same effect
might be wrought by both its quicken
ing and its condemning power.

20. This gate of the Lord, mto wMch
the righteous shall enter.
21. I wiU praise thee : for thou hast
heard me, and art become my salvation.
22. The stone which the bmlders re
fused is become the head sione of tho
corner. 23. TMs is tho Lord's doing; it is
marveUous in our eyes.
24. TMs is ihe day which the Lord
hath made, we wiU rejoice and be glad
m it.
26. Save now, I beseech thee, O
Lord : O Lord, I beseech thee, send
now prosperity.
26. Blessed be he that cometh m the
name of the Lord; we have blessed
you out of tho house of tho Lord.
cxxxU. 8. Arise, O Lord, into thy
rest ; thou, and the ark of thy strength.
9. Let thy -priests be clothed with
righteousness ; and lot thy samts shout
for joy.
13. For the Lord hath chosen Zion ;
he hath desired U for his habitation.
14. This is my rest for ever : here
wUl I dwell ; for I have desired it.
1 John iv. 1. Beloved, believe not
every spirit, but try the spirits whether
they aro of God : because many false
prophets are gone out into the world.
2. Hereby know ye the Spirit of
God : Every spirit that confessed that
Jesus Christ is come m the flesh, is of
God. 3. And every spirit that confesseth
not that Jesus Christ is como in the
flesh, is not of God. And this is that
spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have
heard that it should come ; and even
now already is it in the world.
19. They wont out from us, but Ihey
were not of us ; for if they had been of
us, thoy would no doubt have continued
-with us : but ihey went oui, that thoy
might be made m.anifest that they were
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The Letter.
9. But tho dove found no rest for the
sole of her foot, and she retm-ned unto
him into the ark ; for the waters were
on the face of the whole earth. Then
he put forth his hand, and took hor,
and puUed her in unto him into the
ark. 10. And he stayed yet other seven
days, and again he sent forth the dove
out of the ark ;
11. And tho dove came in to hun in
the evening, and lo, in her mouth was
an olive-leaf plucked off. So Noah
knew that the waters were abated from
oft" the earth. Note.
There was no dwelling place, Or rest
for the Holy Spirit upon earth, while
the curse was upon it, and the waters of
sin were not removed. He was a so
journer and stranger in it, as were Abra
ham and Isaac in the promised land;
but Jacob finally took up his abode
in that same land. The Spirit is the
glorifier of Jesus, aud his office is to tes
tify of him ; therefore where Jesus is not
received, and so long as his blood is not
applied to take away sin, the heavenly
dove returns to tho Prince of Peace.
But the olive-leaf at length is brought
in ; the testimony of peace on earth and
good will to men. It is said of Jesus in
his mediatorial office : " He shall not
fail nor be discouraged till he have set
judgraent in the earth."
It raay be weU here to correct an er
roneous construction which is put upon
the passage in 1 Pet., where he speaks
of Christ's preaching to the spirits in
prison, which is pressed into the service
of a universal salvation, or a deliverance
frora the prison of hell. We have alrea
dy described the meaning and design of
this passage iu Pet., and also the manner
in which the Spirit of Christ testified to
the old world: we would only add, that
frora this part of the figure, which speaks
of the sending out the Spirit from the
ark, it is very evident that Spirit did
not quicken or make alive and bring to

The Spirit.
John xv. 18. If the world hate you,
ye know that it hated me before it
hated you.
19. If ye were of the world, tho
world would love his own : but be
cause ye aro not of the world, but I
have chosen you out of the world,
therefore the world hateth you.
20. Remember the word that I said
unto- you, Tho servant is not greater
thah Ms lord. If they have persecuted
me, they wiU also persecute you: ff
they have kept my saying, they -vrill
keep yours also.
21. But all these things wiU they do
unto you for my name's sake, because
they know not him that sent mo.
22. If I had not eome and spoken
unto them, they had not had sin : but
now they have no cloak for their sin.
23. He that hateth me, hateth my
Father also.
xrii. 25. O righteous Father, the
world hath not known thee: hut I
have kno^wn thee, and these have known
that thou hast sent me.
26. And I have declared unto them
thy name, and wUl declare it : that the
love wherewith thou hast loved me,
may be m them, and I in thorn.
Luke U. 14. Glory to God in the
highest, and on earth peace, good vrill
toward men.
Is A. xxxii. 14. Because the palaces
shall be forsaken ; the multitude of the
city shall bo left ; the forts and towers
shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wUd
asses, il pasture of flocks ;
15. UntU the Spirit be poured upon
us from on high, and the wilderness be
a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be
counted for a forest.
16. Then judgment shall dwell m
the wilderness, and righteousness re
main in the fruitful field.
17. And the work of righteousness
shall be peace ; and the effect of right
eousness, quietness and assurance for
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the ark, or even to their former state, any
of those who had perished in the flood !

The Letter.
12. And he stayed yet other seven
and sont forth the dove ; which
returned not again unto him any more.
Note.
All the great events of the work of the
redemption of Christ are measured by
sevens. This number implies the com
pleteness of it — the beginning and the
end : the work itself and the rest which
followed. This last sending forth of the dove re
presents what Jesus calls " the promise
of ihe J''aiAer"-T-the gift of the Spirit to
abide with the church for ever ; to dwell
with them and be in them, as a sanoti-
fier and coraforter ; to take of the things
of Jesus and show them to his people,
thus leading them into all truth.
He is also to con-rince, or reprove, of
sin, of righteousness, and of judgment.
He first opens the eyes of the sinner to
his guilt and danger, then leads him to
understand and receive the righteous
ness of God which is by faith ; and last
ly, to triumph over all enemies in the
victory of the great Captain of salva
tion. The proraise of the Father was not
actually given until after the resurrec
tion, or the coming forth from the dead,
nor even until the day of Pentecost;
but the order of the event is of no con
sequence, so long as the great principle
is recognised, that it is sent or given as
the fruit of the atoneraent, and as a
sealing testimony of its acceptance as a
full and complete satisfaction.

peaceable habitation, and m sure dweU-
ings, and in quiet resting-places.

The Spirit.
John xiv. 16. If ye love me, keep my
commandments :
16. And I will pray the Father, and
he shaU give you another Comforter,
that he may abide with you for
ever; 17. Even the Spirit of truth; whom
the world cannot receive, because it
seeth him not, neither knoweth him:
but ye know him ; for he dwelleth with
you, and shaU be in you.
Luke xxiv. 47. And that repentance
and remission of sins should be preach
ed in his name among all nations, be
ginning at Jerusalem.
48. And yo are -witnesses of these
things. 49. And, behold, I send the promise
of my Father upon you : but tarry ye
in the city of Jerusalem, untU yo bo en
dued -with power from on high.
Ps. IxviU 18. Thou hast ascended
on high, thou hast led captivity captive,
thou hast received gifts for men, even
the rebeUious, also that the Lord God
might dweU among them.
Rom. vui. 9. But ye are not in the
flesh, but in the Spfrit, ff so be that the
Spirit of God dwell in you. Now, ff
any man have not the Spirit of CMist,
he is none of Ms.
10. And if Christ be in you, the body
is dead because of sm : but the Spfrit
is life because of righteousness.
11. But ffthe Spfrit ofhim that raised
up Jesus from the dead dweU in you,
he that raised up Christ from tho dead
shaU also quicken your mortal bodies
by Ms Spirit that dwelleth m you.
12. Therefore, brethren, we are
debtors, not to the flesh, to Uve after
the flesh.
John xvi. 13. Howbeit, when he,
the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide
you into all trath: for he shall not speak
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13. And it came to pass in the
six hundredth and first year, in the
first month, the first day of the month,
the waters were dried up from off the
earth ; and Noah removed tho covering
of the ark, and looked, and behold, the
face of the ground was dry.
14. And in tho second month, on the
seven and twentieth day of tho month,
was the earth dried. Note.
The first heaven and the first earth
had typically passed away, and the in
mates of the ark are called to behold a
new heaven aud a new earth.
The condemnation of the first testa
ment had been removed, and the new
testament, sealed and sanctified by the
blood of Christ, as of n, Lamb without
blemish, brings in a better hope, estab
lished upon better promises.
The removal of the veil of unbelief
which had so long covered the people,
and kept them in gross darkness, was
the first evidence given to Zion that the
ransom price of her deliverer had been
accepted in her behalf : and that the re
buke of his people was taken away.
These new-covenant blessings were all
the result of the gift of Christ ; for in
Christ Jesus the church are blessed with
all spiritual blessings. " He who with
held not his own Son, but freely gave
him up for us all, how will he not with
-him freely give us all things ?"
It was in the fulness of time that God
sent his Son into the world as the mes
senger of the covenant; yet does he
keep in his own hands " the times and
seasons" ofhis manifestations; only giv
ing it to be understood that they are al
ways when least expected ; and often in
the darkest hour, when his church is
saying, "The Lord hath forgotten me;
my God hath forsaken me."

hear, that shall he speak : and ho wUl
show you tMngs to come.

The Spirit.
RoM. vui. 1. Tliere is, therefore,
now no condemnation to them which
are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after
the flesh, but after the Spirit.
2. For the law of tho Spfrit of life m
Christ Jesus hath made me free from
the law of sin and death.
Rov. xxii. 3. And there shall be no
more curse : but the throne of God and
of the Lamb shall be in it; and his ser
vants shall serve him :
4. And they shall see his face ; and
his name shall be in thefr foreheads.
5. And there shall be no night there ;
and they need no candle, neither Ught of
the sun ; for the Lord God giveth them
light : and they shall reign for ever and
ever. 6. And he said unto mo. These say
ings are faithful and true. And the
Lord God of the holy prophets sent
his angel to show unto his sei-vants
the things which must shortiy be
done. xxi. 1. Audi saw a new heaven and
a new earth; for the first heaven and
the first earth were passed away ; and
there was no more sea. '
2. And I, John, saw the holy city.
New Jerusalem, coming down from God
out of heaven, prepared as a bride
adorned for her husband.
IsA. xxv. 6. And in this mountain
shall the Lord of hosts make unto aU
people a feast of fat things, a feast of
wines on the lees ; of fat tMngs fuU of
marrow, of wines on the loos well re
fined. 7. And he wfll destroy in this moun
tain the face of the covering cast over
all people, and the veil that is spread
over all nations.
8. He will swaUow up death in vic
tory; and the Lord God wifl wipe
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rebuke of his people shall be taken
away from off all the earth : for the
Lord hath spoken ii.

The Letter.
15. And God spake unto Noah, say
ing, 16. Go forth of the ark, thou, and
thy -wife, and thy sons, and thy sons'
wives with thee.
17. Bring forth ¦with thee every living
thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both
of fowl, and of cattle, and of every
creeping thing that creepeth upon the
earth ; that thoy may breed abundantly
m the earth, and be fruitful, and multi
ply upon the earth.
18. And Noah went forth, and his
sons, and his wffe, and his sons' wives
with him.
1 9. Every beast, every creeping thing,
and every fowl, and whatsoever creep
eth upon the earth, after their kinds,
went forth out of the ark.
Note.
The witness ot the Spirit having been
given, to testify to the fact that Jesus
had taken away sin by the sacrifice of
himself; that he had borne the curse iu
his own body, and made reconciliation
for iniquity; that the debt for which
he had become surety, had been paid,
even to the uttermost farthing; the pri
son doors are opened and the prisoner
set at liberty.
If any one objects to the fact that the
ark is thus made to have a double raean
ing; that it is first represented as the
covenant of grace, and then the prison of
the torab, we would call their attention
to the fact, that all contracts hold the
contracting parties as legally bound un
til the conditions or stipulations are ful
filled. Jesus was bound by his covenant
oath to do aU that he had promised in
the covenant; till done, the covenant
itself held him, as debtor or prisoner :
but as soon as aU was fulfiUed on his

The Spirit.
1 CoR. XV. 20. But now is Christ
risen from the dead, and become the
first-fruits of them that slept.
21. For since by man came death,
by man came also the resurrection of
the dead.
22. For as in Adam aU die, even so
in Christ shall all be made alive.
23. But every man in his own order :
Christ tho first-fruits; afterward they
that are Christ's at his coming.
Acts ii. 31. He, seeing this be
fore, spake of the resurrection of
Christ, that his soul was not left in
hell, neither his flesh did see corrup
tion. 32. This Jesus hath God raised up,
whereof we all are witnesses.
1 Thess. iv. 14. For if we believe
that Jesus died and rose again, even so
them also which sleep in Jesus wiU God
bring with him.
John xi. 26. ¦ Verily, verily, I say
unto you. The hour is coming, and
now is, when the dead shall hear the
voice of the Son of God : and they that
hear shaU live.
26. For as the Father hath life m
himself, so hath he given to tho Son to
have lffe in himself;
27. And hath given him authority to
execute judgment also, because he is
the Son of man.
28. Marvel not at this : for the hour
is coming, in the which all that are in
the graves shaU hear his voice,
29. And shall come forth ; they that
have done good unto the resurrection
of life ; and they that have done evil
unto the resurrection of damnation.
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part, the Father was equally bound by
oath to set him at liberty.
In this coming forth frora the ark
there are two things intimated: the
first resurrection, or that of Christ and
those that are Christ's at his coming ;
and also the resurrection of the " unjust,"
to be judged in the last day.

The Letter.
' 20. And^ Noah builded an altar unto
the Lord, and took of every clean
beast, and of every clean fowl, and of
fered burnt^offerings on the altar.
21. And the Lord smeUed a sweet
savor ; and the Lord said in his heart,
I wfll not again curse the groimd any
more for man's sake ; for tho imagina
tion of man's heart is evfl from his
youth : neither wUl I again smite any
more everything Uving, as I have
done. 22. WhUe the earth remaineth, seed
time and harvest, and cold and heat,
and summer and winter, and day and
night, shall not cease. Note.
There yet reraains one important part
of the work of redemption to be brought
to view. We have seeu in the flood of
great waters, an exhibition of the suffer
ings of Christ, in giving "his soul an of
fering for sin." But the new testament
can only be sealed with the blood of the
testator. This part of the figure of the
atoning sacrifice could not be presented
by the one type of the ark.
In the burnt offering made by Noah
is presented this vital and all-important
part of the atonement. Even under the
first testament, the patterns of things iu
the heavens were purified with blood ;
much more must the heavenly things
themselves be eanctifled with better sa-

bo a resurrection of the dead, both of
the just and unjust.
Phil. in. 9. And be found in him,
not having mine own righteousness,
wliich is of the law, but that which is
through the faith of Christ, the righte
ousness which is of God by faith :
10. That I may know him, and the
power of his resurrection, and the fel
lowship of his sufferings, being made
conformable unto his death ;
11. If by any means I might attain
unto the resurrection of the dead.

The Spirit.
Heb. ix. 7. In whom we have re
demption through Ms blood, the for
giveness of sins, accordmg to the riches
of his grace ;
22. And almost all things are by the
law purged with blood; and without
sheddmg of blood is no remission.
23. It was therefore necessary that
the pattems of things in the heavens
should be purified with these ; but the
heavenly thmgs themselves vrith better
sacrifices than these.
13. For ff the blood of bulls and of
goats, and the ashes of a heifer sprink
ling the ynclean, sanctifieth to the pu-
rffying of the flesh :
14. How much more shafl the blood
of Christ, who through the eternal Spi
rit offered hunself vrithout spot to God,
purge your conscience from dead works
to serve the living God.
Eph. v. 2. * * As Christ also hath
loved us and given hunself for us, an
offering and a sacrifice to God of a
sweet-smelling savor.
Lev. xvu. 11. For the lffe of the
flesh is in the blood ; and I have given
it to you upon the altar, to make an
atonement for your souls ; for it is the
blood thlt maketh an atonement for the
soul. Isa. liv. 9. For this is as the waters
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crifices and better blood. Under the
law, blood was given upon the altar to
make atonement for the soul ; hence the
law, " Thou shalt not eat the flesh with
the life thereof which is the blood
thereof" When God smelled the sweet savor
of this sacrifice, he said in his heart, I
will no more curse the ground for raan's
sake. And after giving this strong ex
pression of his divine satisfaction iu this
blood of atoneraent, he pronounces the
blessing which was to be its reward.
In the changes of seasons upon the earth,
in their order and duration, he pledges
the future prosperity and fruitfulness of
his vineyard, the Garden which his own
hand would plant.

The Letter.
1. And God blessed Noah and Ms
sous, and said unto them, Be fruitful,
and multiply, and replenish the earth.
2. And the fear of you, and the
dread of you, shall be upon every boast
of the earth, and upon every fowl of
the air, upon all that moveth upon the
earth, and upon all the fishes of the
sea; into your hand are they deli
vered. Note.
This language is similar to that used
by God to Adam, and is appropriate to
all the various types of Christ and the
church. They have a united dominion,
and their vocation is to be fruitful in the
earth. All nations shall serve them ;
and even principalities and powers, and
the rulers of the darkness of 'this world
shall be in subjection to them, and be
made to subserve their welfare.
The Father has promised that Jesus
should see his seed — the travail of his
soul, and be satisfied; and now that the
curse is removed from the earth, the
waters of the sea, in their blighting pro
perties, removed from the vineyard of
the Lord, it will become like a well-wa
tered garden. The wilderuess and the

that the waters of Noah should no
more go over the earth; so have I
sworn that I would not ho wroth with
thee, nor rebuke thee.
10. For the mountains shall depart,
and the Mils be removed ; but my kind
ness shaU not depart from thee, neither
shall the covenant -of my peace he re
moved, saith the Lord that hath mercy
on thee.
Jer. xxxUi. 20. Thus saith the
Lord ; If ye can break my covenant of
the day, and my covenant of tho night,
and that there should not be day and
mght in their season ;
21. Then may also my covenant be
broken with David my servant, that he
should not have a son to reign upon Ms
throne; and with the Levites the
priests, my ministers.

The Spirit.
Ps. XXXU. 1. Blessed is he whose
transgression is forgiven, whose sin is
covered. 2. Blessed is the man unto whom
the Lord im;"uteth not iniquity, and in
whose spirit there is no guUe.
xxvu. 6. He shall. cause them that
come of Jacob to take root : Israel shall
blossom and bud, and fUl the face of
the world with fruit.
Jer. xxxui. 9. And it shall be to
me a name of joy, a praise, and an ho
nor, before all the nations of the earth,
wMch shaU hear aU the good that I do
unto them: and they shall fear and
tremble for aU tho goodness and for all
the prosperity that I procure unto it.
xxx. 19. And out of them shall pro
ceed thanksgiving and the voice of them
that make merry : and I wUl multiply
them, and they shall not be few : I vrill
also glorify them, and they shall not be
small. Dan. vu. 12. As concerning the
rest of the beasts, they had their domi
nion take^ away ; yot thefr lives' were
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solitary place will be glad for them, and
the desert will rejoice and blossom aa
the rose.
The great increase and prosperity of
Zion which followed the death of Christ
is always a conspicuous part of every
typical representation of his kingdom.
It was the reward of his sufferings ; the
joy that was set before him, in enduring
the cross and despising the shame.

The Letter.
3. Every mpving thing that liveth
shaU be meat for you; even as the
green herb have I given you all things :
4. But flesh with the life thereof
which is the blood thereof, shall ye not
eat. Note.
The raortal body of man is compared
with the green herb ; all flesh is grass,
and all the goodliness thereof as the flow
er of the fleld; "the grass withereth
and the flower fadeth, but the word of
the Lord shall abide for ever." Both
the flesh and its similitude, the grass of
the field, are of ,the earth, have their
origin in the dust and unto dust will
they return.
But man is coraposed of two natures,
flesh and spirit, soul and body. Until
now, no provision had been made for
sustaining the immortal nature, but man
had been fed only with the green herb,
that which perishes and passes away.
After the curse has been removed, he is
told that flesh shall be given him for
meat, together with the green herb.
Only it should not be eaten with the
blood thereof, which is the life thereof.
This last divine appointment typi
cally represents the same truth which
Jesus taught in the 6th chapter of John ;

13. I saw m tho night visions, and
behold, one lUce tho Son of man came
with the clouds of heaven, aud carae to
the Ancient of days, and they brought
him near before him.
14. And there was given him domi
nion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all
people, nations, and languages, should
serve him : his dominion is an everlast
ing dominion, wMch shall not pass
away, and his kingdom, that which shall
not be destroyed.
27. And the kingdom and dominion,
and the greatness of the kingdom under
the whole heaven, shafl be given to tho
people of the saints of the Most High,
whose kingdom is an everlasting king
dom, and all dommions shall serve and
obey him.

The Spirit.
John vi. 61. I am the Uving bread
which came down from heaven : if any
man eat of this bread, he shall live for
ever : and the bread that I wiU give is
my flesh, which I wiU give for the lffe
of the world.
62. The Jews therefore strove among
themselves, saying. How can this man
give us his flesh to eat ?
53. Then Jesus said unto them, Ve
rily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye
eat the flesh of the Son of man, and
drink his blood, ye have no life in
you. '
54. Whoso eateth my flesh, and
drinketh my blood, hath etemal Ufe;
and I wUl raise him up at the last day.
66. For my flesh is moat indeed, and
my blood is drink indeed.
56. He that eateth my flesh, and
drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and
I in him.
57. As the livmg Father hath sent
me, and I live by the Father : so he
that eateth me, even he shall live
by me.
88. This is that bread which camo
down from heaven : not as your fathers
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and also by the ordinance of the supper.
That the spiritual or new nature of man
is to be nourished and sustained by faith
in the Son of God, in the atonement he
has raade, and the perfect righteousness
he has wrought out. It also teaches
that Jesus could not become meat or
food for the soul of the believer until he
had been made a sacrifice; his blood
must be shed and his body broken for
them before it could be made their meat
and their drink. Hence the recognizing
of this truth, or discernment by faith of
the all-sufficiency of this sacrifice for sin,
and the application of his blood to the
conscience, is made the test of eating
worthily or properly ; and if this is not
done, — if the Lord's body is not discern
ed as sacrificed, then the person who eats
of the bread andwine, or symbols of it, is
guilty of the body and blood of Christ,
according to the 17th chapter of Lev.

The Letter.
5. And surely your blood of your
lives wUl I require : at the hand of
every beast vriU I requfre it, and at the
hand of man; at the hand of every
man's brother wiU I require the Iffe of
man. Note.
By these words it appears that God
commits the responsibility of shedding
human blood into the hands of man, and
the blood of the beast into the hand
of the beast. The life of the soul or spi.
ritual life is only sustained by the body
and blood of Christ. It is first drawn or
derived from this source after being
taken away by the first murderer. It
is also fed and nourished by it through
faith. But this life and the preservation
of it are wholly in the hands of Jesus
himself; for since its destruction in the
first Adam it has been comraitted to the
second Adam, who is a "quickening spi-

eateth of this bread shall live for
ever. Lev. xvU. 1 1 . For tho Ufe of tho flesh
is in the blood : and I have given it to
you upon the altar, to make an atone
ment for your souls : for it is the blood
ihat maketh an atonement for the
soul. 12. Therefore I said unto the chil
dren of Israel, No soul of you shall eat
blood, neither shall any stranger that
sojourneth among you eat blood.
Matt. xxvi. 26. And as thoy were
eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed
it, and brake it, and gave ii to the dis
ciples, and said. Take, eat ; this is my
body. 27. And he took the cup and gave
thanks, and gave it to them, saying.
Drink ye all of it :
28. For this is my blood of the new
testament, which is shed for many for
the remission of sins.
29. But I say unto you, I will not
drink henceforth of this fruit of the
vino, until that day when I drink it new
with you in my Father's kingdom.

The Spirit.
Num. xxxv. 11. Then ye shall ap-
pomt you cities to be cities of refuge
for you ; that the slayer may flee thi
ther, which kUleth any person at una
wares. 15. These six cities shall be a refuge,
both for the children of Israel, and for
the stranger, and for the sojourner
among them :• that every one that
kUleth any person unawares may flee
thither. 16. And if he smite him with an m-
strument of fron, so that he die, he is a
murderer ; the murderer shall surely be
put to death.
19. The revenger of blood hunself
shall slay the murderer ; when he meet
eth him, he shall slay him.
20. But if he thrust him of hatred, or
hurl at him by laying of wait, that he
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rit," aud is " able to keep that which is
committed to him ;" it is hid with him
iu God, and the " wicked one toucheth
him not"
But to raan is committed the life of
man, and of him will be required his
blood. In this subject and the distinc
tion here made, we see the difference
between mansla'ughter and murder.
Murder, in the Scripture sense, always.
has respect to the image of Christ in the
soul ; the eternal life which is manifest
in the soul ofhis people, by which they
are renewed in his image. Therefore
murder is in all cases aimed at this life
and this image, and may be committed
mthout shedding blood, as we see by the
words, " he that hateth his brother is a
murderer." It is hatred against the
image of God in man ; and in the raan
Christ Jesus it was the sin against the
Holy Ghost, which was in hira without
measure ; for he was the brightness of
the Father's glory and the express image
of his person.

The Letter.
6. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by
man shafl his blood bj shod : for m tho
image of God made he man.
Note.
This short passage is replete with
deep raeaning. It combines a solemn
divine decree with the prophetic aunun-
elation of the imarnation of the Son of
God, and the necessity of his becoming
man, in order to be the "avenger of
blood." It shows why the divine Ee
deemer must be "made a Uttle lower
than the angels" for the suffering of
death, "that through death he might

21. Or in enmity smite him with his
hand, that he die : he that smote him
shafl surely be put to death ; for he is
a murderer: the revenger of blood
shaU slay the murderer, when he meet
eth him.
25. And the congregation shafl deli
ver the slayer out of the hand of the re
venger of blood, and the congregation
shall restore him to the city of his re
fuge, wMthor he was fled : and he shall
abide in it unto the death of the high
priest, wMch was anointed with the
holy oU.
38. Ye have heard that it hath been
said. An eyo for an eye, and a tooth for
a tooth :
39. But I say unto you. That ye re
sist not evU : but whosoever shall smite
thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the
other also.
43. Ye have heard that it hath been
said, thou shalt love thy neighbor, and
hate thine enemy:
44. But I say unto you. Love your
enemies, bless them that curse you, do
good to them that hate you, and pray
for them which despitefully use you,
and persecute you :
45. That ye may be the cMldren of
your Father which is in heaven : for
he maketh his sun to rise on the evfl
and on the good, and sendeth ram on
the just and on the unjust.

The Spirit.
1 John Ui. 16. Whosoever hateth
his brother, is a murderer ; and ye know
that no murderer hath etemal life abi
ding in him.
Num. xxxv. 31. Moreover, ye shall
take no satisfaction for the life of a
murderer, which is guilty of death ; but
he shall be surely put to death,
32. And ye shall take no satisfaction
for him that is fled to the city of his
refuge, that he should come again to
dwell in the land, until tho death of the
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destroy death, and him that had the
power of death, that is the devil."
Satan -was the first murderer ; he had
with one stroke levelled with the dust
the whole human fanjily. God had, in
the beginning, setup Adam as "a figure
of hira that was to come;" who is "the
brightness of the^ Father's glory and the
express image of his person." This image
Satan hated and resolved to destroy ;
and for this deed he was cast down from
his excellency, from his "first estate,"
and bound in chains of darkness to the
judgment of the great day. No human
arm could reach this Leviathan serpent ;
none but-"/ie who made him could make
his sioord approach unto him." There
fore did the man Christ Jesus become
the avenger of blood.
When the Sou of God was first typi
cally brought into the world, as the
First Born of the Father and placed
upon the throiie as Heir of all things, aud
King of Zion ; it was in the garden of
Eden and in the person of Adam, made
in the image and likeness of God, yet
also in the form of man. Satan, who
hated this image, refused to render sub
mission to it, but plotted to destroy both
the king and his subjects.
Again, this typical representation was
actually accomplished in the death of
the " seed of the woraan," when, in the
fulness of time, this arch murderer was
permitted to " bruise His heel," who, at
the same time, bruised the head of this
old serpent, the devil, destroying him
and his works.
Thus was also executed the sentence
pronounced by God in this 6th verse of
Gen. ix.
In this subject, thus explained, we
think may also be found the raeaning of
Christ in Matt xii., where he describes
the sin which can never be forgiven ei
ther in this world or the world to come.
Many spoke against and acted against
him as the Son of man, really thinking
him to be nothing raore, as witness Saul
of Tarsus. But those who saw and hated
in him the image and glory of God, and
that Spirit with which he was anointed
without measure, were guilty of murder
in the scripture sense before they actu-

wherein we are; for blood it defileth
the land : and the land cannot be
cleansed of the blood that is shed
theroin, but by the blood of him that
shed it.
Matt. xu. 31. Wherefore I say
unto you. All manner of sin and blas
phemy, shall be forgiven unto men: but
the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost
shaU not be forgiven unto men.
32. And whosoever speaketh a word
against the Son of man, it shaU be for
given him : but whosoever speaketh
against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be
forgiven him, neither in this world, nei
ther in the world to come.
1 John iU. 20. If a man say, I love
God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar.
For he that loveth not his brother,
whom he hath seen, how can he love
God, whom he hath not seen ?
10. In this tho cMldren of God are
manifest, and the cMldren of the devil :
whosoever doeth not righteousness is
not of God, neither he that loveth not
his brother.
13. Marvel not, my brethren, ff the
world hate you.
14. Wo know that wo have passed
from death unto life, because we love
the brethren. He that loveth not his
brother, abideth in death.
Heb. i. 3. Who being the bright
ness of his glory, and the express image
of his porson, and upholding aU things
by the word of his power, when he had
by himself purged our sins, sat do-wn
on the right hand of the Majesty on
high; 4. Being made so much better than
the angels, as he hath by inheritance
obtained a more exceUent name than
they. 6. For unto which of the angels said
he at any time. Thou art my Son, this
day have I begotten thee 1 And again,
I wUl be to him a Father, and he shafl
be to me a son ?
6. And again, when he bringeth m
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ally crucified him ; indeed we know
that some who were actors in putting
him to death were saved by his blood,
which could not have been haS they
partaken of the sin described.
In both testaments, therefore, there is
a sin for which no satisfaction shall be
taken ; and iu the light of this subject
this sin is hatred to the Son bf God,
the man Christ Jesus, because he is "the
brightness of the Father's glory and the
express image of his person."

The Letter.
7. And you, be ye fruitful, and mul
tiply; bring forth abundantly in the
earth, and multiply therein.
Note.
The church derives all her fruitfulness
from her new-covenant relation to Christ,
her head and husband.
In the 7th chapter of Eora. this senti
ment is presented. The church is exhi
bited as first wedded to the law ; but
Jesus becarae her bondsman, and as
sumed her place under the curse of that
covenant, and bore that curse in his own
body, by which she became dead to the
law, having in her surety suffered its
penalty, so that it could have no further
claim upon her, and she is free to be
married to another, even to " him who is
raised from the dead, that her fruit may
be unto God."
Again Jesus says, I am the vine, ye
are the branches, abide in me and I in
you. Ye cannot bear fruit of yourself

saith, And let aU the angels of God
worship him.
9. Thou hast loved righteousness,
and hated iniquity ; therefore God, even
thy God, hath anointed theo with the
oil of gladness above thy feflows.
ii. 5. For unto the angels hath he
not put in subjection the world to come
whereof we speak.
6. But one in it certain place testi
fied, saying. What is man, that thou
art mindful of him ? or the son of man,
that thou visitest Mm ?
7. Thou madest him a little lower
than the angels ; thou crownedst him
with glory and honor, and didst sot him
over the works of thy hands:
8. Thou hast put all things in sub
jection under his feet. For in that he
put all in subjection under him, he left
nothmg ihat is not put under him. But
now we see not yet afl things put un
der him, &c.
Col. i. 15. Who is the image of
the inrisible God, the firsfr-bom of every
creature. The Spirit.
Ps. Ixxu. 1 6. There shafl bea hand
ful of corn in the earth upon the top of
the mountains ; the fruit thereof shaU
shake like Lebanon : and they of the city
shall flourish like grass of the earth.
Jer. xxx. 1 9. And out of them shaU
proceed thanksgiving and the voice of
them that make merry : and I vrill mul
tiply them, and they shafl not bo few :
I wUl also glorify them, and they shall
not be smafl.
20. Their chfldren also shaU be as
aforetime, and their congr(^ation shall
be established before me, and I wfll
punish all that oppress them.
21. And their nobles shaU be of
themselves, and their governor shaU
proceed from the midst of them ; and I
wUl cause him to draw near, and he
shall approach unto me: for who is tMs
that engaged his heart to approach unto
mo ? saith the Lord.

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except ye abide in the vine, cfeo. So
also the church aa members of hia body.
havmg nourishment ministered and knit
together, iucreaBeth w^ith th^ iucreaee of
God. In view of all the various figures
which illustrate the vital union between
Christ and his people, and -their depend-
ance upon him, through that union, for
life ; well may he say, " I am the bread
of life." "Except ye eat the flesh and
drink the blood of the Son of man ye
have no life in you."

The Letter.
8. And God spake unto Noah, and
to his sons with him, saying,
9. And I, behold, I estabUsh my co
venant with you, and with your seed
after you ;
10. And with every living creature
that is with you, of the fowl, of the
cattie, and of every beast of the earth
with you ; from all that go out of the
ark, to every beast of tho earth.
11. And I wiU establish my covenant
¦with you : neither shall all flesh be cut
off any more by the waters of a flood :
neither shall there any more be a flood
to destroy tho earth. Note.
The covenant which God estabUshed
with Noah and his sons is absolute and
unconditional ; it is the covenant of
promise and not of works; the new co
venant and not the old.
Whenever this covenant is brought to
view, under whatever typical relations,
whether of Noah, of Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob, David, or of Israel them
selves, it is always spoken of as Gods
covenant. " I will establish my covenant
with you," ifec, to distinguish it from the
law, or covenant of works. It is God's
covenant because it recognises no other

22. And ye shall be my people, and
T will be your God.
Num. xxiii. 10. Who can count the
dust of Jacob, and the number of tho
fourth part of Israel ? Let me die the
death of the righteous, and let my last
end be like his.
Rev. vu. 9. After tMs I beheld, and
lo, a great multitude, which no man
could number, of all nations, and km
dreds, and people, and tongues, stood
before the throne, and before the Lamb,
clothed with white robes, and palms in
their hands;
10. And cried with a loud voice,
saying, Salvation to our God which
sitteth upon the throne, and unto the
Lamb.

The Spirit.
Ps. Ixxxix. 3. I have made a cove
nant with my chosen, I have swom
unto David my servant.
4. Thy seed wUl I establish for ever,
and build up thy throne to all genera
tions. Selah.
6. And the heavens shaU praise thy
wonders, O Lord : thy faithfulness also
in tho congregation of the saints.
2 Pet. iU. 5. Ye also, as lively
stones, are built up a spiritual house, a
holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual
sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus
Christ. 6. Wherefore also it is contained in
the scripture. Behold, I lay in Sion a
chief corner-stone, elect, precious : and
he that believeth on Mm shall not be
confounded. IsA. xliv. 3. For I wiU pour water
upon him that is thirsty, and floods
upon the dry ground ; I wiU pour my
Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing
upon thine offspring.
4. And they shall spring up as
among the grass, as wUlows by tho wa
ter-courses. 5. One shaU say, I am the Lord's ;
and another shaU call himself by the
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party or condition but his own sove
reign will, and the persons of the God
head ; and is given to his people by
promise. It is virtually a revelation of the
"counsel of his own will," his purpose
of grace iu Christ Jesus. It is first de
clared in the case of Noah and his sons;
then to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, next
to David, and lastly to the whole house
of Israel. It is confirmed by oath,
sanctified with the blood of Christ, and
sealed with the narae or pledge of the
Three iu One and One iu Three.
It is sometiraes so expressed as to ap
pear as if this covenant was raade with
men, as iu the case of Abrahara and
David. But this arises frora the fact of
these persons being types of Christ, and
the Father speaks of thera as identified
¦with the Son.

scribe with his hand unto the Lord,
and surname himself by the name of
Lsrael. Jer. xxxiii. 31. Behold, the days
come, saith the Lord, that I wiU make
a new covenant with the house of Is
rael, and vrith the house of Judah :
32. Not according to the covenant
that I made with their fathers, in the
day thai I took them by the hand to
bring them out of tho land of Egypt ;
which my covenant they brake, although
I was a husband unto them, saith the
Lord: 33. But this shall be the covenant
that I will make with the house of Is
rael ; After those days, saith the Lord,
I will put my law in their inward parts,
and write it in their hearts ; and wUl
be their God, and they shall be my
people. 34. And they shall teach no more
every man his neighbor, and every man
Ms brother, saying, Know the Lord:
for they shall all know me, from the
least of them unto the greatest of them,
saith the Lord : for I will forgive their
iniquity, and I vrifl remember their sin
no more.
35. Thus saith the Lord, which gi
veth the sun for a light by day, and the
ordinances of tho moon and of the stars
for a light by night, which dividoth the
sea when the waves thereof roar ; The
Lord of hosts is his name :
36. If those ordmances depart from
before me, saith the Lord, then the seed
of Israel also shall cease from being a
nation before mo for ever.
37. Thus saith tho Lord ; If heaven
above can be measured, and the foun
dations of the earth searched out be
neath, I wifl also cast off aU the seed of
Israel for aU that they have done, saith
the Lord.

The Letter.
12. And God said, this is the token
of tho covenant wMch I make between
me and you and every living creature

The Spirit.
Mark xvi. 15. And he said unto
them, Go ye into aU the worid, and
preach the gospel to every creature.

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that is -with you, for perpetual genera
tions. 13. I do set my bow in the clouds,
and it shall be for a token of a cove
nant between me and the earth.
14. And it shall como to pass, when
I bring a cloud over the earth, that the
bow shall be seen in the cloud :
15. And I wUl remember my cove
nant which is between me and you, and
every living creature of all flesh ; and
the waters shall no more become a
flood to destroy all flesh.
16. And tho bow shall be in the
cloud ; and I will look upon it, that I
may remember the everlastmg cove
nant between God and every living
creature of aU flesh that is upon the
earth. 17. And God said unto Noah, This
is the token of the covenant which I
have established between me and all
flesh that is upon the earth.

Note.
The new and everlasting covenant
has now been typically revealed or pro
mised and established with Noah and
hia sons, and of course with the earth,
for these now constituted the whole of
the, nations, kindred, aud tongues, out
of which God would " take a people for
his praise." This covenant has also
been sanctified by the blood of the sa
crifice of sweet-smelling savor ; and
now it is to be sealed and signed as a
title-deed to the church, throughout all
generations ; no document being valid
unless the signature of the contracting
parties is placed to it.
For this reason, when Jesus sent the
proclaraation of the gospel to all na
tions, he appointed the ordinance of
baptism, administered in the name of
the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost,
to be this seal or pledge of the triune
Jehovah, that the new covenant was
established for ever as the sun and as
the moon, a "faithful witness in hea
ven." Here, then, is the bow in the cloud;
the beauty and expressiveness of which
are seen only by analyzing the figure.

16. He that believeth and is bap.
tized, shall be saved ; but he that be
lieveth not shaU bo dainned.
Matt, xxviii. 19. Go ye, therefore,
and teach all nations, baptizing them
in the name of the Father, and of the
Son, and of the Holy Ghost ;
20. Teaching them to observe all
things whatsoever I have commanded
you : and lo, I am with you always,
even unto the end of the world. Amen.
1 Pet. iii. 20. Which sometimes
were disobedient, when once the long-
suff(3rmg of God waited m the days of
Noah, while tho ark was a preparing,
wherein few, that is, eight souls, were
saved by water.
21. The like figure whereunto, even
baptism, doth also now save us (not
the putting away of the filth of the
flesh, but the answer of a good con
science toward God), by the resurrec
tion of Jesus Christ :
1 John v. 6. Who is he that over
cometh the world, but he that believeth
that Jesus is tho Son of God ?
7. For there are three that bear re
cord in heaven, the Father, the Word,
and the Holy Ghost : and these three
are one.
8. And there are tMee that bear
witness m earth, the spirit, and the
water, and the blood : and these tMee
agree in one.
EzK. i. 26. And above the firma^
ment that was over their heads was the
likeness of a throne, as tho appearance
of a sapphfre stone : and upon the like
ness of the throne was the likeness as
the appearance of a man above upon
it 27. And I saw as the color of am
ber, as the appearance of ffre round
about within it, from the appearance of
his loins even upward ; and from the
appearance of his loins even downward,
I saw as it were the appearance of fire,
and it had brightness round about.
28. As the appearance of tho bow
that is in the cloud in the day of rain,
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The bow is an arc of a circle, iutiraating
that, on eartli, we know only in part the
great things which are laid up in that
covenant for the heirs of promise. It is
composed of three primitive colors, from
which all others are derived, and com
pounded — to show that from the three
that bear record in heaven all blessings
are derived, which come to us through
different mediums.
This bow is placed " in the cloud," or
in the " store-house " of the waters of
heaven, which fertilize and refresh
the earth, or Zion, the church of God,
where are deposited the provisions
of his grace, and out of which they are
dispersed to the ends of the earth. It is
always in times of special refreshing
from the Lord, when he pours water
upon hira that is thirsty and floods upon
the dry ground, that the ordinance of
baptism, or the bow of the covenant, is
seen; and it is always a witness that
it stands sure for ever-^that the curse
has been taken away and peace estab
lished by the blood of the cross, the
de,ath, burial, and resurrection of the
Lord Jesus Christ, of which baptisra is
an erablem.

The Letter.
18. And the sons of Noah, that went
forth of the ark, wore Shem, and Ham,
and Japheth : and Ham is the father of
Canaan. 19. These are the three sons of
Noah: and of them was the whole
earth overspread. Note.
These three sons of Noah were the
Ln-ERAL fathers of the whole human fa
mily after the flood ; yet as being em
braced in the ark, united with Christ in
his death and now in his resurrection
from the dead, they are typically the
witnesses of these things, and the first he
ralds of the gospel, or the apostles. But,
as they have a twofold reference, the
analogy, as it regards the number, is not
carried out, as in the twelve sons of Ja
cob. The earth was overspread and peopled

ness round about This was the ap
pearance of the likeness of the glory of
the Lord. And when I saw it, I feU
upon my face, and I heard a voice of
ono that spake.
Ps. Ixv. 9. Thou visitest the earth,
and waterest it : thou greatly enrichest
it with the river of God, which is full
of water: thou preparest them corn,
when thou hast so provided for it.
1 0. Thou waterest the ridges thereof
abundantiy : thou settlest the furrows
thereof: thou makest it soft vrith show
ers : thou blessest the springing there
of. 11. Thou crownes'; the year with
thy goodness ; and thy paths drop fat
ness. 12. They drop upon the pastures of
tho wilderness : and the little hflls re
joice on every side.
13. The pastures are clothed with
flocks; tho vaUeys also are covered
over with com ; they shout for joy, they
also sing.

The Spirit.
Acts xvii. 26. And hath made of
one blood aU nations of men for to
dweU on the face of the earth, and hatii
determined the times before appointed,
and the bounds of their habitation;
27. That they should seek the Lord,
if haply they might feel after him, and
find him, though he be not far from
every one of us :
28. For in him we live, and move,
and have our being; as certain also of
your own poets have said. For we are
also his offspring.
XV. 34. Then Peter opened his
mouth and said. Of a truth I perceive
that God is no respecter of persons :
36. But in every nation, he tiiat
feareth him, and worketh righteousness,
is accepted with hun.
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by these three men, so the kingdom of
Christ was established and buUt up and
extended by the apostles, and through
them will finally fill the whole world.
Among the famfly of Christ the cho
sen apostles, there was a devil ; so
among these three there was one of the
accursed seed. This mixture is seen in
every community and even iu every
household. It is the wUl of -the Master
that they should grow together till the
harvest, when they will be separated as
chaft" from the wheat

The Letter.
20. And Noah began io be a hus
bandman, and he planted a vineyard :
21. And ho drank of tho wine, and
was drunken ; and he was uncovered
within his tent.
22. And Ham, the father of Canaan,
saw the nakedness of his father, and
told his two brethren without.
23. And Shem and Japheth took a
garment, and laid it upon both their
shoulders, and went backward, and co
vered the nakedness of their father:
and their faces were backward, and they
saw not their father's nakedness.
Note.
In speaking of the waters of the flood
beating upon the ark, the question arose,
how such a figure, which represented Je
sus as safely secured from their rage,
could illustrate his language where he
says, " The waters have come in unto my
souir Ihat the most important part of this
typical exhibition of the sufferings of
the divine Eedeemer, — the giving his
soul an offering for sin, or the pains of
the second death, — might be brought to
view, another type is requisite. In
"ihat day" when he "punished le-via-
than, the crooked serpent," — when he
trod him down as grapes are trodden in

tho chUdren of Israel, preaching peace
by Jesus Christ (he is Lord of all) :
14. Simoon hath declared how God
at tho first did visit the Gentiles, to
take out of them a people for his
name. 16. And to this agree the words of
the prophets ; as it is written,
16. After this I wiU return, and wifl
buUd again the tabernacle of David
which is faUen down ; and I will build
again the ruins thereof, and I wUl set
it up: 17. That the residue of men might
seek after the Lord, and aU fhe Gen
tUes, upon whom my name is called,
saith the Lord, who doeth aU those
things.

The Spirit.
Isa. xxrii. 1. In that day the Lord
vrith his sore and great and strong
sword shaU punish leviathan, the
piercing serpent, even leviathan, that
crooked serpent ; and he shall slay the
di-agon that is in the sea.
2. In that day sing ye unto her, A
rineyard of red -wine.
3. I the Lord do keep it; I will wa
ter it every moment : lost any hurt it,
I wUl keep it night and day.
Ixiu. 1. Who is this that cometh
from Edom, with dyed garments from
Bozrah ? this ihat is glorious in his ap
parel, travelling in the greatness of hia
strength ? I that speak in righteousness,
mighty to save.
Lam. ui. 13. He hath caused the
arrows of his quiver to enter into my
reins. 14. I was a derision to aU my peo
ple ; and their song all the day.
15. He hath filled vrith bitterness,
he hath made me drunken with worm
wood. i. 12. Is it nothing to you, afl yo
that pass by? behold, and see ff there
be any sorrow like unto my sorrow,
wMch is done unto me, wherewith the
Lord hath afilicted me in the day of his
fierce anger.

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the wine-press, till his garments were
red with blood, Jesus is represented as
planting " a vineyard of i ed wine," which
he keeps night and day lest any hurt it
— so precious in his sight is the church
which he purchased with his own
blood! But this mighty conflict was not en
dured even by the Son of God without
" tasting " of all the bitterness of that
death he was in the act of destroying:
he drank of the cup, even to the dregs!
he wa.s made "drunken with wormwood!"
he is himself trodden as in a wine-press,
— pressed under the load of his peoples'
sins, as a cart full of sheaves ! " The
yoke of my transgressions is bound by his
hand; they are wreathed and come up
upon my neck : he hath made my strength
to fall ; the Lord hath delivered me into
their hands, from whom I am not able to
rise I"
Is not this the language of the " man
of sorrows,'' as it is described in the 63d
of Isa. ? when it "pleased the Father to
bruise him, to put him to grief."
This analogy (though clearly estab
lished as any in the scriptures) is ob
jected to by some on the ground that the
sinful acts of men cannot be typical of
Christ. This, os a principle, is undeniable.
But where is the proof that this aet of
Noah was sinful ? How does it appear
that he was aware of the intoxicating
effects of wine? Is there anything in
scripture that even indirectly condemns
him for drinking it ? And where is there
a sinful act recorded, which is not con
demned, and which, in some way, does
not raeet a just retribution? Again,
was the prophetic declaration of Noah,
pronounced upon waking from his
¦wine, the ebullition of profane auger
and guilty debauchery, or, was it the
imraediate inspiration of the Spirit of
God, moving upon him as upon all the
holy men of old, who spake the things
which are revealed ? Does his prophecy
bear the test which ia given to try the
prophets of God and those of Baal? Did
his words come to pass ?
The act of Canaan exhibits the con
duct of those who scoffed and derided-
the Saviour upon the cross ; whfle that'

13. From above hath he sent fire
into my bones, and it prevaUeth against
them: he hath spread a net for my feet,
he hath turned me back : he hath made
me desolate and faint aU the day.
14. The yoke of my transgressions
is bound by his hand : they are wreath
ed, avd come up upon my neck: he
hath made my strength to faU, the Lord
hath delivered me into their hands,
from whom I am not able to rise up.
15. The Lord hath trodden under
foot all my mighty men in the midst of
me : ho hath called an assembly against
me to crush my young men : the Lord
hath trodden the virgin, the daughter
of Judah, as in a wine-press.
IsA. li. 20. Thy sons have fainted,
they lio at the head of all the streets,
as a wUd bull in a net : they are fufl of
the fury of the Lord, the rebuke of thy
God. 21. Therefore hear now this, thou af-
ffieted, and drunken, but not with wme :
22. Thus saith thy Lord the Lord,
and thy God that pleadeth the cause of
his people. Behold, I have taken out]
of thy hand the cup of trembling, everi
the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou.
shaJt no more drink it agam :
23. But I wUl put it into the hand of
them that afflict thee ; wMch have said
to thy soul. Bow down, that we majr
go over: and thou hast laid thy bodjr
as the gi-ound, and as the street, to
them that went over.
Matt. xx. 22. But Jesus answered
and said, Ye know not what ye ask
Are ye able to drink of tho cup that I
shaU drink of, and to be baptized with
the baptism that I am baptized with?
They say unto him. We are able.
23. And he saith unto them. Ye
shafl drink indeed of my cup, and be
baptized with the baptism that I am
baptized with : but, to sit on my right
hand, and on my loft, is not mme to
give, but it shall be given to 'them, for
whom it is prepared of my Father.
xxvi. 38. Then saith he unto them,
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of Shem and Japheth shows the disposi
tion and conduct of his true disciples
upon the same occasion.

The Letter.
24. And Noah awoke from his wine,
and knew what his younger son had
done unto him.
25. And he said, Cursed be Canaan ;
a servant of servants shall he be unto
his brethren. Note.
The decree of God in 20th of Ex. 5,
is virtually recognised in the history of
the seed of the serpent, from the period
of the curse to the present time. These
have ever made up a part of the king
dom of the divine Eedeemer, but they
are made the " servant of servants to their
brethren." The relationship expressed by the
word brother is of two kinds — that of
the fiesh, and that of the spirit God
has made of one blood afl the nations
that dwell on the face of the earth ; and
in this sense they are the " offspring '' of
God ; but not in the sense in which he
recognises his own children — those who
are begotten of him. Christ tells the
•Jews that if God were their Father they
would believe in him; for this is the
unfailing evidence of such a relation
ship. He theu tells them they were of
their father the devil, and his works they
would do. Yet this people blindly
imagined themselves the special favor
ites of heaven. No doubt that Canaan
also, who had been au inmate of the
ark, and rairaeulously preserved, a wit
ness of all the great events of that day,
presumed that he was also a part of the
chosen family. And so he was, for the
time and purpose prescribed; aa Judaa
was of the family of Christ And truly
was he a servant to his brethren ! ^for he
was the instruraent of executing that
divine decree, by which the whole
8

unto death : tarry ye here, and watch
with me.
39. And he went a little further, and
feU on Ms face, and prayed, saying, 0
my Father, if it be possible, let this cup
pass from mo : nevertheless, not as I
win, but as thou wilt.

The Spirit.
Prov. xxx. 11. T/ier-e is a genera
tion that curseth thefr father, and doth
not bless their mother.
12. There is a generation thai are
pure in their o^wn eyes, and yet is not
washed from their filthiness.
13. There is a generation, O how
lofty are their eyes ! and their eyelids
are Iffted up.
14. There is a generation, whose
teeth are as swords, and their jaw-
teeth as knives, to devour the poor
from off the earth, and the needy from
among men.
Ex. XX. 5. * * For I the Lord
thy God am a jealous God, -risiting the
iniquity of the fathers upon the children
unto the third and fourth generation of
them that hate me ;
6. And showing mercy unto thou
sands of them that love me, and keep
my commandments.
Job xxiv. 13. They are of those
that rebel against tho light; they know
not the ways thereof, nor abide in the
paths thereof.
***** 16. In the dark they dig through
houses, which thoy had marked for
themselves in the day-tune : they know
not the light
17. For the morning is to them even
as the shadow of death : if one know
ihem, ihey are in the terrors of the sha
dow of death.
18. He is swift as the waters; thefr
portion is . cursed in the earth : he
beholdeth not the way of the vine
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household of God were everlastingly
saved! After the Son of God had for three
days suffered his foes to triuraph in his
death, lie also awoke, to seal the ever
lasting destiny of both friends and ene
mies ; to assign to the one blessing, and
honor, and glory, and eternal life ; — to
the other shame and everlasting con-
temp

snow-waters : so doth the grave those
which have sinned.
***** 24. They are exalted for a little
whfle, but are gone and brought low ;
thoy are taken out of the way as afl
other, and cut off as the tops of the ears
of com.
Jude 12. These are spots in your
feasts of charity, when they feast vrith
you, feeding themselves vrithout fear :
clouds they are without water, carried
about of wmds; trees whose fruit
withereth, vrithout fruit, twice dead,
plucked up by the roots ;
13. B-agmg waves of the sea, foam
ing out their own shame ; wandering
stars, to whom is reserved the black
ness of darkness for ever.

The Letter.
26. And he said. Blessed be the
Lord God of Shem ; and Canaan shaU
be Ms servant.
27. God shafl enlarge Japheth, and
he shafl dweU in the tents of Shem ;
and Canaan shall be his servant.
28. And Noah lived after the flood
three hundred and fifty years.
29. And aU the days of Noah were
nine hundred and fifty years : and ho
died. Note.
This prophetic sentence of Noah, both
the curse and the blessing, has been ful
ly accomplished in the subsequent his
tory of the world. The earth has been
divided to the nations; the sons of
Adam, and through him the sons of
Noah, have received their inheritauce
as the Most High haa appointed it ; se
parating them according to his purpose,
but always according to the nuniber of
tlie children of Israel ; or in subservien
cy to the one great purpose of his grace
toward the "whole house of Israel' — ^his
elect people.
From Shem were to descend God's
typical people, the Jews, and also the
Messiah, according to the flesh. Japheth

The Spirit.
Luke i. 50. And his mercy is on
them that fear him, from generation to
generation. 51. He hath showed strength vrith
his arm ; he hath scattered the proud in
the imagmation of their hearts.
52. He hath put down the mighty
from their seats, and exalted them of
low degree.
53. He hath fiUed the hungry with
good things, and the rich he hath sent
empty away.
64. He hath holpen his servant
Israel, in remembrance of ?iis mercy ;
55. As he spake to our fathers, to
Abraham, and to Ms seed, for ever.
Deut. xxxu. 6. Do ye thus requite
the Lord, O fooUsh people and un-ifrise ?
is not he thy father thai hath bought
thee ? hath he not made thee, and estab
lished thee ?
7. Remember the days of old, consi
der the years of many generations : ask
thy father, and he wUl show thee ; thy
elders, and they vrill teU thee.
8. When the Most High divided to
the nations thefr mheritance, when ho
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was to be the father of the Gentiles,
whom God would visit in the last days,
to " take out from them a people for his
praise," who were to dwell in the tents
of Shenj, or enter into possession of all
the root and fatness of the true olive-
tree, — so that the word of Jesus might
be fulfiUed : " Other sheep I have, who
are not of this fold ; them also I must
bring, that there may be one fold and
one Shepherd."
The third nation, or the descendants
of Ham, were to comprise the heathen.
We have seen that a part of these were,
first of all, sentenced to their portion.
But some of the descendants of Hara are
mentioned among those who should be
chosen and blessed ; for out of every kin
dred, nation, and tongue, were the re-
fleemed multitude gathered that sur
round the throne. But to all the na
tions of the redeemed, Canaan was to be
a, servant.

bounds of the people according to tho
number of the children of Israel :
9. For fhe Lord's portion is Ms
people ; Jacob is tho lot of Ms inherit
ance. 10. He found him m a desert land,
and in the waste howling -wUderness ;
he led him about, he instructed liim, he
kept him as the apple of his eye.
Ps. i. 3. And he shall be like a tree
planted by fhe rivers of water, that
bringeih forth his fruit in his season ;
his leaf also shall not -wither ; and what
soever he doeth shall prosper.
4. Tho ungodly are not so ; but are
like the chaff wMch the wmd drivoth
away. 5. Therefore the ungodly shafl not
stand in the judgment, nor smners m
the congregation of the righteous.
6. For the Lord knoweth the way of
the righteous : but tiie way of the un
godly shall perish.
u. 6. Yet have I set my King upon
my holy hUl of Zion.
7. I -will declare the decree : the
Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my
Son ; this day have I begotten thee.
8. Ask of mo, and I shaU give thee
the heathen for tMne inheritance, and
the uttei-most parts of the earth /or thy
possession. 9. Thou shalt break them -with a rod
of iron ; thou shalt dash them in pieces
Iflic a potter's vessel.

CHAPTER IX.

: The Letter.
1. Now these are the generations of
the sons of Noah ; Shem, Ham and Ja
pheth : and unto them were sons bom
after the flood.
2. The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and
Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tu
bal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
6. By these were the isles of the
GentUes divided m thefr lands ; every

The Spirit.
Japheth.
Rom. xi. 24. For tf thou wert cut
out of the olive-tree wMch is wUd by
nature, and wert graffed contrary to na
ture mto a good olive-tree ; how much
more shaU these, wMch be the natural
branches, be graffed into thefr o-wn
oUve-tree? 25. For I would not, brethren, that
ye should be ignorant of this mystery
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one after his tongue, after thefr famUies,
in thefr nations.
6. Andthesonsof Ham; Cush, and
Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
***** 15. And Canaan begat Sidon his
first-bom, and Hoth.
***** 19. And the border of the Canaan
ites was from Sidon, as thou comest to
Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest unto
Sodom and Gomorrah, and Admah, and
Zeboim, even unto Lasha.
* * * Is *
21. Unto Shem also, the father of
afl the cMldren of Eber, the brother of
Japheth the elder, even to him were
children bom.
*****
' ¦ 25. And unto Eber were bom two
sons : the name of ono was Peleg, for
m his days was the earth divided ; and
Ms brother's name was Joktan.
***** 30. And thefr dweUing was from
Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar, a
mount of the east. Note.
In this genealogy, the cMldren of pro
mise and the children of the curse alone
are traced. It is noticeable that the
order of precedence is reversed. It has
Mtherto been Shem, Hani and Japheth ;
it is now Japheth, Ham and Shem. A
striking confirmation of this are the
words of Christ, in alluding to the caU
ing of the Gentiles — " They shall come
from the east and from the west, from the
north and the south, and sit down with
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, in the king
dom of God, and the children of the
kingdom shall be cast out. So the first
shall be last and the last first." Again,
as if to insist upon this same fact, Shem
is not only said to be the father of all
the children of Mber, but also the brotlier
of Japheth ; as if there existed a special
relationship between these two, different
from that between them and Ham.
Among the descendants of Ham is
Nimrod, the " mighty hunter before the
Lord" — ^typioaUy the mighty -hunter of

conceits), that blmdness ia part is
happened to Israel, lintfl the fulness
of the Gentfles be come m.
IsA. xlix. 6. I wiU also give thee
for a Ught to the Gentiles, that thou
mayst be my salvation to the ends of
the earth.
Ham.
Gen. XV. 18. In that same day the
Lord made a covenant with Abraham,
saying. Unto thy seed have I given this
land, from the river of Egypt unto the
great river, the river BupMates :
19. The Kemtes, and the Kemzzites,
and the Kadmomtes,
20. And the Hittites, and the Periz
zites, and the Rophaims,
21. And the Amorites, and the Ca
naanites, and the GfrgasMtes, and the
Jebusites. Ex. xxui. 28. And I wiU send hor
nets before thee, which shall drive out
the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hit
tite from before thee.
XV. 14. The people shall hear, and
be afraid : sorrow shafl take hold on the
mhabitants of Palestina.
15. Then the dukes of Edom shall
be amazed ; the mighty men of Moab,
trembling shafl take hold upon them;
all the mhabitants of Canaan shall
melt away,
Shem.
Acts ii. 25. Ye are the cMldren cf
the prophets, and of the covenant which
God made -with our fathers, saying un
to Abraham, And in thy seed shaU all
the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
26. Unto you first, God havmg raised
up his Son Jesus, sent hun to bless
you, m turning away every one of you
from his imquities.
RoM. xi. 27. For this is my cove
nant unto them, when I shall take away
.thefr sins.
***** 31. Even so have these also now not
beUeved, that tiirough your mercy they
also may obtain mercy.
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the Lord, and of his anointed I For he
is the beginning or foundation of Baby
lon, the mother of harlots, and the mys
tery of iniquity, which of course identi
fies this hunter with Antichrist, the man
of sin, the son of perdition, aud with all
the types of this same " -(ricked," which
are but one.
'Tyre and Sidon, the sea-ports of Baby
lon and marts of her trade with the na
tions of the world, were cities of Canaan ;
of course cursed cities, and the denun
ciations upon them by the prophet
Ezekiel are remarkably similar to those
pronounced upon Babylon in the 17th
and 18fh chapters of Rev. No person
can read those of Ezk., especially the
27th cL, without a conviction that more
than mere literal facta and Uteral things
are there described.
We shafl hereafter speak particularly
of the mystical import of the 27th of
Ezk,, but would here say that under the
figure of cities founded upon the seas,
made great by the waters, and by the
merchandise of their ships and ship
masters, their riches and trade, is evi
dently intended the unholy and bloody
traffic of mystical Babylon and her
ports, with the kings and merchants
of the earth — the great men and crafts
men who have traded with her and
have drunk of the wine of her abomina
tions. All that gives the idea of barter
of payment for value received, belongs
not to the free city — the "Jerusalem
above" — which is the mother of all the
ehurehea of Christ that live by faith
and not by works.
Zion is also compared with a ship,
and her goods with merchandise ; as in
Prov. xxxi. But her riches and com
merce are of another character. She
bringeth her goods from «. far country,
and they are bought "without money
or price." To her there is "no more
sea," but " the glorious Lord is a place
of broad rivers and streams, where shall
go no galley with oars ; neither shall
gallant ship paas thereon."
That the same similitude of a woman
should represent both the church of
Christ and the synagogue of Satan is
no marvel ; for it has ever been the ob-

aU m unbeUef, that he might have
mercy upon aU.
Rev. xvu. 3. So he carried me
away in the spirit mto the ¦wilderness :
and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet-
colored beast, full of names of blas
phemy, havmg seven heads and ten
horns. 4. And the woman was arrayed ia
purple and scarlet color, and decked
with gold and precious stones and-
pearls, havmg a golden cup m hor hand
full of abominations and fUthmess of
her fomication :
5. And upon her forehead was a
name written, mtstert, Babtlon the
Great, the mother of harlots and
abominations of the earth.
6. And I saw the woman drunken
vrith the blood of the saints, and vrith
the blood of the martyrs of Jesus : and
when I saw her, I wondered with great
admfration. * *****
11. And the merchants of the earth
shaUweop and mourn over her; for no
man buyeth thefr merchandise any
more: ****** 14. And the fruits that thy soul
lusted after are departed from thee,
and aU tMngs wMch were dainty and
goodly are departed from thee, and
thou shalt find them no more at all.
16. The merchants of these thmgs
wMch were made rich hy her, shaU
stand^afar off, for the fear of her tor
ment, weeping and wailing,
16. And saying, Alas, alas! that
groat city, that was clothed m fme Imen,
and purple, and scarlet, and decked
with gold, and precious stones, and
pearls !
Ezk. xxvi. 1. The word of the
Lord came again unto me, saying,
2. Now, thou son of man, take up a
lamentation for Tyrus ;
3. And say unto Tyrus, O thou that
art situate at the entry of the sea,
which art a merchant of the people for
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ject of tbe " mystery of iniquity " to de
ceive the nations by assuming the name
and place of the true and undefiled one.
But the "virtuous woman," whose
"price is far above rubies," is easily
distinguished frora the Mother of Har
lots! If this description of Tyre ia carefully
analyzed, and the mystical import of all
is examined, especially of the articles
used in her traffic, and the different na
tions which have contributed each, there
wfll be found a fund of instruction. All
nations, Israel among the rest, are the
merchants employed to enrich this queen
city! 'Theiv wheat and honey, and oil
and balm, were ruthlessly bartered for
her tinsel ornaments !
But rejoice, ye heavens 1 for she shall
fall in the midst of the seas! — the seas
that have made her great ; there shall
she be cast as a millstone, to rise no
more i

O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of per
fect beauty.
4. Thy borders are in the midst of
the seas, thy buflders have perfected
thy beauty.
Rev. xviu. 13. favan. Tubal, and
Meshech, they were thy merchants:
they traded the persons of mon and
vessels of brass in thy market.
***** 17. Judah, and the land of Israel,
they were thy merchants : thoy traded,
in thy market, wheat of Minnith, and
Panag, and honey, and ofl, and balm.
***** 25. The sMps of Tarshish did sing
of thee in the market ; and thou wast
replenished, and made very glorious m
the midst of the seas.
26. Thy rowers have brought thee
into great waters : the east wind hath
broken thee in the midst of the seas.
27. Thy riches, and thy fafrs, thy
merchandise, thy mariners,and thy pUots,
thycalkers, and the occupiers of thy
merchandise, and all thy men of war,
that are in thee, and in all thy company
which is in the midst of thee, shall fall
into the midst of the seas in the day of
thy ruin.

CHAPTER X.

The Letter.
1. And the whole earth was of one
language, and of one speech. ?
Note.
This was the state of things literally,
when the one family of Noah came from
the Ark- to replenish the earth and sub
due it. It also typically represents the
state of the gospel church of Christ,
when first gathered in Jerusalem by the
preaching of the Apostles and the agen
cy of the Holy Spirit, which bore testi
mony to the word. They were all of
one mind aud continued steadfast in the
Apostle's doctrine, having one Lord, one
faith, and one baptisra.
But this state of thinga did not long

The Spirit.
Eph. iv. 1. I therefore, the prisoner
of the Lord, beseech you, that ye walk
worthy of the vocation where-with ye
aro cafled,
2. With all lowliness and meekness,
with long suffering, forbearing one an
other in love ;
3. Endeavouring to keep the unity
of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
4. There is one body, and one Spirit,
even as ye are called in one hope of
your cafling ;
5. One Lord, one faith, one bap
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eontinue. False teachers crept in una
wares, who perverted the minds of the
disciples and turned away many from
the siraplicity of the gospel. Instead of
holding the one true Head, the churches
were divided with regard to their teach
ers, sorae being for one, and some for
another. Legal heresies also; the lea
ven of the Pharisees operated to intro
duce the obsolete rites and ceremonies
of the law, the rudiments of the worldly
dispensation, to which they professed to
be dead with Christ. Having begun in
the Spirit, they looked to be raade per
fect by the flesh.
Again, the spirit of Antichrist de
scribed in the last chapter, was busily at
work. The man of sin, thwarted in his
hope of preventing the establishment of
the kingdom of heaven, set himself to
work with all deceivableness of unright
eousness in them that perish, to build
np a false religion, a corrupt church,
which should have just so much of the
semblance of the true, as to draw away
unwary souls into the snare. Hence the
mighty hunter begins to build Babylon
the capital of his kingdom !
The church at Jerusalera, enjoying all
the beneflt of unity in the faith aud fel
lowship one with another, were very
naturally disposed to continue in this
place and strengthen theraselves toge
ther against the persections of their en
emies. But this was not the design of
God concerning them, and he was
pleased to disconcert their plans and
scatter them abroad.

is above aU, and through aU, and In
you all.
Phil. U. 1. If there be therefore any
consolation in Christ, ff any comfort of
love, ff any feUowship of the Spirit, ff
any bowels and mercies,
2. Fulfil ye my joy, that yo be like-
minded, having the same love, being of
one accord, of one mind.
3. Lei nothmg be done through strffe
or vain-glory ; but in lowliness of mind
lot each esteem other better than them
selves. i. 27. Only let your conversation be
as it becometh the gospel of Christ;
that whether I come and see you, or
else be absent, I may hear of your af
fairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit,
¦with one mind striring together for the
faith of the gospel ;
1 CoE. i. 9. God is faithful, hy whom
ye were called unto the fellowship of
Ms Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
10. Now I beseech you, brethren, by
the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that
ye afl speak the samo thmg, and that
there be nq dirisions among you ; but
ihat ye be perfectly joined together in
the samo mind, and m the same judg
ment. 11. For it hath boon declared unto
me of you, my brethren, by them which
are of ihe house of Chloo, that there are
contentions among you.
12. Now this I say, that every one
of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of
ApoUos ; and I of Cephas ; and I of
CMist 13. Is Christ divided? was Paul cru
cified for you ? or were ye baptized in
the name of Paul ?
14. I thank God that I baptized none
of you but Crispus and Gaius ;
15. Lost any should say that I had
baptized m mme own name.

The Letter.
3. And it came to pass, as they jour
neyed from the east, that they found a

The Spirit.
Gal. u. 1. O foolish Galatians, who
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plain m the land of SMnar ; and they
dwelt there.
3. And thoy said one to another. Go
to, lot us make brick, and bum them
thoroughly. And they had brick
for stone, and sUme had they for
mortar. 4. And they said. Go to, let us bufld
us a city, and a tower, whose top may
reach unto heaven ; and let us make us
a name lest we be scattered abroad
upon the face of the whole earth.
Note.
It was not Ukely to be all at once that
the ' early disciples of Christ turned
from the full aud clear light of the truth
to the doctrines of men or the errors of
the wicked. As they increased in
numbers, and spread abroad and ex
tended, they gradually became corrupt,
and assimilated -with the world, and
were deceived and led away by the Spi
rit of Antichrist
The proposition made by the sons of
Noah in this passage was probably the
suggestion of Canaan, for it savors of
the spfrit of evil. The moti\^ for build
ing was probably two-fold; to save
themselves by providing against another
flood (though they had just been told
to fear none), and to make themselves
famous as well as strong by buflding to
gether, instead of replenishing the whole
earth, as they had been bidden to do.
There are two things typified by
this passage. It has allusion to-the con
duct of the disciples in continuing at Je
rusalem, after being told to ^o into all
the earth and preach the gospel to every
•creature. And it also has allusion to
the beginning of Babel or the wicked
city. It was upon the sand or plain,
whfle Zion is set on a hill. It ia built
by man, and by the wfll of man ; but
the Lord builds Jerusalem. It was of
brick; Zion is buflt of lively stones. It
was cemented by . slime ; but Zion is
kept by the unity of the Spirit ; the mo
tive for building Babel was self-aggran
dizement ; — to obtain a narae and a place
in the earth ; but Zion is established for
the glory of God and the honor of his
name ; therefore he says of the church.

obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus
Christ hath been evidently set forth,
crucified among you ?
2. This only would I leam of
you. Received ye the Spirit by the
works of the law, or by the hearing of
faith? 3. Are ye so fooHsh ? having begun
m the Spirit, are ye now made perfect
by tiie flesh?
4. Have ye suffered so many thmgs
in vain ? ff it be yet in vain.
5. He therefore that ministereth to
you the Spirit, and worketh mfracles
among you, doeth he ii by the works of
the law, or by the hearing of faith?
2 Tim. iv. 3. For the tune wfll come,
when they -wfll not endure sound doc
trine; but after thefr own lusts shall
they heap to themselves teachers, ha
ving itching ears ;
4. And they shaU tum away their
ears from the tmth, and shafl be turned
unto fables.
Prov. xiv. 11. The house of the
vricked shall be overthrown : but the
tabemacie of the upright shafl flourish.
12. There is a way wMch seemeth
right unto a man, but the end thereof
are the ways of death.
13. Even m laughter the heart is
sorrowful ; and the end of that mirth is
heariness. 14. The backsUder m heart shafl be
fifled with Ms own ways : and a good
man shall he satisfied from Mmself.
1 5. The sunple believeth every word :
but the prudent man looketh wefl to
his going.
iv. 11. I have taught thee m the way
of vrisdom ; I have led thee m right
paths. 12. When thou goest, thy steps shafl
not be straitened; and when thou run-
nest, thou shalt not stumble.
13. Take fast hold of instruction;
let her not go; keep her; for she is
thy life.
14. Enter not mto the patii of the
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"Ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's
buflding." Carnal wisdora, wicked men,
and civil power are the inatruments used
by Antichrist ia founding and erecting
Babel, but it has pleased God " by the
foolishness of preaching" to raise up the
walls ofhis spiritual temple ; — ^it ia " not
by might nor by power, but by my Spi
rit saith the Lord."
The history of the founding of Babel
may be found, in its spiritual character,
in the Sth chapter of Zech. 7-12. There
-wfll be seen the " woman" that, like a
talent of lead in the midst of the Ephah,
was borne to the land of Shinar, and
there " established on its own base."

The Letter.
5. And the Lord came down to see
the city and the tower, wMch the chil
dren of men buUded.
6. And the Lord said. Behold, the
people is one, and they have all one
language ; and this they begin to do :
and now nothing wUl be restrained
from them, wMch they have imagmed
to do.
7. Go to, let us go down, and there
confound their language, that they may
not understand one another's speech.
NOTK
In the truth, unity is the distinguish
ing feature which speaks its divine ori
gin; but error has a multitude of
tongues, all strange to each other.
So the true church is the " only one
of her mother," "the choice one of her
that bare her;" while there are "three
score queens, and four-score concubines,
and virgins, without number."
Union is strength ; the church is ter
rible to her eneraies only when she is
united iu one judgraent and oue voice.
She is corapared to a company of horses
in Pharaoh's chariot. All under the
same guiding reins, pursuing the sarae
road, caparisoned alike, and all drawing
together. But such a building as this is not the
work of the " children of men." It is not

15. Avoid it, pass not by it, tum
from it, and pass away.
***** 18. But the path of the just is as the
shining Ught, that shmeth more and
more unto the perfect day.
19. The way of the vricked is as
darkness : they know not at what they
stumble. Gen. ix. 9. He was a mighty hunter
before the Lord : wherefore it is said.
Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter be
fore tho Lord.
10. And the beginning of his kmg
dom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad,
and Calneh, m the land of Shinar.

The Spirit.
Ps. Iv. 9. Destroy, O Lord, and
divide their tongues : for I have seen
violence and strife m the city.
10. Day and mght they go about it
upon the wafls thereof: mischief also
and sorrow are m the midst of it.
11. Wickedness is in the midst
thereof: deceit and guUe depart not
from her streets.
IsA. vui. 9. Associate yourselves, O
ye people, and ye shaU be broken m
pieces ; and givo ear, all ye of far coun
tries : gird yourselves, and ye shaU be
broken in pieces ; gird yom-selvos, and
ye shall be broken in pieces.
10. Taka counsel together, and it
shafl come to naught ; speak tho word,
and it shall not stand: for God is
with us.
11. For the Lord spake thus to me
with a strong hand, and mstructed me
that I should not walk m the way of
this people, saying,
12 Say ye not, A confederacy, to all
ihem to whom this people shall say, A
confederacy ; neither fear ye thefr fear,
nor be afraid.
13. Sanctify the Lord of hosts him
self; and let Mm be your fear, and lei
him be your dread.
14. And he shafl be for a sanctuary;
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raised up by raight, nor power, but by the
Spirit of the Lord, and is after the pat
tern of the house not made with hands
eternal in the heavens.
In the Babel of Antichrist a confusion
of tongues is wisely ordered, and will
finally destroy and undermine the whole
building; for its foundation is on the
sand, and the rain will sweep away the
refuge of lies.
Self-exaltation, and a diversity of
forms, modes, and moveraents, known
only to the initiated, are the distinguish
ing features of the mystery of iniquity.
It is the meekness and lowliness of the
gospel, the simplicity that there is in
Christ which give to the doctrine of the
cross its dignity and power.

The Letter.
8. So the Lord scattered them
abroad from thence upon the face of
aU the earth : and they left off to buUd
the city.
9. Therefore is the name of it caUed
Babel : because the Lord did there con
found the language of afl the earth :
and from thence did tho Lord scatter
them abroad upon the face of aU the
earth. Note.
The " palace of strangers," the city of
the terrible nations shall be no city ; "it
shall never be built." The mouth of the
Lord has spoken it; and though the
strong people have been in afl ages mar-
shafling their forces and preparing their
strength for the corapletion of their city
and tower, yet "the fortress of the high
fort of thefr waUs shaU he bring down.

rock of offence to both the houses of
Israel, for a gm and for a snare to the
inhabitants of Jerusalem.
16. And many among them shafl
stumble, and fall, and be broken, and
bo snared, and he taken.
u. 12. For the day of the Lord of
hosts shall be upon every one ihat is
proud and lofty, and upon every one
thai is lifted up; and he shafl be
brought low :
13. And upon all the cedars of Le
banon, that are high and Iffted up, and
upon aU the oaks of Bashan,
14. And upon aU the high moun
tams, and upon aU the hUls, thai are
lifted up,
15. And upon every high tower, and
upon every fenced wafl.
Sol. Song, vi. 8. There are three
score queens, and fourscore concubines,
and virgms -wifliout number.
9. My dove,myundefUed is Zurfono;
she is the only ono of her mother, she
is the choice one of her that bare her.
The daughters saw her, and blessed
her; yea, the queens and the concu
bines, and they praised her.

TTie Spirit.
Isa. xxv. 1. O Lord, thou art my
God; I wifl exalt thee, I -ktU praise
thy name ; for thou hast done wonder
ful things ; thy counsels of old are faith
fulness and truth.
2. For thou hast made of a City a
heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a pa
lace of strangers to be no city; it shall
never be buUt
3. Therefore shafl the strong people
glorify tiiee, the city of the terrible na
tions shaU feai- thee.
4. For thou hast been a strength to
the poor, a strength to the needy in his
distress, a refuge from tho storm, a
shadow from the heat, when tiie blast
of the terrible ones is as a stoim
against the waU.
6. Thou shalt bring down the noise

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lay low and bring to the ground, even to
the dust" They can do little more than
to make a noise round about the city of
God, where often, " the blast of the ter
rible ones is as a storm against the
wall." But these " walls are salvation,
and her gates strength," and the inmates
are kept in perfect peace, for they are
staid on God.
As Babel is scattered because her
tongues are divided, so in the building
of the church, it was the gift of tongues
that qualified the disciples to preach the
word to all nations. Yet would they
have continued contentedly at Jerusa
lem, in fellowship one with another, had
not the divine Master, who had com-
raissioned thera to go forth into all the
world, seen fit to raise up the arra of
persecution against them.
Thus the scattering abroad of Anti
christ, and the dispersion of the disci
ples to build up churches, closes the ty
pical history of .Noah. The calling of
Abram commences a new subject, or ra
ther a different aspect of the same sub
ject; for, as no single type can give a
full and perfect figure of any part of the
great work of redemption, it necessarily
follows that various similitudes are em
ployed to express the different aspects
of the sarae divine truth. Thus the co
venant of grace, iu which the chosen
people of God are saved by the death,
burial, and resurrection of the Lord Je
sus Christ, is first brought to view in the
Ark and the flood. But this same cove
nant as a " counsel of peace" between
the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost
is raore fully developed in the typical
history of Abrahara, Isaac, and Jacob.

of strangers, as the heat in a dry place ;
even the heat with the shadow of a
cloud : the branch of the terrible ones
shall be brought low.
u. 10. For m this mountain shaU the
hand of the Lord rest, and Moab sliaU
be trodden down under him, even as
straw is trodden down for the dung-
hiU. ***** 12. And the fortress of the high fort
of thy walls shall he bring down, lay
low, 0711^ bring to the ground, even to
the dust.
xxvi. 1. In that day shaU this song
be sung in the land of Judah ; We
have a strong city ; salvation wfll God
appoint /or wafls and bulwarks.
2. Open yc tho gates, that the right
eous nation which keepeth the truth
may enter m.
3. Thou wUt keep him in perfect
peace, whose mind is stayed on thee:
because he trusteth in thee.
4. Trust ye in the Lord for ever:
for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting
strength: 6. For he bringeth down them that
dweU on high ; the lofty city, he layeth
it low, ho layeth it low, even to the
ground; he bringeth it even to the
dust. fl. 11. The lofty looks of man shafl
be humbled, and the haughtiness of
men shafl be bowed down, and the
Lord alone shaU be exalted in that day.
Acts viii. 1. And Saul was con
senting unto his death. And at that
time there was a great persecution
agamst the church which was at Jeru
salem; and they were aU scattered
abroad throughout the regions of Judea
and Samaria, except the aposties.
***** 4. Therefore they that were scat
tered abroad went everywhere preach
ing the word.
6. Then PhUip went down to the
city of Samaria, and preached Christ
unto them.

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The Letter.

10. Now those are the generations
of Shem : Shem was a hundred years
old, and begat Arphaxad two years
after the flood.
***** 26. And Terah Uved seventy years,
and begat Abram, Nahor and Haran.
27. Now those are the generations
of Terah : Terah begat Abram, Nahor
and Haran ; and Haran begat Lot.
28. And Haran died before his father
Terah in the land of Ms nativity, in Ur
of the Chaldees.
29. And Abraham and Nahor took
them vrives: the name of Abram's
wife was Sarai; and the name of Na.
hor's wife Milcah, the daughter of Ha
ran, the father of MUoah, and the father
of Iscah.
30. But Sarai was barren ; she had
no chUd.
31. And Terah took Abram Ms son,
and Lot the son of Haran Ms son's son,
and Sarai his daughter-in-law, Ms son
Abram's -wife ; and thoy went forth vrith
them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go
into the land of Canaan : and thoy came
unto Haran, and dwelt there.
32. And the days of Terah were two
hundred and five years: and Terah
died in Haran. Note.
From the persons here mentioned, we
raay infer the meaning and intention of
the history they introduce. Terah, sig
nifying breath or spirit, is the progeni
tor of Abram, Nahor and Haran. Abram,
signifying high father, adopts the son of
Haran, who dies before they leave their
country. Lot, which means hidden, se
cret, is the name of this son. Abram
takes a wife in his own country, called
Sarai, or princess; and Nahor marries
Mfleah, the daughter of Haran and sis
ter of Lot. It subsequently appears
that Sarai was also the daughter of Te
rah, but not of the same mother -nrith
Abram ; yet waa ahe both his sister and
his wife. The family are then iu aU its
branches related to each other.

Terah took Abram and his wffe Sa
rai, and Lot, whom he had adopted, and
they go out from TJr of the Chaldees,
toward Canaan ; but dwell together for
a time in Haran, a mountainous coun
try. These preliminaries in the history of
this remarkable family, who are to bear
so conspicuous a part in all the subse?
quent events of scripture, naturally lead
us to inqufre after any connection which
may exist between the origin, and the
future lives and movements of these per
sons. All that aUudes to the Lord Jeaus
Christ is myaterioua, whether it be his
divine origin, or his assumption of a hu
man form. In Abram he is typically
represented as sojourning with men, as
the Father of a chosen and special peo
ple. We are also told he came forth from
the glory which he had -with the Father
before the world was; and that from
the beginning, — from all time, he has
been one with his people — whether as
his wife, — the members of his mystical
body, — his sister — or cMldren of the
Father and the gift of the Father to
him, — or as his adopted sons; — Christ
and his people, in one and all of these
relations,, have constituted one fami-
ly- His goings forth also have ever been
for one object, — that they might go into
the land of Canaan ; — might inherit the
gifts and blessings of grace and glory
provided for them in the purpose of the
Father, and which he, as messenger of
the covenant, was to secure for them by
his own mighty arm; — ^that very pos
session being then in the hands of the
eneray. In this work he waa to get to himseff
a great name throughout all the earth;
because no other arm but hia own could
accomplish it They also were to be
come a great nation, a peculiar people ;
— ^but all for his sake, and by means of
the great deliverance he should accom
plish for them through this, his coming
forth, and the death he should suffer, in
order that they might enter this pro
mised inheritance.

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CHAPTER XI.

The Letter.
1. Now the Lord had said unto
Abram, Get thee out of thy country,
and from thy kmdred, and from thy
father's house, unto a land that I will
show thee. Note.
The coming forth of Abrara from the
land of his fathers, was according to a
previous understanding and appoint
ment He came for a special purpose, and
under the direction of God; when as
yet the entire object in view to be
effected by it was not revealed. It waa
to be showed.
In like manner, when God first re
vealed the promise of Christ, — when he
first brought into the world his "First
Born," with the purpose that all things
should bow down to him and worship
him — it was not by declaring at once
definitely and clearly the mystery of his
wfll concerning him. This will has, from
the beginning, been revealed in para
bles ; by " dark sayings" and dim sha
dows. But the light of the promise has
increased tiU the whole land to which
Abraham was caUed, has been fully
opened to -riew, in all its length and
breadth, — or, tUl the riches of grace, iu
Christ Jesus, have been developed in all
their fulness.
Jesus, the only begotten, must leave
his kindred and Ms Father's house to
dwell with men, — the ungodly and
those that hated and despitefully used
and persecuted him; he was rich, yet
for our sakes he must become poor, and
take upon him the form of a servant — a
messenger; though the Son of the High
est, and equal with the Father!

The Spirit.
Isa. xlU. 6. I the Lord have called
thee in righteousness, and wUl hold thy
hand, and wUl keep thee and give theo
for a covenant of the people, for a light
to lighten the GentUes, &c.
xlix. 8. Thus saith the Lord, In an
acceptable time have I called thee, and
m a day of salvation I have helped thee :
and I -will preserve thee and give thee
for a covenant of the people ; to estab
lish the earth, to cause to inherit tho
desplate heritages.
xlviU. 16. I, even I, have spoken,
yea I have caUed him; I have brought
him near, and he shall make his way
prosperous. John xvi. 28. I am come forth from
the Father, and am come into the
world, &c.
1 John iv. 9. In this was mani
fest the lovo of God towards us, be
cause that God sent his only begotten
Son mto the world that we might live
tMough Mm.
Ps. Ixxxix. 19. Then thou spakest
m vision to thy Holy Ono, and saidst,
I have laid help upon one thai is migh
ty ; I have exalted one chosen out of
the people.
20. I have found David my ser
vant ; vrith my holy ofl have I anomted
him: 21. With whom my hand shafl be
estabUshed; mme arm also shafl
strengthen him.
22. The enemy shafl not exact upon
Mm ; nor the son of wickedness afflict
Mm. 23. And I wiU beat down his foes
before his face, and plague them that
hate him. !
24. But my faithfuMess and my
mercy shall be with hun, and in my
name shafl Ms hom be exalted.
25. I wfll set his hand also in the
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2. And I wfll make of thee a great
nation, and I wiU bless thee, and make
thy name great ; and thou shalt be a

3. And I wiU bless them that bless
thee, and curse him that cursetii thee :
and in thee shall aU famUies of the earth
be blessed. Note.
All the promises of the covenant of
grace, being in Christ yea and amen,
therefore whether he is manifested to
men in the character ; of the Father,
the Son, or the Holy Spirit, these pro
mises all speak the same thing. They
embrace the full inheritance of the saints
in all its length and breadth.
The words here addressed to Abra
ham are virtually the same that in the
72d Psalm are spoken of the "King's
Son," or the Lord Jesus Christ in his
mediatorial kingdom.
Abraham was indeed the father of a
great nation, both literally and typical
ly. But as the blessings of the kingdom
hi Christ are here evidently referred to,
we may infer the fact, that it is the
antitypical nation, the spiritual Israel,
and the God and Father of our Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ, that are spoken
of. The Uteral Israel, or seed of Abra
ham, were in no sense a blessing to the
world, otherwise than being the natural
progenitors of Him in whom aU the fa
miUes of the earth are blessed — not the
Jews only, but also the Gentfles.
Thus was the gospel preached unto
Abraham ; because to him was the first
intimation given that God would justify
the heathen through faith. It was also
when Abraham was in uncircumcision
that this promise was made, that it
might be sure to all the seed; "not to
that only which is of the law, but to
that also which is of the faith of Abra
ham, who is the father of us afl" (that
beUeve).

The Spirit.
IsA. xU. 9. Thou whom I have
taken from the ends of the earth, and
caUed thee from the chief men thereof,
and said unto thee. Thou art my ser
vant ; I have chosen thee, and not cast
theo away.
10. Fear thou not; for I am vrith
thee : be not dismayed ; for I am thy
God: I wfll strengthen thee; yea, I
wiU help thee ; yea, I wiU uphold thee
with the right hand of my righteous
ness. 11. Behold, aU they that were m-
censed against thee shafl be ashamed
and confounded : they shafl be as no
tMng ; and they that strive with thee
shafl perish.
12. Thou shalt seek them, and shalt
not find them, even them that contended
with thee : they that war ag^nst thee
shall be as nothmg, and as a thing of
naught. 13. For I the Lord thy God -wfll
hold thy right hand, saymg unto thee,
Fear not ; I -wfll help thee.
Eph. i. 3. Blessed be the God and
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who
hath blessed us with afl spiritual bless
ings m heavenly places in Christ, ac
cordmg as he hath chosen us m him
before the foundation of the world.
Ps. kxii. 16. There shall be a
handful of com in the earth upon the
top of the mountains : the fruit thereof
shall shake lUie Lebanon : and ihey of
the city shafl flourish like grass of fhe
earth. 17. His name shafl endure for ever,
his name shall be contmued as long
as the sun ; and men shall be blessed
in him : aU nations shaU caU" Mm
blessed. 18. Blessed be the Lord God, the
God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous
thmgs. 1 9. And blessed be his glorious name
for ever ; and let the whole earth be
filled with his glory. Amen, and
Amen. 1 CoK, xvi. 22. If any man love not

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the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Ana
thema Maran-atha.

Tiie Letter. •
4. So Abram departed, as the Lord
had spoken unto him, and Lot went -with
him : and Abram was seventy and five
years old when he departed out of
Haran. 6. And Abram took Sarai his wffe,
and Lot hisjbrother's son, and all their
substance that they had gathered, and
the souls that they had gotten m' Ha
ran ; and they went forth to go into
the land of Canaan ; and into the land
of Canaan they came.
6. And Abram passed through the
land unto the place of Sichem, unto tho
plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite
was then in the land. Note.
The goings forth of the divine Ee
deemer have been " of old, even from
everlasting." All the manffestations of
himself have been for the salvation' of
his people ; whether as the raighty God,
the everlasting Father, or the Prince of
Peace ; whether to raise up a chosen
seed, or to redeem that seed by his
blood, it has been always in view of
them, and for the great love wherewith
he loved them, that he haa appeared
among men. Nor does he ever appear
alone, but as one with his people, — the
Head of the church — the Saviour of the
body. In this raorning or twUight portion of
rederaption-work, aa here typically re
presented, Abram's journeyings from
Haran through the land of Canaan
unto Sichem and the plain of Moreh, have
special respect to the first comrauuica-
tions of God to men, as the High Father,
or as God Almighty. Sichera signifies
early in themorning ; and Moreh signi
fies spreading out, or increasing. The
import of the figure then is this : — ^The
Almighty God comes forth as the Father
of the covenant, to give the first intima
tion of his purpose of grace in Christ

The Spirit.
Ps. Ixix. 34. Let the heaven and
earth praise him, the seas, and every
thing that moveth therem.
36. For God-wiU save Zion, and wiU
build the cities of Judah: that they
may dwefl there, and have it in posses
sion. 36. The seed also of his servants
shafl inherit it ; and they that love his
name shafl dwell tiierein.
1. 4. He shafl call to tho heavens
from above, and to the earth, that he
may judge his people.
6. Gather my samts together unto
me ; those that have made a covenant
¦with me by sacrifice.
6. And the heavens shaU declare Ms
righteousness : for God is judge him
self. Selah. '
7. Hoar, O my people, and I wifl
speak; O Israel, and I vrill testffy
agamst thee : I am God, even thy
God. Ixvui. 7. O God, when thou wentest
forth before thy people, when thou
didst march through the wfldemess;
Selah :
8. The earth shook, the heavens also
dropped at the presence of God: even
Sinai itself was moved at the presence
of God, the God of Israel.
9. Thou, O God, didst send a plen-
tfful rain, whereby thou didst confirm
tMne inheritance, when it was weary.
10. Thy congregation hath dwelt
therein : thou, O God, hast prepared
of thy goodness for the poor.
***** 32. Smg unto God, ye kmgdoms of
the earth; O smg praises unto the
Lord; Selah:
33. To him that rideth upon the hea
vens of heavens, which were of old ; lo,
he doth send out his voice, arid that a
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Jesus, which shall grow and increase in
the clearness of its revelations unto the
perfect day.

The Letter.
7. And the Lord appeared unto
Abram, and said, Unto thy seed -will I
give this land : and there buUdedhe an
altar unto the Lord, who appeared unto
him. 8. And he removed from thence unto
a mountain on the east of Beth-el, and
pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the
west, and Hai on the east : and there
he buUded an alter unto the Lord, and
called upon the name of the Lord.
9. And Abram journeyed, gomg on
still toward the south.
10. And there was a famine in the
land: and Abram went down into
Egypt to sojoum there ; for the famine
vias grievous m the land.
11. And it came to pass, when he
was come near to enter into Egypt,
that he said unto Sarai Ms vrife. Behold
¦now, I know that thou art a fafr woman
to look upon :
12. Therefore it shaU come to pass,
when the Egyptians shall see thee, that
they shall say. This is his wffe : and
they wfll kfll me, but they wfll save
thee alive.
13. Say, I pray thee, thou art my sis
ter: that it may be wefl -with me for
thy sake; and my soul shall Uve be
cause of thee. Note.'
The promise increases in its fulness
and clearness. At first it was an inde
finite blessing ; now it assumes a more
distinct form. " Unto thy seed will I give
this land." Paul in Gal says, this seed
is Christ. If so, then the land given is

34. Ascribe ye strength unto God :
his exceUency is over Israel, and his.
strength is in the clouds.
36. O God, thou art terriWe out of
thy holy places : the God of Israel is
he that giveth strength and power unto
his people. Blessed he God.
xcui. 2. Thy throne is established
of old : thou art from everlasting.

The Spirit.
Deut. xxxiu. 7. Remernber the
days of old, consider the years of many
generations : ask thy father, and he -wfll
show thee; thy elders, and they wUf
tell thee.
8. When the Most High dirided to
the nations thefr inheritance, when he
separated the sons of Adam, he set the
bounds of the people accordmg to the
number of the chUdren of Israel :
9. For the Lord's portion is Ms peo
ple; Jacob is the lot of Ms mheritance.
2 Sam. vu. 10. Moreover I vrill ap
point a place for my people Israel, and
will plant them, that they may dwefl in
a place of thefr own, and move no more ;
neither shafl the chUdren of wicked
ness affict them any more, as before-
time. 11. And as since the tune that I
commanded judges io he over my people
Israel, and have caused thee to rest
from all thine enemies. Also the Lord
tefleth thee, that he will make thee a
house. 12. And when thy days be fulfilled,
and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I
wUl set up thy seed after thee, wMch
shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I
wfll establish his kingdom.
13. He shall bufld a house for my
name ; and I wfll stabflsh the throne of
Ms kmgdom for ever.
14. I vrifl be Ms father, and he shall
be my son. If he commit iniquity, I
vrifl chasten him with the rod of men,
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not Uteral Canaan, but that which Oa-'
naan represents, the " inheritance incor
ruptible, undefiled, and that fadeth not
away, which is reserved in heaven" for
Christ and his people.
Upon receiving this promise Abram
sets up an altar, or memorial of it on the
east of Bethel, because there, in that
very spot, would this promise be hereaf
ter more fully developed.
Abram then proceeds to Egypt, a
place which is often mentioned in this
typical history. Egypt appears to re
present the world in distinction from the
church, or the earth in distinction from
the heavens, in thefr mystical sense.
The true relationship between. Christ
and the church is never understood by
the world; it is to them a hidden mys
tery. For Jesus manifests himself to her
as he does not to the world ; and iu thefr
view treats her more as a sister than a
tpouse. This act of Abram may also intiraate
that which iu the "fulness of time"
would actually take place in the apirit-

AcTS ui. 30. Therefore being a pro
phet, and knowing that God had swom
with an oath to him, that of the fruit of
his loms, accordmg to the flesh, he
would raise up Christ to sit on his
throne. Sol. Song iv. 12. A garden en
closed is my sister, my spouse ; a spring
shut up, a fountain sealed.
Eph. v. 29. For no man ever yet
hated his o-wn flesh ; but nourisheth
and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the
church :
30. For we are members of Ms body,
of his flesh, and of Ms bones.
31. For tMs cause shafl a man leave
Ms father and mother, and shafl be
jomed unto his wffe, and they too shaU
be one flesh.
32. This is a great mystery : but I
speak concerning Christ and the
church. ,
ual Egypt, where Jesua would redeem
the church -with hia blood.

The Letter.
14. And it came to pass, that when
Abram was como into Egypt, the Egyp
tians beheld the woman that she was
very fafr.
15. The princes also of Pharaoh saw
her, and commended her before Pha
raoh : and the woman was taken mto
Pharaoh's house.
16. And he entreated Abram wefl for
her sake : and he had sheep, and oxen,
and he-asses, and men-servants, and
maid-servants, and she-asses, and ca,
mels. 17. And the Lord plagued PhAraoh
and his house with great plagues be
cause of Sarai, Abram's wffe.
18. And Pharaoh called Abram, and
said. What is this that thou hast done
unto me ? why didst thou not tefl me
that she was thy wffe ?
19. Why saidst thou, She is my
sister? so I might have taken her to
9

The Spirit.
1 John ui. 1. Behold what manner
of love the Father hath bestowed upon
us, that we should bo called the sons]of '
God ! therefore the world knoweth us ,
not, because it knew him not.
2. Beloved, now are we the sons of
God ; and it doth not yet appear what
we shafl be : but we know that, when.
he shaU appear, we shaU be like hun.;
for we shaU see him as he is..
Ps. xlvUi. 2. Beautfful for situaj-
tion, the joy of the whole earth, is
mount Zion, cm the sides of the norths
the city of the great King.
3. God is known in her palaces -for;
a refuge. 4. For lo, the kings were assembled,
they passed by together.
6. They saw ¦k, and so they mar--
veUed; they were troubled, and hasted'
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me to wffe: now therefore behold thy
vrife, take her, and go thy way.
20. And Pharaoh commanded his
men concerning him: and they sent
him away, and Ms wife, and all that he
had. Note.
The external glory of the church un
der the first testament, made her an ob
ject of admiration and wonder to the
world. Not discerning her spiritual na
ture or hidden character, and mistaking
her outward cereraonies and sadorn-
ments for a token of oneness and simili
tude with themselves, they claim a right
to her blessings and privileges aa their
own. Butthough her Lord and Husband
does not openly recognise his own ex
clusive title and relationship to Zion, yet
he guards with watchful jealousy against
the claims and encroachments of "other
lords." If the ungodly put unholy hands
upon his chosen, they are given to un
derstand that she is not to be defiled,
polluted, or held in bondage with impu
nity; that "he who touches her touches
the apple of his eye.'' They may boast
of their power over her, and what they
might do, either to favor or destroy her ;
but the language of her sovereign Lord
is, " Touch not mine anpinted, and do my
prophets no harm."

6. Fear took hold upon them there,
and pain, as of a woman in travail.
7. Thou breakest the ships of Tar
shish with an east wind.
8. As we have heard, so haye we
seen in the city of the Lord of "hosts, in
the city of our God: God 'wHil estabUsh
it for ever. Selah.
9. We have thought of thy loving
kmdness, O God, in the midst of thy
temple. 10. According to thy name, O God,
so is thy praise unto the ends of tho
earth ; thy right hand is fufl of right
eousness. 11. Let mount Zion rejoice, let the
daughters of Judah be glad, because of
thy judgments.
12. Walk about Zion, and go round
about her : tell the towers thereof.
Job xxi. 14. Therefore they say
unto God, Depart from us ; for we de
sfre not the knowledge of thy ways.
15. What is the Almighty, that we
should serve him ? and what profit
should we have, ff we pray unto
Jiim? 16. Lo, their good is not in their
hand : the counsel of fhe wicked is far
from me.

CHAPTER XIL

The Letter.

1. And Abram went up out of
Egypt, he, and his wffe, and all that he
had, and Lot with him, mto the south.
2. And Abram was very rich in cat-
tie, m sUver, and in gold.
3. And he went on his journeys from
the south even to Beth-el, unto fhe
place whore Ms tent had been at the
beginnmg, between Beth-el and Hai ;
4. Unto the place of the altar, wMch
he had made there at the first: and
there Abram cafled on the name of the
Lord.

The Spirit.

Deut. xxxii. 11. As an eagle stir-
reth up her nest, fluttereth over her
young, spreadeth abroad her wmgs,
taketh them, beareth them on her
wmgs :
12. So the Lord alone did lead him,
and there was no strange God with
him. 13. He made him ride on the Mgh
phices of the earth, that he might eat
the increase of the fields ; and he made
hun to suck honey out of the rock, and
ofl out of the fliinty rock:

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5. And Lot also, which went with
Abram, had flocks, and herds, and
tents. 6. And the land was not able to bear
them, that they might dweU together:
for their substance was great, so that
they could not dwefl together.
Note.
The two companies that constituted
the family of Abram, represent the two
kingdoms of Israel and Judah, which
were once united, but became divided in
the reign of Rehoboam. Spiritually
they are the whole house of Israel, as
made up of the " good oUve" and the
wild olive ; the natural branches of the
former being broken off for a season
from their standing by birth, because
by the gospel all were alike concluded
under sin, that the free grace which is
by promise might come unto all; but
which were to be again " grafted in" (if
they abide not in unbelief), to stand by
faith in all the root and fatness of the
good olive, with the fulness of the Gen
tfles. It was to the gospel-day, when the
house of God should be built of lively
stones, a spiritual temple, that this pre
dictive promise pointed for its fulfil
ment

The Letter.
7. And there was a strife between
the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the
herdmcn of Lot's cattle : and the Ca
naanite and the Perizzite dweUed then
in the land. ,
8. And Abram said unto Lot, Let
there be no strife, I pray thee, between
me and thee, and between my herd-
men and thy herdmen ; for we be bre
thren.

***** 15. But Jeshurun waxed fat, and
kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art
grown thick, thou art covered with fat
ness ; then he forsook God which made
him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of
his salvation.
Josh. xvu. 14. And the children of
Joseph spake unto Joshua, saying.
Why hast thou given me but one lot
and one portion to inherit, seeing I am
a great people, forasmuch as the Lord
hath blessed me hitherto ?
16. And Joshua answered them. If
thou be a great people, then get thee up
to the wood-coitnfry, and cnt down for
thyself there m the land of tho Periz
zites and of the giants, ff mount
Ephraim be too narrow for thee.
Isa. xi. 11. And it shall come to
pass m that day, thai the Lord shall set
Ms hand again tho second time to re
cover the remnant of his people, which
shaU be left, from Assyria, and from
Egypt, and from Pathros, and from
Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar,
and from Hamath, and from the islands
of the sea.
12. And he shall set up an ensign
for the nations, and shafl assemble the
outcasts of Israel, and gather together
the dispersed of Judah from the four
corners of the earth.
13. The envy also of Ephraim shafl
depart, and the adversaries of Judah
shafl be cut off: Ephraim shafl not
envy Judah, and Judah shafl not vex
EpM-aun.

The Spirit.
Jer. xxxi. 10. Hear the word of the
Lord, O ye nations, and declare it in the
isles afar off, and say. He that scattered
Israel wUl gather him, and keep him
as a shepherd doth his flbck.
11. For the Lord hath redeemed Ja-
cob, and ransomed hun from the hand
of him that was stronger than he.
12. Therefore they shafl come and
sing m the height of Zion, and shall

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9, Is not the whole land before thee ?
Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me :
ff thou wUt take the left hand, then I
wfll go to the right : or if thmi depart
to the right hand, then I wUl go to
the left Note.
The two kingdoms of Ephraim, or
Israel and Judah, were ever at variance :
"Ephraim envied Judah, and Judah
vexed Ephraim.''
The house of Israel were first placed
under one covenant of works; but as
soon as the law oi faith was established,
and the new- covenant order of things
took place, there was war between
them, and they were separated from
each other ; for " these are contrary the
one from the other," and cannot exist
together. " But there is hope in thine
end, saith the Lord, that thy children
shall come again to their own borders."
The natural branches shall be gathered
in to their own olive if they abide not in
unbelief. So Ramah ahall be comforted,
and all Israel shall be saved."
But more especially was it the herd-
men oi the two flocks, — ^those that boast
ed on the one hand, that they were
Moses' disciples and sat in Moses' seat,
and were teachers of the law and guides
of the blind, — were at direct variance
from those who looked and waited for
"the promise through faith;" — the
" law of works " and the law of faith "
were contrary the one from the other.

The Letter.
10. Lot lifted up his eyes, and be
held afl the plain of Jordan, that it was
wefl watered everywhere, before the
'Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah,
even as the garden of the Lord, like the

flow together to the goodness of the
Lord, for wheat, and for wine, and for
ofl, and for the young of the flock and
of the herd : and their soul shafl be as
a watered garden ; and they shall not
sorrow any more at all.
sp: 3fj ^ V 5p
15. Thus saith the Lord; A voice
was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and
bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for
her children refused to be comforted for
her children, because they were not.
16. Thus saith the Lord; Refraui
thy voice from weepmg, and thme eyes
from tears : for thy work shall be re
warded, saith the Lord ; and they shaU
come again from the land of the enemy.
17. And there is hope m thme end,
saith tho Lord, that thy chfldren shaU
come again to thefr own border.
18. I have surely heard Ephraim be
moaning himself <7ms ; Thou hast chas
tised me, and I was chastised, as a bul
lock unaccustomed io the yoke; tum
thou me, and I shaU be turned; for
thou art the Lord my God.
19. Surely after that I was turned, I
repented; and after that I was in
structed, I smote upon my tMgh : I was
ashamed, yea, even confounded, be
cause I did bear the reproach of my
youth. Isa. v. 6. And I wifl lay it waste ;
it shall not be pruned nor digged ; but
there shall come up briars and thoms :
I wifl also command the clouds that
they rain not ram upon it.
7. For the vineyard of tho Lord of
hosts is the house of Israel, and the
men of Judah Ms pleasant plant: and
he looked for judgment, but behold
oppression ; for righteousness, but be
hold a cry.

i The Spirit. ]
Isa. v. 1. Now wfll I sing to my
well-beloved a song of my beloved
touchmg his vmeyard. My well-be
loved hath a vineyard m a very fruitful
MU:

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land of Egypt, as thou comest unto
Zoar. 11. Then Lot chose him all the plam
of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east:
and they separated themselves the one
from the other.
12. Abram dweUed in the land of
Canaan ; and Lot dwelled in the cities
of the plain, and pitched 7iis tent to
ward Sodom.
13. But the men of Sodom were
wicked and smners before the Lord,
exceedingly. Note.
The choice of Lot of the well-watered
plain of Sodom, represents the planting
of Judah in the fruitful land of Judea ;
or of the old-covenant people iu the hill
of Zion.
From the aeripturea here quoted,
there can be no doubt of the fact that
Sodom, iu its fruitfulness, its wicked-
neaa, and ita signal overthrow, is intend
ed as an example of Jerusalem and her
old-covenant people ; likewise the de
struction of the old world by the flood.
2 Pet ii. 5, 6. Jehovah says to this peo
ple, "You only have I known of all the
nations of the earth ; therefore will I
punish you for your iniquities." He
had distinguished them by special pri-
¦vileges, and he would visit them with
special judgments.
After " hewing" thera by the prophets,
and, threatening thera with all the curses
written in the book of the law, he next
sends to these wicked husbandmen his
own Son frora heaven, saying they will
surely reverence ray Son, but hira they
despitefully used and crucifled. And
then was filled up the raeasure of their
iniquities, for all the righteous blood of
all the prophets and righteous men —
from the blood of righteous Abel to the
blood of Zecharias — was required of
that generation, and visited upon them.
We have before seen that the promise
of God to Abraham, being through
faith, and not through the law, cm-
braced the whole faraily of the elect,
whether, like righteous Lot in Sodora,
they were the true heirs of proraise, or
hidden ones of God, dwelling in the

2. And he fenced it, and gathered
out the stones thereof, and planted it
with the choicest vine, and buflt a
tower in the midst of it, and also made
a -wine-press therem: and he looked
that it should bring forth grapes, and it
brought forth wild grapes.
3. And now, O inhabitants of Jeru
salem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray
you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
4. What could have heen done more
to my vineyard, that I have not done in
it? wherefore, when I looked that it
should bring forth grape's, brought it
forth wUd gaapes?
5. And now go to ; I wifl tefl you
what I wfll do to my vineyard : I wifl
take away the hedge thereof, and it
shafl be eaten up ; and break down the
wafl thereof, and it shafl be trodden
down: 6. And I will lay it waste : it shall
not be pruned nor digged ; but there
shall come up briers and thorns : I -wifl
also command the clouds that they rain
no rain upon it.
7. For the vineyard of the Lord of
hosts is the house of Israel, and the
men of Judah his pleasantest plant:
and he looked for judgment, but be
hold oppression ; for righteousness, but
behold a cry.
Deut. xxxU. 32. For thefr vine is of
the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of
Gomorrah: thefr grapes are grapes of
gaU, their clusters are bitter :
33. Their wine is the poison of dra
gons, and the cmei venom of asps.
IsA. i. 2. Hear, O heavens, and give
ear, O earth : for the Lord hath spoken,
I have nourished and brought up chil
dren, and they have rebeUed against
me. 3. The ox knoweth his owner, and
the ass his master's crib: but Israel
doth not know, my people doth not
consider. ***** 10. Hear the word of the Lord, ye
rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the
law of our God, ye people of Gomor
rah.

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midst of a rebellious and gainsaying
people, — or, whether they yet reraained
in the olive which is wfld by nature.
And, as if to show stiU more clearly,
that it is a proraise confirmed of God in
Christ, irrespective of the law, it ia re
peated after Lot had separated from
Abram.

*The Letter.
14. And the Lord said unto Abram,
after that Lot was separated from Mm,
Lfft up now thine eyes, and look from
the place where thou art, northward,
and southward, and eastward, and west
ward: 15. For all the land which thou
seest, to thee wifl I give it, and to thy
seed for ever.
16. And I wiU make thy seed as tbe
dust of the earth : so that ff a man can
number the dust of the earth, then shall
thy seed also be numbered.
17. Arise, walk through the land in
the length of it, and m the breadth of
it; for I wifl ^ve it unto thee.
18. Then Abram removed his tent,
and came and dwelt in the plain of
Mamre, which is in Hebron, a,nd buflt
there an altar unto the Lord.
Note.
The inheritance given to Abram was
not by the law, but by promise : there
fore, in separating from him, Lot placed
himself under the law, which dealt upon
quite a different tenure. Lot had chosen
the cities of the plain because they were
well wateredy&ndi pitched hia tent toward
Sodom. Figuratively, he had chosen
that fruitful vineyard which the Lord of
hosts had planted, and from which " he
looked that it should bring forth grapes ;
but it brought forth wild grapes."
But Abram's portion was not so ; it
was the gift of God by promiae, and not
to be enjoyed, but waited for. This last
vision causes Abram to reraove to

11. To what purpose is the multi
tude of your sacrifices unto me ? saith
the Lord : I am full of the burnt-offer
ings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts,
and I delight not in the blood of bul
locks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
Rev. xi. 8. And their dead bodies
shall lie in the street of the great city,
wMch spirituaUy is cafled Sodom and
Egypt, where also our Lord was cruci
fied.

The Spirit.
Ps. Ixxxix. 34. My covenant wifl I
not break, nor alter the thing that is
gone out of my lips.
35. Once have I swom by my hoU
ness, that I wUl not lie unto David.
36. His seed shaU endure for ever,
and his throne as the sun before me.
37. It shaU be established for ever
as the moon, and as a faithful witness
in heaven. Selah.
27. Also I wfll make him my first-
bom, higher than the kings of the
earth. 28. My mercy -(rifl I keep for him for
evermore, and myjjovenant shafl stand
fast vrith him.
29. His seed also wifl I make to en
dure tor ever, and Ms throne as the
days of heaven.
Num. xxui. 10. Who can count the
dust of Jacob, and the number of the
fourth part of Israel ? Let me die the
death of the righteous, aud let my last
end be like his !
IsA. xUx. 20. The children which
thou shalt have, after thou hast lost
the other, shafl say again in thine ears.
The place is too strait for me : give
place to me that I may dwefl.
2 1 . Then shalt thou say in thy heart.
Who hath begotten me these, seeing I
have lost my chfldren, and am desolate,
a captive, and removing to and fro ?
and who hath brought up these ? Be
hold, I was left alone; these, where
had they been ?

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Mamre and Hebron. His " delights are
already with the sons of men," even "the
rebellious;" for he sees that God will
bring them " nigh " and reconcfle them
to hiraself by the blood of the cross.
And again he sets up his raeraorial ; the
witness of hia faith.

Ps. Ixu. 8. He shafl have dommion
also from sea to sea, and from the river
unto the ends of the earth.
Eph. U. 7. That in the ages to
come, he might show the exceeding
riches of Ms grace, in his kindness to
wards us through Jesus Christ

CHAPTER XIIL

The Letter.
1. And it came to pass, m the days
of Ami-apel, kmg of Shinar; Arioch,
kmg of EUasar; Chedorlaomer, Mng of
Elam ; and Tidal, king of nations ;
2. That these made war with Bera,
king of Sodom, and with Birsha, k'mg
of Gomorrah, SMnab, king of Admah,
and Shemeber, king of Zeboiim, and
tho king of Bela, wMch is Zoar.
3. All these were joined together in
the vale of Siddim, which is tho salt sea.
***** 10. And the vale of Siddim was full
of slime-pits ; and tho kings of Sodom
and Gomorrah fled, and fell there : and
they that remained fled to the moun
tain. 11. And they took afl the goods of
Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their
victuals, and went their way.
12. And thoy took Lot, Abram's
brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom,
and his goods, and departed.
Note.
Captivity by the hand of their ene
mies was God's usual method of punish
ing his people for their sins.
Jerusalem, the spiritual Sodom, was
besieged and laid waste, and her princes
carried captive, many times, by the
neighboring nations. Yet would God
remember his covenant with their
fathers, aud repent him of the evil, and
deliver thera from their enemies. But
the people rebelled more and more,
though often threatened with a final
overthrow, which ultimately came upon
<them.

The Spirit.
Isa i. 1. The vision of Isaiah, the
son of Amoz, which he saw concerning
Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of
Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, aiid Hezekiah,
kings of Judah.
2. Hear, O heavens; and give ear,
O earth : for the Lord hath spoken, I
have nourished and brought up chil-
di-en, and they have rebeUod against me.
3. The ox knoweth his owner ; and
the ass his master's crib; but Israel
doth not know, my people doth not
consider. 4. Ah smful nation, a people laden
with iniquity, a seed of evU-doers,
children that are corrupters ! they have
forsaken the Lord, they have provoked
the Holy One of Israel unto anger,
they are gone away backward.
5. Why should ye be stricken any
more. The whole head is sick, and
the whole heart famt.
6. From the sole of the foot even
unto the head there is no soundness in
it; but wounds, and bruises, and pu-
trifying sores : they have not been
closed, neither bound up, neither mol
lified with omtment,
7. Your country is desolate, your
cities are bumed with fire : your land,
strangers devour it m your presence,
and ii is desolate, as overthrovra hy
strangers. 8. And the daughter of Zion is left
as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in
a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged
city.

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Thus also God deals with the militant
church ; tiaiting thera with his chasten
ing rod, when they forsake his testirao
nies; aud if they repent not, he wfll
" remove the candlestick out of his place."
Yet does it reraain sure that his loving
kindness -wiU never be removed frora
the righteous, because " their righteous
ness is of me, saith the Lord." They are
" kept by the power of God, through faith,
unto salvation."

The Letter.
13. And there came one that had
escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew ;
for he dwelt in the plam of Mamre the
Amorito, brother of Eschol, and bro
ther of Amer : and these were confe
derate with Abram.
14. And when Abram heard that his
brother was taken captive, he armed
his trained servants, bom in his own
house, three hundred and eighteen, and
pursued them unto Dan.
15. And he divided hunself agamst
them, he and his servants by night, and
smote them, and pursued them unto
Hobah, wMch is on the left hand of
Damascus. 16. And he brought back aU the
goods, and also brought again Ms bro
ther Lot, and Ms goods, and the women
also, and the people. NOTK
The ears of the Lord are ever open to
the cry of his people ; and he that keep
eth Israel never slumbereth nor sleepeth.

9. Except the Lord of hosts had left
unto us a very smafl remnant, we
should have been as Sodom, and we
should have been Iflse unto Gomorrah.
10. Hear the word of the Lord, ye
rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the
law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
Zech. xiv. 2. Por I wfll gather aU
nations agamst Jerusalem to battle;
and the city shall be taken, and the
houses rifled, and the women ravished;
and haff of the city shall go forth into
captivity, and the residue of the people
shafl not be cut off from the city.
Is A. vifl. 1 5. And many among them
shafl stumble, and fall, and be broken,
and be snared, and be taken.
Ezk. vi. 8. Yet wfll I leave a rem
nant, that ye may have some that shaU
escape the sword among the nations,
when ye shafl be scattered through the
countries.

The Spirit.
Isa. Ixui. 9. In all thefr afiliction he
was afflicted, and the angel of Ms
presence saved them : m his love and
m Ms pity he redeemed them ; and he
bare them, and carried them aU the
days of old.
Ps. cxxiv. 1. It it had rwt Seen the
Lord who was on our side, now may
Israel say :
2. If it had not heen the Lord who
was on our side, when men rose up
against us,
3. Then they had swallowed us Tip
quick, when thefr wrath was Mndled
against us :
4. Then the waters had overwhelm
ed us. the stream had gone over our
soul: 6. Then the proud waters had gone
over our soul.
6. Blessed be the Lord, who hath
not given us as a prey to their teetii.
7. Our soul is escaped as a bird out
of the snare of the fowlers : the snare
is broken, and we are escaped. .

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If Sodom had done wickedly, yet must
Lot be delivered.
One of the special blessings of the sal
vation' of Christ is, that it is bestowed
upon him that hath no helper — the dis
tressed and the destitute. He is a bro
ther born for adversity, aud he will re
deem Israel out of all their distresses.
He "saves the children of the needy,
and breaks in pieces the oppressor."
We find that Abram makes use, on
this occasion, of the Amorites among
whom he dwells. So also it is the me
thod of Jesus to use even his enemies to
bring about benefits to his people.

8. Our help is in the name of the
Lord, who made heaven and earth.
Isa. xlix. 25. But thus saith the
Lord, Even the captives of the mighty
shaU bo taken away, and the prey of
the terrible shafl be delivered : for I
wiU contend -with him that contendeth
'with thee, and I wUl save thy chUdren.
26. And I wiU feed them that op
press thee -ivith their own flesh; and
they shall be drunken with their own
blood, as with sweet wine: and all
flesh shafl know that I the Lord am
thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the
mighty One of Jacob.
Ps. cxxvi. 1. When the Lord turned
again the captivity of Zion, we were
like them that dream.
2. Then was our mouth fiUed with
laughter, and our tongue with singing :
then said they among the heathen,
The Lord hath done great tMngs for
them. 3. Tho Lord hath done great things
for us ; wliereof we are glad.

The Letter.
17. And the Idng of Sodom went out
to meet him (after the return from the
daughter of Chedorlaomer, and of tho
kings that were -with him), at tho valloy
of Shaveh, which is the king's dale.
18. And Melchizedek king of Salem
brought forth broad and wine : and he
was tho priest of the most high God.
19. And he blessed him, and said.
Blessed be Abram of the most high
God, possessor of heaven and earth :
20. And blessed be the most high
God, which hath deUvered thine ene
mies into thy hand. And ho gave him
tithes of afl. Note.
This victory of Abram and rescue of
Lot is the first of the kind recorded in
scripture. In its connexion with this
typical history it ia of high aud import
ant import
From the remarkable manner in

The Spirit.
Heb. vii. 6. And verUy they that
are of tho sons of Levi, who receive
the office of the priesthood, have a
commandment to take tithes of the peo
ple according to the law, that is, of
their brethren, though they come out
of tho loins of Abraham.
6. But he whose descent is not count
ed from them received tithes of Abra
ham, and blessed him that had the pro
mises. 7. And without all contradiction the
less is blessed of tho better.
8. And here men that die receive
tithes : but there he receiveth ihem, of
whom it is vritnessed that he liveth.
9. And as I may so say, Levi also,
who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in
Abraham. 10. For he was yet in the loms of
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which this triumph of Abram ia celebra
ted, we perceive it must have allusion
to the triumph of Christ over principali
ties and powers, whom he spoiled when
he led captivity captive in the death of
the cross.
The king of Sodom (Jerusalem) who
comes forth to meet and to share the
spoils with Abram represents the Le
vitical priesthood, which becarae extinct
at the death of Christ The appearance
too of Melohisedec at this special crisis
bringing forth bread and wine, the era-
blems of the great sacrifice for sin, by
which Zion is redeeraed from her ene
mies, declares the change which is then
to take place both in the priesthood and
the covenants.
And lastly the remarkable blessing
pronounced by Melchisedec upon Abram
points out the Son of God as "the Lord,
tht Lord mighty in battle," whose throne
ia forever aud ever, and the sceptre of
whose kingdora is a i-ight sceptre.
"Thou lovest righteousness and hatest
wickedness; therefore God, thy God,
hath anointed thee with the oil of glad
ness above thy fellows."

1. For this Melchisedec, king of Sa
lem, priest of the most high God, 'who
met Abraham returning from the
slaughter of the kings, and blessed
him; 2. To whom also Abraham gave a
tenth part of aU ; first being, by inter
pretation. King of righteousness, and
after that also King of Salem, which is,
King of peace ;
***** 20. And inasmuch aa not -without
an oath he was made priest:
21. (For those priests were made
without an oath ; but this with an oath,
by him that said unto him, The Lord
sware, and will not repent. Thou art a
priest for ever after the order of Mel
chizedec :)
22. By so much was Jesus made a
surety of a bettor testament.
Ps. xlv. 1. My heart is inditing a
good matter: I speak of the things
which I have made touching the Kmg :
my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
2. Thou art fairer than the chfldren
of mon : graco is poured into thy Ups :
therefore God hath blessed thee for
over. 3. Gird thy sword upon thy thigh,
O Most Mighty, with thy glory and thy
majesty. 4. And m thy majesty ride prosper
ously because of truth and meeknesS
and righteousness ; and thy right hand
shafl teach thee terrible things.
5. Thine arrows are sharp in the
heart of the King's enemies ; whereby
the people faU under thee.
6. Thy throne, O God, is for ever
and ever : the sceptre of thy kmgdom
is a right sceptre.

The Letter.
21. And the kmg of Sodom said
unto Abram, Givo me the persons, and
take the goods to thyself.
22. And Abram said to the king of

The Spirit.
Heb. vu. 11. If therefore perfec
tion were by the Levitical priesthood
(for under it the people received the
law), what further need was there that

Sodom, I have lifted up my hand unto 1 another priest should rise after tiie or

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the Lord, the most high God, the pos
sessor of heaven and earth,
23. That I wifl not tote from a
thread even to a shoe-latchet, and that
I wfll not take anything that is thine,
lest thou shouldest say, I have made
Abram rich :
24. Save only that which the young
men have eaten, and the portion of the
men which went with me, Anor, Eshcol,
and Mamre ; let them take their por
tion. Note.
This proposal of the king of Sodora, to
divide the spoil with Abram, shows the
blindness and self-righteousness of the
Jews, who, ignorantoi God's righteous
ness, sought by their own deeds and ob
servances to render to hira an equiva
lent for the benefits they received.
They presumptuously offer that which
was already his own, as the possessor of
heaven and earth. Therefore he says,
"Bring no more vain oblations, nor think
with the cattle upon a thousand hills
and ten thousand rivers of oil ; nay, even
with the fruit of thine own body, to re-
deera a single soul, or give to God a
ransora for it."
The systera of carnal ordinances was
frora this time to be blotted out ; the
rudiraents of the world and the cora-
mandments and doctrines of men had no
more place ; for Christ in this typical act
-of the sacrifice of himself, had perfected
forever them that are sanctified : that
which all the offerings of the Levitical
priesthood could never do; for ff per
fection could have been obtained by
thera, then there would have been no
need of the order of Melchisedec. If
the rulers of Sodom could have con
quered their eneraies and delivered the
people frora captivity, then Abrara need
not have corae forth and accomplished
the work.

der of Melchisedec, and not be called
after the order of Aaron ?
***** 13. For ho of whom these things
are spoken pertaineth to another tribe,
of which no man gave attendance at tho
altar. ***** 6. So also Christ glorified not him
self to be made a high priest ; but he
that said unto him. Thou art my Son,
to-day have I begotten thee.
6. As he saith also in another place.
Thou art a priest for over after the or
der of Melchisedec.
CoL. u. 14. Blotting out the hand-
writmg of or(Unancos that was against
us, wMch was contrary to us, and took
it out of the way, nailing it to his
cross ;
15. And having spofled principaUties
and powers, he made a show of them
openly, triumpMng over them in it.
16. Lot no man therefore judge you
in moat, or m di-mk, or in respect of a
holy day, or of tho new-moon, or of the
sabbath-ioj/s; 17. Which are a shadow of things
to come ; but the body is of Christ.
18. Let no manbeguUe you of your
reward in a voluntary humUity and
worshipping of angels, intrudmg into
those things wMch ho hath not seen,
vainly puffed up by his fleshly
mind, 19. And not holdmg the head, from
which aU the body by joints and bands
havmg nourishment ministered, and
knit together, increaseth vrith the in
crease of God.
20. Wherefore, ff ye be dead with
Christ from the rudiments of tjie world,
why, as though living in the world, are
ye subject to ordinances,
21. (Touch not; taste not; handle
not; 22. Which all are to perish -with the
usmg;) after the commandments and
doctrines of men ?
23. Which things have indeed a show
of vrisdom in will-worship, and humi
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in any honor to the satisfymg of the
flesh. Isa. xlv. 13. I have raised hun up
in righteousness, and I vrill dfrect afl
his ways : he shall bufld my city, and
he shall let go my captives, not for
price nor reward, saith the Lord of
hosts.

CHAPTER XIV.

The Letter.
1. After these things the word of
the Lord came unto Abram, in a vision,
saying. Fear not, Abram; I am thy
shield, and thy exceeding great re
ward. 2. And Abram said. Lord God, what
¦wUt thou give me, seeing I go chUd-
less, and the steward of my house is
this EUezar of Damascus ?
3. And Abram said. Behold, to me
thou hast given no seed : and lo, one
bora in mme house is mine hefr.
Note.
The path of the righteous, — the way
cast up for the ransoraed, — is as the
shining light that shineth brighter and
brighter unto the perfect day.
This gradual development is exhibited
iu the typical history of Abrara. He is
first chosen and called of God, then
takes poaseasion of the inheritance, in
behalf of his seed, while yet he has no
son. The full extent of this inheritance
is next raade known ; and now that
which haa been hitherto darkly inti
mated, is poaitively declared, — the gift
of a aon and heir. Abram affirraa that
all is of no avaU, so long as this heir is
withheld. Aud much more true waa it,
that tUl the promiaed Messiah was given
to Zion, she remained unoomforted and
unblessed. All of good that the world
knows or can conceive, is in him ;
and without him there is nothing but
barrenness and death, guilt aud condem
nation. It waa not in the power of an
gels or men, nor even of Jehovah him-

The Spirit.
Ps. Ixxxiv. 11. For the Lord God
is a sun and shield : the Lord wfll ^ve
grace and glory: no good thing wfll
he withhold from them that walk up
rightly. 12. O Lord of hosts, blessed is the
man that trusteth in thee.
Ixxxix. 8. O Lord God of hosts,
who is a strong Lord lUie unto thee ?
or to thy faitlffulness round about
thee? ***** 16. In thy name shall they rejoice
afl tho day : and m thy righteousness '
shall they be exalted.
17. For thou art the glory of their
strength; and in thy favor our hom
shall be exalted.
18. For the Lord is our defence;
and the Holy One of Israel is our
Kmg. *****
2. For I have said, Mercy shall be
buUt up for ever : thy faithfulness shalt
thou establish in the very heavens.
3. I have made a covenant with my
chosen, I have swom unto David my
servant, 4. Thy seed -wUl I establish for
ever, and build up thy throne to afl
generations. Selah.
***** 34. My covenant wifl I not break,
nor alter the thing that is gone out of
my Ups.
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self, to do good to a world lying in
wickedness, except through the gift of
hia only Begotten and dearly Beloved
Sou. The patriarch David, though so high
ly blessed of God, with distinguished
promises of good, complains that the
covenant is void, and the former loving-
kindnesses of God .are gone — so long as
he did not see the seed iu whora (til
these sure mercies were to be established.

The Letter.
4. And behold, the word of the Lord
came unto him, saying, This shaU not
be thine heir; but he that shall come
forth out of thme own bowels shall be
thine hefr.
5. And he brought him forth abroad,
and said. Look now toward heaven,
and tell the stars, ff thou be able to
number them : and he said unto them,
so shafl thy seed be.
6. And he believed m tho Lord ; and
he counted it to him for righteous
ness. Note.
Eliezer of Damascus could no more be
Abram's heir, than Saul could remain
king of Israel after David had been
anointed ; or, than justification could be
of the law instead Of faith.
Isaac, the son of Sarah, could alone be
Abram's heir; and Jesus, the seed of the
woman, the only Begotten and well be
loved of the Father, could alone be the
" heir of aU things."
Though Isaac was the only son of Sa
rah, yet in him were a seed chosen more
numerous than " the stars of heaven or
the sands upon the sea-shore." So also
in Christ were chosen all that innumera-

thyself ? for ever? shafl thy -wrath bum
Uke fire ?
47. Remember how short my time
is : wherefore hast thou made all men
in vain?
48. What man is he ihat liveth, and
shaU not see death? shaU he deliver
his soul from the hand of the grave ?
Selah. 49. Lord, where are thy former lov
ing-kindnesses, which thou swearest
unto David in thy truth ?
2 Sam. xxiu. 6. Although my house
be not so with God, yet he hath made
with me an everlastmg covenant, or
dered m all things, and sure : for this is
aU my salvation, and all my desire, al
though he make it not to grow.

The Spirit.
Ps. CXXXU. 11. The Lord hath
sworn in truth unto David; he wfll
not tum from it : Of the fruit of thy
body wifl I set upon thy throne.
12. If thy chfldren wfll keep my co
venant and my testimony, that I shaU
teach them, their cMldren also shafl sit
upon thy throne for evermore.
Acts ix. 21. And afterward they
desired a king: and God gave unto
them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the
tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty
years. 22. And when he had removed him,
he raised up unto them David to be
their king : to whom also he gave testi
mony, and said, I have found David the
son of Jesse, a man after mme own
heart, which shall fulfil all my wfll.
23. Of tMs man's seed hath God, ac-
cor(Ung to his promise, raised unto
Israel a Saviour, Jesus.
Ps. cxxxvifl. I. I wifl praise thee
with my whole heart : before the gods
wfll I smg praise unto thee.
2. I wifl worsMp toward thy holy
temple, and praise thy name for thy
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ble multitude that shaU surround the
throne, to give glory, and honor, and
blessing, to him who hath redeemed
thera to God by his blood.
At this tirae Abraham was ." in uncir
cumcision ;" the proraise is designed to
extend to the GentUe converts, which
should crowd the gates of Zion in the
gospel day.
Abrara had other seed, but they had
no part in the inheritance of Isaac ; so
there are multitudes who have no part
nor lot in the blessings of the new cove
nant, which are in Christ yea and
amen, to those only who believe.

The Letter.
7. And he said unto him, I am the
Lord that brought thee out of Ur of
the Chaldees, to give thee tMs land to
inherit it.
8. And he said. Lord God, whereby
shafl I know that I shafl inherit it?
9. And he said unto him. Take me
a heifer of tMee years old, and a she-
goat of three years old, and a ram of
three years old, and a turUe-dove, and a
young pigeon.
10. And he took unto him afl these,
and divided them in the midst, and laid
each piece one against another : but the
birds divided he not.
11. And when the fowls came down
upon the carcasses, Abram drove them
away. Note.
From the 34th of Jeremiah, we may
learn the meaning of this ceremony. It

thou hast magnified thy word above afl
thy name.
***** "7. Though I walk in the midst of
trouble, thou wflt revive me : thou shalt
stretch forth thine hand against the
vn-ath of mine enemies, and thy right
hand shafl save me.
8. The Lord wifl perfect that which
concemeth me : thy mercy, O Lord,
endureth for ever : forsake not the works
of thme own hands.
RoM. iv. 9. • Cometh this blessedness
then upon the cfrcumcision only, or'
upon the uncfrcumcision also ? For we
say that faith was reckoned to Abraham
for righteousness.
10. How was it then reckoned!
when he was m circumcision, or in
uncircumcision? Not in cfrcumcision,
but in uncfrcumcision.
***** 13. For the promise that he should
be the heir of the world was not to
Abraham, or to his seed, through the
law, but through the righteousness of
faith.

The Spirit.
IsA. xlix. 8. Thus saith the Lord,
In acceptable time have I heard theo,
and in a day of salvation have I helped
thee : and I wfll preserve thee, and give
thee for a covenant of the people, to
estabUsh the earth, to cause to mherit
the desolate heritages.
Gal. Ui. 12. Christ hath redeemed
us from the curse of the law, being
made a curse for us : for it is written.
Cursed is every one that hangeth on a
tree:

14. That the blessing of Abraham
might come on the Gentfles through
Jesus Christ; that we might receive
the promise of the Spirit through
faith. 15. Brethren, I speak after the man
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appears that it was the ancient form of
making a covenant The sacrifice was
divided, and the parts placed on oppo
site sides, while the covenanting parties
passed between them. This was equiva
lent to the most solemn oath, and was
neoeaaary to confirm the compact ;
called, therefore, an oath for confirma
tion. It implies a solemn invocation of the
penalty alluded to in the 20th verse, to
rest upon themselves if they broke the
covenant, — that they should be slain
like beasts, and exposed to be eaten by
the fowls of the air. God was pleased
to choose this figure to reveal to Abram's
faith the eternal compact, or " covenant
of peace," which was between the Father
and the Son; — the oafh by which God,
who cannot lie, confirmed the promise
given to Abram. He " sware by himself,"
" because he could swear by no greater."
The birds -were not divided. Possibly
the beasts had respect to the atoning
sacrifice, and the birds to the people of
God who wcre embraced iu the cove
nant, though not a covenanting party.
Abrara drove away the fowls frora the
carcasses, to show hia faith in the fulfil
ment of its promises or conditions.
In Gal. iii. 17, it is declared that the
covenant was confirmed of God in Christ,
fowr hundred and thirty years before the
giving of the law. The vision here
granted to Abram must therefore be
intended to represent this confirmation,
in answer to his question, "How shall I
know that I shall inherit it?" In Heb.
vi. 13-19, reference ia made to this
sarae oath and proraise of God.

covenant, yet if il be confirmed, no man
disannuUeth or addeth thereto.
16. Now to Abraham and his seed
¦were the promises made. He saith
not. And to seeds, as of many; but
as of one. And to thy seed, which is
Christ 17. And this I say, Tliai the cove
nant, that was confirmed before of God
in Christ, the law, which was four hun
dred and thfrty years after, cannot dis
annul, that it should make the promise
of none effect.
Jee. xx.xiv. 18. And I \rill give the
mon that have transgi-essed my cove
nant, which have not perfoi-med tho
words of tho covenant which they had
made before me, when they cut the calf
in twain, and passed between the parts
thereof. 19. The prmces of Judah, and the
princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and
the priests, and all the people of the
land, which passed between the parts
of the calf;
20. I will oven give them into fhe
hand of their enemies, and into the hand
of them that seek thefr Ufe : and their
dead bodies shall be for meat unto the
fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts
of the earth.
Heb. ix. 19. For when Moses had
spoken every precept to all the people
accordmg to the law, he took the blood
of calves and of goats, with water, and
scarlet-wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled
both the book and all the people,
20. Saymg, This is the blood of the
testament which God hath enjoined unto
you. 21. Moreover, he sprinkled likewise
with blood both the tabernacle, and afl
the vessels of the ministry.
22. And alraost all things are by the
law purged with blood ; and without
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The Letter.
12. And when the sun was going
down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram ;
and lo, a horror of great darkness feU
upon him. Note.
In -view of the mighty conflict which
the divine Redeeraer was about to en-
.dure in making his aoul au offering for
ain he says, " Fearfulness and trembling
are came upon me, and horror hath over
whelmed me."
He was about to sleep the sleep of
death ; yet was it not the pains of tem
poral death that the Son of God feared,
but he must also taste of the second
death ; he must give- his soul an offering
for sin ; must endure all that curse
which rested upon his people as trana-
greasors of the law, the fuU weight of the
sentence which had been pronounced
upon them, whoae aina he bore in his
own body upon the tree.
Many raartyrs have suffered for the
truth's sake, who have rejoiced and tri-
uraphed in the raidst of bodily distreaa ;
but far different is their case from that
of the Lamb of God. They were di
vinely supported and coraforted -with
the consolations of the Holy Spirit;
they died aa the righteous ; and " pre
cious in the sight of the Lord is the
death of his saints." But Christ died
under a eurse and not under a blessing ;
in no other way could he purchase life
for Ma people, who raust have borne that
eurse in thefr o-wu persons, had it not
been laid upon him !

The Spirit.
Ps. Iv. 4. My heart is sore pained
withm me : and the terrors of death
are faUen upon me.
5. Fearfulness and trembling are
come upon me, and horror hath over
whelmed me.
xxi. 1. My God, my God, why hast
thou forsaken me ? why art thou so far
from helpmg me, and from the words
of my roaring ?
xxii. 11. Be not far from me; for
trouble is near; for there is none to
help. 12. Many buUs have compassed me :
strong bulls of Bashan have beset me
round. 13. They gaped upon me viith thefr
mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
14. I am poured out Uke water, and
all my bones are out of joint; my
heart is like wax; it is melted m the
nudst of my bowels.
***** 20. DeUver my soul from the sword ;
my darling from the power of the dog.
21. Save me from the Uon's mouth :
for thou hast heard me from the homs
of the imicoms.
Ixix. 14. DeUver me out of the mire,
and let me not sink : let me be deli
vered from them that hato me, and out
of the deep waters.
15. Let not the water-flood overflow
me, neither let the deep swaUow me
up, and let not the pit shut her mouth
upon me.
Matt. xxvi. 38. Then saith he
unto them. My soul is exceeding sor
rowful, even unto death : tarry ye here,
and watch with me.
39. And he went a littie furtiier, and
fefl on Ms face, and prayed, saymg, O
my Father, ff it be possible, let this cup
pass from me ; nevertheless, not as I
wfll, but as thou wilt.
xxrii. 45. Now, from the sixth hour
tiiere was darkness over afl the land
unto the ninth hour.
46. And about the mnth hom- Jesus
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lama sabachthani ? that is to say. My
God, my God, why hast thou for
saken me ?

The Letter.
13. And he said unto Abram, Know
of a surety that thy seed shall be a
stranger m a land that is not theirs,
and shaU serve them ; and they shafl
aiflict them four hundred years ;
14. And also that nation whom they
shall serve, will I judge : and after
ward shall they come out with great
substance. 15. And thou shalt go to thy fathers
in peace; thou shalt be buried in a
good old age.
16. But in the fourth generation they
shall come hither again: for the ini
quity of the Amorites is not yet fufl.
Note.
In these words of God to Abrara are
predicted aad proraised the future bond
age of his seed in Egypt, with the hard
service with which they should be raade
to serve under the iron rule of that
Pharaoh that "knew not Joseph;" and
also the great deliverance which, at the
pet time, God would work but for them
in bringing them out with " a high
hand aud an outstretched arm," and
planting them in the good land which
he had given to Abram.
But in this literal bondage and deli
verance, together with the sure posses
sion of the promised inheritance, were
prefigured the greater and better things
reserved for the true Israel in the gospel
day; when they should be delivered
from the bondage of aiu and Satan, and
brought into the glorious liberty of the
sons of God, and finally into the full in
heritance of the saints above : when also
the prince of this world should be
judged who had held them in captivity.
But this was not to be wholly accom
plished until the fulness of time should
come when Abram, Isaac, and Jacob
should be gathered in Macpelah; or,
when the iniquity of the wicked should
be full and ripe for judgment, and the
10

The Spirit.
Ex. in. 7. And the Lord said, 1 hav»
surely seen the affliction of my peopio
which are in Egypt, and have heard
their cry hy reason of thefr taskmas
ters ; for I know their sorrows ;
8. And I am come down to deliver
them out of the hand of the Egyptians,
and to bring them up out of that land,
unto a good land, and a large, unto a
land flowing with milk and honey ;
unto the place of the Canaanites, and
the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the
Perizzites, and the Hivites, and tha.
Jebusites. xii. 40. Now the sojourning of the-
chUdren of Israel who dwelt in Egj'pt
was four hundred and thirty years-
41. And it came to pass, at the end!
of the four hundred and thirty years,
even the self-same day it came to pass,
that all the hosts of the Lord went out
from the land of Egypt.
Ps. cv. 36. He smote also all tho
first-born in their land, the cMef of aU
their strength.
37. He brought them forth also with
sUver and gold : and there was not one
feeble person among their tribes.
38. Egypt was glad when they de
parted : for the fear of them fefl upon
them. ***** 42. Por he remembered his holy pro
mise, and Abraham his servant.
43. And he brought forth his people
with joy, and his chosen with gladness :
44. And gave them the lands of the
heathen : and they inherited the labor
of the people ;
45. That they might observe his
statutes, and keep Ms laws. Praise ye
the Lord.
Ixxvui. 55. He cast out the heathen
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mediatorial kingdom ready to be given
up to Him who shafl reign, " God over aU
blessed forevermore."
By this solemn confirmation of the oath
of the covenant, aa given to Abraham by
promise, we are taught that in the ever
lasting counsel of peace, which it re
vealed, all things were "well ordered mnd
mre ;" that the bondage of the elect un
der the power of sin and Satan was a
part of the divine purpose as well as the
method by which they were to be re
deemed from it ; and, that all was "con
firmed of God in ChrisC before it came
to pass.

inheritance by line, and made the tribes
of Israel to dwell in thefr tents.
Ixxx. 8. Thou hast brought a vine
out of Egypt : thou hast cast out the
heathen, and planted it.
9. Thou preparest room before it,
and didst cause it to take deep root,
and it fifled the land.
10. The hflls were covered vrith the
shadow of it, and the boughs thereof
were like the goodly cedars.
11. She sent out her boughs unto
the sea, and her branches unto the
river. 2 Pet. fl. 9. But ye are a chosen
generation, a royal priesthood, a holy
nation, a peculiar people ; that ye
should show forth the praises of him
who hath called you out of darkness
into his marveflous Ught.
Col. i. 13. Who hath delivered us
from the power of darkness, and hath
translated us into the kingdom of his
dear Son :
14. In whom we have redemption
through Ms blood, even the forgiveness
of sins.

The Letter.

17. And it came to pass, that when
-tiie sun went down, and it was dark,
behold a smoking furnace, and a bum-
ing lamp that passed between those
pieces. 18. In that same day the Lord made
& covenant with Abram, saying. Unto
thy seed have I g^ven this land, from
the river of Egypt unto the great river,
the river EupMates. Note.
It was in the evening, or close of the
first dispensation, when its sun went
down or was extinguished in that dark
night of Gethsemane, that the smoking
furnace (the bleeding, bm-ning sacrifice),
and the burning, lamp (the divine altar
-or Eternal Spirit, through which tha*
.Qftorifice waa offered), passed between
the rent veil of the Redeemer's body, by

The Spirit.
Heb. vi. 16. '* * An oath for con
firmation is to them an end of all strffe.
17. Wherein God, wiflmg more
abundantly to ^ow unto the hefrs of
promise the immutability of his coun
sel, confirmed ii by an oath ;
18. That by two unmutable tilings,
m which it was impossible for God to
lie, we might have a strong consolation,
who have fled for refuge to lay hold
upon the hope set before ns in the
gospel, &c.
ix. 14. How much more shafl the
blood of Christ, v/ho through the eter
nal Spirit offered himself without spot
to God, purge your conscience from
dead works to serve the living God.
15. For this cause he is the Media
tor of the New Testament, that by
means of death for the redemption of
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meana of which he made his soul an of;
fering for sin 1
By the blood of this sacrifice was the
new covenant or testament sealed and
ratified, which secured to spiritual Is
rael all the riches of grace, in their
length and breadth. Hence the com
mand, " Feed ihe church of God which he
hath purchased with his own blood." By
the merits of this blood, the infinite
value of this ransora price, has he re
deemed to himself all that the Father
hath given hira. It was "for the joy
that was set before him" in the posses"
sion of this seed, that Jesus consented
and stipulated to endure the cross, de
spising the sharae ; and the argument
wMch is held up to stimulate and con
strain tMs seed to serve and glorffy their
divine Lord, is, that they " are not their
own, but are bought with a price, even
the precious blood of Christ as of a
lamb without spot or blemish."

ment, they which are cafled might re
ceive the promise of etemal inherit
ance. Zech. vi. 13. Even he shall bufld
the temple of the Lord; and he shall
bear the glory, and shall sit and rule
upon his throne: and he shafl be a
priest upon his throne, and the counsel
'of peace shall be between them both.
Isa. Ixu. 1. For Zion's sake wfll I
not hold my peace, and for Jeru
salem's sake I wifl not rest, until
the righteousness thereof go forth as
brightness, and the salvation thereof as
a lamp that burneth.
xxxi. 9. And he shall pass over to
Ms strong hold for fear, and his princes
shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the
Lord, whose ffre is in Zion, and his
furnace in Jerusalem.
Jek. xi. 4. Which I commanded
your fathers in the day that I brought
them forth out of the land of Egypt,
from the iron turnace, saying. Obey my
voice, and do them, according to all
which I command you: so shall ye be
my people, and I wifl be your God :
5. That I may perform the oath
which I have swom unto your fathers,
to give them a land flowing with milk
and honey, as it is tMs day. Then an
swered I, and said, So be it, O Lord, j

CHAPTER XVL

The Letter.
1. Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bare
him up chfldren : and she had a hand
maid, an Egyptian, whose name was
Hagar. 2. And Sarai said unto Abram, Be
hold now, the Lord hath restrained me
from bearing : I pray thee go in unto
my maid ; it may be that I may obtain
oMldrea by her. And Abram heark
ened to the voice of Sarai.
3. And Sarai, Abram's wife, took
Hagar her maid, the Egyptian, after
Abram had dwelt ten years in the

The Spirit.
Gal. iv. 24. WMch tMngs are an
allegory : for these are the two cove
nants; the one from mount Sinaij
which gendereth to bondage ; which is
Hagar. 25. For tills Hagar is mount Sinai
in Arabia, and answeretii to Jerusalem
that now is, and is in bondage with her
chfldren. 26. But Jerusalem that is above is
free, wMch is the mother of ns all.
27. For it is written. Rejoice thou
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land of Canaan, and gave her to her
husband Abram to be his wife.
Note.
The promise had been, as we have
seen in the last chapter, established by
oath. Not a doubt could remain of its
ultimate accomplishment ; yet the vision
tarried, and Sarah, impatient at the de
lay, was content to raise up children by
the bondwoman, rather than be wholly
destitute. This exemplifies the charac
ter and conduct of the children of the
first testament "Ignorant of God's
righteousness, they went about to estab
lish a righteousness of their own," in
stead of submitting to the righteousness
of God.
The law was given, or "added" to the
promise, " because of transgressione ;"
or to raake raanifest the guilt of trans
gression, and the consequent need of a
justifying righteousness, that should be
independent of the law, and wholly
upon another principle, — of grace and
not of works.
If Sarah had never tested the value
of hpr own inventions, in the raatter of
Hagar; had she never been made to
feel that Ishmael could not supply the
place of Isaac, nor Hagar bring forth, in
ter bondage, that which was to be whol
ly free, — she would not so fully have
realized the blessing of the true heir,
the promised Son, when she received
Iiim.

The Letter.
4. And he went in unto Hagar, and
she conceived : and when she saw that
she had conceived, her mistress was
despised in her eyes.
6. And Sarai said unto Abram, My
wrong be upon thee : I have given my
maid into thy bosom ; and when she
saw that she had conceived, I was de-

andcry, thou that travaileth not; for
the desolate hath many more cMldren
than she which hath a husband.
iii. 19. Wherefore then serveth the
law ? It was added because of trans
gressions, tUl the seed should eome to
whom the promise was made, &o.
* * * * *
21. Is the law then against the pro
mises of God? God forbid; for if
there had been a law given, which
could have given lffe, verily righteous
ness would have been by the law.
JoHK i. 17. For the law was ^ven
by Moses, hut grace and truth came by
Jesus Christ.
RoM. iv. 14. For ff they wMch are
of the law be hefrs, faith is made
void, and the promise made of none
effect. 15. Because the law worketh wrath :
for where no law is, there is no trans
gression. 16. Therefore it is of faith, that U
might be by grace ; to the end the pro
mise might be sure to all the seed : not
to that only which is of the law, but to
that also which is of the faith of Abra
ham, who is the father of us all.
17. (As it is written, I have made
thee a father of many nations,) before
him whom he believed, even God, who
quickeneth the dead, and cafleth those
things which be not, as though they
were; 18. Who against hope believed in
hope, that he might become the father
of many nations, according to that
which was spoken, So shafl thy seed
be.

The Spirit.
Deut. xxvii. 9. And Moses, and the
priests the Levites, spake unto all
Israel, saying. Take heed, and hear
ken, O Israel; this day thou art
become the people of the Lord thy
God, 10. Thou shalt therefore obey the
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spised in her eyes : the Lord judge be
tween me and thee. Note.
The covenant which God made with
Israel at Sinai was mutual and voluntary.
They readfly replied to the requireraents
of Jehovah, "All that the Lord hath said
we will do." And yet when made to
feel the responsibility of entering into
engageraenta with the Alraighty, who
cannot look upon sin, and will by no
raeans clear the guilty, they murmur,
and complain that his ways are not
eqiial. Sarah had her own free will, in what
ehe had devised and brought about and
yet complains upon the first difficulty
that flow^s from her own devices. So
the people of Israel acted freely in pro
mising obedience to the law, even in full
-view of all the terrors of Sinai ; yet they
broke the covenant " though I was a
husband unto them, saith the Lord."
WhUe Hagar was iu subjection to her
mistress we hear no complaints about
her; but when she usurped her place,
there was contention; for "the law
worketh wrath."

The Letter.
6. But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold,
thy maid is in thy hand ; do to her as it
pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt
hardly with her, she fled from her face.
7. And the angel of the Lord found

commandments and his statutes, which
I command thee this day.
xxvi. 16. This day the Lord thy
God hath commanded thee to do these
statutes and judgments : thou shalt
therefore keep and do them with all thy
heart, and with all thy soul.
17. Thou hast avouched the Lord
this day to be thy God, and to walk in
his ways, and to keep his statutes, and
his commandments, and his judgments,
and to hearken unto his voice :
. 18. And the Lord hath avouched
thee tMs day to be his peculiar people,
as he hath promised thee, and that
ihmi shouldest keep aU his command
ments :
19. And to make thee high above all
nations which he hath made, in praise,
and in name, and in honor; and that
thou mayest be a holy people unto the
Lord thy God, as he hath spoken.
xxrii. 26. Cursed be he that con-
firmeth not all the words of this law to
do them : and aU the people shall say.
Amen. Ex. xxiv. 3. And Moses came, and
told the people all the words of the
Lord, and all the judgments: and all
the people answered with one voice,
and said. All thewords which the Lord
hath said wfll we do.
Jee. xxxi. 32. Not according to the
covenant that I made with their fathers,
in the day thai I took them by the
hand, to bring them out of the land of
Egypt (which my covenant they brake,
although I was a husband unto them,
saith the Lord) ;
Ezk. xviu. 25. Yet ye say. The
way of the Lord is not equal. Hear
now, O house of Israel, is not my way
equal ? are not your ways unequal ?

The Spirit.
RoM. iu. 27. Where is boasting
then ? It is excluded. By what law ?
of works ? Nay ; but by the law of
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her by a fountam of water m the vril-
demess, by the fountain in the way to
Shur. 8. And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid,
whence camest thou ? and whither wflt
thou go? And she said, I flee from
the face of my mistress Sarai.
9. And the angel of the Lord said
unto her. Return to thy mistress, and
submit thyseff under her hands.
Note.
'When the handmaid assumes the mis
tress, or the law usurps the place of the
promise, their real and opposite nature
and character are made manifest If
righteousness be by the law, then faith
is made void ; but the weakness and
unprofitableness of the one, must give
way to the " better hope."
After God had proclaimed the Sinai
covenant, and its total inadequacy to
effect that which was required was
raade manifest, then he again brings to
view a better covenant that should be
established with Israel, — not according
to that which he had made with their fa
thers, &c., — not of the bondwoman, but
of the free; for the law can never make
the promise of none effect; it must be
subservient to it; for the promise is
" confirmed of God in Christ ;" but the
law is of works : " He that doeth them,
shall live in thera," and of course is sure
to fail.
The proraise was confirmed before the
giving of the law, to show that the in
heritance or heirship was to be wholly
of faith and not of works ; aud that the
law was therefore to be in subjection to
faith (the old covenant to the new), and
not, either to usurp its place or be ex-
eluded from its service : it was to be
continued a handmaid, until he should
come to whom the promiae was raade.

man is justified by faith without the
deeds of the law.
29. Is he the God of the Jews only?
is he not also of the Gentiles ? Yes, of
the GentUes also :
30. Seeing it is one God which shaU
justify the cfrcumcision by iaith, and
uncircumcision through faith.
31. Do we then make void the law
through faith? God forbid: yea, we
establish the law.
***** 14. For if they which are of the law
be hefrs, faith is made void, and the pro
mise made of none effect.
15. Because the law worketh -wrath :
for where no law is, there is no frans-
gression. 16. Therefore it is of faith, that it
might be by grace; to the end the
promise might be sure to afl the seed,
not to that only wMch is of the law,
but to that also wMch is of the faith
of Abraham, who is the father of us
all, 17. (As it is written, I have made
thee a father of many nations,) before
him whom he beUeved, even God, who
quickeneth the dead, and calleth those
tMngs wMch be not, as though they
were. 18. Who against hope beUeved in
hope, that he might become the father
of many nations; according to that
which was spoken, so shaUthy seed be.
1 Tim. i. 8. But we know that tiie
law is good, ff a man use it lawfuUy ;
9. Knowmg this, that the law is not
made for a righteous man, but for tiie
lawless and disobedient, for the un
godly and for sinners, for unholy and
profane, for murderers of fathers, and
murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
10. For whoremongers, for them
that defile themselves with mankind,
for men-stealers, for liars, for perjured
persons, and if there be any other thing
that is contrary to sound doctrine,
11. According to the glorious gospel
of the blessed God which was com
mitted to my trust.

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The Spirit.
10. And the angel of the Lord said
unto her, I wifl multiply thy seed ex
ceedingly, that it shafl not be num
bered for multitude.
11. And the angel of the Lord said
unto her. Behold, thou art with child,
and shalt bear a son, and shalt caU Ms
name Ishmael ; because the Lord hath j
heard thy affliction.
12. And he wfll be a vrild man ; his
hand will be against every man, and
every man's hand agamst him; and
he shafl dweU in the presence of afl his
brethren. Note.
The God of Israel has ever had a con
troversy with those that he once called
his old-covenant people.
They were multiplied and distinguish
ed by various privileges as God's pec-aliar
people ; but as their advantages, so were
their transgressions. And as he delight
ed in- them to build them and to place
them, so he has turned to destroy and
scatter thera, till they have become a
byword and a hissing among all peo
ple. They dwell in the presence of their
brethren of other nations, yet without
being of them ; for they have been mi
raculously preserved a distinct people,
as a standing monument, — a pillar of
salt, to this day I
This character of the children of the
bondwoman, also indicates the adverse
features of the two covenants — that they
are totally dissimflar and distinct from
each other.

The Letter.
IsA. X. 22. For though thy people
Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a
remnant of them shall return : the con
sumption decreed shall overflow with
righteousness. 23. For the Lord God of hosts shafl
make a consumption, even determined,
in the midst of all the land.
***** 17 And the light of Israel shall be
for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame :
and it shall bum and devour his thoms
and his briers in one day ;
18. And shall consume the glory of
Ms forest, and oT his fruitful field, both
soul and body : and they shafl be as
when a standard-bearer fainteth.
19. And the rest of the trees of his
forest shall be few, that a chfld may
write them.
Deut. xxviu. 64. And the Lord
shall scatter thee among afl people,
from the one end of the earth even
unto the other; and there thou shalt
serve other gods, which neither thou
nor thy fathers have known, even wood
and stone.
65. And among these nations shalt
thou find no ease, neither shall the sole
of thy foot have rest : but the Lord
shafl give thee there a trembling heart,
and faUing of eyes, and sorrow of
mind: xxxi. 21. And it shafl come to pass,
when many evfls and troubles are be
fallen them, that this song shall testffy
against them as a -witness ; for it shafl
not be forgotten out of the mouths of
their seed : for I know thefr imagina
tion wMch they go about, even now,
before I have brought them into tha
land which I sware.
***** 27. For I know thy rebeUion, and
thy stiff neck: behold, whfle I am yet
aUve with you this day, ye have been
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The Letter.

The Spirit.

1. And when Abram was ninety years
old and nine, the Lord appeared to
Abram, and said unto him, I am the
Almighty God; walk before me, and
oe thou perfect.
2. And I vrifl make my covenant be
tween me and thee, and wifl multiply
thee exceedmgly.
3. And Abram feU on Ms face : and
God talked with him, sayuig,
4. As for me, behold, my covenant
is with thee, and thou- shalt be a father
of many nations.
5. Neither shaU thy name any more
be caUed Abram ; but thy name shall
be Abraham ; for a father of many na
tions have I made thee.
6. And I -will make thee exceeding
fmitful, and I wfll make nations of thee ;
and kmgs shall come out of thee.
7. And I -wfll estabUsh my covenant
between me and thee, and thy seed
after thee, in their generations, for an
everlasting covenant ; to be a God unto
thee, and to thy seed after thee.
8. And I will give unto thee, and to
thy seed after thee, the land wherein
thou art a stranger, all the land of Ca^
naan, for an everlasting possession;
and I vrill be thefr God.
9. And God said unto Abraham,
Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore,
thou and thy seed after thee, in their
generations. Note.
This chapter reveals to Abraham by
promise, the future glory and fruitfulness
of the church under the gospel dispen
sation, when the blessing of the new and
everlasting covenant would be sealed to
the heirs of proraise, and they ahould
enter into poaaession of them.
In the first verae is recognised thena
ture of these blessings, in causing those
who received them to walk in newness
of life. Iu this is the new covenant
better than the old; it is established
upon better promises; its chief glory

IsA. Iv. 1. Thus saith the Lord,
Keep ye judgment, and do justice, for
my salvation is near to come, and my
righteousness to be revealed.
2. Blessed is the man thai doeth this,
and the son of man that layeth hold on
it ; that keepeth the sabbath from pol
luting it, and keepeth Ms hand from
doing any evfl.
3. Neither let the son of the stran
ger, that hath joined himself to the
Lord, speak, saymg. The Lord hath
utterly separated me from his people :
neither let the eunuch say. Behold, I
am a dry tree.
4. For thus saith the Lord unto the
eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and
choose ihe things that please me, and
take hold of my covenant ;
5. Even unto them 'will I give in
my house and within my walls, a place
and a name better than of sons and of
daughters: I wfll give them an ever
lasting name, that shaU not be cut
offi 6. Also the sons of the stranger,
that join themselves to the Lord, to
serve Mm, and to love the name of tha
Lord, to be his servants, every one that
keepeth the sabbath from pofluting it,
and taketh hold of my covenant ;
7. Even them wfll I bring to my
holy mountain, and make them joyful
in my house of prayer: thefr bumt-
offermgs and their sacrifices shall be
accepted upon mine altar ; for my house
shall be called a house of prayer for
all people.
8. The Lord God which gathereth
the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet -wfll I
gather others to him, besides those that
are gathered unto him.
Iv. 3. Incline your ear and come unto
me ; hear, and your soul shafl Uve ; and
I wfll make an everlasting covenant with
you, even the sure mercies of David.
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and excellency is, that it writes the law
of God upon the heart; puts his fear
within, and thus keeps the feet of the
saints from straying from the path of
his testimonies.
The children of the new covenant
are all born again, born of water and
the Spirit; created anew in Christ
Jesus, and made partakers of eternal
life. They live and walk by /aiiA, and
thus are called the children of Abraham,
to whom this law of faith was first given
by promise aiid sealed with that typical
rite which represented the new birth, or
the work of the Holy Spirit upon the
heart the Spirit of adoption, whereby
the heirs of promiae or children of the
covenant cry, Abba, Father. Thus
Abram becomes Abraham, the father of
a multitude, as the representative of the
Lord Jesua Christ, the " everlasting Fa
ther" of his elect and chosen seed.
By the new and everlasting covenant
God becomes a Father to his people, or
the heirs of promise, by two imrautable
and unalienable titles. Firat, they are
his chfldren by union with Christ the
Son : being chosen and embraced in
him, as members of his rayatical body,
and joint heirS with him of the heavenly
inheritance ; and, second, they are chil
dren because they are " born of God"
begotten again "of incorruptible seed,
of the word of God which liveth and
abideth for ever." Hence we see, that
in view of this relationship, Abrara as a
type, becomes Abraham, the father of a
multitude.

The Letter.
10. This is my covenant, which ye

witness to the people ; for a leader and
commander to the people.
5. Behold thou shalt call a natibn
that thou knowest not; and nations
that know not theo shall run unto tiiee,
because of the Lord thy God ; and the
Holy One of Israel, for he hath glori
fied thee.
6. Seek yo the Lord whfle he may
be found, call ye upon him while he is
near: 7. Let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man his thoughts :
and let hun retum unto the Lord, and
he will have mercy upon him ; and to
our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
8. For my thoughts are not your
thoughts, neither are your ways my
ways, saith the Lord.
9. For as the heavens are higher
than the earth, so are my ways higher
than your ways, and my thoughts th^n
your thoughts.
10. For as the rain cometh down,
and the snow from heaven, and retum
eth not thither, but watereth the earth,
and maketh it bring forth and bud, that
it may give seed to the sower, and
bread to the eater ;
11. So shall my word be that goeth
forth out of my mouth : it shall not
retum unto me void, but it shaU ac
complish that which I please, and it
shall prosper in the thing whereto I
sent it
12. For ye shall go out with joy, and
be led forth with peace : the mountains
and the Mils shall break forth before
you into singing, and afl the trees of
the field shall clap their hands.
13. Instead of the thorn shafl come
up the fir-tree, and instead of the brier
shafl come up the myrtle tree : and it
shall be to the Lord for a name, for an
everlastmg sign ihat shall not be cut off.

The Spirit.
Jee. xxxi. 1. At the same time, saith

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thy seed after thee; Every man-chfld
among you shafl be cfrcumcised.
11. And ye shafl circumcise the flesh
of your foreskm; and it shafl be a
token of the covenant betwixt me and
you. 12. And he that is eight days old
shall be circumcised among you, every
man-chUd in your generations, he that
is born in the house, or bought with
money of any stranger, wMch is not of
thy seed.
13. He that is bom in thy house,
and he that is bought with thy money,
must needs be circumcised: and my
covenant shafl be in your flesh for an
everlasting covenant
14. And the uncircumcised man-cMld,
whose flesh of Ms foreskm is not cir
cumcised, that soul shafl be cut off from
Ms people; he hath broken my cove
nant. Note.
The literal seed of Abrahara — the
Jews, as a nation — were separated, dis
tinguished, aud made manifest by the
rite of circumcision, so that he who was
not cfrcumcised of this nation, whether
native bom or bought with money, was
out off from the people as not belonging
to them. It was an outward sign that
they were of that people to whom God
had given his covenant by promise ;
and when that same people were after
wards placed under a law of works, this
sign would have "profited" them by re
cognizing their title to what that cove
nant promised, provided they had kept it.
As Paul says, " Verily circumcision pro
fiteth if thou keep tlie law, but if thou be a
breaker of tlie law, thy circumcision is
made uncircumcision."
All these things are but a shadow or
similitude of the better things of the co
venant of grace ; which, as we have be
fore said, proraised all its subjects the
" circuraoisiou of the heart," the renew
ing of the Holy Spirit to raake them new
creatures in Christ ; for " except ye be
born again ye can in no wise enter the
kingdora of heaven," or be numbered '
with the household of faith — the spirit
ual Israel. Whoever, therefore, that

famifles of Israel, and they shaU be my
people. ***** 33. But this shall be the covenant
that I wifl make with the house of Is
rael ; After those days, saith the Lord,
I wiU put my Law in thefr inward
parts, and -write it in their hearts ; and
'wWl he thefr God, and they shafl be my
people. 34. And they shafl teach no more
every man his neighbor; and every
man his brother, saying. Know the
Lord : for they shafl afl know me, from
the least of them unto the greatest of
them, saith the Lord: fori wfll forgive
thefr miquity, and I ¦will remember thefr
»n no more.
35. Thus saith the Lord, wMch ^veth
the sun for a Ught by day, and the or
dmances of "the moon and of the stars
for a light by night, which dividoth the
sea when the waves thereof roar ; The
Lord of hosts is his name.
36. If those ordmances depart from
before me, saith the Lord, then the seed
of Israel also shall cease from beiog a
nation before me for ever.
37. Thus saith the Lord, If heaven
above can be measured, and the foun
dations of the earth searched out be
neath, I wifl also cast off all the seed of
Israel, for afl that they have done, saith
the Lord.
iv. 3. For thus saith the Lord to the
men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up
your fallow ground, and sow not among
thoms. 4. Cfrcumcise yourselves to fhe
Lord, and take away the foresWns of
your heart, ye men of Judah and inha
bitants of Jerusalerh; lest my fury
come forth like fire, and bum that none
can quench it, because of the evil of
your doings.
RoM.ii. 25. For circumcision verily
profiteth, if thou keep the law ; but ff
thou be a breaker of the law, thy cfr
cumcision is made uncfrcumcision.
26. Therefore, ff the uncircumcision
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shall join themselves to thia people, and-
shall be found lacking this token of the
covenant, shall be " cut off," they have no
part or lot in the matter.
Again, there ia another promise in
volved in the rite of circumcision, which
is brought to view in the 11th verse of
Col ii., where the whole church of Christ
are said to be spiritually circumcised or
delivered from sin by the death of
Christ ;— ao that they are dead with him
to sin, and to aU the ceremonies wMch
implied that sin was untaken away.
It is the circumcision of the heart or
the new birth, which constitutes a true
Israelite — an heir and member of the
kingdom of heaven. To such the Lord
says, " Come out from among them, and
be ye separate, and touch not the unclean
thing, and I wifl receive you, and I will
be a Father to you, and ye shall be my
sons and daughters, saith the Lord Al
mighty." Hence the Apostle Peter,
speaking to such, says, " Ye are a chosen
generation, a royal priesthood, a holy
nation, a peculiar people ; that ye should
show forth the praises of him who hath
called you out of darknesa into his mar
vellous light"

not his uncircumcision be counted for
cfrcumcision? 27. And shafl not uncircumcision
which is by nature, if it fulfil the law,
judge thee, who by the letter and cfr
cumcision dost transgress the law ?
28. For he is not a Jew, which is
one outwardly ; neither is ihat circum
cision which is outward in the flesh :
29. But he is a Jew wMch is one
inwardly; and Circumcision is ihat of
the heart, in the spirit and not in the
letter ; whose praise is not of men, but
of God.
CoL. fl. 11. In whom also ye are
circumcised with the circumcision made
without hands, m putting off the body
of the sins of the flesh by the cfrcum
cision of Christ;
12. Buried vrith him in baptism,
wherein also ye are risen with him
through the faith of the operation of
God, who hath raised hun from the
dead. 13. And you, being dead m your
sins and the uncircumcision of your
fliesh, hath he quickened together -with
him, having forgiven you all tres-

The Letter.
15. And God said unto Abraham,
As for Sarai thy vrife, thou shalt not
call her name Sarai, but Sarah shaU
her name be.
16. And I wifl bless her, and give
thee a son also of her : yea, I wifl bless
her and she shall be a mother of na
tions ; kings of people shall be of her.
Note.
Another feature in the promiae of

, 14. Blotting out the hand-writing of
ordinances that was against us, which
was contrary to us, and took it out of
the way, nd:ling it to Ms cross ;
Gal. vi. 6. For m Jesus Christ
neither circumcision availeth anything,
nor uncircumcision ; hut faith wMch
worketh by love.

The Spirit.
IsA. liv. 1. Sing, O barren, thou
that didst not' bear ; break forth mto
singing, and cry aloud, thou thai didst
not travail with child : for more are the
children of the desolate than the chfl
dren of the married wife, saith the
Lord. 2. Enlarge the place of thy tent, and
let them stretch forth the curtains of
thy habitations: spare not, lengthen
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grace is here developed. Hitherto no
mention haa been made of Sarai ; — ^no in
timation that the seed promised should
be born of her, the "barren" and "de
solate," who has so long sat solitary and
alone, saying, " The Lord hath forgotten
me, my God hath forsaken me"
Christ was not to take the nature of
angels, but the seed of Abraham ; hence
all the promises made to Abraham con
cerning his seed had primary reference
to Christ. " If ye are Christs, then are
ye Abrahanis seed, and heirs according to
promise." Again, as if this truth needed
to be often repeated, as in danger of not
being understood, it is added, " He saith
not, and to seeds as , of many, but to thy
seedwhich is Christ." Itia also said, "In
Isaac shall thy seed be called," because
though the proraises and blessings of the
covenant are all in Christ, yea, and in
him amen, — yet they are there treasured
for his people — ^for all that are the called
according so his purpose.
Sarai now becomes Sarah, the "free
woman!' — " the Jerusalem above, which
is the mother of us all :" of all the
churches of Christ in the world; and
of every individual believer. In giving
birth to Isaac she gave birth to them all
in a figure. So when Jesus was bom of
a woman, all his spiritual people were
born with him. "Behold I make all
things new," said the Lord in view of the
change from the barrenness and death
of the first testament to the fruitfulness,
and life, and glory of the " ministration
of the spirit" Even the name of Sarai
is changed, and the Goapel Zion ia dis
tinguished from the Jerusalem that is in
bondage, by being caUed by the name
of her Lord and husband, instead of
bearing the shame of her widow
hood. Under the law, the church of Christ
was barren and desolate; but by the
death of the cross, in which Jesus, her
bondsman, suffered in hia own body the
sentence due to her, she became dead to
her first husband, and free to be " mar
ried to another, even to him who ia
raised from the dead, that her fruit
might' be unto God." In like manner
Sarai, the barren wife of Abram, be-

3. For thou shalt break forth on the
right hand and on the left; and thy
seed shafl inherit the Gentiles, and
make the desolate cities to be inha
bited. 4. Fear not ; for thou shalt not be
ashamed : neither be thou confounded ;
for thou shalt not be put to shame : for
thou shalt forget the shame of thy
youth, and shafl not remember the re
proach of thy widowhood any more.
6. For thy Maker is thy husband;
the Lord of hosts is Ms name ; and thy
Redeemer the Holy One of Israel;
The God of the whole earth shafl he
be cafled.
Gal. iv. 26. But Jerusalem which
is above is free, which is the mother of
us aU.
27. For it is -written. Rejoice, thou
barren that bearest not; break forth
and cry, thou that travailest not : for
the desolate hath many more chfldren
than she wMch hath a husband.
28. Now we, brethren, as Isaac was,
are the children of promise.
Isa. xlix. 11. And I vrifl make afl
my mountains away, and my highways
shall be exalted.
12. Behold, these shall come from
far ; and, lo, these from the north and
from the west; and these from the
land of Suiim.
13. Sing, O heavens ; and be joyful,
O earth ; and break forth into singing,
O mountains : for the Lord hath com
forted his people, and wifl have mercy
upon Ms afflicted.
***** 22. Thus saith the Lord God, Be
hold, I wifl lfft up my hand to the Gen
tiles, and set up my standard to the
people : and they shall bring thy sons
in their arms, and thy daughters shall
be carried upon their shoulders.
23. And kmgs shall be thy nursmg
fathers, and thefr queens thy nursing
mothers ; they shall bow down to thee
vrith their face toward the earth, and
lick up the dust of thy feet ; and thou
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comes by the promiae Sarah, the mother
of all Israel.

The Letter.
17. Then Abraham fell upon Ms
face, and laughed, and said in his
heart, Shafl a child be bom unto him
that is a hundred years old ? and shall
Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear ?
18. And Abraham said unto God,
O that Ishmael might live before thee !
Note.
Abraham here is speaking the lan
guage of Zion, when she was " yet with
out strength' — when she looked with
sorrow and regret at the prospect of
losing her children, and could not see
how others could be raised up to her in
her weak and desolate condition. Sub
sequently, however, when the child of
promise was actually born, and she had
proved that nothing was too hard for
the Lord, she, or at least Abrahara, who
speaks and acta for her, " counted that
God " (who had given him, when there
waa no hope, and then commanded that
he should die) " was able also to raise
him from the dead."
This plea in behalf of Ishmael, re
minds us of the lamentations of Jesus
over Jerusalem, when she was about to
be left desolate ; and also of the words
of the Lord respecting backsliding
Ephraim: — "How shall I give thee up,
Ephraim? How shall I deliver thee,
Israel! How shall I make thee as
Admah, and set thee as Zeboim S My
heart is turned within me, my tepent-
ings are kindled together."
The gfft of a 'Saviour when man was
yet without strength ; yea, -when he
was an enemy by wicked -works, — dead

they shall not be ashamed that wait
for me.
xM. 2. And the GentUes shall see
thy righteousness, and all kmgs thy
glory: and thou shalt be called by a
new name, which the mouth of the
Lord shall name.
3. Thou shalt also be a crown of
glory in the hand of the Lord, and a
royal diadem in the hand of thy God.

The Spirit.
IsA. xl. 21. Have ye not known?
have ye not heard? hath it not been
told you from the beginning? have ye
not understood from the foundations of
the earth ?
22. It is he that sitteth upon the
cfrcle of the earth, and the inhabitants
thereof are as grasshoppers; that
stretcheth out the heavens as a curi
tain, and spreadeth them out as a tent
to dweU in :
23. That bringeth the princes to no
thing; he maketh the judges of the
earth as vanity.
24. Yea, they shall not be planted :
yea, they shall not be sown : yea, thefr
stock shaU not take root in the earth :
and he shall also blow upon them, and
they shall wither, and the whirlwind
shall take them away as stubble.
26. To whom then wiU ye lUten me,
or shall I be equal? saith the Holy
One. 26. Lift up your eyes on high, and
behold who hath created these things,
that bringeth out their host by number :
ho calleth them all by names by the
greatness of his might, for that he is
strong in power ; not one faUoth.
27. Why sayest thou, O Jac^b, and
speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from
the Lord, and my judgment is passed
over from my God ?
28. Hast thou not known, hast thou
not heard, that the everlasting God,
the Lord, the Creator of the ends of
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in trespasses and sins; when all had
gone out of the way, and none were
righteous, no not one, — this is indeed
marvellous in our eyes ! It is high above
our ways and our thoughts, and be
longs wholly to Him with whom all
things are possible, and who does it for
his own name's sake.
Huraan reaaon would judge it ranch
easier and more suitable for Ishmael to
be made heir of the proraise than to
raise up one wholly out of the natural
order of things. So also concluded the
Jewish people, who, being ignorant of
God's righteousness, went about to es
tablish a righteousness of their own.
They doubtless thought their own iraper-
fect obedience a safer and better ground
of confidence than a promise unseen and
to be waited for ; and which was alto
gether resting upon the obedience of
another.

The Letter.
19. And God said, Sarah thy -wffe
shall bear thee a son indeed ; and thou
shalt caU his name Isaac : and I wifl
establish my covenant with him- for, an
everlasting covenant, and with his seed
after Mm.
20. And as for Ishmael, I have heard
thee : behold, I have blessed hun, and
¦wifl make him fruitful, and -wifl multi
ply him exceedmgly: twelve princes
shafl be beget, and I wfll make him a
great nation.
21. But my covenant wifl I estabUsh
vrith Isaac, Whom Sarah shall bear unto
thee at this set time m the next year.

there is no searching of his understand
ing. 29. He giveth power to the famt;
and to them that have no might he in
creaseth strength.
30. Even the youths shafl faint and
be weary, and the young men shafl ut
terly fall.
31. But they that wait upon the Lord
shafl renew their strength; they shafl
mount up -with wings as eagles; they
shafl run, and not be weary ; and they
shafl walk, and not faint.
xiu. 8. I am the Lord : that is my
name : and my glory wfll I not give to
another, neither my praise to graven
images. 9. Behold, the former thmgs are
come to pass, and new thmgs do I de
clare : before they spring forth I teU
you of them.
RoM. V. 6. For when we were yet
vrithout strength, m due time Christ
died for the imgodly.
7. For scarcely for a righteous man
wifl one die ; yet peradventure for a
good man some would even dare to
die. 8. But God commendeth his love to
ward us, in that, whfle we were yet
smners, Chiist died for us.

The Spirit.
Is A. vu. 14. Therefore the Lord
Mmself shall give you a sign : Behold,
a -rirgin shafl conceive, and bear a son,
and shall call his name Immanuel.
Ps. Ixxxix. 23. And I wfll boat dovra
Ms foes before his face, and plague
them that hate Mm.
24. But my faithfulness and my
mercy shall be with him : and in my
name shall his hom be exalted.
25. I wifl set his hand also in the
sea, and his right hand ia the iivers.
26. He shaU cry imto me, Thon art
my Patiier, my God, and the Rock of
my salvatioii.

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Note.
Here we find the distinction between
the children of the promise and the
chfldren of the flesh. This distinction,
though plainly and repeatedly declared
throughout this entire typical history,
and again insisted on in the new testa
raent, is yet not fully understood. In
consequence of confounding thia subject,
¦wrong inferences are drawn, and wrong
conclusions made. The children of the
bondwoman are confounded with the
children of the free, and they are made
' heirs of that which does not belong to
any but the seed of promise.
In the promise made to Abraham in
behalf of Ishraael, we see the inheritance
of typical Israel as a nation ; » people
"numerous as the stars of heaven, or
sanda upon the sea-shore,'' ruled by
twelve princes, and otherwise privi
leged and blessed for two especial rea-
Bona : first, because they were a type
of the church of Christ — and second,
because they were Abraham's seed.
As types of the church, God showed
forth in them and by them all the great
purpose of his grace in Christ concern
ing his spiritual Israel. Hence much
that is said of them and to them as types,
is misunderstood as being designed for
them as a people. Their blessing, as
Abraham's seed, is also involved with
thefr typical character, and both ceaae
together, so far as the nation is con
cern ed, and the children of the flesh were
united with the children of promise.
The typical dispensation, with all its
handwriting of ordinances, ceased with
the death of Christ, and was nafled to his
cross. " The promise" iu aU its extent
was fulfilled in him ; of course all that
was promiaed to Abraham concerning
" his seed," whether Isaac or Ishmael, or
their descendants, was at that time ac
complished, and ceased to be any longer
iu force.

27. Also I wfll make Mm my first
born, Mgher than the Mngs of the
earth. 28. My mercy wifl I keep for him
for evermore, and my covenant shafl
stand fast with him.
29. His seed also wifl I make to en-
(Z^refor ever, and Ms throne as the days
of heaven.
***** 34. My covenant wfll I not break,
nor alter the thing that has gone out of
my lips.
36. Once have I sworn by my holi
ness that I wifl not lie unto David.
36. His seed shaU endure for ever,
and his throne as the sun before me.
37. It shaU be established for ever
as the moon, and as a faithful -witness
in heaven.
Rom. ix. 1. I say the tmth in Christ,
I lie not, my conscience also bearing
mo witness in the Holy Ghost,
2. That I have great heaviness and
continual sorrow in my heart.
3. For I could wish that myseff were
accursed from Christ, for my brethren,
my kinsmen accorcflng to the flesh :
4. Who are Israelites ; to whom per
taineth the adoption, and the glory, and
the covenants, and the givmg of the
law, and the service of God, and the
promises ;
5. Whose are the fathers, and of
whom, as conceming the flesh, Christ
came, who is over afl, God blessed for
ever. Amen.
6. Not as though the word of God
hath taken none effect. For they are
not all Israel wMch are of Israel :
7. Neither because they are the seed
of Abraham, are they aU chilifren : but,
in Isaac shall thy seed be called ;
8. That is. They wMch are the cMl-
(fren of the flesh, these are not the
children of God: but the children of
the promise are counted for the seed.
Mal. i. 2. I have loved you, saith
the Lord. Yet ye say. Wherein hast
thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's

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The Letter.
22. And he left off talking with him,
and God went up from Abraham.
23. And Abraham took Ishmael his
son, and all that were born in his
house, and aU that were bought with
Ms money, every male among the men
of Abraham's house; and circumcised
the flesh of their foreskm, in the seff-
same day, as God had said unto him.
Note.
It is in the house of his mediatorial
kingdora upon earth, that Jesua insti
tutes ordinances and laws; therefore
it is said, "God went up from Abra
ham." God had just declared that Ishmael
was not the heir of promise, and that
his portion was distinct from Isaac's.
Yet the rite of circumcision passes upon
him, and also upon all the male servants
of Abraham. This is according to the
design of that rite, as we have before
described ; it being to separate between
Israel and the heathen nations about
them. But we find in the history of these
children of the bondwoman, that they
rested in the law. Blind and ignorant of
the true meaning of its types and sha
dows, they iraagined that the observtince
of these entitled them to favor. Thus
by the deeds of the law they expected
to be justified. It was only those
araong the thousands of Israel who
looked and waited for the righteousness
of faith, and who saw at the end of
all these shadows, the "better thing"
which they predicted, that really pro
fited by these things ; to the rest, " their
table became a snare, and a trap, and a
stnrabling block."
The gospel was preached to them as
well as unto ue. It waa preached under
all the deaUngs of God with them, and

brother? s^th the Lord: yet I loved
Jacob, 3. And I hated Esau, and Imd his
mountauis and his heritage waste for
the dragons of the vrildemess.

The Spirit.
1 Cor. XV. 1. Moreover, brethren,
I would not that ye should be ignorant,
how that afl our fathers were under
the cloud, and afl passed through the
sea; 2. And were afl baptized unto Moses
in the cloud and in the sea ;
3. And did all eat the same spfritual
meat; 4. And did afl drink the same spirit
ual drink. (For they drank of that
spiritual Rock that followed them : and
that Rock was Christ)
5. But with many of them God was
not well pleased : for they were over
thrown m the wUderness.
6. Now these things were our ex
amples, to the intent we should not
lust after evfl thmgs, as they also
lusted. 7. Neither be ye idolaters, as were
some of them: as it is written. The
people sat down to eat and (frmk, and
rose up to play.
8. Neither let us commit fomication,
as some of them committed, and fefl in
one day three and twenty thousand.
9. Neither let us tempt Christ, as
some of them also tempted, and were
destroyed of serpents.
10. Neither murmur ye, as some of
them also murmured, and were de
stroyed of the destroyer.
II. Now afl these thmgs happened
unto them for ensamples; and they are
written for our admonition, upon whom
the ends of the world are come.
12. Wherefore let him that iMnketh
he standeth, take heed lest he faU.
Heb. ii. 1. Therefore we ought to
^ve the more eamest heed to tho
things which we have heard, lest at any
time we should let them slip.

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all the ceremonies of their worship, —
but it was not mixed with faith in thera
that heard. "TheyaU passed together
through the sea and the cloud, and were
all baptized unto Moses,'' as well as cir
cumcised. They afl eat and drank of
the table in the wilderuess which repre
sented the Rock of Salvation ; for they
were all the professed people of God.
Yet it appears that with alraost the en
tire nation (only two exceptions), God
was not pleased ; they were erapty car
casses, instead of living souls and new
creatures iu Christ ; and they fell in the
wilderuess. "What profit was there to
these in circumcision? None, — unless
they had kept the whole law.

2. Por if the word spoken by angels
was steadfast, and every transgression
and disobedience received a just recom
pense of reward ;
3. How shaU we escape, tf we neg
lect so 'great salvation ; which at the
first began to be spoken by the'Lord,
and was confirmed unto us by them
that heard him.
iv. I. Lot us therefore fear, lest a
promise being left us of entering into
his rest, any of you should seem to
como short of it.
2. For unto us was the gospel
preached, as well as unto them : but
tho word preached did not profit them,
not being mixed with faith in them that
heard it.
* * * * ' *
6. Seeing therefore it remaineth
that some must enter therein, and they
to whom it was first preached entered
not in because of unbelief:
7. (Agam, he Umiteth a certain day,
saying in David, To-day, after so long
a time; as it is said. To-day, ff ye ¦will
hear his voice, harden not your hearts.)
8. For ff Jesus had given thepi rest,
thon would he not afterward have
spoken of another day.

CHAPTER XVIIL

The Letter.
1. And the Lord appeared unto him
in the plains of Mamre : and he set in
tho tont-door in the heat of the day ;
2. And he lifted up his eyes • and
looked, and lo, three men stood by
Mm: and when he saw tliem, he ran to
meet them from the tent-door, and
bowed Mmself toward the ground,
3. And said. My Lord, ff now I
have found favor in thy sight, pass not
away, I pray thee, from thy servant :
4. Let a little water, I pray you, be
fetched, and wash your feet, and rest
yourselves under the tree :
6. And I will fetch a morsel of
11

The Spirit.
Mal. iu. 1. Behold, I will send my
messenger, and he shall prepare the
way before me, and the Lord, whom we
seek, shall suddenly como to his tem
ple, oven the messenger of the cove
nant, whom yo delight m : behold, he
shaU come, saith the Lord of hosts.
2. But who may abide the day of Ms
coming ? and who shall stand when he
appeareth? for he is like a refiner's
fire, and Uke fuUers' soap.
3. And ho shaU sit as a refiner and
purifier of silver : and he shall purffy
the sons of Leri, and purge them as
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bread, and comfort ye your hearts;
after that ye shall pass on : for there
fore are yo eome to your servant. And
they said. So do, as thou hast said.
6. And Abraham hastened into the
tent unto Sarah, and said. Make ready
quickly three measures of fine meal,
knead it, and make cakes upon the
hearth. 7. And Abraham ran unto the herd,
and fetched a calf tender and good, and
gave it unto a young man ; and ho
hasted to dress it.
8. And he took butter, and mflk,
and the caff which ho had dressed, and
set it before them; and he stood by
them under the tree, and they did eat.
\ Note.
In the last chapter waa described the
people of the first or old covenant; and
their perversion of the dispensation
committed unto them. It waa there
observed that only two of the vast num
ber that came out of Egypt were per
mitted to enter the promised land, be
cause of their disobedience. Yet did
not their children profit by their fate ;
but when they had been placed in the
good land, they likewise rebelled and
vexed the Holy Spirit After chastising
them often, and threatening them with
being cast off for ever, the Lord deter
mines to execute upon them the fierce
ness of his anger. For this purpose he
now comes forth in the heat of the day,
to make known to Abraham his servant
that which he is about to do. In like
raanner, in the 3d chapter of Malachi,
list before the birth of the Messiah, he
' makes known to his old covenant peo
ple, that he ia about to visit them " as a
refiner's fire and fuller's soap," to " puri
fy the eona of Levi," and to separate
" between the righteous and the wicked,
between them that serve God and them
that serve Mm not."

unto the Lord an offering in righteous
ness. 7. Even from the days of your fa
thers ye are gone away from mine
ordinances, and have not kept ihem.
Retum unto me, and I vrill retm-n unto
you, saith tho Lord of hosts. But ye •
said. Wherein shall we return ?
8. wm a man rob God? Yet ye
have robbed me. But ye say, Wherem
have we robbed thee ? In tithes and
offerings. 9. Ye are cursed with a curse : for
ye have robbed me, even this whole na
tion. 10. Bring ye aU the tithes into the
storehouse, that there may be meat hi
my house, and prove me now herewith,
saith the Lord of hosts, ff I wiU not
open you the windows of heaven, and
pour you out a blessing^ that there shall
not be room enough to receive it.
***** 13. Your words have been stout
against me, saith tho Lord. Yet ye
say. What have we spoken so mveh
against thee ?
14. Ye have asid. It is vain to serve
God : and what profit is it that we have
kept his ordmance, and that we have
walked moumfuUy before the Lord of
hosts? 15. And now we call the proud hap
py ; yea, they that work wickedness
are set up ; yea, they ihat tempt God
are even delivered.
16. Then they that feared the Lord
spake often one to another: and the
Lord hearkehed, and heard ii; and a
book of remembrance was written be
fore Mm for them that feared tho Lord,
and that thought upon Ms name.
17. And they shall be mme, saith
the Lord of hosts, in that day when I
make up my jewels; and I wifl spare
them, as a man spareth his own son
that serveth him.
18. Then shall ye return, and discern
between the righteous and the wicked;

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The Letter.
9. And they said unto him. Where
is Sarah thy wffe ? And he said, Be
hold, in the tent.
10. And he said, I will certainly re
tum unto thee according to the time of
lffe ; and lo, Sarah thy wffe shall have
a son. And Sarah heard it in tho
tent-door, wMch was behmd him.
Note.
The " day of vengeance " is always the
" acceptable year of the Lord." Salvation
to Zion, is always accora panied with de
struction to the wicked ; the wheat is
gathered when the chaff is burned. Be
fore the Lord raakea known to Abra
hara that he is about to destroy Sodom,
the typical Jerusalem that ia in bond
age with her children — ^he first con-
fii-raa the proraise to hira of a son.
The Lord is represented as asking,
"Where is Sarah thy wife ?" At a tirae
when Ms professed people had gone
away backward frora his ordinances —
when "truth had fallen in the streets,
and he who asked for judgment made
himself a. prey," — it might well be in
quired. Where is she that I espoused
to myself? — that haa been called by my
name ? — that, in the love of her espou
sals, went after me in the wilderness ?
Where is Zion, the city of the Lord ?
" Return, 0 backsliding daughter, for I
am married unto you."
Sarah was truly hidden out of sight, —
behind the door of the tent Yet she
heard the voice of her Lord, even where
she was. The true sheep never are so
far astray, as not to hear the voice of
the Shepherd when he cafls.
Hitherto the promise has been made
to Abraham; Sarah has never been
personally addressed upon the subject
But now, that the fulness of time drew
nigh, when the Son should be given, in
whom "all the famflies of the earth

between hun that serveth God and hun
that serveth hun not.

The Spirit.
Zech. vifl. 2. Thus saith the Lord
of hosts ; I was jealous for Zion with
great jealousy, and I was jealous for
hor with great fury.
3. Thus saith the Lord; I am re
turned unto Zion, and wfll dwell in the
midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem
shall be caUed, A city of truth; and
the mountain of the Lord of hosts,
The holy mountain, * * * *
***** 6. Thus saiUi the Lord of hosts ; If
it be marveUous in the eyes of the rem
nant of this people in these days, should
it also be marvellous in mine eyes?
saith the Lord of hosts.
7. Thus saith tho Lord of hosts ;
Behold, I wiU save my people from
the east country, and from the west
country ;
8. And I wiU bring them, and they
shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem :
and they shafl bo my people, arid I vrill
bo their God, in truth and m righteous
ness. Isa. Iii. 1. Awake, awake, put on
thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beau
tiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy
city : for henceforth there shall no more
come into thee tho uncircumcised and
the unclean.
2. Shako thyself from tho dust;
arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem:
loose thyself from tho bands of thy
nook, O captive daughter of Zion.
3. For thus saith tho Lord, Ye have
sold yourselves for naught; and ye
shall be redeemed without money.
*****- 7. How beautiful upon the moun
tams aro the feet of him that bringeth
good tidings, that publisheth peace:
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should be bleaaed," Sarah is also called
to believe and rejoice in the proraised
good. In like raanner, we find that the
new covenant is firat confirraed of God
in Christ, as typically represented by
Abrahara and afterwards by David.
But subsequently, when near at hand,
the "whole house of Israel," or the
church, ia recognized as joint heir with
her Lord and Head, to these blessings.
" / will make a new covenant with the
house of Israel and the house of Judah,
saith the Lord," <fec.

The Letter.
11. Now Abraham and Sarah were
old and woU stricken in ago ; and it
ceased to.be with Sarah after the man
ner of women.
12. Therefore Sarah laughed witMn
herself, saying, After I am waxed old
shall I have pleasure, my lord being old
also? 13. And the Lord said unto Abra
ham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, say
ing. Shall I of a surety bear a child,
which am old ?
14. Is anything too hard for the
Lord? At the time appointed I vrifl
retum unto thee, according to the time
of life, and Sarah shall have a son.
15. Then Sarah denied, saying, I
laughed not; for she was afraid. And
he said. Nay ; but thou didst laugh.
Note.
It hath not entered the heart of raan
to conceive the thinga of the Spirit, the
mysteries of divine grace ; they are not
only above reason, but contrary to afl
the wisdora of raan.
When the first covenant had waxed
old, and was about to be taken out of
tho way, for the weakness and unprofit-
.ableness thereof, then roora ia raade for
the new. When the Jerusalera which
is in bondage with her children, is cast
¦out to pass away for ever, and be no

that publisheth salvation; that saitb
unto Zion, Thy God reigneth ;
8. Thy watchmen shall lift up the
voice; with the voice together shall
they sing: for they shall see eye to
eye, when the Lord shall bring again
Zion. 9. Break forth into joy, suig toge
ther, ye waste places of Jerusalem : for '
the Lord hath comforted his people, he
hath redeemed Jerusalem.
10. The Lord hath made bare his
holy arm in the eyes of afl the nations :
and all the ends of the earth shafl see
the salvation of our God.

The Spirit.
Zech. viii. 6. Thus saith the Lord
of hosts; If it be marveflous m the
eyes of the remnant of tins people m
these days, should it also be marveUous
in mine eyes ? saith the Lord of hosts.
7. Thus saith the Lord of hosts;
Behold, I vriU save my people from the
east country, and from the west coun
try; 8. And I wfll bring them, and they
shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem :
and they shall be my people, and I wfll
be their God, in truth andm righteous
ness. 9. Thus saith the Lord of hosts;
Let your hands be strong, ye that hear
in these days these words by the mouth
of the prophets, wMch were in the day
tliat the foundation of the house of the
Lord of hosts was laid, that the tem
ple might be built
Isa. Ui. 16. That he who blesseth
himself in the earth shafl bless himself
in tho God of truth ; and he that swear-
cth in the earth shall swear by the God
of truth ; because fhe former troubles
are forgotten, and because they are hid
from mine eyes.
17. For behold, I create new hea
vens and a new earth : and the former
shall not be remembered, nor come
mto mind.

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more remembered nor come into raind ;
theu behold the new Jerusalera! the
"new heavens and the new earth," in
which dwelleth righteousness !
The first heavens and earth, as also
the first dispensation, was the work of
the Lord. In the beginning he laid the
foundation of thera : " they ahall perish,
but he remaineth: they all wax old as
doth a garment ; as a vesture shall he
fold thera up and they shall be changed.
But he ia the same, and his years have
no end." In like manner he orders and
establishes hia apiritual kingdom : takes
out of it all tMngs that offend, that
perish with the using, and sets jtidg-
ment and righteousness in the earth;
puts to silence the ignorance of man,
confounds the wisdom of the wise, and
makes Ms own counsel stand for ever.
The passing away or annulling of the
old covenant and establishment of the
new, as following each other in order
of time, is exempUfied in the near prox
imity of the two events which typically
represent each of them, viz. : the de
struction of Sodom, and the birth of
Isaac.

The Letter.
16. And the men rose up from
thence, and looked toward Sodom :
and Abraham wont with them to bring
them on the way.
17. And the Lord said, Shafl I hide
from Abraham that thing which I do ;
1 8. Seemg that Abraham shall surely
become a great and mighty nation, and
afl the nations of the earth shall be
blessed in him ?
19. For I know him, that he will

18. But be ye glad and rejoice for
ever in ihat which I create : for behold.
I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her
people a joy.
19. And I wifl rejoice in Jerusalem,
and joy in my people : and the voice of
weeping shall be no more heard in her,
nor the voice of crymg.
***** 24. And it shaU come to pass, that
before they call, I wfll answer; and
whfle they are yet speaking, I wUl
hear. 25. The wolf and the lamb shaU
feed together, and the Uon shall eat
straw Uke the buflock: and dust shall
be the serpent's meat. They shall not
hurt nor destroy in all my holy mor-a-
taui, saith the Lord.
John i. 1 2. But as many as received
him, to them gave he to become tho
sons of God, even to, them that boUeve
on his name.
13. Which were born not of blood,
nor of the wiU of Ihe fiesh, nor of the
wfll of man, but of God.
IsA. U. 12. I, even I, am he that
confforteth you : who art thou, that
thou shouldest bo afraid of a man that
shall die, and of the son of man which
shaU bo made as grass :
13. And forgettest the Lord thy Ma
ker, that hath stretched forth the hea
vens, and laid the foundations of the
earth; and hast feared continually
every day because of the fury of the
oppressor ?

The Spirit.
John v. 19. Thon answered Jesus
and said unto them. Verily, Verily, I
say unto you, Tho Son can do nothing
of himself, but what he seeth the Fa
ther do : for what things soever ho
doeth, these also doeth the Son like
wise. 20. For the Father loveth the Son,
and showeth hun aU things that himself
doeth : and ho wifl show him greater
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command his chUdren and Ms house
hold after hun, and they shafl keep the
way of the Lord, to do justice and judg
ment; that the Lord may bring upon
Abraham that which he hath spoken
ofhim. Note.
In this passage the raediatorial cha
racter and ofiice of Christ ia alluded to,
as connected with what is about to be
done. "If "his chfldren forsake my law,
and walk not in my testiraoniea; I will
visit their transgressions with the rod,
and their iniquities with stripes; ne
vertheless my loving kindness will I not
take frora him, nor suffer my faithfulness
to fail." His sceptre is a sceptre of
righteousness, and "iu his days ahall
the righteoua flouriah," while " he shafl
break in pieces the oppressor."

21. For as the Father raiseth up the
dead, and quickeneth them; even so
the Son quickeneth whom he -wifl.
22. For the Father judgeth no man ;
but hath committed afl judgment unto
the Son:
23. That aU men should honor the
Son, even as they honor the Father.
He that honoreth not the Son, honor-
eth not the Father which hath sent
Mm.
IsA. ix. 7. Of the increase of his
government and peace there shall be no
ond, upon the throne of David, and
upon his kingdom, to order it, and to
estabUsh it vrith judgment and with
justice from henceforth even for ever.
The zeal of the Lord of hosts -wfll per
form this.
xU. 25. I have raised up one from the
north, and he shaU come: from the
rising of the sun shall he call upon my
name ; and he shall come upon prmces
as upon mortar, and as the potter tread
eth clay.

The Letter.
20. And the Lord said. Because the
cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great,
and because their sin is very grievous.
21. I -wfll go down now, and see
whether they have done altogether ac
cording to the cry of it, wMch is come
unto mo ; and ff not, I wifl know.
Note.
The divine Mediator, iu leaving the
abodes of glory to become a servant and
messenger of the covenant, came down
infinitely low, even to the fallen. and
degraded children of men.
By undertaking the office of his rae
diatorial relation to his church as pro
phet priest, and king, he pledged him
self, as the keeper of Israel, to watch
over them night and day. His dwell
ing place is Zion, and he is ever with
his people. But there are special visit
ations, both of mercy and of judgraent,
when he signally displays his favor to
his chosen, and when hyprocrites and

The Spirit.
Ezk. viii. 4. And behold, the glory
of the God of Israel was there, accord
ing to the vision that- 1 saw in the
plain. ***** 12. Then said he unto me, Son of
man, hast thou- seen what the ancients
of the house of Israel do in the dark,
every man in the chambers of Ms im
agery ? for they say. The Lord seeth us
not ; the Lord hath forsaken the earth.
13. He said also unto me. Turn thee
yet again, and thou shalt see greater
abominations that they do.
14. Then he brought me to the door
of the gate of the Lord's house, wMch
was toward tho north; and behold,
there sat women weepmg for Tammuz.
15. Then said he unto me, Hast
thou seen this, O son of man ? Turn
thee yet again, and thou shalt see
greater abominations than these.
16. And he brought me into the in-

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thoae that are at ease in Zion are made i
afraid. The eiglith of Ezek. represents the
Lord Jesus in one of these seasons of
special visitation, He searches his Je
rusalem as with candles, digs into the
walls, and enters the chambers of ira-
agery in which they were engaged in
their guilty abominations. And when
he had seen all, ne pronounces the sen
tence of vengeanoe upon their idolatrous
city. All thia is speaking after the manner
of men, as in the present instance when
he says, he will "come down" and see
whether the city of Sodom had done al
together according to the cry of it It
is doubtless designed to express the for
bearance, which, as a faithful high priest
who knows that his people are but flesh,
he exercises over them.

ner court of the Lord's house, and be
hold, at tho door of the temple of the
Lord, between the porch and the altar,
were about five and twenty men, with
their backs toward the temple of the
Lord, and their faces toward the east;
and they worsMpped the sun toward
the oast.
17. Then ho said unto me, Hast thou
seen this, O son of man ? Is it a light
thing to the house of, Judah that they
commit tho abominations which they
commit here ? for they have fifled the
land with violence, and have returned
to provoke me to anger : and lo, they
put the branch to their nose.
:8. Therefore wifl I also deal in
fury, mine eye shafl not spare, neither
wifl I have pity : and though they cry
in mine ears witii a loud voice, yet will
I not hear them.

The Letter.
22. And the men turned thefr faces
from thence, and went toward Sodom ;
but Abraham stood yet before the
Lord. 23. And Abraham drew near, and
said. Wilt thou also destroy the right
eous with the vricked ?
24. Peradventure tiiere be fifty-right
eous witMn the city: wflt thou also
destroy and not spare tho place for the
fifty righteous that are therein?
25. That be far from thee to do after
this manner, to slay the ri^teous with
the wicked: and that the righteous
should be as the wicked, that be far
from thee : Shafl not the Judge of all
the earth do right? Note.
Both the old and the new dispensa
tions employ the ministry of angels.
They are said to ascend and descend
- upon the Son of man, because they are
em.ployed in the work of his kingdora,
and through the medium of his peace
making righteousness, to minister to the
heirs ot salvation.

The Spirit.
Num. xiU. 1 3. And Moses said unto
the Lord, Then tiie Egyptians shafl
hear it (for thou brou^test up this
people in thy might fromamongthom),
***** 16. Now if thou shalt kifl all this
people as one man, then the nations,
which have heard the fame of thee, wfl!
speak, saying,
16. Because the Lord was not able
to bring this people into the land which
he sware unto them, therefore ho hath
slain them in the -wilderness.
17. And now, I beseech thee, let the
power of my Lord be great, according
as thou hast spoken,
* * * * *
19. Pardon, I beseech thee, the mi
quity of this people, according unto the
greatness of thy mercy, and as thou
hast forgiven ibis people, from Egypt
even until now.
Heb. vii. 22. By so much was Je
sus made a surety of a better testa^
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Abraham here appears as the inter
cessor for Israel — that tiie righteous
should not perish with the wicked.
His special desire appears to be, that
Sodom should be saved through the
nuraber of righteous that may be found
in it; but does not ask for the righteous
to be brought out or delivered frora the
evil He doubtless knew that those
who were then alive in tbe city, that
were righteous, would be safe ; but this
intercession seeing to point to the saving
of the city, for the sake of those who'
might hereafter believe. Thia was not
the divine purpose. As a people they
raust be east off ; and this intercession,
which typically alludes to that of Christ
for his people to the end of time, in that
nation is only available for the " rera
nant according to the election of grace,"
who should finally be saved, though not
by their covenant.
Abraham, like Moses, pleads for the
honor of God's great narae, that it be
not profaned araong the heathen.

TTie Letter.
26. And the Lord said, If I find m
Sodom fifty righteous withm the city,
then I will spare all the place for thefr

27. And Abraham answered and
said. Behold now, 1 have taken upon
me to speak unto the Lord, which am
but dust and ashes :
28. Peradventure there shall lack
five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou
destroy all the city for lack cf five ?
And he said. If I find there forty and
five, I will not destroy it.
29. And he spake unto him yot again,
and said, Peradventure there shafl be
forty found there. And he said, I wfll
not do ii for forty's sake.
30. And he said Mnto Mm, Oh, let not
the Lord be angry, and I wifl speak :
Peradventure there shafl thirty be
found there. And ho said, I wUl not
do il, ff I fmd thirty there.
31. And he said. Behold now, I have
taken upon me to speak unto the

tmueth for ever hath an unchangeable
priesthood. 25. Wherefore he is able to save ta
the uttermost afl that come unto God
through him, seeing be ever liveth to
make intercession for them.
Jer. -vn. 13. And now, because ye
have done all these works, saith the
Lord, and I spake unto you, rising up
early and speakmg, but ye heard not;
and I cafled you, but ye answered not;
14. Therefore wUl I do unto this
house, which is called by my name,
wherem ye trust, and unto the place
which I gave to you aud to your fa,
thors, as I have done to ShUoh.
16. And I vrill cast you out of my
sight, as I have cast out all your bre
thren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.
16. Therefore pray not thou for tMs
people, neither lift up ciy nor prayer
for them, neither make intercession to
me : for I vrill not hear thee.

The Spirit.
Matt. v. 13. Ye ai-e the salt of tiie
earth : but if the salt have lost his sa
vor, wherewith shafl it be salted? it
is thenceforth good for nothing but to
be cast out, and to be trodden under
foot of men.
14. Ye are the light of the world.
A city that is sot on a hiU cannot be
hid. 16. Neither do men light a candle,
and put it under a bushel, but on a
candlestick : and it giveth Ught unto afl
that are in tho house. »
16. Let your light so shine before
men, that they may see your good
works, and glorify your Father which
is in heaven.
Ps. cvi. 23. Therefore he said that
he would destroy them, had not Moses
his chosen stood before him in tho
breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he
should destroy them.
24. Yea, they despised the pleasant
land, they believed not Ms word:

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Lord: Peradventure there shafl be
twenty found there. And he said, I
will not destroy it for twenty's sake.
32. And he said. Oh, let not the
Lord bo angry, and I will speak yot but
this once : Peradventure ten shall be
found there. And he said, I will not
destroy ii for ten's sake.
Note.
This intercession of Abrahara for So
dom has reference to both covenants,
and to the office of both Moses and
Christ as raediator between God and
Israel. By the terras of the first cove
nant there were " none righteous — no not
one;" therefore after pleading for the
people of that covenant, that uiey raight
be saved if even ten righteous were
found among them, and the Lord accepts
the terms, Abraham ceases to plead any
farther, well knowing that they were
all gone out of the way. In like manner
Moses interceded for Israel in the wil
derness, and God replies — "I have
pardoned according to thy word," by
which we are to understand that he for
bore to visit upon thera the fierceness of
Ms anger, because the word of Moses
had respect both to typical and spiritual
Israel; therefore the one were spared to
show that the other would be finally
pardoned at the word of the Mediator of
the better covenant. Yet he immedi
ately adds that they should never enter
his rest; by which we see that as a na
tion they were finaUy cast off, though a
small remnant (Caleb and Joshua) were
permitted to enter tfce land; to show
that in like raanner, under the new co
venant the Jews as a people would be
cast off; all except the "reranant ac
cording to the election of grace."

25. But murmured in their tents,
and hearkened not unto tho voice of
the Lord.
26. Therefore he lifted up his hand
against them, to overtMow them in the
wilderness. Num. xiv. 20. And the Lord said,
I have pardoned according to thy
word :
21. But as truly as I live, all the
earth shall be filled with tho glory of
the Lord.
22. Because all those men which
have seen my glory, and my miracles,
which I did in Egypt and in tho wUder
ness, and have tempted me now these
ten times, and have not hearkened to
my voice ;
23. Surely thoy shaU not see the
land which I sware unto their fathers,
neither shall any of them that provoke
me see it.
Matt, xxiii. 36. Vei-Uy, I say unto
you, Afl these things shall como upon
this generation.
37. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, ihou
that kiUest tho prophets, and stonest
them which aro sont unto thoo, how
often would I have gathered thy chil
dren together, even as a hen gathereth
her chickens under her wings, and ye
would not!
IsA. X. 1 9. And tho rest of the trees
of the forest shall be few, that a child
may write them.
20. And it shaU come to pass in that
day, ihat the remnant of Israel, and
such as are escaped of the house of
Jacob, shall no more again stay upon
Mm that smote them; but shall stay
upon the Lord, the Holy Ono of Israel,
in truth.
21. The remnant shafl return, even
the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty
God. 22. For though thy people Israel be
as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of
them shall retum: the consumption de
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The Letter.
33. And the Lord went Ms way, as
soon as he had left communing with
Abraham : and Abraham returned unto
Ms place. Note.
The typical interoeaaion of Abrahara,
as we have before observed, embraced
not only that which was about to be
abolished, but that also which ahould
remain ; the " remnant, according to the
election of grace." For the one he was
accepted, but not for the other; for
Isaac, but not for Ishmael.
This intercession also illustrates very
forcibly the words of Christ in the Sth
chapter of Matt, where he represents hia
elect as "the salt of the earth" — "the
light of the world." Sodom is prayed for
upon the plea that even ten righteous
raight be found in her! How iraportant
then to a, corrupt, perishing world
that lies iu wickedness, ia the exiatence
among thera of this salt; even the small
est portion of it will preserve from im
raediate ruin, a whole city. Yet are
theae few righteoua esteeraed by the
wicked as the offscouring of all things !
They would not permit one of thera to
live, had they their own will I How little
they realize that the world itself stands
only for the elect's sake; for the rao
raent the last living stone is gathered
into, the building, and the church of God
is complete, then "the heavens shall be
rolled together as a scroll, and the ele
ments shall raelt with fervent heat!"
When the Lord leaves communing
with Abrahara, the fate of the city is
deterrained; — it is left desolate, to la-
raent that in the day of its visitation,
it had not known the things that be
longed to its peace. When Jesus no
longer intercedes, the door of salvation
is shut.

The Spirit.
Matt. xxiu. 36. Behold your house
is left unto you desolate.
***** 39. For I say unto you. Ye shafl not
see me henceforth, tifl ye shafl say,
Blessed is he that cometh in the name
of the Lord.
RoM. xi. 7. Wliat then? Israel
hath not obtamed that which he seek
eth for ; but the election hath obtained
it, and the rest were blinded. »
8. (According as it is written, God
hath given them the spfrit of slumber,
eyes that they should not see, and
oars that they should not hear ;) unto
this day.
9. And David saith. Let their table
be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumb
ling-block, and a recompense unto them:
10. Let their eyes be darkened, that
they may not see, and bow down their
back always.
11. I say then. Have they stumbled
that they should fall? God forbid:
but rather through their fall salvation
is come unto the GentUes, for to pro
voke them to jealousy.
Matt. xxiv. 30. And thon shafl ap
pear the sign of the Son of man in
heaven : and then shall all the tribes of
the earth mourn, and they shall see the
Son of man coming in the clouds of
heaven with power and great glory.
3 1 . And ho shall send his angels with
a great sound of a trumpet, and thoy
shall gather together his elect from tho
four wmds, from one end of heaven to
tho other.
***** 34. Verfly I say unto you. This ge
neration shaU not pass, tiU all these
tMngs be fulfilled.
35. Heaven and earth shall pass
away, but my Words shall not pass away.
36. But of that day and hour know
eth no man, no, not the angels of hea
ven, but my Father only.
37. But as the days of Noe were, so
shall also the coming of the Son of
man be.

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CHAPTER XIX.

The Letter.
And there came two angels to So
dom at even ; and Lot sat in the gate
of Sodom ; and Lot, seeing ihem, rose
up to meet them ; and ho bowed him
self with Ms face toward the ground ;
2. And ho said. Behold now, my
lords, turn m, I pray you, into your
servant's house, and tarry all night, and
wash your feet, and ye shall rise up
early, and go on your ways. And thoy
said. Nay; but we -wfll abide in the
street all night.
3. And he pressed upon them great,
ly ; and they turned in unto Mm, and
entered mto his house ; and he made
them a feast, and did bake unleavened
bread, and thoy did eat.
Note.

It was in the evening of the first testa
ment that the "lost sheep of the house
of Israel,'' the reranant that were found
among their raany thousands, like "new
¦wine in the cluster," were gathered out
by the di-rine shepherd, before the great
and terrible day of the Lord.
By reference to the 1 Sth chapter, and
the settleraent of Lot in Sodom, it will
be seen that this event has allusion to
the planting of Judah in Jerusalera. Iu
the description given by Christ of the
destruction of this city, he reveals the
signs and tokens of that signal visit
ation, in order that his disciples might
know thera, and flee to the raountains
before it should come to pass.
It is reraarkable that the scriptures
speak of the destr'uction of Jerusalem and
the end of the old dispensation, and the
end of the world, as one and the sarae.
The types also of these three things are
always identified with each other. This
is probably because the great features
of each of these events are the same ;
iu each, there will be a separation of the
righteous and the wicked, the just and
the unjust, the wheat and the tares, the
sheep and the goats; with the condem-

The Spirit.
2 Pet. U. 4. For if God spared not
tho angels that sinned, but cast ihem
down to hell, and delivered ihem into
chains of darkness, to bo reserved unto
judgment ;
6. And spared not tho old world, but
saved Noah tho eighth person, a preach
er of righteousness, bringing in the
flood upon the world of the ungodly ;
6. And turnmg the cities of Sodom
and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned
ihem vrith an overthrow, maMng them
an example unto those that after should
Uve ungodly;
7. And deUvered just Lot, vexed
with the filthy conversation of the
wicked. Ezk. ix. 4. And the Lord said unto
Mm, Go through the midst of the city,
through the midst of Jerusalem, and set
a mark upon the foreheads of the men
that sigh and that cry for all the abo
minations that be done in the midst
thereof. 6. And to the others he said in my
hearing. Go ye after him through the
city, and smite : let not your eye spare,
neither have ye pity :
6. Slay utterly old and young, both
maids, and little cMldren, and women :.
but come not near any man upon whom
is tho mark ; and begin at my sanctu
ary. Then they began at tho ancient
men which were before the house.
Matt. xxiu. 47. Agam, the Mng
dom of heaven is like unto a net, that
was cast into the sea, and gathered of
every kind :
48. Which, when it was full, they
drew to shore, and sat do-wn and ga
thered the good into vessels, but cast
the bad away.
49. So shall it be' at the end of the
world: the angels shall come forth,
and sever the vricked from among the
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nation of the one and the justification of
the other.
It is noticeable that both Abraham
and Lot are found by their heavenly
visitors iil a state of watching ; like ser
vants, "looking for' the coming of their
Lord," ready to hear and do his bid
ding.

The Letter.
4. But, before they lay down, the
men of tho city, even the men of Sodom,
compassed tho house round, both old
and young, afl the people from every
quarter :
5. And they called unto Lot, and
said unto him. Where are the men
which came in to the* this night?
bring them out unto us, that we may
know them.
6. And Lot went out at the door
unto them, and shut the door after
him, 7. And said, I pray you, brethren,
do not so wickedly.
8. Behold now, I have two daugh
ters which have not known man ; let
me, I pray you, bring them out unto
you, and do ye unto them as is good
in your eyes : only unto these men do
nothing ; for therefore came they under
tiie shadow of my roof.
9. And they said, Stand back. And
they said again. This one fellow came
in to sojourn, and ho -wiU needs be a
judge : now wiU we deal worse with
thee than with them. And they pressed
sore upon the man, even Lot, and camo
near to brealc the door.

nace of fire : there shaU be waUmg and
gnashing of teeth.
John x. 27. My sheep hear my
voice, and I know them, and they foUow
me; 28. And I give unto them eternal
Ufe and thoy shaU never perish, neither
shall any pluck them out of my hand.
IsA. Ixv. 8. Thus saith the Lord,
As tho new wine is found in tho clus
ter, and one saith. Destroy it not : for
a blessing is in it : so wUl I do for my
servants' sake, that I may not destroy
them all.
9. And I wHl bring forth a seed out
of Jacob, and out of Judah an inhe
ritor of my mountams : and mine elect
shaU inherit it, and my servants shall
dweU there.

The Spirit.
Matt. xxui. 31. Wherefore, ye be
witness unto yourselves, that ye are
the cMldi-en of them which killed the
prophets. 32. FiU ye up then the measure of
your fathers.
33. Ye -serpents, ye generation of
vipers, how can ye escape the damna
tion of hoU?
34. Wherefore, behold, I send unto
you prophets, and wise men, and
scribes; and some of them ye shall
kfll and crucify, and some of them shaU
ye scourge in your s3magogues, and
persecute iliem from city to city :
36. That upon you may como aU
the righteous blood shed upon the
earth, from the blood of righteous
Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, son
of Barachias, whom ye slew between
the temple and the altar.
Acts xvu. 5. But the Jews wMch
believed not, moved vrith envy, took
unto them certain lewd feUows of the
baser sort, and gathered a company,
and sot aU the city on an uproar, and
assaulted the house of Jason, and
sought to brmg them out to the peo
ple.

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Note.
The only characters upon which Jesus
pronounced a "woe,'' when he was on
earth, were the Pharisees and teachers of
the Jewish law. These were, of all others,
the raost bitter against tbe doctrines of
the gospel and the iraage of God, mani
fest in Ms Son.
After his death, the Jews continued to
persecute his people, even to strange
cities. They had trials of every kind,
and deaths in every forra. "They wan
dered about in sheep-skins and goat
skins, being destitute, afflicted, tor
mented ; of whom the world was not
worthy." The raen of Sodom could be little
worse than this, nor better merit the
doom that fell upon them. Spiritual
wickedness in high places is the worst
of all abominations. The " man of sin,"
sitting in the temple of God, is raore to
be feared, than all the foes of flesh and
blood. And the mother of harlots, who,
ff not Jerusalem itself, is exceedingly
like her, is " drunk with the blood of the
saints."

The Letter.
10. But the men put forth their
hand, and puUed Lot into the house to
them, and shut to the door.
11. And they smote the men that
were at the door of the house with
bUndness, both small and great: so
that thoy wearied themselves to find
the door. Note.
One of the raost signal judgraents
which fell upon the Jewish people, is
that judicial blindneas, by reason of
which they so totally raisapprehend the
nature of their own dispensation ; so
that what " would have been for their
welfare,'becarae a snare and a trap, and
a sturabling-block " to them.
A veil is over the face of Moses, so
that they cannot see to the end of that
which is abolished ; — even unto this day
this veU remains untaken away. Yet
is there a promise, that when the fulness
of the Gentiles shall be come in, it shafl

6. And when they found them not,
they drew Jason and certain brothrou
unto the rulers of tho city, crying.
These -that have turned the world up
side down, are come hither also ;
7. Whom Jason hath 'received: and
those all do contrary to tho decrees of
Cesar, saying, that tiiere is another
king, one Jesus.
vii. 61. Ye stiff-necked, and uncir
cumcised in heart .-md cars, ye do .al-
w.iys resist the Holy Ghost : as your
fathers did, so do ye.
5:2. Which of the prophets have not
your fathers persecuted ? and they have
slain them which showed before of the
coming of the Just One ; of whom ye
have been now the betrayers and mur
derers ;
53. Who have received the law by
the disposition of angels, and have not
kept il.
54. When they heard these things,
they were cut to the heart, and thoy
gnashed on him with ilieir teeth.

The Spirit.
IsA. Ux. 7. Their feet run to evfl,
and thoy make haste to shed innocent
blood: thefr thoughts are thoughts of
imquity; wasting and destruction are
in their paths.
8. Tho way of peace they know not :
and there is no judgment in their gomgs :
they have made them crooked paths :
whosoever goeth therein shall not know
peace. 9. Therefore is judgment far from
us, neither doth justice overtake us:
we wait for light, but behold obscuri
ty; for brightness, but we walk in
darkness. 10. We grope for the waU like the
blind, and- we gi-ope as if we had no
eyes : we stumble at noon-day as in
the night ; we are m desolate places as
dead men.
RoM. xi. 7. * * * ; but tiie election
hath obtained it, and the rest were
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be removed. "Blindness, in part, has
happened to Israel," but the proraise is
sure to all the seed. The gospel con
cludes all in unbelief, — all under sin, —
that the free grace of the gospel might
come on all through Christ For this
cause, Abrahara received circumcision,
as the seal of the righteousness of faith,-
which he had, being uncircumcised, that
the promise might cojne on the Gentile's
through faith.

The Letter.
12. And the men said unto Lot,
Hast thou here any besides? son-m-
law, and thy sons, and thy daughters,
whatsoever thou hast m the city, brmg
them out of tMs place :
13. For we -wfll destroy tiiis place^
because the cry of them is waxen great
before the face of the Lord ; and the
Lord hath sent us to destroy it
14. And Lot went out, and spake
unto Ms sons-in-law, wMch mamed his
daughters, and said, Up, get you out
of tMs place ; for the Lord wifl destroy
tins city : but he seemed as one that
mocked unto his sons-in-law.
, Note.
The gospel of the kingdom was
preached iu Judea from the days of

8. According as it was written, God
hath given them the spfrit of slumber,
eyes that they should not see, and ears
that they should not hear, unto tMs
day. 9. And Okvid said. Let their table
become a snare and a trap, and a
stumbling-block, and a recompence
unto them.
10. Let their eyes be darkened, that
they may not see; and bow down thefr
back alway.
2 CoR. iu. 13. And not as Moses,
which put a vefl over his face, that the
chfldren of Israel could not steadfastiy
look to the end of that which is abo
lished :
14. But thefr minds were blmded :
for untfl tMs day remaineth the same
vefl untaken away m the readmg of the
old testament; wMch veil is done away
in Christ.15. But even unto this day, when
Moses is read, the vefl is upon thefr
heart. 16. Nevertheless, when it shafl turn
to the Lord, the veil shafl be taken
away.

The Spirit.
IsA. UU. 1. Who hath beUeved our
report? and to whom is the arm of the
Lord revealed ?
Jer. -ri. 8. Be thou mstructed, O
Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from
thee ; lest I make thee desolate, a land
not inhabited.
9. Thus saith the Lord of hosts,
They shall thorougMy glean tho rem
nant of Israel as a vine: turn back
tMne hand as a grape-gatherer into the
baskets. 10. To whom shaU I speak, and give
warnmg, that they may hear ? Behold,
their ear is uncircumcised, and they
cannot hearken: behold, the word of
the Lord is unto tiiem a reproach; they
have no delight ui it.
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John the Baptist to its final overthrow.
All men, everywhere, were commanded
to repent ; the apcstles labored zealous
ly to turn the people from the error of
their waya to the wisdora of the just.
Paul was willing even t% be " accursed
from Christ" — or to endure the cursed
death of the cross, which he endured,
if Israel could be saved ; — ^yet very few
of that deluded people received the truth
of the gospel.
It was this last visitation, — the testi
mony of divine truth, — the clear light
of the gospel, which was the last wit
ness sent to thera, and finally sealed
their condemnation. "If I had not
corae and spoken unto thera they had
pot had sin, but now they have no
cloak for thefr sin." " They have seen
and hated both me and my Father."
"This is the conderanation, that light
has corae into the world, and they have
loved darkness rather than light be
cause their deeds were evil."

to the voice of charmers, charming
never so wisely.
Matt. xxiv. 2. And Jesus said unto
them, Soe ye not all those things?
VerUy I say unto you. There shafl not
bo left here one stone upon another,
that shall not be thrown down.
Acts ii. 37. Now when they heard
this, they were -wicked in their heart
and said -unto Peter and to the rest of
the apostles. Men and brethren, what
shafl we do?
38. Then Peter said upon them.
Repent, and be baptized every one of
you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for
the remission of sms, and ye shall re
ceive tho gfft of the Holy Ghost.
39. For the promise is unto you, and
to your chfldi-en, and to all that aro afar
off, even as many as the Lord our God
shall caU.
40. And with many other words did
he testify and exhort, saying. Save
yourselves from tMs untoward gene
ration.

The Letter.

15. And when the moming arose,
then the angels hastened Lot, saying.
Arise, take thy We, and thy two
daughters which are hero; lest thou
be consumed m the imquity of the
dty. 16. And whfle he Imgered, the men
laid hold upon Ms hand, and upon the
hand of his vrife, and upon the hand of
his two daughters; the Lord bemg
mercfful unto hun : and. they brought
him forth, and set him without the
city. 17. And it came to pass, when they
had brought them forth abroad, that
he said. Escape for thy Ufe ; look not
beMnd thee, neither stay thou ui aU
the plain : escape to the mountain, lest
thou be consumed. Note.
It was iu the mmning of the gospel
day that the remnant, according to the
election of grace, were called tod sepa-

The Spirit.
Matt. xxiv. 16. Then let them
which be m Judea flee mto the moun
tams: 17. Let him which is on the house
top not come do-wn to take anything
out of Ms house :
18. Neither let hun wMch is in the
field return back to take Ms clothes.
Jude 22. And of some have, com
passion, makmg a difference :
23. And others save with fear, pull-
mg them out of the fire; hatmg even
the garment spotted by the fiesh.
Dan. ix. 26. And after threescore
and two weeks shafl Messiah be cut
off, but not for himseff: and the peo
ple of the prince that shall come shafl
destroy the city and, the sanctuary;
and the end thereof shall be with a
flood, and unto the end of the war de
solations are determmed.
27. And he shafl confirm the cove
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rated from an unbelieving nation, into
the kingdom of heaven: frora a covenant
which waxed old and was ready to
vanish away, into a new and everlast
ing covenant, " even the sure mercies of
David." Even Lot lingered, as if reluctant to
leave Sodom, and as if hardly sure of
trusting to a new and untried abode.
AVe find, also, how slow of heart to be
lieve were the first converts to the
faith; how prone they were to cling to
their former covenant, and how fearful
of venturing out from this tottering
shelter to the broad room of gospel
liberty !
The doctrine of justification by faith
alone, without the deeds of the law, was
80 new, and so startlingly different from
the hard bondage under which they had
served, while the yoke of ordinances
rested upon their neck, that the news
was too good to be credited in. all its
extent They felt that it would be safer,
at least, to keep within the confines of

The Letter.
18. And Lot said unto them. Oh,
not so, my Lord !
19. Behold now, thy servant hath
found grace in thy sight, and thou hast
magnified thy mercy, which thou hast
showed unto me hi savmgmylffe: and
I cannot escape to the mountam, lest
somfe evU take me, and I die :
20. Behold now, this city is near to
flee unto, and it is a littie one : Oh, let
me escape tMther! {is it not a littie
one ?) and my soul shafl live.
Note.
It appears from the words of Christ
(Matt. xd. 12, 13), that the dispensation
of the law continued until John. He
adds, that frora that tirae, "fhekingdom
of heaven suffereth violence, and the vio
lent take it by force." Now, it is evi
dent that, though the coming of the
kingdom of heaven was preached frora
that tirae, it did not actuaUy appear, aa
set up in gospel order, untfl the day of
Pentecost

the midst of the week he shafl cause
the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,
and for the overspreadmg of abomi
nations he shall make it desolate, even
untfl the consummation, and that de
termined shafl be poured upon the de-

Jer. U. 6. Flee out of the midst of
Babylon, and deliver every man his
sOul: be not cut off m her iniquity;
for this is the time of tho Lord's ven
geance : he wUl render unto her a re
compense. Heb. vi. 18. That by two immuta
ble tMngs in which it was impossible
for God to lie, we might have a strong
consolation who have fled for refuge,
to lay hold upon the hope set before

the law, lest they might, after all, need
its help to preserve them frora the con
deranation of the wicked.

The Spirit.
Mal. iv. 5. Behold, I wfll send you
Elijah the prophet before the commg
of the great and dreadful day of the
Lord :
6. And he shall turn the heart of the
fathers to the chfldren, and the heart
of the chfldren td their fathers, lest I
come and smite the earth with a
curse. Matt. xii. 11. Verfly, I say unto
you. Among them that are born of
women, there has not risen a greater
than John the Baptist : Notwithstand
ing, ho that is least in the kingdom of
heaven is gi-eater than he.
12. And from the days of John the
Baptist, untU now, the kingdom of hea
ven suffereth violence, and the violent
take it by force,
13. For all the prophets and the
law prophesied untfl John,
14. And ff ye -wfll receive it, this is
EUas wMch was for to come.
Jee. xlviu. 25. The horn of Moab

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These words of Christ, therefore, seera
to iraply that those who believed this
preaching, pressed or fled to the king
dom of heaven, for refuge, during this
interval of time, even though not estab
lished in its strength upon the top of the
mountains, but while, with its king, it
was in the valley of humiliation; thus
taking it as it were by force.
This period of time was just three
years, or during the personal rainistry
of Christ.
This city of Zoar, to which Lot plead
to be perraitted to flee,instead of escaping
to the mountain, is the flgure of this " lit
tle one," or this short and interraediate
. state of things. Zoar signifies a heifer
OP THREE years OLD. If WC coraparc this
fact with the oo-dinance of the law rela
tive to the water of separation, or purifi
cation, we raay easily conceive the con
nection between these two things. The
sojourn in Zoar served to separate be
tween the two dispensations, — to purify
frora the old, and prepare for the new.
Hence John is said to be sent " to make
ready a people prepared for the Lord."

is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith
the Lord.
26. Make ye him drunken; for he
magnified himself against the Lord:
Moab also shall wallow in his vomit,
and ho also shall be in derision.
27. For was not Israel a derision
unto thee? was he found among
thieves ? for since thou spakest of him,
thou skippedst for joy.
Num. xix. 2. This is the ordinance
of tho law which the Lord hath com
manded, saying. Speak unto the chfl
dren of Israel, that they bring thee a
red heifer without spot, ^wherein is no
blemish, and upon which never came
yoke: 3. And ye shafl give her unto Elea
zar the priest, that ho may bring her
forth without the camp, and one shall
slay hor before his face :
4. And Eleazar the priest shall take
of her blood with his finger, and
sprinkle of her blood directly before
the tabernacle of the congregation
seven times :
5. And one shall burn the heffer in
Ms sight ; her skin, and her flesh, and
her blood, with her dung, shafl he
burn. ***** 20. But the man that shall be un
clean, and shafl not purify Mmself, that
soul shall be cut off from among the
congregation, because he hath defiled
the sanctuary of the Lord: the water
of separation hath not been sprmkled
upon him ; he is unclean.
21. And it shall be a perpetual sta
tute unto them, that he that sprinkleth
the water of separation shall wash his
clothes ; and he that toucheth the wa
ter of separation shall be unclean until
even. 22. And whatsoever tiie unclean
person toucheth shall be unclean ; and
the soul that toucheth il shafl be un
clean until even.

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The Letter.
21. And he said unto- him. See, I
have accepted thee concerning this
tMng also, that I will not overthrow
this city for the which thou hast spo
ken. 22. Haste thee, escape thither: for
I cannot do anything tifl thou be come
thither ; therefore the name of the city
was caUod Zoar.
23. The sun was risen upon the
earth when Lot entered into Zoar.
Note.
Though th*three years' personal rai
nistry of Christ was under the law, in
one sense, yetwas it a sense that absolved
it from the fate of the people of the
curse ; because it was the fulfilling of
the law, and therefore not under the
curse. Christ did what no othw raan
did — he rendered all that the law re
quired — a perfect obedience, even to the
uttermost farthing ; therefore those that
were gathered under his righteousness
— as a hen gathereth her chickens under
her wings — needed not to fear the fiery
indignation that devoured the adversa
ries. It was not only under the law, but un
der the goSpel. " The Sun of righteous
ness had riaen with healing in his
wings." The gospel waa preached— rits
ordinances were instituted and observed,
at least as far as the state of things
would allow. The supper was not ob
served, because as yet the passover was
not offered ; the Lamb of God, whose bodv
and blood must first becorae a sacrifice
for sin. Baptism was administered, not
as a legal rite, but as a preparation for
the kingdom, and only to the subjects
or children of the kingdom ; the only
change afterwards being in th* name
with which the ordinance is sealed ; for
the covenant not being as yet fully cora
pleted, it was not ready for the signature
of all (he coniraMing parties, and was
therefore administered "in the narae of
J'estts," instead "of the Father, the Son,
and the Holy Ghost" .

The Spirit.
Mal. iv. 2. But unto you that fear
my name, shall the Sun of righteous
ness arise with healing in his -wings;
and ye shall go forth, and- grow up as .
calv.es of the stall.
Zech. ix. 10. And I took my staff,
even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I
might break my covenant which I had
made vrith all the people.
11. And it was broken in that day:
and so the poor of the flock that waited
upon me knew that it was the word of
the Lord.
IsA. X. 20. And it shafl come to
pass in that day, ihat the remnant of
Israel, and such as are escaped of the
house of Jacob, shall no more agam
stay upon him that smote them; but
shafl stay upon the Lord, the Holy One
of Israel, in truth.
21. The remnant shafl return, even
the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty
God. 22. For though thy people Israel be
as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of
them shafl return : the consumption de
creed shaU overflow -with righteousness.
23. For the Lord God of hosts shafl
make a consumption, even determmed,
in the midst of all the land.
24. Therefore thus saith the Lord
God of hosts, O my people that dwell-
est in Zion, be not afraid of the Assy
rian: he shafl smite thee with a rod,
and shafl lift up his staff against thee,
after the manner of Egypt.
25. For yet a very little wMle, and
the indignation shall cease, and mine
anger, in their destruction.
26. And the Lord of hosts shall stir
up a scourge for him, according to the
slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb ;
and as his rod was upon tho sea, so
shall he lift it up after the manner of
Egypt. 27. And it shall come to pass in that
day, thai his burden shall be taken away
from off thy shoulder, and Ms yoke
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be destroyed because of the anoint
ing.

The Letter.
24. Then the Lord rained upon So
dom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and
fire from tho Lord out of heaven :
25. And he overthrew those cities,
and all the plam, and all the inhabitants
of tho cities, and that which grew upon
the ground. Note.
Every one raust be struck with the
reraarkable sirailarity in the language of
scripture concerning Sodom and Jeru
salera, both in their wickedness and
their overthrow.
The description of Jerusalera under
the curse of a broken covenant, as seen
in Deut xxix. 23, is but a counterpart of
the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah.
In 2 Pet iii. the description of the
final destruction of the earth by fire, is
of the same character, and evidently
identifies events, that have many points
of resemblance.
Again, there appears to be both literal
and spiritual things intended by this
language. The old world was destroyed and
Noah's houeehold saved " so as by wa
ter.'' The world that now ia, is reserved
unto fire; and we hear the apostle
speak also of the works of raen being
tried so as by fire, and they saved so as
by fire.
But whether nations or churches, in
dividuals or worlds, that are thus to be
tried — it equally reraains — since these
thinga are ao, what manner of persons
ought we to be ?

TTie Letter.
26. But his wffe looked back from
behind Mm, and she became a pillar of
salt! Note.
• Lot's wife waa a woraan of Sodom,
and in tMs signal judgment of God upon

The Spirit.
Deut. xxix. 22. So that the gene
ration to como of your chUdren that
shall rise up after you, and the stranger
that shall come from u, far land, shall
say, when thoy see the plagues of that
land, and tho sicknesses which tho Lord
hath laid upon it ;
23. And ihat tho whole l.ind thereof
is brimstone, and salt, and burning, ihat
it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any
grass groweth therein, like the over
throw of Sodom and Gomorrah, Ad
mah and Zeboim, which the Lord over
threw in his anger and in Ms wrath :
24.. Even all nations shall say,
¦Wherefore hath tho Lord done thus
unto this land ? what meanelh the heat
of this great anger ?
25. Then men shafl say. Because
they have forsaken the covenant of tho
Lord God of their fathers, which he
made with them when he brought them
forth out of the land of Egjrpt.
Jee. vii. 30. For tho chfldren. of
Judah have done evil in my sight, saith
the Lord : they have set their abomma-
tions m the house which is cafled hy
my name, to pollute it.
***** 20. Therefore thus saith the Lord
God ; Behold, mme anger and my fury
shall be poured out upon this place,
upon man, and upon beast, and upon
the trees of the field, and upon the
fruit of tho ground ; and it shall bum,
and shall not be quenched.

The Spirit.
Deut. xxviu. 45. Moreover, all
these curses shall come upon thee, and
shafl p-irsue thee, and overtake thee,
tUl thci be destroyed: because thou
hearkenedst not unto the voice of the
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her, presents another reraarkable feature
in the history of the people of the old
covenant — the antitypical Sodora.
From being the peculiar and favored
people of God, planted in a fruitful hfll,
the Jews, by the curse, became as " a
heath in the desert," as the "parched
places in the wilderness;" "a salt land
not inhabited." But, as if thia was not
enough, they have been scattered among
every nation under heaven and there
preserved, not of them, though araong
thera — as a standing miracle, an impe
rishable monument, — a pillar of salt, — a
"sign and a proverb" unto all people,
" for a sign and for a wonder," unto this
day! This figure is peculiarly significant. The
first testament required salt to be mixed
with all their sacrifices. They were
strictly charged "not to let the salt of
the covenant of their God be lacking."
Salt waa an emblem of the grace of
faith, and without faith it is irapossible
to please God. Therefore, as this was
always tacking, they were thus signally
reproved ! By the reference of Jesus to
Lot's wife, when describing the destruc
tion of Jerusalera, there is another tes
timony to the analogy of the two
events. The Jews, as a people, even to this
day, while they reject the Messiah, con
tinue to " look back" to that which has
been abolished for ever.

ments and his statutes which he com
manded thee.
46. And they shall be upon thee for
a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy
seed for ever.
Ezk. xiv. 7. For every one of the
house of Israel, or of the stranger that
sojourneth in Israel, which separateth
himself from me, and setteth up his
idols in his heart, and putteth the
stumbling-block of his miquity before
his face, and cometh to a prophet to in
quire of him conceming me ; I the
Lord wUl answer hun by myself:
8. And I will set my face agMUst
that man, and wifl make him a sign and
a proverb, and I wfll cut him off from
the midst of my people ; and ye shall
know that I am the Lord.
Lev. ii. 13. And every oblation of
my meat-offering shalt thou season
with salt ; neither shalt thou suffer tho
salt of the covenant of thy God to be
lacking from thy meat^offermg: vrith
all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.
Jer. xvii. 5. Thus saith the Lord;
Cursed be the man that trusteth in man,
and maketh flesh his arm, and whose
heart departeth from the Lord.
6. For he shaU be like the heath m
the desert, and shaU not see when good
cometh ; but shaU inhabit the parched
places in the wfldemess, in a salt land
and not inhabited.
Luke xvu. 28. likewise also as it
was in the days of Lot, they did eat,
they draM?, they bought, thy sold, they
planted, they builded ;
29. But the same day that Lot went
out of Sodom, it rained fire and brim
stone from heaven, and destroyed
ihem all.
30. Even thus shafl it be in the day
when the Son of man is revealed.
31. In that day, he which shall be
upon the house-top, and his stuff in the
house, let hun not come down to take
it away : and he that is in the field, let
him likewise not return back.
32. Remember Lot's wffe.

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The Letter.
27. And Abraham gat up early in
the morning to the place where he
stood before the Lord :
28. And he looked toward Sodom
and Gomorrah, and toward aU the land
of the plain, and beheld, and lo, the
smoke of the country went up as tho
smoke of a furnace.
29. And it came to pass, when God
destroyed the cities of the plain, that
God remembered Abraham, and sent
Lot out of the midst of the overthrow,
when he overthrow the cities m the
which Lot dwelt. Note.
It was because God rirmembered Abra
ham and the promise of the covenant,
that Lot was brought out from the ter
rors of the burning mount, from the
blackness, and darkness, and tempest
which consumed the cities of the plain,
to the safe refuge of Zoar. But Abra
ham, ou the dawn of that morning, stood
to behold the desolation upon a higher
ground: he' had "corae unto Mount
Zion, and unto the city of the living
God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an
innumerable company of angels, to the
general assembly of the First Born,
which are written in heaven, and to
God the judge of afl, and to the spirit of
juat men raade perfect and to Jesus the
mediator of the new covenant, and to
the blood of sprinkling that speaketh
better things than the blood of Abel."
For Abraham had stood there before,
and knew the counsels of the Lord be
fore they came to pass. He had as
cended the " mount of purposes divine,"
and the secret of the Lord waa with
him, and he had showed hira his cove
nant He saw the day of Christ in aU
ita meridian glory " afar off," and was
"glad." Abraham also from thia same mount
beheld tiie terrors of the curse; the
" aboraination that maketh desolate" —
the " smoke of their torment," who wor
ship the beast and receive his mark in
their foreheads.

The Spirit.
Rev. xiv. 1 . And I looked, and lo, a
Lamb stood on the mount Zion, and
with him a hundred forty and four
thousand, having his Father's name
written in their foreheads.
2. And I hoard a voice from heaven,
as the voice of many waters, and as the
voice of a great thunder : and I heard
the voice of harpers harping with their
harps :
3. And they sung as it were a new
song before the throne, and before the
four beasts, and the elders ; and no
man cpuld leam that song but the hun
dred and forty and four thousand, which
were redeemed from tho earth.
4. These are they which were not
defiled with women ; for they are vir
gms. These are they wMch foUow the
Lamb wMthersoever he goeth. These
were redeemed from among mon, being
the first-fruits unto God and to the
Lamb. 5. And in their mouth was found no
gmle: for they are without fault be
fore the throne of God.
6. And I saw another angel fly in
tho midst of heaven, having the ever
lastmg gospel to preach unto them that
dwell on the earth, and to every nation,
and kindred, and tongue, and people.
***** 9. And tho third angel foUowed
them, saying with a loud voice, If any
man worship the beast and his image,
.and receive his mark m Ms forehead, or
in Ms hand,
10. The samo shaU drink of the wine
of the wrath of God, which is pom-ed
out without mixture into tho cup of his
indignation ; and he shall be tormented
with fire and brimstone in the presence
of the holy angels, and m the presence
of the Lamb :
11. And the smoke of their torment
ascendeth up for ever and ever : and they
have no rest day nor night, who wor
ship the beast and his image, and who
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The Letter.
1. And Abraham journeyed from
thence toward the south country, and
dwelled between Kadesh and Shur,
and sojourned in Gerar.
2. And Abraham said of Sarah his
¦wffe, She is my sister : And Abime
lech kmg of Gerar sont and took Sa
rah. 3. But God came to Abimelech in a
dream by night, and said to Mm, Be-
bold, thou art but a dead man, for the
woman which thou hast taken : for she
is a man's -wife.
4. But Abimelech had not come near
her : and ho said, Lord, wflt thou slay
also a righteous nation ?
5. Said he not unto me, ' She is my
sister ? and she, even she herself said.
He is my brother : m tho integrity of
my heart and innocency of my hands
have I done this.
6. And God said unto him in a
dream, Yea, I know that thou didst
this in the integrity of thy heart ; for
I also -withheld theo from sinnmg
against me : therefore suffered I thee
not to touch her.
7, Now therefore restore the man
his wife ; for he is a prophet, and he
shall pray for theo, and thou shalt live :
and if thou restore lier not, know thou
that thou shalt surely die, thou and all
that are thine.
8. Therefore Abimelech rose early
in the morning, and called all his ser
vants, and told all these tMngs in their
ears : and the mon were sore afraid.
9. Then Abimelech called Abraham,
and said unto him, What hast thou
done unto us ? and what have I offend
ed theo, that thou hast brought on me
and on my kingdom a great sin? thou

Tlie Spirit.
7. And when the men of Ashdod
saw that it was so, they said, The ark
of the God of Israel shaU not abide
with us : for Ms hand is sore upon us,
and upon Dagon our god.
8. They sent therefore, and gathered
all the lords of the PMlistines unto
them, and said. What shall we do with
the ark of the God of Israel? And
they answered. Let the ark of the God
of Israel bo carried about unto Gath.
And they carried the ark of the God of
Israel about thither.
* * ' * * *
10. Therefore they sent the ark of
God to Ekron. And it came to pass as
the ai-k of God camo to Ekron, that the
Ekronites cried out, saying. They have
brought about tho ark , of the God of
Israel to us, to slay us and our -peo
ple. 11. So they sent and gathered toge
ther all the lords of the Philistines, and
said, Send away the ark of the God of
Israel, and let it gO; again to his own
place, that it slay us not, and our peo
ple : for there was a deadly destiuction
throughout all the city; the hand of
God was voiy heavy there.
12. And the men that died not, were
smitten with the emerods : and the cry
of the city went up to heaven.
hast done deeds unto me that ought
not to be done.
10. And Abimelech said unto Abra
ham, What sawest thou, that thou hast
done this thing? Note.
The figure of Abraham's sojourn in Ge
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of putting sacrflegious hands upon Sarah,
the hidden consort of Abraham, may find
its exact parallel in the history of the
Ark of God araong this sarae people.
Gerar was a province of Palestine,
and, with its rulers, here represents
Judah as a tribe of Israel ; and particu
larly as having reference to the pro
phetic promise made to that tribe

respecting the Messiah. Isaac, the
child of proraise, was born here; and
Shiloh also waa here to be raised up as
a Branch from the stem of Jesse.
The ark was the syrabolic presence of
Jehovah himself, and also represents
the body of Christ — therefore is no
unsuitable synonyme with Sarah, the
church.

The Letter.
11. And Abraham said, Because I
thought. Surely the fear of God is not
in this placo ; and they -wfll slay me for
my -wife's sake.
12. And yet indeed she is my sister;
she is the daughter of my father, but
not the daughter of my mother : and
she became my wffe.
13. And it came to pass, when God
caused me to wander from my father's
house, that I said unto hor, This is thy
kindness which thou shalt show unto
me; at every place wMther we shall
come, say of me. He is my brother.
14. And Abimelech took sheep, and
oxon, and men-servants, and women-
servants, and gave ihem unto Abraham,
and restored him Sarah his -wife.
16. And Abimelech said. Behold,
my land is before thee : dwoU where
it pleaseth theo.
16. And unto Sarah he said. Behold,
I have given thy brother a thousand
pieces of silver : behold, ho is to thee a
covering of the eyes unto all that are
with thee, and with aU other : thus she
was reproved.
17. So Abraham prayed unto God:_
and God healed Abunelech, and his
wife, and his maid-servants ; and they
bare children.
18. For the Lord had fast closed
np all tho wombs of the house of
Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abra
ham's -wife. Note.
The ark proved a " savour of death"
to the men of Gerar; and so did the
bodily presence of Christ and the setting

The Spirit.
1. And the ark of the Lord was m
the country of tho PMlistmes seven
months. 2. And the Philistines called for the
priests and diviners, saying, What
shall wo do to the ai-k Of tho Lord?
teU us wherewith we shaU send it to
his place.
3. And they said. If ye send away
the ark of tho God of Israel, send it
not empty ; but in any wise return him
a trespass-offering: thon ye shall be
healed, and it shafl be known to you
why Ms hand is not removed from
you. 4. Then said they. What shall be
the trespass-offering -which we shafl
return to him "> They answered, Five
golden emorods, and five golden mice,
according to tho number of the lords
of the Philistines : for ono plague was
on you all, and on your lords.
5. 'Wherefore ye shaU make images
of your emerods, and ima,gos of your
mice that mar the land ; and ye shall
give glory unto the God of Israel ; per
adventure he will lighten his hand from
off you, and from off your gods, and
from off your land.
6. Wherefore then do ye harden your
hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh
hardened their hearts? when ho had
wrought wonderfully among them, did
they not let the people go, and they
departed ?
7. Now therefore make a new cart,
and take two mUch-kine on which there
hath come no yoke, &c.

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up or establishment of hia church among
the men of Judah. They rejected and
sent it from them ; yet did the interces
sion of Jesua cause this curse of death to
be so removed, that all who believe will
yet be brought into the bond of the
covenant.

15. And the Levites took down the
ark of the Lord, and the coffer that
was with it, wherein the jewels of gold
were, and put them on the great stone :
and the men of Bethshemesh offered
burnt-offerings and sacrificed sacrifices
the same day unto the Lord.
16. And when the five lords of the
PhUistines had seen if, they returned to
Ekron the same day.

CHAPTER XXL

The Letter.
1. And the Lord visited Sarah as he
had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah
as he had spoken.
2. For Sarah conceived, and bare
Abraham a son in his old age, at the
set time of which God had spoken to
him. 3. And Abraham caUed the name of
Ms son that was born unto him, whom
Sarah bare to him, Isaac.
Note.
Sarah had waited long for the pro
mised son; but this must "needs be,"
to show forth the long expectation of
Zion for the anti-typical Isaac. Yet did
the Lord visit Sarah "as he had said;"
and so also he ia not alack concerning
Ms promise to his people; but in "the
fulness of tirae " it has been seeu.
Even the "self-same day" that Israel
were to be brought out of the house of
bondage, waa that promise fulfilled ;
though they had been held there four
hundred years.
Yov four thousand years the seed of the
woman had been predicted, together with
the great work he should accomplish ;
and not a jot or tittle failed of all, till it
was fulfilled.
Sarah had despaired, and schemed
and substituted her own inventions for
the promised blessing ; but all in vain.
Israel in Egypt, had lost sight of the

The Spirit.
Luke i. 30. And the angel said unto
her. Fear not, Mary: for thou hast
found favour with God.
31. And behold, thou shalt conceive
m thy womb, and brmg forth a son,
and shalt caU his name JESUS.
u. 4. And Joseph also went up
from GaUlee, out of tho city of Naza
reth, into Judea, unto tho city of Da
vid, which is cafled Bethlehem (be
cause he was of the house and Uncage
of David) ;
5. To be taxed with Mary his es
poused wffe, being great with child.
6. And so it was, that whfle they
were 'there, the days were accomplished
that she should be delivered.
7. And she brought forUi her first
born son, and wrapped him in swad
dling-clothes, and laid him in a manger ;
because there was no room for them m
the inn.
Heb. u. 16. For verily he took not
on him ihe nature cf angels ; but he
took on him the seed of Abraham.
17. Wherefore in afl things it be
hooved him to be made lUt e unto his bre
thren ; that he might be a merciful and
faithful High Priest in things yertoining-
to God, to make reconciliation for the
sins of the people.
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God of their fathers, and his covenant-
oath concerning them, and were sunken
down in, hopeless servitude and iron
bondage. But lo I at the time appoint
ed, even the self-same day, they are
brought forth, with a high hand and
an outatretched arm I And when, of the
long expected Messiah, it was said,
" Where is the promise of his coraing ?"
he suddenly, and " at the set time," ap
pears in his temple, as the proraised
Messenger of the covenant

The Letter.
4. And Abraham cfrcumcised his son
Isaac, being eight days old, as God had
commanded him.
5. And Abraham was a hundred
years old when his son Isaac was bom
unto him. Note.
Jesus, the proraised heir of the new
covenant was also the fulfilment of the
old — " the end of the law for righteous
ness :" — the eubstance of all its shadows,
the antitype of all its ceremonies. He
was the Alpha and Omega, the beginning
and the end of all things.
As being born under the law, he was
circumcised ; and as the minister of the
true tabernacle, the beginning of the
gospel, he was baptized; that in hira,
and by him, all righteousness might be
fulfilled ; all that pertained both to the
old and the new dispensation.
The age of Abraham at the birth of
Isaac — an exact multiple of the raystic
number ten and ten — ^points to the ex
pression in Galatians, "fulness of time."

fored, being tempted, he is able to suc
cour them that are tempted.
Isa. ix. 6. For unto us a chUd is
born, unto us a son is given : and the
govemment shall be upon his shoul
der: and his name shall be called
Wonderful, Counsellor, The Mighty
God, The Everiasting Father, The
Prmce' of Peace.
2 Pet. iU. 8. But, beloved, be not
ignorant of this one tMng, that one
day is with the Lord as a thousand
years, and a thousand- years as one day.
9. The Lord is not slack conceming
his promise, as some men count slack
ness ; but is long-suffering to us-ward,
not wUling that any should perish, but
that all should come to repentance.

The Spirit.
Luke U. 21. And when eight days
were accomplished for the circumcising
of the chUd, Ms name was called JESUS,
which was so named of the angel be
fore he was conceived m the womb.
- Gal. iv. 4. When the fulness of
time was come, God sent forth his Son
made of a woman, made under the
law, &c.
Matt; v. 18. For verUy I say unto
you, tiU heaven and earth pass, one jot
nor one tittle shaU not pass from tho
law, tUl all be fulfilled.
CoL. n. 11. In whom also ye are
cfrcumcised -with the circumcision made
without hands, in putting off the body
of tho sms of tho flesh by the circum
cision of Christ :
12. Buried with him in baptism,
wherein also ye are risen with him
through the faith of the operation of
God, who hath raised Mm from the
dead. RoM. XV. 8. Now I say that Jesus
Christ was a minister of the circumci
sion for the truth of God, to confirm
the promises made unto the fathers.
CoL. fl. 20. 'Wherefore, ff ye be
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The Letter.
6. And Sarah said, God hath made
me to laugh, so thai aU that hear vrill
laugh with me.
7. And she said, 'Who would have
said unto Abraham, that Sarah should
have given chUdren suck? for I have
borne him a son m Ms old age.
Note.
If the birth of Isaac was contrary to
nature, aud beyond human calculation,
how much more the great mystery of
godliness, God raanifest in flesh I
The things of the Spirit of God are
not only deep and unfathoraable to car
nal reason, but wholly contrary to hu
man wisdom, so as to be a raere paradox
to the natural man. Hence the incar
nation of the Son of God, the union of
two distinct natures in one body — the
true God and the true man — is to the
world an enigma, — a hard saying, who
can hear it ? How needful, then, that
in receiving the deep things of God, wc
lay aside all confidence in our own wis
dom or that of others, and listen only to
the Divine Spirit of truth, who alone
searches and knows these things : — that
we receive the kingdom of God as a
little child, and sit and learn at the feet
of Jesua.
Not only ia the incarnation of Christ
a mystery, but his doctrines — the whole
systera of grace in justifying the ungod
ly — are only eoraprehended by the
teaching of the sarae Divine Spirit
which directed the minds of thoae holy
raen of old, who wrote as they were
moved, and not by the suggestions of
their own reason.

the world, why, as though living m the
world, are ye subject to ordinances,
21. (Touch not; taste not; handle
not; 22. 'Which afl are to perish with the
using;) after the commandments and
doctrmes of men ?

The Spirit.
Luke i. 46. And Mary said. My
soul doth magnffy the Lord,
47. And my spirit hath rejoiced ui
God my Sa-riour.
48. For he hath regarded the low
estate of his handmaiden : for behold,
from henceforth afl generations shall
cafl me blessed.
49. For he that is mighty hath done
to me great tilings; and holy is his
name. ' 60. And his mercy is on them that
fear him, from generation to genera
tion. 51. He hath showed strength -with
his arm ; he hath scattered the proud in
the ima^ation of thefr hearts.
• 52. He hath put down the mighty
from their seats, and exalted them of
low degree.
63. He hath fifled the hungry with
good tMngs, and the rich he hath sent
empty .away.
54. He hath holpen his servant Israel,
in remembrance of his mercy ;
65. As he spake to our fathers, to
Abraham, and to his seed, for ever.
u. 10. And the angel said unto them,
Fear not : for behold, I bring you go.od
tidings of great joy, which shall be to
afl people.
1 1. For unto you is bom this day, m
the city of David, a Saviour, which is
Christ tho Lord.
12. And tMs shall ie a sign unto
you ; Ye shafl find the babe wrapped
m swaddlmg-clothes, lying in a manger.
13. And suddenly tiiere was vrith
the angel a multitude of the heavenly
host praising God, and saying, •

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14. Glory to God m the highest,
and on earth peace, good wfll towards
men.

The Letter.
8. And the chfld grew, and was
weaned: and Abraham made a great
feast the same day that Isaac was
weaned. 9. And Sarah saw the son of Hagar
the Egyptian, which she had home
unto Abraham, mocking. Note.
The weaning of Isaac impUea an ad
vance from a atate of subjection to his
parents ; and is analogous to the instal
ment of Christ into his personal minis
try. 'Wlien Jesus began to preach the gos
pel of the kingdom in the Jewish syna
gogues, his teaching was variously re
ceived. Like the feast proclaimed by
the servants iu the parable, it was firat
offered to thera " iAa< had been bidden"
— the Jews ; who for ages had been in
structed by the prophets, and who
should have been ready to go in to the
supper at supper time. But theae chil
dren of the bondwoman only " mocked"
They begged to be excused, and the sen
tence of the master of the feast was —
" Tliey shall not taste of my supper."
Yet were not the provisions of the
feast wasted or lost. "The poor, the
maimed, the halt, and the blind," who
would not have .dared venture of
themselves, and who must be " brought
in," because they were unable to get
there without, — these ones — even the
"lost sheep of the house of Israel," were
brought from the "streets and lanes of
the city" and seated at the master's
table. But "yet there is room;" — and the
servants are sent out to the "highways
and hedges ;" — to the Gentiles, who are
"without, and far off;" and they also
must be "compelled to come in," "that
the house may be full."

The Spirit.
Luke iii. 21. Now, when aU the
people were baptized, it came to pass,
that Jesus also bemg baptized, and
praying, tho heaven was opened,
22. And the Holy Ghost descended
m a bodUy shape like a dove upon him,
and a voice came from heaven which
said. Thou art my beloved Son; in
thee I am well pleased.
23. And Jesus Mmself began to be
about thirty years of age, being (as
was supposed) the son of Joseph.
Gal. iv. 29. But as then he that
was born after tho flesh persecuted him
thai was' born after the Spirit, even so
it is now.
30. Nevertheless, what saith the
scripture? cast out the bondwoman and
her son : for the son of the bondwoman
shall not be hefr with the son of the
free-woman. 31. So then, bretMen, we are not
chUdren of tho bondwoman, but of the
free. Luke xiv. 16. Then said he unto
him, A certain man made a great sup
per, and bade many :
17. And sent his servant at supper-
time, to say to them that were bid
den. Come, for all things are now
ready. 18. And they all -with one consent
began to make excuse. The first said
unto him, I have bought a piece of
ground, and I must needs go and see
it : I pray thee have me excused.
19. And another said, I have bought
five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove
them : I pray thee have me excused.
20. And another said, I have mar
ried a wffe: and therefore I cannot
come. 21. So that servant camo, and show
ed his lord these things. Then the
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The Letter.
10. Wherefore she said unto Abra
ham, Cast out tMs bondwoman, and
her son : for the son of this bondwoman
shafl not be hefr with my son, even
•with Isaac.
11. And the thmg was very grievous
in Abraham's sight, because of his
son. 12. And God said unto Abraham, Let
it not be grievous in thy sight, because
of the lad, and because of thy bond
woman ; in all that Sarah hath said
unto thee, hearken unto her voice : for
in Isaac shall thy seed be called.
Note. ,
It was their rejection of the gospel,
that sealed the condemnation of the
Jews. Jesus says, "If I had not come
and spoken unto them, they had not had
sin, but now they have no cloak for
their sin." " If I had not done among
them the works which no other man did,
they had not had sin ; but now they
have seen and hated both me and my
Father." The rayateriea of the cross were " to
the Jews a stumbling-block, and to the
Greeks foolishness." And notwithstand
ing all the testimony which had been
given by Moses and the Prophets con
cerning Jeaus, they said, "As for this
fellow, we know not whence he ia !"
Abraham was grieved at being obliged

to Ms servant. Go out quickly into
the streets and lanes of the city, and
bring in hither the poor, and the maim
ed, and the halt, and the blind.
22. And the servant said. Lord, it is
done as thou hast commanded, and yet
there is room.
23. And the Lord said unto the ser
vant. Go out into the highways and
hedges, and compel ihem to come in,
that my house may be fiUed. '
24. For I say unto you, that none of
those men which were bidden, shafl
taste of my supper.

The Spirit.
Gal. iv. 22. For it is vwitten, that
Abraham had two sons ; the ono by a
bond-maid, the other by a free-woman.
23. But he who was of the bond
woman, was born after the flesh ; but
he of the free-woman was by promise.
24. Which things are an aUegory:
for these are the two covenants ; the one
from the mount Sinai, which gendereth
to bondage, which is Agar.
26. For this Agar is mount Sinai
in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem
which now is, and is in bondage vrith
her chUdren.
26. But Jerusalem which is above is
free, wMch is the mother of us afl. ,
30. Nevertheless, what saith the
scripture? Cast out the bondwoman
and her son : for the son of the bond
woman shall not be heir -with the son
of the free-woman.
Ui. 18. For tf the inheritance be of
the law, it is no more of promise : but
God gave it to Abraham by promise.
19. "Wherefore thon serie/ft the law ?
It was added because of transgressions,
till the seed should come to whom the
promise was made ; and il was ordain
ed by angels m the hand of a media
tor. Luke u. 34. Behold, this child
is set for the faU and rising again of

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to cast out Ishmael, and Jesus wept over
Jerusalem, when he conaidered the ea-
lamfliea which were about to corae upon
her, and that this gainsaying people
were to be cast off frora being the cove
nant people of God, and rejected by
Mm as a nation for ever.

' The Letter.
13. And also of the son of the bond
woman wUl I make a nation, because
he is thy seed. Note. ''
Here we perceive the children of the
bondwoman were bleaaed for Abra
ham's sake, or because they were his
seed. Great misapprehension exists in re
gard to the cause and nature of thia
bleaaing. Careful attention to the testi
mony of scripture will show, that these
mistakes originate in confounding things
which are different; and in not keeping
iu view that Abraham's seed consisted
of two manner of people — ^the children
of promise, and the children of the flesh.
These two, Isaac and Ishmael, with
their posterity, were of totally opposite
character and destination, belonging to
different covenants, established upon
different proraises. This distinction is
pointed out in the 9th chap, of Romans,
where we are told that the "seed" of
Abraham were not all children, any
more than the world of mankind, made
of one flesh and blood, are all the

many in Israel; and for a sign which
shall be spoken against ;
35. (Yea, a sword shall pierce
through thy own soul also ;) that the
thoughts of many hearts may be re
vealed. Hos. xi. 8. How shall I give thee
up, Ephraim ? how shajl I deliver thee,
Israel ? how shall I make theo as Ad
mah ? how shall I set thee as Zebomi ?
mine heart is turned witMn me, my re-
pontings are kindled together.
Luke xix. 41. And when ho was
come near, he beheld the city, and wept
over it,
42. Saying, If thou hadst known,
even thou, at least m this thy day,
the things which belong unto thy
peace ! but now they are hidden from
thine eyes.

The Spirit.
Rom. iii. 1. What advantage thon
hath the Jew ? or what profit is there
of circumcision ?
2. Much every way : chiefly, because
that unto them were committed the
oracles of God. .
3. For what ff some did not beUeve ?
shafl their unbelief make the faith of
God without effect ?
ix. 1. I say the truth in Christ, I Ue
not, my conscience also bearing me
witness in the Holy Ghost,
2. That I have great heaviness and
continual sorrow m my heart.
3. For I could wish that myself
were accursed from Christ, for my
brethren, my kinsmen according to the
flesh :
4. Who are IsraeUtes ; to whomper-
tainelh the adoption, and the glory,
and the covenants, and the giving of
the ' law, and the serrice of God, and
the promises ;
5. Whose are the fathers, and of
whom, as conceming the flesh, Christ
came, who is over aU, God blessed for
ever. Amen.

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children of God and heirs of the king
dom. It is also plainly declared, "in
Isaac shall thy seed be called ;" and
again : " If ye are Chrisfs, then are ye
Abraham's seed and heirs according to
ihe promise" — showing that Isaac is a
type of Christ, in whom all the true
children of God and heirs of the king
dom are caUed .and chosen before the
foundation of the world.
By the casting out of the seed of the
bondwoman from the inheritance of
Isaac, God shows hia future intention
relative to tht nation of Israel, who
were together called the seed of Abra
ham. He had two designs to effect by
thjem as a people : first, to raake them
a type of the church, the spiritual Israel,
that iu them he raight show forth his
purpose of grace in Christ Jesus, relative
to the heirs of salvation. Therefore, all
that waa wrought for Israel as a people,
— all the wonderful works of God among
them, "happened unto them for ensam
ples." Again, the covenant of circum
cision, in which they were all embraced
as a nation, was designed to separate
them from the rest of the world, in
order to preserve distinct the natural
descent of the Messiah: consequently,
both Isaac and Ishmael, with the entire
household of Abraham, including ser
vants, were circumcised. Yet, though
this mixed raultitude were thus united
for these two objects,— and though they,
together, were redeemed from the bond
age of Egypt together were "baptized
unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea,"
and together entered into covenant with
God at Sinai, — " yet with many of them
God was not pleased, whoae carcasses
fell in the wilderness." And through
out their entire dispensation, God, by
the prophets, admonished them that a
sifting tirae was coming, when he would
" separate the precious from the vile,"
" discern between the righteous and the
wicked," — when his covenant with all
the people should be broken, and the
children of the bondwoman cast out, no
longer to be counted with the heirs of
promise. A misconception of this subject has
given rise to two very prorainent errors.
The firat of these is, that the same pro-

6. Not as though the word of God
hath taken none effect. For they are
not aU Israel, wMch are of Israel :
7. Neither, because they are the seed
of Abraham, are ihey aU chfldren : but.
In Isaac shaU thy seed be called:
8. That is, they which are the
children of the flesh, these are not the
chUdren of God : but the chfldren of
the promise are counted for the seed.
9. For this is the word of promise.
At this time wfll I come, and Sara shall
have a son.
10. And not only this, but when Re
becca also had conceived by one, even
by our father Isaac,
11. (For ihe children being not yet
bom, neither havmg done any good or
evfl, that the purpose of God according
to election might stand, not of works,
but of him that calleth,)
12. It was said unto her. The elder
shall ser'oe the younger.
13. As it is -written, Jacob have I
loved, but Esau have I hated.

raise which was raade to Abraham,
" / will be a God to thee and to thy seed
after thee," still holds good to believers
under the present, or gospel dispensa
tion ; — ^that it is recognized by the new
covenant-as well as the old ; — therefore,
that baptism shoifld be administered to
the children of believers, in the same
manner as circumcision was to the seed
of Abraham. All the inconsistencies of
this error cannot here be considered;
but we would only say, that in aUuding
to this promiae made to Abraham, Paul
says, iu the 3d chap, of Galatians : — "He
says not unto seeds as of raany, but thy
seed, which is Christ." That it was,
therefore, Christ and the everlasting
covenant of grace which is confirmed in
hira, that ia intended by the promise ;
and that it includea only those that are
in Christ, — for it is again added, "If
ye be Chrisfs, then are ye Abraham's
seed and heirs according to the promiae,"
That circumcision has no connection or
allusion to baptism, is also clear frora
the fact that the New Testament recog-

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nises it, — not as pointing to a gospel or
dinance, but to the regeneration of tlie
heart; therefore, by analogy, if all the
typical Israel were to be circumcised,
to prove thera to belong to the na
tion — so all the spiritual Israel raust
be "born again," or renewed in heart
to prove thera to belong to the kingdom
of heaven, as heirs of promise ; and then
the ordinances of that kingdom properly
belong to thera, and not till then.
The second error arising from con-

The Letter.
14. And Abraham rose up early m
tho moming, and took bread, and a
bottle of water, and gave it unto Ha
gar (puttmg ii on her shoulder) and
the child, and sent her away : and sho
departed, and wandered in the -wflder-
ness of Beer-sheba. Note.
It was early in the morning of the first
dispensation, when the burden of rites
and ceremonies was put upon the shoiil
ders of the bondwoman and her sons.
Though the light which they reflected
was dim, yet had they but possessed
spiritual discernment, it would have
guided them to the better things of the
"perfect day." Their "table," though
by unbelief and blindness of mind made
"a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling
block," actually contained the bread and
the water of life, though dealt out in
raeasure unto them.
Under all the shadows of the law, the
gospel was preached to them as well aa
unto ua; but it was not raixed with
faith in thera that heard it, and there
fore it profited them not ; so that what
would have been for their welfare, be
came a yoke of bondage which they
were not able to bear.
Beersheba, signifying the well of the
oath, is here firat brought to view,
though afterwarda raade the rallying
point froni whence all the special move
ments of the "father^' were made. But
that which waa a wefl of aal vation, fufl
of the waters of Ufe, was but a wilder-

founding the promises of the two cove
nants and. the inheritance which was
insured by each, is, that Israel, as
a nation — the literal descendants of
Abraham — have now a proraise of be
ing again gathered to their own land,
or the land of Palestine. For this sub
ject, we refer our readers to the last
part of the 31st chapter of this work,
where the gathering together of the
" whole house of Israel " is described as
analogous to the 37th chajj, of Ezk.

The Spirit.
Rom. ix. 4. 'Who are IsraeUtes ; to
whom pertaineth the adoption, and the
glory, and the covenants, and tho giving
of the law, and the service of God, and
the promises ;
6. Whose are the fathers, and of
whom, as concerning the flesh, Christ
came, -who is over all, God blessed for
ever. Amen.
6. Not as though the word of God
hath taken none effect. For they are
not all Israel, which are of Israel :
7. Neither, because they are the seed
of Abraham, are ihey all chfldren : but.
In Isaac shall thy seed bo caUed.
8. That is, thoy which are the cMl
dren of the flesh, these are not the
cMldi-en of God: but the chUdi-en of
the promise are counted for the seed.
***** Acts xv. 10. Now therefore why
tempt yo God, to put a yoke upon the
neck of the disciples, which neither our
fathers nor we were able to boar?
26. For this Agar is mount Sinai in
Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem
wMch now is, and is in bondage with
her children.
Gal. iv. 1. Now I, say. That the
heir, as long as he is a chfld, diff(3reth
nothing from a son-ant, though he be
lord of all ;
2. But is under tutors and govern
ors until the time appointed of the
father. 3. Even so we, when we were chfl-

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ness to the besotted and gainsaying peo
ple, who put their own traditions in the
place of the ordinances of God.

The Letter.
15. And the water was spent in the
bottle, and she cast the chfld under one
of the shrubs.
16. And she went, and sat her down
over against him, a good way off, as it
were a bow-shot : for she said. Let me
not see the death of the chUd. And
she sat over agamst him, and Iffted up
her voice, and wept. Note.
A bottle of water is soon spent, but
a fountain i.i inexhaustible. Had Hagar
reraembered her own experience in the
day when she was driven away by her
mistress, and God appeared to assure
her of future benefits, aud when ahe
set up the raeraorial, " Thou God seest
me," she would have Bought unto hira for
water, instead of aitting down in de-
apair. But this is a true picture of the con
duct of that sinful people who ao soon
" fo.'-gat his works," and " remerabered
not hia wondera of old, but provoked
hira to anger" by aaking, " Can God fur
nish a table in the wilderness? Behold
he sraote the rock that the waters gushed
out ; can he give bread also ? Can he
provide flesh for his people !"
At the moment when Hagar gave up
her child to death, a fountain of water
was actually at her side, but she saw it
not Equally blind were Israel to all
the riches of grace which were placed
before them in the ordinances of their
own dispensation, and the oracles of
God which were committed to them.
Every minutia of the cereraonial law
was but the shadow of better things,
and revealed that true bread aud that
living water, of which he who eateth
shall never die. Might not Jehovah
justiy say to this people, "Why wifl ye
die, 0 house of Israel?"

dren, were in bondage under the
ments of the world.

The Spirit.
Isa. viu. 21. And they shafl pass
through it hardly bestead and hungry :
and it shall come to pass, that when
they shall be hungry, they shafl fret
themselves, and curse thefr king and
thefr God, and look upward.
22. And they shall look unto the
earth; and behold trouble and dark
ness, dimness of anguish ; and they shall
be driven to darkness.
Lam. fl. 10. The elders of the
daughter of Zion sit upon the ground,
and keep sflence : they have cast up
dust upon their heads ; they have girded
themselves with sackcloth : the vfrgins
of Jerusalem hang do-ivn thefr heads to
the ground.
11. Mine eyes do fail with tears, my
bowels are troubled, my liver is poured
upon the earth, for the destmction of
the daughter of my people; because
the chUdren and the sucUings swoon
in the streets of the city.
12. They say to their mothers,
Where is com and -wme? when they
swooned as the wounded in the streets
of the city, when their soul was poured
out into their mothers' bosom.
iv. 3. Even the sea-monsters draw
out the breast, they give suck to their
young ones : the daughter of my peo
ple is become cruel, like the ostriches in
the wilderness.
4. The tongue of the sucking child
cloaveth to the roof of his mouth for
thirst: the young children ask bread,
and no man breaketh it unto them.
5. They that did feed delicately are
desolate in the streets ; they that were
brought up m scarlet embrace dung-
Mils. 6. For the punishment of the ini
quity of the daughter of my people is
greater than the punishment of the sin
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moment, and no hands stayed on
her. Jer. xvu. 5. Thus saith the Lord ;
Cursed be tho man that tmsteth in man,
and maketh flesh Ms arm, and whose
heart departeth from the Lord.
6. For he shafl be Uke tho heath in
the desert, and shall not see when good
cometh ; but shall inhabit the parched
places in the wUderness, in a salt land
and not inhabited.
fl. 12. Be astonished, O ye heavens,
at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye
very desolate, saith the Lord.
13. For my people have committed
two evils; they have forsaken me the
fountain of living waters, and hewed
them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that
can hold no water.

The Letter.
17. And God heard the voice of the
lad: and tho angel of God caUed to
Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her,
What afleth thee, Hagar? fear not;
for God hath heard the voice of tfte lad
where he is.
18. Arise, Uft up the lad, and hold
him in thine hand : for I wUl make him
a great nation. NoTK
The patience and long suffering of
God, manifested toward hia rebellioua
larael, is designed for fhe encouragement
of those who should afterwards believe
on hia name. All hia dealinga with
them were directed by one single con
sideration — "he renumbered his covenant
with their fathers !" So, in like manner,.
his dealings with his spiritual Israel are
all according to the exceeding riches of
his grace in Christ Jesus :: all ordered
by the everlasting covenant made with
his anointed Son, for whose sake he
" pardons and passes by the transgres
sions of his people."
In the raidst of their distresses, when
the iniquity of their heels corapass them
about, and they are not able to look up,
he says to them, "fear not," "I am he
that blotteth out thy transgressions for
13

The Spirit.
Isa. Ixui. 9. In afl their affliction he
was afflicted, and the angel of Ms pre
sence saved them : in his love and in
his pity he redeemed them ; and bare
them, and carried them afl the days of
old. Deut. xxxii. 10. He found hun in a
desert land, and in the waste howling
wilderness ; he lod him about, he in
structed Mm, he kept him as the apple
ofhis eye.
Ps. cii. 19. For ho hath looked down
from the height of his sanctuary ; from
heaven did the Lord behold the earth ;
20. To hear the groaning of the pri
soner ; to loose those that aro appoint
ed to death.
cvi. 43. Many times did he doUver
them; but they provoked him 'with
their counsel; and were brought low
for thefr iniquity.
44. Nevertheless he regarded their
affliction, when he heard thefr cry.
46. And he remembered for them
his covenant, and repented accordmg to^
the multitude of his mercies.
evfl. 17. Fools, becaiise of theii-
transgression, andbecause of their in-
iqmties, are afilicted."

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my name's sake, and will not reraember
iniquity against thee.'' He lifts them up
when they are cast down; and bears
them as on eagles' wings through the
wilderness; he preserves thera in the
midst of its pita and snarea; delivers
them from the hand of their eneraies,
aud thera that are too strong for thera;
and flnally plants thera in that pro
mised inheritance which he has reserved
for them.

The Letter.
19. And God opened her eyes, and
sho saw a well of water : and she went,
and fflled the bottle with water, and
gave the lad drink. Note.
Again we ^e called to admire, with
Paul, the_ imseArchable jurlgments of
God, and the riches of his wisdom and
knowledge. The Jews, as a nation, were not ouly
under the curse of the law, but blind to
the nature and privileges of the gospel.
Under this curse they were cast out
from being a people entitled to peculiar
privfleges, as they had formerly been.
As concerning the goapel they were con
sidered as enemies, that the Gentiles
might be grafted iu, aud the promise by
grace raight come upon all. For God
haa concluded all under sin, both Jews
and Gentiles; because the promise of
Abraham was notby the law, but by the
hearing of fait^^ and waa given to him

18. Their soul abhorreth afl manner
of moat; and they draw near unto the
gates' of death.
19. Then they cry unto the Lord in
thefr trouble, he saveth them out of
their distresses.
20. He sent his word, and healed
them and delivered them from their
destructions. •
***** 4. They wandered in the vrildemess
in a solitary way ; they found no city
to dweU in.
5. Hungry and tMrsty, their soul
fainted in them.
6. Then they cried unto the Lord in
their trouble, and he delivered them out
of their distresses.
* * • * * *
35. He tumeth the vrildemess into
a standing water, and dry ground into
water-springs. 36. And there he maketh the hungry
to dwell, that they may prepare a city
for habitation.

Tlie Spirit.
2 Cor. in. 1 4. But thefr minds were ,
blinded: for untfl this day remameth
the same vafl untaken away in the
reading of the old testament; which
vail is done away in Christ
15. But even unto tMs day, when
Moses is read, the vafl is upon tiieir
heart 16. Nevertheless, when it shall tum
to the Lord, the vaU shall be taken
away. RoM. xi. 11. I say then. Have they
stumbled that tiiey should fall ? God
foibid : but rather through thefr faU sal
vation is come unto the Gentfles, for to
provoke them to jealousy.
12. Now, if the faU of them be the
riches of the worid, and the dimmishing
of them the riches of the Gentiles;
how much more thefr fulness ?
*****- 15. For if the casting away of them
he the reconcfling of tiie worid, what

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in uncircumcision, that it might be sure
to "all the seed;" not that which ia of
the law only, but that which ia by the
faith of our father Abraham.
In thia 19th verse, where God opens
Hagar's eyes and she fills the bottle from
the fountain, is given the intimation of
what is contained in the xi. of Eom.,
viz : the final ingathering to their own
olive, of aU the chUdren of promise, from
among that cast-off peojde ; and that
there yet remains water for them in the
well of the oath, that they shall be
brought " one of a city and two of a fa
mUy" to Zion ; and " thus all Israel shall
be saved ;'' the entire seed of prmnise,
even the whole house of Israel, be raised
from their "graves," to form, with the
Gentile sheep, " one fold and one shep
herd."

The Letter.
20. And God was with tho lad ; and
he grew, and dwelt in tho wfldemess,
and became an archer.
21. And ho dwelt in the wUderness
of Paran : and his mother took him a
wife out of the land of Egypt.
Note.
The meaning of Paran is glory or beau
ty. In the wilderness of this place, Ishmael
abode as an archer ; or as one whoae
" hand was against every man and every
man's hand against him."

shall the receiving of ihem be, but lffe
from the dead?
***** 20. WeU ; because of unbelief they
were broken off, and thou standest by
faith. Be not high-minded, but fear.
21. For if God spared not the natu
ral branches, take heed lest he also spare
not thee.
22. Behold therefore tho goodness
and severity of God : on them which
fell, severity; but toward thee, good
ness, if thou continue in 7iis goodness;
otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
***** 26. For I would not, brethren, that
ye should bo ignorant of this mystery,
(lost ye should be wise in yoUi; ou-n"
conceits,) that blindness in part is hap
pened to Israel, until the fulness of the
Gentiles be come in.
26. And so all Israel shall be saved ;
as it is vwitten. There shaU come out
of Zion the DeUverer, and shall turn
away ungodliness from Jacob :
27. For this is my covenant unto
them, when I shaU take away their
sms. 28. As concermng the gospel, ihey
are enemies for your sakes: but as
touching tho election, ihey are beloved
for the fathers' sakes.
***** 32. For God hath concluded them all
in unbelief, that h? might have mercy
upon all.

Tlie Spirit.
Acts vii. 61. Ye stiff-necked, and
uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do
always resist the Holy Ghost : as your
fathers did, so do ye.
62. 'Which of the prophets have not
your fathers persecuted ? and they
have slam them which showed before
of the coming, of the Just One; of
whom ye have been now the betrayers
and murderers ;
63. Who have received the law by
the disposition of angels, and have not
kept ii.

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Literally this ia supposed to refer to
the Ishraaelites aa they exiated as a tribe
or people united with the Midianites in
the days of Joseph. But its most spe
cial and ifiiportant sense alludes to the
children of the bondwoman, or of the
first covenant, in their hatred and oppo
sition to Christ and his people, or the new
covenant Israel. This people, nnder all
the circumatancea in which they have
been placed, have preserved this same
feature of their character. Under all
the glory and beauty of their own dis
pensation, they reraained in the wilder
ness, not discerning any of the true na
ture of that better thing which was ex
hibited before thera; they persecuted
the prophets, and slew those that were
sent to testify to them " the coming of
the Just One."
Under the clear light and glory of the
gospel day, they rejected the Sou of God
and hated and Crucified hira ; and after
being rejected by God, and cast off frora
being his people, they have reraained
now for near nineteen hundred years,
surrounded by all the testiraony of di
vine truth, but stifl in a barren wilder-
¦nesB and under the bondage of.unbelief.
Yet in all these different conditions,
God has even miraculously preserved
them as a pillar of salt, or raeraorial of
his truth, because they have persisted
in " looking back" to the law of Moses,
inatead[of believing the gospel.

Gen. xlix. 23. The archers have
sorely shot at him and hated Mm. But
his bow abode m strength, &c.
Ps. xxu. 16. For dogs have com
passed me: theassembly of the wicked
have enclosed me : they have pierced
my hands and my feet.
17. I may teU afl my bones: they
look, and stare upon me.
18. They part my garments among
them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
Ps. xUx. 4. They that hate me
without a cause are more than the hairs
of my head : they that would destroy
me, being mine enemies wrongfuUy, are
mighty: then I restored that which I
took not away.
8. I am become a stranger unto my
brethren, and an aUen unto my mo
ther's chfldren.
***** 21. They gave me also gall for my
meat ; and in my thfrst they gave me
vinegar to drink.
22. Let thefr table become a snare
before them: and ilial which shouldhave
been for thefr weffare, let it become a
trap. Matt. xxiu. 34. Wherefore behold,
I send unto you prophets, and wise
itien, and scribes ; and some of them ye
shall Mfl and cnicify, and some of them
shafl ye scourge in your synagogues,
and persecute iliem from city to city :
35. That upon you may come aU the
righteous blood shed upon the earth,
from the blood of righteous Abel, unto
the blood of Zacharias, son of Bara
chias, whom ye slew between the tem
ple and the altar.
36. Verily I say unto you. All these
tMngs shall come upon this genera
tion.

The Letter.
22. Amd it came to pass at that time,
that Abimelech and Phichol the chief
captain of his host spake unto Abra
ham, saymg, God is with thee in afl
that thou doest :

The Spirit.
Gen.xUx. 10. The sceptre shaU not
depart from Judah, nor a law^ver from
between his feet, until Shiloh come ;
and unto Mm shafl the gathering of the
peoplebe.

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'^ 23. Now therefore swear unto me
here by God, that thou wflt not deal
falsely with me, nor vrith my son, nor
with my son's son: but according to
the kindness that I have done unto
thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the
land wherein thou hast sojourned.
24. And Abraham said, I vrill swear.
Note.
The rulers of Gerar had afready ex
perienced what it was to have the ark
of God the mystical body of Jesus,
among them. They well knew, the be
nefit to be gained by the good will of
Abraham, and the evil that attended
their encroachment upon hira or his
household. The covenant here made is virtually
a transfer to the tribe of Judah, of the
promiae already made to Abraham con
cerning his "seed" — or, what is the
same thing, a sealing to that people of
the prophetic promise of Shiloh, who
was the "Branch from the stem of
Jesse," which was to spring from thera.
This oath and proraise was to be unto
the "son's son," even to the reraofest
generations. Darid should have a light
in Jerusalem, even when "the Jerusa
lem which now is, and is in bondage with
her children," had ceased to be called
the city of David ; for it had respect to
the New Jerusalem which is above, the
mother of all who believe.

2 Sam. vu. 12. And when thy days
be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep wUh
thy fathers, I -wiU set up thy seed after
thee, wMch shaU proceed out of thy
bowels, and I wUl establish his king
dom. 13. He shaU build a house for my
name, and I will estabUsh the throne of
his Mngdom for ever.
14. I wUl be his father, and he shall
be my son. If ho commit iniquity, I
¦wifl chasten him vrith the rod of men,
and with the stripes of the chUdren of
men: 15. But my mercy shall not depart
away from him, as I took it from Saul,
whom I put away before thee.
16. And thy house and thy kmgdom
shafl be established for ever before
thee: thy throne shafl be established
for ever.
1 Kings xi. 34. Howbeit I wUl not
take the whole kingdom out of Ms
hand : but I wfll make him prince afl
the days of his lffe for David my ser
vant's sake, whom I chose, because he
kept my commandments and my sta^
tutes ;
, 35. But I will take the kmgdom out
of his son's hand, and wiU give it unto
thee, even ten tribes.
36. And unto his ^n vrill I give one
tribe, that David my servant may have
a light alway before me in Jerusalem,
the city which I have chosen me to put
my name there.
XV. 4. Nevertheless, for David's sake,
did the Lord his God give him a lamp
in Jerusalem to set up his son after hun,
and to estabUsh Jerusalem.
Acts. ii. 29. Men and brethren, let
me freely speak unto you of the patri
arch David, that ho is both dead and
buried, and Ms sepulchre is with us
unto this day.
30. Therefore being a prophet, and
knowing that God had sworn with an
oath to him, that of the fruit of Ms
loms, accordmg to the flesh, ho would
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The Letter.
25. And Abraham reproved Abime
lech because of a well of water, which
Abimeloch's servants had violently ta
ken away.
26. And Abimelech said, I wot not
who hath done this thing : neither didst
thou tell mo, neither yet heard I of it,
. but to-day.
27. And Abraham took sheep and
oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech :
and both of them made a covenant.
Note.
The meu of Gerar ar*here reproved
for taking away the well of water which
Abraham had dug. So Christ reproved
the Jewish rulers who took away the
promises of God, and the predictions of
the prophets, that testified of himself,
and substituted in their place their own
carnal desires and expectations of g, tem
poral prince and a worldly kingdom.
So also they taught their own traditions
for the commandments of God. The
wells of salvation were among them, for
the oracles of God had been committed
to the Jews; but they had filled thera
with earth and excluded the waters of life.
Thus they robbed the dispensation which
had been given to direct thera to the
true light, of all its glory. They were
blind leaders of the blind.
Yet aa Abimelech says, " I wot not
who hath done thia thing ;" ao the Jews
deny the- charge of God, and ask,
" Wherein have we robbed thee ?"

The Spirit.
Mal. ii. 5. My covenant was -with
him of life and peace ; and I gave them
to him /or- the fear where-with he feared
me, and was afraid before my name.
6. The law of truth was in his mouth,
and imquity was not found in Ms lips :
he walked with me m peace and equity,
and did tum many away from iniquity.
7. For the priest's lips should keep
knowledge, and they should seek the
law at his mouth : for he is the mes
senger of the Lord of hosts.
But ye are departed out of the
way; ye have caused many to stumble
at the law ; ye have corrapted the co
venant of Levi, saith the Lord of hosts.
m. 7. Even from the days of your
fathers ye are gone away from mine
ordmances, and have not kept them.
Return unto me, and I wfll retum unto
you, saith the Lord of hosts. But ye
said, Wherem shaU we retum ?
8. Wfll a man rob God? Yet ye
have robbed me. But ye say, 'Where
in' have we robbed thee ? In tithes and
offerings. Luke xi. 62. Wo unto you, law
yers ! for ye have taken away the key
of knowledge : ye entered not in7our-
selves, and them that were entering in
yo hindered.
Ex. xxiv. 6. And Moses took haff
¦of the blood, and put ii m basons; and
half of the blood he sprinkled on tiie
altar. 7. And he took the book of the co-
venant, and read in the audience of the
pec^le: and they said. All that the
Lord hath said wifl we do, and be obe
dient. Aud Moses took the blood, and
sprinkled it on the people, and said.
Behold the blood of fhe covenant,
which the Lord hath made -«ith you
concerning aU these words.

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The Letter. The Spirit.

28. And Abraham set seven ewe-
lambs of the flock by themselves.
29. And Abimelech said unto Abra
ham, What mean these seven ewe-
lambs, wMch thou hast set by them-;
selves ?
30. And he said. For these seven
ewe-lambs shalt thou take of my hand,
that they may be a witness unto me
that I have digged this wefl.
31. Wherefore he cafled that place
Beer-sheba; because they sware both
of them. Note.
The divisions of time in Scripture that
have reference to the coming of Christ
are usually raeasured by sevens. This
may have allusion to the "rest" which
he would sanctffy when the work ot
redemption waa fimshed. There were
seven hundred years elapsed between
the dispersion of the ten tribes and the
coming of Shfloh. During thia period
the covenant was with Judah. The
well of the oath was in that land. And
from this land was to spring the "rod
from the stem of Jesse."
The prophecy of Daniel was reckoned,
not from the dispersion of Israel, but
from the decree to build the temple.
Abrahara gives to Abiraeleeh this wit
ness that h€ had dug that well; and
henceforward all the iraportant move
raents connected with the great salva
tion, are from this well of the oath.

Dan. ix. 24. Seventy weeks are
determined upon thy people and upon
thy holy city, to -finish the transgres
sion, and to make an end of sins, and
to make reconcUiation for miquity, and
to bring in everlasting righteousness,
and to seal up tho vision and prophecy,
and to anoint the Most Holy.
25. Know therefore and understand,
thai from the going forth of the com
mandment to restore and to bufld Jeru
salem unto the Messiah the Prince,
shall be seven weeks, and threescore
and two weeks: the street shafl be
buflt ^ain, and the wall, even in trou
blous times.
26. And after threescore and two
weeks shaU Messiah be cut off, but not
for himself: and the people of tho
prince that shafl come shaU destroy the
city and the sanctuary ; and tho end
thereof shall be with a flood, and unto
the end of the war desolations are de
termined. Zech. UL 7. Thus saith the Lord
of hosts : If thou wUt walk in my ways,
and if thou wflt keep my charge, thon
thou shalt also judge my house,and shalt
also keep my courts, and I wfll give
theo places to walk among these that
stand by.
8. Hear now, O Joshua tho high
priest, thou and thy fellows that ?it
before thoo: for they are men won
dered at : for behold, I wifl bring forth
my servant The BRANCH.
9. For behold the stone that I have
laid before Joshua; upon ono stone
shall be seven eyes : bdiold, I will en
grave tho graving thereof, saith the
Lord of hosts, and 1 vvUl remove the
imquity of that land in one diiy.
10. In that day, saith the Lord of
hosts, shall ye call every man Ms
neighbor under the vine and under the
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The Letter.
32. Thus they made a covenant at
Beer-sheba: then Abimelech rose up,
and Phichol the cMef captam of Ms
host, and they returned into the land
of the PMlistmes.
33. And Abraham planted a grove
in Beer-sheba, and cafled there on the
name of the Lord, the everlasting God.
34. And Abraham sojoumed in the
PMlistines' land many days.
Note.
Hitherto Abraham has set up an altar
as a raeraorial of that which ia to stand
for ever ; but here he plants a grove or
tree, as it might be rendered. Thia has
probable allusion to the figure used iu
reference to Shiloh, as a branch or rod,
growing from the stem of Jease. No
leaa than aeven tiraes is this figure
used. The Jews had special advantages
" every way," in being acquainted with
all that was -written in the law and the
prophets concerning Jesus ; for to thera
were the oracles of God committed, in
which was recorded all this mass of
testimony in regard to the coming of the
Messiah. They were, then, left without
excuse in not recognising their king
when he appeared araong them. But it
was not the meek and lowly Larab of
God that they looked to seel but a
prince who should corae iu all the porap
and majesty of the literal David ; who
should set up a temporal kingdom, and
who should deliver them from their sub
jection to the Eoman power.

The Spirit.
Is A. xi. 1. And there shaU come
forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse,
and a Branch shaU grow out of his
roots. 10. And in that day there shall be a
root of Jesse, which shafl stand for an
ensign of the people ; to it shafl the
Gentfles seek : and his rest shafl be
glorious. 12. And he shafl set up an ensign
for the nations, and shall assemble the
outcasts of Israel, and gather together
the dispersed of Judah from the four
corners of the earth.
Zech. ui. 8. Hear now, O Joshua
the high priest, thou and thy feUows
that sit before thee : for they are men
wondered at : for behold, I vriU brmg
forth my servant, The BRANCH.
fl. 10. Sing, and rejoice, O daughter
of Zion : for lo, I come, and I wfll dwefl
in the midst of thee, saith the Lord.
11. And many nations shaU be joined
to the Lord in that day, and shall be
my people: and I will dwell ip the
midst of thee, and thou shalt know
that the Lord of hosts hath sent me
unto thee.
12. And the Lord shafl inherit Ju
dah his portion in the holy land, and
shall choose Jerusalem again.
Rev. xxu. 16. I Jesus have sent
mine angel to testffy unto you these
thmgs m the churches. I am the root
and the offspring of David, and the
bright and morning-star.
Matt. fl. 4. And when he had ga
thered all the chief priests and scribes
of the people together, he demanded
of them where Christ should be bom.
5. And they said unto him. In Beth
lehem of Judea : for thus it is written
by the prophet,
6. And thou Bethlehem, in the land
of Juda, art not the least among the
princes of Jnda : for out of thee shafl
come ll Govemor, that shall rule my
people Israel.

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CHAPTER XXII.

The Letter.
1. And it came to pass after these
tMngs, that God did tempt Abraham,
and said unto him, Abraham. And he
said. Behold, here I am.
2. And he said. Take now thy son,
thine only sore Isaac, whom thou lovest,
and get thee mto the land of Moriah ;
and offer him there for a bumt-offering
upon one of the mountams which I -wifl
tell thee of. Note.
W Were there any doubt of the typical
character of both Abrahara and laaaic, it
raust surely cease in view of the remark
able transaction here recorded.
God had promised to give Abrahara
a son, in whom all the nations of the
earth should be blessed: it had also
been promised that his seed should be
multiplied as the stars of heaven and
the aanda upon the aea-shore : and now,
Abraham is told to offer him up as a
burnt offering 1
Nothing but the mystery of the cross
-will furnish an analogy with thia ! — a
mystery that brings life frora death, sal-.
vation from the loss of all things, and
au innumerable increase frora a periah-
able body of dust, buried in the bowels
of the earth !
But behold the invincible power of
faith! Abrahara offered up his only
begotten son, of whora it was said, " in
Isaac shall thy seed be called," " account
ing that Ood was able to raise him from
the dead, from whence also he received him
in a figure."
But we cannot suppose that Abraham
was ignorant of the great purpose
couched under this figure. Jesua says,
" Abraham rgoieed to see my day, and he
saw it and was glad."

The Spirit.
1 John in. 9. In tMs was manffested
the love of God toward us, because
that God sent Ms only-begotten Son
into the world, that we might live
through him.
10. Herem is love, not that we loved
God, but that he loved us, and sent Ms
Son to be the propitiation for our suis.
***** 16. Hereby perceive we the love
of God, because he laid dovm his Ufe
for us : and we ought to lay down our
lives for the brethren.
Rom. v. 6. For when we were yet
vrithout strength, in due tune Christ
died for the ungodly.
7. For scarcely for a righteous man
¦wifl one die: yet peradventure for a
good man some would even dare to
die. 8. But God commendeth Ms love
toward us, m that while we were yet
sinners, Christ died for us.
9. Much more then, being now jus
tified by his blood, we shafl be saved
from wrath tMough Mm.
10. For if when we were enemies,
we were reconciled to God by the
death of his Son; much more, being re
concUed, we shaU be saved by Ms lffe.
viu. 31. What shall we then say to
these things? If God be for us, who
can be against us ?
32. He that spared not his o-wn
Son, but delivered hun up for us all,
how shall he not with Mm also freely
give us afl thmgs?
John ui. 16. For God so loved the
world, that he gave his only-begotten
Son, that whosoever believeth m him
.should not perish, but have everlasting
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17. For God sent not his Son mto
the world to condemn the world, but
that the world through him might be
saved. i. 29. The next day John seeth Jesus
coming unto him, and saith. Behold the
Lamb of God, which taketh away the
sin of tho world !
xii. 23. And Jesus answered them,
saying, The hour is come that the Son
of man should be glorified.
24. Verily, verily, I say unto you.
Except a com of wheat faU mto the
ground and die, it abideth alone : but
ff it die, it bringeth forth much fi-uit

The Letter.
3. And Abraham rose up early in the
mommg, and saddled his ass, and took
two of Ms young men with him, and
Isaac Ms son, and clave the wood for the
bumt-offering, and rose up,and went un
to the placo of which God had told him.
4. And on the thfrd day Abraham
Ufted up his eyes, and saw the place
afar off.
5. And Abraham said unto his young
men, Abide you here with the ass, and
I and the lad will go yonder and wor
ship, and come again to you.
6. And Abraham took the wood of
the bumt-offermg, and laid it upon
Isaac Ms son;- and he took the ffre in
Ms hand, and a knffe : and they went
both of them together. Note.
These details, so comraon-place in
theraselves, are in this connection full
of meaning. Isaac must go toward Mo
riah or Jerusalem upon an ass ; for ao
it waa written of Jesus. The prepara
tions for the sacrifice were all made by
Ms father, Abraham: the place had
been appointed ani foretold : the young
men were left at the foot of the hill,
that "of the people there should be none
with him."
Abrahara lays the wood which is to
conaurae the sacrifice upon Isaac ; so the

The Spirit.
Zech. ix. 9. Rejoice greatiy, O
daughter of Zion ; shout, O daughter
of Jerusalem : behold, thy King
cometh unto thee: he is just, and
havmg salvation; lowly, and riding
upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal
of an ass.
Mark x. 32. And they were m the
way, gomg up to Jerusalem ; and Jesus
went before them: and thoy were
amazed; and as they foUowed, they
were afraid. And he took again the
twelve, and began to tefl them what
things should happen unto Mm,
33. Saying, Behold, we go up to
Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall
be delivered unto the cMef priests, and
unto the scribes ; and they shafl con
demn Mm to death, and shall deliver
Mm to the Gentfles.
John xix. 16. Then delivered he
him therefore unto them to be cruci
fied. And they took Jesus, and led him
away. 17. And he bearing his cross went
forth into a place called ihe place of a
skuU, wMch is caUed in the Hebrew,
Golgotha. Matt. xu. 40. For as Jonas was
tMee days and three nights m the
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Father lays upon Jeaua " the iniquity of
us all." In the hands of Abrahara were
the^re and the knife : and it is written,
"Thou hast sent fire into my bones;"
and again, "Awake, 0 sword, against
my shepherd, and sraite the mau that
is my fellow, saith the Lord." They
went both together : " Fear not, for I ara
with thee ; be not disraayed, for I am
thy God ; I will strengthen thee, yea, I
will uphold thee with the right hand of
my righteousness."
It was the third day after Isaac had
been under aentence of death, that Abra
hara saw the place "afar off;" — the
place, no doubt, where Jesua himself
was holden three days by the bands of
death.

The Letter.
7. And Isaac spake unto Abraham
Ms father, and said. My father : and he
said. Here am I, my son. And he
said. Behold the fire and the wood : but
where is the lamb for a burnt-offer
ing? 8. And Abraham said. My son, God
wifl proride himself a lamb for a burnt-
offering : so they went both of them
together. Note.
In all his mediatorial work, Jeaus was
in subj-ection to the Father, whose wifl
he came to do. Yet as a man, a "ser
vant" and a mediator, he had a feeling
of all our infirmities, and is represented
as saying, " My soul is sorrowful even unto
death." " Fearfulness and trembling are
come upon ine, horror hath overwhelmed
me." Specially did the Son of God fear the
power of the dog I and is represented as
supplicating "him who was able to save
him from death," with " strong crying
and tears,"' to be saved iro'ca the lion's
mouth and from the horna of the uni
corn. His holy soul shrunk from a con
tact with the roaring lion with whom

be three days and three nights in the
heart of the earth.
Isa. IxiU. 1. Who is this that cometh
from Edom, with dyed garments from
Bozrah ? this ihat is glofious in his ap
parel, ti-avelUng in the gi-eatness of his
strength ? I that speak in righteous
ness, mighty to save.
***** 3. I have trodden the wine-press
alone, and of the people there were
none with me, &c.
***** 5. And I looked, and there was none
to help ; and I Wondered that there was
none to uphold: therefore mine own
arm brought salvation unto me ; and
my fury, it upheld me.

The Spirit.
Heb. v. 7. Who in the days of Ms
fiesh, when he had offered up prayers
and supplications with strong crymg
and tears unto him that was able to save
him from death, and was heard, in that
he feared ;
8. Though he wore a Son, yet
learned he obedience by the thmgs
which he suffered.
9. And being made perfect, he be
came tho author of eternal salvation
unto all them that obey him ;
10. CaUed of God a high priest after
the order of Melchisedec.
Ps. xvi. 9. Therefore my heart is
glad, and my glory rejoiceth : my flesh
also shall rest in hope.
10. For thou wflt not leave my soul
in hell; neither wflt thou suffer thy
Holy One to see corruption.
11. Thou wflt show me the path of
lffe: in thy presence is fulness of joy;
at -thy right hand there are pleasures
for evermore.
RoM. ui. 26. 'Whom God hath set
forth ,io be a propitiation, through faith
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he must contend, even in his very den !
But he " was heard in that he feared,"
and strengthened -with the proraise,
" thou wilt not leave my soul in hell,
neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One
to see corruption."
The words, " so they went both to
gether," are repeated, to show the one
ness of purpose of father and son in thia
whole transaction. The Father so loved
the world as to give his only-begotten
Son ; and the Son says, " I lay down my
lffe of myself," &c.

The Letter.
9. And they came to the place wMch
God had told him of; and Abraham
buflt an altar there, and laid the wood
in order ; and bound Isaac Ms son, and
laid him on the altar upon the wood.
10. And Abraham stretched forth
his hand, and took the knffe to slay his
son. Note.
From the passage quoted from Chroni
cles, it appears that the spot where
Abram " by faith offered up Isaac," was
the same where Solomon buflt the tem-

ness for the remission of sins that are
past, through the forbearance of God;
26. To declai-e, i say at tMs time, his
righteousness : that he might be just,
and the justifier of him wMch believeth
in Jesus.
Acts u. 27. For of a truth, against
thy holy chfld Jesus, whom thou hast
anomted, both Herod, and Pontius Pi
late, vrith the GentUes, and tho people
of Israel, were gathered together,
28. For td do whatsoever thy hand
and thy counsel determined before to
be done.
Luke xxiv. 25. Then he said unto
them, O fools and slow of heart to be
lieve all that the prophets have spoken !
26. Ought not Christ to have suf
fered these things, and to enter into his
glory? 27. And begmmng at Moses and afl
the prophets, he expounded unto them
in afl the scriptures the things concern
ing himself.
Ps. xxii. 19. But be not thou far
from me, O Lord: O my Strength,
haste thou to help me.
20. Deliver my soul from the sword,
my darlmg from the power of the dog.
21. Save me from the Uon's mouth :
for thou hast heard me from the horns
of the unicoms.
22. I wfll declare thy name unto my
brethren : m the midst of the congre
gation wiU I praise thee.

The Spirit.
Luke xui. 33. Nevertheless, I must
walk to-day and to-morrow, and the
day foUovring : for it cannot be that a
prophet perish out of Jerusalem.
Ch. U. 1. Thon Solomon began to
buUd the house of the Lord at Jerusa
lem m mount Moriah, where ihe Lord
appeared unto David Ms father, m the
place that David had prepared m the
threshing-floor of Oman the Jebusite.
John fl. 19. Jesus answered and
said unto them. Destroy this temple,
and m three days I wfll raise it up.

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J)le. Thia temple Jesua uaed aa a " sign"
to the Jews of hia death and resurrec
tion ; showing that it was a figurative
representation of Ms body, which they
would put to death, but which in three
days would be raised again. Mt Mo
riah was also the place where David
offered the sacrifice wMch stayed the
plague from Israel. It was also the
place where in the reign of Joseph was
held the mourning for Jacob, as a type
of the last judgraent — where waa the
"grievous mourning of the Egyptians."
(See chap. 1)
In the worldly sanctuary there were
the altar, the priest, and the sacrifice : but
in the true tabernacle the priest, the al
tar, and the sacrifice are all one. The
great High Priest of our profession, of
fered himself; laid do-wn his cmn life,
Ms human soul and body, upon the altar
of his divinity. He, " through the eter
nal Spirit, offered himself without spot
unto God."

The Letter.
1 1. And the angel of thejLord called
unto Mm out of heaven, and said,
Abraham, Abraham.* And he said,
Here am I.

20. Then said the Jews, Forty and
six years was this temple m buildmg,
and wilt thou rear it up m three days ?
21. But he spake of the temple of
his body.
22. 'When therefore he was risen
from the dead, his disciples remembered
that he had said tMs unto them : and
they beUeved the scripture, and the
word which Jesus had said.
23. Now, when he was m Jerusalem
at the passover, in the feast-day, many
believed in Ms name, when they saw
the miracles wMch he did.
X. 11. I am the good shepherd: the
good shepherd giveth his lffe for the
sheep. 12. But he that is a hireling, and not
the shepherd, whose own the sheep are
not, seeth the wolf commg, and leaveth
fhe sheep, and fleeth; and the wolf
catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
13. The hirelmg fleeth, because he
is a MreHng, and careth not for the
sheep, 14. I am the good shepherd, and
know my sheep, and am known of mine.
15. As the Father knoweth me, even
so know I the Father : and I lay down
my lffe for the sheep.
16. And other sheep I have, which
are not of this fold : them also I must
brmg, and they shall hear my voice;
and there shall be one fold, and one
shepherd. 17. Therefore doth my Father love
me, because I lay down my lffe, that I
might take it again.
18. No man taketh it from me, but I
lay it down of myself. I have power
to lay it dovra, and I have power to
take it again. This command have I
received of my Father.

The Spirit.
Heb. X. 5. Wherefore, when he
cometh unto the world, he saith. Sa
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12. And he said, Lay not thine hand
upon the lad, neither do thon any tMng
unto him; for now I know that thou
fearest God, seeing thou hast not
¦withheld thy son, thme only son, from
me. 13. And Abraham lifted up his eyes,
and looked, and behold, behind him a
ram caught m a thicket by his horns :
and Abraham went and took the ram,
and offered hun up for a burnt offering
in the stead of Ms son.
14. And Abraham cafled the name
of that place Jehovah-jireh : as it is said
io this day. In the mount of the Lord
it shall be seen. Note.
So far aa the lifting up of Abrahara's
hand to strike the lad, God gave to
Abrahara in thia expressive figure, thg
best possible intiraation of his own will
and purpose concerning the great sacri
fice for sin.
That Abrahara understood thia pur
pose, is evident from the name which he
gives the place where his own son was
spared in his hour of peril and condem
nation ; because in that very spot would
God, in the fulness of time, "provide
himself a Lamb" for the sacrifice ; there
"in the mount of the Lord should it be
seen" — there Abraham saw it afar off
and rejoiced; while he offers up the
ram as an indication of the "carnal or
dinances," which were to be a substi
tute " for the time then present."

6. In bumt offerings and sacrifices
for sin thou hast had no pleasure. -
7. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the
volume of the book it is -written of me)
to do thy wiU, O God.
8. Above, when he said, Sacrifice
and offering and bumt offerings and
offering for sin thou wouldest not, nei
ther hadst pleasure therein ; which are
offered by the law ;
. 9. Then said he, Lo, I come to do
thy wUl, O God. He taketh away the
first, that he may estabUsh the second.
10. By the wMch -will we are sanc
tified through the offermg of the body
of Jesus Christ once /or all.
ix. 13. For if the blood of bulls and
of goats, and the ashes of a heffer
sprinkUng the unclean, sanctifieth to
the purifymg of the flesh:
14. How much more shall the blood
of Christ, who through the eternal Spi
rit offered himseff without spot to God,
purge your conscience from dead works
to serve the living God?
16. And for this cause he is the me
diator of the new testament, tiiat by
means of death, for the redemption of
the transgressions thai were under the
ffrst testament, they wliich are called
might receive the promise of eternal
inheritance. 16. For where a testament is, there
must also of necessity be the death of
the testator.
17. For a testament is offeree after
men are dead : other-wise it is of no
strength at aU wMle the testator
Uveth. ***** 23. It was therefore necessary that
the pattems of things in the heavens
should be purified with these ; but the
heavenly things themselves with better
sacrifices than these.
24. For Christ is not entered into
the holy places made vrith hands, which
are the figures of tho true ; but mto
heaven itself, now to appear m the pre
sence of God for us :
25. Nor yet- that he should offer
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I into the holy place every year with
blood of others ;
26. For then must he often have
suffered since the foundation of the
world : but now once in the end of the
world hath he appeared to put away sin
by the sacrifice of himself.

The Letter.
15. And the angel of the Lord
cafled unto Abraham out of heaven the
second tune, '
16. And said. By myself have I
sworn, saith the Lord, for because thou
hast done this thing, and hast not -with
held thy son, thine only son :
17. That in blessing I wifl bless thee,
land in multiplying I wifl multiply thy
seed as the stars of tho heaven, and as
tho sand which is upon the sea shore
and thy seed shall possess the gate of
his enemies ;
18. And m thy seed shall aU the na
tions of the earth be blessed ; because
thou hast obeyed my voice.
Note.
The Lamb of God was offered to take
away the sin of the world — of Gentiles
as weU as Jews ; and not, as the paschal
lamb, of the Jews only.
Therefore it is here said, the Lord
called unto Abraham the second time ; in
timating that in this typical sacrifice a
double object was set forth, a complete
salvation, which should be even unto
the ends of the earth. Again, God would
confirm his promise -with an oath ; that
it might be sure to all the seed. For
" the blessing of Abrahara raust come on
the Gentiles through Jesua Christ.'' It
was a second call also, becauae it was not
tifl after the death of Christ that the
Gentfles were brought in. And, again,
God had with an high hand and
stretched out arm brought Israel out of
Egypt ; but he would set his hand a se
cond time in the last daya, to gather hia
true Israel out of all the countries where
they have been scattered, and bring them
together, that there "raay be onefold
and one shepherd."

The Spirit.
IsA. xlix. 5. And now, saith tho
Lord that formed me from tho womb
io be his servant, to bring Jacob agam
to him. Though Israel be not gathered,
yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of
the Lord, and my God shall be my
strength. 6. And he said, It is a light thing
that thou shouldest be my servant to
raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to
restore the preserved of Israel : I wfll
also give thee for a light to the Gen
tiles, that thou mayest be my salvation
unto the end of tho earth.
Ix. 2. For behold, the darkness shafl
cover the earth, and gross darkness the
people : but the Lord shall arise upon
thee, and his glory shall be seen upon
thee. 3. And the Gentfles shall come to
thy Ught, and kings to the brightness
of thy rising.
4. Lift up thine eyes round about,
and see: afl they gather themselves
together, they como to thee : thy sons
shafl come from far, and thy daughters
shall be nursed at thy side.
5. Then thou shalt see, and flow to
gether, and thy heart shall fear, and be
enlarged ; because the abundance of
the sea shaU bo converted unto thee,
the forces of the GentUes shall come
unto thee.
Jer. xxxi. 22. As the host of hea
ven cannot be numbered, neither the
sand of the sea measured : so wfll I
multiply the seed of David my ser
vant, and the Levites that minister
unto me.
IsA. liii. 10. Yet it pleased the
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The Letter.
19. So Abraham retumed unto Ms
young men, and they rose up, and went
together to Beer-sheba; and Abraham
dwelt at Beer-sheba.
20. And it came to pass after these
things, that it was told Abraham, say
mg. Behold, MUcah, she hath also
borne children unto thy brother, Na
hor; 21. Huz his first-born, and Buz Ms
brother, and Kemuel the father of
Aram, 22. And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pfl-
dash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.
23. And Bethuel begat Rebekah:
these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor,
Abraham's brother. NO-TE.
Abraham had just been delivered
from a mighty and mysterious confiict :
he had experienced the faithfulness of
God to his covenant oath ; and it is not
strange that from this time he should
dwell at Beer-sheba, the well of the
oath. Here he could now sit contented
ly down, in perfect confidence that no
tMng would fail of all which God had
promised. In like manner, when the divine Ee
deemer had offered himself without spot
to God, — ^had taken away sin by the
sacrifice of hunself; when he had also
been declared to be the Son of God,
with power by the resurrection of the
dead ; when, according to promise, the

to grief: When thou shalt make Ms
soul an offering for sin, he shafl see
his seed, he shafl prolong his days, and
the pleasure of the Lord shafl prosper
m Ms hand.
Phil. u. 8. And bemg formed in
fashion as a man, he humbled himself
and became obedient unto death, even
the death of the cross.
9. Therefore God has Mghly exalted
him and given him a name that is above
every name, &c.

The Spirit.
2 Sam. xxu. 44. Thou also hast de
livered me from the strivings of my
people, thou hast kept me to be head
of the heathen : a people which I knew
not shafl serve me.
45. Strangers shall submit them
selves unto me : as soon as they hear,
they shall be obedient unto me.
46. Strangers shall fade away, and
they shall be afraid out of thefr close
places. 47. The Lord liveth; and blessed
be my rock and exalted be the God of
the rock of my salvation.
48. It is God that avengeth me, and
that brmgeth down the people under
me. Ps. ex. 1. The Lord said unto my
Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until
I make thme enemies thy footstool.
2. The Lord shafl send the rod of
thy strength out of Zion ; rule thou in
the midst of thme enemies.
3. Thy people shall be wiflmg in the
day of thy power, m the beauties of
holmess from the womb of tho morn
ing : thou hast the dew of thy youth.
4. The Lord hath sworn, and wifl
not repent, Thou art a priest for ever
after the order of Melchizedek.
5. The Lord at thy right hand shall
strike through kings in the day of his
wrath. 6. He shafl judge among the heathen,
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Father had delivered him from the hand
of the enemy and "made him the head
of the heathen," he also sat down on the
right hand of Majesty iu the heavens,
waiting till his enemies should be made
his footstool, and until all the stipula
tions of the everlasting covenant should
be fulfilled, to him and to his seed for
everraore. A " seed to serve hira," — a bride, or
help meet for him, was one of the pro
mises he received, when he raade his
aoul an offering for sin ; and now this
reward of his sufferings raust be given
by the Father.

bodies ; he shaU wound the heads over
many countries.
7. He shall drink of the brook in
,the way : therefore shaU he lift up the
head. IsA. xlix. 22. Thus saith the Lord
God, Behold, I wfll Uft up my hand to
tho Gentiles, and set up my standard
to the people : and they shafl bring thy
sons in their arms, and thy daughters
shall be carried upon their shoulders.
23. And Jiings shafl bothy nursing
fathers, and their queens thy nursing
mothers : they shafl bow down to thee
with their face toward the earth, and
lick up the dust of thy feat ; and thou
shalt know that I am the Lord : foi- they
shafl not be ashamed that wait for me.

CHAPTER XXIII.

The Letter.
1. And Sarah was a hundred and
seven and twenty years old : these were
the years of the life of Sarah.
2. And Sarah died in Kirjath-arba ;
the samo is Hebron in the land of Ca
naan : And Abraham came to mourn
for Sarah, and to weep for her.
Note.
The body of flesh — the" creature " — is
" raade 'subject to vanity ;" but it is sub
jected in hope. Jesua has purchased
the church, soul and body, for tirae and
eternity, and wfll anrely receive the re
deraption of the whole "purchaaed poa
aession '' — the body as well aa the soul.
But till the morning of the resurrection,
it raust sleep in dust
When "the earthly house of this ta
bernacle is diaaolved, we have a bufld
ing of God, a houae not made with
handa, eternal in the heavene." To thia
houae Sarah, of right, belonged ; ahe waa
the earthly type and representative of
it; and to that same house, all her chfl-
dren-must also be gathered.
14

The Spirit.
1 Thess. iv. 13. And we wiU not
have you ignorant, bretMen, concem
ing them that are asleep, that you be
not sorrowful, even as others who have
no hope.
14. ; For ff wo believe that Jesus
died, and rose again, even so them who
have slept through Jesus, God wUl
bring with him.
16. For the Lord Mmself shall come
down from heaven with a shout, with
the voice of the archangel, and With
the trumpet of God : and the de.id, who
are in Christ, shall rise first.
RoM. viu. 19. For the earnest ex
pectation of the creature waiteth for
the manifestation of the sons of God.
20. For the creature was made sub
ject to vanity, not wUlingly, but by
reason of hun who hath subjected the
same m hope :
21. Because the creature itself also
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The Letter.
3. And Abraham stood up from be
fore Ms dead, and spake unto the sons
of Heth, saying,
4. I am a stranger and a sojourner
with you : give me a possession of a
burying-place with you, that I may
bury my dead out of my sight.
5. * * * I wiU give thee money
for the field : take it of me, and I wUl
bury my dead there.
***** 19. And after this, Abraham buried
Sarah his wffe m the cave of the field
of Machpelah, before Mamre : the same
is Hebron- in the land of Canaan.
20. And the field, and the cave that
is therem, were made sure unto Abra
ham for a possession of a burying-place,
by the sons of Heth. Note.
In thia transaction between Abraham
and the children of Heth, which literal
ly presents nothing more than a mere
matter of trade, what a fund of apirit
ual raeaning is presented 1
Lest we should forget that the Re
deemer of Zion — the Head and Husband
of the Church — ^has purchased her to
himself with his own blood, soul and
body, for time and eternity, his care

corruption, into the glorious Uberty of
the chUdren of God.
22. For we know that the whole
creation groaneth, and travafleth m
pain together untfl now:
23. And not only ihey, but ourselves
also, which have the first-fraits of
the Spirit, even we ourselves groan
withm ourselves, waiting for the adop
tion, to wii, the redemption of our
body. 24. For we are saved by hope. But
hope that is seen, is not hope : for
what a man seeth, why doth he yet
hope for?
25. But ff we hope for that we see
not, then do we -with paticHce wait
for it.

The SpirU.
IsA. xxvi. 19. Thy dead men shaU
live, together vnth my dead body shall
they arise. Awake and sing, ye that
dwell in dust : for thy dew is as the
dew of herbs, and the earth shafl cast
out the dead.
1 Thess. iv. 14. For ff we believe
that Jesus died and rose again, even so
them also wMch sleep in Jesus wiR God
bring with hun.
RoM. viu. 23. And not only they,
but ourselves also, which have the
first-fruits of the Spfrit, even we our
selves groan vrithin ourselves, waiting
for the adoption, to wit, the redemption
of our body.
Eph. i. 14. WMch is the eamest of
our inheritance untfl the redemption of
the purchased possession, unto the
praise of his glory.
RoM. vi. 3. Know ye not that so
many of us as were baptized into
Jesus Christ, were baptized mvo his
death? 4. Therefore we are buried -with hun
by baptism mto death: that like as
Christ was raised up from the dead by
the glory of the Father, even so we
also should walk in newness of Ufe.
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even for the sleeping dust of hia saints,
ia here exhibited, whfle they are " wait
ing for the adoption, to wit, the re
demption of the body." A special con
tract is made with the "people of the
land" securing to himself a burial-place
for "his dead," until the complete "re
demption of the purchased possession."
Aud mark the fact : thia burial-place —
this cave of a double* death — was every
foot of ground that Abrahara owned in
the land where he sojourned, and
which, of right was all hie own !
But there is another important idea
involved in this subject. It represents
the appointment and securing of a
burial-place for believers in the likeness
of Chrisfs death. He has provided that
they be " buried with him by baptism
into death," &a., as a profession before
the world (or the people of the land)
that they are crucifled unto the world,
and the world unto thera ; — called out,
separated and purchased from among
the children of Heth — unto him, who
has died for them and risen again, that
they also should walk in newness of
life. It is worthy of notice that thou
sands had died before the time of Sa
rah, and yet no raention is ever raade of
burial till now. But this circurastance,
not only agrees with, but confirms the
typical import of the subject ; for it was
¦ the new-covenant plan of grace, raade
manifest by the gospel, which first
brought life and imraortality to light ;
and the doctrine of the resurrection of the
body, proves the regard which Jesus has
for the "dust" of his saints, in giving
the assurance that " this vile body shall
be raade like unto his glorious body,"
and that " if Jesus died and rose again,
even so, them that sleep iu Jesus shall
God bring with hira."
But as thia "first resurrection" has
respect only to the new-covenant heirs
of proraise, — or the raerabers of the
mystical body of Christ, — it is first
typically revealed in Sarah, the New
Jerusalem Church.
Again, it is the death and resurrection
of Christ and the atoneraent wrought
* Macbpelah 'sigiiifi'es double.

gether in the likeness of Ms death, we
shall be also in the likeness of his resur
rection :
6. Knowing this, that our old man
is crucified vrith him, that the body of
sm might be destroyed, that henceforth
we should not serve sin.
7. For he that is dead is freed from
sin. 8. Now if we be dead -with Christ,
we believe that we shafl also live with
him.

by it, which ia figuratively represented
by baptism ; and the thing signified is
coeval with the ordinance wMch exhi
bits it. The first ten verses of the 6th
chapter of Bomans plainly teach the
nature and design of this divine institu
tion; while the 11th and 12th verses of the
2d of Colossians show, with equal clear
ness, the manifest order in which the syra
bolic burial succeeds to the m-jstiealdeath
of the believer, so aoon as he apprehends
it by faith. He is first represented as
being " circumcised with the circuraci
sion made without hands, by the put
ting off the body of the sins of the flesh,
by the circumcision of Christ;" or, ae
the same idea is expressed in the 7th
chapter, as dead to sin by the body of
Christ or by his death. Then follows,
" Buried with him in baptism,'' &e.
The death and burial of Sarah, at the
period when the Gentiles are typically
to be brought in to the full liberty of
the gospel, is strikingly appropriate.
By the death of the croaa, aa exhibited
in the offering up of Isaac,* the " middle
wall of partition was broken down,"
aud the handwriting of ordinances
taken out of the way; by which the
Church becomes rfeod to the entire sys
tera of legal rites and cereraonies, — so
that the question may well be asked,
" If ye be dead with Christ from the ru
diments of the world, why, as though
living in ihe world, are ye subject to
ordinances V i&c.

* The death of Sarah immediately follows the
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CHAPTER XXIV.

The Letter.
1. And Abraham was old, and wefl
stricken in age: and the Lord had
blessed Abraham in all things.
2. And Abraham said unto his eld
est servant of his house, that ruled ,
over afl that he had. Put, I pray thee,
thy hand under my thigh;
3. And I wUl make thee swear by
the Lord, the God of heaven, and the
God of tho earth, that thou shalt not
take a wife unto my son of the daugh
ters of the Canaanites, among whom I
dwell :
4. But thou shalt go unto my coun-
¦try, and to my kindred, and take a wffe
unto my son Isaac. Note.
The last special proraise in the ever
lasting covenant between the Father
and Son, haa respect to the bringing to
him, aa the purchase of his blood,- " the
bride, the Lamb's wife," — the church, for
whom he laid down his life. This pro
mise, with its fulfilment, is clearly pre
dicted by prophets and by types, from
Adam and Eve, to the coming down out
¦of heaven of the Holy City, " adorned as
& bride for her husband,"
The people of the Redeeraer's choice,
were not "of the world," but wholly
another seed, chosen and predestinated
unto the adoption of children, <Stc. They
were the gift of the Father to the Son,
on Ma pledging to redeem thera by his
blood, out of every kindred and nation
and tongue under heaven. And when the
ransora price should be paid, the Father
pledges to aend forth the Spirit of adop
tion into their hearts, to bring them
nigh, as fellow citizens of his own
household. The " oldest servant " of the house of
God, to whom alone he coraraitted the
work of quickening and bringing nigh
thoae that are afar off, is the Holy Spirit
The entire office-work of this divine

The Spirit.
Eph. i. 3. Blessed be the God and
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who
hath blessed us -with all spiritual bless
ings in heavenly places in Christ :
4. According as he hath chosen us
in Mm, before the foundation of the
world, that we should be holy and with
out blame before hun m love :
5. Having predestinated us unto the
adoption of chfldren by Jesus Christ to
hunself, according to the good pleasure
of his wifl.
Rev. v. 9. And they sung a new
song, saymg. Thou art worthy to take
the book, and to open the seals there
of: for thou wast slain, and hast re
deemed us to God by thy blood out of
every kindred, and tongue, and people,
and nation ;
10. And hast made us unto our God
kings and priests : and we shafl reign
on the earth.
Gal. iv. 6. And because ye are
sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of
his Son into your heai-ts, crying, Abba,
Father.

agent, as being sent forth to abide with
the church for ever, is raore particularly
typified by Jacob. But that they both
point to different portions of- the same
work, ia evident and is especially signi
fied by the raanner of the oath required
at this time of Abraham's steward, cor
responding with a similar act in the his
tory of Jacob, as recorded in Genesis,
32dchap, 25th verse.

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The Letter.
5. And the servant said unto Mm,
Peradventure the woman ¦will not bo
wUling to foflow me unto this land:
must I needs bring thy son again unto
the land from whence thou camest ?
6. And Abraham said unto Mm, Be
ware thou, that thou bring not my son
thither again.
7. The Lord God of heaven, wMch
took me from my father's house, and
from the land of my kindred, and which
spake unto me, and that sware unto
me, saying. Unto thy seed wfll I give
this land: he shall send his angel be
fore thee, and thou shalt take a wife
unto my son from thence.
8. And if the woman will not be
vrilling to follow thee, then thou shalt
be clear from this mine oath; only
bring not my son thither again.
9. And the servant put his hand un
der the thigh of Abraham his master,
and sware to him concerning that mat
ter. Note.
The covenant was too well " ordered
in all things and sure," for any of its
purposes to faiL The messengers of Je
hovah, therefore, need have no fear
that the woman, when called with an
holy calling — even by the Spirit of
truth — will be not milling to come. This
point also is secured by oath and pro
mise — "Thy people shall be wiUing in
the day of thy power."
It is only those to whom the Lord
has never shown his covenant — ^has
never adraitted to the "secret of his
tabernacle," or made to "ascend the
raount of purposes divine," who will in
the least fear, lest the chosen and elect
of God should not choose to comply with
his call; or, that the Redeeraer of Zion
will, by any chanpe, be obliged to re
turn back, whence he carae, without the
purchase of his blood !

The Spirit.
Ps. ex. 3. Thy people shall he wUl
ing in the day of thy power, in the
beauties of holiness from the womb of
the moming: thou hast the dew of
thy youth.
xlv. 2. Thou art fairer than the
children of men : grace is poured into
thy lips: therefore God hath blessed
thee for ever.
***** 9. Kings' daughters were among thy
honorable women : upon thy right
hand did stand the queen in gold of
OpMr. 10. Hearken, O daughter, and con
sider, and incline thine ear ; forget
also thine own people, and thy father's
house ;
11. So shaU the King gi-eatly desire
thy beauty : for he is thy lord ; and
worship thou him.
12. And the daughter of Tyre shall
he there with a gift; even the rich
among the people shall entreat thy
favor. 13. The King's daughter is all glori
ous witMn : her clothmg is of wrought
gold. 14. She shaU be brought unto the
King m raiment of needlework: the
¦rirgins her companions that foUow her
shafl be brought unto thee.
15. With gladness and rejoicmg
shaU they be brought : they shaU enter
into the King's palace.
John vi. 37. All that the Father
giveth me, shall come to me ; and him
that cometh to me, I wUl in no wise
cast out.
***** 39. And this is tho Father's wiU
which hath sent me, that of all which
he hath given me, I should lose no
thing, but should raise it up again at
the last day.
***** 44. No man can come to me, except
the Father which hath sent me draw
him. IsA. Ix. 5. * * * ; because the

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Note.
The remaining part of this chapter,
to the 67th verse, is best explained by
comparing it with the tenth chapter of
Acts. For, though the precise facts in
theae chaptera, do not correepond in de
tail, yet the leading ideaa and general
scope are the sarae. They both describe
the first calling in of the Gentfles to
dwell in the tents of Shem according to
promise, — that of Genesis being a pro
phetic type of what occurred in Acts.
ITie Letter. '
Gen. xxiv. 11. And he made his
camels to kneel down vrithout the city
by a well of water, at the time of the
evemng, even the time that women go
out to dra-w water :
12. And he said, O Lord, God of my
master Abraham, I pray thee, send mo
good speed this day, and show kmdness
unto my master Abraham.
13. Behold, I stand here by the wefl
of water; and the daughters of the mon
of the city come out to draw water :
14. And let it come to pass, that the
damsel to whom I shall say. Let down
thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may
drmk ; and she shall say. Drink, and I
wiU give thy camels drink also : lei ihe
same be she thai thou hast appointed
for thy servant Isaac ; and thereby shall
I know that thou hast showed kindness
unto my master.
. 15. And it came to pass before he,

abundance of the sea shafl be converted
unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles
shall come unto thee.
***** 21. Thy people also shall be afl.
righteous : they shall mherit the land
for ever, the branch of my planting,
the work of my hands, that I may be
glorified. 22. A little one shafl become a
thousand, and a small one a strong
nation : I the Lord wifl hasten it in his
time.

And, though the direct acts of the Spirit
of God would, of course, diffet from
those of a man of passions and prejudi
ces like Peter, yet they each are sent on
the same errand, to a people they had
hitherto not known, who, at the very
corresponding crisis of events in both
testaments, were to be "brought in''
and " engrafted " as branches upon the
" good olive tree ;" and each messen
ger was directed to thia very people by
a special sign from God.
The Spirit.
Acts x. 3. He saw in a vision evi
dently, about the ninth hour of the day,
an angel of God coming in to him, and
saying unto him, Cornelius.'
4. And when he looked- cm him, he
was afraid, and said. What is it. Lord?
And he said unto him, Thy prayers and
thine alms are come up for a memorial
before God.
6. And now send men to Joppa, and
call for one Simon, whose sumame is
Peter: 6. He lodgeth with one Simon a tan
ner, whose house is by the sea-side:
he shafl tell thee what thou oughtest
to do.
7. And when the angel which spake
unto Cornelius was departed, ho called
two of his household servants, and a
devout soldier of them that waited on
him continually ;
8. And when he had declared aU

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had done speaking, that behold, Rebe
kah came out, who was born to Be-
timel son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor,
Abraham's; brother, with her pitcher
upon her shoulder.
16. And the damsel was very fair to
look upon, a rirgin, neither had any
man known her : and she went down
to the wefl, and fifled her pitcher, and
came up.
17. And the servant ran to meet her,
and said. Let me, I pray thee, drink a
little water of thy pitcher.
18. And she said. Drink, my lord.
And she hasted, and let down her pitch
er upon her hand, and gave him drink.
19. And when she had done giving
Mm drink, sho said, I will draw water
for Ihy camels also, untfl they have
done drinMng.
20. And she hasted, and emptied her
pitcher mto the trough, and ran again
unto the well to draw water, and drew
for afl his camels.
. 21. And the man, wondering at her,
held his peace, to wit whether the
Lord had made Ms journey prosperous,
or not.
22. And it came to pass as the ca
mels had done drinking, that the man
took a golden ear-ring of half a shekel
weight, and two bracelets for her hands
of ten shekels weight of gold ;
23. And said. Whose daughter art
thou? tefl me, I pray thee: is there
room in thy father's house for us to
lodge m?
24. And she said unto him, I am the
daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah,
which she biirc unto Nahor.
25. She said moreover unto him.
We have both straw and provender
enough, and room to lodge in.
26. And the man bowed down his
head, and worshipped the Lord.
27. And ho said. Blessed ie the Lord
God of my master Abraham, who hath
not left destitute my master of his mer-
'cyand his truth: I being in the way,
the Lord led me to the house of my
master's bretMen.

these tMngs unto them, he sent them to
Joppa. 9. On the morrow, as they went on
thefr joumey, and drew nigh unto the
city, Peter went up upon the house
top to pray, about the sixth hour :
10. And he became very hungry,
and would have eaten : but whfle they
made ready, he fefl into a trance,
11. And saw heaven opened, and a
certain vessel descending unto him, as
it had been a great sheet knit at the
four corners, and let down to the
earth: 12. Wherem were all manner of four-
footed beasts, of. the earth, and wild
beasts, and creepmg things, and fowls
of the afr.
13. And there came a voice to Mm,
Rise, Peter ; kfll, and eat
14. But Peter said. Not so. Lord;
for I have pever eaten anytMng that is
common or unclean.
15. And the voice spake unto him
agam the second time. What God hath
cleansed, that cafl not thou common.
16. This was done thrice: and the
vessel was received up again into hea
ven. 17. Now whfle Peter doubted in
himself what this vision which he had
seen should mean, behold, the men
which were sent from Cornelius had
made inquiry for Simon's house, and
stood before the gate,
18. And caUed, and asked whether
Simon, which was surnamed Peter,
were lodged there.
19. WhUe Peter thought on the vi
sion, the Spirit said unto hun. Behold,
three mon seek thee.
20. Arise, therefore, and get thee
down, and go with them, doubting
nothing : for I have sent them.
21. Then Peter went down to tbe
men which were sent unto him from
Cornelius; and said. Behold, I am he
whom ye seek: what is the cause
wherefore ye aro come ?
22. And they said, Cornelius the
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28. And the damsel ran, and told
ihem cf her mother's house these
things. 29. And Rebekah had a brother, and
his name was Laban : and Laban ran
out unto the man, unto the well.
30. And it came to pass when he saw
the ear-ring and bracelets npon his sis
ter's hands, and when he heard the
words of Rebekah Ms sister, sa3nng.
Thus spake the man unto me ; that he
came unto the man, and behold, he
stood by the camels at the wefl.
31. And he said, Come in, thou bless
ed of the Lord, wherefore standest thou
without ? for I have prepared the house,
androom for the camels.
32. And the man came into the
house : and he ungirded his camels,
and gave straw and provender for the
camels, and water to wash his feet, and
tho men's feet that were with him.
33. And there was set meat before
him to eat ; but he said, I wifl not eat
until I have told mine errand. And he
said. Speak on.
34. And he said, I am Abraham's
servant. 35. And the Lord hath blessed my
master greatiy, and he is become great :
and he hath given him flocks, and herds,
and sUver, and gold, and men-servants,
and maid-servants, and camels, and
asses. 36. And Sarah, my master's vrife,
bare a son to my master when she was
old: and unto him hath he given afl
that he hath.
37. And my master made me swear,
saying. Thou shalt not take a wffe to
my son of the daughters of the Ca
naanites, m whose land I dwell :
39. But thou shalt go unto my fa
ther's house, and to my kindred, and
take a wife unto my son.
39. And I said unto my master, Per
adventure the woman wifl not follow
mo. 40. And he said unto me. The Lord,
before whom I walk, vrill send his angel
vrith thee, and prosper thy way ; and

feareth God, and of good report among
all the nation of the Jews, was warned
from God by an holy angel to send for
thee into his house, and to hear words
of thee.
23. Then called he them in, and
lodged them. And on the morrow Pe
ter went away with them, and certain
brethren from Joppa accompanied him.
24. And the morrow after they en
tered into Cesarea. And Cornelius
waited for them, and had called to
gether his kinsmen and near friends.
26. And as Peter was coming in,
Cornelius met him, and fell down at
his feet, and worshipped him.
26. But Peter took him up, saying.
Stand up : I myself also am a man.
27. And as he talked with hun, he
went in, and found many that were
como together. '
28. And he said unto them. Ye know
how that it is an unlawful thing for a
man that is a Jew to keep company, or
come unto one of another nation ; but
God hath showed me that I should not
caU any man common or unclean.
29. Therefore came I unto you with
out gamsaying, as soon as I was sent
for : I ask therefore for what intent ye
have sent for me ?
30. And Cornelius said, Four days
ago I was fasting untU this hour ; and
at the ninth hour I prayed in my house,
and behold, a man stood before me in
bright clothmg,
31. And said, ComeUus, thy prayer
is heard, and thine alms are had in re
membrance in the sight of God.
32 Send therefore to Joppa, and
call hither Sunon, whose surname is
Peter; he is lodged in the house of
one Simon a tanner, by the sea-side :
who, when he cometh, shaU speak unto
thee. 33. Immediately therefore I sent to
thee ; and thou hast weU done that
thou art come. Now therefore are we
all here present before God, to hear
aU things that are commanded thee of
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thou shalt take a wife for my son
of my kindred, and of my father's
house. 41. Then shalt thou be clear from
this my oath, when thou comest to my
kindred; and if they give not thee one,
thou shalt be clear from my oath.
42. And I came this day unto the
well, and said, O Lord God of my mas
ter Abraham, if now thou do prosper
my way wMch I go :
43. Behold, I stand by the weU of
water ; and it shaU come to pass, that
when the virgin cometh forth to draw
water, and I say to her, Givo me, I pray
thee, a little water of thy pitcher to
drink ;
44. And she say to mo. Both drink
thou, and I wiU also draw for thy ca
mels : lei the same be the woman whom
the Lord hath appointed out for my
master's son.
45. And before I had done speaking
in mine heart, behold, Rebekah came
forth with her pitcher on her shoulder ;
and she went do-wn unto the well, and
drew water : and I said unto her. Let
me drink, I pray thee.
46. And she made haste, and let
down her pitcher from her shoulder,
and said. Drink, and I vrill give thy
camels drink also : so I drank, and she
made the camels drink also.
47. And I asked her, and said.
Whoso daughter art thou? And she
said, Tho daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's
son, whom Milcah bare unto him ; and
I put tho ear-ring upon her face, and
the bracelets upon her hands.
48. And I bowed down my head,
and worshipped the Lord, and blessed
the Lord God of my master Abraham,
which had led me in the right way to
take my master's brother's daughter
(Into his son.
49. And now if you wUl deal kindly
and truly with my master, tefl me : and
if not, tefl me ; that I may turn to the
right hand, or to the left.
50. Then Laban and Bethuel an
swered, and said, The thing proceedeth

34. Then Peter opened his mouth,
and said. Of a truth I perceive that God
is no respecter of persons :
35. But m every nation, he that fear
eth him and worketh righteousness is
accepted -with him.
36. The word which God sent
unto the children of Israel, preaching
peace by Jesus Christ : (he is Lord
of afl:)
37. That word, I say, ye know,
which was published throughout all
Judea, ^and began from GaUleo, after
tho baptism which John preached ;
38. How God anointed Jesus of
Nazareth vrith the Holy Ghost and
with power: who went about doing
good, and healing aU that were op
pressed of the devU; for God was
with him.
39. And we are witnesses of all
thmgs which he did, both in the land of
the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom
they slew and hanged on a tree :
40. Him God raised up the third
day, and shewed him openly ;
41. Not to aU the people, but unto
witnesses chosen before of -God, ei;e«.
to us, who did eat and drink with hun
after he rose from the dead.
42. And he commanded us to preach
unto the people, and to testify that it
is he which was ordained of God to be
the Judge of quick and dead.
43. To him give all the prophets
witness, that through Ms name who
soever believeth m him shaU receive
remission of sins.
44. While Peter yet spake these
words, the Holy Ghost feU on all them
which heard the word.
45. And they of the circumcision
which believed, were astonished, as
many as came with Peter, because that
on the Gentfles also was poured out the
gift of the Holy Ghost.
46. For they heard them speak with
tongues, and magnify God. Then an
swered Peter,
47. Can any man forbid water, that
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from the Lord: we cannot speak unto
thee bad or good.
51. Behold, Rebekah is before thee,
take her, and go, and let her be thy
master's son's wife, as the Lord hath
spoken. 52. And it came to pass, that, when
Abraham's servant heard their words,
he worshipped the Lord, bowing him
self to the earth.
53. And the servant brought forth
jewels of sflver, and jewels of gold, and
raiment, and gave ihem to Rebekah.
He gave also to her brother and to her
mother precious things.
54. And they did eat and drink, he
and tho men that were with him, and
tarried afl mght ; and they rose up in
the morning, and he said. Send me
away unto my master.
***** 61. And Rebekah arose, and her
damsels, and they rode upon the ca
mels, and followed the man : and the
servant took Rebekah, and went his
way. 62. And Isaac came from the way of
the well Lahai-roi ; for he dwelt in the
south country.
63. And Isaac went out to meditate
in the field at the eventide: and he
Iffted up Ms eyes, and saw, and behold,
the camels were coming.
64. And Rebekah lifted up her eyes,
and when sho saw Isaac, she lighted off
the camel.
65. For she had said unto the ser
vant. What man is tMs that walketh in
the field to meet us ? And the servant
had said. It is my master: therefore
she took a vafl and covered herself.
66. And the servant told Isaac all
thmgs that he had done.
67. And Isaac brought her into his
mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebe
kah, and she became his wife ; and he
loved her: and Isaac was comforted
after his mother's decUh.
Note.
Rebekah signifies " the appeasing of a
quarrel;" an appropriate name, there-

have received the Holy Ghost as well
as we?
48. And he commanded them to be
baptized in the name of the Lord.
IsA. Ix. 6. The multitude of ca- ,
mels shall cover thee, the dromeda
ries of Midian and Ephah: all they
from Sheba shall come: they shall
bring gold and incense ; and they
shall show forth the praises of the
Lord. Acts xi. 4. But Peter rehearsed
ihe matter from the beginning, and
expounded it by order unto them, say
ing, ***** 15. And as I began to speak, the
Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at
the beginning.
16. Then remembered I the word
of the Lord, how that he said, John
mdeed baptized vrith water; but ye
shall be baptized vrith the Holy
Ghost. 17. Forasmuch then as God gave
them the like gift as he did unto us,
who believed on the Lord Jesus
Christ, what was I, that I could with
stand God?
18. When they heard these things,
they held thefr peace, and glorified
God, saying. Then hath God also to
the Gentiles granted repentance unto
life. RoM. xi. 17. And ff some of the
branches be broken off, and thou be
ing a wfld oUve-tree, wert graffed
in among them, and with them par-
takost of the root and fatness of the
olive-tree ;
18. Boast not against the branches.
But ff thou boast, thou bearest not the
root, but the root thee.
Gen. ix. 27. God shall enlarge Jsu
pheth, and he shall dwell in the tents
of Shem ; and Canaan shafl be his ser
vant fore, for the church in her new condi
tion, upon the accesaion of her Gentile
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are made nigh by the blood of Christ
For he is our peace, who hath raade both
one, and hath broken down the raiddle
wall of partition ; having abolished in
his flesh the enraity, even the law of
comraandments contained iu ordinan
ces: for to make in himself of twain

one new man, so making peace ; and
that he might reconcile both unto God
in oue body by the cross, having slain
the enraity thereby: and carae and
preached peace to you which were afar
off, and to them that were nigh." — Eph.
ii 13—18.

CHAPTER XXV.

The Letter.
1. Then agam Abraham took a wife,
and her name was Keturah.
2. And she bare him Zimran, and
Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and
Ishbak, and Shuah.
3. And Jokshan begat Sheba, and
Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were
Asshurin, and Letushim, and Leum-
mim. 4. And the sons of Midian ; Ephah,
and Epher, and Harioch, and Abidah,
and Eldaah. Afl these were the chil
dren of Keturah.
6. And Abraham gave afl that he
had unto Isaac.
6. But unto the sons of the concu
bmes which Abraham had, Abraham
gave gifts, and sent them away from
Isaac his son (while he yet Uved) east
ward, unto the east country.
Note.
Abrahara has now three classes of chil
dren. First, the seed of the bond woraan,
born during the life of Sarah ; and se
cond, tne heir of promise, the aon of the
free- woman; and third, when Sarah is
dead and the wife of Isaac installed in
her tent, he has children by a concubine,
as was also the mother of Ishmael.
If Abrahara ia the type of the Father
in the covenant of grace, and, as the fa
ther of Isaac, is a type of the God and
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and all
that are chosen in hira, then these three
classes of children raust also bear a typi-
<?al relation to the three manner of peo
ple, who, as erabracing the whole faraily

The Spirit.
Deut. xxxu. 8. When the Most
High divided to tho nations their inhe
ritance, when he separated the sons of
Adam, he set the bounds of tho people
according to the number of tho cMldren
of Israel.
Gen. ix. 25. And he said. Cursed
be Canaan; a servant of servants shall
he be unto his bretiiren.
26. And he said. Blessed be the Lord
God of Shem; and Canaan shafl bo
his servant
27. God shall enlarge Japheth, and
he shall dwefl m the tents of Shem ;
and Canaan shall be his servant.
RoM. ix. 7. Neither because they
are the seed of Abraham, are they all
children : but, In Isaac shall thy seed
bo called.

of raan, are described under the heads
of Shem, Hara, and Japheth — or Jews,
Gentiles, aud Heathen.
We have before spoken of these, in
the 9th chapter, as prophetically al
luding to the blessing which was to rest
upon all the heirs of proraise, both of
the Jewish and Gentile folds ; and also
to the curse, which sentenced the third
class to be "servant of servants" to the
others. Thus was the inheritance divided to
the nations, and the sons of Adam aepa-
rated, according to the bounda set by
the Most High; and, as Abrahara is
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had unto Isaac," whfle to the others
"he gave 'portions' and sent them
away." The gospel dispensation, however,
includes all, both Jews and Gentiles,
under sin, that the free grace of the
gospel might come upon all, through
faith. So that ultimately, there are but
two classes — they that believe, and are

The Letter.
7. And these are the days of the
years of Abraham's lffe which he lived,
an hundred threescore and fifteen
years. 8. Then Abraham gave up the
ghost, and died hi a good old age, an
old man, and fufl of years; and was
gathered to Ms people.
9. And Ms sons Isaac and Ishmael
buried Mm m the cave of Machpelah,
in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar
the Hittite, which is before Mamre ;
10. The fleld which Abraham pur
chased of tho sons of Heth : there was
Abraham buried, and Sarah Ms wffe.
Note.
So far aa respects the natural death of
an old man, this passage is comparative
ly without interest. As a man, Abraham
must return to dust; and as a type of
Him whose " years have no end," there
is a sense in which the official character
aud work of Abraham, ceases and comes
to an end, becavise it is fully accom
plished. It muat be noticed that in the eighth
verse, the words "of years" are added
by the translators ; so that it might be
read, " he died in a good old age, an old
raan and full" — or, complete anA. finished
Because all for which he had been con
stituted the "father of beUevers," and a
type of the Father in the everlasting
covenant was fulfilled.
The son had been given according
to promiae; he had been offered a sacri
fice, and received again as from the

saved, and they who believe not, and are
damned As " neither because they are the seed
of Abraham, . are they all chfldren," so
neither because they are the creatures of
God, deriving from hira their natural
life, are they the children of God: none
being such, but such as are born of his
Spirit.

The Spirit.
Ps. cU. 25. Of old hast thou laid
the foundation of the earth : and
the heavens are the work of thine
hands. 26. They shafl perish, but thou
shalt endure: yea, afl of them shafl
wax old like a garment ; as a vesture
shalt thou change them, and they shall
be changed :
27. But thou art the same, and thy
years shall have no end.
2 Chron. v. 4. And he said. Blessed
be the Lord God of Israel, who hath
with his hands fulfiUed that wMch he
spake vrith Ms mouth to my father
Darid. ***** 14. * * there is no God like thee
in the heaven, nor m the earth ; wMch
keepest covenant, and shewest mercy
unto thy servants that walk before
thee with all their hearts :
15. Thou which hast kept \rith thy
servant David my father that which
thou hast promised him ; and spakest
with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled ii
with thine hand, as ii is this day.
Ps. cv. 8. He hath remembered his
covenant for ever, the word which he
commanded to a thousand genera
tions. 9. Which covenant he made with
Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac ;
16. And confirmed tho samo unto
Jacob for a law, and to Israel for au
everlasting covenant.

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dead ; the servant had been sent to
bring iu his Gentile bride, who now
dwelt in hia mother'a tent, or in all the
root and fatneaa of the gospel olive ; and
last of all, the Son ia appointed "heir of
all things " which were in the possession
of the Father, even " all power in hea
ven and earth," while all not chosen in
him, are sent away.
Abraham ia buried in the cave of

Machpelah with Sarah his wife, — because
there all the parties of the covenant
meet, by virtue of the union which they
typically represent. As in baptism, the
symbolic burial is in the name of Father,
Son and Holy Ghost; which narae is
put upon the church — she being one
with them, as they are one with each
other.

The Letter.
11. And it came to pass after the
death of Abraham, that God blessed
Ms son Isaac ; and Isaac dwelt hy the
well Lahai-roi. Note.
In tracing the typical history of Isaac
and Jacob, after the death of Abraham,
we must keep in view the three-fold
character of these covenant fathers, —
with their co-existence and co-operation
as types of the One in Three and Three
in One.
We must not expect in their indivi
dual persona, a consecutive series of acts
and events. Many thinga which concern
laaac as the Son — and especially his
mediatorial work, as the " covenant of
the people" — ^look back, even to the first
giving of the covenant to Israel, and
have no respect to the order of time.
Rebekah his wife also, now the repre
sentative of the church in the room of
Sarah, has much connected with her,
under these new circumstances, uniting
in herself the branches of both olive
trees, that concern her typical position
as the wife of Isaac, but which also look
back to the first establishment of the
two testaments, which had in prospect
the uniting in one, of these two branches ;
and which so long " struggled together, "
striving the one with the other, until
the elder was, in fulnesa ' of time, sub
jected to the younger.
Isaac dwelt at the well Lahai-roi,
which signifies, "thou God livest and
seest me," — ^importing that all the pro

The Spirit.
John v. 22, 23. For tho Father
judgeth no man, but hath committed afl
judgment unto the Son ; that aU men
should honor the Son even as they
honor tho Father. He that honoreth
not the Son, honoreth not the Father
wMch hath sent him.
Ps. xlv. 2, 7. Thou art fairer than
the cMldren of men; grace is poured
into thy lips; therefore God hath
blessed thee for ever. Thou lovest
righteousness and hatest wickedness ;
therefore God, even thy God, hath
anomted thee with the ofl of gladness
above thy fellows.
IsA. xii. 1. Behold my servant,
whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom
my soul delighteth; I have put my
Spirit upon him : he shaU bring forth
judgment to the GentUes.
2. He shaU not cry, nor lift up, nor
cause his voice to be heard in the
street. 3. A bruised reed shall ho not break,
and the smoking flax shall he not
quench : he shaU bring forth judgment
unto truth.
4. He shall not fail nor be discour
aged, tfll ho have set judgment in the
earth : and the isles shaU wait for his
law.

raises looked forward to the " coraing
of the Just One," in whom they all had
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The Litter.
12. Now these are the generations
of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Ha
gar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid,
bare unto Abraham.
13. And these are the names of the
sons of Ishmael, by thefr names, accord
ing to thefr generations : The first-bom
of Ishmael, Nebajoth; and Kedar, and
Adbeel, and Mibsam,
14. And Mishma, and Duma, and

15. Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Na-
phish, and Kedemah :
16. These are the sons of Ishmael,
and these are thefr names, by their
towns, and by thefr castles; twelve
princes according to their nations.
17. And these are the years of the
life of Ishmael ; a hundred and thfrty
and seven years : and he gave up the
ghost and died, and was gathered unto
his people.
18. And they dwelt from Havilah
unto Shur, that is before Egypt, as thou
goest towards Assyria: and he died m
the presence of afl his brethren.
Note.
Twelve princes were born of lehraael.
Theae represented the heads of the
twelve tribes of Israel, or chUdren of
the bondwoman.
God had proraised to make lahraael a
" great nation ;" and of larael it is said,
they should not be numbered for multi
tude ; but, though nuraerous as the stars
of heaven, or sands upon the sea-shore,
"yet a remnant should be saved;" and
when the "servants of God" were
" sealed " frora aU the tribes, there were
only a hundred and forty-four thouaand
— twelve thousand from each tribe :
though even when they came out of
Egypt, they nurabered six hundred and
three thousand, five hundred and fifty
fighting men, beside woraen . and chil
dren. When Ishmael dies, he ia " gathered

The Spirit.
Gen. xlix. 28. AU these are the
twelve tribes of Israel, &c.
Num. i. 44. These are those that
were numbered,wMch Moses and Aaron
numbered, and the princes of Israel,
being twelve men : each one was for
the house of his fathers.
45. So were aU those that were
numbered of the chfldren of Israel by
the house of thefr fathers, from twenty
years old and upward, all that were
able to go forth to war in Israel ;
46. Even all they that were num
bered, were six hundred thousand and
three thousand and five hundred and
fifty. Rev. vu. 4. And I heard the num
ber of them which were sealed: and
there were sealed a hundred and forty
and four thousand of all the tribes of
the chfldren of Israel.

to his people," but not to the cave of
Machpelah. Only " those thaf have part
in the first resurrection"-^who are dead
with Christ and quickened together
-with him, have a right to be " planted
together iu the likeness of his death," —
or "buried with him by baptism into
death.'' Hence, when the Pharisees
come out to John to be baptized of him,
he says, " O generation of vipera, who
hath warned you to flee from the wrath
to come! Bring forth fruits meet for
repentance, and think not to say, We
have Abraham to our father."
Ishmael it said not only to have lived,
but to have died " in the presence of cdl
his brethren." This is a singular mode
of expression, not used in reference to
any other person. It seeras to imply
exactly what is the fact concerniiig the
children of the bondwoman, who live
and die, scattered among all nations, but
distinct and separate from'them, — as a
standing monument — a pillar of salt, in
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The Letter.
19. And these are the generations of
Isaac, Abraham's son : Abraham begat
Isaac: /
20. And Isaac -was forty years old
when he took Rebekah to wife, the
daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Pa-
dan-aram, the sister to Laban the Sy
rian. 21. And Isaac entreated the Lord
for his -wife, because she was barren :
and the Lord was entreated of him,
and Rebekah his wife conceived.
Note.
The generations of Isaac may be told
in few worda : " Abrahara begat Isaac."
In Isaac were the seed of promise all
called; separate and distinct from the
chfldren of the flesh, or of the bond
woman, who were sent away and cast
out from him, " in whom afl the nations
of the earth were to be blessed."
To Rebekah his wife it had been aaid,
" be thou the mother of thouaanda of rail-
liona ; and let thy seed possesa the gate
of them that hate them." But Rebekah
continued barren, like Sarah, untfl laaac
entreated in her behalf.
The espoused bride of Christ also re
mained barren, until married to hira
who was raised from the dead, by whom
she was to raise up fruit unto God," — a

The Letter.
22. And the children struggled to
gether within her : and she said. If it
be so, why am I thus ? And she went
to inquire of the Lord.
23. And the Lord said unto her, Two
nations are in thy womb, and two man
ner of people shall be separated from
thy bowels: and Z/ieo?ie people shafl be
stronger than ihe other people ; and the
elder shaU serve the younger.
Note.
The two dispensations of law and gos
pel, like the "two great fights in the
heavena," were set in the church at one
and the same time ; but their distinct-

The Spirit.
Isa. xlix. 8. Thus saith the Lord, In
an acceptable time have I heard thee,
and in a day of salvation have I helped
thee : and I wUl preserve thee and give
thee for a covenant of the people, to
raise up the earth, to cause to inherit
the desolate heritages.
Ps. cxxriU. 3. Thy wffe shaU be as
a fruitful vine by the sides of thine
house; thy children like olive plants
round about thy table.
IsA. liv. Fear not, for thou shalt not
be ashamed: neither be thou con
founded, for thou shalt not be put to
shame ; for thou shalt forget the shame
of thy youth, and shalt not remember
the reproach of thy widowhood any
more ; for thy Maker is thy Husband,
the Lord of hosts is his name, &c.

seed, numerous aa the promise had pre
dicted. Rebekah was at last made the
mother of a twin offspring, — wholly di
verse the one frora the other; the oue
being, in the natural order of tMngs, the
elder and greater, but the other, by the
purpoae and decree of God, raade first
and raost powerful; and, ultimately,
wholly to supplant aud supersede kis
brother.

The Spirit.
2 CoK. ui. 7. But ff the ministration
of death, written and engraven m
stones, was glorious, so that the cMl
dren of Israel could not steadfastly he-
hold the face of Moses for the glory of
Ms countenance; which ghry was to
be done away :
8. How shall not the ministra
tion of the Spfrit be rather glori
ous? 9. Por ff the mmistration of con-
donmation be glory, much more doth
the ministration of righteousness ex
ceed m glory.
10. For even that wMch was made

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ive character was not raade manifest,
, "while the first tabernacle was yet
standing." They "struggled together"
in the womb of the church — ^to her a
subject of wonder and conjecture— until
the light of that which " exceUeth in glo
ry," raade manifest the darkness and un
profitableness of that which was only
" made glorious ;" and the one " was done
away" to make room for the other.
The Lord predicts to Rebekah the
"two raanner of people" which she
should bring forth ; and equally true is
it of the antitype; that the one was
"weak through the flesh," the other,
"mighty through God to the pulling
down of strongholds," &c. Of Rebe-
kah's sons, " the elder," contrary to his
birthright, " should serve the younger :"
so also Moses was but a servant in the
house of God ; but Christ was a son
over his own house ; and Aaron, with
all his pontifical glory, must give place
to the higher order of Melchisedec, doing
Mra honor even before he was born.

The Letter,
24. And when her days to he deli
vered were fulfiUed, behold, there were
twms m her womb.
25. And the ffrst came out rod, all
over like a hafry garment : and they
caUed Ms name Esau.
26. And after that came his brother
out, and Ms hand took hold on Esau's
heel ; and Ms name was cafled Jacob :
and Isaac was threescore years old
when she bare them. Note.
It is evident that a body must have a
simultaneous existence with its shadow.
It raay also hepre-existent to it, but the
light not ao shine as to cast the ahadow.
The law was » dark intiraation of the
good things to come, or "of the body

glorious had no glory in tMs respect, by
reason of the glory that exceUeth.
1 1 . Por if that which was done away
was glorious, much more that wMch
remaineth is glorious.
Heb. vu. 5. And Moses verUy was
faithful in all his house, as a servant,
for a testimony of those tMngs which
were to be spoken after :
6. But Christ as a Son over Ms own
house : whose house are we, if we hold
fast the confidence, and the rejoicing of
the hope ffrm unto the end.
6. But he whose descent is not
counted from them received tithes of
Abraham, and blessed hun that had the
promises. 7. And without all contradiction the
less is blessed of the better.
8. And here men that die receive
tithes ; but there he receiveth them, of
whom it is vritnessed that he flveth.
***** 11. If therefore perfection were by
the Levitical priesthood, (for under it
the people received the law,) what fur
ther need was there that another priest
should rise after the order of MelcMs
edec, and not be cafled after the order
of Aaron ?

The Spirit.
Heb. X. 1. For the law having a
shadow of good things to come, and
not the very image of the thmgs, can
never with those sacrifices which they
offered year by year continuaUy, make
the comers thereunto perfect
2. For then would they not have
ceased to be offered? because that fhe
worsMppers once purged should have -
had no more conscience of sins.
3. But in tiiose sacrifices there is a
remembrance again made of sins every
year. 4. For it is not possible that the
blood of bulls and of goats should take
away sins.
5. Wherefore, when he cometh into
the world, he saith. Sacrifice and offer-

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which is Christ," and made manifest by
the gospel. Yet did this "body" exist
not only at the same time, but from
everlasting. The sun and the moon,
also, (symbolically, the law. and gos
pel,) were simultaneously set in the
heavens, though both are not visible
at the same time: one rules the night,
the other the day. But who does not
understand that the moon would not
shine at all, were not the sun at the same
time in the heavens, casting his own
light upon her cold, dark, aiid lifeless
body? So the law derived all its glory
from the gospel which was preached
under it
Esau, who represents the first testa
raent, is characteristically described as
red and hairy, and is naraed Esau, from
the nature of that which stood only in
meats and drinks and carnal ordinan-
cea; the blood of bulla aud goats, and
the fat of fed beasts. Esau is followed
by his brother, who is simply described
as Jacob, or " a supplanter." His hand
took hold upon Esau's heel. This may
allude to two things : First to the fact

The Letter.
27. And the boys grew ; and Esau
was a. cunnmg hunter, a man of the
field ; and Jacob was a plain man dwell
ing iu tents.
28. And Isaac loved Esau because
he ate of his venison. But Rebekah
loved Jacob. Note.
An "hunter," in Scripture, is always
connected with the wicked. It implies
either a traffic with the beasts of the field,
(spiritual wickedness,) as in Gen. x. 9 ; or
in the soula of men, as in Ezk. xiii. 19,20,
and Rev. xviii. 13. In the passage be
fore us, it also has allusion t . the pecu
liar nature of the first dispensation,
which dealt so largely in the blood of
bulls and goats.
Jacob was a mau of " tents ;" typically
pointing to the peaceful habitations of
Zion ; her "quiet resting places," which,
urder the gospel dispensation, would be
come like " gardens by the river aide ;"
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ings thou wouldest not, but a body hast
thou prepared me :
6. In burnt-offerings and sacrifices
for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
7. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the
volume of the book it is written of me)
to do thy wfll, O God.
8. Above, when he said. Sacrifice
and offering and burnt offerings and
offering for sin thou wouldest not, nei
ther hadst pleasure therein ; which are
offered by the law ;
9. Then said he, Lo, I come to do
thy will, O God. He taketh away the
first, that ho may establish the second.
thivt the new cov*n.ant was revealed be
fore the first testameut was done away;
or it raay point to the "heel" of Christ
as coining from the first-covenant peo
ple. The times of scripture are never
definite, but only relative measures.
The 60 years of Isaac, make six tens, or
the sixth age of the world, which intro
duced the gospel.

The Spirit.
Ps. 1. 8. I wfll not reprove thee for
thy sacrifices or thy burnt-offerings, to
have been continually before me.
9. I wfll take no buUock out of thine
house, nor he-goats out of thy folds.
10. For every beast of tho forest is
mine, and the cattle upon a thousand
hflls. 11. I know all the fowls of the
mountains : and the vrild beasts of the
field are mme.
12. If I were hungry, I wo"fld not
tell thee : for tho world is mine, and
the fulness thereof. ,
¦ 13. Wfll I eat the flesh of bulls, or
drmk tho blood of goats ?
IsA. i. 10. Hear the word of the
Lord, ye rulers of Sodom ; give ear unto
the law of our God, ye people of Go
morrah. 11. To what purpose is the multi
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and which were to be greatly enlarged
and extended by the accession of the
Gentiles. Isaac loved Esau because he ate ofhis
veniaon ; and ao also, Christ the Head
of the church, had respect to the carnal
ordinances which he himself " imposed
upon the people until the time of refor
mation," and required their strict per
formance. But Rebekah loved Jacob;
and so the church, of course, had greater
respect to the " ministration of the Spi
rit," by which she was so greatly to
profit.

The Letter.
29. And Jacob sod pottage: and
Esau came from the field, and he was
faint. 30. And Esau said to Jacob, Feed
me, I pray thee, with that samo red
pottage; for I am faint: therefore was
his name called Edom.
31. And Jacob said, ScU me this day
thy bfrthright.
32. And Esau said, Behold, I am at
the point to die ; and what profit shafl
this birthright do to me ?
33. And Jacob said. Swear to me

the Lord : I am fufl of the burnt-offer
ings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts ;
and I delight not in the blood of bul
locks, or of lambs, or of he-goats.
Num. xxiv. 5. How goodly are thy
tents, O Jacpb, and thy tabernacles, O
Israel !
6. As the vaUeys are they spread
forth, as gardens by the river's side, as
the trees of lign-aloes which the Lord
hath planted, and as cedar-trees beside
the waters.
7. He shafl pour the water out of
his buckets, and his seed shall be m
many waters, and his king shafl be
higher than Agag, and his Mngdom
shafl be exalted.
Jer. xxx. 1 8. Thus saith the Lord ;
Behold, I wifl bring again the captirity
of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his
dwelling places ; and the city shall be
buUded upon her own heap, and the
palace shall remain after the manner
thereof. IsA. liv. 2. Enlarge the place of thy
tent, and let them stretch forth the cur
tains of thy habitations; spare not,
lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy-
stakes ;
3. For thou shalt break forth on the
right hand and on the left; and thy
seed shall inherit the GentUes, and
make the desolate cities to be inha
bited.

The Spirit. '
Heb. vu. 18. For there is verily a
disannulling of the commandment gomg
before for the weakness and unprofit
ableness thereof.
19. For the law made nothing per
fect, but the brmging in of a better
hope did ; by the which we draw nigh
unto God.
20. And masmuch as not without an
oath he was made priest,
21. (For those priests were made
without an oath, but this with an oath,
by him that said unto Mm, The Lord

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Shis day ; and ho sware unto him : and
he sold his birthright unto Jacob.
34. Then Jacob gave Esau bread
a,nd pottage of lentiles ; and he did eat
and drmk, and rose up, and went his
way: thus Esau despised his birth
right. Note.
This transaction shows the accom
plishment of the decree of God, " The
elder shall serve the younger." Also the
change of priesthood, according to ano
ther decree : " Tlie Lord hath sworn and
will not repent ; Thou art a priest for ever
after the order of Melchisedec ;" and like
wise the inheritance or blessing which,
by the third chapter of Malachi, 10th
verse, was to fall upon him, who should
"bring the tithes into the storehouse;"
all these things being brought about
typically, by this voluntary surrender
of Esau.
Edom, signifies red earth, or earth
stained -with blood. This name was
given to Esau because he exchanged his
birthright for "'red pottage." But it
has a deeper meaning than this. Idu-
raea ia said by the prophet to . be
" soaked with blood, and their land
made fat with fatness.'' This is true in
three different ways. First ^^ descrip
tive of the old dispensation, which was
red with the blood of calves and goats.
Second, because the people of that cove
nant, iu crucifying the Son of God, were
guilty of all the righteous blood which
had been shed upon the earth. And
when they said, " Let his blood be on us
and on our children," they invoked the
whole crimson flood to be visited upon
them. In the third place, God declared
to thia people, " I wiU prepare thee unto
blood ; aud blood ahall pursue thee ;
since thou hast not hated blood, even
blood shall pursue thee." "For the
Lord has u. sacrifice in Bozrah, and a

sware, and wfll not repent. Thou art a
priest for over after tho order of Mel
chisedec ;)
***** 12. For the priesthood being changed,
there is made of necessity a change also
of the law.
RoM. ix. 10. And not only ZMs; but
when Rebecca had also conceived by
ono, even by our father Isaac,
11. (For ihe children being not yet
born, neither having done any good or
evfl, that the purpose of God, according
to election, might stand, not of works,
but of Mm that caUeth :)
12. It was said unto her. The elder
shall serve the younger.
13. As it is written, Jacob have I
loved, but Esau have I hated.
Heb. X. 6. In burnt-offerings and
sacrifices for sin thou hast had no plea
sure. 7. Thon said I, Lo, I come (m the
volume of the book it is written of mo)
to do thy wUl, O God.
8. Above, when he said. Sacrifice
and offering and burnt-offerings and
offering for sin thou wouldest not, nei
ther hadst pleasure therein; which are
offered by the law ;
9. Then said he, Lo, I come to do
thy will, O God. He taketh away fhe
first, that he may establish tho second.
great slaughter in the land of Idumea;"
for, " I will tread thera in mine anger
and trample them iu my fury ; and their
blood shall stain all my raiment."
The birthright, by the Jewish law,
embraced the right of dominion, of in
heritance or blessing, and of the priest
hood ; all of which were now trans
ferred to Jacob by the decree of God
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The Letter.
god's curse upon idtjmea.
Isa. xxxiv. 5. For my sword shafl
be bathed m heaven : behold, it shall
como down upon Idumea, and upon the
people of my curse, to judgment.*
* * * * *
8. For it is the day of the Lord's
vengeance, and the year of recompenses
for the controversy of Zion.
9. And the streams thereof shall be
turned into pitch, and the dust thereof
mto brimstone, and the land thereof
shafl become burning pitch.
10. It shall not be quenched night
nor day ; the smoke thereof shall go up
for ever: from generation to genera
tion if shall Ue waste ; none shall pass
through it for ever and ever.
11. But the cormorant and tbe bit
tern shaU possess it ; tho owl also and
the raven shall dweU in it : and he shall
stretch out upon it the line of confu
sion, and the stones of emptiness.
12. They shall call the nobles thereof
to the Mngdom, but none shall be there,
and all her princes shall be nothmg.
13. And thoms shaU come up in her
palaces, nettles and brambles in the
fortresses thereof: and it shall be an ha
bitation of dragons, and a court for owls.
14. The wild beasts of the desert
shaU also meet with the wild beasts of
the island, and the satyr shafl cry to
his fellow ; the screech-owl also shall
rest there, and find for herself a place
of rest.
15. There shafl the great owl make
her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather
under her shadow : there shafl the vul
tures also be gathered, every one -with
her mate.
16. Seek ye out of the book of the
Lord, and read : no one of these shall

• It may be objected that this prophecy has
respect to Idumea and the Edomites, and not to
Israel. Literally it is doubtless so ; but the
hrothcrliaod between Edom and Israel is another
type of the mixed character of national Israel,—
both the blessing and the curse meeting in one
family. ' See Mal. i. 1-4.

The Spirit.
BLESSINGS OF CHEIST's KINGDOM.
Isa. xxxv. 1. The wilderness and
the solitary place shall be glad for them ;
and tho desert shall rejoice, and blossom
as the rose.
2. It shall blossom abundantly, and
rejoice, even vrith joy and singing : the
glory of Lebanon shall bo given unto
it, the excellency of Carmel and Sha
ron, thoy shall see the glory of the
Lord, and the exceflency of our
God. 3. Strengthen ye the weak hands,
and confirm the feeble knees.
4. Say to them that are of a fearful
heart. Be strong, fear not : behold, your
God wifl come ivith vengeance, even
God loith a recompense ; he will come
and save you.
6. Then the eyes of the blind shafl
be opened, and the ears of the deaf
shall be unstopped.
6. Then shall the lame man leap as
a hart, and the tongue of the dumb
shall sing: for in the wUderness shall
waters break out, and streams in the
desert. 7. And the parched ground shaU be
come a pool, and the thirsty land springs
of water: in the habitation of dragons,
whore each lay, shall be grass with
reeds and rushes.
8. And a highway shafl be there,
and a way, and it -shall be called. The
way of holiness ; the unclean shafl not
pass over it ; but it shall be for those :
the way-faring men, though fools, shafl
not err therein.
9. No lion shall be there, nor any
ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it
shafl not be found there ; but the re
deemed shall walk there:
10. And fhe ransomed of the Lord
shall return, and come to Zion with
songs and everlasting joy upon their
heads : they shall obtain joy and glad
ness, and sorrow and sighing shafl flee
away. Matt. xxui. 33. Ye serpents, ye

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faU, none shafl want her mate : for my
mouth, it' hath commanded, and Ms
Spirit, it hath gathered them.
17. And ho hath east the lot for
them, and his hand hath divided it unto
them by Une : they shall possess it for
ever, from generation to generation
shall they dweU therein.
Ezk. xxxv. 5. Because thou hast
had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed
ihe blood of the children of Israel by the
force of the sword in the time of their
calamity, in the time thai their iniquity
had an end :
6. Therefore as I live, saith the Lord
God, I wfll prepare thee unto blood,
and blood shall pursue thee : since thou'
hast not hated blood, even blood shall
pursue thee.
IsA. xxxiv. 6. The sword of the
Lord is filled with blood, it is made fat
with fatness, and with the blood of
lambs and goats, with the fat of the
kidneys of rams : for the Lord hath a
sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaugh
ter in the land of Idumea.
7. And the unicoms shall eome down
with them, and the bullocks with tho
buUs ; and their land shall be soaked
with blood, and their dust made fat with
fatness. Isa. IxUi. 1. Who is this that com
eth from Edom, with dyed garments
from Bozrah 1 fliis thai is glorious ir
his apparel, traveUing in the greatness
of his strength ? I that speak in right
eousness, mighty to save.
2. Wherefore art ihou red in thine
apparel, and thy garments like him that
treadeth in die wine-vat ?
3. I have trodden tho wine-press
alone ; and of flic people there was none
with me : for I will tread them in mine
anger, and trample them in my fury, and
their blood shall be sprinkled upon my
garments, and I wfll stain all my raiment.
4. For the day of vengeance is in
mine heart, and the year of my re
deemed is como.
Ezk. xxiv. 6. Wherefore thus saith
the Lord God ; Wo to the bloody city,
to the pot whose scum is therein, and

generation of vipers, how can ye escape
the damnation of hell I
34. Wherefore behold, I send unto
you prophets, and wise men, and
scribes : and some of them ye shall kill
and crucify, and some of them shall ye
scourge in your synagogues, and per
secute them from city to city:
35. That upon you may come all tho
righteous blood shed upon tho earth,
from tiio blood of righteous Abel, unto
the blood of Zacharias son of Bara
chias, whom ye slow between tho tem
ple and tho altar.
36. Verily I say unto you, All these
things shall como upon this genera
tion. 37. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, ihou
that killest fhe prophets, and stonest
them which are sent unto thee, how
often would I have gathered thy chil
dren together, even as a hen gathereth
her chickens under her wings, and ye
would not!
38. Behold, your house is left unto
you desolate.
39.- For I say unto you, Yo shafl not
soe me henceforth, till ye shall say.
Blessed is he that cometh in the name
of the Lord.
Matt. xxvu. 25. Then answered
all the people, and said, His blood be on
us, and on our children.
John xv. 23. He that hateth me,
hateth my Father also.
24. If 1 had not done among them
the works which none other man did,
they had not liad sin: but now have
they both seen, and hated both me and
my Father.
25. But ihii cometh io pass, that the
word might be fulfilled that is written
in their law, They hated me without a
cause. 1 John in. 15. Whosoever hateth
his brother, is a murderer : and yoknow
that no murderer hafh eternal life abid
ing in him.
Matt. xii. 31. Wherefore I say
unto you. All manner of sin and blas
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whose scum is not gone out of it!
bring it out piece by piece ; let no lot
faU upon it.
7. For her blood is in the midst of
her; she set it upon tho top of a rock ;
she poured it not upon the ground, to
cover it with dust :
8. That it might cause fury to come
up to take vengeance ; I have set her
blood upon tbe top of a rock, that it
should not bo covered.
Num. xxxv. 31. Moreover, ye shall
take no satisfaction for fh© l^fe of a
murderer, which is guilty of death : but
ho shall be surely put to death.
Ob ad. 1. The vision of Obadiah.
Thus saith the Lord God concerning
Edom ; We have heard a rumor from
the Lord, and an ambassador is sent
among the heathen. Arise ye, and let
us rise up against her in battle.
2. Behold, I have made thee smafl
among the heathen : thou art greatiy
despised. ***** 11. Thus saith the Lord; For three
transgressions of Edom, and for four, I
wfll not turn away ihe punishment
thereof; because he did pursue his
brother with thp sword, and did cast off
all pity, and Ms anger did tear perpetu
ally, and he kept his wrath for ever :
12. But I will send a fire upon Te-
man, which shall devour the palaces of
Bozrah. 6. If thieves came to fhee, if robbers
by night, (how art thou cut off!)
would they not have stolen till they
had enough? if the grapo-gatherors
came to theo, would they not leave
some grapes 1
6. How aro the things of Esau
searched out ! how are his hidden things
sought up !
7. All the men of thy confederacy
have brought theo even to the border :
the men that wore at peace with thee
have deceived thee, and prevafled
against thee ; ihey ihat eat thy bread
have laid a wound under thee : thei-e is
none understanding in him.
8. Shall I not in that day, siiith the

the blasphemy against the Holy Gfhost
shall not be forgiven unto men.
32. And whosoever speaketh a word
against the Son of man, it shall bo for
given Mm : but whosoever speaketh
against the Holy Ghost, it shaU not be
forgiven Mm, neither in tMs world,
neither in the world to come.
Ps. cix. 2. For the mouth of the
vricked and the mouth of the deceitful
are opened against mo : they have spo
ken against me with a lying tongue.
3. They compassed mo about also
with words of hatred; and fought
against me -without a cause.
4. For my love they are my adver
saries : ' but I give myself unto prayer.
6. And they have rewarded me evil
for good, and hatred for my lovo.
6. Sot thou a wicked man over him :
and let Satan stand at his right hand.
7. When he shall be judged, let him
be condemned : and let Ms prayer be
come sin.
8. Lot his days be, few; and let an
other take his office.
9. Let his chUdren be fatherless, and
his wife a widow.
10. Let his children be contmually
vagabonds, and bog : let thom seek their
bread also out of their desolate places.
1 1. Let the extortioner catch afl that
he hath ; and let the str.ingers spofl his
labor. 12. Let there bo none to extend
mercy unto him : neither let there be
any to faVor Ms fatherless chUdren.
13. Let his posterity b© cut off; and
in tho generation following let their
name be blotted out.
14. Let the iniquity of his fathers be
remembered with the Lord ; .and let
not the sin of his mother bo blotted
out. 15. Let them be before tho Lord
continually, that he may cut off the
memory of them from the earth :
16. Because that he remembered not
to show mercy, but persecuted the poor
and needy man, that ho might even slay
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Lord, even destroy the wise men out of
Edom, and understanding out of the
mount of Esau 1
9. And thy mighty men, O Teman,
shaU be dismayed, to the end that evey
one of the mount of Esau may bo cut
off by slaughter.
10. For thy violence against thy
brother Jacob shame shall cover thee,
and thou shalt be cut off for ever.
11. In the day that thou stoodest on
the other side, in the day that the
strangers carried away captive his
forces, and foreigners entered into his
gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem,
even thou wast as one of them.
Note.
That Esau had a typical allusion to
Judas, the " son of perdition," -will be

The Letter.
DOEG THE EDOMITE.
I Sam. xxi. 7. Now a certain man
of the servants of Saul was there that
day, detained before the Lord ; and his
name was Doeg, an Edomito, the
ehiofest of the herdmen that belonged
to Saul.
xxii. 9. Then answered Doog the
Edomite, which was set "over the ser
vants of Saul, and said, I saw tho son
of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimolech
tho son of Ahitub.
***** 17. And the king said unto the, foot
men that stood about him. Turn, and
slay the priests of the Lord ; because
their hand also is with David, and be
cause they knew when he fled, and did
not show it to me. But the servants
of the king would not put forth Uieir
hand to fafl upon the priests of the
Lord. 18. And the king said to Doeg,
Turn thou, and fall upon the priests.
And Doeg the Edomito turned, and he
feU upon the priests, and slow on that
day fourscore and five pei-sons that did
wear a linen ephod.

17. As he loved cursing, so let it
come unto him : as ho delighted not in
blessing, so let it be far from him.
18. As he clothed himself with curs
ing like as with his garment, so let it
come into hia bowels like water, and
like oil into his bones.
19. Let it bo unto him as tho gar
ment which covereth him, and for a gir
dle wherewith ho is girded continually.
20. Let this be the reward of mine
advei-sarics from the Lord, and of them
that speak evU against my soul.
more clearly seen hereafter. This fact
is also corroborated by two instances of
the same nature, in which an Edomite
acts the part of traitor to those who
were types of Christ 1 Sam. xxi. and
xxii., and 1 Kings xi. 14

The Spirit.
JUDAS ISUAEIOT.
Matt. xxri. 14. Then one of the
twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went
unto the chief priests,
15. And said unto ihem. What wfll
ye give, me, and I will jleliver him unto
you ? And they covenanted with him
for thirty pieces of silver.
16. And from that time he sought
opportunity to betray hun.
xxvii. 3. Then Judas, which had be
trayed him, when he saw that he was
condemned, repented himself, and
brought again tho thirty pieces of sil
ver to the chief priests and elders,
5. Saying, I have sinned in that I
have betrayed the innocent blood.
And they said. What is ihat to us ?
see thou io IhaL
5. And he cast down the pieces of
sflver in the temple, and departed, and
went and hanged himseff.
6. And the chief priests took the sU
ver pieces, and said. It is not lawful for
to put them into tho treasury, because
it is the price of blood.
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****'" 22. And David said unto Abiathar,
I knew it that day, when Doeg the
Edomite was there, that he would sure
ly tell Saul : I have occasioned ihe death
of aU the persons of thy father's
house. 1 Kings xi. 14. And the Lord stirred
up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad
the Edomite : he was of the kmg's seed
in Edom.
A Psalm of David, when Doeg the
Edomite came and told Saul, and
said unto him, David is come to the
house of Abimelech.
Ps. hi. 1. Why boastest thou thy
self in miscMef, O mighty man? the
goodness of God endureth continually.
2. Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs;
like a sharp razor, working deceitfuUy.
3. Thou lovest ovU more than good ;
and lying rather than to speak right
eousness. Selah.
4. Thou lovest afl devouring words,
O ihou deceitful tongue.
5. God shafl likewise destroy thee
for ever ; he shall take thee away, and
pluck thee out of ihy dwefling-place,
and root thee out of the land of the
Uving. Selah.
6. The righteous also shall see, and
fear, and shall laugh at him :
7. Lo, this is the man ihat made not
God his strength ; but trusted in the
abundance of his riches, and strength
ened himself in his wickedness.
Jude 6. And the angels which
kept not their first estate, but left
their own habitation, he hath reserved
in everlasting chains under darkness
unto the judgment of the great day.
Note.
"We have endeavored in the foregoing
typical history, to call attention to the
fact, that the eurse pronounced in Eden
upon the serpent, is transmitted through
all subsequent ages to his seed. In him,
as in a covenant head and representa
tive, they are cursed ; and that curse
rests upon them personally and indivi
dually, in the same manner that the

bought with them the potter's field, to
bury strangers in.
8. Wherefore that field was cafled.
The field of blood, unto this day.
9. (Then was fulfilled that wMch
was spoken by Jeremy the prophet,
saymg. And they took the thirty pieces
of silver, the price of him that was
valued, whom they of the cMldren of
Israel did value,
1 0. And gave them for the potter's
field, as the Lord appointed me.)
Acts i. 16. Men arid brethren, TMs
scripture must needs have been fulfiUed,
which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of
David spake before conceming Judas,
which was guide to them that took
Jesus. 17. For he was numbered with us,
and had obtained part of this ministry.
18. Now this man purchased a field
¦with the reward of iniquity ; and falling
headlong, he burst asunder in the
midst, and aU his bowels gushed out.
19. And it was kno-wn unto all the
dweUers at Jerusalem; insomuch as
that field is caUed in their proper
tongue, Aceldama, that is to say. The
field of blood. '
20. For it is written m the book of
Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate,
and let no man dwell therein : and.
His bishopric let another take.
***** 24. And they prayed, and said. Thou,
Lord, wMch knowest the hearts of aU
men, shew whether of these two thou
hast chosen.
25. That he may take part of tMs
ministry and apostleship, from which
Judas by transgression fell, that he
might go to his own place.

righteous are blessed in their covenant
Head, the Lord Jeaus Christ, both repre
sentatively and personally.
To be satisfied of this remarkable fact
we have only to trace the history of the
nations and people of the earth, frora
their fathers or progenitors, the de
scendants of Cain and of Seth, of Canaan
and Ham, and those of Shem and Ja-

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pheth; of Ishmael and of Isaac; of
Esau and of Jacob ; and lastly, of the
ten sons of Jacob, and of Joseph and
Benjamin. By tbe history of the old-testament
ehnrch, particularly in the reigns of Da
vid and Solomon, — in Ezra, Nehemiah
and Esther, and in the writings of tbe
prophets, — we find that all the despite
towards the Lurd'a Anointed, the pei-se-
cntion and blood of tiie church, is to be
traced to the seed of the serpent — the
"generation of vipers;" who are not only
"oftheii-«fatiier the devil," in spirit, or in
the seed, wbioli gives character to the
fruit of the tree, but also by ordinary
generation, belonging to their natural

The Letter.
THE VINEYARD PLANTED.
Is A. V. 1. Now wfll I sing to liiy
woll-boloved a song of my beloved
touching his vineyard. My well-be
loved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful
Mfl: 2. And he fenced it, and gathered out
the stones thereof, and planted it with
the choicest vine, and built a tower in
the midst of it, and also made a wine
press therein: and ho looked that it
should bring forth grapes, and it brought
forth wild grapes.
3. And now, O inhabitants of Jeru
salem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray
you, betwixt mo and my vineyard.
4. What could have been done more
to my vineyard, that I have not done in
it? wherefore, when I looked that it
should bring forth grapes, brought it
forth wild grapes 1
5. And now go to ; I will tell you
what I will do to my vineyard: I
will take away tho hedge thereof, and
it shall bo eaten up ; and break down
the wall thereof, and it shafl bo trodden
down: 6. And I will lay it waste ; it shall
not be pruned, nor digged ; but there
shall come up briers and thorns : I will

progenitors, either directiy or indi
rectly. To this statement it may be objected
that the natural progenitors of thia
cureed seed, are often good men; as in
tlie case of Adam, Noah, Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob. But this difficulty is
fully settled by the explanation m.ide iu
the case of Abraham's two sons. " Nei
ther because tliey are the seed of
Abraham, a.e they all children; but.
In Isaac shall thy seed be called. That
is, they which are the children of the
flesh, these are not the children of God ;
but the children of the promise are
counted for the seed." Rom. ix. 7, 8.

The Spirit.
THE HUSBANDMEN DESTEOYED.
Matt. xxi. 33. Hoar another para
ble ; There was a certain householder,
which planted a vineyard, and hedged
it round about, and digged a wine
press in it, and built a tower, and let it
out to husbandmen, and wont into a
far country :
34. And when tho time of the fruit
drew near, ho sent his servants to the
husbandmen, that thoy might receive
the fruits of it.
35. And the husbandmen took Ms
servants, and beat one, and kiUed an
other, and stoned another.
36. Again he sent other servants more
than the first : and they did unto them
Ukewise. 37. But last of all, ho sent unto them
his son, saying, They will reverence my
son. 38. But when the husbandmen saw
the son, they said among themselves.
This is the heir ; come, lot us kill him,
and lot us seize on his mheritance.
39. And they caught him, and cast
him out of the vineyard, and slew him.
40. When the Lord therefore of the
vineyard cometh, what wfll he do unto
those husbandmen ?
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also command the clouds that they rain
no rain upon it.
7. For the vineyard of tho Lord of
hosts is the house of Israel, and the
men of Judah his pleasant plant : and
he looked for judgment, but behold
oppression ; for righteousness, but be
hold a cry.
8. Wo unto them that join house to
house, ihat lay field to field, till there be
i}0 place, that they may bo placed alone
in the midst of the earth !
9. In mine ears said the Lord of
hosts. Of a truth many houses shall be
desolate, even great and fair, without in
habitant. ***** 14. Therefore hell hath enlarged
herself, and opened her mouth without
measure : and their glory, and their
multitude, and their pomp, aud he that
rejoiceth, shall descend into it
15. And the mean man shall be
brought down, and tho mighty man
shall bo humbled, and the eyes of the
lofty shafl bo humbled.

The Letter.
EDOM, JUDAH AND BABTLON.
Obad. 3. The pride of thine heart
hath deceived theo, thou that dweflest
in the clefts of the rock, whose habita
tion is high ; that saith in his heart,
Who shall bring me down to the
ground ?
4. Though thou exalt thyself as the
eagle, and though thou sot thy nest
among tho stars, thence will I bring
thee down, saith the Lord.
Amos ix. 2. Though they dig into
heU, thence shall mine hand fake them ;
though they climb up to heaven, thence
¦wUl I bring Ihem down :
3. And though they hide themsolvos
in the top of Carmel, I wUl search and
take them out thence ; and thouo-h

miserably destroy those wicked men,
and will lot out his vineyard unto other
husbandmen, which shall render hira
the fruits m their seasons.
42. Jesus saith unto thom. Did ye
never read in the scriptures. The
stone which the bufldors rejected, the
same is become the head of the corner:
this is the Lord's doing, and it is mar
vellous in our eyes 1
43. Therefore say I unto you, Tho
kingdom of God shall be taken from
you, and given to a nation bringing
forth the fruits thereof.
44. And whosoever shall fall on this
stone, shall be broken : but on whom
soever it shall fall, it wiU grind him to
powder. 46. And when the chief priests and
Pharisees had heard his parables, they
perceived that he spake of them.
49. But when thoy sought to lay
hands on him, they feared the multi
tude, because they took him for a pro
phet Luke xix. 14. But his citizens
hated him, and sent a message after
hun, saying. We will not have this man
to reign over us.

The Spirit.
JUDAS, THE " MAN OF SIN," OE AlITI-
CHEIST.
2 Thess. ii. 3. Let no man deceive
you by any means : for thai day shall
noi come, except there come a falling
away first, and that man of sin be re
vealed, the son of perdition ;
4. Who opposeth and exalteth him
self above all that is called God, or that
is worshipped ; so that he, as God, sit
teth in the temple of God, shewing
himself that he is God.
Jude 14. And Enoch also, the se
venth frora Adam, prophesied of these,
saying. Behold, the Lord cometh with
ten thousand of his saints,
15. To execute judgment upon afl,
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they bo hid from my sight In the bot
tom of tiie sea, thence wiU I command
the serpent, and he shall bite thera.
Is A. xiii. 11. And I will punish tho
world for their evU, and the wicked for
their iniquity ; and I wiU cause tho
arrogancy of the proud to cease, and
¦wiU lay low the haughtiness of the
terrible. 12. I will make a man more precious
than fine gold ; even a man than the
golden wedge of Ophir.
13. Thorofore I wUl shako the hea
vens, and the earth shall remove out
of her place, in the wrath of the Lord
of hosts, and in the day of his fierce
anger. Ps. cxxiU. 3. Have mercy upon us,
O Lord, have mercy upon us : for we
are exceedingly fflled with contempt.
4. Our soul is exceedingly filled with
the scorning of those that are at ease,
and with the contempt of the proud.
Jek. I. 29. CaU together the archers
against Babylon : afl yo that bond the
bow, camp against it rOund about ; let
none thereof escape: recompense her
according to hor work; according to all
that she hath done, do unto her : for
she hath been proud against the Lord,
against tho Holy One of Israel.
30. Therefore shall hor young mon
fall in the streets, and all hor men of
war shall be cut off in that day, saith
the Lord.
31. Behold, I am against thee, O
ilwu most proud, saith the Lord God
of hosts : for thy day is como, the time
ihat I will visit thee.
32. And the most proud shall stum
ble and fall, and none shall raise him
up : and I will kindle a fire in his cities,
and it shall devour afl round about
Mm.

Note.
We have been particularly careful to
combine nnd present the most important
Scripture testimony relative to the typi
cal and prophetic character of Esau in
the development of the divine decree,

among them of all their ungodly deeds
which they have ungodly committed,
and of all their hard speeclws which un
godly sinners have spoken against him.
16. Those aro murmurers, complain-
ers, walking after their own lusts ; and
their mouth speaketh great swelling
words, having men's persons in admi
ration because of advantage.
2 Thess. i. 6. Seeing il is a right
eous thing with God to recompense
tribulation to them that trouble you;
7. And to you who are troubled,
rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall
be revealed from heaven with his mighty
angels, Tn flaming fire taking vengeance
on them that know not God, and that
obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus
Christ :
9. Who shall be punished with ever
lasting destruction frora the presence
of the Lord, and from the gloi-y of his
power. u. 8. And then shall that Wicked
be revealed, whom the Lord shaU con
sume with tho spirit of his mouth, and
shafl destroy with tho brightness of his
coining :
9. Even him, whoso coming is after
tho working of Satan, with all power,
and signs, and lying wonders,
10. And with all deceivableness of
unrighteousness in them that perish;
because they received not the love of
the truth, that they might bo saved.
11. And for this cause God shall
send them strong delusion, that they
should believe a lie :
12. That thoy all might be damned
who beUeved not tho truth, but had
pleasure iu unrighteousness.
John xrii 12. * * none of them is
lost but the son of perdition; that the
scripture might bo fulfilled.

him to serve his brother Jacob. This
development first appears in his eati
ng; — " a cunning hunter, — a raan of the
field ;" and next in connection with this
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raent and its carnal ordinances: — also
the change of priesthood from the
Aaronic or Levitical, to that of the
order of Melchisedec, — the priesthood
being a part of the privilege of the
birthright: — next, the character and
conduct of the people of this testament
toward the heirs of promise, or spiritual
Israel, and the Just One, of whom all
their rites and ceremonies, as well as
their prophets, testified : and lastly, the
signal judgments of God, which fell
upon the whole house of Esau and all
the land of Idumea.
Wc conceive this to be especially ne
cessary, in order to a right understand
ing of what subsequently takes place in
the 27 th chapter, and in order to vindi
cate and justify the conduct of Kebekah
and Jacob, and show that they acted
not only in accordance with the divine
decree, but under tho divine influence
aud direction, and not, as is generally
supposed, yiilti falsehood saiH deceit.
We are aware that it is urged by ob
jectors, that God had before ordained
¦¦ the cruoifi.xion of Christ and yet it was
with "wicked hands" that the Jews put
him to death, — and that he often per
mits what he does not approve. But
the case of Jacob ia totally different
frora this, or any other in which God
employs wicked agents to accoraplish his
purposes, and theu punishes them for
delighting in the evil work. The Jews
hated Christ and desired his death ; but
Jacob had no ill will to Esau : — he never
devised the plan to supplant him, nor
showed the least desire to do so. He acted
under the instructions of Rebekah, who,
knowing that Isaac called for venison,
and that the blessing waa promised to
the "savory meat" dictated his pro
ceedings. By which is seen, in a figure,
that the acceptable sacrifice of Christ,
which obtained the blessing from the
Father, was according to what was
" -written in the law and the prophets
concerning" him, and of course known
bj' the church.
Again, the conduct of all the wif-ked
agents employed by God, is unequivo
cally condemned, and invariably punish
ed. And when his own people do that

which is wrong, he always reproves
and chastens them. But where is the
least intimation that Jacob or Rebekah
had offended? On the contrary, the
blessing of Isaac is not only made to
rest upon Jacob, even when Isaac knew
who he was, — but iraraediately after,
God hiraself confirras it, by a voice frora
heaven, and in a vision, which reveals
to hia wondering view all the glorioua
things which that blessing embraced.
Would God have thus sanctioned a
lie, and connived at falsehood? Would
he not have signified to Jacob his dis
pleasure, had he been guilty? Some
will say that Jacob was reproved and
punished by Laban in the matter of
Leah. But this only shows how super
ficially such reasoners read and under
stand the Scriptures !
Wo do not believe that a wicked per
son is ever made typical of Christ ; but
we think there are acts of righteous men
recorded, which are wicked, so far as
they partake of the sinful propensities
of those concerned, and yet are typical
of events in the spiritual kingdom. For
instance, David sinned greatly and
grievously iu taking the wife of Uriah,
and causing his death ; and it was the
lusts of the fiesh which enticed him to
do so. For these acts he was deserved
ly punished, and made bitterly sorrow
ful, until he complains of broken bones,
and the burden of blood-guiltiness. This
was all just and right in the divine go
vernment, and according to the promises
of the new covenant, whose distinguish
ing glory it is, to secure from the love
and commission of sin. But those who
see nothing more than this in this piece
of Bible history of the "raan after God's
own heart" do not profit by what is
written. God had appointed that Solomon,
whom he had " chosen to build him a
house,'' and whose "throne he would
establish as the sun,'' should be born of
this very woman who was the wife of
another at the time when David's sinful
and covetous desires were fixed upon
her. He took her to himself aud caused
the death of her husband ; in which he
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and was punished accordingly. Yet,
when Nathan was sent to him with the
divine reproof, he -was directed to say,
"I have put away thy sin."
But there was another raan who was
"without sin" — wholly after God's own
heart, and the "express image of his
person" — who also took a wife "while
her first husband yet lived ;'' who also put
to death that husband, and married her
to hiraself, that her fruit might be unto
God 1 Rom. viii.
Now this analogy extends just as far
as the nature of things will admit and
no firther. David had nothing iu view
but the gratification of his lusts ; and to
effect this, transgressed the law of God.
But David's Lord, instead of gratifying
sin and the flesh, destroyed them both,
in the very act which aecured to him
his bride 1
Again, Solomon, "the king's son,"
whose peaceful and prosperous reign
was to extend "from sea to sea, and
from the river to the ends of the earth,"
is charged with loving raany strange
women; though he himself declares,
"My love, my undefiled, is but one —
the only one of her mother." In conse
quence of these strange women, Solo-
raon's heart was turned to idolatry, &c.
And the Lord said he would rend the

kingdom frora him and give it to an
other: — yet it should not be iu his days,
nor should the whole of the kingdom be
taken from him, <fec.
Nothing but the identity of Christ and
his church — their onencs as Head and
members of the sarae body — can expi.nin
the typical meaning of this part of Solo
mon's history. The antitypical Solo
mon is virtually charged with all the
sinful and idolatrous practices of his
people, who, following the doctrines and
commandments of men, are scattered
and divided, into scores of " concubines "
and "queens," — all calling themselves
by his name. But this " rending of the
kingdom " did not fall upon Solmom per
sonally, but upon his kingdom after his
death ; yet has it left a reproach and dis
honor upon his name in all ages. And
alas 1 for the reproach which rests upon
Christ and his cause, because of the divi
sions and contentions which have existed
in his visible kingdom,of he.iveu since
his death 1 i
But these cases of David and of Solo
mon are by no raeans parallel with that
of Jacob. In the two former, God him- '
self pronounces the accusation of guilt
and sin ; but in the latter there is no
such charge.

CHAPTER XXVI.

The Letter.-
1. And there was a famine in the
land, besides tho first famme that was
in the days of Abraham. And Isaac
went unto Abimelech king of the Phi
listines unto Gerar.
2. And the Lord appeared unto him,
and said, Go not down into Egypt:
dwell in the land wMch I shafl tell
theo of. Note.
It was on occasion of a famine in the
land, that Abraham went to sojourn in

The Spirit.
Amos vi. 11. Behold, the days come,
saith the Lord God, that I wi^ send a
famine in tho land, not a famine of
bread, nor a thirst for water, but of
hearing the words of the Lord :
12. And they shall wander from sea
to sea, and from the north even to the
east ; they shall run to and fro to seek
the word of the Lord, and shall not
find il.
Luke ii. 68. Blessed be the Lord
God of Israel ; for he hath visited and
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Egypt; and now a famine causes Isaac
to go unto Gerar ; but he is forbidden
to go down into Egypt.
A little attention to relative circnm-
stanoes will explain this. Abram, as
the High Father of the covenant, comes
to the world (Egypt) as a figure of Him
who supplies the wants of every living
tiling, and "sends his rain upon the just
.nnd on the unjust." But when the Son
is sent it is not to the world, but to the
"lost sheep of the house of larael" — to
"the remnant of Judah," which was
lirst to be gathered to the gospel king
dom. Abraham had set up " a witness " at
\\\ewell of the oath,* in this same land;
even the word of the promise, that " the
sceptre should not depart from Judah, nor
a lawgiver from between his feet, until
Shiloh come." And now this promise is
typicilly fulfilled in the person of Isaac.
The Branch from the stem of Jesse, the
"root and offspring of David," is "set
for au ensign of the people." Now will
it be seen if they will receive him as
"a root out of a dry ground."

The Letter.
3. Sojourn in this land, and I wiU be
with thee, and will bless thee : for unto
thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all
these countries, and I will perform tho
oath which I sware unto Abraham thy
father ;

69. And hath raised up a hom of
salvation for us, in the house of Ms
servant David :
70. As he spake by the mouth of his
holy prophets, wMch have been since
the world began.
Acts iu. 25. Ye are the chUdren of
the prophets, and of tho covenant which
God made with our fathers, saying unto
Abraham, And in thy seed shall afl the
kindreds of the earth be blessed.
26. Unto you first, God having raised
up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you,
in turning away every one of you from
his iniquities.
XV. 26. Men and brethren, children
of the stock of Abraham, and whoso
ever among you feareth God, to you is
the word of this salvation sent.
Matt. x. 5. These twelve Jesus
sent forth, and commanded them, say
ing, Qo not into the way of the Gen
tiles, and into a?i!/city of the Samaritans
enter ye not:
6. But go rather to the lost sheep of
the house of Israel.
XV. 24. But ho answered and said,
I am not sent but unto the lost sheep
of the house of Israel.
IsA. xi. 10. And in that day there
shall be a root of Jesse, which shafl stand
for an ensign of the people ; to it shall
tho Gentiles seek : and Ms rest shafl bo
glorious. IsA. xi. 12. And he shafl set up an
ensign for the nations, and shaU assem
ble tho outcasts of Israel, and gather
together the dispersed of Judah from
fhe four corners of the earth.

* See chap. xxii.

The Spirit.
Isa. xUn. 5. Fear not; for I am
with thee ; I -wUl bring thy seed from
the east, and gather thee from the
west; 6. I wifl say to the north, Give up ;
and to tho south, Keep not back :
bring my sons from far, and my daugh
ters from the ends of the earth.

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4. And I wfll make thy seed to mul
tiply .as the stars of heaven, and wfll
give unto thy seed all these countries :
and in thy seed shall afl tho nations of
the earth be blessed :
5. Because that Abraham obeyed
my voice, and kept my charge, iny com
raandments, my statutes, and my la-ws.
Note.
Again is the possession of the land of
Canaan, even all its countries, secured
to Isaac and his seed by the oath and
proraise of God ; literally, a worldly or
teraporal portion, to a stiff-necked and
rebellious people, for their father's sake,
because he had a favor to them ; but
typically pointing to the inheritance of
the saints, even to all the "root and fat
ness of the olive tree," or the " riches of
grace and glory,'' confirmed before of
God iu Christ, by the new and everlast
ing covenant to all his seed and for his
sake. To this inheritance " and to Jesus
the Mediator of that covenant," to the
" general assembly and church of the
First-born which are written in heaven,"
Ac, shall all the heirs of promise be ga
thered ; for "to hira shall the gathering
of the people be" — to Christ the spi
ritual Shiloh — and not to the land of
Canaan, as some imagine. He is the
"ensign" that was to be "set up;" and
it is the purpose of the Father, who chose
them in him before the world was, " to
gatlter together in one, all things in
Christ, both which are in lieaven and
which are in earth ; even in him." —
Because, as Mediator of the covenant
he did "the will of Him that sent him,"
and " became obedient unto death, even
the death of the cross."

xlii. 6. I the Lord have called thee in
righteousness, and wfll hold thine hand,
and will keep thee, and give thee for a
covenant of tho people, for a light of
the Gentiles ; i
7. To open the blind eyes, to bring
out the prisoners from fhe prison, and
them that sit in darkness out of the
prison-houso; ***** 9. Behold, tho former things aro
come to pass, and new things do I de
clare : before they spring forth I tell
you of tiiem.
xliii. 18. Remember ye not the for
mer things, neither consider the things
of old.
19. Behold, I wifl do a new thing;
now it shall spring forth ; shall yo not
know it ? I wfll even make a way in the
wUderness, and. rivers in the desert.
20. The beast of the field .shall ho
nor me, the dragons and the owls :
because I givo waters in the wilderness,
and rivers in the desert, to give drink
to my people, my chosen.
Gal. iii. 16. Now to Abraham and
his seed were the promises made. He
saith not, And seeds, as of many ; but
as of one, And to thy seed, which is
Christ. 17. And this I say. Thai tho cove
nant that was confirmed before of God
in Christ, the law, which was four hun
dred and thirty years after, cannot dis
annul, that it should make the promise
of none effect
18. For ff the inheritance be of the
law, ii is no more of promise : but God
gave ii to Abraham by promise.
***** 29. And if ye be Christ's, then are ye
Abraham's seed, and heirs according to
the promise.

The Letter.
6. And Isaac dwelt m Gerar :
7. And the men of the place asked
him of his wffe ; and he said, She is my

The Spirit.
John i. 14. And the Word was made
flesh, and dwelt among us, (and-B'e be
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sister : for he feared to say, She is my
wffe ; lest, said he, the men of the place
should kill me for Rebekah ; because
she was fair to look upon.
8. And it came to pass when he had.
been there a long time, that Abimelech
king of the Philistines looked out at a
window, and saw, and behold, Isaac
was sporting with Rebekah his wife.
Note.
Gerar signifies pilgrimage ; an appro
priate name for the dwelling place of
the typical Shiloh when he tabernacled
in the flesh. " He came to his own,*
and his own received him not;'' and
" the Son of man had not where to lay
his head :" he was among his kindred of
the flesh, as a pilgrim and a stranger in
the land.
We have before had occasion to ob
serve that the oneness of Christ and the"
church, as Head and members of one
body, appears in all their history and in
every event that concerns thera. Yet
in the type they must be represented
by separate individuals, as in the case of
man and wife, who are said to be "one
fiesh!' though actually two persons.
The mystical union between Christ
and his people, is hidden from the world ;
they comprehend it not neither does he
make known to them the mystery of his
true and secret relationship to his cho
sen bride, but presents her rather as a
sister than a spouse.
Paul says, had the princes of this
world kuown " the wisdom of God in
a mystery,'' even " the hidden wisdom
which God ordained before the world
unto our glory," " they would not have
crucified the Lord of glory ;" — but this
mystery was withheld frora them. And
in like manner, the men of Gerar said,
that ignorance of Isaac's true relation
ship to Rebekah, exposed them to doing
that which was evil.

* Isaac waa bora in Gerar

begotten of the Father,) full of grace
and truth.
11. He came unto his own, and his
own received him not.
10. He was in the worid, and the
world was made by him, and the world
knew him not.
1 CoE. ii. 7. But we speak the wis
dom of God in a mystery, even the hid
den ¦wisdom which God ordained before
the, world unto our glory :
8. Which none of the princes of this
world knew: for had they known it,
they would not have crucified the Lord
of glory.
9. But as it is written. Eye hath not
seen, nor ear heard, neither have en
tered into the heart of man, the things
which God hath prepared for them that
love Mm.
10. But God hath revealed Z^em unto
us by his Spirit ; for the Spirit search-
eth all things, yea, the deep thmgs of
God. 11. For what man knoweth the
things of a man, save the spirit of man
wMch is in him % even so the things of
God knoweth no man, but tho Spirit of
God. 12. Now we have received, not the
spirit of the world, but the Spirit which
is of God; that we might know the
things that are freely given to us of
God. Sol. Song, viU. 1. O that thou wert
as my brother, that sucked the breasts
of my mother ! when! should find thee
without, I would kiss thee ; yet I should
not be despised.
vii. 2. I would lead thee, and bring
thee mto my mother's house, who would
instruct mo : I would cause thee to
drink of spiced wine of the juice of my
pomegranate. vii. 10. How fair is thy love, my
sister, my spouse ! how much better is
thy love than wine ! and the smell of
thine ointments than all spices !
iv. 12. A garden inclosed is my sis
ter, my spouse; a spring shut up, a
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The Letter.
9. And Abimelech caUed Isaac, and
said, Behold, of a surety she is thy
wffe: and how saidst thou. She is my
sister? And Isaac said unto him, Be
cause I said, Lest I die for her.
10. And Abimelech said. What is
this thou hast done unto us ? one of
the people might lightly have lien with
thy wife, and thou shouldest have
brought guiltiness upon us.
11. And Abimelech charged aU his
people saying. He that toucheth tMs
man or his wife shall surely be put to
death. Note.
The Jews, as a nation, were judicially
blind to the spiritual nature of the king
dora of Christ and, of course, to their
own dispensation, which was a shadow
of that kingdora. They rested in the
letter and saw not the thing signified ;
and when charged by God with disobe
dience and rebellion, they retorted
against hira, that his "ways were not
equal ;" that " the fathers had eaten
sour grapes and the children's teeth
were set on edge." And when Christ
sojourned araong thera in the flesh, ex
hibiting before their eyes the proofs of
his Messiahship, which had been before
testified of by the law and the pro
phets, they believed not because the
meek and lowly Larab of God did not
meet their carnal views and expec
tations of a temporal prince. He was
" despised and rejected," and his won
derful works ascribed to the power of
Beelzebub. To this people, therefore, he concealed
the mysteries of the kingdora of heaven
and "spoke to them in parables." The
truth was presented before them as Isaac
presented Rebekah; — the natural and
outward relationship only being recog-
nised,whfle the spiritual was hidden from
their eyes. If at any time their fears were
excited lest possibly Jesua of Nazareth
might be more and other than he seemed
to their benighted eyes, they deraand of
him, "Ifthoube tlie Christ, tell us plain
ly ;" intimating that they would be
guiltless on account of anything they
16

The Spirit.
Isa. vi. 9. And he said. Go, and tell
this people, Hear ye indeed, but under
stand not ; and see ye indeed, but per
ceive not.
10. Make the heart of this people
fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut
thou- eyes ; lest they see with their eyes,
and hear with their ears, and understand
with their heart, and convert and be
healed. Matt. xiu. 10. And the disciples
came, and said unto him. Why speakest
thou unto them in parables ?
1 1 . He answered and said unto them.
Because it is given unto you to know
the mysteries of the kingdom of hea^
ven, but to them it is not given.
13. Therefore speak I to thom m
parables : because they seeing see not ;
and hearing they hear not, neither do
they understand.
14. And in them is fulfiUed the pro
phecy of Esaias, which saith. By hear
ing ye shall hear, and shafl not under
stand; and seeing ye shaU see, and
shall not perceive :
15. Por this people's heart is waxed'
gross, and their ears are dull of hearing,.
and their eyes they have closed ; lestat-
any time they should see with their eyes,.
and hear with their ears, and should un
derstand with their heart, and should
be converted, and I should heal them.
JoHn X. 24. Thon came the Jews
round about him, and said unto him,.
How long dost thou make us to doubt ?
If thou be the Christ, toll us plainly.
25. Jesus answered them, I told you,.
and ye beUeved not : the works that I
do in my Father's name, they bear wit
ness of me.
26. But ye believe not, because ye-
are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.
27. AU things are deUvered unto me
of my Father ; and no man knoweth
the Son, but the Father ; neither know
eth any man the Father, save the Son,
and he to whomsoever the' Son wifl re
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might do to him so long as he withheld
the species of testimony which they re
quired; and when he replied, "ye be
Ueve not because ye are not of my sheep,"
the rulers contented themselves, with
commanding "that if any man confessed
that he was the Christ he should be put out
of the synagogue."

The Letter.
12. Then Isaac sowed in that land,
and received in the same year an hun
dred-fold : and the Lord blessed him :
13. And the man waxed great, and
went forward, and grew untfl he be
came very great :
14. For he had possession of flocks,
and possession of herds, and great store
of servants : and the PhiUstines envied
him. Note.
Jesus preached the goapel of the king
dom in the land of Judah, in the syna-
goguea, and by the wayaide ; and the
comraon people heard him gladly, but
the Pharisees raurraured at hia doctrine.
That the seed thus sown, was abun
dantly fruitful, appears from the fact
of Christ's being seen after his resurrec
tion by five hundred brethren at once, 1
Cor. XV. ; who of course were a part of
the fruit of his three years' personal mi
nistry. But he promised his apostles
that they should do "greater thinga
than these" when the Spirit of truth
should come, to "convince of sin, of
righteousness, and of judgment." Then,
the "raiddle wall of partition being
broken down," the Gentiles should corae
to the light, and converts be multipUed
like drops of the morning dew.
Thus does the Redeemer's kingdora
" wax great and go iiorward," and " be
come great ;" and thus his servants and
the sheep of his fold become as the stars
of heaven for multitude.

Matt. xi. 25. At that tune, Jesus
answered and said, I thank thee, O Fa
ther, Lord of heaven and earth, because
thou hast Md these thmgs from the
wise and prudent, and hast revealed
them unto babes.
26. Even so. Father; for so it
seemed good in thy sight.
John ix. 22. These words spake Ms
parents, because they feared the Jews :
for the Jews had agreed already, that
ff any man did confess that he was
Christ, he should be put out of the sy
nagogue. T?je Spirit.
Matt. xiu. 3. And he spake many
thmgs unto them La parables, saymg.
Behold, a sower went forth to sow ;
4. And when he sowed, some seeds
fell by the wayside, and the fowls
came and devoured them up.
5. Some fell upon stony places, where
they had not much earth: and forth
with they sprung up, because they had
no deepness of earth :
6. And when the sun was up, they
were scorched; and because they had
no root, they withered away.
7. And some fell among thoms; and
the thoms sprung up, and choked
them: 8. But other fell mto good ground,
and brought forth frmt, some an hun
dred-fold, some sixty-fold, some thirty-
fold. 9. Who hath ears to hear, let him
hear. ***** 18. Hear ye therefore the parable of
the sower.
***** 22. He also that received seed
among the thorns is he that heareth
the word ; and the care of this world,
and the deceitfulness of riches choke
the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
23. But he that received seed into
the good ground is he that heareth the
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The Letter.
15. And the Philistines envied him :
for afl the wefls which his father's ser
vants had digged in the days of Abra
ham Ms father, the PMlistmes had
stopped them and fifled them -with
earth. Note.
The Son of God was not only an ob
ject of contempt to the Jewiah rulers, on
account of his meek aud lowly bearing,
but th« majesty of truth and holiness
which raanifested itself in all hia words
and deeds, rendered him also an object
of their hatred and malice. Their pride
and hypocrisy could not endure the
detecting power of his presence, nor the
cutting reproof of his doctrine; and
they took counsel to put hira to death.
Many "wells of salvation" had been
opened araong thera in the daya of
Abrahara, for " Moses in the law and in
the prophets testified of the coming of the
Just One, and the glory that should fol
low ;" but the scribes and Pharisees had
rendered this testiraony " of none effect "
to themselves, by resting in the dead
letter and substituting their own tradi-

beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some
a hundred-fold, some sixty, some thhty.
MarkvL 2. And when the sabbath-
day was come, he began to teach m the
synagogue : and many hearing him
were astonished, saying. From whence
hath this man these thmgs 1 and what
wisdom is tMs wMch is given unto him,
that even such mighty works are
wrought by Ms hands ?
3. Is not this the carpenter, the son
of Mary, the brother of James, and
loses, and_ of Juda, and Simon 1 and
are not Ms sisters here with us ? And
they were offended at Mm.
Luke xxiv. 19. And he said unto
them. What tMngs? And they said
unto Mm, Concemmg Jesus of Naza
reth, which was a prophet mighty in
deed and word before God, and afl the
people.

The Spirit.
Matt, xxrii. 17. Therefore, when
they were gathered together, PUate
said unto them. Whom wUl ye that I
release unto you ? Barabbas, or Jesus,
which is called Christ ?
18. For he knew that for envy they
had deUvered him.
John xv. 22. If I had not come and
spoken unto them, they had not had
sin : but now they have no cloak for
their sin.
23. He that hateth me, hateth my
Father also.
24. If I had not done among them
the works which none other man did,
they had not had sin : but now they
have both seen, and hated both me and
my Father.
25. But this cometh to pass, that the
word might be fulfilled that is -written
in their law. They hated me without
a cause. Matt. xv. 3. But he answered and
said unto them. Why do ye also trans-
iss the commandment of God by
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tions for the commands of God. To
them, these "wells" of promise yielded
no " living waters ;" — they looked and
hoped for nothing but earthly and tem
poral benefit.

The Later.
16, 17. And Abimelech said unto
Isaac, Go from us ; for thou art much
m'^hti'er than we. And Isaac departed
thence, and pitched his tent in the val
ley of Gerar. Note.
It was the mighty works that showed
theraaelvea forth in Jeaus, that raade the
scribes and Pharisees trerable for the
consequences of hia increasing favor
with the people.
It will be recoUected that Abraham
had made a covenant with Abimelech to
do him good and not evil ; and that he
had at the same time planted a tree at
the "well of the oath" as "a witeeas

4. For God commanded, saying,
Honor thy father and mother: and.
He that curseth father or mother, let
him die the death.
5. But ye say. Whosoever shafl say
to his father or his mother, Ji! is a gift,
by whatsoever thou mightest be pro
fited by me ;
6. And honor not Ms father or Ms
mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye
made the commandment of God of
none effect by your tradition.
7. Ye hypocrites, wefl did Esaias
prophesy of you, saying,
8. TMs people draweth nigh unto
me with theu: mouth, and honoreth me
with their lips ; but their heart is far
from me.
9. But in vain they do worship me,
teacMng for doctrines the command.
ments of men.
xxui. 13. But wo unto you, scribes
and Pharisees, hypocrites I for ye shut
up the kmgdom of heaven agsunst
men ; for ye neither go in yourselves,
neither suffer ye them that are entering,
to go in.
***** 33. Ye serpents, ye generation of
vipers, how can ye escape the danma- '
tionofheU?

The Spirit.
Matt. xiv. 1. At that tame Herod .
the Tetrarch heard of the fame of
Jesus, 2. And said unto Ms servants. This
is John the Baptist; he is risen from
the dead; and therefore mighty -works
do show forth themselves m him.
John xi. 46. But some of them
went their ways to the Pharisees, and
told them what thmgs Jesus had done.
47. Then gathered the cMef priests
and the Pharisees a council, and said.
What do wel for tins man doeth
many miracles. '
48. If we let him thus alone, afl men
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that he had dug that well." But though
this covenant had been made at the re
quest of Abimelech,_aud for hia advan
tage, he now aend^ away from this very
land the eon of Abrahara, and thua
proves his disregard to the covenant
which secured his own benefit
So also when God tranaferred to Judah
his covenant with all the people, and gave
them seven hundred years (seven ewe-
lamba) to mark the continuance of this
covenant which was to preserve them
as a nation, he alao gave them a promise,
which should serve as a witness that
he had made this covenant oath, which
should last " tiU Shiloh come." Gen. xlix.
"The coming of Shiloh," then, marked
the duration and the close of their pro
bation. The entire pilgrimage of Jesus was in
the valley of humfliation, but especially
when he retired from the "wise and
prudent " to associate with the "-coraraon
people," or -with the few disciples whora
he had chosen out of the world.

shall come, and take away both our
place and nation.
Matt. xui. 54. And when he was
eome into Ms own country, he taught
them in their synagogue, insomuch
that they were astonished, and said,
Whence hath this man tMs wisdom,
and these mighty works ?
65. Is not tMs the carpenter's son?
is not his mother called Mary? and
his brethren, James, and Joses, and
Simon, and Judas ?
John xi. 53. Then from that day
forth they took counsel for to put him
to death.
54. Jesus therefore walked no more
openly among the Jews; but went
thence unto a country near to the wU
derness, into a city called Ephraim, and
there continued -with Ms disciples.
X. 39. Therefore they sought again
to take him; but he escaped out of
their hand,
40. And went away again beyond
Jordan, into the place where John at
first baptized ; and there he abode.
41. And many resorted unto him,
and said, John did no miracle ; but all
tMngs that John spake of this man
were true.
42. Aud many beUeved on Mm
there.

The Letter.
18. And Isaac digged again the
-wells of water wMch they had digged
m the days of Abraham Ms father ; for
the PMlistines had stopped them after
the death of Abraham: and he called
theu- names after the names by wMch
Ms father had called them.
19. And Isaac's servants digged in
the vafley, and found there a wefl of
springing water.
20. And the herdmen of Gerar did
strive with Isaac's herdmen, saying.
The water is ours : and he called the
name of the wefl Esek ; because they
strove with him.

The Spirit.
Gal. iU. 8. And the scripture, fore
seeing that God would justffy the hea
then through faith, preached before the
gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee
shall all nations be blessed.
Heb. vi. 13. For when God made
promise to Abraham, because he could
swear by no greater, he sware by him
self, I.
14. Saying, Surely blessing I wfll
bless thee, and multiplymg I wifl mul
tiply thee.
15. And so, after he had patiently
endured, he obtamed the promise.
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Note.
Previous to the time of Abraham, the
" wefls of salvation," or promises of good
things to come, had been occaaionally
scattered among the people of the east,
even frora the beginning, when it was
said to the serpent, " It ahafl bruise thy
head, and thou shalt bruise his heel."
But to Abraham was the gospel raore
clearly preached. The oath of God to
him waa, to all that looked for salvation
in Israel, a broad, deep and overflowing
fountain of living waters. The " way
faring man, " while passing through the
dark and barren desert of the ministra
tion of death, lifted up his eyes to the
day of its fulfilment, and rejoiced, though
he "saw it afar off."
But the Jewish rulers, scribes aud
priests, had filled these wells with earth ;
—they had made void the command
ments of God, by their traditions, and
taught for doctrines the comraandraents
of raen. They had taken away the key
of knowledge, which unlocked the hid
den riches of good thinga to come, and
rested in the carnal ordinancee of their
law that profited not In the valley of
humiliation, Jesus opened again all the
wells of the days of Abrahara, by fulfill
ing all that had been written in the law
of Moses and in the prophets concerning
hira. And in so doing, he drew upon
himself all the strife and hatred of that
stiCf-neeked generation, of whora it was
said, "Ye do always resist the Holy
Ghost ; as your fathers did, so do ye."

Tlie Letter.
21. And they digged another wefl,
and strove for that also : and he called
the name of it Sitnah.
22. And he removed from thence,
and digged another wefl ; and for that
they strove not: and he called the
name of it Rehoboth; and he said.
For now the Lord hath made room for

greater : and an oath for confirmation,
is to them an end of all strffe.
17. Wherein God, vnfling more
abundantly to show unto the heu-s of
promise the immutabUity of Ms coun
sel, confirmed ii by an oath :
18. That by two immutable things,
m which it was unpossible for God to
lie, we might have a strong consola
tion, who have fled for refuge to lay
hold upon the hope set before us.
Luke i. 72. To perform the mercy
promised to our fathers, and to remem
ber his holy covenant,
73. The oath wMch he sware to our
father Abraham.
xxiv. 44. And he said unto them.
These are the words which I spake
unto you whfle I was yet -with you,
that afl things must be fulfilled wMch
were vnitten in the law of Moses, and
in the prophets, and in the psalms, con
cemmg me.
46. Then opened he theu- under
standing, that they might understand
the scriptures,
46. And said unto them. Thus it b
written, and thus it behoved Christ to
suffer, and to rise from the de^ the
third day :
47. And that repentance and remis
sion of sms should be preached in his
name among afl nations, beginning at
Jerusalem. 48. And ye are witnesses of these
things. Acts vU. 51. Ye stiff-necked, and
uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do
always resist the Holy Ghost : as your
fathers did, so do ye.

The Spirit.
Ps. xxxvui. 19. But mine enemies
are Uvely, and they are strong: and
they that hate me wrongfully are mul
tiplied. 20. They also that render evfl for
good are mine adversaries ; because I
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ns, and
land. Note.
Sitnah signifies hatred. Strife and
hatred followed every raanifestation of
the Redeeraer and his work to the chil
dren of men ; and especially among his
kindred according to the flesh. This
hatred of the Jews to Christ, is the ain
80 frequently mentioned as "ihe sin unto
death," for which there is no forgiveness.
In the Old Testament it is called mur
der; and "no aatiafaotion should be
taken for the murderer; he must sur«ly
die.'' The New Testaraent corroborates
thia, by identifying hatred with raurder,
and declares that no murderer hath
eternal life abiding in him. And " here
by know we the children of God and
the children of the devil ; for he that is
of God, loveth his brother."
In the 6th verae of 'Gen. ix., it is im
plied that murder ia especially aimed at
the image of God, whether in hia own
well beloved Son, or in those who, by
the new birth, are conforraed to that
image. John, in his epistle, haa the same
idea ; and Jeaus tells the Jews, that what
was spoken against th« Son of man, or
ignorantly, believing Mra to be nothing
more, might be forgiven; but what waa
spoken against the Holy Ghost or
Against God's anointed, as showing forth
the power of the Holy Ghost should
mot be forgiven, either in this life, or
that which is to come.
But there was another "well" ttiat
JTesus opened in this land ; for it had
been written, " the place is too strait for
tne : give place to me that I may dwell ;"
and, the " desti-oyers and those that laid
waste Zion shall go forth of thee ;" — and
-" room " for thee shall be made in the
Sand. Rehoboth, signifies place or room.

The Letter.
23. And he went up from thence to
35eer-sheba. .24. And the Lord appeared unto
Slim the .same night,, and said, I am the

xxxv. 19. Let not them that are
mme enemies -wrongfully rejoice over
me : neither let them wink with tho eye
that hate me without a cause.
20. For they speak not peace : but
they devise deceitful matters against
ihem thai are quiet in the land.
21. Y-ea, they opened their moutii
¦wide agamst me, and said. Aha, aha !
our eye hath seen ii.
Iv. 3. Because of the voice of the
enemy, befSiuse of the oppression of
the wicked : for they cast iniquity upon
me, and in wrath they hate me.
4. My heart is sore pained witMn
me : and the terrors of death are fallen
upon me.
xxv. 19. Consider mime enemies ; for
they are many ; and they hate me with
cruel hatred.
Isa. xlix. 17. Thy chUdren shafl
make haste ; thy destroyers, and they
that made thee waste, shall go forth of
fhee. 18. Lift up thine eyes round about,
and behold : afl these gather themselves
together, and come to thee. As I live,
saith the Lord, thou shalt surely clothe
thee with them all, as with an orna
ment, and bind tbem on ihee, as a bride
doeth. 19. Por thy waste and thy desolate
places, and the land of thy destruc
tion, shafl even now be too narrow by
reason of the inhabitants, and they that
swallowed thee up shall be far away.
20. The children which thou shalt
have, after thou hast lost the other,
shafl say again iu tMne cars. The place
is too striat for me : give place to me
that I may dwell.
21. Then Shalt ttiou say in tMne
heart. Who hath begotten me these !

The Spirit
Matt. xx. 17. And Jesus going up
to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples
apart in tho way, and said unto them,
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.God of Abraham thy father : fear not,
for I am with thee, and -will bless thee,
and multiply thy seed for my servant
Abraham's sake.
25. And he buUded an altar there,
and eaUed upon the name of the Lord,
and pitched his tent there: and there
Isaac's servants digged a weU.
No-TE.
Abraham had set up or planted in
Beer-sheba a tree of witnee^that Ine had
dug that well.
In like manner God had given to Ju
dah a, strong mass of testimony that
Jesus was the Christ. First in the pro
phetic promise, "The sceptre shall not
depart frora Judah," &c., and then, that
David should have a " light in Jerusa
lem," and the throne should be esta
blished in his houae for ever ; that a rod
should arise from, the stem of Jesse, and
a branch should grow out of his roots,
"which should stand for an ensign of
the people, and to Mm should tbe ga
thering of the people be ;" also, David
by the Holy Ghost testified concerning
hira; and, again, the hoaannahs of the
cWldren in Jeruaalera when he entered
as King of Zion ; also, Pilate in the in
scription of the cross ; and, finally, the
Fesurrection frora the dead, in accord
ance with the promise, " Thou wilt not
leave my soul iu hell, neither wilt thou
suffer thine Holy One to see corrup
tion."

and the Son of man shafl be betrayed
unto the chief priests, and unto the-
scribes, and they shafl condemn him to-
death, 19. And shall deliver him to the
Gentfles to mock, and to scourge, and
to crucify him : and the tMrd day he-
shall rise again.
Make xi. 9. And they that went
before, and they that foUowed, cried,
saying, Hosanna: Blessed is he that
cometh m the name of the Lord.
10. Blessed be the kingdom of our
father David, that cometh in the name
of the Lord : Hosanna in the highest.
xii. 35. And Jesus answered and
said, wMle he taught in tbe temple.
How say the scribes that CMist is the
son of David ?
36. For David himseff said by the
Holy Ghost, The Lord said to my
Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, fifl I
make' thine enemies thy footstool.
37. David therefore himself calleth
hun Lord ; and whence is he then hi&
son ? And the common people heard.
Mm gladly.
Acts. xni. 22. And when he had
removed him, he raised up unto them
David to be their king : to whom also
he gave testimony and said, I have
found David tbe son of Jesse, a man
after mine own heart, which shafl fulfil
all my wifl.
23. Of this man's seed hath God,
according to his promise, raised unto
Israel a Saviour, Jesus :
***** 32. And we declare unto you glad
tidings, how that th© promise wMch
was made unto the fathers,
33. God hath fulfilled the same untft
us their children, in that he hath raised
up Jesus again; as it is also written in
the second psalm, Thou art my Son,
this day have I begotten thee.
34. And as concermng that he raised
him up from the dead, now no more to
retum to corruption, he said on this
wise, I wfll ^ve you the sure mercies
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The Letter.
26. Then Abimelech went to Mm
from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of Ms
friends, and Phichol the chief captain of
his army.
27. And Isaac said unto them.
Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye
hate me, and have sent mo away from
you? 28. And they said. We saw certainly
that the Lord was with thee ; and we
said. Lot there be now an oath betwixt
us, even betwixt us and thee, and let
us make a covenant with thee :
29. That thou wilt do us no hurt, as
we have not touched thee, and as we
have done unto thee nothing but good,
and have sent thee away in peace : thou
art now the blessed of the Lord.
Note.
Were it not that Isaac testifies to
theae rulers of the land, that they hated
him, and had sent him from them, we
might imagine that this show of homage
and profession of friendship was real,
and that thess raen were innocent of
any ill will or ill treatment toward him.
How characteristic is this of the hy
pocritical Jews, and of their mockery of
their Lord and King. The woe which
Jesus pronounced, and the/ only woe
during his pilgrimage, was upon the
Scribes and Pharisees, that raade clean
the outside of the platter, but within
were full of extortion and excess, — the
"whited sepulchres" that appeared
beautiful outwardly, but within were
fufl of dead men's bones.

35. Wherefore he saith also in an
other ^saZ?», Thou shalt not suffer thme
Holy One to see corruption.

The Spirit.
Matt. xxvi. 3. Then assembled to
gether the chief priests, and the scribes,
and the elders of the people, unto the
palace of the high priest, who was
called Caiaphas,
4. And consulted that they might
take Jesus by subtUty, and kiU him.
5. But they said. Not on the feast-
day, lest there be an uproar among the
people. xxvi. 55. In that same hour said Jesus
to the multitudes. Are ye come out as
against a tMef -with swords and staves
for to take me? I sat daUy with you
teaching in the temple, and ye laid no
hold on me.
56. But all this -was done, that the
scriptures of the prophets might be ful
filled. xxvu. 28. And they stripped him, and
put on him a scarlet robe.
29. And when they had platted a
crown of thorns, they put it upon Ms
head, and a reed in his right hand : and
they bowed the knee before Mm, and
mocked hun, saying, Hafl, king of the
Jews! ***** 39. And they that passed by, reviled
Mm, wagging theu- heads,
40. And saying. Thou that destroy-
est the temple, and bufldest it in three
days, save thyself. If thou be the Son
of God, come down from the cross.
41. Likewise also the cMef priests
mocking him, vrith the scribes and el
ders, said,
42. He saved others; hunself he
cannot save. If he be the King of the
Jews let him now come down from the
cross, and we wfll beUeve him.
43. He trusted in God ; let him de
liver him now if he wUl have hun : for
he said, I am the Son of God.
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The Letter.
30. And he made them a feast, and
they did eat and drink.
31. And they rose up betimes iu the
morning, and sware one to another:
and Isaac sent them away, and they
departed from hun m peace.
32. And it came to pass the same
day, that Isaac's servants came and
told him concemmg the well which
they had digged, and said unto him,
We have found water.
33. And he called it Shebah : there
fore the name of the city is Beer-sheba
unto this day. Note.
Jesus was " made under the law," and
was careful to fulfil all righteousness —
all that pertained to the institutions of
his own kingdom, and also to that which
was just about to be abolished. The
last Jewish rite observed by him was
the Passover. This feast of the Jews
was the closing act of his connection
with that people ; " the handwriting of
ordinances," or promissory note of Je
hovah, waa then " taken out of the
way, being nafled to the cross," and
his covenant with that people aa a na
tion, waa henceforth dissolved. "Shi
loh" had come to assurae the " sceptre"
of his father David, while the " children
of the kingdom" or " natural branches"
of the olive were cast out The tribe of
Judah were no more a people, but were
to be scattered among every nation un
der heaven, as the ten tribes of Israel
had been. Yet "had not God cast
away his people which he foreknew ;"
and iu this typical history, particularly
the last interview between Isaac and
the rulers of the land, ia this fact brought

scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for
ye are lUie unto wMted sepulchres,
which mdeed appear beautfful outward,
but are within fufl of dead men's bones,
and of afl uncleanness.
28. Even so ye also outwardly ap
pear righteous unto men, but within
ye are fufl of hypocrisy and iniquity.

The Spirit.
RoM. xi. 1. I say then. Hath God
cast away Ms people ? God forbid.
For I also am an IsraeUte, of the seed
of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
2. God hath not cast away his people
which he foreknew. Wot ye not what
the scripture saith of Elias? how he
maketh intercession to God against
Israel, saying,
3. Lord, they have kflled thy pro
phets, and digged down tMne altars;
and I am left alone, and they seek my
life? 4. But what saith the answer of God
unto him? I have reserved to myself
seven thousand men, who have not
bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
5. Even so then at this present time
also there is a remnant accordmg to
the election of grace.
***** 23. And they also, ff they abide not
stiU in unbeUef, shall be graffed m : for
God is able to graff them in agam.
24. For ff thou wert cut out of the
olive tree which is wild by nature, and
wert graffed contrary to nature mto a
good olive tree; how much more shall
these, wMch be the natural branches, be
graffed into their own oUve tree?
25. For I would not, brethren, that
ye should be ignorant of this mystery,
(lest ye should be wise m your own
conceits,) that blmdness in part is hap
pened to Israel, untfl the fulness of the
Gentfles be come in.
26. And 80 afl Israel shall be saved :
aa it is written. There shall come out
of Zion the Deliverer, and shall tum
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to view. The covenant stfll held good
to the " AeaVs" — " the remnant according
to the election of grace." These would
yet be cafled unto their own olive tree,
to stand by faith together with their
Gentile brethren ; thus ahould be fulfilled
the promiae — « * « they shall all

The Letter.
the valley of dry bones.
Ezk. xxxvu. 1. The hand of the
Lord was upon me, and carried me out
in the Spirit of the Lord, and set me
down in the nudst of the vafley which
was full of bones,
2. And caused me to pass by them
round about: and behold, there were
very many m the open valley; and lo,
they were very dry.
3. And he said unto me. Son of man,
can these bones live ? and I answered,
O Lord God, thou knowest.
4. Again he said unto me. Prophesy
upon these bones, and say unto them,
O ye dry bones, hear the word of the
Lord. 5. Thus saith the Lord God unto
these bones ; Behold, I wfll cause breath
to enter into you, and ye shafl Uve :
6. And I wUl lay sinews upon you,
and will bring up flesh upon you, and
cover you with skm, and put breath in
you, and ye shafl live; and ye shall
know that I am the Lord.
7. So I prophesied as I was com
manded^ and as I prophesied, there was
a noise, and behold a shaking, and the
bones came together, bone to his bone.
8. And when I beheld, lo, the sinews
and the fiesh came up upon them, and
the sldn covered them above: but
there was no breath in them.
9. Then said he unto me. Prophesy
unto the wind, prophesy, son of man,
and say to the vrind. Thus saith the
Lord God ; Come from the four wmds,
O breath, and breathe upon these
slain, that they may flve.
10. So I prophesied as he command
ed me, and the breath came into them.

27. For this is my covenant unto
them, when I shall take away their
sins.
have one shepherd, and David, my ser
vant, shall be king over thera." Ezk.
xxxvii.

The Spirit.
"THE ELECTION OF GRACE;" OR, ALL
"ISRAEL" TO BE SAVED.
RoM. xi. 1. I say then. Hath God
cast away his people ? God forbid.
For I also am an Israelite, of the seed
of Abraham, cf the tribe of Benjamin.
2. God hath not cast away his peo
ple which he foreknew. Wot ye not
what the scripture saith of Elias ? how
he maketh intercession to God agamst
Israel, saying,
3. Lord, they have kflled thy pro
phets, and digged down thme altars;
and I am left alone, and they seek my
lffe? 4. But what saith the answer of
God unto him? I have reserved to
myself seven thousand men, who have
not bowed the knee to the image cf

5. Even s^ then at this present time
also there is a remnant accordmg to the
election of grace.
6. And ff by grace, then is it no
more of works : otherwise grace is no
more grace. But if it be of works,
then is it no more grace: otherwise
work is no more work.
7. What then ? Israel hath not ob
tained that which ho seeketh for ; but
the election hath obtained it : and the
rest were blinded,
8. (According as it is written, God
hath given them the spirit of slumber,
eyes that they should not see, and ears
that they should not hear,) unto this
day. 9. And David saith. Let their table
be made a snare, and a trap, and a
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and they Uved, and stood up upon
their feet, an exceedmg great army.
11. Then he said unto me. Son of
man, these bones are the whole house
of Israel: behold, they say. Our bones
are dried, and our hope is lost : we are
cut off for our parts.
12. Therefore prophesyand say unto
them. Thus saith the Lord God ; Be
hold, O my people, I wfll open your
graves, and cause you to come up out
of your graves, and bring you into the
land of Israel.
13. And ye shall know that I am the
Lord, when I have opened your graves,
O my people, and brought you up out
of your graves,
14. And shall put my Spirit in you,
and ye shafl live; audi shafl place you
in your own land : then shall ye know
that I the Lord have spoken it, and per
formed it, saith the Lord.
15. The word of the Lord came
again unto me, sayuig,
JEWS AND GENTILES
Ezk. xxxvu. 16. Moreover, thou
son of man, take thee one stick, and
write upon it. For Judah, and for the
chfldren of Israel his companions :
then take another stick, and write
upon it. For Joseph, the stick of
Ephraun, and /or afl the house of Israel
Ms compamons :
17. And join them one to another
into one stick ; and they shall become
one m thme hand.
18. And when the children of thy
people shall speak unto thee, saying,
Wflt thou not show us what thou
meanest by these ?
i9. Say unto them. Thus saith the
Lord God; Behold, I wfll take the
stick of Joseph, which is in the hand
of Ephraun, and the tribes of Israel his
feflows, and wUl put them with him,
even with the stick of Judah, and make
them one stick, and they shall be one
in my hand.
20. And the sticks whereon thou

10. Let theu- eyes be darkened, that
they may not see, and bow down their
back alway.
11. I say then. Have they stumbled
that they should fafl ? God forbid : but
rather through their fall salvation is
come unto the Gentfles, for to provoke
them to jealousy.
12. Now, ff the fafl of them be the
riches of the world, and the diminish
ing of them the riches of tho Gentiles ;
how much more their fulness ?
13. Fori speak to you Gentiles, m-
asmuch as I am the apostie of the Gen
tfles, I magnffy mme office :
14. If by any means I may pro
voke to emulation them which are
my flesh, and might save some of
them. 15. For ff the casting away of them
be the reconcfling of the world, what
shall the receivmg of ihem be, but lffe
from the dead ?

UNITED IN THE GOSPEL-FOLD.
RoM. xi. 16. For ff the first fruit 5e
holy, the lump is also holy : and ff the
root be holy, so are the branches.
17. And ff some of the branches be
broken off, and thou, being a wild olive
tree, wert graffed m among them, and
with them partakest of the root and
fatness of the oUve tree ;
18. Boast not agamst the branches.
But if thou boast, thou bearest not the
root, but the root thee.
19. Thou wflt say then. The branch
es were broken off, that I might be
graffed in.
20. Wefl ; because of unbelief they
were broken off, and thou standest by
faith. Be not high-minded, but fear :
21. For if God spared not the natu
ral branches, take heed lest he also spare
not thee.
22. Behold, therefore, the goodness
and severity of God : on them which
fell, severity; but toward thee, good
ness, ff thou contmue in his goodness:
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¦writest shall be in thy hand before
their eyes.
21. And say unto them. Thus saith
the Lord God ; Behold, I wfll take the
chfldren of Israel from among the hea
then, wMther they be gone, and vrifl
gather them on every side, and bring
them into their own land :
22. Audi wfll make them one na
tion m the land upon the mountains
of Israel ; and one king shafl be king
to them afl : and they shall be no inore
two nations, neither shall they be di
vided into two kingdoms any more at
afl. 23. Neither shafl they defile them
selves any more -with their idols, nor
with their detestable thmgs, nor with
any of their transgressions : but I wifl
save them out of all their dwelling-
places, wherein they have sinned, and
will cleanse them : so shafl they be my
people, and I wfll be their God.
24. And David my servant shall be
king over them; and they all shaU
have one shepherd: they shall also
walk iu my judgments, and observe
my statutes, and do them.
25. And they shaU dwell in the land
that I have ^ven unto Jacob my ser
vant, wherein your fathers have dwelt,
and they shall dwell therein, even they,
and their children, and theu cMldren's
children for ever : and my servant Da
vid shall be their prince for ever.
26. Moreover, I wifl make a cove
nant of peace with them; it shafl be an
everlasting covenant with them : and
I wifl place them, and multiply them,
and wfll set my sanctuary in the midst
of them for evermore.
27. My tabemacie also shafl be with
tiiem : yea, I wifl be their God, and
they shafl be my people.
28. And the heathen shafl know that
I the Lord do sanctify Israel, when my
sanctuary shafl be in the midst of them
for evermore.
Gen. xlix. 10. The sceptre shaU not
depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from
betWeen Ms feet, untfl Shfloh come:

23. And they also, if they abide not
stifl in unbelief, shall be graffed in : for
God is able to graff them in again.
24. For if thou wert cut out of the
olive tree which is wfld by nature, and
wert graffed contrary to nature into a
good olive tree : how much more shall
these, which be the natural branches,
be graffed into their own olive tree ?
25. For I would not, brethren, that
ye should be ignorant of this mystery,
lest ye should be wise in your own
conceits : that blindness m part is hap
pened to Israel, until the fulness of the
GentUes be come in.
26. And so all Israel shall be saved:
as it is written. There shafl come out of
Zion the Deliverer, and shafl turn away
ungodliness from Jacob :
27. For this is my covenant unto
them, when I shafl take away their
sins. 28. As concemmg the gospel, they
are enemies for your sakes: but as
touching the election, they are beloved
for the fathers' sakes.
29. For the gifts and caUmg of God
are without repentance.
30. For as ye in times past have not
believed God, yet have now obtamed
mercy through their unbelief;
31. Even so have these also now not
believed, that tMough your mercy they
also may obtam mercy.
32. For God hath concluded them all
in unbeUef, that he might have mercy
upon all.
33. O the depth of the riches both
of the wisdom and knowledge of God! ,
how unsearchable are his judgments,
and Ms ways past finding out :
34. For who hath known the mmd
of the Lord? or who hath been his
counsellor? 35. Or who hath first given to him,
and it shafl be recompensed unto him ,,
agam? 36. For of him, and tM-ough, him,,
and to him are all thmgs: to whom be
glory for ever. Amen.

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and unto him shall the gathering of the
people be.
Jee. xxx. 21. And then: nobles
shaU be of themselves, and their go
vernor shall proceed from the midst
of them. Note.

Before leaving the subject of the cast
ing off of Judah at the coraing of Shfloh,
it is necessary that we take a full and
connected view of the whole, particu
larly as including the last raentioned
idea, — or the covenant-promise which
yet remained to the "reranant accord
ing to the election of grace."
In order to obtain a correct under
standing of the raatter, we must ex
amine and corapare the Scriptures
which have obvious reference to it.
Particularly the 37th chapter of Ezekiel
should be corapared with the 11th chap
ter of Roraans, as neither can be rightly
understood without the other. We
have therefore given these chapters a
parallel position, that their rautual
bearing may be the better seen.
By the "whole house of Israel" in
Ezekiel's viaion, ia doubtless raeant the
whole elect of God, — the heirs of pro
mise through faith; for "they are not
all Israel that are of Israel," but " the
chfldren of proraise are counted for the
seed." The condition of this people, as dry
bones in the valley, represents the chosen
people of God, the whole faraily of the
redeemed, — aa the gospel, or ministra
tion of the Spirit finds them; — both
Jew and Gentile, " all under sin." " For
the scripture, foreseeing that God would
justify the heathen through faith, preach
ed before the gospel unto Abraham,
saying. In thee shafl all nations be
bleaaed." " So then they which be of
faith are blessed with faithful Abra
ham." Gal. ui8, 9. But " the promise that
he should be the heir of the world, was not
to Abraham or to his seed through fhe
law, but through ihe righteousness of
faith. And it is of faith, that it might
be of grace, to the end that the promise
might be to all the seed, — not ta that only
which is of the law, (or the Jews,) but to
that which is of the faith of Abraham,

Eph. i. 9. Having made known unto
us the mystery of Ms vrill, according to
his good pleasure, wMch he hath pur
posed in himself:
10. That m the dispensation of the
fulness of times, he might gather to
gether in one all thmgs in Christ, both
which are m heaven, and wMch are on
earth, even in him.
John x. 16. And other sheep I
have, which are not of tMs fold : them
also I must brmg, and they shafl hear
my voice ; and there shafl be one fold,
and one shepherd.
Acts fl. 36. Therefore let afl the
house of Israel know assuredly, that
God hath made that same Jesus, whom
ye have crucified, both Lord and CMist
37. Now when they heard this, they
were pricked in their heart, and said
unto Peter, and to the rest of the apos
tles. Men and bretiiren, what shall we
do? 38. Then Peter said unto them. Re
pent, and be baptized every one of you
in the name of Jesus Christ for the re
mission of sins, and ye shafl receive
the gfft of the Holy Ghost.
39. For the promise is unto you,
and to your chfldren, and to all that
are afar off, even as many as the Lord
our God shall call.
40. And with many other words
did he testffy and exhort, saying. Save
yourselves from this untoward genera
tion. 41. Then they that gladly received
his word were baptised : and the same
day there were added unto them about
three thousand souls.

who is the father of us all." Rom. iv.
13-18. From this paaaage it plainly
appears that it waa the whole house
hold of faith, whether Jews or Gentiles,
that were intended by the whole house
of Israel iu the vision ; and not the old-
covenant people of God, or national
Israel. The preaching of the prophet to theae
dry bones, represents the gospel proela-

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mation to sinners dead in trespasses aud
sins. " For it hath pleased God by the
fooliahneea of preaching to save thera
that believe."
In the 16th verse of the chapter, the
Lord, under the figure of two sticks,
shows his purpoae of uniting iu one, the
two houses of larael. The firat of theae
sticks was "Judah, with Israel his cora
panions ;" by which was doubtlese meant
the Jews, who were the natural progeni-
tora of Ohriat The other atick was Jo
seph or Ephraim, which has allusion to
the apiritual blessings of the new cove
nant, by which the Gentiles were ad
mitted to the privileges of the gospel.
These two sticks were united in one, to
show that the grace which raised the
dry bones to life, would bring them to
gether into one body, out of every kin
dred, nation and people.
Then follows the promise of new-
covenant mercies, which should rest
upon them, when planted upon "the
mountains of Israel," — or gathered as
the sheep of Christ to the gospel fold,
according to his own promise in the
10th chapter of John : "Other sheep I
have, which are not of this fold ; them
also muat I bring, that there may be
one fold and one shepherd."
In the 24th verse of the S7th chapter
of Ezekiel, this sarae thing is also pro
miaed Lr — " One king shall be king to them
all ;" — " my servant David shall be king
over tliem." These words evidently con
template the same event with those iu
the lOtSi of John; and also the sarae
that ia brought to view in the 11th
chapter of Roraans, 25th to 29th verses,
in which the apostle. shows that the na
tural branches will be grafted into their
own olive tree : — not, indeed, by right
of birth, as they stood by the first cove
nant; but by promise, made sure to all
who are the true seed of Abraham, by
faith in Christ: — "For if ye are Christ's,
then are ye AbraharrCs seed and heirs
according io the promise." " And thus all
Israel ahall be aaved."
Concerning thia "whole house of Is
rael," planted in their own land, gather
ed aa two flocka to the one gospel fold, —
or as difi^erent branches, to one olive
tree, God says, " I -will make a cove

nant of peace with them ; it shall be an
everlasting covenant with them," (fee. *
* * " And ray servant David shall be
their prince for ever." In these words,
and ranch raore that is connected with
them, we see the same covenant which,
in Gal. iii., is said to be " confirmed of
God in Christ," — afterwards made over
by oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob ;
and also, by the same oath, to David
and his seed for ever. And lastly, it is
more fully revealed in the Slat chapter
of Jeremiah, aa erabracing the whole
house of Israel; — the sarae people to
whom it is now, in the 37th chapter of
Ezekiel, again confirmed.
From this concurrent testimony re
specting the people signified by the
" whole house of Israel," we may deduce
the following aelf-evident inferences:
First, that their heirship is in Christ;
that they are Abraham's seed by faith,
and not by birth ; that the inheritance
is theirs by promise, and not by the law ;
that the proraise was made to Abraham
in uncircumcision, aud not in circum
cision, " that it might be sure to all the
seed," them that are Gentiles in the
flesh, as wefl as them that are Jews ; —
" not them only which are of the law, but
to them which are of the faith of Abra
ham, who is the father of ua all," (be
lievers.) This being the people who are heirs
of the covenant, the next question re
spects the inheritance. Is it a spiritual,
or temporal possession to which they
are heirs, and to which they are jointly
to be gathered ? First thia inheritance
is in Christ : " If ye are Christ's, then
are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs accord
ing to the promise." Of course those
that are not iu Christ, have no part nor
lot ia the matter. Next it is theirs by
promise ; which ia not true of the land
of Canaan, the promiae of thia land be
ing given excluaively to the Jews, while
the everlasting covenant waa made with
the "whole house of Israel," Gentiles as
well as Jews. It was also to be received
and enjoyed hy faith ; but faith has re
spect only to thinga unseen and eternal ;
" for hope that ia seen, is not hope ; for
what a man sees, why does he yet hope
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actual and teraporal posseaaion. It waa
" au inheritance incorruptible, undefiled,
and that fadeth not away," reaerved in
heaven for thoae who have "here no
continuing city," nor "abiding-place."
The prophet Ezekiel proraises to the
house of Israel an everlasting covenant :
" I will place thera, and multiply them,
and will set my sanctuary in the
midst of them for evermore," saith the
Lord. Again — it is said, " My servant David
shall reign over them for ever.'' But
the kingdom of Christ ia not of this
world .- — " the kingdom of heaven is
within you,'' and " coraeth not with ob
servation." Lastly, the kingdora or in
heritance of which thia people axe joint
heirs, is called their own land. " I will
bring thera," says God, " into the land
which I have given unto their father
Jacob, wherein your fathers have dwelt"
But Canaan was never the land of the
GentUes — neither did their fathers dwell
there ; yet the promiae is sure to all the
seed; and can be so only as having re
ference to a spiritual possession.
If these statements and inferences are
correct, then, when Shiloh came to the
throne of his kingdom, it was to reign
over the whole household of faith, who,
by regeneration, were raised from a
death in sin, to newness of life iu Christ
and to all the blessings of the new and

The Letter.
34. And Esau was forty years old
when he took to wffe Judith, the
daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and
Bashemath the daughter of Elon the
Hittite: 35. WMch were a grief of mmd
unto Isaac and to Rebekah.
Note.
The kingdom of heaven being now
established upon the throne of David
according to promise, the ark of God,
the testimony of Israel, is removed frora
the " worldly tabernacle " to the spiritual
temple of lively stones. The "sacrifice
and the oblation cease ", for ever ; while

everlasting covenant ; whfle all that per
tained to the old covenant, and to the
people of the Jews with whom that co
venant stood, was abolished and taken
out of the way.
In the 32d and 33d verses of the 26th
chapter of Genesis — the one we are now
considering — the servants of Isaac came
and told him they had found water in
the wefl Beer-sheba. This well has been
mentioned several times. It was iu the
" wilderness of Beer-sheba " that Hagar
wandered with Ishraael when cast out
by Abraham, — because the "well of the
oaty was a wilderness to the cMldrea
of the bondwoman. It waa at Beer-
sheba that Abraham made a covenant
with Abimelech, and gave him the
" seven ewe lambs," and planted the tree
ofidtness. And it was at Beer-sheba that
Abraham lived and died : all of which
alludes to the blessings of the everlasting
covenant given by oath to Abraham, and
through him to the men of Judah, to be
unto all the "heirs of promiae," through
faith. And now, when Shfloh has come
and the gathering of the people is to
him, the servants that are sent to preach
the goapel of the kingdom, find water in
this well — even the waters of life ; for to
the " lost sheep of the house of Israel "
was this salvation sent ; and to thera it
became the wisdom of God and the
power of God, even to all that beUeve. ,

The Spirit.
Dam. ix. 27. And he shall confirm
the covenant with "many for one week:
and in the midst of the week he shafl
cause the sacrflice and the oblation to
cease, and for the overspreading of
abominations, he shall make it desolate,
even untfl the consummation, and that
determined shafl be poured upon the
desolate. Hos. ifl. 4. For the chUdren of
Israel shall abide many days without
a kmg, and without a prince, and with
out a sacrifice, and without an image,
and without an ephod, and without tera-
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" the abomination that maketh desolate
stands in the holy place," or, where the
altar of God once stood. From this
time the people of the old covenant, re
presented by the rulers of Gerar, are
left "without a king, and without a prince,
and without a sacrifice, and without an
image, and without an ephod, and with
out teraphim." The ritfial service of
the first testament, signified by Esau,
being extinct of course, all that divided
between nominal larael and the heathen,
as well as between Jews and GentUes,
is broken down ; and the Edomites and
Hittites become one people.
TMs unholy "confederacy," though
condemned and forbidden by God, had
virtually taken place, while this rebel
lious nation were yet called his people ;
which of course was " a grief of mind "
to all true worshippers.

Israel return, and seek the Lord their
God, and David their kmg ; and shafl
fear the Lord and Ms goodness in the
latter days.
IsA. viu. 6. Forasmuch as this peo
ple refusetti the waters of ShUoah that
go softly, and rejoice in Rezm and Re-
maUah's son ;
7. Now therefore, behold, the Lord
bringeth up upon them the waters of
the river, strong and many, even the
king of Assyria, and afl his glory : and
he shall come up over all his channels,
and go over all his banks :
8. And he shaU pass through Ju
dah; he shaU overflow and go over,
he shafl reach even to the neck; and
the stretchmg out of his wmgs shafl
fifl the breadth of thy land, O Imma
nuel. ***** 12. Say ye not, A confederacy, to
all them to whom this people shafl say,
A confederacy; neither fear ye their
fear, nor be afraid.
13. Sanctffy the Lord of hosts Mm
self ; and let him be your fear, and let
him be your dread.
14. And he shafl be for a sanctuary ;
but for a stone of stumbUng and for a
rock of offence to both the houses of
Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the
inhabitants of Jemsalem.
15. And many among them shall
stumble, and fafl, and be broken, and
be snared, and be taken.

CHAPTER XXVn.

The Letter.
\. And |it came to pass, that when
Isaac was old, and Ms eyes were dim,
so that he could not see, he called Esau
his eldest son, and said unto him, My
son: and he said unto him. Behold,
here am I.
2. And he said. Behold now, I am
old, I know not the day of my deaths
17

The Spirit.
Heb. viu. 13. In that he saith, A
new covenant, he hath made the fhst
old. Now that which decayeth and
waxeth old is ready to vanish
away. xi. 1. Now faith is the substance of
thmgs hoped for, the evidence of tMngs
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3. Now therefore take, I pray thee,
thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow,
and go out to the field, and take me
some venison ;
4. And make me savory meat, such
as I love, and bring it to me, that I
may eat; that my soul may bless thee
before I die. Note.
If, during the "one week" mentioned
by Daniel, in which "Messiah the
Prince " should " confirm the covenant
with many," " the sacrifice and oblation
should cease," — then, of course, the
priesthood, which daily offered these
sacrifices, must also cease.
The change of priesthood from the
tribe of Levi and the house of Aaron, to
the order of Melchisedec and the tribe
of Judah, is another event intimately
connected with the change of the first to
the second testament, and the aasurap-
tioh of the sceptre and throne by the
" son of David."
TMs change was first typically in-
tiraated, when Levi, "who received
tithes, paid tithes in Abraham ; aud he,
whose descent is not counted from Levi,
, received tithes of Abraham and blessed
him that had the promises : and with
out all contradiction, the less is blessed
of the greater." Heb. viii.
The same event was next raade known
to Rebecca, when God aaid to her of her
twin sons, " the one shaU be stronger
than the other ; and ihe elder shall serve
the younger." And now that "Isaac's
eyes are dim that he could not see" —
that he might, like his great anti
type, "not judge after the sight of his
eyes, nor reprove after the hearing of
his cars," he confirraa thia prediction ;
yet in a way which acts aside the clairas
of blood and birth, and is contrary even
to Ms own intentions as a raan.
In like manner, Eli the priest of
Israel, was told by the Lord, that the
priesthood ahould be taken frora hie
house, and "I will raise me up a
faithful priest," <fec. ; and when Eli's
eyes were dim that he could not see, he
also confirmed the decree of God against
his own sons. " It is the Lord ; let him
do as seemeth him good."

2 CoR. iv. 18. Whfle we look not
at fhe things which are seen, but at
the things wMch are not seen : for the
fhmgs. which are seen are temporal; but
the things which are not seen are eter
nal. RoM. ix. 11. (Foi- the children being
not yet born, neither having done any
good or evU, that the purpose of God,
according to election might stand, not
of works, but of hiih that calleth,)
12. It was said unto her. The elder
shafl serve the younger.
Isa. i. 11. To what purpose is the
multitude of your sacrifices unto me ?
saith the Lord : I am full of the burnt-
offerings of rams, and the fat of fed
beasts; and I deUght not in the blood
of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-

12. When ye come to appear before
me, who hath requh-ed this at your
hand, to tread my courts ?
13. Bring no more vain oblations:
incense is an abomination unto me ;
the new-moons and sabbaths, the call
ing of assemblies, I cannot away with ;
ii is iniqmty, even the solemn meet
ing. 14. Your new-moons and your ap
pointed feasts my soul hateth: they
are a trouble unto me ; I am weary to
bear them.
15. And when ye spread forth your
hands, I -B'ifl hide mme eyes from you ;
yea, when ye make many prayers, I
wUl not hear : your hands are fufl of
blood. 16. Wash you, make you clean : put
away the evfl of your doings from be
fore mine eyes ; cease to do evfl ;
17. Leam to do well ; seek judg
ment, relieve the oppressed, judge the
fatherless, plead for the vridow.
18. Come now, and let us reason
together, saith the Lord : though your
sms be as scarlet, they shall be as white
as snow ; though they be red Uke crim
son, they shaU be as wool.
19. If ye be wiflingand obedient, ye
shall eat the good of the land :

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In the 3d chapter of Malachi, God,
after reproving the sous of Levi for
their iniquity, calls upon thera once
more, even at the " eleventh hour,"
when the Messenger of the new and
better covenant is just at the door, —
"Bring ye all the tithes into the store
house, ihat there may be meat in mine
house, andproveme now herewith, if I will
not open you the windows of heaven, and
pour you out a blessing that there be not
room enough to contain it."
In tMs last call of God upon the sons
of Levi, at the moraent when he is about
to oast them off for ever, is presented
the exact counterpart of the call of Isaac
upon Esau, just as he is about to die, to
bring iu the " savory raeat " which he
loved, that his soul raight bless hira.
But, though one more opportunity
was thus given to that disobedient and
gainsaying people — one raore test of the
efficacy of the blood of bulls and goats,
of "burnt-offerings and offerings for
sin,'' which their covenant demanded,
but which they still rendered not, — then
said Jeaus, "Loi I come to do thy will,
0 God; he taketh away the first, that
he may establish the second." '

20. But if ye refuse and rebel, ye
shafl be devoured with the sword: for
the mouth of tho Lord hath spoken it.
1 Sam. U. 30. Wherefore the Lord
God of Israel saith, I said indeed thai
thy house, and the house of thy father,
should walk before me for ever : but
now the Lord spith. Be it far from me ;
for them that honor me I wfll honor,
and they that despise me shafl be light
ly esteemed.
***** 35. And I will raise me up a faithful
priest, thai shall do according to ihat
which is in my heart and m my mind :
and I wfll bufld Mm a sure house ; and
he shaU walk before mine anointed for
ever. iu. 2. And it came to pass at that
time, when EU was lain down m his
place, and his eyes began to wax dim,
ihat he could not see ;
***** 17. And he said. What is the thing
that ihe Lord hath said unto thee ? I
pray thee Mde it not from me : God do
so to theo, and more also, if thou Mde
any thing from me, of all the things
that he said unto thee.
18. And Samuel told him every whit,
and Md notMng from hun. And he
said. It is the Lord : let him do what
seemeth him good.
iv. 15. Now EU was ninety and
eight years old; and his eyes were
dim, that he could not see, &c., to the
23d. Mal. ui. 7. Even from the days of
your fathers ye are gone away from
mme ordinances, and have not kept
them. Return unto me, and I wfll re
tum unto you, saith the Lord of hosts.
But ye said. Wherein shall we retum ?
8. WiU a man rob God ? Yet ye
have robbed me. But ye say, Wherem
have we robbed thee ? In tithes and
offerings. 9. Ye' are cursed with a curse : for -
ye have robbed me, even this whole
nation. 10. Bring ye aU the tithes into the

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The Letter.
5. And Rebekah heard when Isaac
spake unto Esau his son : and Esau
went to the field to hunt for venison,
and to bring it.
6. And Rebekah spake unto Jacob
her son, saymg. Behold, I heard thy
father speak unto Esau thy brother,
saying, 7. Bring me venison, and make me
savory meat, that I may eat, and bless
thee before the Lord, before my death.
8. Now therefore, my son, obey my
voice, accordmg to that wMch I com
mand thee.
9. Go now to the flock, and fetch me
from thence two good kids of tho goats;
and I wifl make them savory meat for
thy father, such as he loveth :
10. And thou shalt bring ii to thy
father, that he may eat, and that he
may bless thee before his death.
Note.
The "oracles of God" — all that testi
fied of the coraing of the Juat One and
the work he would aocoraplieh, — were
committed to the church ; she, by faith,
"looked to the end of that which was
to be aboUshed," and under all the
" ordinances of divine service " saw the
"better things" which they revealed
and shadowed forth. As a type of the
church, therefore, Rebekah heard aud
understood the deraand of laaac for the
"savory meat" to which the blessing
had been proraised ; and she knew how
to instruct Jacob, who had been chosen
and appointed by God to the place and
the inheritance of Eaau, into all which
that place or office required, aud aU
which that inheritance signified; she
knew that the true sacrifice, " of sweet-

storehouse, that there may be meat in
mine house; and prove me now here
with, saith the Lord of hosts, ff I wifl
not open you the vrindows of heaven,
and pour you out a blessmg, that there
shall not he room enough to receive it.

The Spirit.
1 Pet. i. 10. Of which salvation the
prophets have inquired and searched
dfligently, who prophesied of the grace
thai should come unto you :
1 1. Searching what, or what manner
of time the Spirit of Christ wMch was
m them did sigmfy, when it testified be
forehand the sufferings of Christ, and
the glory that should foUow.
12. Unto whom it was revealed, that
not unto themselves, but unto us they
did minister the tilings which are now
reported unto you by them that have
preached the gospel unto you, with the
Holy Ghost sent down from heaven ;
which tilings the angels desire to look
into. Luke xxiv. 25. Then he said unto
them, O fools, and slow of heart to
beUeve all that the prophets have spo-
ken! 26. Ought not Christ to have suf
fered these thmgs, and to enter into
his glory ?
27. And benning at Moses and all
the prophets, he expounded unto them
m afl the scriptures the things concem
ing himself.
***** 44. And he said unto them. These
are the words wMch I spake unto
you, wMle I was yet vidth you, that all
things must be fulfilled which were
written in the law of Moses, and in the
prophets, and in the Psalms, concerning
me. 45. Then opened he their under
standing, that they might understand
the scriptures,
46. And said unto them. Thus fl is
written, and thus it behoved Christ to

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smelling savor," was not to be found in
the "field," but was to be taken out of
the fold; it raust be one of the "flock"
and must be "prepared" according to
all that was "written in the volume of
ihe book''

suffer, and to rise from the dead the
third day.
Lev. xvi. 6. And he shafl take of
the congregation of the cMldren of
Israel two kids of the goats for a sin-
offering, and one ram for a bumt-offer
ing. 6. And Aaron shall offer his buUock
of the sin-offering which is for himself,
and make an atonement for himself,
and for his house.
7. And he shafl take tho two goats,
and present them before the Lord at
the door of the tabernacle of the con
gregation. 8. And Aaron shafl cast lots upon
the two goats ; one lot for the Lord,
and the other lot for the scape-goat.
9. And Aaron shaU bring the goat
upon which the Lord's lot fell, and offer
him /or a sin-offering.
10. But the goat on which the lot
fell to be the scape-goat, shall be pre
sented alive before the Lord, to make
an atonement with him, and to let hira
go for a .scape-goat into the wfldemess.

The Letter.
11. And Jacob said to Rebekah his
mother, Behold, Esau my brother is
a hairy man, and I am a smooth man :
12. My father peradventure wifl feel
me, and I shall seem to him as a de
ceiver ; and I shall bring a curse upon
me, and not a blessing. NorE.
It is here evident that Jacob reasons
upon the fact that Isaac would not judge
of his claira to the birthright " after the
sight of his eyes, or the hearing of his
ears ;" but wholly by the identity of his
fleshly body with that of Esau ; and
ahould he, in this, be found unlike his
brother, it would at onee prove hira an
impostor, and not the person for whom
the blessing waa designed.
The method adopted by Rebekah, to
give to Jacob the likeness of Esau, in
volves two important ideas, one of
which is explained by the fact that

TTie Spirit.
Heb. X. 1. For the law having a
shadow of good things to come, and
not the very image of the things, can
never with those sacrifices, which they
offered year by year continually, make
the comers thereunto perfect :
2. For then would they not have
ceased to be offered ? because that the
worshippers once purged should have
no more conscience of sins.
3. But in those sacrifices there is a
remembrance again made of sins every
year. 4. For ii is not possible that the
blood of bulls and of goats should take
away sins.
5. Wherefore, when he cometh into
the world, he saith. Sacrifice and offer
ing thou wouldest not, but a body hast
thou prepared me :
6. In bumt-offerings and sacrifices
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"the law had a shadow of good things
to come, and not the very image of the
things." The great doctrine of atone
ment was shadowed forth by the law as
described in Lev. xvi. 5-11 ; in which
the " two kids of the goats," though not
the " very image" of the Lamb of God,
which should take away the aina of the
world, were made typically to represent
him. And here the aarae idea ia brought
to view, that the blessing would rest
only upon hira, who should corae iu " a
body prepared for Lim," — the veil of fiesh
wMch had been typified and predicted
in " the volume of the book," and in whom
should be " fulfilled all that had been
written of hira in the law of Moses and
in the Psalms."
Hence it is evident that though the
Father had aaid of the Son, " I have
raade him ray First Born, higher than
•the kinga of the earth;" "Thou art
fairer than the chfldren of raen, and
therefore God hath blessed thee for ever ;"
and again, "The Lord hath aworn and
will not repent ; thou art a priest for
ever after the order of Melchisedec;"

Ta« Letter.
13. And his mother said unto him
Upon me ie thy curse, my son ; only
obey my voice, and go fetch me them.
14. And he went, and fetched, and
brought ihem to his mother : and his
mother made savory meat, such as his
father loved.
15. And Rebekah took goodly rai
ment 'of her eldest son Esau, which
were ¦with her in the house, and put
them upon Jacob her younger son :
16. And she put the skins of the
kids of the goats upon his hands, and
upon the smooth ofhis neck :
17. And she gave the savory meat
and the bread, which she had prepared,
into the hand of her son Jacob.
Note.
Rebekah, as representing the church,
in whose handa were the "oraclea of
God," had no fear that aught would
fail, which had been written concerning

7. Then said I, Lo, I come (m the
volume of the book it is written of me)
to do thy wifl, O God.
8. Above, when he said. Sacrifice,
and offering, and bumt-offerings, and
offering for sin, thou wouldest not,
neither hadst pleasure therein ; (wMch
are offered by the law ;)
9. Then said he, Lo, I come to do
thy wifl, O God. He taketh away the
first, that he may estabUsh the second.
10. By the which wiU we are sanc
tified, through the offering of the body
of Jesus Christ once /or all.

jet notwithstanding all this testimony
of his claim to the inheritance, had he,
after afl, appeared otherwise than was
" written of him," and especially in any
but a body " made like unto his brethren,"
the "aacrifiee of aweet savor" could
not have been offered, and the curse,
which he had pledged himaelf to take
away from his people, would have re
raained upon him, instead of the blessing
of victory and triumph.

The Spirit.
Matt. v. 18. For verily I say unto
you, Tifl heaven and earth pass, one jot
or one tiltle shall in no vrise pass from
the law, tifl all be fulfilled.
Luke xxiv. 44. * '* all thmgs muat
be fulfiUed which were written in the
law of Moses, and in the prophets, and
in the psalms, conceming me.
Luke xxi. 22. * * that all thmgs
which are written may be fulfflled.
Heb. ii. 14. Forasmuch then as the
children are partakers of flesh and
blood, he also himself Ukewise took
part of the same ; that through death
he might destroy him that had the
power of death, that is, the devil ;
15. And deliver them, who, through
fear of death, wore all their Iffe-time
subject to bondage.
16. For verily he took not on him
ihe nature of angels ; but he took on
hi7n the seed of Abraham.

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this great transaction. She felt confi
dent that the " sure mercies of David "
must needs come to his people in the
appointed way. That help had been
laid upon "one that is mighty," who
would "not fail nor be discouraged,"
until he had " set judgment iu the earth,"
and taken away the reproach (curse) of
hia people, as the mouth of the Lord had
spoken. The human nature of Jesus was re
ceived by hira from the church. He
took upon him the "seed of Abraham^
It was from the church that he derived
the body of flesh wMch veiled his divi
nity, and made hira " like unto his bre
thren." She was both the cau.se and the
instrument of the Son of God's being
made " a little lower than the angels, for
the suffering of death." It was this, to
which all the rites and cereraonies of
the law pointed, and was the " better
thing" of which they were the shadow,
even as the skins upon Jacob, prepared
him for a substitute or representative of
Esau, by which he might accomplish
that which Esau could not do.

The Letter.
18. And he came unto his father,
and said. My father : and he said. Here
am I ; who art thou, my son ?
19. And Jacob said unto his father,
I am Esau thy first-bom ; I have done
according as thou badest me : arise, I
pray thee, sit and eat of my venison,
that thy soul may bless me,
Note.
"We have now seen, both from the na
ture of things and from scripture testi
mony, that the idtimate design of types
and shadows was to testify of Christ ; to
announce hira in hia offioee and work
as the Redeemer of Zion. The living
Word waa hidden behind the dead letr
ter; — the body prepared for hira by the
Father, in which dwelt all the fulneea of
the Godhead, and which waa " set up
frora everlasting," cast all the shadows
and modelled all the types of divine re-

17. Wherefore in all tMngs it be
hoved him to be made like unto ?iis
brethren ; that he might be a mercfful
and faithful High Priest in things per
taining to God, to make reconcUiation
for the sins of the people.
Phil. u. 6. Who, bemg in the form
of God, thought it not robbery to be
equal with God :
7. But made hunself of no reputation,
and took upon him the form of a ser
vant, and was made- in the likeness of
men: 8. And being found in fashion as a
man, he humbled hunself, and became
obedient unto death, even the death of
tho cross.
Eph. v. 2. * * as Christ also hath
loved us, and hath given Mmself for us
an offering and a sacrifice to God for a
sweet-smelling savor.
Heb. ix. 14. How much more shall
the blood of Christ, who through the
eternal Spirit offered himself without
spot to God, purge your conscience
from dead works to serve the Uving
God?

TTie Spirit.
Jer. xxx. 21. * "^ And I wiU cause
him to draw near, and he shall approach
unto me : for who is this that engaged
his heart to approach unto me? saith
the Lord.
Heb. ix. 24. For Christ is not en
tered into the holy places made with
hands, which are the figures of the true ;
but into heaven itself, now to appear
in the presence of God for us.
Ps. xxiv. 7. Lift up your heads, O
ye gates ; and be ye lift up, ye everlast
ing dooi-s ; and the King of glory shall
come in.
8. Who is, this King of glor/? The
Lord strong and mighty, the Lord
mighty in battle.
9. Lift up your heads, O ye gates ;
oven lift ihem up, ye everlasting doors ;
and the King of glory shaU come in.
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vclation. Of course what is spoken of
the type, had ultimate reference to the
thing signified; and when he atanda
forth to view, in afl the authority of in
faUible proof, it is to assume hia proper
character, and assert his rightful claim
to all that had been promised and pre
dicted of hira under these siraiUtudes.
It is in such a sense as this that Jacob
here affirms himself to he Esau, the first
born, and that he had done that which
Isaac required Of the thing signified,
therefore,' all this was true ; but of the
letter, it was not true.
Before Jacob waa born, he was in
vested by God himself with the rights
and privileges of the first-born, and eon-
stituted all that he now claims to be.
He had subsequently purchased the
birthright of Esau, who voluntarily se
cured it to him by oath. In addition to
this, he had brought in the "savory
meat " to which the blessing had been
promised; and, lastly, having done so,
he claims the name Esav., which signi
fies " he that fiiriishes" which rightly be
longed to the son who did his father's

The Letter.
20. And Isaac said unto Ms son.
How is it thou hast found it so quickly,
my son ? and he said. Because the Lord
thy God brought it to me.
Note.
It was the character of God's ancient
people — ^his typical firstborn — always
to proraise, but never to perform his will.
Their language was, " All that the Lord
hath said we will do ;° but they did it
not They said to his coraraand, " I go,
sir," but they went not And when his
long-suffering had waited to see if they
would obey his will or no, and he at
length calls upon theae his professed
servants to reckon with thera, " becauae
they ahould be no longer stewards," he
says, "Ye are cursed with a curse, for
ye have robbed rae, even this whole na
tion." Mal. iii.
But when, at the end of " that which
was abolished," Jesus, the chosen and

Lord of hosts, he is the King of glory.
Selah. Rev. v. 6. And I beheld, and lo, in
the midst of the throne, and of the four
beasts, and in the midst of the elders
stood a Lamb as it had been slain,
having seven homs, and seven eyes,
which are the seven Spirits of God sent
forth into all the earth.

¦wfll, and not to hira who said, " I go^
sir," but went not.
Again, it must be remembered that
Isaac is acting a typical part in this
matter as well as Jacob. Hia demand
of Esau was like that of God upon the
priests of larael, for the tithes due to
him by their law. Mal. fli. Yet he
well knew that what the law required
would be rendered only by another
priest and a better covenant.
When the High Priest of the true ta
bernacle ascended to heaven, it was as
a "Lamb that had been slain;" yet, as
the " King of glory," he demands the
blessing of the Father; who replies.
Who is this King of glory ?

The Spirit.
IsA. xiu. 1. Behold my servant,
whom I uphold ; mine elect, in whom
my soul deUghteth; I have put my
Spirit upon him: he shall bring forth
judgment to the Gentiles.
***** 4. He shall not fafl nor be discoii-
raged, tifl he have set judgment m the
earth : and the isles shall wait for Ms
law. xUx. 1. The Lord hath called me
from tbe womb; from the bowels of
my mother hath he made mention of
my name.
2. And he hath made my mouth like
a sharp sword ; in the shadow of Ms
hand hath he hid me, and made me a
poUshed shaft; in his quiver hath he
hid me ;
3. And said unto me. Thou art my
servant, O Israel, in whom I vrill be
glorified.

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elect servant, iu whom he delighted, and
whom he had raade his Firat-Born, and a
High Prieat for ever, coraes to do his
will, he says, "How ami straitened till
it is accomplished I" He rested not frora
his work until he had finished trans
gression, raade an end of sins, raade re
conciUation for iniquity, and brought in
everlasting righteousness, — the "savory
meat " which the law demanded. Sure
ly then he proved himself to be the
Esau — " THE FINISHER," to whom the law
looked for satisfaction, and to whom the
blessing of right belonged.
In his mediatorial work, as the ser
vant of the covenant, the Son of God
had the promise of the Father, that he
would strengthen and uphold him with
the right hand ofhis righteousness. And
the unbelieving Jews, while they re
jected him as the Messiah, were at a loss
how to account for the mighty works
which showed theraaelvea forth in him.
In addition to all this, if there yet re-
maina anything inconsistent or unex-

The Letter.
21. And Isaac said unto Jaocb, Come
near, I pray theo, that I may fool thee,
my son, whether thou be my very son
Esau or not.
22. And Jacob went near unto Isaac
his father ; and he felt him, and said.
The voice is Jacob's voice, but the
hands are the hands of Esau.
23. And he discemed him not, be
cause his hands were hairy, as his bro
ther Esau's hands : so he blessed him.
Note.
Again we perceive the fact that it was
the tangible body of Jacob, made like
unto Esau's body, which determined the
question whether he was the first-born
and heir to the inheritance. And no
thing short of the same test, would have
identified Jesus, the Son of raan, to be
the Christ the Son of God, who was to
corae into the world. Had he not in all
points, anawered to the types and sha
dowy representations of the law, which
were the " figures of the true ;" — ^had not

xii. 10. Fear thou not; for I am
with thee : be not dismayed ; for I am
thy God : I wiU strengthen thee ; yea,
I wiU help thee ; yea, I will uphold thee
with the right hand of my righteous
ness. John iu. 2. * * for no man can do
these miracles that thou doest, except
God be with. him.

plained in regard to the type, it should
be remembered, that in the antitype
also, in regard to the Son of God, raani
fest iu flesh, there is a raystery so utter
ly inexplicable to raere huraan corapre-
hension, that nothing could give full
satisfaction respecting it but an irame-
diate revelation from heaven, such aa
was made to Peter, when Jesus put the
question, " Whom say ye that I am ?
And Siraon Peter answered and said.
Thou art the Christ the Son of the
living God."

The Spirit.
Heb. ix. 6. Now when these things
wore thus ordained, the priests went
always into the first tabernacle, accom
plishing the service of Goi :
7. But into the second went the high
priest alone once every yeai-, not
without blood, which he offered for
himself, and for the errors of the peo
ple: 8. The Holy Ghost this signifying,
that the way into the holiest of afl was
not yet made manifest, whfle as the first
tabernacle was yet standing :
9. WMoh was a figure for the time
then present, in wMch were offered
both gifts and sacrifices, that could not
make him that did the service perfect,
as pertaining to the conscience ;
10. Which stood only in meats and
drinks, and divers wasMngs and carnal
ordinances, imposed on ihem untfl the
tune of reformation.
11. But Christ being come a high
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all that had been promised to the fathers,
and written in the prophets concerning
him, been fully accomplished, both in hia
person and work, there would have been
no proof of hia being the Messiah.
It was for this reason, that Jesus con
tinually directs the attention of his dis
ciples to the Scriptures, aa testifying of
him. And when he had risen frora the
dead, and finished the work given hira
to do, he reproves them for being so slow
of heart to believe all that the Scriptures
testified, and for not seeing how all had
been fulfilled in himseff. The apostle
Paul also labors to instruct the Hebrews
into.the true meaning and design of their
own ceremonial institutions, and ex
presses much surprise, both to them and
to the Galatians, that they did not see
and understand the great thinga of the
kingdora of Christ, not only in the ritual
aervice, but in the typical history of the
Old Testament
In the passage before us, it seems that
the fact of its being Jacob's voice united
with Esau's body, did not prevent his
being acknowledged as the heir. So

greater and more perfect tabernacle,
not made with hands, that is to say,
not of thisbufldmg;
12. Neither by the blood of goats
and calves, but by his own blood, he
entered in once into the holy place,
having obtained etemal redemption
for us.
* * *. * *
23. It was therefore necessary that
the patterns of tMngs m the heavens
should be purified with these ; but the
heavenly tMngs themselves vrith better
sacrifices than these.
24. For Christ is not entered mto
the holy places made with hands, which
are the figures of the true ; but mto
heaven itself, now to appear m the
presence of God for us.

The Letter.
24. And he said. Art thou my very
son Esau ? And he said, I am.
25. And he said. Bring ii near to
me, and I wifl eat of my son's venison,
that my soul may bless thee. And he
brought it near to him, and he did eat :
and he brought him wine, and he
drank. Note.
When, at the baptism of Jesua, the
voice from heaven testified of hira, who
was apparently no other than a raere
raan, — " This is my beloved Son, in whom
I am well pleased," — did it not require
all the corroborating proofs which were
given of him, to confirm this testiraony?
So also the Messiahship of Jesus of Naza
reth must be attested by raany infallible
proofs. The body prepared for hira,
was the therae of promise and prophecy
from the garden of Eden, to the manger
in Bethlehem, and the cross in Jerusa
lem. Its appearance in the world, was

the divine nature of Jesus appeared in
all the gracious words which he spake ;
but this was an additional testimony to
his being the Christ

The Spirit.
John viu. 14. * * Jesus answered
and said unto them. Though I bear
record of myself, yet my record is
true, &c.
Matt. xvi. 15. He saith unto them.
But whom say ye that I am ?
16. And Simon Peter answered and
said. Thou art the Christ, the Son of
the living God.
17. And Jesus answered and said
unto him. Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-
jona : for fiesh and blood hath not re
vealed it unto thee, but my Father
which is in heaven.
RoM. i. 2. (Which he had promised
afore by Ms prophets in the holy scrip
tures.) *
3. •Concemmg his Son Jesus CMist
our Lord, which was made of the seed
of David accordmg to the fiesh ;
4. And declared io be the Son of
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according to "the fulness of time,'' as
predicted from the beginning. While
seen of raen, it was the subject of wonder
and speculation ; and, at a point of time,
so precise as to be measured by days and
even hours, this body was offered up a
sacrifice. But though the fire of the Al
mighty drank up and consumed the holy
soul which dwelt in it, the flesh and
blood became meat and drink, the "bread
and wine " of the kingdora, which should
give life unto the world.
All these things, every "jot and tittle"
of them, were settled and appointed by
the determinate counsel and foreknow
ledge of God, written "in the volume of
the book," and exactly fulfilled, even to
the letter, iu the life and death of the Son
of God.
To the superficial reader, it raay seem
inconaiatent to represent God, iu this
figure, as eating and drinking the sacri
fice of the Son. But this figure is oho"
sen by God, and must be consistent
with itself. In Mal. iii., God calls upon
larael to bring to his house the savory
meat required by the law ; — meat sea
soned with the " salt of the covenant,"
the grace of faith. Such meat they
never did and never would bring, and
he repeatedly tells thera he would accept
no other. In the 50th Psalm he says,
" Win I eat the flesh of buUs, or drink
the blood of goats?" Having himself
adopted this figure, how could he more
suitably and consistently express his ac
ceptance of the true sacrifice which he
hiraself had provided and sanctified,
than in the satisfaction signified in the
words of this 25th verse ?
This figure also haa respect to the
words of Christ at the laat supper,
" But I say unto you, I will not drink,

The Letter.
26. And his father Isaac said unto
him. Come near now, and kiss me, my
son. 27. And he came near, and kissed
him : and ho smelled the smell of his
raiment, and blessed Mm, and said,
See, tho smefl of my son is as the

of holmess, by the resurrection from tho
dead. Acts xiu. 32. And we declare unto
you glad tidings, how that the promise
which was made unto the fathers,
33. God hath fulfilled tho same unto
us theu- children, in that he hath raised
up Jesus again ; as is also written in
the second psalm. Thou art my Son,
this day have I begotten theo.
34. And as concerning that he raised
him up from the dead, now no more to
return to corruption, he said on this
wise, I wUl givo you the sure mercies
of David.
Matt. iii. 16. And Jesus, when he
was baptized, wont np straightway out
of the water: and lo, the heavens were
opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit
of God descending like a dove, and
lighting upon him :
17. And lo, a voice from heaven,
saying. This is my beloved Son, in
whom I am well pleased.
Heb. viU. 20. And inasmuch as not
without an oath he was made priest,
&c.
Ps. 1. 12. If I were hungry, I would
not tell thee : for the worid is mine,
and the fulness thereof.
13. Will I eat the fiesh of buUs, or
drink the blood of goats?
henceforth, of this fruit of the vine, un
til that day when I shall drink it anew
with you in my Father's kingdom."
Compare the circumstances of the figure
with those of this passage, and we shall
see an evident coincidence between
them.

The Spirit.
Ps. Ixxxv. 10. Mercy and truth are
mot together ; righteousness and peace
have kissed each other.
11. Truth shaU spring out of the
earth; and righteousness shall look
down from heaven.
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smefl of a field which the Lord hath
blessed. Note.
By reason of Adam's transgression,
the ground was cursed for his sake, —
even the whole raaaa of the dust of the
earth, out of which he had been taken^
and of which all his posterity were to
be formed after hia image and likeness.
This curse, the "seed of the woman"
pledged himself iu the covenant of grace
to bear in behalf of hia people, that they
might be raade the righteousness of God
in him. This pledge, with its fulfilraeut,
was continually exhibited by types and
shadows until it was fully redeeraed by
Christ upon the croas. Especially was
it seen in the sacrifice of Noah after the
flood, and the blessing which followed.
The death, burial, and resurrection of
the Son of God, by which the curse
should be reraoved, had been repre
sented by the flood, aud then followed
the blessing as recorded in Gen. viii. 21,
22. In the words of Isaac to Jacob, in
the 27th verse of this chapter, we find
the sarae idea presented. The accept
able sacrifice of a perfect righteousness,
had been typically brought in, by which
the curse was taken away from the
church, rayatically represented by the
body of flesh, or garraents of Esau, which
were worn by Jacob ; whereby this as
sumed raiment was rendered like the
"smell of afield" which the Lord had
blessed. And thus was fulfilled the
words of Paul, in Heb. x., where he
speaks of "a new and living way, con
secrated for us through the vail, that is
to say, his flesh ;" by which we may
draw nigh with boldness to a throne of
grace, in full assurance of faith.

pleased for Ms righteousness' sake ; he
wifl magmfy the law, and make it
honorable. RoM. iu. 21. But now the right
eousness of God without the law is
manffested, bemg v\dtnessed by the law
and the prophets.
Heb. X. 17. And theu- sins and in
iquities wfll I remember no more.
18. Now where remission of these
is, there is no more offering for sm.
19. Havmg therefore, brethren, bold
ness to enter into the holiest by the
blood of Jesus,
20. By a new and living way, wMch
he hath consecrated for us, through the
vafl, that is to say, Ms flesh ; &c.
Ps. xlv. 8. All thy garments smell
of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of
the ivory palaces, whereby they have
made thee glad.
Sol. Song, i. 3. Because of the savor
of thy good ointments thy name is as
ointment poured forth, therefore do the
virgins love thee.
iv. 11. * * and the smell of thy gar
ments is like the smefl of Lebanon.
***** 13. Thy plants are an orchard of
pomegranates, with pleasant fruits ;
camphire, with spikenard,
14. Spikenard and saffron; calamus
and cinnamon, with all trees of frank
incense ; <myrrh and aloes, -with afl the
chief spices :
15. A fountain of gardens, a wefl
of living waters, and streams from
Lebanon. Gen. viu. 21. And the Lord smeUed
a sweet savor; and the Lord said in
his heart, I will not curse the ground
any more for man's sake ; for the ima
gination of man's heart is evfl from his
youth: neither wfll I again smite any
more every tMng livmg, as I have done.
22. Whfle the earth remaineth, seed
time and harvest, and cold and heat,
and summer and wmter, and day and
night, shall not cease.

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The Letter.
28. Therefore God give thee of the
dew of heaven, and the fatness of the
earth, and plenty of com and wine :
29. Let people serve thee, and na
tions bow down to thee ; be lord over
thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons
bow down to thee : cursed be eveiy one
that curseth thee, and blessed be he
that blesseth thee.

Note.
This bleaaing, and the proraises in
volved in it have respect to the pros
perity of the kingdom of Christ, under
the gospel or ministration of the Spirit ;
and accords with the promise of the
Father to the Son, upon his becoming
obedient unto the death of the cross.
The Spirit of truth, the Holy Comforter,
ahould be aent down to " convince the
world of sin, of righteousness, and of
judgment" Its influence, like that of
the- rain and the dew upon the earth,
should cause the good seed of the king
dom to spring up and flourish like wil
lows by the water-courses. The hard
and impenitent heart, dead in tres
passes and sins, should be quickened to
life and fruitfulness. Its barren soil,
watered by the river of God, should be
prepared for the " incorruptible seed ;"
ita ridges ahould be made soft with
showers; its furrows settled, and the
springing of it, bleaaed.
Against this divine influence, the
" children of the wicked one " should
rage and strive and blaspheme, as the
seal and witness of their own damna
tion. For " on whomsoever this (foun
dation) stone shall fall, it ahall grind
him to powder."

The Spirit.
Isa. xxvi. 19. Thy dead men shall
live, together with my dead body shall
they arise. Awake and sing, ye that
dwefl in dust : for thy dew is as the
dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast
out the dead.
5. I wfll bo as the dow unto Israel :
he shall grow as the Uiy, and cast forth
his roots as Lebanon.
6. His branches shall spread, and his
beauty shall be as the olive tree, and
his smell as Lebanon.
Zech. ix. 17. For how great is his
goodness, and how great is his beauty !
corn shaU make the young men cheer
ful, and new wine the maids.
Ps. Ixxii. 6. He shall come down
Uke rain upon the mown ^ass: as
showers thai water the earth.

8. He shall have dominion also from
sea to sea, and from tho river unto the
ends of the earth.
9. They that dweU in the wUderness
shaU bow before him ; and his enemies
shall lick the dust
Ps. Ixv. 9. Thou visitest the earth,
and waterest it : thou greatly enrichest
it with the river of God, which is fuU of
water: thou preparest them corn, when
thou hast so provided for it.
10. Thou waterest the ridges thereof
abundantly : thou settiest the furrows
thereof: thou makest it soft with
showers: thou blessest the springing
thereof. 11. Thou erownest the year with thy
goodness ; and thy paths drop fatness.
12. They drop upon the pastures of
the -wilderness : and the Uttie hiUs re
joice on every side.
13. The pastures are clothed with
flocks; the valleys also are covered
over with corn; they shout for joy,
they also smg.
Matt. xii. 31. Wherefore I say unto
you, Afl manner of sin and blasphemy
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The Letter.
30. And it came to pass, as soon as
Isaac had made an end of blessing Ja
cob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out
from the presence of Isaac his father,
that Esau his brother came in from his
hunting. 31. And he also had made savory
meat, and brought it unto his father ;
and said unto his father. Let my father
arise, and eat of his son's venison, that
thy soul may bless me.
NOITE.
We have before seen in the typical
history of Abraham and the promiae
made to his " seed," that the new cove
nant, which was " confirmed of God in
Christ," was clearly revealed " by pro-
raise" 430 years before the giving of the
law. In Isaac, the proraised seed,
(" which is Christ") was vested the heir
ship and blessing, which he now con
firms to Jacob, and which Jesus iu the
goapel calla " the promise of the Father,"
or "the Spirit of truth," which waa
to be given lo the church, to abide with
thera for ever. But 430 years after thia
covenant was given to Abrahara, aud
confirraed by oath to all that were his
chUdren by faith in Christ, the nation
of Israel, iu which were included both
the heirs of promise and the seed ac
cording to the flesh, were placed under
a legal and conditional covenant, at Si
nai ; by the terras of which, if they were
obedient and continued in all things
written in the book of the law to do
thera, they should receive the bleaaings
of that covenant ; but if they were dis
obedient, all the curses pertaining to it
ahould rest upon them. This covenant

phemy against the Holy Ghost shafl
not be forgiven unto men.
32. And whosoever speaketh a word
against the Son of man, it shafl be for
given him : but whosoever speaketh
against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be
forgiven him, neither m this world,
neither in the wcrrld to come.

The Spirit.
Mal. i. 2. I have loved you, saith
the Lord: yet ye say. Wherein hast
thou loved us ? Was not Esau Jacob's
brother? saith the Lord: yet I loved
Jacob, 3. And I hated Esau, and laid his
mountains and his heritage waste for
the dragons of the wilderness.
4. Whereas Edom saith, We are im
poverished, but we wfll retum and
build the desolate places; thus saith
the Lord of hosts. They shall bufld,
but I wfll throw down ; and they shall
cafl them. The border of -wickedness,
and. The people against whom the
Lord hath indignation for ever.
***** 7. Ye offer polluted bread upon mine
altar; and ye say. Wherein have we
polluted thee ? In that ye say. The ta
ble of the Lord is contemptible.
8. And ff ye offer the blind for sa
crifice, is ii not evfl ? and ff ye offer tiie
lame and sick, is it not evfl ? offer it
now unto thy governor : wfll he be
pleased with thee, or accept thy person ?
saith the Lord of hosts.
9. And now, I pray you, beseech
God that he vrifl be gracious unto us :
this hath been by your means : wifl he
regard your persons ? saith the Lord of
hosts. * * * * *
14. But cursed 5e the deceiver, wMch
hath m Ms flock a male, and voweth,
and sacrificeth unto the Lord a con-upt
thing : for lama, great King, saith tho
Lord of hosts, and my name is dread
ful among the heathen.

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"they brake ;'' " and God said. Behold
I will make a new covenant with the
house of Israel," ite. But it wfll readily
be seen, that it waa called new, only be
cause in the order of tirae it was esta
blished or made manifest after the Si
nai covenant had become extinct
. It will also be seen that it was after
the inheritance had been secured by
oath and promise to the true heirs, that
the children of the firat covenant blind
ly aupposed theraselves entitled to it,
and continued to urge their claira.

The Letter.
32. And Isaac his father said unto
him. Who art thou ? And he said, I
am thy son, thy first-bom, Esau.
33. And Isaac trembled very exceed
ingly, and said. Who ? where is he that
hath taken vemson, and brought ii me,
and I have eaten of all before thou ca
mest, and have blessed him ? yea, and
he shafl be blessed. Note.
In urging his claim to the blessing,
after having voluntarily relinquished
the birthright to which it pertained, in
exchange for a raess of pottage, Eaau well
representa that self-righteous and self-
deceived people, who reated in the law,
and satisfied themselves with the empty
forra of legal rites, instead of seeking
the " better thing " they foreshadowed.
Even under the brow of the fiery
mount, at whose terrible majesty the
earth ahook aud trembled, and Mosea
said, "I exceedingly fear and quake,"
they hesitated not to aay, " All that the
Lord hath said we vrill do." And on

RoM.*ix. 30. What shall we say
then? That the Gentiles, which fol
lowed not after righteousness, have at
tained to righteousness, even the right
eousness which is of faith ;
31. But Israel, which followed after
the law of righteousness, hath not at
tained to the law of righteousness.
32. Wherefore ? Because ihey sought
ii not by faith, but as it were by the
works of the law : for they stumbled
at that stumblmg-stone.
X. 2. For I bear them record, that
they have a zeal of God, but not ac
cording to knowledge.
3. For they, being ignorant of God's
righteousness, and going about to es
tablish their own righteousness, have
not submitted themselves unto fhe
righteousness of God.
4. For Christ is the end of the law
for righteousness to every one that be
lieveth.

Tlie Spirit.
Mal. i. 6. A son honoreth ?iis fa
ther, and a servant his master : if then
I Je a father, where is mine honor ? and
if I Je a master, where is my fear ?
saith the Lord of hosts unto you, O
priests, that despise my name. And ye
say. Wherein have we despised thy
name? Heb. xii 18. For ye are not come
unto the mount that might be touched,
and that burned with fire, nor unto
blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
19. And the sound of a trumpet, and
the voice of words; which voice they
that heard entreated that the word
should not be spoken to them any
more :
20. (For they could not endure that
wMch was commanded, And if so much
as a beast touch -the mountain, it .shall
be stoned, or thrust through with a
dart: 21. And so terrible was the sight,
thai Moses said, I exceedingly fear and
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the blind preaumption that tiRy had
done as he required, they claimed the
bleaaing. In the trembling of Isaac, upon Eaau's
presenting his ill-founded and arrogant
plea, we see, not only, the shaking of the
earth, aa at Sinai, but the shaking of
heaven also ; when, in view of the satis
faction demanded by the law, and which
he had engaged to render, the divine
Redeemer says, "Fearfulness and trem
bling are come upon me, and horror
hath overwhelmed rae." Ps. Iv. 5. But
"the things that can be shaken" have
been removed as of things that are made,
that those " things which cannot be
shaken may remain," — even the Mount
Zion, the city of the living God, * *
* ¦* and Jesua the Mediator of the new
covenant, <fec. In the worda of Isaac,
" yea, and he shall be blessed," we see the
firmness and iramutability of the divine
counaela ; and that the gifts and calling
of God are without repentance.

77ie Letter.
34. And when Esau heard the words
of his father, he cried with a great and
exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his
father. Bless me, even me also, O my
father !
35. And he said. Thy brother came
with subtflty, and hath taken away thy
blessing. 36. And he said. Is he not rightiy
named Jacob ? for he hath supplanted
me these two times : he took away my
birthright; and behold, now he hath
taken away my blessing. And he said.
Hast thou not reserved a blessing for
me?

***** 26. Whose voice then shook the
earth ; but now he hath promised, say
ing. Yet once more I shake not the
earth only, but also heaven.
27. And this word. Yet once more,
signifieth the removing of those things
that are shaken, aa of things that are
made, that those things which cannot
be shaken may remain.
Gal. iu. 17. And this I say, thai the
covenant, that was confirmed before of
God m Christ, the law, which was four
hundred and thirty years after, cannot
disannul, that it should make the pro
mise of none effect.
18. For if the inheritance be of the
law, it is no more of promise: but
God gave it to Abraham by promise.
Rev. v. 12. Saying with a loud
voice. Worthy is the Lamb that was
slain to receive power, and riches, and
wisdom, and strength, and honor, and
glory, and blessing.
13. And every creature wMch is in
heaven, and on the earth, and under the
earth, and such as are in the sea, and
afl that are in them, heard I saymg.
Blessing, and honor, and glory, and
power, be unto him that sitteth upon
the throne, and unto the Lamb, for ever
and ever.

The Spirit.
Heb. xii. 16. Lest there be any for
nicator, or profane person, as Esau,
who for one morsel of meat sold his
birthright. 17. For ye know how that after
ward, when he would have inherited
the blessmg, he was rejected : for he
found no place of repentance, tiiough
he sought it carefully with tears.
RoM. vui. 3. For what the law
could not do, in that it was weak
through the flesh, God sending his own
Son m the Iflieness of sinful flesh, and
for sm condemned sin in the flesh;
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Note.
The word here translated " subtilty,"
is the same that iu Proverbs viii. 5, is
rendered prudence or understanding. It
is applied to Christ as the " Wonderful
Counsellor," who alone was sufficient to
devise and execute the work of redemp
tion ; and as being anointed for that
work by the Spirit, as is described in
Isa. xi.
The Son of God was truly a " sup-
planter," if by this is raeant an almighty
and all-sufficient substitute "in things
pertaining unto God,", for guilty,' help
less sinners. If he took the birthright
from the law, it was to do that which
"the law could not do because it was
weak through the flesh.'' If he took
the blessing from the blood of bulla and
goats, it was because he was slain, and
has redeemed us to God by his blood, out
of every kindred, and tongue, and people,
and is worthy to receive "blessing, and
honor, and glory, and power" for ever;
while the sacrifices offered by the law
could not take away sin, or raake the
coraera thereunto perfect

forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse,
and a Branch shafl grow out of Ms
roots :
2. And the Spirit of the Lord shall
rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and
understanding, tho spirit of counsel
and might, the spirit of knowledge and
of the fear of the Lord ;
3. And shall make him of quick un
derstanding in the fear of the Lord:
and he shall not judge after the sight
of his eyes, neither reprove after the
hearing of his ears.
RoM. xi. 33. O the depth of the
riches both of the wisdom and know
ledge of God! how unsearchable are
his judgments, and his ways past find
ing out!
34. For who hath known the mind
of the Lord? or who hath been his
counsellor ?
36. Or who hath first given to him,
and it shafl be recompensed unto him
again? 37. For of him, and through him,
and to him, are all things : to whom be
glory for ever. Amen.
6. And if by grace, then is ii no
more of works ; otherwise grace is no
more grace. But ff il be of works, then
is it no more grace ; otherwise work is
no more work.
7. What then? Israel hath not ob
tained that which he seeketh for ; but
the election hath obtained it, and the
rest were blinded.
Heb. vu. 18. For there is verily a
disannulling of the commandment going
before, for the weakness and unprofit
ableness thereof.
19. For the law made nothing per
fect, but the bringing in of a better
hope did ; by the which we draw nigh
unto God.
viii. 7. For if that first covenant had
been faultiess, then should no place
have been sought for the second.

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The Letter.
37. And Isaac answered and said
unto Esau, Behold, I have made him
thy lord, and all Ms brethren have I
given to him for servants ; and with
corn and wine have I sustained him ;
and what shall I do now unto thee, my
son? 38. And Esau said unto his father^
Hast thou but one blessing, my father?
bless me, even me also, O my father !
And Esau lifted up his voice, and
wept. 39. And Isaac his father answered,
and said unto Mm, Behold, thy dwelling
shafl be the fatness of the earth, and of
the dew of heaven from above ;
40. And by thy sword shalt thou
live, and shalt serve thy brother : and
it shall come to pass when thou shalt
have the dominion, that thou shalt
break his yoke from off thy neck.
Note.
It was a matter of little consequence
to Esau whether his portion was like
that of Jacob; any other would do as
well. The expression, "thy dwelling
shall be the fatness of the earth,"
(fee, intimates, not only raere teraporal
good, but that Esau, though not a par
taker oi the blessings of Jacob, yet
should dwell in the raidst of thera and be
surrounded by them. This has ever
been very specially the case with the
old covenant people of God.
Under the law they were encom
passed with witnesses of spiritual things,
and under the gospel they were favored
by the personal ministry of Christ ; and
since that tirae they have had their
dwelling in the midst of the light and
privileges of the Christian faith. The
possession given to Esau, was Mount Seir,
which signifies " a demon ;'' and per
haps his rejection and hatred against
the true light may have sealed him as
a reprobate — a " son of perdition." To
thia fact there seems to be an allusion
Ln the last words of this passage, which
appear to intimate the change which
tftkea place in the typical character of

The Spirit.
Ni?M. xxiv. 17. I shaU soe him, but
not now ; I shall behold him, but not
mgh ; there shall come a Star out of
Jacob, and a Sceptre shafl rise out of
Israel, and shall smite the corners of
Moab, and destroy afl the children of
Sheth. 18. And Edom shafl be a possession,
Seir also shall bo a possession for Ms
enemies; and Israel shafl do valiantly.
19. Out of Jacob shall come he that
shall have dommion, and shaU destroy
him that remaineth of the city.
Gen. x.xxvi. 6. And Esau took his
wives, and Ms sons, and his daughters,
and afl the persons of Ms house, and
his cattie, and all Ms beasts, and all Ms
substance which he had got in the land
of Canaan ; and went into the country
from the face of his brother Jacob.
7. For their riches were more than
that they might dwell together: and
the land wherem they were strangers,
could not bear them, because of theu-
cattlo. 8. Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir :
Esau is Edom.
Judges v. 4. Lord, when thou
wentest out of Seir, when thou
marchedst out of the field of Edom,
the earth trembled, and the heavens
dropped, the clouds also dropped
water. 5. The mpuntains melted from be
fore the Lord, even that Smai from be
fore the Lord God of Israel.
IsA. Ixiu. 1. Who is this that com
eth from Edom, with dyed garments
from Bozrah? this ihat is glorious in
his apparel, travelling in the greatness
of his strength ? I that speak in right
eousness, mighty to save.
2. Wherefore art thou red in thine
apparel, and thy garments like him that
treadeth in tiie wine-fat ?
3. I have trodden the wine-press
alone; and of the people ifiere jcas none
with me : for I will tread them in mine
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Eaau after the blesssing had departed
from him, similar to that iu Saul, after
the Spirit of the Lord left hira and an
evil spirit rested upon him — or Judai
after receiving the sop. We are told
that the prince of thia world then had
the dominion. It was " his hour, and
the power of darknesa."

The Letter.
41. And Esau hated Jacob because
of the blessing wherewith his father
blessed him : and Esau said in Ms heart,
The days of mourning for my father
are at hand, then wUl I slay my brother
Jacob. Note.
From thia tirae Esau becoraea openly
and raanifeatly a " son of perdition," — a
murderer, — doing despite to the Spirit
of grace, aud exhibiting aU the features
of the character drawn in Heb. x. 26-31.
He looked forward to the event of
Isaac's death, as opening the way for
exterrainating Jacob ; even as the ene
mies of Christ devised his death, in order
to put an end (as they hoped) to the re
ligion which they hated. It was also
one of the farafly of Christ " that lifted
up his heel against hira." It was one
of the twelve who sought how he might
betray him.

The Letter.
42. And these words of Esau her
elder son were told to Rebekah. And
she sent and cafled Jacob her younger
son, and said unto Mm, Behold, thy
younger brother Esau, as touchmg

and their blood shall be sprinkled upon
my garments, and I wfll stain all my
raiment. 4. For the day of vengeance is m
my heart, and the year of my redeemed
is come.Luke xxi. 53. * * But this is your
hour, and the power of darkness.

The Spirit.
1 John iii. 15. Whosoever hateth his
brother is a murderer: and ye know
that no murderer hath etemal life
abiding in him.
^ * * * *
10. In this the children of God are
manifest, and the chfldren of the devil :
whosoever doeth not righteousness is
not of God, neither he that loveth not
his brother.
Heb. X. 26. For ff we sin wflfufly
after that we have received the know
ledge of the truth, there remaineth no
more sacrifice for sins,
27. But a certain fearful looking for
of judgment and fiery indignation, which
shafl devour the adversaries.
28. He that despised Moses' law
died without mercy under two or three
witnesses ;
29. Of how much sorer punishment,
suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy
who hath trodden under foot the Son
of God, and hath counted the blood of
the covenant, wherewith he was sancti
fied, an unholy thing, and hath done
despite unto the Spirit of Grace ?
30. For we know him that hath said.
Vengeance belongeth unto me, I wUl re
compense, saith the Lord. And again.
The Lord shall judge his people.

Tlie Spirit.
Ps. ex. 1. The Lord said unto my
Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until
I make thine enemies thy footstool.
2 Sam. xxii. 1. And David spake
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thee, doth comfort himself, purposing to
kfll thee.
43. Now therefore, my son, obey my
voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban
my brother, to Haran ;
44. And tarry vrith him a few days,
tintU thy brother's fury tum away ;
45. UntU thy brother's anger tum
away from thee, and he forget thai
which thou hast done to him : then I
wifl send and fetch thee from thence.
Why should I be deprived also of you
both in one day ? Note.
After the waters of the flood had
abated, — or typically, when the curse
had been removed from the earth, —
Noah aent forth the " raven and the
dove" from the ark. And, when the
woman appeared in heaven, clothed
with the sun, the moon under her feet
and upon her head a crown of twelve
stars (the church in the gospel day);
there also appeared her adversary, the
dragon, who was cast out of heaven
to the earth, drawing with him a third
part of the stars, ready to persecute the
woman and to devour the child she
should bring forth. The raven and the
dove, and the dragon and the woman,
are doubtless one and the same symbol
For no sooner waa the kingdom of
Christ set up, than the devil and his
angela prepared to war against it ; — and
no aoouer is the Holy Spirit the " pro-
raise of the Father," sent out to convince
of ain, (fee, than the spirit of Antichrist
appears also, casting out of hia raouth
the flood by which he hoped to cause
the woraan to be carried away.
Rebekah knew the fiery contest that
had corameneed between Esau, cast out
from the inheritance, and Jacob, the
heir of all thinga; — that there could be
no concord between Christ and Belial ;
and that they could never dwell toge
ther.

in the day that the Lord had delivered
him out of the hand of all his enemies,
and out of the hand of Saul :
***** 6. When the waves of death com
passed me, the floods of ungodly men
made me afraid;
6. The sorrows of hell compassed
me about ; the snares of death prevent
ed me.
***** 8. Then the earth shook and trem
bled ; the foundations of heaven moved
and shook, because he was wroth.
***** 17. He sent from above, he took
me ; he drew me out of many waters ;
18. He delivered me from my strong
enemy, and from them that hated me :
for thoy were too strong for me.
***** 41. Thou hast also given me the
necks of mine enemies, that I might
destroy them that hate me.
***** 44. Thou also hast deUvered me
from the stri-rings of my people, thou
hast kept me to be head of the heathen :
a people which I knew not shaU serve
me. 45. Strangers shaU submit them
selves unto me : as soon as they hear,
they shaU be obedient unto me.
xxUi. 5. Although my house be not
so with God ; yet he hath made with
me an everlasting covenant, ordered in
all things, and sure : for this is all my
salvation, and all my desire, although
he make it not to grow.
6. But the sons of Belial shall be aU
of them as thoms thrust away, because
they cannot be taken with hands :
7. But the man thai shall touch them
must be fenced with iron and the staff
of a spear ; and thoy shall be utterly
burned with fire in the same place.
1 John iii. 1. Beloved, beUeve not
every spirit, but try the spirits whe
ther they are of God: because many
false prophets are gone out into the
world.

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The Letter.
46. And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am
weary of my life because of the daugh
ters of Heth : if Jacob take a wife of the
daughters of Heth, such as these which
are of the daughters of the land, what
good shall my life do me ?
Note.
The church of Christ, whether spoken
of as his bride, "the children of the
kingdom," or the " seed that shall serve
him," are always represented aa "chosen,"
and "called," and separated from the
world ; a peculiar people, whom the
world know not, because they know him
not. This is allowed by all, — but all do
not understand the raore remote aud
original distinction between them. They
do not trace the line of descent to its
native stock. The "daughters of Heth "
were of the seed of Canaan, the cursed
nation ; and upon thera should be visited
" the iniquity of the fathera, unto the
third and fourth generation of thera that
hate" God; — but Jacob must be sent to
the kindred of his mother — of the house
hold of Shem, upon whom was the
blessing. They were the children of
promise, even by the sentence of Noah ;
and much raore, by the blessing of Abra
hara aud of Isaac.
Between these two manner of people
the Scriptures preserve a raost special
aud peculiar line of distinction, frora
Cain and Abel to the ultiraate separation
of the " sheep aud the goats " at the last
day.

2. Hereby know ye the Spirit of
God : Every spirit that confesseth that
Jesus Christ is come in the fiesh, is of
God: 3. And every spirit that confesseth
not that Jesus Christ is come in the
fiesh, is not of God. And this is that
spiril of Antichrist, whereof ye have
heard that it should come ; and even
now already is it in the world.

The Spiril.
2. CoR. vi. 14. Be ye not unequally
yoked together with unbelievers : for
what feUowship hath righteousness
with unrighteousness ? and what com
munion hath light with darkness ?
15. And what concord hath Christ
with Belial ? or what part hath ho that
beUeveth with an infidel ?
16. And what agreement hath the
temple of God with idols ? for ye are
the temple of the living God ; as God
hath said, I will dwell in them, and
walk in them ; and I will be their God,
and they shall be my people.
17. Wherefore come out from among
them, and be ye separate, saith the
Lord, and touch not the unclean thing,
and I wUl receive you ;
18. And will be a Father unto you,
and ye shaU bo my sons and daughters,
saith the Lord Almighty.
RoM. vni. 29. For whom he did
foreknow, he also did predestinate io
be conformed to the image of his Son,
that he might be the first-born among
many brethren.
Ps. ex. 2. The Lord shall send the
rod of thy strength out of Zion :, rule
thou in the midst of thine enemies.
3. Thy people shall be wflling in the
day of thy power, iu. the beauties of
holiness from the womb of the morn
ing : thou hast the dew of thy
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CHAPTER XXVIII.

The Letter.
1. And Isaac caUed Jacob, and
blessed hun, and charged him, and said
unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife
of the daughters of Canaan.
2. Arise, go to Padan-aram, to tho
house of Bethuel thy mother's father,
and take thee a wffe from thence of
the daughters of Laban thy mother's
brother. 3. And God Almighty bless thee,
and make thee fruitful, and multiply
thee, that thou mayest be a multitude
of people ;
4. And give thee the blessing of
Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with
thee ; that thou mayest inherit tho land
wherein thou art a stranger, which God
gave unto Abraham. Note.
Padan-aram signifies the field of Syria.
This narae, as applied to the place where
the seed of Jacob were to be gathered
and raultiplied, has ranch interesting
raeaning. It alludes to the atate of na
ture frora which the Holy Spirit quick
ens and translates the children of the
kingdom, who are there held iu bondage
by sin and Satan. This state is repre
sented by afield, while the church, when
gathered, is called a garden. Hence it
was a custom in larael for every one of
that typical people to do aa is described
in Deut xxvi. 1-6 :
" 1. And it shall be, when thou art
come in unto the land which the Lord
thy God giveth thee for an inheritance,
and possessest it, and dwellest therein :
" 2. That thou shalt take of tiie first
of all the fruit of the earth, which thou
ehalt bring of thy land that the Lord
thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it
in a basket and shalt go unto the place
which the Lord thy God ahall choose to
place uia narae there.
"3. And thou shalt go unto the priest

The Spiril.
Matt. xiu. 37. He anfewered and
said unto thom. He that soweth the
good seed is the Son of man ;
38. The field is the world; the good
seed are the chfldren of the kingdom ;
but the tares are the children of the
wicked one :
39. The enemy that sowed them is
tho deril; the harvest is the end of
the world; and the reapers are the
'angels. 40. As therefore the tares are ga
thered and bumed in the fire; so shall
it be in the end of this world.
41. The Son of man shall send forth
Ms angels, and they shaU gather out of
his kingdom aU things that offend, and
them which do iniquity ;
42. And shall cast them into a fur
nace of fire : there shaU be waUmg
and gnashing of teeth.
43. Then shall the righteous shine
forth as the sun in the kmgdom of
their Father. Who hath ears to hear,
let him hear.
Deut. vu. 1. When the Lord thy
God shall bring thee into the land
whither thou goest to possess it, and
hath cast out many nations before
thee, * * *
2. * * thou shalt make no covenant
with them, nor shew mercy unto them:
3. Neither shalt thou make marriages
with them ; thy daughter thou shalt
not give unto his son, nor his daughter
shalt thou take unto thy son.
4. For they vi'iU turn away thy son
from following me, that they may serve
other gods : so wUl the anger of the
Lord be kindled against you, and de
stroy thee suddenly.
5. But thus shall ye deal with them ;
ye shall destroy their altars, and break
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that shall be in those days, and aay unto
hira, I profeaa thia day unto the Lord
thy God, that I am come unto the coun
try which the Lord sware unto our
fathera for to give us.
***** "5. And thou shalt speak and aay
before the Lord thy God, A Syrian ready
to perish was ray father ; and he went
down into Egypt, aud sojourned there
with a few, and becarae there a nation,
great, mighty, and populous," &o. &c.
This ceremonial service is equivalent
to the confession of faith, made by a
young convert under the gospel.

groves, and burn their gi-aven images
with fire.
6. For thou art an holy people unto
the Lord thy God : the Lord thy God
hath chosen thee to be a special people
unto himself, above all people that are
upon the face of the earth.
7. The Lord did not set his love
upon you, nor choose you, because ye
were more in number than any people ;
tor ye icere fhe fewest of all people :
8. But because tho Lord loved you,
and because he would keep the oath
which he had sworn unto your fathers.

The Letter.
5. And Isaac sent away Jacob : and
he went to Padan-aram unto Laban,
son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother
of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mo
ther. 6. When Esau saw that Isaac had
blessed Jacob, and sent him away to
Padan-aram, to take him a wife from
thence ; and that as he blessed him, he
gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt
not talce a -wife of the daughters of
Canaan ;
7. And that Jacob obeyed his father,
and Ms mother, and was gone to Pa
dan-aram ;
8. And Esau seeing that the daugh
ters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his
father ;
9. Then went Esau unto Ishmael,
and took unto the wives which he had,
Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael,
Abraham's son, the sister of Nebajoth,
to be his wife. Note.
The children of Laban, living in Pa
dan-aram, afar off from the household of
Isaac, were yet as much his kindred as
if they had been with him in Canaan.
So also the chfldren of the kingdom,
whfle servants to sin, and in bondage
under the law, were as truly " sons" as
when made manifest and brought nigh
by the Spirit of adoption; and it is
"because they are sons," and not to

The Spirit.
Gal. iv. 1. Now I say. Thai the
heir, as long as he is a cMId, differeth
nothing from a servant, though ho be
lord of all ;
2. But is under tutors and governors
until the time appointed of the father.
3. Even so we, when wo were chfl
dren, were in bondage under the ele
ments of the world :
4. But when the fulness of the time
was come, God sent forth his Son,
raade of a woman, made under fhe
law, 5. To redeem them that were under
the law, that we might receive the
adoption of sons.
6. And because ye are sons, God
hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son
into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
2 Thess. ii. 3. , Let no man de
ceive you by any means : for thai day
shall noi come, except there come a
falling away first, and that man of sin
be revealed, the son of perdition ;
4. Who opposeth and exalteth him
self above all that is called God, -or that
is worsMpped; so that he, as God,
sitteth in the temple of God, showing
himself that he is God.
5. Remember ye not, that, when I
was yet with you, I told you these
things ?
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raake them so, that this Spirit " is sent
into their hearts, whereby they cry
Abba, Father."
Jacob is sent to his mother's kindred
to take !>. wife and raise up seed that
should be of the household, and not of
the heathen. So also the Son of God,
the anointed of the Father, was aent to
redeem them that were under the law,
that they might receive the adoption of
eons. Jacob here representa Jesus as
coming in the "power of the Spirit," to
accomplish this work ; to become a ser
vant under the law, and by fulfiUing all
that it required, to redeem frora its yoke
those that were held by it
When Esau saw that Jacob waa sent
to Padan-aram to take a wife, he cun
ningly adopts, as far as possible, the
same course, and marries the daughter
of Ishmael — unites with the children of
the bondwoman, who have a form of
godliness in the law, but deny the pow
er. The object of this was doubtless to
gain favor with Isaac. In like man
ner Antichrist watches with care the
movements of the kingdom of Christ
that he may "do so with his enchant
ments." He imitates the true church aa
far as possible by forms and ceremonies,
and show of outward sanctity, that he
may deceive the simple and unwary ;
and then exalts himself in his own Babel
to the seat of God, where he sits, show
ing himself that he is God.

holdeth, that he might be revealed in
his time.
7. For the mystery of iniquity doth
already work ; only he who now letteth
will let, until he be taken out of the
way. 8. And then shall that Wicked be re
vealed, whom the Lord shall consume
with the spirit of his mouth, and shaU
destroy with the brightness of his
coming :
9. Even him, whose coming is after
the working of Satan, with all power,
and signs, and lying wonders,
10. And with all deceivableness of
unrighteousness in them that perish;
because they received not the love of
the truth, that they might be saved.
11. And for this cause God shafl
send them strong delusion, that they
should beUeve a lie ;
12. That they all might be damned
who believed not the truth, but had
pleasure in unrighteousness.
6. And the angels which kept not
their first estate, but left their own ha
bitation, he hath reserved in everlasting
chains under darkness unto the judg
ment of the great day.
7. Even as Sodom and Gomorrah,
and the cities about them in like man
ner, giving themselves over to fornica
tion, and going after strange fiesh, are
set forth for an example, suffering the
vengeance of eternal fire.

The Letter.
10. And Jacob wont out from Beer-
sheba, and went toward Haran.
11. And he Ughted upon a certain
place, and tarried there aU night, be
cause the sun was set : and he took of
the stones of that place, and put ihem
for his pillows, and lay down in that
place to sleep. Note.
It was from the " well of the oath"
that Jacob went out And it was ac
cording to the oath and promise of the

The Spv'U.
IsA. xxxv. 1. The wilderness, and
the solitary place, shall be glad for
them ; and the desert shall rejoice, .ind
blossom as the rose.
2. It shall blossom abundantly, and
rejoice even with joy and singing ; the
glory of Lebanon shall be given unto
it, the excellency of Carmel and Sha
ron ; they shafl see the glory of the
Lord, and tho excellency of our
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everlasting covenant, confirmed of God
in Christ tUat the Spirit of truth, tbe
" promise of the Father," is sent out to
"new create the face of the earth."
The first night of Jacob's pilgrimage
was spent iu a place wild aud untenant
ed, where he rested upon the bare earth
and the flinty stones, while waiting for
the day. In like manner the gospel of
the kingdora was first preached in the
wilderness of Judea, and not in the holy
places raade with hands, and within the
gates of the holy city. In that wilder
ness were first prepared the "lively
atones" of the spiritual temple; not
such as were taken from the Jewish
sanctuary, but auch as were hewn and
polished frora the desert; for when the
scribes and Pharisees carae out to John
to claim the ordinances of the gospel,
upon the plea that they had " Abraham
to their father," he tells them, " God is"
able of these stones to raise up children
unto Abrahara,'- (fee. It will be remem
bered also, that we have before seen the
promise of God to the " whole house of
Israel," when they were yet in the con
dition of the valley of dry bones ; ano
ther figure simflar to the stones of the
desert, which Jacob anointed for the
houae of God.

John the Baptist, preaching in the wU
derness of Judea,
2. And saying. Repent ye, for the
kingdom of heaven is at hand.
3. For this is he that was spoken of
by the prophet Esaias, saying, The
voice of one crying in tho wUderness,
Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make
his paths straight.
4. And the same John had his rai
ment of camel's hair, and a leathern
girdlo about his loins ; and his meat
was locusts and wfld honey.
5. Then wont out to him Jerusalem,
and all Judea, and all the region round
about Jordan,
6. And were baptized of him in Jor
dan, confessing their sins.
7. But when he saw many of the
Pharisees and Sadducees come to his
baptism, he .said unto them, O genera
tion of vipers, who hath warned you to
j floe from tho wrath to come ?
j 8. Bring forth therefore fruits meet
for repentance :
9. And think not to say within your
selves. We have Abraham to our fa
ther : for I say unto you, That God is
able of these stones to raise up chUdron
unto Abraham.
10. And now also tho axe is .laid
unto the root of the trees: therefore
every tree which bringeth not forth
good fruit is hewn down, and cast into
the fire.
Ezk. xxxvii. 1, 2, 3, 13, 14. Tho
hand of the Lord was upon mo, and
carried me out in the Spirit of the
Lord, and set me dov/n in the midst of
the valley of dry bones, &c. And he
said unto me. Son of man, can these
bones live ? And I answered, O Lord,
thou knowest, &c. «Sic. And yo shall
know that I am the Lord when 1 have
opened your graves, O my people, and
brought you up out of your graves,
and shall put my Spirit in you, and ye
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The Letter.
12. And he dreamed, and behold, a
ladder set upon the earth, and the top
of it reached to heaven : and behold,
the angels of God ascending and de
scending on it.
13. And behold, the Lord stood
above it, and said, I am the Lord God
of Abraham thy father, and the God of
Isaac : the land whereon thou liest, to
thee will I give it, and to thy seed.
14. And thy seed shafl be as the
dust of the earth ; and thou shalt
spread abroad to the west, and to fhe
east; and to the north, and to the
south ; and in thee and in thy seed
shall all the famiUes of the earth be
blessed. 16. And behold, I am with theo, and
-wiU keep thee in all places whither
thou goest, and wifl bring theo again
into this land : for I will not leave thee,
until I have done thai which I have
spoken to thee of. Note.
This vision of the ladder explains that
raystery of divine grace, which has
opened a way of communication be
tween God and meu, and how it is that
the blessings of grace can eome to the
guilty and rebellious; — especially the
gift of the Holy Spirit whereby the
wUderness is raade to bud and blossom
as the rose.
In this figure Jesus is presented as
the Mediator of the new covenant — " the
way, the truth, and the life."
It is noticeable that the bleaaing here
pronounced upon Jacob differs from that
of Abraham and of Isaac; but only so
far as the peculiar typical office- work of
each of these fathers of the covenant va
ries from that of the othera. Abraham
aojourned in Canaan, but on one occasion
went into Egypt. Isaac was told not
to go into Egypt but to dwell iu the
laud of Canaan; but Jacob is not limit
ed to any place. He should spread
abroad to the east and to the west to
the north and to the south, untfl all the
nations of the earth should be blessed

The Spirit.
John. i. 61. And he saith unto him.
Verily, verily, I say unto you. Hereaf
ter ye shafl see heaven open, and the
angels of God ascending and descend
ing upon the Son of man.
Heb. xii. 22. But ye are come unto
mount Zion, and unto the city of the
Uving God, the heavenly Jerusalem,
and to an innumerable company of
angels, 23. To the general assembly and
church of the first-born, which are
written in heaven, and to God the
Judge of all, and to the spirits of just
men made perfect,
24. And to Jesus the mediator of the
new covenant, and to the blood of
sprinkling, that speaketh better things
Ihan thai of Abel.
IsA. liv. 2. Enlarge the place of thy
tent, and let them stretch forth the cur
tains of thine habitations: spare not,
lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy
stakes :
3. For thou shalt break forth on the
right hand and on the left; and thy
seed shall inherit tho Gentiles, and
make the desolate cities to be inha
bited. IsA. xliU. 6. Fear not; for I am
with thee : I will bring thy seed from
the east, and gather thee from fhe
west; 6. I will say to the north. Give up :
and to the south. Keep not back;
bring my sons from far, and my daugh
ters from the ends of the earth.
xlix. 8. Thus saith the Lord, In an
acceptable time have I heard thee, and
in a day of salvation have I helped thee,
and I wiU preserve thee, and give thee
for a covenant of the people, to esta
blish the earth, to cause to inherit the
desolate heritages :
***** 11. And I wiU make all my moun
tains a way, and my highways shall be
exalted. xii. 14. Fear not, thou worm Jacob,
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in him ; until the whole vafley of dry
bones should be raade alive.

The Letter.
blessings promised.
IsA. xliv. 1. Yet now hear, O Ja
cob my servant; and Israel, whom I
have chosen ;
2. Thus saith tho Lord that made
thee, and formed thee from the womb,
which, wifl help thee ; Fear not, O Ja
cob, my servant; and thou, Josurun,
whom I have chosen.
3. For I -wfll pour water upon him
that is thirsty, and floods upon tho dry
ground : I wUl pour my Spirit upon
thy seed, and my blessing upon thine
offspring :
4. And they shall spring up as
among the grass, as willows by the wa
ter-courses. 5. One shall say, I am tho Lord's ;
and another shall call himself by the
name of Jacob ; and another shall sub
scribe with his hand unto the Lord, and
surname himself by tho name of Is
rael. Ixi. 1. Tho Spirit of the Lord God
is upon me, because tho Lord hath
anointed mo to preach good tidings
unto the meek : ho hath sent me to
bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim
liberty to tho captives, and the opening
of tho prison to ihem thai are bound ;
2. To proclaim the acceptable year

saith the Lord, and thy Redeemer, tho
Holy One of Israel.
15. Behold, I will make thee a
new shaJ-p thrashing instrument having
teeth : thou shalt thrash the mountains,
and beat ihem smaU, and shalt make the
hills as chaff.
16. Thou shalt fan them, and the
wind shall carry them away, and the
whirlwind shall scatter them : and thou
shalt rejoice in the Lord, and shalt
glory m the Holy One of Israel.
17. When the poor and needy seek
water, and there is none, and their
tongue fafloth for thirst, I the Lord wiU
hear thom, /the God of Israel wiU not
forsake them.

Tlie Spirit.
FULFILLED IN THE DISPENSATION OF
THE SPIRIT.
John xiv. 12. Verily, verily, I say
unto you, He that beUeveth on me, the
works that I do shall he do also ; and
greater works than these shall he do;
because I go unto my Father.
13. And whatsoever he shaU ask in
my name, that will I do, that the Father
may be glorified in the Son.
14. If ye shall ask any thing in my
name, I will do ii.
16. If ye love mo, keep my com
mandments. 16. And I will pray the Father, and
he shafl give you another Comforter,
that he may abide with you for ever ;
17. Even the Spirit of truth ; whom
the world cannot receive, because it
seeth him not, neither knoweth him;
but yo know him, for he dwoUeth with
you, and shall be in you.
xvi. 7. Nevertheless, I tell you the
truth : It is expedient for you that I go
away: for if I go not away, the
Comforter wUl not come unto you ;
but if I depart, I wfll send him unto
you. 8. And when he is come, he wfll re
prove the world of sin, and of right
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of the Lord, and the day of vengeance
of our God ; to comfort all that
mourn ;
3. To appoint unto them that mourn
in Zion, to give unto them beauty for
ashes, the oU of joy for mourning, the
garment of praise for the spirit of hea
viness ; that they might be caUed Trees
of righteousness. The planting of the
Lord, that he might be glorified.
4. And they shall bufld the old
wastes, they shafl raise up the former
desolations, and they shafl repair the
waste cities, fhe desolations of many
generations. 6. And strangers shall stand and
feed your flocks, and the sons of the
alien shall be your ploughmen, and your
vine-dressers. 6. But ye shall be named the Priests
of tho Lord : men shall cafl you the Bli-
nisters of our God; yo shall eat the
riches of the Gentiles, and in theu- glory
shall ye boast yourselves.
7. For your shame ye shall have dou
ble, and /or confusion thoy shall rejoice
in their portion : therefore in then- land
they shall possess tho double ; ever
lasting joy shall be unto them.
xxxv. 6. Then tho eyes of the blind
shall be opened, and the ears of the
deaf shaU bo unstopped:
6. Then shall tho lame man leap as
an hart, and tho tongue of tho dumb
sing : for in the wUderness shall waters
break out, and streams in the desert.
7. And the parched ground shall
become a pool, and the thirsty land
springs of water : in the habitation of
dragons, where each lay, shall be grass,
with reeds and rushes.
8. And an highway shall bo there,
and a way, and it shaU bo called. The
way of holiness ; the unclean shall not
pass over it ; but it shall be for those :
the wayfaring men, though fools, shall
not err therein.
9. No Uon shaU be there, nor any
ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it
shall not be found there ; but the re
deemed shall walk there.

9. Of sin, because they believe not
on me;
10. Of righteousness, because I go
to my Father, and ye see me no more ;
11. Of judgment, because the prince
of this world is judged.
12. I have yet many things to say
unto you, but ye cannot bear them
now. 13. Howbeit, when he, the Spirit of
truth is come, he -wifl guide you into all
truth: for ho shafl not speak of him
self; but whatsoever he shall hear, ihat
shall he speak : and he wfll show you
things to come.
XV. 26. But when tho Comforter is
come, whom I wUl send unto you from
tho Father, even tho Spirit of truth,
which proceedeth from the Father, he
shall testify of me.
iv. 10. Jesus answered and said unto
her, If thou knewest the gfft of God,
and who it is that saith to thee. Give
me to drink; thou wouldest have
asked of Mm, and he would have given
thee living water.
11. The woman saith unto him. Sir,
thou hast nothing to draw -with, and the
well is deep : from whence then hast
thou that Uving water ?
12. Art thou greater than our father
Jacob, which gave us tho well, and
drank thereof Mmself, and his chUdren,
and his cattle ?
13. Jesus answered and said unto
her, Whosoever drinketh of this water
shall thirst again :
14. But whosoever drinketh of the
water that I shall give him shafl never
thirst ; but the water that I shall give
him shall be in hhn a well of water
springing up into everlasting life.
John vu. 37. In the last day, that
great day of the feast, Jesus stood and
cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him
come unto me, and drink.
38. He that believeth on me, as the
scripture hath said, out of his beUy shall
flow rivers of living water.
39. (But this spake he of the Sphit,
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10. And the ransomed of the Lord
shall return, and come to Zion with
songs, and everlasting joy upon their
heads : they shall obtain joy and glad
ness, and sorrow and sigMng shall flee
away. Isa. Iv. 1. Ho, every one that thirst-
eth, come ye to the waters, and he that
hath no money ; come ye, buy, and eat ;
yea, come, buy wine and milk without
money and without price.
2. Wherefore do ye spend money
for ihat which is not bread ? and your
labor for thai which satisfieth not?
hearken dfligently unto me, and eat ye
thai which is good, and let your soul
delight itself in fatness.
3. Incline your ear, and come unto
me ; hear, and your soul shall live ;
and I wiU make an everlasting cove
nant with you, ei;en the sure mercies of
David. ***** 10. For as the rain cometh down,
and the snow from heaven, and re
tumeth not thither, but watereth the
earth, and maketh it bring forth and
bud, that it may give seed to the
sower, and bread to the eater ;
11. So shaU my word be that goeth
forth out of my mouth : it shafl not re
turn unto me void; but it shall accom
plish that which I please, and it shall
prosper in ihe thing whereto I sent it.
12. For ye'shafl go out with joy, and
be led forth with peace : the mountains
and the hills shall break forth before
you into singiug, and afl tho trees of
the field shall clap their hands.
13. Instead of tho thorn shall como
up tho fir-tree, and instead of the brier
shall como up the myrtie-tree : and it
shall be to the Lord for a name, for
an everlasting sign, iliat shafl not be
cut off.
***** 18. I wUl open rivers in high places,
and fountains in tho midst of the val
leys: I will make the wilderness a
pool of water, and the dry land springs
of water.

receive, for the Holy Ghost was not
yet given, because that Jesus was not
yet glorified.)
Maek i. 4. John did baptize in the
wilderness, and preach the baptism of
repentance, for the remission of sins.
5. And there went out unto him all
the land of Judea, and they of Jerusa
lem, and were all baptized of him, in
tho river of Jorclpn, confessing their
sins. Acts ii. 37. Now when they heard
this, they were pricked in the heart ;
and said unto Peter and the rest of the
apostles, Mon and brethren, what shall
we do?
^ * * * *
41. Then they that gladly received
the word wore baptized : and the samo
day there wore added unto them about
three thousand souls.
xix. 17. And this was known to all'
tho Jews and Greeks also dwelling at
Ephesus : and fear fell on them all, and
the name of the Lord Jesus was magni
fied. 18. And many that beUeved came,
and confessed, and shewed their deeds.
***** 20. So mightily grew the word of
God, and prevaUed.
xiu. 46. Then Paul and Barnabas
waxed bold, and said, It was necessary
that the word of God should first have
been spoken to you: but seeing yo
put it from you, and judge yourselves
unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn
to the Gentiles:
47. For so hath the Lord command
ed us, saying, I have set thee to be a
light of tho Gentiles, that thou should
est be for salvation unto the ends of
the earth.
48. And when the Gentfles heard
this, they were glad, and glorified tho
word of the Lord: and as many as
were ordained to eternal life, believed.
49. And the word of the Lord was
published throughout all the region.' ^

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19. I wUl plant in the wfldemess
the cedar, the shitiah-tree, and the
myrtie, and the oil-tree ; I wifl set in
the desert the fir-tree, and the pine,
and the box-tree together ;
20. That they may see, and know,
and consider, and understand together,
that the hand of the Lord hath done
this, and the Holy One of Israel hath
created it.

The Letter.
16. And Jacob awaked out of his
sleep, and ho said, Surely the Lord is
in this place ; and I knew ii not.
17. And ho was afraid, and said.
How dreadful is this placo! this is
none other but the house of God, and
this is the gate of heaven.
Note.
Xot only the mediatorial office of
Christ but all that he is "raade of God
to his people " in the different characters
of Prophet Priest and King, whereby
the "raiuistration of the Spirit" ia made
effectual, was doubtless here revealed
to Jacob. The vision is the sarae that
was raade to Ezekiel at the river Cheber,
except that Jacob had a typical part to
act in its accoraplishment which the
prophet had not Both had respect to
the progress and prosperity of the church
in the gospel day, when " spirit and life "
should be given to the prophetic syra
bols of the divine WORD, and he ahould
dwell in his church iu all the fulness of
his power, as Mediator, Prophet, Priest,
and King, (the "four living creatures;")
and -when all the wheels of divine pro
vidence should move forward in exact
accordance with the purpose of grace
iu rederaption. Under various siraili-
tudes, and " at sundry times," these
things were made known to holy raen
of old, who have recorded them for our
instruction. Especially was the prophet
Isaiah favored with glorious viaiona of
the Redeeraer's reign.

The Spirit.
Ps. cxviii. 17. I shall not die, but
live, and declare the works of the Lord.
18. The Lord hath chastened me
sore : but he hath not given me over
unto death.
19. Open to me the gates of right
eousness : I wiU go into them, and I
wUI praise the Lord:
20. This gate of the Lord, into which
the righteous shall enter.
21. I wUI praise thee : for thou hast
heard me, and art become my salva
tion. 22. The stone which ihe builders
refused is become the head sione of the
corner. 23. This is the Lord's doing; it is
marvellous in our eyes.
24. This is the day which the Lord
hath made ; we will rejoice and be glad
in it.
25. Save me, I beseech thee, O Lord :
O Lord, I beseech thee, send now pros
perity. Micah iv. 1. But in the last days it
shall come to pass, that the mountain
of the house of the Lord shall be esta
blished in the top of the mountains, and
it shall be exalted above the hUls ; and
people shall flow unto it.
2. And many nations shall come,
and say, Come, and let us go up to the
mountain of the Lord, and to the house
of the God of Jacob : and he will teach
us of his ways, and we wifl walk in his
paths: for the law shall go forth of
Zion, and > the word of the Lord from
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Tlie Letter.
18. And Jacob rose up early in the
morning, and took tho stone that he
had put for his pUlows, and set it up
for a pillar, and poured ofl upon the
top of it.
19. And he called the name of that
place Beth-el: but the name of that
city was called Luz at the first
Note.
When Jacob laid down to rest the
stones of the place were his pillow.
And now he set up this same stone, and
poured oil upon it and called it Beth-el.
In like manner, during the dark night
which preceded the gospel day, faith
reated upon the bare promise of God as
upon a rock ; and when at length the
morning dawned, and the light of life
appeared, the Spirit witnessed to the
first fruits of the gospel, as the fulfilment
of "that which was apoken." Bethel
signifies "house of God;" and Luz,
which was its first name, signifies
"estrangement .alienation." The appli
cation of these names to the anointed
stone, is explained by the apostle Paul,
when he tells the Ephesians that they
were " no more strangers and foreigners,
but fellow citizens with the sainti', and of
the household of God" <fcc. ¦ Jesua, the
anointed of God, having been "set up
from everlasting," aa the " aure founda
tion-atone" of Zion, though rejected by

Ps. cxxxii. 13. For the Lord hath
chosen Zion ; he hath desired il for his
habitation. 14. This is my rest for ever: hero
wUI I dwell ; for 1 have desired it
16. I wifl abundantiy bless hor pro
vision: I wfll satisfy her poor witli
bread. Ezk. i. 26. And above tho firma
ment that was over their heads was
tho likeness of a throne, as the appear
ance of a sapphire stone: and upon
the likeness of the throne was the Uke
ness as the appearance of a man above
upon it.

The Spiril.
Isa. xxviu. 16. Therefore thus saith
tho Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for
a foundation a stone, a tried stone, ii
precious corner-stone, a sure founda
tion : he that believeth shall not make
haste. vui. 14. And he shall bo for a. sanc
tuary; but for a stone of stumbUno-
and for a rock of offence to both tho
houses of Israel, for a gin and for a
snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
15. And many among them shall
stumble, and fall, and be broken,. and
be snared, and be taken.
Acts ii. 16. But this is that which
was spoken by fhe prophet Joel,
17. And it shall como to pass in tho
last days, saith God, I will pour out of
my Spirit upon all flesh : and your sons
and your daughters shall prophesy,
and your young men shaU see visions,
and your old men shall dream dreams :
18. And on my servauts, and on my
hand-maidens, I will pour out in those
days of my Spu-it ; and they shall pro
phesy. iv. 8. Then Peter, filled with fhe
Holy Ghost, said unto them. Ye rulers
of the people, and elders of Israel,
***** 11. TMs is the stone which was set
at nought of you buUders, which is be-
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the Jewish buflders, is made the "head
of the corner," or chief corner-stone of
the spiritual building ; set up and built
upon the testiraony of apostles and pro
phets.

The Letter.
20. And Jacob vowed a vow, say
ing. If God will be with me, and wiU
keep me in this way that I go, and
wUl givo me bread to eat, and raiment
to put on,
21. So that I come again to my fa
ther's house in peace ; then shall the
Lord be my God :
22. And this stone, which I have set
for a pfllar, shaU be God's house . and
of all that thou shalt give me, I will
surely give the tenth unto thee.
¦ Note.
In this vow, Jacob appears to set his
seal tD the covenant, by pledging him
self to the work assigned him, aa the
typical representative of the "Spirit of
truth, " the " promise of the Father." If
he was prospered in all to which he was
sent out so as to return again in peace
to his father's house, then the pillar aet
up should be God's house; — in other
words, the house which had here been
set up should be built and established.
In all this language, especially where he
speaks of giving tithes, the peculiar
office-work of this divine agent is re-
cogniaed, aa the glorifier of Jesus, sent
to testify of hira, and to lead his people
into all truth, by taking of the things
that are his, and showing to them. In
all which he would tench no new truth,
but only instruct into the mysteries of
wisdom and knowledge which are trea
sured in Christ ; thus rendering all ho-

Efh. ii. 19. Now therefore ye are
no more strangers and foreigners, but
fellow-citizens with the saints, and of
the household of God ;
20. And are built upon the founda
tion of the apostles and prophets, Jesus
Christ himself being the chief corner
stone ;
21. In whom all the bufldmg fitiy
framed together, groweth unto a holy
temple in the Lord :
22. In whom ye also are bmlded to
gether, for a habitation of God through
the Spirit.

Tlie Spirit.
IsA. xU. 2. Behold, God is my sal
vation ; I wiU trust, and not be afraid :
for the Lord Jehovah is my strength
and my song; he also is become my
salvation. 3. Therefore with joy shafl ye draw-
water out of the wells of salvation.
4. And in that day shaU ye say,
Praise the Lord, call upon his name,
declare his doings among the people,
make mention that Ms name is ex
alted. 5. Sing unto the Lord; for he hath
done excellent things: this is known
in all the earth.
6. Cry out and shout, thou inhabi
tant of Zion; for great is the Holy
One of Israel in the midst of thee.
Ps. cxviii. 6. The Lord is on my
side ; I wfll not fear : what can man do
unto me ?
7. The Lord taketh my part -with
them that help me : therefore shall
I see my desire upon them .that hate
me. ***** 13. Thou hast thrust sore at me
that I might faU : but the Lord helped
me. 14. The Lord is my strength and
song, and is become my salvatiot.
RoM. vu. 36. (As it is written. For
thy sake we are MUed afl the day long;
we are accounted as sheep for the
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nor to the Son, who, because he had
become obedient unto death, should re
ceive " a name which is above every
name that is named either in thia world
or that which is to eome." Abraham
paid tithes to the High Priest of the
new covenant, and Jacob promised
tithes to the God of Bethel — but Isaac,
the Sou, paid no tithes : But because he
"gave himself," — all that he had, to
honor and glorify the Father — therefore
unto him should be paid all honor and
glory and dominion for ever.
The " Three that bear record iu hea
ven," are said to agree in one, — that js,
all that is found in each separately,
is found unitedly in each. So it is in
the types which represent them ; and
Jacob soraetimes represents the Spirit,
sometimes the Messiah anointed of the
Spirit, aud sometimes the " dispensation
of the Spirit," or gospel.

37. Nay, in all these things we are
more than conquerors, through him
that loved us.
38. For I am persuaded, that neither
death, nor lffe, nor angels, nor princi
palities, nor powers, nor things present,
nor things to come,
39. Nor height, nor depth, nor any
other creature, shall be able to separate
us from the love of God which is in
Christ Jesus our Lord.
Matt, xxviu. 18. And Jesus came
and spake unto them, saying. All power
is given unto me in heaven and in
earth. 19. Go yo therefore, and teach all
nations, baptizing thom in the name of
the Father, and 6f the Son, and of the
Holy Ghost ;
20. Teaching them to observe all
thmgs whatsoever I have commanded
you: and, lo, I am with you alway,
even unto the end of the world.
Amen. xxiv. 14. And this gospel of the
kingdom shall be preached in all the
world, for a witness unto all nations ;
and then shall the end come.

CHAPTER XXIX.

The Letter.
1. Then Jacob -went on his journey,
and came into the land of the people
of the east.
2. And he looked, and behold, a well
in the field, and lo, there were three
flocks of sheep lying by it ; for out of
that well they watered tho flocks : and
a great stone was upon the wefl's
mouth. 3. And thither were all the flocks
gathered: and fhey rolled the stone
from the well's mouth and watered the
sheep, and put tho stone again upon
the well's mouth in his place.
19

The Spirit.
Zech. xiii. 1. In that day there shaU bo
a fountain opened to tho house of Da
vid and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem
for sin and for uncleanness.
Sol. Song, i. .7. Tell me, O thou
whom my soul loveth, where thou feed
est, where thou makest ihy flock to rest
at noon : for why should I be as one
that turneth aside by the flocks of fhy
companions ?
8. If thou know not, O thou fairest
among women, go fhy way forth by the
footstepts of tho flock, and feed thy
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Note.
Jacob had now corae to the "field of
Syria" — " the land of the people of the
east," to whom he was sent by Isaac.
In this field he found a well, at which
lay three flocks of sheep waiting to be
watered. Until Jacob came, a great
stone closed the well's raonth ; and the
sheep were watered only when the
shepherds rolled away the stone.
This figure, when taken in connection
with what has already been explained,
is easily understood. The well and ita
water, represent the blessings of grace
and salvation, treasured iu the cove
nant and bestowed by promise upon the
sheep of Christ from the beginning.
The three flocks — those that lived before
the flood, those under the law, and those
under the gospel — all were watered from
the same " well of living water." These
flocks were waiting and looking for the
promise — even the salvation of Israel ;
and were persuaded of it and erabraced
it by faitb. But as yet the w-ell was
not opened ; for the shepherds, after
watering the sheep with occasional
drauglits, again rolled back the stone.
For, until the porter opened to th& true
Shepherd of the sheep, all that carae
before, professing to be shepherds," were
thieves aud robbers.''

The Letter.
4. And Jacob said unto them. My
brethren, whence be ye? And they
said, Of Haran are we.
6. And he said unto tbem. Know ye
Laban the son of Nahor? And they
said. We know him.
6. And he said unto them, 7s he
well ? And they said. He is well : and

IsA. xU. 3. Therefore with joy shall
ye draw water out of the wells of sal
vation. Deut. xxxiii. 28. Israel then shall
dweU in safety alone ; the fountain of
Jacob shall be upon a land of corn\and
wine ; also Ms heavens shall drop down
dew. John vu. 37. In the last day, that
great day of the feast, Jesus stood and
cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him
come unto me, and drink.
38. He that believeth on me, as the
scripture hath said, out of Ms beUy
shall flow rivers of Uvmg water.
IsA. xU. 17. When the poor and
needy seek water, and there is none,
and their tongue fafleth for thirst, I the
Lord -wfll hear them, I the God of Israel
wiU not forsake them.
1 8. I will open rivers m high places,
and fountains in the midst of the val
leys : I vrill make the wilderness a pool
of water, and the dry land springs of
water. JoelJu. 18. And it shall come to
pass in that day, that the mountains
shafl drop do\^Ti new -wine, and the
hifls sliall flow with mflk, and afl the
rivers of Judah shall flow with waters,
and a fountain shafl come forth of tho
house of the Lord, and shall water the
valley of Shittim.
Heb. xi. 13. These aU died in faith,
not having received the promises, but
havmg seen them afar off, and were
persuaded of them, and embraced ihem,
and confessed that they were strangers
and pilgrims on the earth.

The Spirit.
RoM. u. 17. Behold, thou art cafled
a Jew, and restest in the law, and
makest thy boast of God,
18. And knowest his will, and ap-
provest the things that are more ex
cellent, bemg instructed out of the
law; 19. And art confident that thou thy-

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behold, Rachel his daughter cometh
with the sheep. Note.
Jacob here assumes the character of
the "Messenger of the Covenant," cora
ing in the power of the Holy Ghost, —
the brightness of the Father's glory aud
the express iraage of his person. He
comes to his own, — to hia brethren ac
cording to the fleah, to whora had been
committed the care of the aheep ; but
they knew him not and received him
not. These shepherds of Israel, being
taught in the law, well understood that
a promised " Deliverer " was to be raised
up, who should turn away ungodliness
from Jacob. But in this promise they
looked only for a temporal saviour, that
ahould deUver them from the Roman
power; therefore they recognised not,
in the meek and lowly Jesus, him that
should come ; but despised and rejected
him ; aud looked forwardiov the accora
plishment of their carnal and worldly
expectations. They knew that the sheep
of Laban were to be watered, but they
bid them wait at the well till that which
they looked for, should come, not know
ing that he who talked with them was
he. Of the welfare and good condition
of their own standing as the covenant
people of God, to -whom this promised
DeUverer should be sent they had no
question ; and were ever ready to say
concerning it " all ia well,"and ready for
his coming.

self art a guide of the blind, a Ught of
them which are in darkness.
John i. 10. He was in the world,
and the world was made by him, and
the world knew him not.
11. He came unto his own, and his
own received him not
Ezk. xxxiv. 7. Therefore, ye shep
herds, hoar the word of the Lord ;
8. As I live, saith the Lord God,
surely because my flock became a
prey, and my flock became meat to
every beast of the field, because there
was no shepherd, neither did mv shep
herds search for my fiock, but the
shepherds fed themselves, and fed not
my flock ;
9. Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear
the word of tho Lord ;
10. Thus saith the Lord God; Be
hold, I am against the shepherds ; and
I wifl require my fiock at their hand,
and cause them-to cease from feeding
tho flock ; neither shafl the shepherds
feed themselves any more ; for I wifl
deliver my flock from their mouth, that
they may not be meat for them.
11. For thus saith the Lord God,
Behold, I, even I, wUl both search my
sheep, and seek them out.
12. As a shepherd seeketh out his.
flock in the day that he is among his
sheep thai are scattered ; so wUl I seek
out my sheep, and wfll deliver them out
of afl places where they have been
scattered in the cloudy and dark
day. 13. And I will bring them out from
the people, and gather them from the
countries, and wfll bring them to their
own land, and feed them upon the moun- -
tains of Israel by the rivers, and in afl ,
the inhabited places of the country.
14. I wfll feed them in a good pas
ture, and upon the high mountains of
Israel shall their fold be : there shafl ,
they lie in a good fold, and in a fat
pasture shaU thoy feed upon the moun
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The Letter.
7. And he said, Lo, it is yet high
day, neither is ii time that the cattie
should be gathered together : water ye
the sheep, and go and feed them.
8. And they said. We cannot, untfl
afl the flocks bo gathered together, and
till they roll the stone from the well's
mouth ; then we w.iter the sheep.
Note.
Jesus, the good Shepherd, was sent
only " to the lost aheep of the house of
Israel ;" therefore he said, " I corae not
to call the righteous, but sinners to re
pentance." To the "daughter of Zion_,"
the kingdom must first come, by divine
appointment ; — even to the " poor of
the flock," sometimes called " the flock
of slaughter," because they were an
afflicted and poor people, who, like
their Master, were despised and rejected
of men.
But the expectation of the people of
the Jews, was altogether contrary to
this. They supposed that the Messiah,
so long priimised, would corae with all
the pomp and grandeur of an earthly
raonarch, and raake himself first known
to the Sanhedrim, — the wise, the pru
dent, and the noble. Therefore, when
the common people heard him gladly,
and testified to his wonderful works, the
reply-was, " Have any of the rulers be
lieved on him !"
With sireh calculations, the shepherds,
or rulers of -the people, when they saw
only the poor of the flock come to the
preaching of the gospel, did not recog-
niae the kingdom and the glory which
they looked for, and rejected the whole ;
insisting that the time had not come
that the !sheep should be watered, until
the cattle should be gathered. Or, in
other words, that any should enter the
kingdom until the great and noble were
first received to its honors and privi
leges.

The Spirit.
Matt. x. 5. * * * Go not into
the way of the Gentiles, and into any
city of the Samaritans enter ye not :
6. But go rather to the lost sheep of
the house of Israel.
XV. 24. But he answered and said,
I am not sent but unto the lost sheep
of the house of Israel.
John iv. 22. Ye worship ye know
not what : we know what we worship:
for salvation is of the Jews.
23. But the hour cometh, and now
is, when the true worshippers s'nafl
worship the Father in spirit and m
truth : for the Father seeketh such to
worship him.
24. God is a Spirit : and they that
worship him, must worship him in
spirit and in truth.
25. The woman saith unto him, I
know that Messias cometh, which is
called Christ ; when he is come, he will
tell us all things.
***** 35. Say not ye. There are yef four
months, and then cometh harvest? be
hold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes,
and look on the fields; for they are
white already to harvest.
Acts xiu. 46. * ' * It was neces
sary that the word of God should first
have been spoken to you.
Luke xvU. 20. And when he was
demanded of the Pharisees when the
kingdom of God should come, ho an
swered them, and said. The kingdom
of God cometh not with obsen-ation.
21. Neither shall fhey say, Lo here!
or, Lo there ! for, behold, the kingdom
of God is wltMn you.
Matt. xxi. 28. But what think ye?
A certain man had two sons, and he
camo to the first, and said. Son, go
work to-day in my vineyard.
29. He answered and said, I vrill
not; but afterward he repented, and
went 30. And he came to tho second, and
s.iid likewise. And he answered and
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The Letter.
9. And whUe he yet spake with them,
Rachel came with her father's sheep :
for she kept them.
10. And it came to pass, when Jacob
saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his
mother's brother, and the sheep of La
ban his mother's brother, that Jacob
went near, and rolled the stone from
the well's mouth, and, watered the flock
of Laban his mother's brother.
Note.
It waa to "the daughter of Zion,"
that the kingdora must first be brought;
and no sooner waa the glad tidings of
the gospel sounded in the wilderness of
Judea, than the "poor of the flock"
heard and rejoiced in it They came to
the wells of salvation, seeking for the
water of life nnd confessing their sins.
As soon as Rachel appeared with her
father's sheep, Jacob rolled away the
stone frora the well's raouth and watered
the flock. So it is the Spirit of truth that
takes of the things of Christ and shows
thera to hia people. It is the Spirit
that reveals those mysteries of the king
dom, which eye hath not seen, nor hath
entered into the heart to conceive; but
which God hath laid up for them that
fear him. It ia the Spirit that searches the
deep things of God, and, by his teaching
alone, are they spiritually discerned.
Thus are the children of the kingilom

31. Whether of them twain did the
will of his father ? They say unto him,
Tho first. Jesus saith unto them.
Verily I say unto you, That tho publi
cans and the harlots go into the king
dom of God before you.
John iii. 5. Jesus answered, Verily,
verily, I say unto thee. Except a man
be born of water, and of the Spirit,
he cannot enter into the kingdom of
God. 6. That which is bora of the fiesh is
flesh ; and that which is born of the
Spu-it is spirit.

The Spirit.
Zech. xi. 7. And I wUI food the
flock of slaughter, ei-en you, O poor of
the flock. And I took unto me two
staves; the one I called Beauty, and
the other I cafled Bands ; and I fed the
flock. ii. 10. Sing and rejoice, O daughter
of Zion : for, lo, I come, and I will
dwefl in the midst of thee, saith the
Lord. Micah iv. 6. Jn that day, saith the
Lord, wifl I assemble her that halteth,
and I wifl gather her that is driven out,
and her that I have afflicted ; .
7. And I wfll make her that halted
a remnant, and her that was cast far
off a strong nation : and the Lord shall
reign over them in mount Zion from
henceforth, even for ever.
8. And thou, O tower of the flock,
the strong hold of the daughter of Zion,
unto thee shafl it come, even the first
dominion ; the kingdom shafl come to
the daughter of Jerusalem.
IsA. Ixu. 11. Say ye to the daughter
of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh ;
behold, his reward is with him, and his
work before him.
12. And they shafl call them, Tho
holy people, The redeemed of the Lord :
and thou shalt bo called. Sought out,
A city not forsaken.
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" sanctified through the truth," and
made to grow in grace and in the know
ledge of Christ ; and thus, " to those that
received him," did the Messenger of the
covenant "give power to become the
sons of God, even to them who believed
on his name."

The Letter.
11. And Jacob Mssed Rachel, and
lifted up his voice and wept
12. And Jacob told Rachel that he
was her father's brother, and that he
was Rebekah's son; and she ran and
told her father. Note.
The joy of Jacob at the sight of Ra
chel, not only alludea to the delight
which Jesus, as the bridegroom of the
church, has had in her, even from ever-
laating, but also represents the joy and
rejoicing th.it should come to Zion,
when she should be visited by the
" dayspring frora ou high," to give her
"the oil of joy for mourning, and the
garment of praise for the spirit of hea
viness." Jacob tells Rachel who he ia, and
whence he came, though he told not the

and know my sheep, and am known of
mine. ***** 27. My sheep hear my voice, and I
know them, and they follow me:
28. And I give unto them etemal
lffe ; and they shall never perish, nei
ther shall any pluck them out of my
hand. 29. My Father, which gave ihem
me, is greater than afl; and none is
able to pluck them out of my Father's
hand. ***** 7. Then said Jesus unto them again.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the
door of the sheep.
8. All that ever came before me are
thieves and robbers : but the sheep did
not hear them.
9. I am the door : by me if any man
enter m, he shafl be saved, and shafl go
in and out, and find pasture.
10. The thief cometh not, but for to
steal, and to kill, and to destroy : I am
come that they might have life, and
that they might have ii more abun
dantly.

The Spirit.
IsA. IxU. 4. Thou shalt no more be
termed Forsaken ; neither shall thy land
any more be termed Desolate: but
thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and
thy land Beulah: for the Ix)rd de
Ughteth in thee, and thy land shall be
married. 5. For as a young man marrieth a
virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee :
and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over
the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over
thee. IsA. Ixi. 2. To proclaim the accept
able year of the Lord, and the day of
vonge.ance of our God ; to comfort all
that mourn ;
3. To appoint unto them that mourn
in Zion, to give unto them beauty for
ashes, tho oU of joy for mourning, the
garment of praise for the spirit of hea-

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shepherds. So Jeaus manifesta hiraself
to his people, "as he does not to the
world." " I know my sheep, and ara
known of raine." " If a raan love rae,
my Father wfll love hira, and I wfll
love hira and raanifest rayself unto
him," <fec.
Rachel was in haste to tell her father
that Jacob had come ; and ao, when the
disciples saw the Saviour, they hastened
to raake known the fact to others, that
they had " found him, of whora Moses
in the law aud in the prophets spake ;
is not this the Christ ?"
The Spirit of truth reveals to the
church the things of Christ and in
structs her into the raysteries of the
kingdom ; and she declares these things
to othera ; thus " holding forth the word
of life."

The Letter.
13. And it came to pass when Laban
heard the tidings of Jacob Ms sister's
son, that he ran to meet him, and em
braced him, and kissed him, and brought
him to his house. And ho told Laban
all these things.
14. And Laban said to him. Surely
thou art my bone and my fiesh : and
he abode with Mm the space of a
month. Note.
Laban signifies white, shining; and

viness ; that they might be called trees
of righteousness, the planting of the
Lord, that he might be glorified.
4. And they shall build the old
wastes, they shafl raise up the former
desolations, and they shall repair the
waste cities, the desolations of many
generations. Jer. xxxi. 3. The Lord hath ap
peared of old unto me, saying. Yea, I
have loved thee wflh an everlasting
love ; therefore with loving kindness
have I drawn thee.
4. Again I wfll build thee, and thou
shalt he buUt, O virgin of Israel : thou
shalt again be adorned with thy ta
brets, and shalt go forth in the dances
of them that make merry.
John xvii. 6. I have manifested thy
name unto the men which thou gavest
me out of the world : thine they were,
and thou gavest them me; and they
have kept thy word.
7. Now. they have known that all
things wh.atsoever thou hast given me,
are of thee:
8. For I have given unto them the
words which thou gavest me ; and they
have received them, and have known
surely that I came out from thee, and
they have beUeved that thou didst
send me.
9. I pray for them : I pray not for
the world, but for them which thou
hast pven me ; for they are thine.

The Spirit.
Matt. xxiU. 25. Woe unto you,
scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ! for
ye make clean the outside of tho cup
and the platter, but within they are
full of extortion and excess.
26. Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse
first that which is within the cup- and
platter, that tho outside of them may
be clean also.
27. Woe unto you, scribes and Pha
risees, hypocrites ! for ye aro like unto
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has reference to the Jewish table of
rites and ceremonies, that sanctified to
the purifying of the flesh, raaking the
comers thereunto outwardly and judi
cially clean, but could not take away
sin, and never was intended to be any
thing raore than a shadow of that which
was to come. Hence Jesus says to the
scribes and Pharisees, who rested in
these external services, and raade a
righteousness of them, instead of looking
to the better things which they re
vealed, "ye raake clean the outside of
the cup and platter, but within are full
of extortion and excess."
Jacob was literally the kinsman of
Laban, as Jesus was literally the kins
man of the first testament He was
alao intimately connected with the table
of rites and cereraonies which Laban
here represents. In hira were they all
to have their fulfilment He was the
" body" or substance of all its shadows,
the verifying of all its promiaea, the un
veiling or unfolding of all ita raysteries.
Truly then might Laban recognise and
welcome Jacob, as being of his bone and
of his flesh.
But there was another service to be
rendered by the " Messenger of the co
venant" before he could redeera the
children of the kingdom frora the bond
age of the law. The ritual code or
handwriting of ordinances, which were
fulfiUed in him, only served to identify
and point out the Lamb of God, as the
great atoning sacrifice for sin ; the pro
pitiation which God had set forth for
the transgressions of his people against
the moral law; by which they should be
delivered frora sin and the eurse, and
brought into the glorious liberty of the
sons of God.

beautiful outward, but are within full
of dead merCs bones, and of afl un
cleanness. 28. Even so ye also outwardly ap
pear righteous unto men, but within ye
are fuU of hypocrisy and iniquity.
29. Woe unto you, scribes and Pha
risees, hypocrites ! because ye build the
tombs of the prophets, and garnish the
sepulchres of the righteous.
Acts xxiu. 2. And the high priest
Ananias commanded them that stood
by him to smite him on the mouth.
3. Then said Paul unto him, God
shall smite thee, ihou whited wall : for
sittest thou to judge me after the law,
and commandest me to be smitten con
trary to the law ?
Luke iv. 14. And Jesus retumed
in the power of the Spirit into Galilee :
and there went out a fame of him
through all the region round about
***** 18. The Spirit of the Lord is upon
me, because he hath anointed me to
preach the gospel to the poor ; he hath
sent me to heal tho broken-hearted, to
preach deliverance to the captives, and
recovering of sight to the blind, to set
at Uberty them that are bruised,
19. To preach the acceptable year
of the Lord.
20. And he closed the book, and he
gave ii again to the minister, and sat
down. And the eyes of all them that
were in the synagogue were fastened
on Mm.
21. And he began to say unto them.
This day is this scripture fulfilled in
your ears.
GAL.iv.4. But when the fulness of the
time was come, God sent forth his Son,
made of a woman, made under the law,
6. To redeem them that were under
the law, that wo might receive the
adoption of sons.

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The Letter.
15. And Laban said unto Jacob, Be
cause thou art my brother, shouldest
thou therefore serve me for nought?
tefl me, what sliall thy wages be 1
16. And Laban had two daughters:
the name of the elder was Leah, and
the name of the younger was Rachel.
17. Leah was tender-eyed, but Ra
chel was beautiful and well-favored.
Note.
The two daughters of Laban, Leah
the " tender (weak) eyed," and Rachel the
"beautiful and well favored," represent
two iraportant truths in the redemption
of Christ First they signify the two
classes of people, which raade up the
coraraonwealth of Israel; the "seed of
promise." and the "childrgu of the
flesh." Rachel, which raeans sheep, per
sonates the first class, and is referred to
as "the lost sheep of the house of Is
rael," the "poor of the flock," "the
daughter of Zion," &c. For her, Jacob
offers to serve Laban, and she was his
proraised wages or reward for that ser
vice. But Leah, who personates the
children of the flesh, who are repre
sented as blind, and uot able to " look
to the end of that which was aboliahed ;"
aa "having eyea that they should not
see, and ears that they should not hear,"
•fee, was " imposed on him for the time
then present," instead of the proraised
and chosen one.
Thus also, the Son of God pledged
hiraself to becorae the servant of the co
venant that he raight purchase to him
self as his chosen and' espoused bride,
his elect people, which his Father had
given him. But before he could receive
the reward of his sufferings, in the peo
ple of his choice, he must take into co
venant a " mixed raultitude,'' whom he
knew not and owned not as his " sheep,"
though they were called by his narae.
In the eleventh chapter of Zechariah
these two classes of people are represent
ed by "two staves" in the hand of God, and
his purpose concerning them is foretold.
By the breaking of the first the precious
were to be separated from the vile;' the
"poor of the flock" from " all the people."

The Spirit
Sol. Song iv. 1. Behold thou art
faff, my love ; behold, thou ari fair ;
thou hast dove's eyes within thy locks :
thy hair is as a flock of goats, that ap
pear from mount Gflead.
RoM. xi. 8. (According as it is
written, God hath given them the spirit
of slumber, eyes that they should not
see, and ears that they should not hear)
unto this day.
9. And David saith. Let their table
be made a snare, and a trap, and a
stumbling-block, and a recompense unto
them: 10. Let their eyes be darkened, that
they may not see, and bow down their
back alway.
2 Cor. iu. 13. And not as Moses,
which put a vail over his face, that the
chfldren of Israel could not steadfastly
look to the end of that which is abo
Ushed :
14. But their minds were blinded:
for untfl this day remaineth the same
vafl untaken away in the reading of the
old testament ; which vail is done away
in Christ.15. But even unto this day, when
Moses is read, the vafl is upon their
heart. Zech. xi. 6. For I wfll no more
pity the inhabitants of the land, saith
the Lord : but lo, I wUl deliver the men
every one into his neighbor's hand, and
into the hand of his king: and they
shaU smite tho land, and out of their
hand I will not deliver ihem.
7. And I will feed the flock of
slaughter, even you, O poor of the
flock. And I took unto me two
staves; the one I cafled Beauty, and
the other I cafled Bands ; and I fed the
flock. ***** 10. And I took my staff, even Beau
ty, and cut it asunder, that I might
break my covenant which I had made
with afl the people.
11. And it was broken in that day :
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And when this people should sell him at
the "goodly price" of "thirty pieces of
silver," — then would be broken the
other staff, or the "brotherhood be
tween Judah and Israel ;" because Ju
dah were no raore a people, for Shfloh
had corae, and they had crucified their
king.

The Letter.
18. And Jacob loved Rachel; and
said, I -will serve thee seven years for
Rachel thy younger daughter.
19. And Laban said. It is better that
I ^ve her to thee, than that I should
^vo her to another man: abide with
me. 20. And Jacob served seven years
for Rachel ; and they seemed unto him
but a few days, for the love he had to
her. Note.
This virtually represents the stipula
tions of the everlasting covenant, in
which the Father engages to give to the
Son, the church, which he should re
deem by becoming the Mediator of that
covenant and accomplishing the work
given him to do.
The first seven years' service of Jacob,
has reference'to the period which ended
with the giving of the law at Sinai,
when, by the typical redemption of Is
rael frora the land of Egypt Jeaus
shows how, "in the fulness of time," he
would deliver his true Israel from ttie
service of sin and Satan and the bond
age of the law, into the glorious liberty
of the sons of God.
At Sinai, however, instead of the wa
ges agreed upon, he receives ouly the
typical and fleshly spouse of the legal or
typical testament, — Leah instead of Ra-

upon me knew that it was the word of
the Lord.
12. And I said unto them. If ye think
good, give me my price; and if not,
forbear. So they weighed for my
price thirty pieces of sflver.
13. And the Lord said unto me. Cast
it unto the potter : a goodly price that
I was prized at of them. And I took
the thirty pieces of sflver, and cast them
to the potter in the house of the
Lord. 14. Then I cut asunder mine other
staff, eien Bands, that 1 might break
the brotherhood between Judah and
Israel.

The Spirit.
Hosea xu. 12. And Jacob fled into
the country of Syria, and Israel served
for a wife, and for a -wife he kept
sheep. Eph. 25. Husbands love your wives,
even as Christ also loved the church,
and gave himself for it ;
26. That he might sanctify and
cleanse it with the washmg of water
by the word,
27. That he might present it to him
self a glorious church, not ha\Tng spot
or wrinkle, or any such thing ; but that
it should be holy and without blemish.
John x. 11. I am the good shep
herd : the good shepherd giveth his life
for the sheep.
15. As the Father knoweth me, even
so know I the Father : and I lay down
my life for the sheep.
***** 18. No man taketh it from me, but
I lay it down of myself: I have power
to lay it down, and I have power to
take it again. This commandment
have I received of my Father.
RoM. V. 6. For when we were yet
without strength, 'in due tune Christ
died for the ungodly.
7. For scai-cely for a righteous man
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chel, — the natural instead of the spirit
ual; because under that testament, the
wagea must be of the sarae character as
the service, both weak and unprofitable
in bringing in the righteousness of faith,
yet necessarily preceding that " better
tMng," which was promised and couched
under the simflitude of carnal ordinan
ces, which could not take away sin, but
that were " imposed " for the time then
present The love of Christ for his
church, could not be more strongly
"comraended," than by his subsequent
endurance of all the faithlessness and
rebellion of that stiff-necked people, with
whora he was so unequally yoked ; but
which he endured with much long-suf
fering, as an ensaraple of what he would
bear for his own best beloved.

The Letter.
21. And Jacob said unto Laban,
Give me my wffe, for my days are ful
fflled, that I may go in unto her.
22. And Laban gathered together afl
the men of the place, and made a feast.
23. And it came to pass in the even
ing, that he took Leah his daughter,
and brought her to him : and he went
in unto her.
24. And Laban gave unto his daugh
ter Leah Zilpah his maid for an hand
maid. Note.
It was a multitude of people, even all
the raen of Israel, that were gathered to
gether at Sinai, when the marriage co
venant was ratified between them and
the Lord God of Israel. On that occa-

good man some would even dare to
die. 8. But God commendeth Ms love
toward us, in that, wMle we were yet
smners, Christ died for us.
Phil. U. 6. Who, being m the
form of God, thought it not robbery to
be equal with God ;
7. But made hunself of no reputa
tion, and took upon him the form of a
servant, and was made in the Ukeness
of men ;
8. And bemg found m fashion as a
man, he humbled himself and became
obedient unto death, even the death of
the cross.
1 CoR. XV. 45. And so it is written,
The first man Adam was made a Uving
soul, the last Adam was made a quick
ening spirit.
46. Howbeit, that was not first which
is sphitual, but that which is natural ;
and afterward that which is spiritual.
47. The first man is of the earth,
earthy: the second man is the Lord
from heaven.
48. As is the earthy, such are they
also that are earthy: and as is the
heavenly, such are they also that are
heavenly.

The Spirit.
Ex. xxiv. 1. And ho said unto Mo
ses, Come up unto tho Lord, thou, and
Aaron, Nadab, .and Abihu, and seventy
of the elders of Isi ael ; and worsMp ye
afar off.
2. And Moses alone shaU come near
the Lord: but they shall not come
nigh ; neither shall the people go up
with him.
3. And Moses came and told the
people afl the words of the Lord, and
all the judgments: and all the people
answered with ono voice, and said. All
the words which the Lord hath %aid
will we do.
4. And Moses wrote all tho words
of the Lord, and rose up early in the
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sion, he rightfiifly claimed that which
had been promised and " confirmed" to
hira by the Father, four hundred and
thirty years before, and which he had
redeemed " with an high hand and an
outstretched arm" frora the bondage of
Egypt But this raarriage feast was in the
dark and shadowy night of the " minis
tration of condemnation ;" and instead
of the bride of bis choice, for whora he
had stipulated, lo! in her place he re
ceives a blind and gainsaying people
that were not his. Even while the ar
ticles of this unequal union were being
ratified in the mount the woraan that
had hardly uttered her marriage vows,
was committing adultery with the gods
of Egypt, even within sight of the thun-
derings and lightnings, that solemnized
the nuptial feast.
Even Aaron the high priest, who had
just seen the God of Israel in the mount,
iu all the glory and majesty of the co
venant he -was there entering into with
that false and hypocritical nation, scru
pled not to form the calf, aud bow down
before it and say to ,the people, "These.
be thy gods, 0 Israel, that brought
thee up out of the land of Egypt."

hifl, and twelve pfllars according to the
twelve tribes of Israel.
5. And he sent young men of the
children of Israel, which offered bumt-
offerings, and sacrificed peace-offerings
of oxen unto the Lord.
6. And Moses took haff of the blood,
and put ii in basons, and half of the
blood he sprinkled on the altai-.
7. And ho took the book of the co
venant, and read in the audience of the
people: and they said, All that the
Lord hath said wfll we do, and be obe
dient. 8. And Moses took the blood, and
sprinkled it on the people, and said.
Behold the blood of the covenant, '
which the Lord hath made with you
concerning all these words.
9. Thon went up Moses, and Aaron,
Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the
elders of Israel.
10. And they saw the God of Israel :
and there was under his feet as it were
a paved work of a sapphire-stone, and
as it were the body of heaven m his
clearness. 11. And upon the nobles of the chfl
dren of Israel he laid not his hand:
also they saw God, and did eat and
drink. Ps. cvi. 19. They made a calf in
Horeb, and worshipped tho molten
image. 20. Thus they changed their glory
into the similitude of an ox that eateth

Tlie Letter.
25. And- it carae to pass, that, in flie
morning, behold, it luas Leah ; and he
said to Laban, What is this thou hast
done unto me ? did not I serve with
thee for Rachel ? wherefore theu h.ist
thou boffufled i:io ?

21. They forgat God their saviour,
which had done great things in Egypt :
22. Wondrous works in the land of
Ham, and terrible things by the Red

Tlie Spirit.
Ex. xxxii. 1. And when the people
saw that Moses delayed to come down
out of the mount, the people gathered
themselves together unto Aaron, and
said unto hira, Up, make us gods which
shall go before us: for as for -this Mo-

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26. And Laban said. It must not be
so done in our country, to give the
younger before the first-born.
27. Fulfil her week, and we will give
thee this also, for the service which
thou shalt serve with me yet seven
other years.
28. And Jacob did so, and fulfiUed
her week ; and he gave him Rachel his
daughter to wffe also.
29. And Laban gave to Rachel his
daughter BUhah his handmaid to be her
maid. 30. And ho went in also unto Ra
chel, and he loved also Rachel more
than Leah, and served with him yet
seven other years. Note.
The Spirit of truth cannot be beguiled
into mistaking or accepting the carnal
and worldly, for the spiritual and hea
venly; neither would the Redeenjer of
Zion receive one, whom he had passed
by and rejected, in making his choice
of the "reward ofhis sufferings" and la
bors, in the place of his best beloved, for
whom he had freely given hiraself to
serve. Yet was the carnal and worldly
"imposed upon hira until the restitution
of all things;" for it was the season of
outward profession, and not of inward
grace — of external and unprofitable
forms, and not of vital and saving god
liness. Leah was suffered to reraain, but Ra
chel waa given alao. So. in like man
ner, the carnal ordinances of the world
ly sanctuary remained in force during
the six days' labor of the law, but, by
the seed of proraise, the true "rest"
was enjoyed by faith : they looked and
waited for the better things which
these ordinances shadowed forth. In
the raidst of Jerusalera, the city of
carnal solemnities and legal rites, was
the " strong hold of the daughter of
Zion," in whose palaces God was known
by her as a refuge; and iu whose "se
cret chambers " were hidden his chosen
and best beloved, to whora even in that
dark night of empty profeaaion and
heartless form, he manifested himaelf
as he did not unto the world. Jacob

ses, the man that brought us up out of
the land of Egypt, we wot not what is
become of him.
2. And Aaron said unto them. Break
off the golden ear-rings which are in
the ears of your wives, of your sons,
and of your daughters, and bring them
unto mo.
3. And all the people brake off the
golden ear-rings which were in their
ears, and brought ;/iem unto Aaron.
4. And he received ihem at their
hand, and fashioned it with a graving
tool, after he had made it a molten
calf, and they said, ^hese be thy gods,
O Israel, which brought theo up out of
the land of Egypt.
5. And when Aaron saw ii, he buflt
an altar before it; and Aaron made
proclamation, and said, To-morrow is a
feast to tho Lord.
6. And they rose up eariy. on the
morrow, and oflcred burnt-offerings,
and brought peace-offerings: and the
people sat down to eat and to drmk,
and rose up to play.
7. And the Lord said unto Moses,
Go, get theo down : for thy people,
which thou broughtest out of the land
of Eg}'pt, have corrupted themselves :
8. They have turned aside quickly
out of the way which I commanded
them : they have made thom a molten
calf, and have worshipped it, and have
sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be
thy gods, O Israel, which have brought
thee up out of the land of Egypt.
9. And the Lord said unto Moses, I
have seen this people, and behold, it is
a stiff-necked people :
10. Now therefore let me alone,
that my wrath may wax hot against
them, and that I may consume them.
Num. xiv. 19. Pardon, I beseech
thee, the iniquity of this people, accord
ing unto the gi-eatness of thy mercy,
and as thou hast forgiven this people
from Egypt even until now.
20. And the Lord said, I have par
doned, according to thy word :
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served seven years longer than he
agreed to do; and God says to his first
covenant people, " Thou hast made rae
to serve with thy sins, and wearied me
with thine iuiquitiea."

The Letter.
31, 32. And when the Lord saw that
Leah was hated, ho opened her womb,
but Rachel was barren. And Leah
conceived and bare a son, and she
cafled his name Reuben, for she said.
Surely the Lord hath looked upon my
affliction ! now wUl my husband love
me. Note.
One part of the purpose to be an
swered by the first testaraent, with its
worldly sanctuary, ita carnal ordinau;
ces, and legal covenant was to show
forth in a figure, the nature and ulti
raate results of the new covenant state
of things under the gospel : particularly
the multitude, "numerous as the stars
of heaven," which were to be raised up.
The first fruits of the gospel, or dispen
sation of the Spirit, were the twelve apos
tles ; chosen and ordained to be the foun
dation stones of the visible kingdom.
These twelve are represented by the
twelve sons born to Jacob of the daugh
ters of Laban. But though Jesus first
called and appointed twelve to a special
work in his kingdom, we are not thence
to conclude that all these were true
disciples. One of them is expressly said
to be a devil ; and it appears that ano
ther, who was the father of Judas, was
a Canaanite — one of the accursed seed.
It ia also evident that othera were sub
sequently called to fill the places and
accomplish the ministry of several of
these twelve, aud that only flve out of
the twelve, are actually and expreaaly
diatinguished as men of faith.
But whfle Leah bore children, Rachel
was barren : so also there were twelve,
seventy, and even flve hundred disci-

earth shall be filled with the glory of
the Lord.
Ex. xxxi. 16. Wherefore the chil
dren of Israel shall keep the sabbath,
to observe the sabbath throughout their
generations, /or a perpetual covenant

The Spirit.
Ex. i. 7. And the chUdren of Israel
were fruitful, and mcreased abundantly,
and multipUed, and waxed exceeding
mighty; and the land was fiUed with
them. Deut. i. 10. The Lord your God
hath multipUed you, and behold, ye are
this day as the stars of heaven for mul
titude. 11. (The Lord God of your fathers
make you a thousand times so many
more as ye are, and bless you,. as he
hath promised you !)
Gen. xlix. 3. Reuben, thou art my
first-born, my might, and the begmning
of my strength, the exceUency of dig
nity, and tho excellency of power.*
4. Unstable as water, thou shalt not
excel ; because thou wentest up to thy
father's bed; then defiledst thou it:
he went up to my couch.
Deut. xxxui. 6. Let Reuben live,
and not die; and let not Ms men be
few.t

pies in Jerusalem, before the "promise
of the Father " was given, or " power
from on high " -visited the " daughter of
Zion," to increase her and make her
fruitful. The 3d verse of Gen. xUx. seems to
describe what Israel were, when God
raade a covenant with thera; and the
4th verse, his sentence upon them for
breaking that covenant

* Tile prophetic sentence of Jacob.
t The blessing of Moses upon Israel as a type
of the church ; and upon Reuben as a type or
representative of Peter.

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The Letter.
33. And she conceived again, and
bare a son ; and said. Because the
Lord hath heard that I was hated, he
hath therefore given me this son also :
and she cafled his name Simeon.
34. And she conceived again, and
bare a son; and said. Now this time
will my husband be joined unto me,
because I have borne him three sons :
therefore was Ms name called Levi.
Note.
From the quotation frora Deuterono
my, it would appear, that this blessing
of Moses upon Israel, as "king in Jeshu
run," had respect to the church under
the new covenant and the change of
priesthood from the tribe of Levi to the
order of Melchisedec ; of course, that
the blessing is upon that priesthood and
ihat " burnt sacriflce," and not upon
Levi. The lltli verse especially speaks
of the Redeemer, aa king as well aa
priest. The prophetic sentence of Jacob,
classes Simeon and Levi together. There
is allusion made to the raatter of the
men of Shechem ; but it is evident that
some other and greater cause exists for
this signal curse' which rests upon them.
By comparing these two passages with
the uaraes of the apostles, we discover
that both Judas Iscariot, whose bishopric
another took, and Simon his father, were
under a curse; and thus were united,
both by birth aud character, with each
other, as " brethren."
The Jewish high priests and doctors
of the law, were specially denounced
by Christ ; and upon them rested the
only curse which proceeded from hia
lips during his personal ministry.

TTie Spirit.
Deut. xxxii. 8. And of Levi he
said. Lei thy Thummin and thy Urim
be with thy holy one, whom thou didst
prove at Massah, and with whom
thou didst strive at the waters of
Meribah ;
9. Who said unto his father and to
his mother, I have not seen him, nei
ther did he acknowledge his brethren,
nor knew his own cMldren : for they
have observed thy word, and kept thy
covenant. 10. They shafl teach Jacob thy judg
ments, and Israel thy law ; they shall
put incense before thee, and whole
burnt sacrifice upon thine altar.
11. Bless, Lord, his substance, and
accept the work of his hands : smite
through the loins of them that rise
against him, and of them that hate him,
that they rise not again.
Gen. xlix. 5. Simeon and Levi are
brethren ; instruments of cruelty are in
their habitations.
6. O my soul, come not thou into
their secret ; unto their assembly, mine
honor, be not thou united ! for in their
anger they slew a man, and in their
self-will they digged down a wall.
7. Cursed be their anger, for ii was
fierce: and their wrath, for it was
cruel : I wUl divide them in Jacob, and
scatter them in Israel.
Matt. x. 2. Now the names of the
twelve apostles aro these ; The first,
Simon, who is caUed Peter, and An
drew his brother; James ihe son of
Zebedee, and John his brother ;
3. Philip, and Bartholomew; Tho
mas, and Matthew the publican ; James
ihe son of Alpheus, and Lebbeus, whose
surname was Thaddeus ;
4. Simon the Canaanite, and Judas
Iscariot, who also betrayed him.
John xui. 26. Jesus answered. He
it is to whom I shall give a sop, when
I have dipped ii. And when he had
dipped the sop, he gave it to Judas
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CHAPTER XXX.

The Letter.
35. And she conceived again, and
bare a son : and she said. Now wUl I
praise tho Lord: therefore she called
his narae Judah, and left bearing.
Chap. xxx. 1. And when Rachel
saw that she bare Jacob no chfldren,
Rachel envied her sister; and said
unto Jacob, Give me children, or else
Idle. 2. And Jacob's anger was kindled
against Rachel ; and he said. Am I m
God's stead, who hath withheld from
thee the fruit of the womb ?
4. And she said, Behold my maid
Bilhah, go in unto hor ; and she shall
bear upon my knees, that I may also
have children by her.
Note.
The prophetic vision of Jacob, con
cerning Judah, has special relation to
the triuraphant victory which Jesus
should achieve, by reason of the body
of fiesh which he ahould assume, and
which waa to descend from this tribe.
By stooping to become a servant for the
obedience of death, he should rise up
u "lion," to trample under foot the
necks of his eneraies, and to lead captive
the "roaring lion" that presumed to
dispute hia power. This tribe were to
be preserved (when the ten tribes of
Israel were scattered and lost) until
Sldloh came and assuraed the throne
and sceptre of his father David. The
11th and 12th verses allude to the
treading of the wine-press, described iu
the 63d chapter of Isaiah.
The blessing pronounced by Moses,
also has reference to the humiliation of
Christ in his mediatorial work, and the
sustaining power which should be
granted him under it
Upon the birth of Judah, Rachel be-

^The Spirit.
Gen. xlix. 8. Judah, thou art he
whom thy brethren shall praise; thy
hand shall be in the neck of thine ene
mies; thy father's children shafl bow
down before thee.
9. Judah is a lion's whelp ; from the
prey, my son, thou art gone up: he
stooped down, he couched as a Uon,
and as an old lion : who shaU rouse
him up?
10. The sceptre shafl not depart
from Judah, nor a lawgiver from be
tween Ms feet, until Shiloh come : and
unto him shall the gathering of the
people be.
11. Binding his foal unto tho vine,
and his ass's colt unto the choice vme;
he washed his garments in -wine, and
his clothes in the blood of grapes :
12. His eyes shall be red with wine,
and his teeth white with milk.
Dejjt. xxxiu. 7. And this is ihe
blessing of Judah : and he said. Hear,
Lord, the voice of Judah, and bring
him unto his people : let his hands be
sufficient for him, and be thou an help
to him from his enemies.

gins to murmur against her husband,
because she waa barren. But Jacob
answers her, virtually as Jesus did his
disciples, when they said, "Lord, wflt
thou at this tirae restore the kingdom
unto Israel? And he said unto them,
It is not for you to know the times or
the seasons which the Father hath re
served in his own hand ; but ye shaU
receive power after that the Holy Ghost
is come upon you," &e.
The typical character of Judah wfll
be considered under the examination of
the prophetic blessing of Jacob, in the
49th chapter.

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The Letter.
^ 4. And she gave him Bilhah her
handmaid to wife : and Jacob went in
unto her.
5. And BUhah conceived, and bare
Jacob a son.
6. AndRachelsaid, God hath judged
me, and hath also heard my voice, and
hath given me a son : therefore called
she his name Dan.
7. And BUhah, Rachel's maid, con
ceived again, and bare Jacob a second
son. 8. And Rachel said. With great
wrestiings have I wrestled with my
sister, and I have prevailed: and she
cafled his name Naphtali.
9. When Leah saw that she had
loft bearing, she took Zflpah her maid,
and gave her Jacob to wife.
10. And Zflpah, Leah's maid, bare
Jacob a son.
11. And Leah said, A troop cometh:
and she cafled his name Gad.
12. And ZUpah, Leah's maid, bare
Jacob a second son.
13. And Leah said, Happy am I, for
the daughters wiU call me blessed :
and she called his name Asher.
Note.
Impatient at the delay ot that which
ehe looked for, Rachel deviaes a method
of her own, to bring it about, and
gives her handmaid Bilhah to Jacob,
as Sarah had -given Hagar to Abra
ham. In this way, Dan became a judge
of the people as one of the tribes of
larael ; but, from the words of both Jacob
* and Moses concerning him, he was but
au adder in the path ; — a lion's whelp,
leaping from Bashan upon his prey, —
even as the "atrong bulls of Bashan,"
that compassed the Son of God. And
still Rachel looked and waited for " the
salvation of God," for ahe found her own
device to fafl. Another son was given
her in the same way ; but upon Naph
tali a blessing seems to rest
20

The Spirit.
Gen. xlix. 16. Dan shaU judge his
people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
17. Dan shall be a serpent by the
way, an adder in the path, that biteth
fhe horse-heels, so that his rider shall
fall backward.
18. I have waited for thy salvation,
O Lord. 19. Gad, a troop shall overcome
him: but he shall overcome at the
last. 20. Out of Asher his bread shall be
fat, and he shaU yield royal dainties.
21. Naphtali is a hind let loose: he
giveth goodly words.
Deut. xxxfli. 20. And of Gad he
said, Blessed be he tljat enlargeth
Gad : he dwelleth as a lion, and
teareth the arm with the crown of the
head. 21. And he provided the first part
for himself, because there, in a portion
of the lawgiver, was he seated ; and he
came with the heads of the people, he
executed tho justice of the Lord, and
his judgments, with Israel.
22. And of Dan he said, Dan is a
lion's whelp : he shaU leap from Ba
shan. 23. And of NaphtaU he said, O
NaphtaU, satisfied with favor, and full
with the blessing oi the Lord ; possess
thou the west aud the south.
24. And of Asher he said. Lei Asher
be blessed with cMldren ; let hun be
acceptable to his brethren, and let him
dip Ms foot in oil.
25. Thy shoes shall be iron and
brass; and as thy days, so shall thy
strength be.

Leah follows the example of Rachel,
and gives her handmaid also to Jacob,
who becomes the mother of Gad and
Asher. Both of these sons have proraise
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The Letter.
14. And Reuben went, in the days
of wheat-harvest, and found mandrakes
in the field, and brought them unto his
mother Leah. Then Rachel said to
Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's
mandrakes. 15. And she said unto her. Is it a
small matter that thou hast taken my
husband? and wouldest thou take
away my son's mandrakes also ? And
Rachel said. Therefore he shall Ue
with thee to-night for thy son's man
drakes. 16. And Jacob came out o9the field
m the evenmg, and Leah went out to
meet him, and said. Thou must come
in unto me; for surely I have hired
thee vrith my son's mandrakes. And
he lay with her that night.
17. And God hearkened unto Leah,
and she conceived, and bare Jacob the
fifth son.
18. And Leah said, God hath given
me my hire, because I have given my
• maiden to my husband : and she caUed
his name Issachar.
19. And Leah conceived again, and
bare Jacob the sixth son.
20. And Leah said, God hath en
dowed me with a good dowry; now
wifl my husband dwefl with me, be
cause I have borne him six sons : and
she called his name Zebulun.
21, And afterwards she bare a daugh
ter, and called her name Diaah.
Note.
Zebulun and Issachar are bidden to
rejoice in their peculiar calling, — the
one in " going out " upon the sea, the
other in his tents on laud, but both be
ing eoraraissioned to " call the people to
the mountain" of the Lord's house.
The sons of Zebulun were thus to be
come "fishers of raen" — while the sons
of Issachar, as good shepherds of the
flock, were to feed the sheep and larabs
when thus gathered to the fold. They
both have promiae of abundant pros
perity.

The Spirit. " *
Gen. xlix. 13. Zebulun shaU dwefl
at the haven of the sea : and he shall
be for a haven of ships ; and Ms border
shall be unto Zidon.
14. Issachar is a strong ass, couch
ing down between two bmdens :
15. And he saw that rest was good,
and the land that ii was pleasant ; and
bowed his shoulder to bear, and be
came a servant unto tribute.
Deut. xxxiu. 18. And of Zebulun
he said. Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going
out ; and, Issachar, in thy tents.
19. They shafl 'Call the people unto
the mountain; there they shall offer
sacrifices of righteousness: for they
shall suck (f the, abundance of the
seas, and of treasures hid in the
sand. 1 Pet. iv. 17. For the time is come
that judgment must begin at the house
of God : and if it first begin at us, what
shall the end be of them that obey not
the gospel of God ?
18. And ffthe righteous scarcely be
saved, where shafl the ungodly and the
smner appear ?
19. Wherefore, let them that suf
fer according to the wfll of God, com
mit the keepmg of their souls io him
in well-doing, as unto a faithful Crea
tor.

Thus had Leah and the two hand-
raaidens borne to Jacob ten sons. Leah
afterwarda beara a daughter, called
Dinah. Dinah signifies Judgment ; and ^
it appears from her subsequent history,
in chapter xxxiv., that by her means
judgments fell upon the family of Jacob,
through her mixing with the people of
the land, whose intercourse was forbid
den to Israel.
But this is only a faint similitude of
the evils brought upon the church of
Christ by reaaon of the unholy asso,cia-
tion of her members with the ungod
ly ; by which their garments become
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tility ia destroyed, and their usefulness
greatly diminished; and, more than all,
a reproach'is brought upon the narae
and cause of Christ.
"When the sons of Jacob found the
evil which had befallen their siater, they
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TTie Letter.
22. And God remembered Rachel,
and God hearkened to her, and opened
her womb.
23. And she conceived, and bare a
son; and said, God hath taken away
my reproach.
24. And she cafled his name Joseph;
and said, Tho Lord shall add to me
another son. Note.
In the person and history of Joseph
we are presented -with a new type of
the Redeemer aad his work.
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the fa
thera of Israel, aa typea of the Father,
Son, and Holy Spirit, exhibit the dis
tinctive official part which each of the
persons in the Godhead bears in the
work of rederaption, as pledged and
revealed in the covenant of grace. In
Joseph is presented the personal rainis
try of Christ upon earth, as the " "Word
that was raade flesh and dwelt among
men.'- As Rachel had long waited for this
son, so the church had for ages waited
for the coming of him who should take
away her reproach. And iu him ahe
recognised the sure fulfilment of yet
greater good, in the accessions which
' should be made to her through this gift
In the advent of the antitypical Joseph
she saw by faith the accomplishraent of
all the glorious predictions of her own
latter-day glory, — when she should be
raade the "joyful raother of children " —
"not of the Jews only, but alao of the
Gentiles," — when she should becorae
"an eternal excellency, the joy of the
whole earth."
The word Joseph signifies " adding,"
and doubtless alludes not only to the
fact that hia birth would be followed by

the offenders, instead of dealing with
them iu a proper aud suitable raanner..
This, also, is often the case among pro-
feaaors of religion, who scruple not to
avenge their own cause, instead of using -
right means of redress.

The Spirit.
Isa. liv. 1. Sing, O barren, thou-.
ihat didst not bear ; break forth ihti)'
singing, and cry aloud, thou thai didst
hot travaU with chfld : for more are the
children of th^ desolate than tho chil
dren of the married wife, saith tho-
Lord. 2. Enlarge tho place of thy tent, and^
let them stretch forth the curtains of"
thy habitations ; spare not, length
en thy cords, and strengthen thy
stakes :
3. For thou shalt break forth on the ¦
right hand and on the left; and thy
seed shafl inherit tho GentUes, and
make the desolate cities to be inha
bited. 4. Fear not ; for thou shalt not be
ashamed : neither be thou confounded ;
for thou shalt not be put to shame : for
thou shalt forgot the shame of thy
youth, and shalt not remember the-
reproach of thy widowhood any
more. 5. For thy Maker is thy husband;
The Lord of hosts is his name ; and.
thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel :
The God of the whole earth shafl he be
cafled. 6. For the Lord hath called thee as
a woman forsaken and grieved m spirit,
and a vrife of youth, when thou wast
refused, saith thy God.
xUx. 6. And he said. It is a light
thing that thou shouldest be my ser
vant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and
to restore the preserved of Israel : I
wfll also give thee for a light to the
Gentfles, that thou mayest be my sal
vation unto the end of the earth.
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that of Benjamin, — ^but to the bringing
in of the Gentflea, of whom Benjamin is
the type.

The Letter.
26. And it came to pass, when Ra-
-chel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said
unto Laban, Send me away, that I
-may go unto mine own place, and to
my country.
26. Give me my wives and my chil
dren, for whom I have served thee, and
let me go; for thou knowest my ser-
mee which I have done thee.
Note.
During fourteen yeara Jacob had pa
tiently served Laban without any inti
mation of a cessation of that service, or
wish to be released fr(jm it. But as
soon aa Joseph is born, as if thia waa the
-signal for departure and that " the ful
ness of time" had come, when the heirs
of promise (who had hitherto "differed
nothing frora servants," though really
children of the kingdom, and heirs of all)
should be delivered from " bondage un
der the elements of the world," Jacob
deraanda that they should be set at li
berty. In like manner, " before faith came,"
or before Jesus was raade manifest in the
flesh, the sons of God or heira of the
kingdom, were " kept under the law,
ahut up unto the faith which should af
terwards be revealed."
As a reason for this release, Jacob
urges the fact of his own aervice ; ae if
he had a right to deraand the wagea
which had been stipulated, for which
ample equivalent had been rendered by
hira according to agreeraent He inti-
raates that the birth of Joseph, the
" seed of promise," was that which he
had waited to accomplish, and now
having all that he desired, he wished
only to be set at liberty with hia house
hold. In like manner, when Jesus had paid

thy light, and kmgs to the brightness
of thy rismg.
John xi. 52. And not for that na
tion only, but that also he should ga
ther together in one the chfldren of
God that were scattered abroad.

The Spirit.
John xvu. 1. These words spake
Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven,
and said, Father, the hour is come;
glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may
glorffy thee.
Gal. iU. 23. But before faith came,
we were kept under the law, shut up
unto the faith which should afterwards
be revealed.
24. "Wherefore the law was our
school-master lo bring us unto Christ,
that we might be j-astified by faith.
25. But after that faith is come, we
are no longer under'a school-master.
26. For ye are all tho cMldren of
God by faith in Christ Jesus.
27. For as many of you as have
been baptized mto Christ, have put on
Christ 28. There is neither Jew nor Greek,
there is neither bond nor free, there is
neither male nor female : for ye are all
one in Christ Jesus.
29. And ff ye be Christ's, then are
ye Abraham's seed, and heirs accordmg
to the promise.
iv. 7. Wherefore thou art no more
a servant, but a son ; and ff a son, then
an heir of God through Christ.
8. Howbeit then, when ye knew not
God, ye did service unto them which
by nature are no gods.
9. But now, after that ye have
known God, or rather are known of
God, how turn ye again to the weak
and beggarly elements, whereunto ye
desu-e again to be in bondage ?
Gal. iv. 1 . Now I say, That the heh,
as long as he is a child, differeth nothing
from a servant, though he be lord of afl ;
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the redemption price of hia people, he
claims their full and complete discharge
from all that could be brought pgainst
thera. If they were in bondage, he had
purchased their freedora ; if they were
held under conderanation aa sinners, it
waa Christ that had borne their sins in
his own body, and paid the uttermost
farthing of all that they owed to the
clairas of Justice.

ors until the time appointed of the
father. 3. Even so we, when we were chil
dren, were in bondage under the ele
ments of the world :
4. But when tho fulness of the time
was come, God sent forth his Son,
made of a woman, made under the law,
5. To redeem them that were under
the law, that we might receive tho adop-
tmn of sons.

The Letter.
Note.
Joseph is here compared with a fruit
ful bough or vine, planted by a well, &c.
This alludes to the oath and promise of
God made to Abrahara respecting hia
" aeed," in whora all the nations of the
earth should be blessed. As a witness
to the "men of Gerar" that this pro
mise was to be accomplished in their
land, or among them, Abraham planted
a tree by Beer-sheba or the well of the
oath.* But the branches of this vine,
which should grow frora the stera of
Jesse, were to run over the Jewish wall,
and extend to the Gentiles, even unto
the ends of the earth.
The hatred and persecution of Jesus
from his brethren according to the flesh,
together with blessings which should
rest upon hira iu conaequence of his be
coming subject to suffering and death,
are also alluded to. The blessings which
should rest upon him, should exceed
that of hia progenitors, even to the ut
most bound of the everlasting hills : —
this being confirraed by the words of
Paul in PMlippians ii., " Therefore God
hath highly exalted him, and given him
a name that is above every name," &a.
The blessing pronounced by Moses is
also equally and specially full and
abounding over all.
Benjamin is represented first, as raven
ing like a wolf greedy of prey ; and at
evening, as dividing the spoil. This
seems to have allusion not only to the
early and the latter condition of the

• See chapter xxix. 29-34.

The Spirit.
Deut. xxxUi. 13. And of Joseph he
said, Blessed of the Lord be his land,
for the precious things of heaven, for
the dew, and for the deep that coucli-
efh beneath,
14. And for the precious fruits
brought forth by the sun, and for tho
precious thmgs put forth by the moon,
15. And for the chief things of the
ancient mountains, and for the precious
things of the lasting hills,
16. And for the precious tMngs of
the earth and fulness thereof, and for
the good wiU of Mm that dwelt in the
bush: lot ihe blessing come upon the
head of Joseph, and upon the top of
the head of him that was separated
from his brethren.
17. His glory is like the firsflmg of
his bullock, and his horns are like tho
horns of unicorns : with them he shall
push the people together to the ends
of the earth: and they are the ten
thousands of Ephraim, and they are
the thousands of Manasseh.
Gen. xlix. 22. Joseph is a fruitful
bough, even a fruitful bough by a well,
whose branches run over the wall :
23. The archers have sorely grieved
him, and shot at him, and hkteA him :
24. But Ms bow abode in strength,
and the arms of his hands were made
strong by the hands of the mighty God
of Jacob: (from thence is the Shep
herd, the Stone of Israel :)
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Gentiles, but also to the first and the
subsequent character of their great
apostle Paul ; ouce a savage persecutor,
and afterwards a devoted servant, and
partaker, of the aalvatiou which he
would have destroyed.

The LUler.
27. And Laban said unto him, I
pray thee, if I have found favour in
thine eyes, tarry : for I have learned by
experience that the Lord hath blessed
me for thy sake.
28. And he said. Appoint me thy
wages, and I wfll give ii.
Note.
The people of Israel could not be
insensible to the advantages which
they enjoyed as the peculiar people
of God; and though they did not
profit by them, yet, when threatened
with their removal, they readily pro
mised all that he required. In their
blind self-righteousness, they presumed
that their imperfect obedience was an
ample equivalent for all that they re
ceived at the hand of the Lord. " "When
he slew thera, then they sought him ;"
but they soon forgot his works. They
remerabered not his hand, nor the won
ders he had wrought "All that the
Lord hath said, we will do," was their
language at Sinai ; and when the last

who shafl help thee, and by the Al
mighty, who shafl bless thee with bless.
ings of heaven above, blessings of the
deep that Ueth under, blessings of the
breasts and of the womb :
26. The blessings of thy father have
prevaUed above the blessings of my
progenitors unto the utmost bound of
the everlasting hflls; they shaU be on
the head of Joseph,"and on the crown
of the head of Mm that was separate
from his brethren.
27. Benjamm shaU raven as a wolf;
in the morning he shafl devour the
prey, and at night he shafl divide the
spoU. 28. All these are the twelve tribes
of Israel : and this is ii that their fa
ther spake unto them, and blessed
them; every one accordmg to his
blessing he blessed them.

The Spirit.
John. vi. 26. Jesus answered
them, and said, "Verfly, verily, I say
unto you. Ye seek me, not because ye
saw the miracles, but because ye did
eat of the loaves, and were fifled.
Ps. cvi. 8. Nevertheless he saved
them for his name's sake, that he might
make his mighty power to be known.
9. He rebuked the Red sea also,
and it was dried up : so he led them
through the depths, as through the
wfldemess. 10. And he saved them from the
hand of Mm that hated them.
Ixxvui. 34. When he slew them, then
they sought him: and they retumed
and inquired early after God.
35. And they remembered that God
was their Rock, and the high God
their Redeemer.
36. Nevertheless they did flatter him
with their mouth, and they fled unto
him with their tongues.
Matt. ix. 36. And Jesus went
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prophet-* was sent to warn and reprove
them for their iniquities, and exhort
thera to return unto hira, they presurap-
tuously reply, "Wherein shall we re
turn ?" So besotted were they in their
blind confidence (after all this), that the
promises and privileges of the everlast
ing covenant were theirs by right of
birth, that when John came, preaching
in the wilderness "the kingdora of
heaven is at hand," they scrupled not
to demand the ordinances and institu
tions of the new dispensation, upon the
plea that they had " Abraham to their
father /" Though expreaaly and repeat
edly admonished, that the coraing of
John was the signal of their being cast
out of that kingdom for ever, yet they
persisted to presutne upon former favors,
and upon the signal forbearance which
had been exerciaed toward them, and
imagined that ita chief honors and im
munities were of right their own.

The Letter.
29. And he said unto hun. Thou
knowest how I have served thee, and
how thy cattie was with me.
30. For it was littie which thou
hadst befpre I came, and it is now in
creased unto a multitude; and the

* Malachi.

ing in their synagogues, and preaching
the gospel of the kingdom, and healing
every sickness, and every disease,
among Ihe people.
viU. 16. When the even was come,
they brought unto him many that were
possessed with devfls : and he cast out
the spirits with his words, and healed
aU that were sick :
17. That it might be fulfilled which .
was spoken by Esaias the prophet, say
ing. Himself took our infirmities, and
bare our sicknesses.-
IsA. V. 1. Now wUl I sing to my
well-beloved a song of my beloved
touching his vineyard. My well-be
loved hath a vmeyard m a very fruit
ful hfll.
2. And he fenced it, and gathered
out the stones thereof, and planted it
with the choicest vine, and built a tower
in the midst of it, and also made a wine
press therein: and he looked that it
should' bring forth grapes, and it
brought forth wild grapes.
3. And now, O inhabitants of Jeru
salem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray
you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
4. What could have been done more
to my vineyard, that I have not done in
it ? wherefore, when I looked that it
should bring forth grapes, brought it
forth wfld grapes ?
Hosea vu. 15. I wfll go and return
to my place, tUl they acknowledge their
offence, and seek my face : in their af
fiiction they wfll seek me early.

The Spirit.
Deut. vu. 7. The Lord did not set
his love upon you, nor choose you, be
cause ye were more m number than
any people ; for ye were the fewest of
all people :
8. But because the Lord loved you,
and. because he would keep the oath
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Lord hath blessed thee since my com
ing: and now, when shafl I provide for
mme own house also ?
" Note.
God, by the mouth of hia prophets,
was continually calling the attention of
his ancient people to the signal and un
merited mercies they had received from
his hand. He rerainda thera of their
original : — that they were the feweat of
all people, — ^but he had raade thera to
increaae " aa the atara of heaven and the
aands upon the sea-ahore." He alao
gives them to understand that the daya
would come, when he should break his
covenant connection with them as a na
tion and people, and when he would
create "a new heaven and a new earth,
in which dwelleth righteousness ;" — a
fold to wMch he would gather his own
sheep, and feed them aa a true shepherd,
whose own the sheep were ; and from
which they should be excluded.
This purpose of grace, in "providing
for his own household," waa fiUly and
frequently declared during the exiatence
of the first testament; yet, when the
tirae carae that it should be accoraplish
ed, those whora he had so long nourished
and brought up as children, but who
had rebelled against him, murmured
and reviled and hated him, because he
told them that the vineyard should be
taken from them, and be given to those
who should bring forth the fruits there
of; and that publicans and harlots
should enter the kingdom before them.

hath the Lord brought you out with a
mighty hand, and redeemed you out of
the house of bond-men, from the hand
of Pharaoh Mng of Egypt.
Ps. Ixxriii. 12. Marveflous thmgs
did he, in the sight of tiieir fathers, in
the land of Egypt, in the field of
Zoan. 13. He divided the sea, and caused
them to pass through; and he made
the waters to stand as a heap.
14. In the day-tune also he led them
with a cloud, and afl the night vrith a
light of fire.
15. He clave the rocks in the wilder
uess, and gave ihem drmk as out of the
great depths.
16. He brought streams also out of
the rock, and caused waters to run
down like rivers.
cv. 37. He brought them forth also
with sUver and gold: and there was
not one feeble person among their
tribes. 38. Egypt was glad when they de
parted : for, the fear of them fefl upon
them. 39. He spread a cloud for a cover
ing; and fire to give light in the
night. 40. The people asked, and he brought
quafls, and satisfied them with the
bread of heaven.
41. He opened the rock, and the
waters gushed out ; they ran m the dry
places like a river.
42. For he remembered his holy pro
mise, and Abraham his servant.
43. And he brought forth his people
with joy, and his chosen with glad
ness: 44. And gave, them the lands of the
heathen : and they inherited the labour
of the people.

The Letter.
31. And he said, "What shall I give
thee ? And Jacob said. Thou shalt not
give me any thing. If thou wilt do tMs

The Spirit.
Ps. 1. 13. Wfll I eat the flesh of
bufls, or drink the blood of goats?
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thing for me, I wifl agam feed and keep
thy flock.
32. I -wifl pass through all thy fiock
to-day, removing from thence all the
speckled and spotted cattle, and all the
brown cattle among the sheep, and the
spotted and speckled among the goats;
and of such shall be my hire.
33. So shall my righteousness an
swer for me in time to come, when it
shaU come for my hire before thy face :
every one that is not speckled and
spotted among the goats, and brown
among the sheep, that shall be counted
stolen with me. Note.
So deep-rooted was the principle of a
legal righteousness, in the hearts of the
Jews, that they could never compre
hend any other mode of dealing than
that of trade or barter ; — rendering an
equivalent for -value received. They
could not understand the free grace of
the gospel ; — justification by faith, with
out the deeds of the law. Neither had
they any conception of the spirituality
of the law; — that it required what, in
itself, it furnished no ability to render;
that it took cognisance of the thoughts
and intents of the heart ; aud could be
satisfied with nothing short of a perfect
and spotless righteousness.
But the " children of the kingdom" —
those that he had chosen aud formed
for himself — were not like these. They
were a peculiar people, called out and
separated from the world, and consti
tuted, not only by choice, but by the
renewing of the Holy Ghost the sons
aud daughters of the Lord Almighty.
They were not merely called by his
name and numbered with hia people,
but they were actually and essentially
different from the world.
But had Jesus redeemed this people
by his blood ; — bad he paid the ransom
for them even by giving himself to die
that they raight live, — and then, had he
left them in the world, to be the servants
of sin, and of the same spirit and temper
with the children of the wicked one, how
would they have been known and re
cognised as his chosen people? How

and pay thy vows unto tho Most
High. Mal. iii. 18. Then shaU ye return
and discem between the righteous
and tho wicked, between him that
serveth God and him that serveth him
not. ***** 17. And they shaU bo mine, saith
the Lord of hosts, in that day when I
make up my jewels.
1 Pet. U. 9. But ye are a chosen
generation, a royal priesthood, an holy
nation, a peculiar people ; that ye
should shew forth the praises of him
who hath caUed you out of darkness
into his marveflous light :
10. Which in time past were not a
people, but are now the peojile of God :
which had not obtained mercy, but now
have obtained mercy.
Deut. xiv. 2. For thou ari a holy
people unto the Lord thy God, and the
Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar
people unto himself, above all tho na
tions that are upon the earth.
John xv. 19. If ye were of the
world, the world would love his
own; but because ye are not of the
world, but I have chosen you out of
the world, therefore the world hateth
you. Titus ii. 11. For the grace of God
that bringeth salvation hafh appeared to
all men,
12. Teaching us, that, denying un
godliness and worldly lusts, wo should
live soberly, righteously, and godly, in
this present world ;
13. Looking for that blessed hope,
and the glorious appearing of tho great
God and our Saviour Jesus Christ ;
14. "Who gave himself for us, that
he might redeem us from aU iniqmty,
and puiffy unto himself a peculiar peo
ple, zealous of good works.
Ezk. xxxiv. 17. And as for you, O
my flock, thus saith the Lord God;
Behold, I judge between cattie and
cattie, between the rams and the he-
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cou'd he have olairaed them, as his pro-,
perty, unless his own raark of ownership
was put upon thera 1

The Letter.
34. And Laban said. Behold, I would
it might be according to thy word.
35. And he removed that day the he-
goats that were ring-streaked and spot
ted, and afl the she-goats that were
speckled and spotted, and every one
that had some white in it, and afl the
brown among the sheep, and gave them
mto the hand of his sons.
36. And he set three days' journey
betwixt himself and Jacob : and Jacob
fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
Note.
Laban is quite ready to yield to Jacob
f he spotted and speckled of his flock ; —
especially as such were prohibited in the
offerings of the sanctuary. Iu choosing
these for his portion, Jacob may possibly
have been moved by a typical reference
to this very fact, for the purpose of show
ing the difference between the outward
and worldly service, in which respect
was had to external purity, — and the
inward spiritual grace ; and that he " is
not a Jew which is one outwardly ; nei
ther is that circuracision which is out
ward in the flesh ; but he ia a Jew which
is one inwardly; and circumcision is
that of the heart in the spirit and not in
the letter ; whose praise is not of raen,
but of God." Such aa are of this cha
racter are always cast out by the world
and worldly professors, who have no
fellowship with thera.
The three days' journey which Laban
set between himself and Jacob, raay
have reference, both to the figurative

20. Therefore thus saith tho Lord
God unto them ; Behold, I, even I, wfll
judge between the fat cattle and be
tween the lean cattle.
21. Because ye have thrust with side
and with shoulder, and pushed all the
diseased with your horns, till ye have
scattered them abroad ;
22. Therefore will I save my flock,
and they shall no more be a prey.

The Spirit.
Matt. xxvi. 33. And he shaU set
the sheep on his right hand, but the
goats on the left.
34. Then shafl the King say unto
them on his right hand. Come, ye
blessed of my Father, inherit the Mng
dom prepared for you from the founda
tion of the world ;
35. For I was an hungered, and ye
gave me meat : I was tMrsty, ."ind ye
gave me drink: I was a stranger, and
ye took me in :
36. Naked, and ye clothed me: I
was sick, and ye visited me : I was in
prison, and ye came unto me.
37. Then shaU the righteous answer
him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee
an hungered, and fed ihee .' or thu-sty,
and gave ihee drink ?
38. When saw we theo a stranger, and
took thee in ? or naked, and clothed thee ?
39. Or when saw we thee sick, or in
prison, and came unto thee ?
40. And the King shafl answer and
say unto them, VerUy I say unto you,
Inasmuch as yo have done it unto one
of the least of these my brethren, ye
have done it unto me.
41. Then shall he say also unto
them on the left hand. Depart from me,
ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared
for the devil and his angels :
42. For I was an hungered, and ye
gave me no meat . I was thirsty, and
ye gave me no drink :
43. I v/as a stranger, and ye took
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or embleraatic death and resurrection in
which believers are said to be one with
Christ and thus delivered frora this pre
sent evil world ; also to the resurrection
of the dead, and their final judgraent
before the throne of the Son of man.
The resurrection of the righteous is re
presented to he^flrst, — and afterwards
" all the dead shall be raised," aud all
nations gathered before the judgment
seat Theu- the righteous will be sepa
rated from the wicked ; and the distin
guishing marks of the righteous will
prove them to be the true children of
the kingdom ; — while the absence of
those marks upon the wicked, will show
that they are not his. "So shall his
righteousness answer for hira in tirae
to corae, when it shall come for his hire
before the face of Laban."

TTie Letter.
37. And Jacob took him rods of
green poplar, and of the hazel and
chesnut-tree, and pflled white streaks
in them, and made the white appear
which was in the rods.
38. And he set the rods which he
had pUled before tho fiocks in the gut
ters in the watering-troughs, when the
fiocks came to drink, that they should
conceive when they came to drigk.
39. And the flocks conceived before
the rods, and brought forth cattie ring-
streaked, speckled and spotted.
40. And Jacob did separate the
iambs, and set fhe faces of the flocks
toward the ring-streaked, and afl the
brown in the flock of Laban ; and he
put Ms own flocks by themselves, and
put them not unto Laban's cattle.
Note.
The method employed by Jacob to
increase the number of his flock, has al
lusion to the transforming eflicacy of
divine truth under the " dispensation of
the Spirit" This sanctifying and quick
ening power of the word, was predicted
thus under the first testament, "For

not : sick, and in prison, and ye visited
me not.
44. Then shall they also answer him,
saying, Lord, when saw we theo an
hungered, oi- athirst, or a stranger, or
naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not
minister unto thee ?
45. Then shafl he answer them, say
ing. Verily, I say unto you, Inasmiich as
ye did it not to one of the least of these,
ye did il not to me.
46. And these shall go away into
everlasting punishment: but the right
eous into life etemal.
Rev. XX. 6. But tho rest of the dead
Uved not again untfl tho thousand years
were finished. This is the first resur
rection.

The Spirit.
2 CoE. iu. 18. But we afl, -with open
face beholding as in a glass the glory of
tho Lord, are changed into the same
image from glory to glory, ei;cra as by
the Spirit of the Lord.
RoM. xii. 1. I beseech you there
fore, brethren, by the mercies of God,
that ye present your bodies a living
sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God,
which is your reasonable service.
2. And be not conformed to this
world ; but be ye transformed by the
renewing of your mind, that ye may
prove what is that good, and acceptable,
and perfect will of God.
vUi. 29. For vi'hom he did foreknow,
he also did predestinate to be conform
ed to the image of his Son, that he
might be the first-born among many
brethren. 30. Moreover, whom he did predes
tinate, them he also cafled ; and whom
he called, them he also justified ; and
whom he justified, them he also glori
fied. 1 CoR. XV. 48. As is the earthy, such
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as the rain cometh down, and the snow
frora heaven, and returneth not thither,
but watereth tbe earth, and raaketh it
bring forth and bud, that it may give
aeed to the sower and bread to the
eater, so shall my word be that goeth
forth out of my mouth : it shall not re
turn unto me void, but it shall accora
plish that which I please, and it shall
prosper in the thing whereto I send
it," &e.
Of this sarae work, Jesus testifies to
Nicodemus thua : — " Verily, verily, I
aay unto thee, Kxcept a mau be born of
water and of the Spirit he cannot enter
into the kingdom of God. That which
ia born of the flesh, is flesh ; and that
which is born of the Spirit is spirit."
It ia the special office-work of the Spirit
to open the eyes of the understanding
to discern spiritual things, so as to be
changed into their iraage and con
forraed to their nature ; for it is a part
of the divine purpose, that the children
of the kingdom, those whom he has
chosen and predestinated, should be
conformed to the iraage of his Son, that
he might be the first-born among many
brethren.

The Letter.
41. And it came to pass, whenso
ever the stronger cattle did conceive,
that Jacob laid the rods before the
eyes of the cattie in the gutters, that
they might conceive among the rods.
42. But when the cattie were fee
ble, he put ihem not in : so the feebler
were Laban's, and the stronger Ja
cob's. 43. And the man increased exceed
ingly, and had much cattle, and maid-

the heavenly, such are they also that
are heavenly.
49. And as we have borne the image
of the earthy, we shall also bear the
image of the heavenly.
60. Now this I say, brethren, that
flesh and blood cannot inherit the
Mngdom of God ; neither doth corrup
tion inherit incorruption.
51. Behold, I shew you a mystery:
We shafl not all sleep, but we shall all
be changed.
IsA. xliU. 21. This people have I
formed for myself; they shall shew
forth my praise.
John xiv. 26. But the Confforter,
which is the Holy Ghost, whom the
Father will send in my name, he shafl
teach you all things, and brmg all
things to your remembrance, whatso
ever I have said unto you.
xvi. 14. He shall glorify me : for he
shall receive of mine, and shaU shew il
unto you.
15. AU things that the Father hath
are mine : therefore said I, that he shall
take of mine, and shafl shew it unto
you. xvU. 17. Sanctffy them through thy
truth : thy word is truth.
18. As thou hast sent me into the
world, even so have I also sent them
into the world.
19. And for their sakes 1 sanctffy
myself, that they also might be sancti
fied through the truth.

The Spirit.
John iii. 6. Jesus answered, Verfly,
verily, I say unto thee, Except a man
be born of water, and of the Spu-it,
he cannot enter into the kingdom of
God. 6. That which is born of the flesh, is
flesh ; and that which is bom of the
Spirit, is spirit.
1 Pet. i. 22. Seeing ye have puri
fied your souls in obeying the truth
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servants, and men-servants, and camels,
and asses. Note.
It is promised of the goapel day, that
the " feeble shall be as David, and the
house of David shall be as God," &c.
The weak and faint-hearted are made
to become strong in the Lord and the
power of his might ; and strengthened
by his Spirit in the inner man, they are
enabled to "run through a troop 'and
leap over a wall."
How is this great work effected ! It
is only by giving to those that have no
might, who in themselves are with
out strength, and can do nothing, to see
that "in the Lord Jehovah they have
everlasting strength." He says to his
fearful trembling saints, "Hast thou not
known ? Hast thou not heard, that the
everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator
of the ends of the earth, fainteth not,
neither is weary ? There is no searching
of his understanding ; he giveth power
to the faint, and to them that have no
might he increaseth strength. Even the
youths shall faiut aud be weary, and
the young men shall utterly fall (of La
ban's flock), but they that wait upon
the Lord shall renew their strength :
they shall raount up with wings as
eagles ; they ahall run and not be
weary; and "they ahall walk and not
faint."

lovo of tho brethren, see thai ye love
ono another vrith a pure heart fer-
ventiy :
23. Being born again, not of cor
ruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by
the word of God, which liveth and
abideth for over.
Zech. -xii. 8. In that day shall the
Lord defend the inhabitants of Jerusa
lem ; and he that is feeble among them
at that day shall be as David ; and tho
house of David shall be as God, as fhe
angel of the Lord before them.
Col. iii. 5. Mortify therefore your
members which are upon tho earth;
fornication, uncleanness, inordinate af
fection, evU concupiscence, and covet
ousness, which is idolatry :
6. For which things' sake the wrath
of God cometh on tho children of dis
obedience :
7. In the which ye also walked some
time, when ye Uved in them.
8. But now ye also put off all these ;
anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy
communication out of your mouth.
9. Lio not ono to another, seeing
that yo have put off tho old man with
his deeds ;
10. And have put on the new man,
which is renewed in knowlege after the
image of him that created him :
11. Where there is neither Greek
nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumci
sion. Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor
froe : but Christ is .all, and in all. ,

CHAPTER XXXI.

The Letter.
1. And ho heard the words of La
ban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken
aw.ay all that was our father's ; and of
ihat which was our father's hath ho
gotten all his glory.
2. And Jacob beheld the counte
nance of Laban, and, behold, it was not
toward him as before.

TTie Spirit.
Acts v. 17< Then fhe high priest
rose up, and all fhey that were with
him, (which is tho sect of the Saddu
cees,) and were filled with indigna
tion. xiU. 45. But when the Jews saw the
multitudes, they were filled with envy,
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Note.
The increase and prosperity of the
kingdora of Christ is sure to excite hatred
and opposition iu the ungodly, especially
in false professors. Being ignorant of
the vital power of godliness, and calling
iu question u divine agency, which is
exerted in behalf of others, and not
themselves, they ascribe all for which
they cannot account on principles of
reason, to an evil source. Hence the
Jews accused Jesus of casting out devils
by Beelzebub the prince of devils. The
high priests and rulers of the people
hated the divine image which shone
through the vail of flesh in the person
of the Son of God : and while they could
not dispute that m.any raighty works
did show themselves forth in him, they
denied that this was the power of God,
because in thus doing they condemned
themselves for not believing on himl
When Laban received Jacob to his
house, his design and expectation doubt
less waa to promote his own interest:
the services of Jacob were to be for his
advantage. When, therefore, he saw
that it was Jacob and not himself who
" increased excfcdingly in men-servants
and maid-servants, <&c.," his wrath and
envy were roused against. hira. So also
the Jewish rulers, when they saw the
despised Nazarene — the servant of all, —
the "least in the kingdora of heaven," —
in spite of all thia personal hnrailiation,
— ^becoming great and raighty by the
power of the Spirit — making disciples
and drawing multitudes after him, — and
that he waa acknowledged by many to
be the " Christ of God," — they were
" filled with indignation." This was not
the Messiah which they looked for, —
one who was to aggrandize and honor
them, and raise ihem to preferment and
dignity in the kingdom he should
set up.

were spoken by Paul, contradicting
and blaspheming.
John xii. 10. But the chief priests-
consulted that they might put Lazarus
also to death;
11. Because that by reason of him
many of the Jews went away, and be
lieved on Jesus.
12. On the next day much people
that were come to the feast, when they
heard that Jesus was coming to Jem
salem, 1 3. Took branches of palm-trees, and
went forth to moot him, and cried Ho
sanna. Acts v. 24. Now, when the high
priest, and the captain of the temple,
and the chief priests heard these things,
they doubted of them whereunto this
would grow.
Matt, x.xvi. 3. Then assembled to
gether the chief priests, and the scribes,
and the elders of tho people, unto the
palace of the high priest, who was
called Caiaphas,
4. And consulted that they might
take Jesus by subtilty, and kiU him.
John xi. 47. * * What do wo ? for
this man doeth many miracles.
48. If we let him thus alone, all men
wfll believe on him : and the Romans
shall come, and fake aWay both our
place and nation.
49. And one of thom, named Caia
phas, being the high priest that same
year, said unto them. Ye know nothing
at all,
50. Nor consider that it is expedient
for us, that one man should die for tho
people, and that the whole nation
perish not.
61. And this spake he not of him
self: but being high priest that year,
ho prophesied that Jesus should die
for that nation ;
52. And not for that nation only, but
that also he should gather together in
one tho chfldren of God that were
scattered abroad.

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The Letter.
3. And the Lord said unto Jacob,
Return unto the land of thy fathers,
and to thy kindred ; and I will be with
thee. 4. And Jacob sent and called Rachel
and Leah to tho fidd unto his fiock.
Note.
The divine Redeemer, from the com-
menceraeiit of his ministry, repeatedly
called the attention of his disciples to
the death which he should accoraplish
at Jerusalem. He told them that he
" came forth frora the Father and came
into the world ; again he would leave
the world and go to the Father."
It will be remerabered alao that on
the night -when Jacob was favored with
the vision of the ladder, the Lord said
to him, " Behold, I ara with thee, and
wfll keep thee in all places whither thou
goest and will bring thee again into this
land ; for I will not leave thee until I
have done that which I have spoken to
thee of" In like manner, Jesus in his
mediatorial character and service, re
ceived the proraise of the Father that he
¦would be with hira and uphold hira by
the right hand of Ms righteousness, aud
that he should not fail nor be discou
raged until he had aet judgraent in the
earth. But when he had finiahed the
work given him to do, he ahould return
to the glory which he had with the Fa
ther before the world was, and be aeated
at hia right hand until his enemies were
raade hia footstool.
All these thinga Jesus made known to
his disciples, yet were they slow of heart
to understand and believe that which he
taught; though he repeatedly assured
thera that Moses in the law and the pro
phets testified of these things.

The Spirit.
John xiu. 1. Now before the feast
of the passover, when Jesus knew that
his hour was copie that ho should de
part out of this world unto the Father,
having loved his own which were in the
world, he loved thein unto the end.
xvi. 28. I came forth from the Fa
ther, and am come into the world:
again, I leave the world, and go to the
Father. X. 13. The hireling fleeth, because
he is an hireling, and careth not for the
sheep. 14. I am the good shepherd, and
know my sheep, and am known of mine.
Matt. xxvi. 1. And it camo to
pass, when Jesus had finished all these
sayings, he said unto his disciples,
2. Ye know that after two days is
ihe feast pfthe passover, and the Son of
man is betrayed to be crucified.
John xU. 23. And Jesus answered
them, saying, The hour is come, that
the Son of man should be glorified.
24. Verily, verUy, I say unto you,
Except a corn of wheat fall into the
ground and die, it abideth alone : but
if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
xiv. 1. Let not your heart be trou
bled: ye believe in God, beUeve also
in me.2. In my Father's house are many
mansions : if ii were not so, I would
have told you. 1 go to prepare a
place for you.
3. And ff I go and prepare a place
for you, I wifl come again and receive
you unto myself: that where I am,
there ye may be also.
4. And wMther I go ye know, and
the way ye know.
Luke ix. 30. And behold, there
talked with hhn two men, which were
Moses and EUas :
31. Who appeared in glory, and
spake of his decease which he should
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The Letter.
6. And said unto them, I see your
father's countenance, that it is not to
ward me as before ; but the God of my
father hath been with me,
6. And yo know, that with afl my
power I have served your father.
7. And your father hath deceived
me, and changed my wages ten times :
but God suffered him not to hurt me.
8. If he said thus, The speckled shall
bo 'thy wages ; then afl the cattle bare
speckled : and if he said thus. The
ring-streaked shall be thy hire, then
bare all fhe cattle ring-streaked.
9. Thus God hafli taken away the
cattie of your father, and given ihem
to me.
10. And it came to pass, at the time
that the cattle conceived, that I lifted
up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and,
behold, the rams which leaped upon
tho cattle were ring-streaked, speckled,
and grizzled. Note.
Jacob accused Laban of changing his
wages ten times. This same forra of
speech is used by the Lord concerning
the ten spies that were sent to spy out
Canaan, and brought back an evil report
of the land. In both cases the allusion
is doubtless to the unbelieving character
of the tribes of Israel which the ten sons
oi Jacob, and the ten spies represented.
.Jacob had received these sons in conse
quence of the substitution of Leah for
Rachel ; therefore he regarded thera
as so many proofs of the breach of con
tract. The passage from Nurabers xiv.
is virtually tlie sarae. The false reports
of the ten spies, were counted by the
Lord ns so many evidences that the peo
ple they represented were not thoae to
whom he had promised the land of Ca
naan; therefore he swears that they
shall never see that land ; and their car
cases fell iu the wilderness ; for only two
out of tbe six hundred thousand that left
Egypt, entered Canaan. These were
Caleb and Joshua, the same who had
brought a good report of the land. Ja
cob tells his wives that he had seen in a

Tlie Spirit.
Isa. xxix. 13. "Wherefore the Lord
said. Forasmuch as this people draw
near me with their mouth, and with
their lips 'do honor me, but have re
moved their heart far from me, and
their fear toward me is taught by the
precept of men :
14. Therefore behold, I wfll proceed
to do a marvellous work among this
people, eien a marvellous work and a
wonder : for the wisdom of their wise
men shall perish, and the understanding
of their prudent men shall be hid.
Num. xiv. 22. Because aU these
men which have seen my glory, and my
miracles, which I did in Egypt, and in
tho wilderness, and have tempted me
now these ten times, and have not
hearkened to my voice ;
23. Surely they shall not see the
land which I sware unto their fathers,
neither shall any of them that provoked
me see it.
IsA. Ix. 7. AU the flocks of Kedar
shall be gathered together unto thee,
the rams of Nebaiofh shall minister
unto thee : they shall come up with
acceptance on mine altar, and I will
glorify the house of my glory.
8. Who are these thai fly as a 'cloud,
and as the doves to their windows ?
9. Surely the isles shall wait for me,
and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring
thy sons from far, their sUver and their
gold with them, unto the name of the
Lord thy God, and to fhe Holy One
of Israel, because he hath glorified
thee. 10. And the sons of strangers shall
build up thy walls, and their kings
shall minister unto thee: for in my
wrath I smote thee, but in my favor
have I had mercy on fhee.
11. Therefore thy gates shaU be
open continually; they shall not be
shut day nor night; that men may
bring unto thee the forces of the Gen
tUes, and thai their kings may be
brought. 12. For the nation and kingdom that

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dream that which God had given hira.
So Jesua telle his disciples that all con
cerning himself was revealed in the
Scriptures.

The Letter.
U. And the angel of God spake
unto me m a dream, saying, Jacob :
and I said. Here am I.
12. And he said. Lift up now thine
eyes and see, afl the rams which leap
upon the cattle are rmg-streaked,
specUed, and grizzled : for I have seen
afl that Laban doeth unto thee.
13. 1 am the God of Beth-el, where
thou anointedst the pillar, and where
thou vowedst a vow unto me : now
arise, get thee out from this land, and
retum unto fhe land of thy kindred.
Note.
Jacob continues to expound to his
wives the dreams, iu which God had
spoken to him ; bidding him lift up his
«yee to behold how his flocks were in
creased and how he had been blessed
and raultiplied according to the pro
miae of the Godof Beth-el, who had been
with him in all the way, and made him
to prosper in spite of all that were
.against him. God also reminds him of
the pUlar which he had anointed in
the desert, and the vow that be had
made, that the Lord should be his God,
and that pillar should be God's house.
These dreams of Jacob point us to the
viaiona of holy raen of old, who saw afar
off the day of Christ and the glory and
proaperity of his kingdora. They saw
and declared that the abundance of the
sea and the forces of the Gentiles should
be brought to that kingdom, — the raul
titude of caraela and the droraedariea of
Midian and Ephah : that all the flocks
of Kedar should be gathered together,
and the rama of Nebaioth, to minister
unto hira, and to beautify tiie house of
his glory. This house — this mountain
21

will not serve theo shall perish; yea,
those nations shaU be utterly wasted.
1 3. The glory of Lebanon shall come
unto thee, the fir-tree, the pine-tree,
and the box together, to beautify the
place of my sanctuary ; and I wUl make
the place of my feet glorious.

The Spirit.
IsA. Ix. 4. Lift up thine eyes round
about, and see : afl they gather them
selves together, they come to thee :
thy sons shall come from far, and thy
daughters shall be nursed at thy side.
6. Then thou shalt see, and flow to
gether, and thine heart shafl fear, and
be enlarged; because the abundance
of the sea shall be converted unto thee,
the forces of the Gentiles shall como
unto thee.
6. The multitude of camels shafl co
ver thee, fhe dromedaries of Midian
and Ephah ; all they from Sheba shall
come: they shall bring gold and in
cense ; and they shall show forth tho
praise of the Lord.
7. All the flocks of Kedar shall be
gathered together unto thee, the rams
of Nebaioth shafl minister unto thee :
they shall come up with acceptance on
mine altar, and I will glorify the house
of my glory.
8. Who are these ihat fly as a cloud,
and as tho doves to their windows ?
Ixi. 9. And their seed shall be known
among the Gentiles, and their offspring
among the people : all that see them
shall acknowledge them, that they are
tho seed which the Lord hafh blessed.
xlix. 24. Shafl the prey be taken
from the mighty, or the lawful captive
delivered ?
25. But thus saith the Lord, Even
the captives of the mighty shafl be
taken away, and the prey of the terri
ble shall be deUvered : for I will con
tend with him that contendeth with
thee, and I will save thy chfldren.
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of holiness, which had been ao long pro
phetically aet up, and anointed to the
Lord, ahould be established on the tops
of the mountains ; for the atone which
the builders rejected should be made the
head of the corner. ^

The Letter.
14. And Rachel and Leah answered,
and said unto Mm, 7s there yet any por
tion or inheritance for us in our father's
house ?
16. Are we not counted of him
strangers ? for he hath sold us, and
hath quite devoured also our money.
16. For all the riches which God
hath taken from our father, that is
ours, and our children's : now then,
whatsoever God hath said unto thee,
do. Note.
By the answer of Rachel and Leah to
Jacob, it is evident that they acted free
ly and understandingly iu leaving their
father's house. He had received a
full equivalent for them, in the ser
vices of Jacob ; and all that Jacob had
acquired in his house had been the gift
of God ; therefore they were no longer
delators to their father, neither had he
any just claims upon thera.
Much raore are the children of the
kingdom, body and spirit, fully redeera
ed from the claim?, both of the moral
and ceremonial law, by the mediatorial
work of Christ ; so that they may just
ly be aet at liberty by the Spirit of
adoption, and rejoice in the freedora of
the eons of God. Full satisfaction has
been rendered to divine justice iu their
behalf, by his atoning blood; and all
that had been contained in the "hand
writing of ordinances," which for ages
had been Jehovah's proraissory note for

press thee -with their own fiesh; and
they shall be drunken with their own
blood, as vrith sweet wine ; and all
flesh .shall know that I the Lord am
thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the
Mighty One of Jacob.
IsA. xii. 13. For I the Lord thy God
will hold thy right hand, saying unto
thee, Fear not ; I will help thee.
14. Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and
ye men of Israel; I will help thee,
saith the Lord, and thy Redeemer, the
Holy One of Israel.

The Spirit.
Rom. vfl. 4. "Wherefore, my brethren,
ye also are become dead to the law by
the body of Christ ; that ye should be
married to another, even to Mm who is
raised from the dead, that we should
bring forth fruit unto God.
5. For when we were in the flesh,
the motions of sins, which were by the
law, did work in our members to bring
forth fruit unto death.
6. But now we are delivered from
the law, that bemg dead wherein we
were held ; that we should serve in
newness of spirit, and not in the old-
ness of the letter.
viU. 16. For ye have not received
the spirit of bondage agam to fear;
but ye have received the Spirit of
adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Fa
ther. 16. The Spirit itself beareth witness
with our spirit, that we aro fhe chUdren
of God:
17. And if children, then heirs :
heirs of God, and joint-heirs with
Christ; if so be that we suffer with
him, that we may be also glorified to
gether. * * ^ * ^
33. Who shall lay any thing to the
charge of God's elect ? Ii is God that
justifieth ;
34. Who is he that condemneth?
// is Christ that died, yea rather, that
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all that Jesua ahould " do and Buffer,"
has been " taken out of the way and
nailed to his cross ;" so that " there is
now no coaderanatiou to them that are
in Christ Jesus ;" " for the law of the
spirit of life in him, has made thera free
from the law of sin and death."
If Leah was not the chosen wages of
Jacob, it raay be asked why she was not
left behind ; — or rather, if the body of
fiesh, the eldest daughter of Jewish rites,
was not that for which Jesus paid the
price of his blood, why is it here bronght
to view as redeemed at all ? The rea
aon ^fe seen in the passage from Rora. viii.
19, 20, 21, and Eph. i. 14. Jesus Christ
has purchased the church, both body
and soul, but in this life, only part of
the "purchased possession" is manifest
ly his, — becauae flesh and blood cannot
inherit the kingdom, but the body has
promise of being changed and finally
redeemed from corruption.

hand of God, who also maketh inter
cession for us.
35. Who shafl separate us from the
love of Christ? shall tribulation, or dis
tress, or persecution, or famine, or na
kedness, or perfl, or sword ?
'T* ^ 'jC -jJ Sff
38. For I am persuaded, that neither
death, nor life, nor angels, nor princi
palities, nor powers, nor things present,
nor things to come,
39. Nor height, nor depth, nor any
other creature, shall be able to separate
us from the love of God, which is in
Christ Jesus our Lord.
***** 19. For tho earnest expectation of
fhe creature waiteth for the manifesta
tion of the sons of God.
20. For the creature was made sub
ject to vanity, not wfllingly, but hy
reason of him who hath subjected ihe
same in hope :
21. Because the creature itself also
shall be deUvered from fhe bondage of
corruption, into the glorious liberty of
the chUdren of God.

The Letter.
17. Thon Jacob rose up, and set his
sons and his wives upon camels ;
18. And ho carried away all his
cattie, and all his goods which he had
gotten, the cattie of his getting which
he had gotten in Padan-aram ; for to
go to Isaac his father in the land of
Canaan. Note.
The hour had now corae when Jacob
was to leave the house of Laban. Both
the time and the event allude to a cor
responding period iu the life of Jesus,
when he ceased to walk openly among
the Jews, or when he had fulfilled his
public ministry, and retired with hi^
disciples to the city of Ephraim.
Thia movement was in accordance
with the law of the Jewish passover,
which required that the lamb be taken

The Spirit.
John xi. 64. Jesus therefore walked
no more openly among the Jews; but
went thence unto a country near to the
wUderness, into a city called Ephraim,
and there continued with his disci
ples. xvu. 16. Thoy are not of the world,
even as J am not of the world.
CoL. iii. i. If ye then be risen with
Christ, seek those things which are
above, where Christ sitteth on the right
hand of God.
2. Set your affection on things
above, not on things on the earth.
3. For ye are dead, and your life' is
hid with Christ in God.
4. When Christ, who is our lffe, shall
appear, then shall ye also appear with
hira in glory.

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out from the flock upon the tenth day
of the month, and kept up until the four
teenth day at even, when it should be
slain for the passover. As we have
before found, through this typical his
tory, the Divine Redeeraer never acted
separately from his church. As the
Head of his raystical body, the members
were always one with him in every part
of his mediatorial work. They were
"crucifled with him," and quickened
with him frora the dead ; they are also
raised up with him to sit in heavenly
places; so that he says concerning them
to the Father, "Here am I and the
children thou bast given me." "Those
whora thou hast given me I have kept,
and none of tbem ia loat but tbe aon of
perdition."' Representatively, therefore, believers
are dead with Christ; "circumcised
¦with the oircumcision r»ade without
hands, in tbe putting off the body of
sin by the circumcision of Christ." So
that in him they are as completely
dead to sin, and delivered frora the
condemnation of the law as he is, and,
except the quickening of the raortal
body, are a& rauch alive from the dead.

The Letter.
19. And Laban went to shear his
sheep: and Rachel had stolen the
images that were ber father's.
20. And Jacob stole a-vvay unawares
to Laban the Syrian, in that he told
him not that he fled.
21. So he fled with all that he had;
and he rose up, and passed over the
river, and set his face toward the mount
Gflead. Note.
The stealing of Laban's iraages by
Rachel, illustrates the propensity of
those who are delivered from the

Eph. ii. 1. And you hath he quicken
ed, who were dead in trespasses and
sins; 2. Wherein in time past ye walked
according to the pourse of this worid,
according to the prince of the power of
the air, the spirit that now worketh in
the children of disobedience :
3. Among whom also we all had our
conversation in times past in the lusts
of our flesh, fulfiUing the desires of
the flesh and of the mind; and were by
nature the chfldren of wrath, even as
others. 4. But God, who ia rich in mercy,
for his great love wherewith he loved
us, * * *
Ps. Ixxvui, 59. "When God heard
this, he was-wi-otb, and greatly abhorred
Israel r
60. So that he forsook tbe taberna
cle of Shfloh, the tent which he placed
among men.
John x, 27. My sheep hear my
voice, and I know them, and they fol
low me :
28. And I give unto them eternaJ
life ; and they shaU never perish, nei
ther shall any man pluck them out of
my band.
29. My Father, wMch gave ihem me,
is greater than afl ; and no man is able
to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
30. I and my Father are one.

The Spirit.
Gal. iv. 7- "Wherefore thou art
no more a servant, but a son ; and if
a son, theu an heir of God through
Christ. 8. Howbeit then, when ye knew not
God, ye did service unto them which by
nature are no gods.
9. But now, after that ye have known
God, or rather are known of God, how
tum ye again to the weak and beggarly
elements, whereunto ye desire again to
be m bondage ?
10. Ye observe days, and months,
and tunes, and years.

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law, to cleave toi its carnal rites and
principles. The apostle Paul speaks of
thia aarae thing, when he says, "Isee
<inother law in my members, warring
against the law of my mind, and bringing
me into captivity to tJie law of sin and
death." And it was this also that
"bewitched" the Galatians, who lis
tened to Judaizing teachers, rather than
to the gospel, and were thus brought
again under bondage to the law.
Jacob did not inform Laban of his in
tended departure; — neither did Jeaus
ever communicate to the J«wa that
which should befall him at Jerusalem,
though he repeatedly conversed with
the disciples of his sufferings and death.
To them it was given to know the mys
teries of the kingdom, but to others he

Mount Gilead signifies mount of wit
ness. And well raight that name be ap
pUed to Jerusalem, that " spiritual So
dom, where our Lord was crucified."
The firat witueas borne upon this spot
was the offering up of Isaac by Abra
ham at Mount Moriah, aa it was then
called; — the "Jehovah Jireh," where it
should be seen that the Lord would
"provide himself a lamb " for the sacri
fice. Here also for ages had flowed
from the altars of the temple the blood
of bulls and goats, that testified to the
better blood which in the fulnesa of time
should take away the sin of the world.
And in thia same city had Shiloh stood
as an ensign for the people ; and the
gospel of the kingdom had been preached
as a witness.

The Letter.
22. And it was told Laban on the
third day that Jacob was fled.

11. I am afraid of you, lest I have
bestowed upon you labor in vain.
ii. 3. But neither Titus, who was
with me, being a Greek, was compelled
to be circumcised :
4. And that because of false brethren
unawares brought in, who came in pri
vily to spy out our liberty which wc
have in Christ Jesus, that they might
bring us into bondage :
5. To whom wo gave place by sub
jection, no, not for an hour ; that the
truth of the gospel might continue with
you. 6. But of those, who seemed to be
somewhat^ whatsoever they were, it
maketh no matter to me : God accept-
eth no man's person : for they who
seemed io be somewhat, in conference
added notMng to me.
Luke ix. 51. And it came to pass,
when the time was come that he should
be received up, he steadfastly set his
face to go to Jerusalem.
John xviii. 1. When Jesus had spo
ken these words, he went forth with his
disciples over the brook Cedron, where
was a garden, into the which he entered,
and his disciples.
Luke xiU. 33. Nevertheless, I must
walk to-day and to-morrow, and the day
foUowing: for it cannot be that a pro
phet perish out of Jerusalem.
Col. u. 20, Wherefore, ff ye be dead
with Christ from the rudiments of the
world, why, as though living in tho
world, are ye subject to ordinances,
21. (Touch not, taste not, handle not,
22. Which all are to perish with the
using,) after fhe commandments and
doctrmes of men ?
23. Which things have indeed a show
of wisdom in wfll-worship and humiUty,
and neglecting of the body ; not in any
honor to fhe satisfying of the flesh.

The Spirit.
John xL 6. When he had heard
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23. And he took his brethren with
him, and pursued after him seven days'
journey : and they overtook him in the
mount Gilead. Note.
On the third day of the raonth, Laban
heard that Jacob had fled, and he pur
sued after him sevmi daya, before he over
took him in the mount of Gilead ; mak
ing the time of their meeting exactly on
the tenth day. It will be alao seen by
exaraining the 12th and 13th chapters
of John, that it was the tenth day of the
month that Jesus entered Jerusalem, as
¦was predicted of him iu Zech. ix. 9. All
this was to fulfil that which is written
in Ex. xii. 3—7, concerning the paschal
lamb. Nothing can be more reraarkable than
the precision with which every item of
prophecy concerning the Lord Jesus
Christ is obviously and scrupulously ac
complished. This shows that an im
portance is attached to the corrobo
rating testimony of the different parts
of revelation ; an importance which
equally applies to the subject of types.
.How greatly this corroborating evidence
would be increased in the raind of
every scripture student, were he to ex
amine with suitable care, the wonderful
analogy which raost certainly exists,
and which it is our privilege to trace,
throughout the entire word of God,
between that which was predicted un
der the figure of literal fact and histori
cal events, and that which is subse
quently developed in the person and
works of Christ, to whom all scripture
points. The iflogical and inconsistent
idea that types do not exist, except in
the few and special iustances referred to
in the New Testaraent, robs the word of
God of much of its glory, and cheats
the believer of rauch of hia legitiraate
privilege.

two days stfll in the same place where
he was.
***** 39. Jesus said, Take ye away the
stone. Martha, the sister of him that
was dead, saith unto him. Lord, by this
time he stinketh, for he hath been dead
four days.
***** 63. Then, from that day forth, they
took counsel together for to put Mm to
death. 54. Jesus therefore walked no more
openly among the Jews ; but went
thence unto a country near to the wfl
demess, into a city called Ephraun, and
there contmued with Ms disciples.
xii. 1. Then Jesus, six days before
the passover, came to Bethany, where
Lazarus was which had been dead,
whom he raised from the dead.
Matt. v. 18. For verily I say unto
you, TiU heaven and earth pass, one
jot or one tittle shall in no -wise pass
from the law, tUl all be fulfilled.
John xi. 55. And the Jews' pass-
over was nigh at hand : and many went
out of the country up to Jerusalem
before the passover, to purffy them
selves. 56. Then sought they for Jesus, and
spake among themselves, as they stood
in the temple, What think ye ? that he
will not come to the feast?
57. Now both the chief priests and
the Pharisees had given a command
ment, that, if any man knew where he
were, he should shew it, that they
might take him.
Ex. xu. 3. Speak ye unto all the
congregation of Israel, saying, In the
tenth day of this month they shall take
to them every man a lamb, according to
the house of their fathers, a lamb for an
house :
***** 5. Your lamb shafl be without ble
mish, a male of tbe first year: ye shall
take it out from the sheep or from the
goats :
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The Letter.
24. And God came to Laban the Sy
rian in a dream by night, and said unto
him, Take heed that thouvspeak not to
Jacob either good or bad.
26. Then Laban overtook Jacob.
Now Jacob had pitched his tent m the
mount: and Laban with his brethren
pitched in the mount of Gflead.
Note.
This prohibition to speak to Jacob,
either good or bad, seeras to imply what
is obviously true of the antitype, — that
until Jesus, the servant of the covenant,
had finished the work given hira to do,
he could neither be discharged frora his
obligations, nor be coraraended as right
eous in the eye of justice : — nor, on the
other hand, could he be falsely accused
of any intention of freeing himself from
the bonds into which he had voluntarily
entered, merely because his movements
and conduct were not understood or
appreciated by the blind and unbeliev
ing Jews, and their rulers. For Laban,
as we have before said, not only repre
sents the ceremonial law, but also the
perverted version of that law, as held
by the scribes and Pharisees in the time
of Christ.
We now behold Laban and Jacob
drawn up in hoatile array against each
other in the mount of Gilead; — or, typi
cally, we see Jesus, the surety of the
covenant proceeding deliberately and
voluntarily to, Jerusalera, which for ages
had been the Jehovah-Jireh oi prophecy,
— there to. give hiraself up as a sacrifice
for the sins of his people ; as the Paschal
Larab, which should obtain " coraplete
rederaption for them," both from the just
deraanda of the moral law, and also frora
the handwriting of ordinances which
could be taken out of the way only by
the actual fulfilraeut of all that it pro
mised, — the last item of which was the

fourteenth day of the same month :
and tho whole assembly of the congre
gation of Israel shall kfll it in the even-

The Spirit.
Ps. cv. 14. He suffered no man to
do them wrong : yea, he reproved
kings for their sakes :
15. Saying, Touch not mine anoint
ed, and do my prophets no harm.
Matt, xxviii. 17. Therefore, when
tiiey were gathered together, Pilate said
unto them. Whom wiU yo that I release
unto you ? Barabbas, or Jesus, wMch
is caUed Christ ?
18. (For he knew that for envy they
had delivered him.)
19. When he was set down on the
judgment-seat, his wife sent unto him,
saying. Have thou nothing to do -with
that just man : for I have suffered many
things this day in a dream, because of
him. IsA. xiu. 1. Behold my servant,
whom I uphold : mine elect, in whom
my soul delighteth ; I have put my
Spirit upon him : he shall bring forth
judgment to the GentUes.
'T* T* T* T* 'F
4. He shall not fail nor be discou
raged, till he have set judgment in the
earth : and the isles shall wait for Ms
law. Ps. ii. 1. Why do the heathen rage,
and the people imagine a vain thing ?
2. The kings of the earth set them
selves, and the rulers take counsel toge
ther, against the Lord, and against his
Anointed, saying,
3. Let us break their bands asunder,
and cast away their cords from us.
4. He that sitteth in the heavens
shall laugh: the Lord shaU have them
in derision.
5. Then shall he speak unto them in
his wrath, and vex them in his sore dis
pleasure. 6. Yet have I set my King upon my
holy Mil of Zion.

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passover. We also see, set in array
against him, that law in ita twofold
character, with the menacing language
oi" pay that thou owest ;" — deraanding
even the utterraost farthing, before it
would relinquish ita claim upon the pri
soner which it had apprehended.

The Letter.
26. And Laban said to Jacob, What
hast thou done, that thou hast stolen
away unawares to me, and carried away
my daughters, as captives taken with the
sword ?
27. Wherefore didst thou flee away
secretiy, and steal away from me, and
didst not tefl me, that I might have
sent thee away with mirth, and with
songs, -with tabret, and with harp ?
28. And hast not suffered me to kiss
my sons, and my daughters ? thou hast
now done foolishly in so doing.
29. It is m the power of my hand to
do you hurt : but the God of your fa
ther spake unto me yesternight, say
ing. Take thou heed that thou speak
not to Jacob either good or bad.
30. And now, though thou wouldest
needs be gone, because thou sore
longedst after thy father's house ; yet
wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?
Note.
In this speech of Laban to Jacob, we
raay discover the judicial blindness of
the Jewish rulers, who not only judged
of the conduct and designs of the Son of
God by theraae'lves, but who could have
not the least conception of the object of
hia raission into the world. And when
Caiaphas, their high priest, uttered that
remarkable prophecy in their hearing,
which testified that Jesus was to die for
the people, yet all the effect it had upon
them, was to confirm their purpose of
putting him to death ; not to fulfil the
determinate decree of God, but "with
wicked hands," to gratify their hatred

7. I wUl declare the decree: the
Lord hath said unto, Thou art my
Son; this day have I begotten thee, lyj
8. Ask of me, and I shall give ihee
the heathen for thine inheritance, and
the uttermost parts of the earth /or thy
possession. 9. Thou shalt break them with a rod
of iron ; thou shalt dash them m pieces
lUie a potter's vessel.

The Spirit.
RoM. fl. 1. Therefore thou art mex-
cusable, O man, whosoever thou art,
that judgest : for wherein thou judgest
another, thou condemnest thyself; for
thou that judgest, doest the same
thmgs. 2. But we are sure that the judgment
of God is accordmg to truth, against
them^'which commit such things.
3. And thinkest thou this, O man,
that judgest them which do such tMngs,
and doest the same, that thou shalt
escape the judgment of God ?
4. Or despisest thou the riches of
Ms goodness, and forbearance, and
long-suffering; not knowmg that the
goodness of God leadeth thee to re
pentance ?
6. But, after thy hardness and im
penitent heart, treasurest up unto thy
self wrath against the day of wrath, and
revelation of the righteous judgment of
God; 6. Who wfll render to every man ac
cording to Ms deeds :
7. To them who, by patient continu
ance in well-domg, seek for glory, and
honor, and immortality; eternal life :
8. But unto them that are conten
tious, and do not obey the truth, but
obey unrighteousness; indignation and
wrath, 9. Tribulation and anguish upon
every soul of man that doeth evil, of
the Jew first, and also of the Gentile ;
10. But glory, honor, and peace, to
every man that worketh good, to tiie
Jew first, and also to the Gentile.

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I against Mm. They vainly imagined
they had power to take his life when
ever they pleased ; nor knew bow
strictly that life was guarded to the very
" hour " which had been fixed from the
beginning. " I must walk to-day and
to-morrow and the day following ; for
it is irapossible that a prophet perish
out of Jerusalera." To that city raust he
" steadfastly set his face," exactly four
days before the passover — as a lamb to
be kept up for the sacrifice. Laban'a
laat charge waa the atealing of hia goda ;
— equally true with all that were made
agaiuat Jesus.]

The Letter.
31. And Jacob answered and said
to Laban, Because I was afraid : for I
said, Peradventure thou wouldest take
by force thy daughters from me.
32. With whomsoever thou findest
thy gods, let him not live : before our
brethren discem thou what is thine
with me, and take it to thee : for Ja
cob knew not that Rachel had stolen
them. 33. And Laban went mto Jacob's
tent, and into Leah's tent, and into
the two maid-servants' tents ; but he
found ihem not. Then went he out of
Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's
tent. 34. Now Rachel had taken the
images, and put them m the camel's
furniture, and sat upon them. And

John xix. 10. Then saith PUate
unto him, Speakest thou not unto me ?
knowest thou not that I have power to
crucify thee, and have power to release
thee? 11. Jesus answered. Thou couldest
have no power ai all against me, ex
cept it were given thee from above :
therefore he that delivered me unto
thee hath the greater sin.
xi. 49. And one of them, named
Caiaphas, being the Mgh priest that
same year, smd unto them. Ye know
nothmg at all,
60. Nor consider that it is expedient
for us, that one man should die for the
people, and that the whole nation perish
not. 61. And this spake he not of hunseff:
but being high priest that year, he pro
phesied that Jesus should die for that
nation ;
52. And not for that nation only, but
that also he should gather together in
one the cMldren of God that were scat
tered abroad.
53. Then from that day forth they
took counsel together for to put him
to death.

The Spirit.
Matt. xxvi. 55. In that same hour
said Jesus to the multitudes. Are ye
come out as against a thief with swords
and staves for to take me ? I sat daily
¦with you teaching in the temple, and
ye laid no hold on me.
Ps. rii. 1. O Lord my God, in thee
do I put my trust : save me from afl
them that persecute me, and deflver
me: 2 Lest he tear my soul like a lion,
rending it in pieces, whUe there is none
to deliver.
3. O Lord my God, if I have done
this ; ff there be miquity m my hands ;
4. If I have rewarded evU unto hun
that was at peace with me ; (yea, I have
delivered Mm that without cause is
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Laban .searched aU the tent, but found
them not.
35. And she said to her father. Let
it not displease my lord that I cannot
rise up before theo ; for the custom of
women is upon mo. And he searched,
but found not the images. .
Note.
It was -vrell understood by the anti-
typical Jacob, that until full satisfaction
should be rendered to divine justice by
the death of the cross, and the promis
sory note of ordinances should be fully
cancelled and nailed to the accursed
tree, — ^he could not lawfully claim the
purchase of his blood, but could be held
prisoner until all \Yaa finished. Tet was
it needful, in forming the similitude, that
his people should be one with him, both
in his death and resurrection. They had
been one with him even from everlast
ing, because the Father received the
bond of the covenant aa an all-sufficient
pledge that the work would be accom
plished. But the law, atrict in its de-
mauds, pursues ita victim, to the last,
and yields nothing until all ia paid ; be
cause he that fails in one point, is guilty
of all.
Laban naturally auppoaes Leah to
have taken his goda ; but Rachel is most
likely to secrete tbem ; because those that
are conscious of wrong, wiU be most
afraid of being searched. But Jacob
utterly denies the charge ; for the cleav
ing to the yoke of bondage " cometh
not of him that calleth ua."

5. Let the enemy persecute my soul,
and take it ; yea, let him tread down my
life upon the earth, and lay mine honor
in the dust Selah.
Iv. 3. Because of the voice of the
enemy, because of the oppression of
the wicked : for thoy cast iniquity upon
me, and in wrath they hate me.
Ixix. 4. They that hate me without
a cause are more than the hairs of mine
head : they that would destroy me, being
mine enemies wrongfully, are iriighty :
then I restored that which I took not
away. * ^i * * *
7. Because for thy sake I have borne
reproach; shame hath covered my
face. 2 CoK. xi. 2. For I am jealous over
you -with godly jealousy : for I have
espoused you to one husband, that I
may present you as a chaste virgin to
Christ. 3. But I fear, lest by any means, as
the serpent beguiled Eve through his
subtflty, so your minds should be cor
rupted from the simplicity that is in
Christ. 4. For if he that cometh preacheth
another Jesus, whom we have not
preached, or if ye receive another
spirit, which ye have not received, or
another gospel, which ye have not ac
cepted, ye might weU bear with him.
John viii. 46. "Which of you.con-
vinceth me of sin ? And if I say the
truth, why do ye not believe me ?
Gal. v. 7. Ye did run well ; who
did hinder you, that ye should not obey
the truth?
8. This persuasion cometh'&ot of him
that caUeth you.
9. A Uttle leaven leaveneth the whole
lump. 10. I have confidence in you through
the Lord, that ye wUl be none other
wise minded : but he that troubleth you
shall bear his judgment, whosoever he
be. 1 John v. 21. Little chfldren, keep
yourselves from idols. Amen.

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3IV

T7ie Letter.
36. And Jacob was wroth, and
chode with Laban: and Jacob an
swered, and said to Laban, What is my
trespass? what is my sm, that thou
hast so hotly pursued after me ?
37. "Whereas thou hast searched all
my stuff, what hast thou found of afl
thy household-stuff? sot il here before
my brethren, and thy brethren, that
they m.ay judge betwixt us both.
38. This twenty years have I ieera
with thee ; thy ewes and thy she-goats
have not cast their young, and the
rams of thy flock have I not eaten.
39. That wMch was torn of beasts, I
brought not unto thee ; I bare the loss
of it ; of my hand didst thou require it,
whether stolen by day, or stolen by
night 40. Thus I was : in the day tho
drought consumed me, and the frost by
night; and my sleep departed from
mine eyes.
41. Thus have /been twenty years
in thy house : I sei ved thee fourteen
^years for thy two daughters, and six
years for thy cattle : and thou hast
changed my wages ten tunes.
42. Except the God of my father,
the God of Abraham, and the fear of
Isaac had been with me, surely thou
hadst sent me away now empty. God
hath seen mine affliction, and the labor
of my hands, and rebuked ihee yester
night. Note.
It is said of Jesus, that " he was led as
a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep
before her shearers is dumb, so he opened
not his mouth!' But ages before that
event, the spirit of prophecy gives us to
understand the conflict and agony of
soul which the Son of God endured in
view of those who "came upon him to
eat up his flesh," and who "sought after
his soul to destroy it." David was not
speaking of himself, or his own personal
foes, in the strong language of those
many Psalraa which exhibit the " man of
sorrows," contending with the rage ofhis

The Spiril.
Ps. xxxv. 11. False witnesses did
rise up ; they laid to my charge things
that I knew not.
12. They rewarded me evU for good
io the spoiling of my soul.
13. But as for me, when they were
sick, my clothing was sackcloth : I
humbled my soul with fasting; and
my prayer returned into mine own bo
som. 14. I behaved myself as though he
had been my friend or brother ; I bowed
down heavily, as ono that mourneth
for his mother.
15. But in mine adversity thoy re
joiced, and gathered themselves toge
ther: yea, the abjects gathered them
selves together against me, and I knew
ii not; they did tear me, and ceased
not. xvii. 1. Hear the right, O Lord,
attend unto my cry, give ear unto my
prayer, ihat goeth not out of feigned
Ups. 2. Let my sentence come forth from
thy presence ; let thine eyes behold the
things that are equal.
3. Thou hast proved mine heart ;
thou hast visited me in the night ; thou
hast tried me, and shalt find nothing;
I am purposed thai my mouth shall not
transgress. 4. Concerning the works of men, by
the word of thy lips I have kept me
from the paths of the destroyer.
xviu. 20. The Lord rewarded me
according to my righteousness ; ac
cording to the cleanness of my hands
hath he recompensed me.
21. For I have kept the ways of the
Lord, and have not wickedly departed
from my God.
22. For all his judgments were be
fore me, and I did not put away his
statutes from me.
23. I was also upright before Mm,
and I kept myself from mine iniquity.
24. Therefore hath the Lord recom
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enemiea, and defending himaelf against
their raalicious accusations.
It was the proraise of the Father there
recorded, "thou wilt not leave my soul
in hell, nor suffer thine Holy One to see
corruption," that strengthened the
"bruised reed" in the garden, "when
with strong crying and teare, he offered
aupplication to him who waa able to
aave him from death, and waa heard in
that he feared."

ness, accordmg to the cleanness of my
hands in his eyesight.
Matt. xxvi. 53. Thinkest thou that
I cannot now pray to my Father, and
he shall presently give me more than
twelve legions of angels ?
54. But how then shafl the scrip
tures be fulfilled, that thus it must be ?
Ps. vfl. 10. My defence is of God,
which saveth the upright in heart

The Letter.
43. And Laban answered, and said
unto Jacob, These daughters are my
daughters, and these chfldren are my
children, and these cattie are my cattie,
and all that thou seest is mine: and
what can I do this day unto these my
daughters, or unto their chfldren which
they have borne ?
44. Now therefore.come thou, let us
make a covenant, I and thou ; and let
it be for a witness between me and
thee. Note.
By the figure of the marriage cove
nant, the apostle Paul, in the seventh
chapter of Romans, shows how the
church becoraes "dead to the law by
the body of Christ" or by his death ;
and that until thus delivered by death,
in him and viith him, aa mystically one,
she was held by the law as tbe husband
to whom she was first wedded ; nothing
but death, which was the penalty of
transgressing that first covenant, being
a legal deliverance from it
Thia explains the nature of Laban's
claim to his "daughters," <Ssc. — they
were legally hia, until fully redeemed
frora his power by death. Thia death
of Christ is not here actually repre
sented, because the nature of the figure
would not allow it ; the history of Jacob
being rather typical of that part of re
demption which was effected by the
power of the Holy Spirit and not that
which relates to the body of Christ or
his human nature. That which is ef
fected by his death, the deliverance

The Spirit.
RoM. vfl. 1. Know ye not, bre
thren, (for I speak to them that know
the law,) how that the law hath domi
nion over a man as long as he liveth?
2. For the woman which hafh a hus
band, is bound by the law to her hus
band so long as he liveth ; but if the
husband be dead, she is loosed from
the law of her husband.
3. So then, if whUe her husband
liveth, she be married to another man,
she shafl be cafled an adulteress: but if
her husband be dead, she is free from
that law ; so that she is no adulteress,
though she be mai-ried to another man.
1 CoE. xi. 23. For I have received
of the Lord, that wMch also I delivered
unto you. That the Lord Jesus, the
same night in wMch he was betrayed,
took bread:
24. And when he had given thanks,
he brake it, and said, Take, eat : this is
my body, which is broken for you;
this do in remembrance of me.
26. After the same manner also he
took the cup, when he had supped, say^
ing, This cup is the new testament m
my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye
drink ii, in remembrance of me.
26. For as often as ye eat this bread,
and drink this cup, ye do show the
Lord's death tifl he come.
27. Wherefore, whosoever shall eat
this bread, and drink this cup of the
Lord unworthily, shall bo guflty of the
body and blood of the Lord.
28. But let a man examine himself.

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frora the law, aud the "witnesi!' which
is left to the world, that the satisfaction
was rendered, by which not only Jesus
but his people, are for ever free from
condemnation, is therefore here brought
to view by the covenant which Jacob
and Laban made together, in the united
feast of the passover and the institution
of the Lord's supper ; the one succeed
ing to, and taking place of the other, to
show that " Jesus our passover has been
slain for us."
The importance and necesrity of the
ordinance of the supper, as a memorial
of the vicarious death of Christ, is in
sisted on by Paul in 1 Cor. xi. 27,
28, 29. He says, " that in eating this
bread and drinking this cup, ye do show
the Lord's death till he come;" therefore
if any one eat aud drink unworthily, or
without au understanding of the mean-

and so let him eat of ihat bread, and
drink of that cup.
29. For he that eateth and drinketh
unworthUy, eateth and drinketh dam
nation to himself, not discermng the
Lord's body.

The Letter.
45. And Jacob took a stone, and set
it up /or a pUlar.
46. And Jacob said unto his bre
thren. Gather stones ; and they took
stones, and made an heap: and they
did eat there upon the heap.
47. And Laban caUed it Jegar-saba-
dutha : But Jacob called it Galeed :
48. And Laban said, This heap is a
witness between me and thee this day.
Therefore was the name of it caUed
Galeed : Note.
Jesus aaid to his disciples, " With de
sire have I desired to eat thia passover
with you before I suffer ; for I say unto
you, I will not any raore eat thereof
until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of
God." By this he doubtless meant that
what was shadowed forth and predicted
by that ordinance, he waa about to auf-
fer in hia own peraon, by which the first
stone would be set in the kingdora of
heaven ; that "stone which the buflders
refused would be made the head of the
corner;" this being the last act of Ms
pubUc fife as a " minister of the circum
cision for the truth of God," their next

ing and intention of this ordinance and
faith iu that which it "shows forth,"
they eat and drink condemnation to
themselves, or virtually acknowledge
themselves to be atill under the condem
nation or curse of the law ; for if Christ
is not dead, then we are yet in our ains.
In such case, that which was instituted
to witness an important fact, would be
rendered no better than an unmeaning
sacrifice offered to idols, which would
be counting the body and blood of
Christ "an unholy thing."

The Spirit.
Josh. iv. 4. Then Joshua cafled the
twelve men, whom he had prepared of
the cMldren of Israel, out of every tribe
a man: 5. And Joshua said unto them, Pass
over before the ark of the Lord your
God into the midst of Jordan, and take
you up every man of you a stone upon
his shoulder, according unto the num
ber of the tribes of the children of
Israel :
6. That this may be a sign among
you, thai when your chfldren ask their
fathers in time to come, saymg. What
mean ye by these stones ?
7. Then ye shafl answer them. That
the waters of Jordan were cut off be
fore the ark of the covenant of the
Lord ; when it passed over Jordan, the
waters of Jordan were cut off: and
these stones shall be for a memorial
unto the chfldren of Israel for ever.
8. And the chfldren of Israel did so
as Joshua commanded, and took up
twelve stones out of the midst of Jor
dan, as the Lord spake unto Joshua, .
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interview would be in the kingdom of
God ; for all would be theu fulfilled.
Jesus, having himself set up the " cor
ner stone," or first pillar of witness,
calla and appoints twelve others who
should be "eye-witnesses of his death
and resurrection,'- and qualified to tes
tify of what they had seen and heard.
Upon this "heap" was the passover
eaten ; and in connexion with it, the
supper was instituted ae a memorial of
hia death, .and as a guard or watch to
his people that they raay never doubt
their perfect deliverance from guilt and
condemnation ; and that the law may
never more put forth a claira upon
thera : it was a covenant between the
debtor and creditor, that all was paid.
The stones of witness that Jacob here
set up, are subsequently brought to view
under another figure of this sarae sub
ject as described in the 4th chapter of
Joshua, when the Lord told him to take
twelve stones frora the place where the
priests' feet stood in the raidst of Jordan,
until all Israel had passed clean over,
and to set thera up on the other side of
the river, as a memorial unto the chil
dren of Israel for ever, of the events of
that day when the Lord magnified Jo
shua (Jesus) in the sight of all Israel,
and when he delivered them frora the
hand of their enemiea.

The Letter.
49. And Mizpah ; for he said, The
Lord watch between me and thee,
when we are absent one from another.
60. If thou shalt afflict my daugh
ters, or if thou shalt take other wives
besides my daughters ; no man is with
us; see, God is witness betwixt me
and thee.
51. And Laban said to Jacob, Bei-
hold this heap, and behold this pillar,
which I have cast betwixt me and
thee; 52. This heap be witness, and this

over vrith them unto the place where
they lodged, and laid them down there.
9. And Joshua set up twelve stones
in the midst of Jordan, in the place
where the feet of the priests which
bare the ark of the covenant stood: and
they are there unto this day.
Maek xiv. 16. And his disciples
went forth, and came into the city, and
found as he had said unto them : and
they made ready the passover.
17. And in the evening he cometh
with the twelve.
***** 22. And as they did eat, Jesus took
broad, and blessed ana brake it, and
gave to them, and said. Take, eat : this
is my body.
23. And he took tho cup, and when
he had given thanks, he gave ii to
them : and they all drank of it.
24. And he said unto them, This is
my blood of the new testament, which
is shed for many.
25. Verily I say unto you, I wUl
drink no more of the fruit of the vine,
until that day that I drink it new in
the kingdom of God.
Acts i. 8. But ye shall receive
power after that the Holy Ghost is
come upon you : and ye shall be wit
nesses unto me, both in Jerusalem, and
m all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto
the uttermost part of the earth.

The Spirit.
Acts v. 30. The God of our fathers
raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and
hanged on a tree :
31. Him hath God 'exalted with his
right hand io Ae a Prmce and a Saviour,
for to give repentance to Israel, and
forgiveness of sins.
32. And we are Ms witnesses of
these things ; and so is also the Holy
Ghost, whom God hath given to them
that obey him.
iii. 13. The God of Abraham, and of
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pfllar be witness, that I wifl not pass
over this heap to thee, and that thou
shalt not pass over this heap and this
pfllar unto me, for harm.
53. The God of Abraham, and the
God of Nahor, the God of their father,
judge betwbit us. And Jacob sware by
the fear of Ms father Isaac.
54. Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon
tiie mount, and called his brethren to
eat bread : and they did eat bread, and
tarried all night in the mount.
55. And early in the morning Laban
rose up, and Mssed his sons and Ms
daughters, and blessed them : and La
ban departed, and returned unto his
place. Note.
By the blood of the cross reconcilia
tion was made for iniquity, and peace
proclaimed between God and transgres
sors. By the eame blood was a com
plete eatisfaction made to law and jus
tice, so that they .could have no more
demand upon the surety of the cove
nant Wherefore it is said, " Mercy and
truth have raet together ; righteousness
aud peace have embraced each other."
The prisoner of justice could not there
fore be holden by death, but was de
clared " to be the Son of God with
power," by the opening of the prison
doorSj,and the releasing of the prisoner
from the tomb. The divine Mediator
had finished his work as a servant to the
law, and now entered into his rest.
The sacrifice which Jacob offered in
the mount after eating with his bre
thren, alludes to the death of Christ
which succeeded the passover ; and the
tarrying "all night in the raount," to
the dark scene of suffering in the garden
of Gethsemane, together with that which
followed : until the law (Laban) with
drew frora hira, whora he had so hotly
pursued unto this hour.
Gilead aud Mizpah were not UteraUy
identical with Jerusalera, aa towna, but
were at some distance frora it. So of
Sodom and Egypt; and yet they are
made figuratively to represent it It
was "without the camp" of legal rites,
that Jesus suffered.

fathers hath glorified his Son Jesus;
whom yo delivered up, and denied him
in the presence of Pilate, when he was
determined to let him go.
14. But ye denied the Holy Ono,
and the Just, and desired a murderer
to be granted unto you,
15. And killed the Prince of life,
whom God hath raised from tho. dead;
whereof we are witnesses.
Rom. i. 3. Concerning his Son
Jesus Christ, our Lord, which was
made of the seed of David according to
the flesh ;
4. And declared to be the Son of
God with power, according to the Spi
rit of holiness, by the resurrection from
the dead;
5. By whom we have received grace
and apostieship, for obedience to the
faith among all nations for his name.
Heb. vi. 16. For men verily swear
by fhe greater : and an oath for confir
mation is to them an end of all strife.
17. Wherein God, wiUing more
abundantiy to show unto the heirs of
promise the immutabflity of his coun
sel, confirmed ii by an oath :
18. That by two immutable things,
in which ii was impossible for God to
lie, we might have a strong consola
tion, who have fied for refuge to lay
hold upon the hope sot before us :
19. Which hope we have as an an
chor of tho soul, both sure and stead
fast, and which entereth into that within
the vafl ;
20. Whither the forerunner is for us
entered, even Jesus made a high priest
for over after the order of Melchisedec.
John xix. 30. When Jesus there
fore had received the vinegar, ho said.
It is finished : and he bowed his head,
and gave up the ghost.
31. The Jews therefore, because it
was the preparation, that the bodies
should hot remain upon the cross on
the sabbath-day, (for that sabbath-day
was an high day,) besought Pilate that
their legs might be broken, and that
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Heb. xui. 11. For the bodies of
those beasts, whose blood is brought
into the sanctuary by 'the high priest
for sm, are bumed without the camp.
12. Wherefore Jesus also, that he
might sanctify the people with his own
blood, suffered without the gate.

chapter: xxxh.

The Letter.
1. And Jacob went on his way, and
the angels of God met him.
2. And when Jacob saw them he
said. This is God's host : and ho called
the name of that place Mahanaim.
Note.
Mahanaim signifies two hosts, typi
cally applied to the company of Michael
and his angels, and the corapany of the
Dragon and his angels, ready for the
final conflict ; when the woman's " aeed "
should yiSld his "heel" to the power of
the serpent ; but when he should also
at the same time "bruise the serpent's
head," and "through death destroy
death, and hira that had the. power of
death, that is, the devU." For it was in
view of this hour that Jesus cried, " Now
ia the judgment of thia world ; now ia
the prince of thia world caet out."
Through the entire progreaa of th6
work of redemption, the heavenly host
had been actively eraployed; nor had
the hosts of hell — the powers of dark
ness been less busy or less interested in
this great "raystery of godliness, God
manifest in the flesh."
While the " angels of God shouted for
joy " at the birth of Jesus iu Bethlehem,
Satan was stirring up the wicked to de
stroy him. When he fafled in this, he
stood ready to meet hira in the firat step
of his public ministry, if possible then to
put a stop to his further progress. Being
fofled here also, he " left him for a Uttle
•eaaou ;" but it was only to marshal his
forces against a power which was be-

The Spirit.
Ps. Ixvui. 17. The chariots of God
are twenty thousand, even thousands of
angels : the Lord is among them, as in'
Sinai, in the holy place.
xci. 11. For he shall give Ms angels
charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy
ways. 12. They shall bear thee up in their
hands, lest thou dash thy foot against
a stone. John i. 61. And he saith unto Mm,
Verily, verfly, I say unto you. Here
after ye shafl see heaven open, and the
angels of God ascending and descend-
mg upon the Son of man.
Heb. xii. 22. But ye are come unto
mount Sion, and unto the city of the
living God, the heavenly Jerusalem,
and to an innumerable company of
angels, 23. To the general assembly and
church of the first-born, which are
written in heaven, and to God the
Judge of aU, and to the spirits of just
men made perfect,
24. And to Jesus the Mediator of
the new covenant, and to the blood of
sprinkUng, that speaketh better things
than thai of Abel.
Luke xxii. 43. And there appeared
an angel unto Mm from heaven,
strengthenmg him.
44. And being in an agony, he
prayed more eamestly : and his sweat
was as it were great drops of blood
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coming too manifestly divine to be raet
single-handed. The " legions " of hell
were let loose ; raen, and, even beasts,
were possessed by thera. " This is your
hour," said Jesus, " and the power of
darkness." Well did they know that
this, their hour was to be short "I
know the^ who thou art the Holy One
of God," said the unclean spirit ; " art
thou come to destroy us before the
time V

The Letter.
3. And Jacob sent messengers be
fore him to Esau his brother, unt9 the
land of Seir, the country of Edom.
4. And he commanded them, saying.
Thus shall ye speak unto my lord
Esau; Thy servant' Jacob saith thus, I
have sojourned with 'Laban, and stayed
there until now :
6. And I have oxen, and asses,
flocks, and men-servants, aud women-
servants : and I have sent to tell my
lord, that 1 may find grace in thy
sight Note.
No act of the public ministry of Christ
is more reraarkable than his choosing
the " son ot perdition " for Oue of the
twelve. "I have chosen you twelve,
aud one of you is a Cevil," aaid Jesua to
his disciples.
But it was evidently part of the di
vine plan, that Judas should be an eye
witness of the whole course of the mi
nistry of Jesus — be acquainted with all
the evidences ofhis Messiahship, and the
miracles which he wrought; in short,
22

Rev. xii. 7. And there was war in
heaven : Michael and his angels fought
against the dragon; and tho dragon
fought and his angels,
8. And prevailed not; neither was
their place found any more in heaven.
9. And the great dragon was cast
out, that old serpent, called the Devil,
and Satan, which deceiveth the whole
worid: ho was cast out into tho earth,
and his angels were cast out with Mm.
10. And I heard a loud voice saymg
in heaven. Now is come salvation, and
strength, and the kingdom of our God,
and the power of his Christ : for the
accuser of our brethren is cast down,
which accused them before our God
day and night.
11. And they overcame Mm by the
blood of tho Lamb, and by the word
of then- testimony ; and they loved not
theu- Uves unto the death.

The Spirit.
John vi. 70. Jesus answered them.
Have not I chosen you twelve, and one
of you is a devil ?
71. He spake of Judas Iscariot the
son oi Simon : for he it was that
should betray him, being one of the
twelve. Acts i. 17. For he was numbered
with us, and had obtained part of this
ministry. 18. Now this man purchased a field
with the reward of iniquity ; and fall
ing headlong, he burst asunder in the
midst, and all his bowels gushed out.
19. And it was known unto afl the
dwellers at Jerusalem; insomuch as
that field is called in then- proper
tongue, Aceldama, that is to say. The
field of blood.
John xui. 18. I speak hot of you
all ; I know whom I have chosen : but,
that the scripture may be fulfilled. He
that eateth bread with me hath lifted
up his heel against me._
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that no proof should be wanting that
he was the Son of God. This fact raay
explain the words spoken when Jesus
answered Pilate, " thou couldst have no
power at all against rae except it were
given thee from above: therefore he
that delivered rae unto thee hath the
greater sin.'' The course pursued in re
gard to Judas is remarkably illustrated
by the conduct of Jacob toward Esau
in sending this message. It would be
quite unaccountable as a raere raatter
of fact that Jacob should thus put him
self in the power of one who he knew
stood ready to ?ake his life. We have
before stated in chapter xxviu. that
from the time when Jacob received the
blessing from Isaac, Esau became a type
of Judas, the son of perdition ; aud it is
evident that the very prosperity which
Jacob describes in his raessage, was that
for which Esau hated hira aud proposed
to kill hira ; as the mighty and the holy
works which Jeaua did among the peo
ple, were the cause for which Judaa
sought to betray aud raurder hira. This
message therefore is virtually a volun
tary yielding of hiraself into the power
of Esau, as was the conduct of Christ a
voluntary giving of himaelf into the
handa of hia betrayers and raurderers.

that, when it is come to pass,''ye may
believe that I am he.
Matt. xxvi. 21. "When Jesus had
thus said, he was troubled in spirit, and
testified, and said. Verily, verily, I say
unto you, That one of you shall be
tray me.
John xui. 21. But, behold, the hand
of him that betrayeth me is with me on
the table.
22. And truly the Son of man goeth,
as it was determined: but woo unto
that man by whom he is betrayed !
***** 26. Jesus answered, He it is to
whom I shall give a sop, when I have
dipped il. And when he had dipped
the sop, he gave ii to Judas Iscariot,
the son of Simon.
27. And after the sop Satan entered
into him. Then said Jesus unto him,
That thou doest, do quickly.
***** 30. He then, having received the
sop, went immediately out ; and it was
night. 31. Therefore, when he was gone
out, Jesus said. Now is the Son of
man glorified, and God is glorified in
him.

The Letter.
6. And the messengers returned to
Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother
Esau, and also he cometh tb meet theo,
and four hundred men with him.
7. Then Jacob was greatiy afraid,
and distressed: and he divided the
people that was with him, and the
flocks, and herds, and tho camels into
two bands ;
8. And said, If Esau come to the one
company, and smite it, then the other
company which is left shall escape.
Note.
Had Esau'a intention been peaceable,
in coraing out to Jacob, he would not
have needed four hundred men. This
Jacob well knew, and therefore hia fear.
The language of the Psalmist, in allud-

The Spirit.
John xiv. 30. Hereafter I wfll not
talk much with you : for the prince of
this world cometh, and hath nothing
in me, 31. But that the worid may know
that I love- the Father; and as the
Father gave me commandment, even
so I do. Arise, lot us go hence.
xii. 31. Now is the judgment of
this worid : now shall tho prince of this
world bo cast out.
32. And I, ff I be lifted up from the
earth, wfll draw aU men unto me.
33. (This he said, signifying what
death he should die.)
Ps. Iv. 4. My heart is sore pained
within me; and the terrors of death
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ing to the encounter of the divine Re
deemer with those that should "come
upon him to eat up his flesh," is strongly
expressive of tho terror and agony of
his holy soul. "Fearfulness and trera-
bling are corae upon me, and horror
hath overwhelraed me."
But in the raidst of all his own an
guish and suffering in view of the cup
before him, the care and love of Jeaus
abounded toward his little flock, in
-comforting and providing for their wel
fare, in a raanner of which thatof Jacob
is but a feeble similitude. This ar
rangement of Jacob's company, repre
sents the divine wisdom and grace, as
displayed toward hia rayatical body the
church, which was so guarded that none
were " able to pluck thera out of hia
hand ;" whfle his own body of flesh was
freely given up to be sold, betrayed, and
crucified. In these tmo bands there is again re
ference to the two staves mentioned by
Zechariah. That -which was surren
dered to the power of Esau, that the
other raight escape, being intended for
the staff " binders " or " bauds,'' which
united together the tribes of Judah and
Israel, and which was broken iu that
day when the Lion of Judah " stooped
and couched." before hia prey, that he
might " riae up " to conquer, because it
was only " through death," that he could
, destroy death, and '-hira that had the
power of death, that is, the devil," — and

5. Fearfulness and trembling are
come upon me, and horror hath over
whelmed me.
6. And I said. Oh that I had wings
like a dove ! for then would I fly away,
and bo at rest
7. Lo, then would I wander far off,
a'nd remain in the wUderness. Selah.
Zech. xi. 10. And I took my staff,
even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I
might break my covenant which I had
made with all the people.
11. And it was broken in that day:
and so the poor of the fiock that waited
upon me knew that it was the word of
the Lord.
12. And I said unto tiiem. If yo
think good, give me my price; and if
not, forbear. So they weighed for my
price thirty pieces of silver.
13. And the Lord said unto me.
Cast it unto the potter : a goodly price
thaf I was prized at of them. And I
took the thirty pieces of sflver, and cast
them to the potter in the house of the
Lord. 14. Then I cut asunder mine other
staff, even Bands, that 1 might break
tho brotherhood between Judah and
Israel.

it was only by putting an end to tho
worldly sceptre, that the spiritual domi
nion could be established.

The Letter.
¦ 9. And Jacob said, O God of my fa^
ther Abraham, and God of my father
Isaac, the Lord which saidst unto me.
Return unto thy country, and to thy
kindred, and I will deal well with thee :
10. I am not worthy of the least of
afl the mercies, and of all the truth,
which thou hast shewed unto thy ser
vant : for with my staff I passed over
this Jordan, and now I am become two
bands. 11. Deliver me, I pray thee, from the
hand of my brother, from the hand of

The Spirit.
Heb. v. 7. Who in the days of his
flesh, when he had offered up pnayers
and supplications, with strong crying
and tears, unto hmi that was able to
save him from death, and was heard in
that he feared :
8. Though he were a Son, yet
learned he obedience by fhe things
which he suffered.
Ps. xxH. 11. Be not far from me,
for trouble is near : for there is none to
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Esau : for I fear him, lest he wfll come
and smite me, a'nd the mother vrith the
children. 12. And thou saidst, I wifl surely do
thee good, and make thy seed as the
sand of the sea, which cannot be num
bered for multitude. Note.
This' supplication of Jacob in the hour
of hia fear and terror, represents the
language of the divine Redeeraer, and is
reraarkably expressive of the different
parte and various features of his media
torial work. The parties and promiaea
of the everlasting covenant are first
brought to view ; then the humiliation
of the Son of God as a " servant" and
the object for which he assumed this
position, and the reward which had
been given him — the two handa. He
then pleade for the upholding power of
the Father, according to ¦ the promise
given him when he was sent forth to
redeem frora the bondage of the law,
those that were heirs of the kingdora.
In ¦ the passage frora Hebrews it is
said, Jesus "was heardin that he feared."
It raay be asked, what did the Son of
GoA fear f Certainly not the raere bo
dily suffering of death. Many have en
dured this in triuraph. But here, as in
all other scriptures, there raay always be
found an explanation in some other pas
sage ; and the 22d Psalra answers the
question. It was a contest with the
powers of darkness which the holy soul
of the Son of God feared ; the " power
of the dog," and the "raouth of the
lion ;" for thia lion muat be encountered
in his very den. We are alao aasured
that he "was heard" in this aupplica
tion ; for he ia promised in. another
scripture, " thou wilt noi leave my soul in
hell, neither will thou suffer thy Holy
One to see corruption."

strong bulls of Bashan have beset me
round. 13. They gaped upon me with their
mouths, as a ravening and a roaring
lion. * * * * i:
16. For dogs have compassed me;
the assembly of the wicked have in
closed me : they pierced my hands and
my feet.
***** 20. Deliver, my soul from the sword ;
my darUng from tho power of the dog.
21. Save me from the lion's mouth:
for thou hast heard me from the horns
of the unicoms.
cix. 6. Set thou a wicked man over
him ; and let Satan stand at his right
hand. 7. When he shafl be judged, let him
be condemned ; and let Ms prayer be
come sin.
8. Let his days be few ; and let ano
ther take his office.
9. Let Ms children be fatherless, and
his wife a -widow.
10. Let his cMldren be continually
vagabonds, and beg : let them seek
their bread also out of their desolate
places. 11. Let the extortioner catch aUthat
he hath ; and let the stranger spofl his
labor. 12. Let there be none to extend
mercy unto him ; neither let there be
any to favor his fatherless children.
13. Let his posterity be cut off; and
in the generation foUo-wing let then-
name be blotted out.
14. Let the iniquity of his fathers
be remembered with the Lord ; and
let not tho sin of his mother be blotted
out. * * JH * *
17. As he loved cursing, so let it
come unto him ; as he deUghted not in
blessing, so let it be far from him.
18. As he clothed himself with curs
ing like as with his garment, so let it
come into his bowels like water, and
Uke ofl into his bones.

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The Letter.
13. And he lodged there that same
night ; aud took of that which came to
Ills hand a present for Esau his bro
ther; 14. Two hundred she-goats and
twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes
and twenty rams,
15. Thirty milch camels with their
colts, forty kine and ten bulls, twenty
she-asses and ten foals.
16. And he delivered them into the
hand of his servants, every drove by
themselves ; and said unto his servants,
Pass over before mo, and put a space
betwixt drove and drove.
Note.
It waa promised the Son of God, " I
wUl divide him a portion with the great,
and he shall divide the spoil with the
strong ; because he hath poured out his
soul unto death," <fcc.
The professed people of God are often
represented in scripture by "a flock;"
and in this character they will appear
at the final judgment the sheep and the
goats in one company — to be separated
by the Great Shepherd to their rightful
owners, as we have before described,
according to the distinguishing marks of
ownership. It appears that from Jacob's two
bands he takes a present for Esau, which
he comraits to the care of servants. In
like manner, frora the " two staves "
which were in the Lord's hand, his old
covenant people, he divides to his Son
" a portion with the strong." Again, it
ia of one lump that all the veesels of the
potter are formed, theae unto honor and
those unto dishonor. But we are not to
suppose, from the fact of Jacob's taking
ihat which came to his hand, that there is

19. Let it be unto him as the gar
ment which covereth him, and for a gh-
dle wherewith he is girded continually.
20. Let this be the reward of mine
adversaries from tne Lord, and of thom
that speak evil agamst my soul.

Tlie Spirit.
IsA. UU. 12. Therefore wifl I divide
Mm a portion with the great, and he
shafl divide the spofl with the strong ;
because he hath poured out his soul
unto death : and he was numbered with
the transgi-essors ; and he bare the sm
of many, and made intercession for the
transgressors. Rom. ix. 21. Hath not the potter
power over tho clay, of tho same lump
to make one vessel unto honor, and
another unto dishonor ?
22. What if God, wflling to show his
wrath, and to make his power known,
endured with much long-suffering the
vessels of wrath fitted to destruction ;
23. And that he might make known
the richos ofhis glory on the vessels of
mercy, ifhich he had afore prepared
unto glory?
Matt. xUi. 37. Ho answered and
said unto them, He that soweth the
good seed is the Son of man :
38. ThS field is the world; the good
seed are tho children of the kingdom ;
but the tares are the children of the
wicked one;
39. The enemy that sowed them is
the devil ; the harvest is the end of the
world ; aud fhe reapers aro the angels.
40. As therefore the tares aro ga
thered and burned in the fire ; so shall
it be in the end of this world.
41. The Son of man shall send forth
his angels, and they shall gather out of
his kingdom aU things that offend, and
them which do iniquity,
42. And shall cast them into a fur
nace of fire : there shaU be waihng and
gnashmg of teeth.
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any such thing as indiscriminate chance
iu this selection, or appointment of the
potter. With him all is according to
an eternal purpose; and though the
heirs of proraise, whfle dead in tres
passes and sine, are children of wrath
even as others, differing "nothing from
servants, though they be lords of all ;"
yet he that forraed them for himself,
knows thera that are his ; and no com
mon exterior of clay can prevent his
discerning a "vessel of honor before
prepared unto glory" from " a vessel of
wrath fitted to (destruction." The wheat
and the tares, though growing in the
same field until the harvest, will then
be separated from each other.
The portion or present which Jacob
gave to Esau, therefore properly repre
sents that which actually belonged to
the eon of perdition — the tares which
he had planted — the seed of the wicked

The Letter.
17. And he commanded the fore
most, saying, When Esau my brother
meeteth thee, and asketh theo, saying.
Whose ari thou? and wMfjher goest
thou? and whose are these before
thee? 18. Then thou shalt say. They be
thy servant Jacob's : it is a present
sent unto my lord Esau : and behold
also he is behind us.
19. And so commanded he the se
cond, and the third, and aU that fol
lowed the droves, saying, On this man
ner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye
find him.
20. And say ye moreover, Behold,
thy servant Jacob is behind us. For
he said, I wUl appease hun with the
present that goeth before me, and af
terward I wUl see his face ; peradven
ture he will Uccept of me.
Note.
It appears that this band was subdi
vided into three parts, droves, or com
panies, each led by one of Jacob's ser
vants. Spiritually theae three may very

forth as the sun in the kingdom of their
Father. "Who hath ears to hear, let
him hear.
JfC ^ y T* V T^
47. Agam, the kmgdom of heaven is
like unto a net that was cast into the
sea, and gathered of every kind :
48. Which, when it was full, they
drew to shore, and sat down, and ga
thered the good into vessels, but cast
the bad away.
49. So shaU it be at the ond of the
¦world; the angels shall come forth,
and sever the -wicked from among the
just, 50. And shafl cast them into the fur
nace of fire : there shall be waiUng and
gnashing of teeth.

one, with all which pertained to him as
the father of lies.

The Spirit.
1 John ii. 16. For aU that is m the
world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust
of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not
of the Father, but is of the world.
17. And the world passeth away,
and the lust thereof : but he that doeth
the will of God abideth for ever.
2 Pet. n. 9. The Lord knoweth
how to deUver the godly out of tempt
ations, and to reserve tho unjust unto
the day of judgment to be punished:
10. But cMefly them that walk after
the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and
despise government. Presumptuous
are tliey, self-willed ; they are not afraid
to speak evfl of dignities.
11. Whereas angels, which are
greater m power and might, bring not
railing accusation against them before
the Lord.
12. But these, as natural brute
beasts, made to be taken and destroyed,
speak evfl of the things that they un
derstand not ; and shafl utterly perish
in their own corruption :
13. And shall receive the reward of
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properly repreeent the powers of sin,
marshalled under the worlds trinity,
" the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the
eyes, and the pride of life ;" these being
separately and jointly the three grand
agents of Satan in enslaving and leading
captive the children of raen.
This array of luste, to all of which the
heirs of proraise had been subject in
common with the seed of the wicked,
whfle under the law, were now to be
"put off" by them, with the old man
which is corrupt, and ie crucified by the
body of Christ; according to Col. ii.
11, 12, 13.
Jacob seems to expect that this pre
sent would appease Esau, and he might
be suffered to eacape. But alas, the an
titypical Jacob had pledged himself to
bear the sins and the curse of hie people
in his own body on the tree ; therefore
the only way for sin to be destroyed,
and him also who is the father of sin,
"that is, the devfl," was by submitting
that body to hia power. The seed of
the woman must yield up hia " heel " if
he would bruise the eerpent'a head.

pleasure to riot in the daytime. Spots
ihey are and blemishes, sporting them
selves with their own deceivings whfle
they feast with you.
***** 17. These aro wells without water,
clouds that are carried with a tempest ;
to whom the mist of darkness is re
served for ever.
18. For when they speak great
swelling words of vanity, they allure
through the lusts of tho flesh, through
much wantonness, those that were
clean escaped from them who live in
error. ***** 20. For ff after they have escaped
the pollutions of the world through the
knowledge of the Lord and Saviour
Jesus Christ, they are again entangled
therein, and overcome, the latter end is
worse with them than the beginning.
21. For it had been better for them
not to have known the way of right
eousness, than, after they have known
it, to turn from the holy commandment
delivered unto them.
22. But it is happened unto them
according to the true proverb, Tho dog
is turned to his own vomit again ; and,
The sow that was washed, to her wal
lowing in the mire.

The Letter.
21. So went the present over before
him ; and Mmself lodged that night in
the company.
22. And he rose up that night, and
took his two wives, and his two wo
men-servants, and his eleven sons, aud
passed over the ford Jabbok.
23. And he took them, and sent
them over the brook, and sent over
that he had. Note.
Those readers who raay be so little
conversant with the raysteries of godli
ness, as to lose sight of the mystical one
ness of Christ and his church — that they
are for ever inseparable as Head and

The Spirit.
John xviU. 1. When Jesus had
spoken these words, he went forth with
his disciples over the brook Cedron,
where was a garden, into tho which he
entered and his disciples.
Matt. xxvi. 36. Then cometh Je
sus with them unto a place called
Gethsemane, and saith unto the disci
ples, Sit ye here, whUe I go -and pray
yonder. 37. And he took with him Peter and
the two sons of Zebedee, and began to
be sorrowful and very heavy.
38. Then saith he unto them. My
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raerabers of one body — will not be likely
to understand how the analogy bet-ween
this typical history and the life and
death of the Son of God, can be sus
tained ; or how the wives of Jacob, as
well as his .sons, were 'with hira. in thie
last scene of suffering.
We have already obeerved that theee
two wives allude to the two-fold purchase
of the church by the suffering and death
of Christ — that she is his, both soul and
body. "The rederaption of the soul is
precious and ceaeeth for ever," there be
ing no raore death or bondage awaiting
it But " for the adoption, to wit the
rederaption of the body," the church
waits until the resurrection, when Jesus
wfll receive the fidl " rederaption of the
purchased possession," and -" this vile
body will be changed, and raade like
unto his glorioua body;" and then will
the bride be made ready for the raar
riage of the Lamb.
These great and glorious truthe being
involved in the antitype, the type raust
be conformed to it, as far as natural can
be similitudes of spiritual things.

The Letter.
24. And Jacob was loft alone ; and
there wrestiod a man with him, until the
breaking of the day.
26. And when he saw that he pre
vafled not agamst him, he touched the
hollow of his thigh : and the hollow of
Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he
wrestled with him.
26. And he said. Let rae go, forthe
day breaketh : And he said, I will not
let thee go, except thou bless- me.
27. And he said unto him, What is
thy name ? And he said, Jacob.
28. And he said. Thy name shall be
called no more Jacob, but Israel : for
as a prince hast thou power with God,
and with men, and hast prevaUed.
29. And Jacob asked Mm, and said,
TeU me, I pray thee, thy name : And I

death : tarry ye here, and watch with
me. John xiu. 1. Now before the feast
of the passover, when Jesus knew that
his hour was come that he should de
part out of this world unto the Father,
having loved his own which were in the
world, he loved them unto the end.
xiv. 1. Let not your heart be trou
bled : ye believe in God, believe also
in me.
2. In my Father's house are many
mansions ¦: if il were not so, I would
have told you. I go to prepare a place
for you.
3. And if I go and prepare a place
for you, I -wiU come again and receive
you unto myself: that where I am,
there ye may be also.
4. And whither I go ye know, and
the way yo know.
.Matt. xxvi. 45. Then cometh he to
his disciples, and saith unto them, Sleep
on now, and take your rest: behold,
the hour is at hand, and the Son of man
is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
46. Rise, let us be going: behold,
ho is at hand that doth betray me.

The Spirit.
Ps. xxii. 1. My God, my God, why
hast thou forsaken mo ? why ari Ihou
so far from helping me, and from the
words of my roaring?
Luke xU. 41. And he was with
drawn from them about a stone's cast,
and kneeled down, and pr.ayed,
42. Saying, Father, if thou be will
ing, remove this cup from me : never
theless, not my wUl, but thine, be done.
43. And there appeared an angel
unto him from heaven, strengthening
him. 44. And being in an agony, he
prayed more earnestly : and his sweat
was as it were great drops of blood
falling down to the ground.
Heb. fl. 9. But we see Josus, who
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ho said, Wherefore is, it ihat thou dost
ask after my name ? And he blessed
him there. Note.
The wrestling of Jacob with the an
gel, or with .lesus himself in the form of
man, is, literally, » remarkable event;
but it is much raore remarkable in its
typical import. It has doubtless allusion
to the mysterious conflict in the garden
of Gethsemane, when" the Father and the
Son, " face to face," wrestled with each
other, until the Son, being in an agony,
sweat as it were great drops of blood,
falling to the ground.
The Son, as the surety of hie people,
and bearing their eins, appeare at the
call of the Father, to receive the full
penalty of the law in their behalf. In
'the garden of Eden, thie "judgment of
the great day'' was typically set forth,
when God called upon the first Adam
to answer for what had been done ; and
now in tbe garden of Gethsemane, it is
actually fulfifled. The Son acknow
ledges having partaken of the woman's
sin; and Justice is called upon to strike
the blow — to smite " the man that is Je
hovah's fellow," — not with the death of
the body merely, for Jesus must "raake
his soul an offering for sin ;" he must
taste of the " second death," and as he
had assumed the accumulated load of
hia people's sins, must endure the full
measure of the wrath of God due to
them — thus bringing to pass the scrip
ture, " he hath made the depths of the
sea, il way for the ransomed to pass
over." In this " vafley of Achor," where di
vine justice took such signal vengeance
upon Jehovah's best Beloved, when aiu
was but charged to his account, the Fa
ther appears about to withdraw and
leave the sacy-ifiee to be consumed; but
the Son, by virtue bf his divine power,
retains his hold of omnipotence, until he
had drank the oup of wrath to the dregs,
and could claim the promised blessing,
" the reward of hie sufferings." " I will
not let thee go except thou bless me."
Thua did he raerit and receive "a narae
that is above every narae,'' <Stc.

for the suffering of death, crowned
with glory and honor ; that he by fhe
grace of God should taste death for
every man.
10. For it became hun, for whom
are all things, and by whom are all
things, in bringing many sons unto
glory, to make the Captain of their sal
vation perfect through sufferings.
V. 6. As he saith also in another
place, Thou art a priest for ever after
the order of Melchisedec.
7. "Wlio in the days of his flesh,
when he had offered up prayers and
supplications with strong crying and
tears unto him that was able to save
him from death, and was heard, in that
he feared.
Ps. xvi. 9. Therefore my heart is
glad, and my glory rejoiceth : my flesh
also shall rest in hope.
10. For thou wilt not leave my soul
in hell : neither wflt thou suffer thy
Holy One to see corruption.
11. Thou wilt show me the path of
life : in thy presence is fulness of joy ;
at thy right hand there are pleasures for
evermore. Phil. U. 6. Who, being in tho form
of God, thought it not robbery to be
equal with God :
7. But made himself of no reputa
tion, and took upon him the form of a
servant, and was made in the likeness
of men :
8. And being found in fashion as a
man, he humbled himself, and became
obedient unto death, even the death of
the cross.
9. Wherefore God also hsith Mghly
exalted him, and given him a name
which is above every name :
10. That at the name of Jesus every
knee should bow, of things in heaven,
and things in earth, and things under
the earth ;
11. And thai every tongue should
confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to
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The Letter.
30. And Jacob called tho name of
the place Peniel : for I have seen God
face to face, and my Ufe is preserved.
31. And as he passed over Penuel,
the sun rose upon him, and he halted
upon his thigh.
32. Therefore the children of Israel
eat not of the sinew which shrank,
which is upon the hollow of the thigh,
unto this day ; because he touched the
hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew
that shrank.* Note.
When the mighty victor passed from
this wondrous conflict, the Sun of right
eousness — the morning light of salva
tion rose upon a lost world! for the
Lion of the tribe of Jadah had prevailed
to open the book of the " seven seals,"
by which the great question would be
answered, "how God can be just and
justify him that believes in Jesus 1"
But while the divinity triumphed, the
human body of the Lamb of God halted
under ita stupendous load. Like the
" red wine" of the vineyard of which
Noah drank, it overpowered the mortal
flesh, and caused it to be overcome " as
wflh new wine."
The sufferings and death of Christ
were of a three-fold character. The pe
nalty he incurred iu the room and stead
of hie people, wae from tho law, from
the Father, and from Satan. First he
submitted to the authority of the law,
until every jot aud tittle was fulfilled.
This is seen in the twenty years' servi
tude of Jacob in Laban's house. Se
condly, the Redeemer endured the wrath
of God and the stroke of justice due to
sin ; as seen in the wrestling of Ja
cob. Thirdly, he endured the malice
of the powers of darkness, the subUe
hatred of the serpent; which he has
yet to meet in the person of Judas or
Esau — to whom he raust yield the heel
of his huraan nature. When his body
was crucified, it was iu corapany with
raalefactors, whose death was hastened

Soe Appendix Q\).

TTie Spiril.
Ps. xxi. 1. The king shafl joy in thy
strengthj O Lord ; and in thy salvation
how greatly shall he rejoice !
2. Thou hast given Mm his heart's
desire, and hast not whhholden the re
quest of his lips. Selah.
3. For thou preventest Mm with the
blessings of goodness : thou softest a
crown of pure gold on his head.
4. He asked Ufe of thee, and thou
gavest il him, even length of days for
ever and ever.
5. His glory is great in thy salva
tion : honor and majesty hast thou laid
upon him.
6. For thou hast made him most
blessed for ever; thou hast made
him exceeding glad with thy coun
tenance. 7. For the king trusteth in the Lord,
and through the mercy of the Most
High he shall not be moved.
8. Thy hand shall find out all thme
enemies : thy right hand shafl find out
those that hate thee.
9. Thou shalt make them as a fiery
oven in the time of thine anger : the
Lord shall swaflow them up in Ms
wrath, and tho fire shall devour them.
10. Their fruit shalt thou destroy
from the earth, and their seed from
among the cMldren of men.
11. For they intended evfl agamst
thee: they imagined a mischievous
device, which they are not able to
perform. 12. Therefore shalt thou make them
turn their back, when thou shalt make
ready thine arrows upon thy strings
against the face of them.
13. Be thou exalted. Lord, in thine
own strength : so wifl we sing and
praise thy power.
John xix. 30. When Jesus there
fore had received the vinegar, he said,
It is finished : and he bowed his head,
and gave up the ghost
31. The Jews therefore, because it
was the preparation, that the bodies

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by breaking their lege ; but the huraan
nature of Jesua, his mortal thigh, was
touched by the hand of God himself,
and halted at hia coraraand.

should not remain upon the cross on
the sabbath-day, (for that sabbath-day
was a high-day,) besought Pflate that
their legs might be broken, and thai
they might be taken a^ay.

CHAPTER XXXIII.

The Letter.
1. And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and
looked, and behold, Esau came, and
with him four hundred men. And he
divided the children unto Leah, and
unto Rachel, and unto the two hand
maids. 2. And ho put tho handmaids and
their chfldren foremost, and Leah and
her chUdi-en after, and Rachel and Jo
seph hindermost.
3. And he passed over before them,
and bowed himself to the ground seven
times, untfl ho came near to his bro
ther. Note.
Nothing of all which Jesus did aud
suffered, but had been kuown and fore
seen by him frora the beginning. The
war which was proolairaed in Eden be
tween the woman aud her seed, and the
serpent and his seed, had been through
all succeeding ages in progress aud pre
paration for the decisive battle. From
the day when, iu that proclamation, he
pledged himself unto the death of the
cross for the redemption of the trans
gressors, up to the period of their com
plete deliverance — the "servant" of the
covenant, had "bowed himself to the
ground," in all the forms of humiliation,
before his crafty and bloodthirsty foe.
He had been represented by prophets
as surrendering himself to the hands of
Justice, to save his sheep frora the
stroke ; as submitting to the law as their
surety and example, and as giving his
life, the body and soul of his human na
ture, to be bruised and crushed under
the power of death, that they might
live.

The Spirit.
Matt. xxvi. 47. And while he yet
spake, lo, Judas, ono of the twelve,
camo, and with him a great multitude
with swords and staves, from the chief
priests and elders of the people.
48. Now, he that betrayed him gave
tiiem a sign, saying, Whomsoever I
shall kiss, that same is he ; hold him
fast. John xviU. 2. And Judas also,
which betrayed him, knew the place:
for Jesus oft-times resorted thither
with his disciples.
3. Judas then, having received a
band of men and officers from tho chief
priests and Pharisees, cometh thither
vrith lanterns, and torches, and wea
pons. 4. Jesus therefore, knowing all
things that should come upon him,
went forth, and said unto them. Whom
seek ye ?
5. They answered him, Jesus of
Nazareth. Jesus saith unto them, I
am he. And Judas also, which be
trayed Mm, stood with them.
6. As soon then as he had said unto
them, I am he, they went backward,
and fell to the ground.
7. Then asked he them again.
Whom seek yo ? And they said, Jesus
of Nazareth.
8. Jesus answered, I have told you
that I am he. If therefore ye seek me,
let these go their way :
9. That the saying might be ful
filled which he spake, Of them which
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These things and these days had all
been foretold; and Jesus exclaims
against hia diaciplee for their want of
underetanding of that, which the ecrip-
turcs everywhere testified. But it was
this humiliation of the Son of God, that
rendered him a stone of sturabUng to
the unbelieving Jews. Had he eome in
pomp and grandeur instead of the form
of a servant they would have believed
on him. Instead of this, the meek and
lowly Lamb of God, appeared in their
sight "ae u root out of a dry ground,
with no form or comeliness that they
should desire him." He humbled him
self to the death of the cross, instead of
claiming a worldly sceptre.

Acts fl. 23. Him, being deUvered
by the determinate counsel and fore
knowledge of God, ye have taken, and
by wicked hands have crucified and
slain. Luke xxv. 25. Then he said unto
them, O fools, and slow of heart to be
Ueve all that the prophets have spoken I
26. Ought not Christ to have suf
fered these things, and to enter mto
his glory ?
27. And beginning at Moses, and all
the prophets, he expounded unto them
in all the scriptures the things concern
ing himself.
Acts iii. 24. Yea, and all the pro
phets from Samuel, and those that fol
low after, as many as have spoken,
have likewise foretold of these days.

The Letter.
4. And Esau ran to meet him, and
embraced him, and fefl on his neck, and
kissed him : and they wept.*
5. And he Ufted up his eyes, and
saw the women and the children, and
said, Who are those with thee ? And
he said, Tho children which God hath
graciously given thy servant.
6. Then the handmaidens camo near,
they and their cMldren, and thoy bowed
themselves. 7. And Leah also ,with her chfldren
came near, and bowed themselves ; and
after came Joseph near and Rachel, and
they bowed themselves. Note.
Surely no oue who has at all consi
dered the character and designs of Esau,
ean for a moraent be deceived by thie
false show of affection for Jacob. Was
Judas ever known to embrace the
Saviour, till. he did it to betray hira?
Deceit and guile are the characteristics
of the serpent ; and hatred and raurder
had full poaeeeeion of the heart of Esau.

* See Appendix 0)'

The Spirit.
Matt. xxvi. 47. * * And he that was
called Judas, one of the twelve, went
before them, and drew near unto Jesus
to kiss him.
48. But Jesus said unto him, Judas,
betrayest thou the Son of man with a
kiss? Luke xxu. 52. Then Jesus said
unto tho chief priests, and captains of
the temple, and the elders, which were
come to him. Be ye come out, as
against a tMef, with swords and
staves ?
63. When I was daily with you in
the temple, ye stretched forth no hands
agamst me : but this is your hour, and
the power of darkness.
xxui. 27. And there foUowed hun a
great company of people, and of wo
men, which also bewailed and lamented
him. 28. But Jesus turnmg unto them,
said. Daughters of Jerusalem, weep
not for rae, but weep for yourselves,
and for your children.
29. For behold, the days are coming,
in the which they shall say. Blessed are
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It is probable, however, that he wae
puzzled- and subdued by the meekness
and gentleness of Jacob, who he
doubtlese expected was approaching to
disposeees hira of that inheritance to
which he was entitled, but which Esau
until now had been suffered to occupy.
He had not forgotten that Jacob had
been raade lord over him, and he feared
ae well as hated him. Even as Satan
said to Jesus — " I know thee who thou
art the Holy One of Gqd ; art thou
come to torment us before the time ?"
But -n-lien he saw the lowliness and for
bearance of Jesus, and that all his tempt
ations failed to excite in hira the least
feeling of self-exaltation or lust — he was
unable, with all his subtlety, to account
for the mystery, aud Was forced to change
his raode of operations.
As is the master of the house, eo are
his servants. No sooner are the saints
of God called into his kingdom, than
they also are obliged to put on the
armor of God, that they may be able to
stand against the wiles of the devil; for
carnal -weapons are ineffectual in this
warfare. Not only Jacob, but his household, are
represented as bowing down and yield
ing themselves, in all the forms of sub
mission, to Esau. So also Jesue hae told
his disciples that they should drink of
his cup, and be baptized with his bap
tism ; — for not only "the master of the
house, but they of his household," are
alike the objects of hatred and malice
to the serpent and his seed. The dra
gon not only sought to devour the
"man-child," but also persecuted "the
woman" that brought him forth.

bare, and the paps which never gave
suck. 30. Then shafl they begin to say to
the mountains, Fall on us ; and to the
hifls, CoVer us.
31. For if they do those things in a
green tree, what shall be done in the
dry? Ps. Iv. 21. The words of his mouth
were smoother than butter, but war
was in his heart : Ms words -were softer
than oil, yet were they drawn swords.
Ixii. 4. They only consult to cast
him down from his excellency: they
delight in Ues: they bless with their
mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.
Peov. xxvi. 23. Burning lips and a
wicked heart are like a potsherd cover
ed with silver dross.
24. He that hateth dissemblefh with
his Ups, and layeth up deceit within
him ;
25. When he speaketh fair, believe
him not : for there are seven abomina
tions in his heart.
26. Whose hatred is covered by de
ceit, his wickedness shall be shewed
before the whole congregation.
27. Whoso diggeth a pit shafl fall
therein : and ho that roUeth a stone, it
wfll return upon him.
28. A lying tongue hateth those thai
are afflicted by it; and a flattering
mouth worketh ruin.
2 CoE. xi. 13. For such are false
aposties, deceitful workers, transform
ing themselves mto the apostles of
Christ 14. And no marvel; for Satan hun
self is transformed into an angel of
light.

Tlie Letter.
8. And he said, What meanest thou
by all this drove which I met ? And
he said. These are to find grace in the
sight of my lord.
9. And Esau said, I have enough,
my brother ; keep that thou hast unto
thyself.

The Spirit.
Rev. xu. 7. And there was war in
heaven : Michael and his angels fought
agamst the dragon; and the dragon
fought and his angels,
8. And prevaUed not; neither was
then- place found any more m hea
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Note.
So accustomed are we to associate the
idea of carnal weapons and open hos-
tUities with the subject of war, that it ie
difficult to conceive this singular inter
view between Jacob and Esau, at the
head of their respective bands, to be a
similitude of the war, described in the
12th chapter of Revelation, between
Michael and his angels, and the dragon
and his angels. But with all the actual
meekness, gentleness, and forbearance,
on the one hand, and all the semblance
of them on the other, this encounter
really and truly represents the raighty
conflict between the two opposite prin
cipalities of light and darkness — heaven
and hell.
The judgraent of this world had corae ;
when "the prince of this world should
be cast out" As Jacob gave notice to
Esau, therefore, of his being on the way
to take poeeeasion of his inheritance, &c.,
so Jesus raade known to the eon of per
dition that his hour was corae, and the
power of d.arknees: — that what he did,
he raust do quickly. When he saw him
approach, he says — "the prince of thie
world cometh, and hath nothing iu me."
Nothing which he could move by his
temptations, either to fear or preeump-
tion ; for though the huraan nature of
the Son of God trembled, and hia holy
soul revolted from contact with these
powers of hell, yet in the firm purpose
of his divine raission, he advances freely
to the conflict as to a scene of triumph ;
whfle in view of his sufferings be aaye,
" I have a baptism to be baptized withal,
and how am I straitened till it be ac
coraplished." The Son of God owed nothing to, the
serpent yet he gave him " his heel," — his
body of flesh ; for so it was appointed
in the determinate counsel of God. And
Jacob owed nothing to Esau, yet volun
tarily surrendered to him this "present"
of cattie; and though he had been made
his " lord," assumed a posture of humfli
ty and subraiaaion before him iu this
mysterious encounter; thus confirming
the words of Isaac to Esau — "When
thou shalt have the dominion, thou shalt
break his yoke from off thy neck." —

9. And the great dragon was cast
out, that old serpent, called the DevU,
and Satan, which deceiveth the whole
world : he was cast out into the earth,
and his angels were cast out with him.
10. And I heard a loud voice saying
in heaven. Now is come salvation, and
strength, and the kingdom of our God,
and the power of his Christ : for the
accuser of our brethren is cast down
which accused them before our God
day and night.
II. And they overcame him by the
blood of the Lamb, and by the word of
their testimony ; and they loved not
their Uves unto the death.
John xu. 23. And Jesus answered
them, saying. The hour is come, that
the Son of man should be glorMed.
24. Verily, verily, I say unto you.
Except a corn of wheat fall into the
ground and die, it abideth alone: but
if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
25. He that loveth his life shaU lose
it; and he that hateth his life in this
world shaU keep it unto life eternal.
26. If any man serve me, let. him fol
low me ; and where I am, there shall
also my servant be : if any man serve
me, him -vrill my Father honor.
27. Now is my soul troubled; and
what shall I say? Father, save me
from this hour : but for this cause
came I unto this hour.
2 CoR. xi. 13. For such are false
aposties, deceitful workers, transform
ing themselves into tho aposties of
Christ. 14. And no marvel; for Satan him
self is transformed into an angel of
Ught. 15. Therefore ii is no great thing if
his ministers also be transformed as
the ministers of righteousness ; whose
end shall be according to their works.

"This is your hour, and the power of
darkness," aaid Jesus to the prince of
this world, when he submitted himsel
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7';!e Letter.
10. And Jacob said. Nay, I pray
thee, if now I have found grace in thy
sight, then receive my present at my
hand: for therefore I' have seen thy
face, as though I had seen the face of
God, and thou wast pleased with me.
11. Take, I pray thee, my blessing
that is brought to thee ; because God
hath dealt graciously with me, and be
cause I have enough : and he urged
him, and he took ii.
Note.
Well raight Jesus say, of his own vo
luntary sacrifice, "Therefore doth my
Father love me, because I lay down my
life that I might take it again. No man
taketh it from me, but I lay it down of
myself." How perfectly did he conforra
to the sentiment of thia declaration;
unmoved to any^feeling but pity and
compaeeion, by all the hatred and malice
of his raurderers, and unhesitatingly
bent upon giving himself up to their
power. From, the beginning, it had been de
termined in the counsel of Father, Son,
and Spirit, that this sacrifice should be
raade. For this purpose Jesus had been
sent into the world ; — aud for this pur
pose he had " corae to this hour."
Therefore he met the face of his great
adversary, into whose hands he should
yield the offering, as "if it had been the
face of God himself." For well he kn e w
that till the heel of his human body
should be given to the serpent, he would
not cease to pursue biiu.
But on the other hand, Esau, or typi
cally the son of perdition, was now in
the element of hia nature. He saw the
object of his hatred" and envy coraplete-
ly in his power. He beheld him, who
had been raade his lord and raaeter,
now bowing in hurable subraission iu
his presence, and calling him lord, ac
cording to the word of Isaac — " When
thou shalt have the dominion, thou shalt
break his yoke from off thy neck,"— or of
Jesus himself—" This is your hour, and
the power of darkness." For this hour
he had long watched, greedy to devour

The Spirit.
John x. 17. Therefore doth my
Father love me, because I lay down
my lffe, that I might take it again.
18. No man taketh it from me, hut
I lay it down of myself: I have power
to lay it down, and I have power to take
it again. This commandment have I
received of my Father.
Luke xu. 50. But I have a baptism
to be baptized with ; and how am 1
straitened till it be accomplished.
Gen. xxvii. 40. And by thy sword
shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy bro
ther : and it shall come to pass, when
thou shalt have the dominion, that
thou shalt break his yoke from off thy
neck. 41. And Esau hated Jacob, because
of the blessing wherewith his father
blessed him: and Esau said in his
heart. The days of mourning for my
father are at hand ; then wfll I slay my
brother Jacob.
iii. 16. And I wfll put enmity be
tween thee and the woman, and be
tween thy seed and her seed: it shall
bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise
his heel.
2 Pet. ii. 4. For if God spared not
the angels that sinned, but cast ihem
down to hell, and delivered ihem into
chains of darkness, to bo reserved unto
judgment. John xi. 31. Now is the judgment
of tMs worid : now shall the prince of
this world be cast out.
32. And 1, if I be Ufted up from fhe
eqrth, wiU draw all men unto me.
33. (This he said, signifying what
death he should die.)
Heb. xii. 1. Wherefore, seeing we
also are compassed about with so great
a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside
every weight, and the sin which doth
so easUy beset us, and let us run with
patience the race that is set before
us, 2. Looking unto Jesus, the author
and finisher of our faith ; who, for the
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the promised "heel" of the woman'e
seed. And when the chains of darkness
that bound him to this hour wpre loosed,
he sprang upon his prey, like a roaring
lion, or a ravening wolf 1

The Letter.
12. And ho said, Let us take our
journey, and let us go, and I wUl go
before thee.
13. And ho said unto him, My lord
knoweth that the chUdren are tender,
and the flocks and herds with young
are with me, and if men should over
drive them one day, all the flock wfll
die. 14. Let my lord, I pray thee, pass
over before his servant : and I will lead
on softiy, according as the cattle that
goeth before me and the chUdren be
able to endure ; until I come unto my
lord unto Seir. Note.
Here the cunning craftiness of the
arch-deceiver discovers itself, in this
proposal of Esau. It was evidently his
design to t.ake possession of Jacob and
his company — not by an open and hos
tile attack, but by subtlety to draw
thera into his snare, and lead them cap
tive to hie own habitation of Mount
Sei*-. Of this same character were all the
attacks of Satan upon the Son of God in
the days of hie flesh. The teraptation
in the wilderness, and the kiss iu the
garden, were expressions of his infernal
diploraacy. He hoped that sorae inad
vertency — some little concession of the
immaculate Lamb of God, to his spe
cious proposals, would betray hira
wholly to his power. But here the
wfly adversary wae foiled : for, though
Jesus freely gave himself to the power
of -death, it was impossible that he
should be holden by it The .Father
had promised that he would not leave
him fn the hande of the eneray. Satan,
with all hie eubtlcty, did not understand
that in consenting to cuter the dark
confines of the grave, the Son of God

the cross, despising the shame, and is
set down at the right hand of the
throne of God.

The Spiril.
John x. 4. And when he putteth
forth his own sheep, he goeth before
them, and the sheep follow him : for
they know his voice.
6. And a stranger will they not fol
low, but wiU flee from him : for they
know not tho voice of strangers.
27. My sheep hear my voiCe, and I
know them, and they follow me :
28. And I give unto them eternal
life ; and they shall never perish, nei
ther shall any pluck them out of my
hand. 29. My Father, which gave them me,
is greater than all; and none is able to
pluck them out of my Father's hand.
10. Tho thief cometh not, but for to
steal, and to kill, and to destroy : I am
come that they might have life, and
that they might have ii more abund
antiy. Heb. U. 14. Forasmuch then as the
chUdren are partakers of flesh and blood,
he also himself likewise took part of
the same ; that through death he might
destroy him that hath the power of
death, that is, the devfl ;
16. And deliver them who through
fear of death were all their lifetime
subject to bondage. .
16. For verily he took not on him
ihe nature of angels ; but he took on
him the seed of Abraham.
17. Wherefore m all tlflngs it be
hoved him to be made like unto 7iis
brethren, that he might be a merciful
and faithful High Priest in things per-
taining to God, to make reconciliation
for the sins of the people :
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would for ever destroy that power, and^
burst those bonds, not only for himself,
but in behalf of all those " who, through
fear of death, had been all their lifetlrae
subject to bondage."' Thus would he
bruise the head of the serpent who had
" the poiver of death," and lead captivi
ty itself captive. Then would the scrip
ture be fulfilled — "He that diggeth a
pit shall fall therein."

The Letter.
15. And Esau said. Let me now
leave with thee some of the folk that
are with me : And he said, "What need-
eth it? Let me find grace in the sight
of my lord.
16. So Esau returned that day on
his way unto Seir. Note.
The devices of Satan to ensnare and
deceive the unwary, are raany and vari
ous. What he fails to do, in his own
proper person, he employs his emissaries
to accomplish. The. powers of darkness
are called "legion," for they are raany.
and while the redeemed of the Lord
were dead in trespasses and sins, the
" god of this world," the " prince of the
power of the air," wrought in them all
manner of evil; for they were led cap
tive by hira at hie will, and walked ac
cording to the course of thie world, &c.
But God, who is rich iu raercy, hath
delivered thera from this present evil
world, and translated tbem frora the
•kingdom and power of darkness, into
the kingdora of his dear Son. Sin hath
now no more dominion over thera, for
they are not under the law, but under
grace. We have before observed that Satan,
the antitypical Esau, had once a place
and an habitation in the kingdom of
heaven, over which the Son of God was
set as Lord and King ; and that when
the Father brought the First-Begotten
23

fered, being tempted, he is able to suc
cor thom that are tempted.
Ps. IxviU. 18. Thou hast ascended
on high, thou hast led captivity captive :
thou hast received gffts for men ; yea,
for the rebellious also, that the Lord
God might dwell among ihem.
Hosea xui. 14. I will ransom them
from the power of the grave ; I vrill
redeem them from death : O death, I
will be thy plagues ; O grave, I wUl be
thy destruction: repentance shall be
hid from mine eyes.

The Spirit.
Eph. vi. 11. Put on the whole ar
mor of God, that ye may be able to
stand against the wiles of tho devil
12. For we wrestie not against fiesh
and blood, but against principalities,
against powers, against the rulers of
tho darkness of this world, against
spiritual wickedness m high places.
13. Wherefore take unto you the
whole armor of God, that ye may be
able to withstand in the evil day, and
having done all, to stand.
14. Stand therefore, having your
loms girt about with (ruth, and havmg
on the breast-plate of righteousness,
16. And your feet shod with the pre
paration of the gospel of peace ;
16. Above all, taking the shield of
faith, wherewith ve .shall be able to
quench all the fiery darts of tho wicked.
17. And take the helmet of salva
tion, and the sword of tho Spirit, which
is the word of God.
Acts ii. 15. For these are not
drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but
the third hour of the day.
2 Thess. ii. 9. Even him, whc ,e
coming is after tho working of Satan,
with afl power, and signs, a,nd lying
wonders, 10. And with all deceivableness of
righteousness in them that perish ; be
cause they receive not tho lovo of the
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into the world, (Heb. i. 6,) as exhibited^
by the type of Adam in the garden of
Eden, and had comraanded all the an
gels of God to worship him, Satan re-
iused to do so, but rebelled against the,
divine coramand, and resolved to bring
this kingdom into subjection to his own
power. For this sin he was cast out un
der the curse of God, which assigned him
to his own place, to chains of darkness,
unto the judgment of the great day.
In like manner, when the decree of
God had chosen Jacob to the birthright,
and had conferred upon him the bless
ing promised to the " savory meat,"
and made hira lord over his brethren,
Esau refused submission to thie decree,
and wickedly devised to take the life of
Jacob, and thus subvert the purpose of
God, and obtain possession of the herit
age, of his brother. But though this
bloody design of Esau, drove Jacob for
a eeason from his home, (as the act of
the first murderer caused the Son of
God to leave the bosom of the Father,)
yet was this all according to the " de
terminate counsel and foreknowledge of
God," and resulted in the better esta
blishment of Jacob's birthright, and the
utter banishment of Esau: for the de
cree of God sent Esau from the face of
his brother Jacob, to his own place and
possession of Mount Seir, which signi
fies a demon, or place of a demon.

The Letter.
17. And Jacob journeyed to Suc-
coth, and built him a house, and made
booths for his cattle : therefore the
name of the place is called Succoth.
18. And Jacob came to Shalem, a
city of Shechem, which is in the land
of Canaan, when he came from Padan-
aram ; and pitched his tent before the
city. 19. And he bought a parcel of a
field, where he had spread his tent, at
the hand of the cMldren of HamoTj

Eph. ii. 1. And you liaih he quick
ened, who were dead m trespasses and
sins; 2. Wherem in time past ye walked
according to the course of this worid,
according to the prince of the power of
the air, the spirit that now worketh in
the chfldren of disobedience :
3. Among whom also we all had our
conversation in times past in the lusts
of our flesh, fulfillmg the desires of the
flesh and of tho mind; and were by
nature the children of wrath, even as
others. Rev. xu. 7. * * and the dragon
fought and his angels,
8. And prevailed not; neither was
their place found any more in heaven.
9. And the great dragon was cast
out, that old serpent, called the Devfl,
and Satan, which deceiveth the whole
world : he was cast out into the earth,
and Ms angels were cast out with him.
10. And I heard a loud voice saying
in heaven, Now is come salvation, and
strength, and the kingdom of our God,
and the power of his Christ : for the
accuser of our brethren is cast down,
which accused them before our God
day and night.
11. And they overcame him by the
blood of the Lamb, and by the word of
their testimony; and they loved not
their lives unto the death.

The Spirit.
Eph. ii. 19. Now therefore ye are
no raore strangers and foreigners, but
fellow-citizens with the saints, and of
the household of God ;
20. And are buflt upon the founda
tion of the aposties and prophets, Jesus
Chnst himself being the chief corner
stone ;
21. In whom all the buUdmg, fitiy
framed together, gi-oweth unto a holy
temple in the Lord :
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Shechem's father, for a hundred pieces
of money.
20. And he erected there an altar,
and cafled it El-elohe-Israel. Note.
Delivered from his strong enemy, Ja
cob was soon at liberty to pursue hie
journey. Succoth means " a place of
booths," implying the idea of teraporary
residence; though it ie said here he
built him a house, which is the first in
stance iu scripture of the use of thia ex
pression. It is not unlikely that in this
verse, there is a figurative allusion, both
to the pflgriraage state of the redeemed
iu this life, and also to the fact that the
militant kingdom of Christ which is
built upon a " sure foundatioii" and
shall stand for ever, was now set up in
visible gospel order.
The first step of Jacob in establishing
himself, was to purchase a field iu Sha
lem or Salim, a city of Shechem, iu the
land of Canaan, where he might pitch
his tent and erect an altar to " the God
of Israel."
In this raoveraent of Jacob, following
immediately upon his deliverance from
the hand of Esau, we have a figure of the
"footsteps of the flock " under the guid
ance of the Spirit when they followed
the inspired shepherds to the banks of
Jordan, " near to Salim," in that holy
ordinance which lesus set in the church
as a witness for ever that his death, bu
rial, and resurrection had removed all
condemnation frora his people. As it
was in Shechem [early in the moriting)
that Jacob's tent was pitched, eo it was
in the raorning of the gospel day, and
as a herald of the kingdora of heaven,
that the ordinance of baptism wae intro
duced, and afterwards was secured to
the sons of Joseph, or the Israel of God,
for a possession for ever.
It was in this very spot, and as cor
roborating this sarae idea, that the bones
of Joseph (figuratively the raerabers of
Christ's body) were buried, after being
brought out of Egypt. Josh. xxiv. 32.
This raeraorial of " the God of Israel,"
shall be seen in the heavene of the
church, ae a rainbow of peace and pro-

gether for a habitation of God through
the Spirit.
Josh. xxiv. 32. And the bones of
Joseph, which the chfldren of Israel
brought up out of Egypt, buried they
m Shechem, in a parcel of ground
which Jacob bought of the sons of
Hamor the father of Shechem for a
hundred pieces of sflver ; and it became
the inheritance of the chUdren of Jo
seph. John iii. 22. After these things
came Jesus and his disciples into the
land of Judea; and there he tarried
vrith them, and baptized.
23. And John also was baptizing in
jEnon, near to Salim, because there
was much water there ; and they came,
and were baptized.
Matt. xxvUi. 19. Go ye therefore,
and teach afl nations, baptizmg them in
the name of the Father, and of the Son,
and of the Holy Ghost.
Rom. iU. 3. Know ye not that so
many of us as were baptized into
Jesus Christ, were baptized into Ms
death ?
4. Therefore we are buried with him
by baptism into death ; that like as
Christ was raised up from the dead by
the glory of the Father, even so we
also should walk in newness of
life. 5. For if we have been planted %>-
gether in the likeness of his death, we
shall be also in Ihe-likeness of his resur
rection :
6. Knowing this, that our old man
is crucified with him, that the body of
sm might he destroyed, that henceforth
we should not serve sin.
7. For he that is dead is freed from
sin. 8. Now, if we be dead with Christ,
we believe that we shall also live with
him. Ps. Ix. 6. God hath .spoken in his
holiness ; I will rejoice, I wfll divide
Shechem, and mete out the vafley of
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mise, witnessing that there ia no more
ccrse, but seedtirae and harvest sum
mer and winter, cold and heat, shall not
cease in the vineyard of the Lord to the
end of time.

7. Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is
mine ; Ephraim also is the strength of
mine head ; Judah is ray lawgiver.

CHAPTER XXXIV.

The Letter.
1. And Dinah the daughter of Leah,
which she bare unto Jacob, went out
to see the daughters of the land.
2. And when Shechem the son of
Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country,
saw her, ho took her, and lay with her,
and defiled her.
3. And his soul clave unto Dinah,
the daughter of Jacob, and ho loved
the damsel, and spake kindly unto the
damsel. 4. And Shechem spake unto his fa
ther Hamor, saying. Get me this dam
sel to wife.
5. And Jacob heard that he had de
ffled Dinah his daughter : now his sons
were with Ms cattie in the field : and
Jacob held his peace until they were
come. 6. And Hamor the father of She
chem went out unto Jacob to commune
with him.
7. And the sons of Jacob came out
of the field when they heard U : and
the men were grieved, and they were
very wrotii, because he had wrought
folly in Israel, in lying with Jacob's
daughter; which thing ought not to be
done. 8. And Hamor communed with thorn,
saying, The soul of my son Shechem
longeth for your daughter ; I pray you
give her him to wife. •
9. And make ye marriages with us,
and give your daughters unto us, and
take our daughters unto you.
10. And ye shall dwell with us : and
the land shaU be before you ; dwell and

The Spirit.
1 Pet. U. 9. But ye are a chosen
generation, a royal priesthood, a holy
nation, a peculiar people; that ye
should show forth the praises of Mm
who hath called you out of darkness
into Ms marvellous light :
10. Which in time past were not a
people, but are now tho people of God :
which had not obtained mercy, but now
have obtained mercy.
11. Dearly beloved, I beseech you
as strangers and pilgrims, abstam from
fieshly lusts, which war against the
soul: 12. Having your conversation ho
nest among the GentUes : that, whereas
they speak against you as evU-doers,
thoy m.ay by your good works, which
they shall behold, glorify God in the
day of visitation.
Eph. iii. 17. This I say therefore,
and testify in the Lord, that ye hence
forth walk not as other Gentiles walk,
in the vanity of their mind ;
18. Having the understanding dark
ened, being alienated from the Ufe of
God through the ignorance that is in
them, because of the blindness of their
heart :
19. Who, being past feeUng, have
given themselves over unto lascivious-
ncss, to work all uncleanness with
greediness. 20. But ye have not so learned
Christ ;
21. If so be that ye have heard him,
and have been taught by Mm, as the
truth is in Jesus :

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trade ye therein, and get you posses
sions therein.
11. And Shechem said unto her fa
ther, and unto her brethren. Let me
find grace in your eyes, and what ye
shall say unto me, I wiU give.
12. Ask me never so much dowry
and gift, and I will give according as
ye shall say unto me : but give me the
damsel to wife.
13. And the sons of Jacob answered
Shechem and Hamor his father deceit
fully, and said. Because he had defiled
Dinah their sister :
14. And they said unto them, We
cannot do this thing, to give our sister
to one that is uncircumcised ; for that
were a reproach unto us.
16. But in this wiU we consent unto
you : If ye wUl be as we be, that every
male of you be circumcised ;
16. Then wUl we give our daugh
ters unto you, and we wUl take your
daughters to us, and we vrill dwell
with you, and we wUl become one
people. '
17. But if ye wifl not hearken unto
us, to be circumcised ; then will we
take our daughter, and we wiU be gone.
18. And their words pleased Hamor,
and Shechem, Hamor's son.
19. And the young man deferred not
to do the thing, because he had delight
in Jacob's daughter : and he was more
honorable tban all the house of his
father. 20. And Hamor and Shechem his
son came unto tho gate of their city,
and communed with the men of their
city, saying,
21. These men are peaceable with
us, therefore let them dwell in the land,
and trade therein : for the land, behold,
it is large enough for them : lot us take
their daughters to us for wives, and let
us give them our daughters.
22. Only herein will the men con
sent unto us for to dwell with us, to
be one people, if every male among us
be circumcised, as they are circum
cised.

22. That ye put off, concerning the
former conversation, the old man,
which is corrupt according to the de
ceitful lusts ;
23. And be renewed in the spirit of
your mind ;
24. And that ye put on the new
man, which after God is created in
righteousness and true holiness.
26. Wherefore, putting away lying,
speak every man truth -with his neigh
bor : for we are members one of ano
ther. 26. Be ye angiy, and sin not; let
not* the sun go down upon your
wrath ;
27. Neither give place to the devil.
28. Let him that stole steal no more ;
but rather let him labor, working with
his hands the thing which is good,
that he may have to givo to him that
needeth. 1 Pet. iv. 1. Forasmuch then as
Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh,
arm yourselves Ukewise with the same
mind : for he that hath suffered in the
fiesh hath ceased from sin ;
2. That he no longer should live the
rest of his time in the fiesh to the lusts
of men, but to the will of God.
3. For the time past of our life may
suffice us to have wrought the wfll of
the GentUes, when we walked in las-
civiousness, lusts, excess of wine, re
vellings, banquetings, and abominable
idolatries :
4. Wherein they think it strange
that you run not with ihem to the same
excess of riot, speaking evfl of you.
* * * * =K
12. Beloved, think it not strange,
concerning the fiery trial which is to
try you, as though some strange tMng
happened unto you :
13. But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are
partakers of Christ's sufferings ; that,
when his glory shall be revealed, ye
may be glad also with exceeding joy.
14. If ye be reproached for the name
of Christ, happy are ye ; for the Spirit
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23. Shall not their cattie, and their
substance, and every beast of theirs be
ours? only let us consent unto them,
and they wfll dwell with us.
24. And unto Hamor, and unto She
chem his son, hearkened all that went
out of the gate of his city : and every
male was circumcised, afl that went out
of the gate of Ms city.
26. And it came to pass on the third
day, when they were sore, that two of
the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi,
Dinah's brethren, took each man Ms
sword, and came upon the city boldly,
and slew all the males. .
26. And they slew Hamor and She
chem his son with the edge of the
sword, and took Dinah out of She
chem's house, and went out.
27. The sons of Jacob came upon
the slain, and spofled the city ; because
they had defiled their sister.
28. They took their sheep, and their
oxen, and their asses, and that which
was in the city, and that which was in
the field.
29. And all their wealth, and all
their little ones, and their wives took
they captive, and spofled even afl that
was in the house.
30. And Jacob said to Simeon and
Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me
to stink among the inhabitants of the
land, among the Canaanites, and the
Perizzites : and I being few in number,
they shall gather themselves together
against me, and slay me, and I shall be
destroyed, I and my house.
31. And they said. Should he deal
with our sister as with an harlot ?

On their part he is evil spoken of, but
on your part he is glorified.
16. But let none of you suffer as a
murderer, or as a thief, or as an
evil-doer, or as a busybody in other
men's matters.
16. Yet if any man suffer as a
Christian, let him not be ashamed ; but
let him glorify God on this behalf.
17. For the time is come that judg
ment must begin at the house of God :
and ff ii first begin at us, what shall
the end be of them that obey not the
gospel of God ?
RoM. xii. 17. Recompense to no
man evil for evfl. Provide things ho
nest in the sight of all men.
18. If it be possible, as much as
Ueth in you, live peaceably with all men.
19. Dearly beloved, avenge not your
selves; but rather give place unto
wrath : for it is written. Vengeance is
mine ; I wUI repay, saith the Lord.
20. Therefore, if thine enemy hun
ger, feed Mm; if he thirst, give hun
drink : for in so doing thou shalt heap
coals of fire on his head.
21. Be not overcome of evfl, but
overcome evfl vrith good.
James i. 20. For the wrath of man
worketh not tho righteousness of God.
James U. 12. So speak ye, and so
do, as they that shafl be judged by the
law of liberty.
13. For he shafl have judgment -with
out mercy that hath showed no mercy ;
and mercy rejoiceth agauist judgment.
14. What (foft i« profit, my brethren,
though a man say he hath faith, and
have not works ? can faith save him ?

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CHAPTER XXXV.

The Letter.
1. And God said unto Jacob, Arise,
go up to Beth-el, and dwefl there, and
make there an altar unto God, that
appeared unto thee when thou fleddest
from the face of Esau thy brother.
Note.
*The literal location of Beth-el was
about twelve miles northeast of Jerusa
lem. But the "house of God," whose
sure foundation-stone was the Lord
Jesus Christ the anointed of God, was
first visibly set up in Jeruealem. That
the two places differ, while the figura
tive signification is the same, may be to
show that neither to Jerusalem, nor any
other spot should the true worehippere
be limited or confined; but wherever
two or three were gathered iu the narae
of Jeeu^, there would he be.
We know that when Jesue, the high
prieet of good things to corae, had
offered himself without spot to God,
he entered not into the holy place
made with hands, but into heaven
itself, there to appear in the presence of
God for us; — into the "house of God
eternal in the heavens," and not the
church militant, where his visible pre
sence is no longer seeu. Therefore he
tells his disciples — " It is needful for you
that I go away ; for if I go not away, the
Comforter will not corae unto you ; but
if I go away, I will send him unto you."
It is the Holy Spirit that "dwells" in
Beth-el. Yet must we keep in mind,
that these divine persons are never dis
united. Jesus, walking in the midst of
his golden candlesticks; — God making
Zion hie rest for ever ; — and the Holy
Spirit taking up bis abode with the
church, as the glorifier of Jesus — are all
one and the same, only presented under
different modes.

• See Appendix (h).

Tlie Spirit.
Luke xxiv. 46. And said unto them.
Thus it is written. And thus it behoved
Christ to suffer, and to rise from the
dead the third day :
47. And that repentance and remis
sion of sins should be preached in his
name among aU nations, begmning at
Jerusalem. 48. And ye are witnesses of these
things. 49. And behold, I send fhe promise
of my Father upon you : but tarry ye
in the city of Jerusalem, untfl ye be
endued with power from on high.
Ps. ex. 1. The Lord said unto my
Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, untfl
I make thine enemies thy footstool.
2. The Lord shall send the rod of
thy strength out of Zion : rule thou in
the midst of thine enemies.
3. Thy people shall be wiUing in the
day of thy power, in the beauties of
holiness from the womb of the morn
ing : thou hast the dew of thy youth.
U. 6. Yet have I set my King upon
my holy hill of Zion.
7. I wfll declare the decree: the
Lord hath said unto me. Thou art my
Son ; this day have I begotten thee.
xvii. 43. Thou hast delivered me
from the strivings of the people ; and
thou hast made me tho head of the
heathen : a, people whom I have not
known shall serve me.
44. As soon as they hear of me, they
shall obey me : the strangers shall sub
mit themselves unto me.
47. It is God that avengeth me, and
subdueth the people under me.
48. He delivereth me from mme
enemies : yea, thou Ifftest me up above
those that rise up against me : thou hast
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Jacob had set up the stone of Beth-el
as a witness of the great thhigs revealed
and promised him there. So God set
up the " sure foundation-stone " of Zion
by prophetic promise, as a witness of
the great and glorious events of the
gospel day, when his own Anointed
should be " exalted a Prince and a
Saviour, to give repentance and for
giveness of sin to Israel."
But perhaps the chief point alluded
to in this removal from Salim to Beth
el, and the setting up of an altar there
also, ie the divine appointment of ano
ther memorial of the church, to follow
that of baptism, for the purpose of com
memorating the Lord's death till he
come ; — the body and blood of the Lord
Jesus, as bruised by the serpent.

49. Therefore ,wifl I give thanks
unto thee, O Lord, among the heathen,
and sing praises unto fhy name.
60. Great deUverance giveth he to
his king ; and sheweth mercy to his
anointed, to David, and to his seed for
evermore. Eph. i. 20. Which he wrought in
Christ, when he raised him from the
dead, and set him at his own right
hand in the heavenly places,
21. Far above all principality, and
power, and might, and dominion, and
eveiy name that is named, not only in
this world, but also in that which is to
come: 22. And hath put aU things under
his feet, and gave him to be the head
over all things to the church,
23. "Which is his body, the fulness
of him that filleth all in all.

The Letter.
2. Then Jacob said unto his house
hold, and to all that were with him. Put
away tho strange gods that are among
you, and be. clean, and change your
garments :
3. And let us arise, and go up to
Beth-el ; and I wUl make there an altar
unto God, who answered me in the day
of my distress, and was with me in the
way which I went.
4. And they gave unto Jacob all the
strange gods which were in their hand,
and all their ear-rings which were in
their ears; and Jacob hid him under
the oak which- was hy Shechem.
Note.
Thia preparation for going up to Beth
el, ia but another version of the many
injunctions and exhortations given to
the household of faith, relative to their
duty and privilege as members of the
body of Christ.
When first called into the kingdom,
the love of Christ and' the mercies of
God constrain thera to yield their bodies
a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto

The Spirit.
1 CoR. vi. 19. What! know ye not
that your body is the temple of the
Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye
have of God, and ye are not your
own? 20. For ye are bought with a price :
therefore glorffy God in your body, and
in your spirit, which are God's.
Eph. iv. 22. That ye put off, con
cerning the former conversation, the
old man, which is corrupt accordmg to
the deceitful lusts ;
23. And be renewed in the spirit of
your mind ;
24. And that ye put on the new man,
which after God is created in righteous
ness and true holiness.
Rom. xu. 1. I beseech you fhere-
•fore, brethren, by the mercies of God,
that ye present your bodies a liring
sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God,
which is your reasonable service.
2. And be not conformed to this
world : but be ye transformed by the
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Him, which is their reasonable service.
They then realize that they are dead to
the world, and the things of the world ;
and hesitate uot to profesa this, by being
buried in the similitude of his death;
from which they also professedly rise to
newness of life and new obedience.
But alas! could they ouly carry out the
whole injunction, — "As ye have re
ceived Christ Jesus the Lord, eo walk
ye in him," &e. Could they but pre
serve a eavor of "the love of their espou
sals," and not so soon turn again to fol
ly 1 It is said to the spouse of Christ
"How beautiful are thy feet with shoes,
0 prince's daughter 1" But when the
shoes are "put off," and the feet become
polluted by the dust of the wilderness,
— then their beauty is gone, and they
must be "washed" anew, and again
"shod with the preparation of the gos
pel of peace."
Jesus says to his disciples, "Now ye
are clean through the word which I
have spoken to you;" but this sanctifica
tion raust be carried on and perfected
by the Holy Spirit, the glorifier of Jesus,
whose office it is to instruct them into
the rayeteriee of the kingdora ; for it is
through the truth that they are sancti
fied; — they behold tbe glory of God in
the face of Jesus Christ and are trans-
forraed into the same image from glory
to glory, ae by the Spirit of our God.

prove what is that good, and accepta
ble, and perfect wifl of God.
2 CoE. vi. 16. And what agreement
hath the temple of God with idols ? for
ye are the temple of the living God ;
as God hath said, I wUl dwefl in them,
and walk in them ; and I wiU bo their
God, and they shall be my people.
17. Wherefore come out from among
them, and be ye separate, saith the
Lord, and touch not the unclean thing ;
and I will receive you ;
18. And will be a Father unto you,
and yo shall be my sons and daughters,
saith the Lord Almighty.
V. 16. Wherefore henceforth know
we no man after the fiesh: yea, though
we have known Christ after tho flesh,
yot now henceforth know we him no
more. 17. Therefore, if any man be in Christ,
he is a new creature : old things are
passed away ; behold, all tMngs are
become new.
Eph. fl. 19. Now therefore ye are
no more strangers and foreigners, but
fellow-citizens with the saints, and of
the household of God ;
20. And aro built upon the founda
tion of the apostles and prophets, Jesus
Christ himself being the chief comer-
sione ;
21. In whom aU the building, fitiy
framed together, groweth unto a holy
temple m the Lord :
22. In whom ye also are builded to
gether, for a habitation of God through
the Spirit.
RoM. vi. 3. Know ye not, that so
many of us as were baptized into Jesus
Christ were baptized into his death?
4. Therefore we are buried vrith
him by baptism into death ; that like
as Christ was raised up from the dead
by the glory of the Father, so we also
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The Letter.
£ 6. And they journeyed: and the ter
ror of God was upon the cities that were
round about them, and they did not
pursue after the sons of Jacob.
6. So Jacob came to Luz, which is
in the land of Canaan, (that is Beth-el,)
he and all the people that were with
Mm.
7. And he built there an altar, and
called the place El-beth-el; because
there God appeared unto him, when he
fled from the face bf his brother.
Note.
At the first establishment of churches,
and the progress of the gospel araong
men, after the resurrection, when signs
and wonders wrought by the apostles
confirmed the word preached, great was
the excitement among the people. The
apostles were first accused of " new
wine ;'' and ae the word grew and raul
tiplied, wherever the Holy Spirit did
not eeal conviction of sin and of right
eousness, the spirit of terror or rage was
stirred up. But the power of God was
raanifestly displayed in restraining the
wrath of man, and giving eflScacy to the
word. Wherever the disciples went, preach
ing the gospel, there the Holy Spirit
accompanied them, — so that the places
which had been " alienated," as " Luz,"
became Beth-els — or houses of God;
and thus was brought to pass that
which had been spoken by Joel, and by
" all the prophets from Samuel, and
thoee that follow after, as many as have
spoken, or foretold of these days;" —
especially, " How God anointed Jesus of
Nazareth vnth the Holy Ghost, and with
power ; who went about doing good and
healing all that were oppressed with devils,
for God was with him, &c., whom they
slew and hanged on a tree. Him God
raised up on the third day, and showed
him openly, not to all the people, but unto
witnesses chosen of God, &c. To him
give all the prophets witness, that through
his name whosoever believeth in him shall
receive remission of sins."
It wfll be remembered that it was

The Spirit.
Ps. Ixvui. 7. O God, when thou
wentest forth before thy people, when
thou didst march through the wilder
ness ; Selah :
8. The earth shook, the heavens also
dropped at the presence of God : even
Sinai itself was moved at the presence
of God, the God of Israel.
Acts v. 11. And great fear came
upon all the church, and upon as many
as heard these thmgs.
12. And by the hands of the apos
tles were many signs and wonders
wrought among the people ; and they
were all with one accord in Solomon's
porch. 13. And of the rest durst no man
join himself to them: but the people
magnified them.
Ps. cU. 13. Thou shalt arise, and
have mercy upon Zion : for the time to
favor her, yea, the set time, is come.
14. For thy servants take pleasure
m her stones, and favor the dust there
of. 15. So the heathen shall fear the
name of the Lord : and all the kings of
the earth thy glory.
16. "When tbe Lord shall build up
Zion, he shafl appear in his glory.
17. He wifl regard the prayer of
the destitute, and not despise their
prayer. 18. This shall be written for the
generation to come: and the people
which shall be created shaU praise the
Lord. Acts U. 43. And fear came upon
every soul: and many wonders and
signs were done by the apostles.
Luke v. 26. And they were afl
amazed, and they glorified God, and
were filled with fear, saying. We have
seen strange things to-day.
Acts i. 4. And being assembled
together with ihem, commanded them
that they should not depart from Jeru
salem, but wait for the promise of the
Father, which, saith he, ye have heard
of me.

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when Jacob fled from the face of Esau,
that he first anointed the pillar which
he called Beth-el — or, when the founda
tion-stone of the house of God was pro
phetically set up.

The Letter.
8. But Deborah, Rebekah's nurse,
died, and she was buried beneath
Beth-el, under an oak : and the name
of it was cafled Aflon-bachuth. Note.
Hitherto no mention has been raade
of such a person as this, being in the
corapany : but none of these things oc
cur by chance.
Deborah signifies word. The word of
promise, by which the church had been
nourished while "a. child," under the
first testament, was no longer needed
after the proraise had come ; but under
the tree of sorrow and weeping (Allon-
bachuth) — the tree of the cross — was
buried all that pertained to the hand
writing of ordinances, never more to
rise. The household of God, the spiritual
Beth-el, are fed with the sincere milk of
the word of the gospel — the rainistrations
of the new testament ; " not of the let
ter, but of the spirit: for the letter
kflleth, but the spirit giveth life." It
is by keeping this word pure and un
adulterated, by either dead ceremonies
or human systems, that the church grows
thereby. One of the promiees raade to Zion,
which were to be fulfilled in the gospel
day, was that "kings should be her
nursing fathers, and queens her nursing

***** 12. Then returned they unto Jeru
salem, from the mount called Olivet
which is from Jerusalem a sabbath
day's journey.
13. And when they were come in,
they went up into an upper room, where
abode both Peter, and James, and John,
and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bar
tholomew, and Matthew, James ihe son
of Alpheus, and Simon Zelotes, and
Judas ihe brother of James.
14. These all continued with one
accord in prayer and supplication, with
tho women, and Mary the mpther of
Jesus, and with his brethren.

The Spirit.
1 Pet. 2. As new-born babes, de
su-e the sincere milk of the word, that
ye may grow thereby.
2 CoR. ui. 6. Who also hath made
us able ministers of the now testament ;
not of the letter, but of the spirit : for
the letter kifleth, but the spirit giveth
life. 1 Pet. v. 2. Feed the flock of God
which is among you, takmg the over
sight thereof, not by constramt, but
wUlingly ; not for filthy lucre, but of a
ready mind ;
3. Neither as being lords over God's
heritage, but being ensamples to tho
flock. Heb. v. 12. For when for the tune
ye ought to be teachers, ye have need
that one teach you again which be the
first principles of the oracles of God ;
and are become such as have need of
mUk, and not of strong meat.
13. For every one that useth milk,
is unskUful in the word of righteous
ness : for he is a babe.
14. But strong meat belongeth to
them that are of full age, even those
who by reason of use have their senses
exercised to discern both good and
evil. CoL. ii. 13. And you, being dead m
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nursing mothers," for the " Gentiles
should come io her light, and kings to
the brightness of her rising:" — her " sons
slundd come from far, and her daughters
should be nursed at her side,'' And
again — " I will abundantly bless her pro
vision ; I will satisfy her poor with

Twice had God reminded Jacob that
Beth-el, to which he now called him to
remove, was the place where he had ap
peared to him when he fled frora the
face of Esau: — the place where the glo
rious vision of the ladder had been pre
sented to hie view, and where all that
had since been accomplished in his expe
rience, was promised. And now, when all
had been fulfilled, — when the ladder, or
divine raediator, had been visibly set up,
when the forraer things were done away
aud all things had beeorae new, — it wae
fit that those things should no raore
corae into remembrance, but be buried
beneath that sure foundation s(o?i« which
shall never be removed.

The Letter.
9. And God appeared unto Jacob
again when ho came out of Padan-
aram ; and blessed Mm.
10. And God said unto him, Thy
name is Jacob : thy name shall not be
caUed any more Jacob, but Israel shaU
be thy name ; and he called Ms name
Israel. 11. And God said unto Mm, I am
God Almighty : be fruitful and multi
ply ; a nation aind a company of na
tions shaU be of thee, and kings shall
come out of thy loins.
Note.
Jacob, the supplanter, is now again
declared to be Israel, a prince with God I
This narae and dignity was first ob
tained on the night of that mysterious
conflict with the God-man, when, look
ing forward to the fearful encounter
with Esau, his raind was filled with
horror and dismay. Nor was the narae
of Israel a raere erapty title of honor.

your flesh, hath he quickened together
with Mm, having forgiven you afl tres-

14. Blotting out the hand-writing of
ordinances that was against us, wMch
was contrary to us, and took it out of
the way, nailing it to his cross ;
16. Amd haring spoiled prmcipalities
and powers, ho made a shew of them
openly, triumphmg over them in it.
16. Let no man therefore judge you
in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a
holy-day, or of the new-moon, or of the
sahhath-days :
17. Which are a shadow of things
to come ; but the body is of Christ.
1 Thess. U. 7. But we were gentie
among you, even as a nurse cherisheth
her chfldren :
8. So being affectionately desirous
of you, we were willing to have im
parted unto you, not the gospel of God
only, but also our own souls, because
ye were dear unto us.

The Spirit.
IsA. IxU. 2. And the Gentfles shafl
see thy righteousness, and afl kings thy
glory : and thou shalt be called by a
new name, which the mouth of the
Lord shall name.
xiu. 6. And he said. It is a Ught
thing that thou shouldest be my ser
vant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob,
and to restore the preserved of Israel :
I will also give thee for a Ught to the
Gentiles, that thou mayest be my sal
vation unto the end of the earth.
Jer. xxiu. 3. And I vrill gather the
remnant of my flock out of all coun
tries whither I have driven them, and,
will bring them again to their folds ;
and thoy shall be fruitful and increase.
4. And I wifl set up shepherds over
them which shall feed them : and they
shafl fear no more, nor be dismayed,
neither shall they be lacking, saith the
Lord. 6. Behold, the days come, saith the

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It confirmed to Jacob all the overcoming
power and prevaUing influence which
he then eo eignally put forth ; and not
only to him personally, but to his seed
after hira ; his posterity received in him
and for his sake, all the bleeeings which
by oath and promise, had been made to
rest upon hira as their representative
head ; " A nation and a company of na
tions shall be of ihee, and kings shall come
out of thy loins."
Who can forbear recognising, in all
tMs, a typical allusion to the greater
thinga of the spiritual kingdom — the
events of that dark night iu the garden
of Gethsemane, when in view of all that
awaited him, the divine Redeemer,
" with strong crying and tears, agonized
with him who was able to save him from
death, and was heard in that he feared ;"
the night when he gave " his soul an
offering for sin," that he might " see his
seed," the purchase of his blood, and be
satisfied ; and when " being found in
fashion as a man, he became obedient unto
death, even the death of the cross ; where
fore God has highly exalted him and given
him a name that is above every narae,"
<fcc. Nor did Jesus, in thie mighty con
flict contend for an empty triuraph, but
for the deliverance and everlasting vic
tory of his people, those whora his Fa
ther had given hira, who were chosen
and blesaed with all apiritual blessinge
in Christ Jesue before the world was.
¦' A nation and a company of nations"
were to be of him, for he should " restore
the preserved of Israel," and be " a

Lord, that I wfll raise unto David a
righteous Branch, and a King shall
reign and prosper, and sh.all execute
judgment and justice in the earth.
6. In his days Judah shall be saved,
and Israel shall dwell safely ; and this
is bis name whereby he shall be called,
THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUS
NESS.
.xxxui. 15. In those days, and at that
time, wUl I cause tho Branch of right
eousness to gi-owup unto David; and
he shall execute judgment and right
eousness in the land.
16. In those days shall Judah be
saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safe
ly : and this is ihe name wherewith she
shall be called. The Lord our Right
eousness. Ps. Ixxii. 11. Yea, all kings shall
fall down before hun ; aU nations shaU
serve him.
***** 17. His name shall endure for ever ;
his name shall be continued as long as
the sun ; and men shaU be blessed in
him ; all nations shall call him blessed.
John x. 16. And other sheep I
have, which are not of tMs fold : them
also I must bring, and they shall hear
my voice ; and there shall be one fold,
and one shepherd. _
light to the Gentiles ;" and in him should
all the nations of the earth be blessed.

ITie Letter.
12. And the land which I gave Abra
ham and Isaac, to thee I wfll give it,
and to thy seed after thee wifl I give
the land. ?
Note.
The reader may perhaps think it
strange that the sarae promises and co
venant blessings have been repeated to
each of the fathers of Israel ; and may
conclude that the covenant which God
raade with Abraham, to give him all
that was then promised, would, as mat-

The Spirit.
Eph. i. 3. Blessed be the God and
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who
hath blessed us with all spiritual bless
ings in heavenly places in Christ ;
4. According as he hath chosen us
in Mm before the foundation of the
world, that we should be holy and
without blame before him in love :
5. Having predestinated us unto the
adoption of cMldren by Jesus Christ to
himself, according to the good pleasure
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ter of course, descend by right of inhe
ritance to his eons.
But the typical relation which theee
three fathers bear to the covenant of
grace and its promises, involves a rays
tery which does not appear, but by a
careful consideration of the antitype.
We have seen through all their history,
that Abraham, Isaac, aud Jacob, repre
sent the three persons in the Godhead,
¦whose great raystery is three in one and
one in three. To understand the import
of this, we must carefully attend to the
manner in which it is revealed to us by
the Scriptures. There we are taught
that Jehovah, as one God, reveals him
self to ue iu three charactere or modes,
so that the " Son given " is also " the
Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, and
the Prince of Peace." Or, ae it might
stand, the Father, the Son, and the Holy
Spirit If then, in his raediatorial kingdom,
Jesus makes himself known ae one in
three — or ae one God in three pereons —
then of course the types referring to hira
as such, would have respect to thie fact ;
and whatever promises are prophetically
made to him in either of these, his pro
per characters, would be ultimately the
eame. The land, here confirmed to Jacob as
an inheritance, and which had also been
given to Abrahara and laaac, waa lite
rally the laud of Canaan, but spiritually
and prophetically, the blessings of the
new and everlasting covenant, given, in
both senses, to their seed after them for
their sakes. But it must always be re
membered that both the spiritual and
the temporal inheritance were sure only
to the true seed. Canaan was forfeited
by those whose carcasees fell in the wil
derness, to show that none would enter
the true rest but by faith ; and that the
covenant relation between God aud the
nation of Israel, would, in like raannerj
be forfeited and wholly disanuuUedj
never raore to come into remembrance,
because of their unbelief.

6. To the praise of the glory of his
grace, wherein he hath made us ac
cepted in the Beloved :
7. In whom we have redemption
through his blood, the forgiveness of
sins, accordmg to the riches of his grace.
1 Pet. i. 3. Blessed Je the God and
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which,
according to his abundant mercy, hath
begotten "us agam unto a lively hope,
by the resurrection of Jesus Christ
from the dead,
4. To an inheritance incorruptible,
and undefiled, and that fadeth not away,
reserved in heaven for you,
5. Who are kept by the power of
God through faith unto salvation, ready
to be revealed in the last time.
Jer. xxxi. 31. Behold, the days
come, saith the Lord, that I wifl make
a new covenant with the house of Is
rael, and with the house of Judah :
32. Not accordmg to the covenant
that I made -with their fathers in the
day thai I took them by the hand to
bring them out of the land of Egypt ;
which my covenant they brake, al
though I was a husband unto them,
saith the Lord :
33. But this shall be the covenant
that I wfll make with the house of Is
rael ; After those days, saith the Lord,
I wifl put my law in their inward parts,
and write it m their hearts; and wfll be
their God, and they shall be my people.
34. And they shafl teach no more
every man his neighbor, and every
man his brother, saying. Know the
Lord : for they shafl all know me, from
the least of them unto the greatest of
them, saith the Lord: for I will for
give their iniquity, and I wfll remember
thair sin no more.
***** 40. Andthe whole vafley of the dead
bodies and of the ashes, and afl the
fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto
the corner of the horse-gate toward the
east, shall be holy unto the Lord: it
shafl not be plucked up, nor thrown
down any more for ever.

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The Letter.
13. And God went up from him, in
the place where he talked with him.
14. And Jacob set up a pfllar m the
place where he talked with him, even
a pfllar of stone : and he poured a
drink-offering thereon, and he poured
oU thereon.
15. And Jacob called the name of
the place where God spake with him,
Beth-ol. Note.
Jacob here repeats, or confirms what
he had doue at Beth-el, on the night
when God first appeared to hira there.
He had theu promised, if he came again
to his father's house in peace, the Lord
should be his God, and that piUar should
be God's house.
In like manner, when Jeeua first gave
himself as the "sure foundation-stone"
of Zion, it was with the promise that he
should come again in peace to the glory
which he had with the Father before
the world wae; and that tMs stone,
though rejected by the builders, ahould
be raade the Head of the corner. Aud
ae the fulfilment of thie proraise, he had
no sooner ascended to heaven, than the
Spirit was poured out and "living
stones " built up on this sure founda
tion, for a dwelHng of God through the
Spirit. When the high prieet went into the
raoet holy place, upon the day of atone
raent to bear the blood of the victira
before the raercy-seat, to raake atone
raent for the sins of the people, if that
atonement was accepted, the high priest
shook his robe of office, that the sound
of the bells upon the border of the robe,
raight announce to the people without
the fact that the Lord had pardoned
their sins. Just euch a witness was the
gift of the Spirit, aud the sound of the
preached word, to spiritual Israel ou
the gospel day.
Beth-el, the house of God, or the visi
ble kingdom of heaven, had now been
eatabliahed according to the order of the
gospel ; the ordinances of baptisra and
the supper, had been instituted, and the
Holy Spirit, with both ita gracious and

I The Spirit.
Acts i. 9. And when he had spoken
these things, while they beheld, he was
taken up; and a cloud received him
out of their sight.
10. And, whUe they looked stead
fastly toward heaven as he went up, be
hold, two men stood by them m white
apparel ;
11. Which also said, Ye men of Ga
Ulee, why stand ye gazing up into hea
ven ? tMs same Jesus, which is taken
up from you into heaven, shall so come
in like manner as ye have seen hun go
into heaven.
12. Then returned they unto Jeru
salem from the mount called Olivet,
wMch is from Jerusalem a sabbath-
day's jom-ney.
13. And when they were come in,
they went up into an upper room, where
abode both Peter, and James, and John,
and Andrew, Phflip, and Thomas, Bar
tholomew, and Matthew, James ihe son
of Alpheus, and Simon Zelotes, and
Judas the brother oi James.
14. These all continued with one
accord m prayer and supplication, with
the women, and Mary the mother of
Jesus, and with his brethren.
U. 1. And when the day of Pente
cost was fully come, they were all with
one accord in one place.
2. And suddenly there came a sound
from heaven, as of a rushmg mighty
vrind, and it filled all the house where
they were sitting.
3. And there appeared unto them
cloven tongues, like as of fire, and it
sat upon each of them.
4. And they were all fUled with the
Holy Ghost, and began to speak with
other tongues, as the Spirit gave them
utterance.

miraculous influences, had descended to
anoint the household on the day of Pen
tecost and to take his abode with them,
in all his comforting, reproving, and in
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In this place, would God speak to his
people by his word ; and from hence

The Letter.
16. And they journeyed from Beth
el ; and there was but a little way to
come to Ephrath : aud Rachel tra
vailed, and she had hard labor.
17. And it camo to pass when she
was in hard labor, that the midwife
said unto her. Fear not, thou shalt have
this son also.
18. And it came to pass as her soul
was in departing (for she died) that
she called his name Ben-oni : but his
father called him Benjamin.
Note.
It was literally " hard labor " for the
first gospel church, constituted wholly of
the lost sheep of the house of Israel, to
believe it possible for Gentiles to be
come fellow-heirs with them, or be born
into the eame kingdom. So deep-rooted
was the feeling of a peculiar and favored
nationality, and eo accustomed had they
been to the idea that all other people
were outcast and unclean, while they
only were entitled to the regard of hea
ven, by the various considerations of
birth, of promise, and of long usage, —
that they -were not willing to admit the
possibility of any other being admitted
into the spiritual temple. To this fact
the travail of Rachel, when journeying
from Beth-el, points. She was ap
proaching Ephrath, (fruitful or abun
dant,) even as the church was just at
the point of receiving her Gentile con
verts, of the faraily of Cornelius.
But the birth of Beujarain, haa also
allusion to the spiritual birth of Saul of
Tarsus, the great apostle of the Gentiles,
who wae thus called into the kingdom,
like Benjamin, ae " one born out of due
time,". — and not ae the other apostles.
The new birth of Paul, was truly the oc
casion, not only of wonder, but of trial
and conflict to the church. For he was
at that moraent raeditating their death,
and on his way to put his purpose in
execution. To the church, he was in

should the Word and Spirit go forth, to
give light to the ends of the earth.

The Spirit.
IsA. liv. 1. Sing, O barren, thou
ihat didst not bear; break forth into
singing, and cry aloud, thou thai didst
not travaU with chfld : for more are the
children of the desolate than the chil
dren of the married wife, saith the
Lord. 2. Enlarge the place of thy tent,
and let them stretcli forth the curtains
of thine habitations : spare not, length
en thy cords, and strengthen thy

3. For thou shalt break forth on the
right hand and on the left ; and thy
seed shall inherit the GentUes, and
make the desolate cities to be inha
bited. 4. Fear not; for thou shalt not be
ashamed: neither be thou confounded;
for thou shalt not be put to shame :
for thou shalt forget the shame of thy
youth, and shalt not remember the re
proach of thy widowhood any more.
6. For thy Maker is thine husband ;
the Lord of hosts is his name; and
thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel ;
The God of the whole earth shall he
be called.
6. For the Lord hath called thee as
a woman forsaken and grieved m spirit
and a wife of youth, when thou wast
refused, saith thy God.
Acts ix. 16. But the Lord said unto
him. Go thy way : for he is a chosen
vessel unto me, to bear my name be
fore tiie Gentfles, and kings, and the
chUdren of Israel.
1 Cor. XV. 7. After that, he was
seen of James ; then of all the apos
tles. 8. And last of all he was seen of
me also, as of one born out of due
time. 9. Por I am the least of the apostles,
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truth a Benoni, or " son of my sorrow ;"
but to the Head of the church, he was
Benjamin, the " son of my right hand."
The new birth of Paul into the king
dom aud apostleship of Jesua, introduces
a new era of the church ; because, from
this time, salvation was no longer con
fined to the "daughter of Zion" — the
"tower of the flock " — but was extended
like the bough of Joseph, " over the
wall."

The Letter.
19. And Rachel died, and was buried
in the way to Ephrath, wMch is Beth
lehem. 20. And Jacob set a piUar upon her
grave: that is the pUlar of Rachel's
grave unto tMs day.
21. And Israel joumeyed, and spread
his tent beyond the tower of Edar.
Note.
Ephrath, or Ephratah, is a place of
peculiar interest not only as that from
whence should corae forth Hira who
should be Ruler iu Israel, but aa pro
phetically connected with the call of the
GentUes. By Mic. v. 3, it appears that
God predicted the giving up of his an
cient covenant people, until the fulneee
of the Gentfles should be gathered in, —
when the remnant according to the
election of grace, should also return.
The state of things which should take
place when thie prediction should be ful
filled, would be wholly new. For the
church was no longer Rachel, the
"daughter of Zion," — the Jerusalem
which was eo long barren and deaolate,
and whoee very exiatence ceased when
her other son was added, though so long
proraised and looked for, but not in such
-a manner, — for the New Jerusalem, in
her gospfel attire, should bear the name
of her Lord and husband, — " her people
should be all righteous," and she ahould
be like him, whose righteousness she
bore ; Jews and Gentiles united in one
24

tie, because I persecuted the church of
God. Acts xxu. 4. And I persecuted
this way unto the death, binding and'
delivering into prisons both men and
women. xi. 17. Forasmuch then as God gave
fhe Uke gift as he did unto us, who be
Ueved on the Lord Jesus Christ, what
was I, that I could withstand God ?
18. When they heard these things,
they held their peace, and glorified God,
saying. Then hath God also to the Gen
tfles granted repentance unto Ufe.

The Spirit.
Mic. V. 2. But thou, Beth-lehem
Ephratah, though thou be Uttle among
the thousands of Judah, yet out of
thee shall he come forth unto me
ihat is to be Ruler in Israel; whose
gomgs forth have been from of old, from
everlasting. 3. Therefore wiU he give them up,
untfl the time that she which travafleth
hath brought forth : then the remnant
of his bretM-en shafl retum unto the
chUdren of Israel.
4. And he shall stand and feed in
the strength of the Lord, m the majesty
of the name of the Lord his God ; and
they shafl abide : for now shafl he be
great unto the ends of the earth.
iv. 8. And thou, O tower of the
flock, the stronghold of the daughter
of Zion, unto thee shaU it come, even
the first dommion ; the kingdom shaU
come to the daughter of Jerusalem.
9. Now, why dost thou cry out aloud ?
is there no king in thee ? is thy coun-
seUor perished ? for pangs have taken
thee as a woman m travafl.
10. Be in pain, and labor to bring
forth, O daughter of Zion, like a wo
man in travaU : for now shalt thou go
forth out of the city, and thou shalt
dwell in the field, and thou shalt go
even to Babylon ; there shalt thou be
deUvered ; there the Lord shafl redeem
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fold, were one in Christ, and called by
the common name of Christians.
Thus was it, that Israel journeyed,
and spread his tent, " beyond tlie to'wer of
Edar" or beyond "the tower of the
flock," or the waUs of Jerusalem ; — for
the church was now to " lengthen her
cords," even to the Gentilea.
The piUar of Rachel'a grave, waa the
new name given to the disciples at An
tioch. It coramemoratea the fulfilment
of the promise of enlargement to the
gospel day, aud the fact that those who
were afar off are made nigh by the
blood of Christ, who hath made both
one, and hath broken down the middle
waU of partition between Jews and
Gentiles, that he might reconcfle both
unto God in one body by the cross, hav
ing slain the enmity thereby. "For
through him, we both have access by
one Spirit unto the Father." "Now
therefore ye are no more strangers and
foreigners, but fellow-citizena of the
saints, and of the household of God ;
and are built upon the foundation of
the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ
himself being the chief corner-stone,"
-Ac.

The Letter.
22. And it came to pass, when Israel
dwelt in that land, that Reuben went
aud lay with Bilhah his father's concu
bine: and Israel heard it. Now the
sons of Jacob were twelve :
23. The sons of Leah ; Reuben, Ja
cob's first-bom, and Simeon, and Levi,
and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebu
lun :

11. Now also many nations are ga
thered against thee, that say. Let her
be defiled, and let our eye look upon
Zion. 12. But they know not the thoughts
of the Lord, neither understand they
his counsel : for he shall gather them
as the sheaves mto the floor.
Acts xiv. 24. And after they had
passed throughout Pisidia, they came
to Pamphylia.
25. And when they had preached
the word in Perga, they went down
into Attalia ;
26. And thence safled to Antioch,
from whence they had been recom
mended to the grace of God, for the
work wMch they fulfifled.
27. And when they were come, and
had gathered the church together, they
rehearsed all that God had doue with
them, and how he had opened the door
of faith unto the Gentfles.
28. And there they abode long time
with the disciples.
xi. 25. Then departed Barnabas to
Tarsus, for to seek Saul :
26. And when he had found Mm, he
brought him unto Antioch. And it
came to pass, that a whole year they
assembled themselves with the church,
and taught much people. And the
disciples were cafled Christians" first m
Antioch. IsA. Ixu. 16. In those days shall
Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shafl
dwell safely: and this is the name
wherewith she shafl be cafled, The
Lord our Righteousness.
24. The sons of Rachel; Joseph,
and Benjamin :
25. And the sons of Bflhah, Rachel's
handmaid ; Dan, and Naphtali :
26. And the sons of Zflpah, Leah's
handmaid; Gad, and Asher. These
are the sons of Jacob, wMchwere bom
to bun in Padan-aram. No-rB.
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heads of the twelve tribes of Israel, is
now complete; in reference to whom
Jesua said to his apostles, " Ye also shall
sit upon twelve thrones, judging tbe
twelve tribes of Israel." In the 26th
verse, it is said these twelve " are the
eona of Jacob which were born to him
in Padan-aram;" including Benjamin
araong the nuraber, though " born out of
due time." This was virtuaUy true ; for
Rachel predicted the birth of this other
son, as certain and secure, when she re
ceived Joseph : even as the church re
joiced in prospect of her Gentile con
verts, as surely connected with her
prosperity in the gospel day.
But though there are twelve here
named, it subsequently appears, by the
prophetic bleaaing of Jacob in the 49th
chapter, that Simeon and Levi are
counted as one, which ia confirmed by
the dividing of the land of Canaan, — in
wMch Levi had no portion. Of these
two " brethren " Jacob says, " Cursed be
their anger, &c. ; I will divide them in
Jacob and scatter them in Israel." This
curse rests upon them jointly as brethren ;
and, in their twofold character, as priest
aud elder, they allude typically not only
to the vacancy made in the nuraber
twelve, by the apostacy of Judas, but
also to Esau, who expressly represents
Judas Mmself.
The fact that Benjamin, the type of
Paul, is here included among the twelve,
though not born at the time and under
the same circumstances with the rest, is
deserving of attentien; because some
have supposed that Paul waa not one of
the twelve apostles. It is true the eleven
caet lots among the disciples for one to
£11 the office, and the lot fell upon Mat
thias, who was nurabered by them with
the twelve. But we never hear of hira

The Letter.
27. And Jacob came unto Isaac his
father unto Mamre, unto the city of
Arbah (wMch is Hebron) where Abra
ham and Isaac sojourned.
28. And the days of Isaac were an
hundred and fourscore years.

after this. Whereas, the proofs of Paul'a
apostleship are abundant He waa called
of God to that ofiice, and put into that
ministry in a most signal manner, and
he not only openly and boldly as
serts his claim to it but produces and
exhibita the raost unequivocal testirao-
uials of the fact The word apostle sig
nifies seni ; and when Paul was eo raira
eulously born into the kingdom, and
made an eye-icitness of the resurrection
of Jesus, (which wae one of the requi
sites for the work,) it was said by Jesus
to Ananias, "He is a chosen vessel unto
me, to bear my name before the Gentiles
and kings and the children of Israel .-"
and again, when in a trance at Jerusa
lem, Jesue appeared to hira and said,
" Depart ; for I will send thee far hence
unto the Gentiles."
Reuben ie alao distinguished' araong
the twelve ; aud is here charged with
improper aud unlawful conduct toward
his father's concubine. It will be re
membered that Laban gave BUhah
("old or fading") his handmaid to Ra
chel for her maid. When Rachel had
no children, she gave this Bilhah to
Jacob to wife, as Sarah had done in the
case of Hagar. The same result follow
ed, — a son of the bondwoman, — the old
and fading covenant of works. With
this same Bilhah, Reuben becomes con
nected, and is in consequence charged
by Jacob, in the 49th chapter, of taking
away or defiling his couch. Now, let
all this be compared with the 2d chap
ter of Galatians, where Paul ohargea
Peter with not walking uprightly, ac
cording to the truth of the gospel, and
with practising dissimulation toward
the Jews in raattera of their old ex
ploded customs, — and a' clear parallel
wifl be found to the case of Reuben.

The Spirit.
Ps. Ixviu. 18. Thou hast ascended
on Mgh, thou hast led captirity captive
thou hast received gffts for men ; yea,
for the rebeflious also, that the Lord
God might dwefl among them.
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29. And Isaac gave up the ghost and
died, and was gathered unto his people,
being old and full of days ; and his sons
Esau and Jacob buried hun.
Note.
Mamre signifies "rebellious, alien
ated;" 'Arbah, "dty of the four;" and
Hebron, "friendship, union" In this
place sojourned Abraham and Isaac;
and here dwelt Jacob. Here also was
the burying place of Machpelah; so that
here, it may be said, they all lived, died,
and were buried ; with the exception of
Jacob, who tarried awhile in Egypt,
and died there, but waa buried at Mach
pelah. From the aignifloant namea applied to
this distinguished spot, (not by acci
dent, for no such thing pertains to di
vine revelation,) we raay draw inetruc-
tion like this ; — that it pleased the
Triune Godhead to make their "taber
nacle with raen " — " even the rebellious,"
— so that those who were before alien
ated in their minds by wicked works,
might be brought nigh and made one
with God, in an everlasting covenant,
ordered in all things and sure : and
whereas once they were "without God,
and without hope iu the world," and
both the Father and the Son were but
sojourners among them, or " as way
faring men that turned aside to tarry
but for a night" — they now " came to
them and took up their abode with
them," through the Spirit, to be their
God, and they to be his people for ever.
When the Holy Spirit, the Comforter,
takes up his abode with the church, the
bodily presence of the Son is with
drawn. Isaac was "old and full of
daya" when he died : neither did the
antitypical Isaac give up the ghost until
all his work was accomplished upon
earth. The life of Isaac was prolonged until
all the events juat recorded, in the eata-
blishing and ordering of the kingdom of
heaven, had transpired. So, also, all
that pertained to the work of the Son,
in the everlasting covenant, was accom
plished, before Jesus of Nazareth wholly
withdrew his bodfly presence from the

voice out of heaven, saying. Behold,
the tabernacle of God is with men, and
he wiU dwell with them, and they shafl
he his people, and God Mmself shafl be
with them, and be their God.
4. And God shafl wipe away all tears
from theu- eyes ; and there shafl be no
more death, neither sorrow nor crying,
neither shall there be any more pam :
for the former things are passed away.
1 Pet. fl. 10. Which in time past
were not a people, but are now the peo
ple of God: which had not obtained
mercy, but now have obtamed mercy.
CoL. i. 21 . And you, that were some
time alienated, and enemies m your
mind by wicked works, yet now hath
he reconciled,
22. In the body of his flesh through
death, to present you holy, and un
blamable, and unreprovable in Ms
sight. John xvii. 20. Neither pray I for
these alone : but for them also wMch
shafl believe on me through their
word: 21. That they afl may be one ; as
thou. Father, art in me, and I in thee,
that they also may be one in us : that
fhe world may believe that thou hast
sent me.
22. And the glory wMch thou gavest
me, I have given them ; that they may
be one, even as we are one ;
23. I in them, and thou in me, that ,
they may be made perfect in one ; and
that the world may know that thou
hast sent me, and hast loved them as
thou hast loved me.
xiv. 23. Jesus answered and said
unto him. If a man love me, he vriU
keep my words : and my Father wifl
love hun, and we wdU come unto him,
and make our abode with him.

earth ; — the last manifestation of which
was at the conversion of Paul.
We have traced the history of Esau
to hia possession of raount Seir, where
he fled from the face of Jacob ; but here
he again appears in the burial of Isaac.

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In afl hia typical relations, Esau maybe I iu the death and burial of the Son of
said to have a part iu this act Both | God.
law and goapel — heaven and hell, united I

CHAPTER XXXVI.

The Letter.
1. Now these are the generations of
Esau, who is Edom.
2. Esau took his wives of the daugh
ters of Canaan ; Adah, the daughter of
Elon the Hittite, and AhoUbamah, the
daughter of Anah, the daughter of
Zibeon the Hivite ;
3. And Bashemath, Ishmael's daugh
ter, sister of Nebajoth.
4. And Adah bare to Esau, Eliphaz :
and Bashemath bare Reuel ;
5. And AhoUbamah bare Jeush, and
Jaalam, and Korah : these are the sons
of Esau, which were born unto him m
the land of Canaan.
6. And Esau took his wives, and his
sons, and his daughters, and all the per
sons of his house, and his cattle, and
aU his beasts, and all his substance,
wMch he had got m the land of Ca
naan ; and went into the country from
the face of his brother Jacob.
7. For their riches were more than
that they might dweU together; and
the land wherem they were strangers
could not bear them, because of theu-
cattle. 8. Thus dwelt Esau m mount Seir :
Esau is Edom.
9. And these are the generations of
Esau, the father of the Edomites, m
mount Seir.
10. These are the names of Esau's

* 40. And these are the names of the
dukes ihat came of Esau, according to
then- famflies, after their places, by their
names: duke Tminah, duke Alvah,
duke Jetheth,

The Spirit.
IsA. xxxiv. 1. Come near, ye na
tions, to -hear; and hearken, ye people:
let the earth hear, and afl that is there
in ; the world, and afl thmgs that come
forth of it.
2. For the indignation of the Lord
is upon all nations, and his fury upon
afl their armies: he hath utterly de
stroyed them, he hath delivered them
to the slaughter.
3. Theu- slain also shall be cast out,
and then- stink shall come up out of
their carcases, and the mountam shall
be melted with their blood.
4. And all the host of heaven shall
be dissolved, and the heavens shafl be
rolled together as a scrofl : and all their
host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth
off from the vine, and as a falling fig
from the fig-tree.
5. For my sword shall be bathed m
heaven: behold, it shaU come down
upon Idumea, and upon the people of
my curse, to judgment.
6. The sword of the Lord is fiUed
with blood; it is made fat with fat
ness, and with the blood of lambs and
goats, with the fat of the kidneys of
rams : for the Lord hath a sacrifice in
Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the
land of Idumea.
7. And the unicorn shall come down
with them, and the buUocks with the
bulls; and their land shafl be soaked
with blood, and theu- dust made fat
with fatness.
8. For it is the day of the Lord's
vengeance, aiid the year of recompenses
for the controversy of Zion.
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41. Duke AhoUbamah, duke Elah,
duke Pinon,
42. Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke
Mibzar, 43. Duke Magdiel, duke Iram : these
be the dukes of Edom, according to
their habitations in the land of their
possession : he is Esau, the father of
the Edomites. Note.
As Esau and all his descendants are
cursed of God, and under the same ex
terminating sentence of utter deatruc-
tion, it is only needful to notice the
moat prominent pointa in their charac
ter and hiatory. We find that a part of
hia family, hia own five sons, were born
in Canaan, and of course were nominal
ly among the family of Isaac, from
whom they muat have derived some
knowledge of the true God? Mount
Seir had been given him for a possession
and to this place he repaired with his
household and all that he had. Th
language is, that he " went from the
face of his brother Jacob ;" and yet
Jacob was obliged to flee from the face
of Esau. The face of Jacob, and of Isaac
alao, were doubtless exceedingly annoy
ing to Esau, after he began to hate him
and purposed to take his life.
The descendants of Esau who were
born in Seir or Edom, the land of the
curse, doubtless inherited the image and
character of their father. They were a
generation of vipera, — children of the
wicked one; and are repeatedly and
signally denounced by the prophetic
scriptures, fropi the time of Balaam to
the final judgment of Antichrist, as de
scribed in Revelation.
It is not unlikely that some may ob
ject to Esau'a being made to typify so
many different things. But his literal
character actually undergoes at least
two decided changea ; and hia various
relations to the course of events, give
him this apparent diversity of typical
allusion ; though there is, in fact, no es
sential contrariety. Aa the twin brother

the last time : and as ye have heard
that Antichrist shall come, even now
are there many Antichrists ; whereby
we know that it is the last time.
19. They went out from us, hut they
were not of us ; for if they had been
of us, they would no douhi have con
tinued with us : but ihey leeni oui, that
they might be made manifest that they
were not all of us.
2 John i. 7. For many deceivers are
entered into the world, who confess
not that Jesus Christ is come in the
flesh. This is a deceiver and an Anti
christ. 1 John u. 20. But ye have an unc
tion from the Holy One, and ye know
afl things.
21. I have not written unto you be
cause ye know not the truth, but be
cause ye know it, and that no lie is of
the truth.
22. Who is a liar, but he that de
nieth that Jesus is the Christ ? Hois
Antichrist, that denieth the Father and
the Son.
Eph. vi. 11. Put on the whole armor
of God, that ye may be able to stand
against the wiles of the devfl.
12. For we wrestle not against flesh
and blood, but against principalities,
against powers, against the rulers of
the darkness of this world, against
spiritual vrickedness in high.^Zaces.

of Jacob, we have supposed hira to re
present the first dispensation, in diatino-
tion from the ministration of the Spirit
Ae the despiser of hia birthright, he
shows the disposition and conduct of the
people of that covenant ; as not bringing
iu the " savory meat" he personatea the
weakness and inefficiency of the Leviti- f
cal priesthood; and in his hatred and
murderous,, deaigna toward Jacob, he
repreaenta Judaa, the son of perdition,
whom Jeaua calls a devil.

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The Letter.
MOAB AND EDOM SEEK TO CURSE
ISRAEL.
Num. xxii. 5. He sent messengers
therefore unto Balaam, the son of Beor,
to Pethor, which is by the river of fhe
land of the cMldren of Ms people, to
cafl Mm, saying. Behold, there is a peo
ple come out from Egypt : behold, they
cover the face of the earth, and they
abide over agamst me.
6. Come now therefore, I pray thee,
curse me this people ; for they are too
mighty for me; peradventure I shafl
prevafl, ihat -we may smite them, and
thai I may drive them out of the land:
for I wot that he whom thou blessest
is blessed, and he whom thou cursest
is cursed.xxui. 7. And he took up his parable,
and said, Balak the kmg of Moab hath
brought me from Aram, out of the
mountams of the east, saying. Come,
curse me Jacob ; and come, defy Is
rael. 8. How shal! I curse, whom God
hath not cursed ? or how shafl I defy,
whom the Lord hath not defied?
9. For from the top of the rocks I
see him, and from the Mils I behold
hun : lo, the people shafl dwell alone,
and shafl not be reckoned among the
nations. 10. Who can count the dust of Ja^
cob, and the number of the fourth pari
of Israel ? let me die the death of the
righteous, and let my last end be IUeo
Ms! ***** 18. And he took up his parable, and
said, Rise up, Balak, and hear ; heark
en unto me, thou son of Zipper :
19. God is not a man, that he should
lie ; neither the son of man, that he
should repent : hath he said, and shall
he not do it J or hath he spoken, and
shall he not make it good?
20. Behold, I have received conu
mandment to bless: and he hath
blessed ; and I cannot reverse it
21. He hath not beheld iniquity m

The Spirit.
the CURSE REBOUNDS UPON THEM
SELVES.
Ps. cix. 1. Hold not thy peace, O
God of my praise ;
2. For the mouth of the vricked and
the mouth of the deceitful are opened
against me : they have spoken agamst
me vrith a lying tongue.
3. They compassed me about also
with words of hatred; and fou^t
aigainst me without a cause.
4. For my love they are mine adver
saries : but I ^ve myself unto prayer.
5. And they have rewarded me evil
for good, and hatred for my love.
6. Set thou a wicked man over him ;
and let Satan stand at his right hand.
7. When he shafl b'e judged, let him
be condemned; and let his prayer be
come sin.
8. Let his days be few; and let an
other take his office.
9. Let Ms children be fatherless, and
his wife a widow.
10. Let his chfldren be continually
vagabonds, and beg: let them seek
their bread also out of their desolate
places. 11. Let the extortioner catch afl that
he hath ; and let the stranger spoil his
labor. 12. Let there be none to extend
mercy unto him ; neither let there be
any to favor Ms fatherless chUdren.
13. Let Ms posterity be cut off; a'nd
m the generation foflowmg let their
name be blotted out.
14. Let the iniquity of Ms fathers
be remembered with the Lord ; and let
not the sin of Ms mother be blotted
out. 15. Let them be before the Lord
continually, that he may cut off the
memory of them from the earth.
16. Because that he remembered not
to show mercy, but persecuted the
poor and needy man, that he might
even slay the broken in heart
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Jacob, neither hath he seen perverse-
ness in Israel : the Lord his God is
with him, and the shout of a kmg is
among them.
22. God brought them out of Egypt ;
he hath as it were the strength of a
unicorn. 23. Surely there is no enchantment
against Jacob, neither is there any di
vination against Israel: accordmg to
tMs time it shaU be said of Jacob and
of Israel, What hath God Wrought I
24. Behold, ^he people shall rise up
as a great lion, and Uft up Mmself as a
young lion ; he shall not lie down until
he eat of the prey, and drmk the blood
of the sl£un.

come unto him; as he delighted not in
blessing, so let it be far from him.
18. As he clothed himself with curs
ing like as vrith his garment, so let it
come into his bowels IQce water, and
Uke ofl into Ms bones.
19. Let it be unto him as the gar
ment which covereth him, and for a
girdle wherevrith he is girded continu
ally. 20. Lei tMs be the reward of mine
adversaries from the Lord, and of them
that speak e-vfl against my soul.
Ix. 8. Moab is my washpot; over
Edom wfll I cast out my shoe : Phi
listia, triumph thou because of me.
9. Who 'wiU bring me into the strong
city? who wfll lead me into Edom?
10. Wilt not thou, O God, which
hadst cast us off? and ihou, O God,
which didst not go out with our ar
mies? 11. Give us help from trouble: for
vain is the help of man.
12. Through God we shafl do va^
Uantly : for he it is that shafl tread
down our enemies.

The Letter.
ISKAEL BLESSED AND HER ENEMIES
CUESED.
Num. xxiv. 3. And he took up his
parable, and said, Balaam the son of
Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes
are open hath said :
4. He hath said, which heard the
words of God, which saw the vision of
the Almighty, falUng into a trance, but
having his eyes open :
5. How goodly are thy tents, O Ja
cob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel !
6. As the valleys are they spread
forth, as gardens by the river's side, as
the trees of Ugn-aloes which the Lord
hath planted, a'nd as cedar-trees beside
the waters.
7. He shall pour the water out of
his buckets, and his seed shall be in
many waters, and his kmg shafl be

The Spirit.
ISRAEL BLESSED AND HER ENEMIES
CURSED.
Ezk. xxxvi. 1. Also, thou son of
man, prophesy unto the mountains of
Israel, and say. Ye mountains of Israel,
hear the word of the Lord:
2. Thus saith the Lord God; Be
cause the enemy hath said against you.
Aha, even the ancient high places are
ours in possession :
3. Therefore, prophesy and say.
Thus saith the Lord God; Because
they have made you desolate, and swal
lowed you up on every side, that ye
might be a possession unto the residue
of the heathen, and ye are taken up in
the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of
the people :
4. Therefore, ye mountains of Israel,
hear the word of the Lord God; Thus

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Mgher than Agag, and Ms kingdom
shafl be exalted.
8. God brought hun forth out of
Egypt ; he hath as it were the strength
of a unicorn : he shafl eat up the na
tions Ms enemies, and shall break their
bones, and pierce them through with his
arrows. 9. He couched, he lay down as a
Uon, and as a great lion : who shafl stir
Mm up ? Blessed is he that blesseth
thee, and cursed is he that curseth
thee. * * *, * *
12. And Balaam said unto Balak,
Spake I not also to thy messengers
wMch thou sentest unto me, saying,
13. If Balak would give me his house
full of sflver and gold, I cannot go be
yond the commandment of the Lord;
to do either good or bad of mine own
mind ; but what the Lord saith, that
wfll I speak ?
14. And now, behold, I go unto my
people ; come therefore, and I will ad
vertise thee what this people shafl do
to thy people in the latter days.
15. And he took up his parable, and
said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said,
and the man whose eyes are open hath
said: 16. He hath said, which heard the
words of God, and knew the know
ledge of the Most High, which saw the
vision of the Almighty, fallmg into a
trance, but having his eyes open :
17. I shall see him, but not now: I
shall behold him, but not mgh: there
shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a
Sceptre shafl rise out of Israel, and
shall smite the corners of Moab, and
destroy afl the chUdren of Sheth.
18. And Edom shall be a possession,
Seir also shaU be a possession for his
enemies, and Israel shall do valiantly.
19. Out of Jacob shaU come he that
shall have dominion, and shall destroy
hun that remameth of the city.
20. And when he looked on Ama-
lek, he took up his parable, and said,
Amalek was the first of the nations;

saith the Lord God to the mountains,
and to the hflls, to the rivers, and to
the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and
to the cities that are forsaken, wMch
became a prey and derision to the resi
due of the heathen that are round
about :
5. Therefore thus saith the Lord
God ; Surely m the fu-e of my jealousy
have I spoken against the residue of
the heathen, and against all Idumea,
which have appointed my land into
their possession with the joy of afl
their heart, with despiteful minds, to
cast it out for a prey.
6. Prophesy therefore, conceming
the land of Israel, and say unto the
mountains, and to the hills, to the ri
vers, and to the valleys, Thus saith the
Lord God ; Behold, I have spoken in
my jealousy and in my fury, because
ye have borne the shame of the hea
then. 7. Therefore thus saith the Lord
God ; I have Ufted up my hand. Surely
the heathen that are about you, they
shall bear their shame.
8. But ye, O mountams of Israel, ye
shall shoot forth your branches, and
yield your fruit to my people of Israel ;
for they are at hand to come.
9. For behold, I am for you, and I
wfll tum unto you, and ye shall be
tflled and sown :
10. And I wfll multiply men upon
you, all the house of Israel, even all of
it: and the cities shall be inhabited,
and the wastes shall be huUded :
11. And I will multiply upon you
man and beast ; and they shall increase
and bring fruit : and I will settle you
after your old estates, and will do bet
ter unto you than at your beginnmgs,
and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
12. Yea, I wfll cause men to walk
upon you, even my people Israel ; and
they shall possess thee, and thou shalt
bo their inheritance, and thou shalt no
more henceforth bereave them of men.
13. Thus saith the Lord God; Be
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but his latter end shall be that he perish
for ever.
21. And he looked on the Kenites,
and took up his parable, and said.
Strong is thy dwelling-place, and thou
puttest thy nest in a rock.
22. Nevertheless, the Kenite shall be
wasted, untfl Asshur shafl carry thee
away captive.
23. And he took up his parable, and
said, Alas, who shall Uve when God
doeth this !
24. And ships shall come from the
coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur,
and shall afflict Eber, and he also shafl
perish for ever.

devourest up men, and hast bereaved
thy nations ;
14. Therefore, thou shalt devour
men no ,more, neither bereave thy na
tions any more, saith the Lord God.
15. Neither wifl I cause men to hear
in thee the shame of the heathen any
more, neither shalt thou bear the re
proach of the people any more, neither
shalt thou cause thy nations to fafl any
more, saith the Lord God.

CHAPTER XXXVII.

The Letter.
1. And Jacob dwelt in the land
wherein his father was a stranger, in
the land of Canaan. Note.
We have now traced the history of
Jacob from the period of the prophetic
promise made to Rebekah concerning
him before his birth, up to the time of
his return to dwell in the land of Ca
naan. In all this history we have found
a typical and prophetic revelation of
the " better things " of the kingdom of
Christ In the person of Jacob we have eeen
the three-fold character and office-work
of the third Person in the triune God
head; three in one and one in three.
First, he represents the Lord Jesue
Chriet as the "elect" and "chosen ser
vant" of the covenant, anointed by the
Father with the Spirit without measure,
and going forth to redeem them that
were under the law, that they might re
ceive the adoption of sons. Second, he
represents the " ministration of the Spi
rit" in distinction from the law, or
"ministration of death," as described by
Paul in 3d chapter of 2d Corinthians,
through which the children of God are

The Spirit.
John xiv. 16. And I wifl pray the
Father, and he shafl give you another
Comforter, that he may abide with you
for ever;
17. Even the Spirit of truth; whom
the world cannot receive, because it
seeth him not, neither knoweth him:
but ye know him ; for he dwefleth with
you, and shall be in you.
18. I wifl not leave you comfortless ;
I will come to you.
19. Yet a little whUe, and the world
seeth me no more ; but ye see me : be
cause I live, ye shall live also.
20. At that day ye shall know that I
am in my Father, and ye in me, and I
in you.
2 1 . He that hath my commandments,
and keepeth them, he it is that loveth
mc ; and he that loveth me shall be
loved of my Father, and I wifl love
him, and wfll manifest myself to him.
22. Judas saith unto Mm, (not Isca
riot,) Lord, how is it that thou wflt
manifest thyself unto us, and not unto
the world ?
23. Jesus answered and said unto
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begotten and born into the kingdom.
And lastly, he represents, the special
office of the Holy Spirit the Comforter,
as the glorifier of Jesus ; aent to abide
with the church for ever; by whom
they are sanctified and led into all
truth, to understand aud to profit by all
that Jeeus as the great Prophet has
taught them.
It ia in this last character that he ia
brought to view in the firat verse of
this S7th chapter. He dwells in the land
wherein both the Father and the Son
had before been strangers ; and makes
it a meet temple to receive the promise
of Jesua in the 14th chapter of John.
The Holy Spirit not only abides with
the church, but ia, iu a new and pecu
liar manner, identified with her. Jesus
telle hia diaoiples, that in the day when
the world should see him uo more, they
should know that he is in the Father,
and they in him, and he in them. By
the indwelling of the Spirit, they are so
united with the Godhead aa not only to
he made partakers of the divine nature,
but alao to be cafled by the same name :
the comraon appellation of Israel is very
promiscuously applied to each ; and
that which is said of one, is equally true
of the other. Thia fact is peculiarly evi
dent in the aubaequeut part of thia his
tory. In this point, Jacob is distin
guished frora Abrahara and Isaac. Be
lievers are called the children of Abra
ham and the heirs of promise with
Isaac ; but they are not only the child
ren and the seed of Israel, but they are
themselves " the Israel of God."

The Letter.
2. These are the generations of Ja
cob : Joseph being seventeen years
old, was feeding the flock with his bre
thren, and the lad was with the sons of
Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah,
his father's wives : and Joseph brought
unto his father their evfl report.
Note.
Frora the coramenoement of thia verse.

words: and my Father wUl love hun,
and we will come unto him, and make
our abode with him.
***** 26. But the Comforter, which is the
Holy Ghost, whom the Father wifl send
in my name, he shafl teach you all
things, and bring afl things to your re
membrance, whatsoever I have said
unto you.
xri. 26. But when the Comforter is
come, whom I wUl send unto you from
the Father, even the Spirit of truth,
which proceedeth from the Father, he
shall testify of me.
Eph. u. 16. And that ho might re
concile both unto God in one body by
the cross, having slain the enmity
thereby ?"
17. And came and preached peace to
you which were afar off, and to them
that were nigh.
18. For through him we both have
access by one Spirit unto the Father.
19. Now therefore ye are no more
strangers and foreigners, but feUow-
citizens with the saints, and of the
household of God ;
20. And are buUt upon the founda
tion of the apostles and prophets, Jesus
Christ himself being the chief comer-
slone; 21. In whom all the buUding, fitly
framed together, groweth unto an holy
temple in the Lord :
22. In whom ye also are builded to
gether for au habitation of God through
the Spirit.

The Spiril.
Eph. i. 3. Blessed be the God ahd
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who
hath blessed us with all spiritual bless
ings in heavenly places in Christ.
4. According as he hath chosen us
in him, before the foundation of the
worid, that we should be holy and -with
out blame before him in love :
5. Having predestinated, us unto the
adoption of chUdren by Jesus Christ to

The Gospel by Moses;

we might expect that the entire descend
ants of Jacob were about to be enume
rated; but the account is all summed
up in Joseph — because iu Christ the an
titypical Joseph, are all the seed of Ja
cob chosen and called ; and in him
"shall all the seed pf Jacob be justified
and shall glory."
Joseph fed the flock with his brethren ;
so was Jesus always with his people,
even when they provoked him to auger
iu the wilderness. "He made them to
go forth like sheep, and guided them in
the wilderness like a flock : he fed them
according to the integrity of his heart;
aud guided them by the skilfulness of
his hand."
But the shepherds whom he had set
over the sheep, were but "blind leaders
of the blind :" they fed themselves and
not the flock: they were "thieves and
robbers," whom the sheep would not
follow, for they knew not the voice of
strangers. The sons of Bilhah and Zil
pah, though numbered with the twelve,
aud though baptized unto Moses, and
with all Israel paeeed through the sea,
yet "they had corrupted themselves;
their spot was not the spot of his chil
dren ;" but they were a perverse and
crooked generation. The rule of such
as these " made the heart of God's peo
ple aad, whora he had not raade aad,"
and " atrengthened the hands of the
wicked;'' and thus did they provoke
God in the desert; "so that he sware
iu hia wrath they should not enter into
his rest"
The age of Joseph, raade up of two
perfect or mystic numbers, 10 and 7,
may possibly allude to Christ aa being
with the Father and rejoicing in the
habitable parts of the earth, and also to
his being raanifested to the world from
the beginning, to work the six days'
work of preparation, and to rest on the

The Letter.
3. Now Israel loved Joseph more
than all his children, because he was
the son of his old age : and he made
him a coat of many colors.

Mmseff, accordmg to the good pleasure
of his wfll,
6. To the praise of the glory of his
grace, wherein he hath made us ac
cepted in the Beloved.
IsA. xlv. 26. In the Lord shafl all
the seed of Israel be justified, and shafl
glory. CoL. i. 18. And he is the head of
the body, the church : who is the begin
nmg, the first-born from the dead : that
in afl things he might have the pre
eminence. 19. For it pleased the Father that in
him should all fulness dwell.
IsA. xl. 11. He shafl feed his flock
Uke a shepherd: he shall gather fhe
lambs vrith his arm, and carry them m
his bosom, and shafl gently lead those
that are with young.
Ps. xcv. 10. Forty years long was
I grieved vrith this generation, and said.
It is a people that do err in their heart,
and they have not known my ways :
11. Unto whom I sware in my wrath,
that they should not enter mto my
rest. Heb. iu. 10. Wherefore I was
grieved with that generation, and said.
They do always err in their heart ; and
they have not known my ways.
11. So I sware m my wrath. They
shall not enter into my rest.
Deut. xxxu. 6. They have cor
rupted themselves; theu- spot is not
ihe spot of his children : ihey are a
perverse and crooked generation.

seventh from his labors, as God did from
the work of creation ; or, in other
worda, the 10 and 7 express the "ful
ness of time" iu which Jesus waa to ap
pear in the fleah.

The Spirit.
Matt. Ui. 17. And lo, a voice from
heaven, saying. This is my beloved Son,
in whom I am well pleased.
Ps. Ixxxix. 26. He shall cry unto

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Note.
We have now traced the typical de
velopment of the new aud everlasting
covenant, as exhibited in the history of
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. But, though
exhibited by means of sensible things,
it was, thus far, made known only in
purpose; which purpose of grace, or
mystery of Jehovah's wifl, was, in the
" fulness of time," to be made manifest
by the actual coming of Jesus Christ in
the flesh. This manifestation and "ful
ness of time " is typically set forth in the
person and history of Joseph, who repre.
senta Jeeue in his mediatorial character
and work; — the Word that was made
flesh and dwelt among raen.
As Joseph waa to Israel the son of his
old age, so Jeaus was the last and great-
eat revelation of God to raen. Jacob
loved Joaeph raore than all hia children,
— " And lo, a voice from heaven, saying,
This is my beloved Son, in whora I am
well pleased." Israel raade for Joseph
a coat of many colors, or a coat of many
parts. So also, when Jesus "cometh into
the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering
thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou
prepared me : in burnt ofi^erings and sa
crifices for sin thou hast no pleasure:
then eaid I, Lo ! I corae to do thy will,
0 God." When Joseph was sent by
Israel to seek his brethren, they stripped
him of this coat, dipped it in blood, and
sent it to their father, to witneee that an
evil beast had devoured hira. And,
when Jesue wae sent by the Father to
seek and save that which -was lost his
brethren, — they of his own fleah, " with
wickedi handa," crucified and elew him I
Like bulU of Bashan, they compassed
him about ; — as a roaring lion, they came
upon him to eat up his flesh.

me. Thou art my Father, my God, and
the Rock of my salvation.
27. Also I wfll make him my first
born, higher than the kings of the earth.
Heb. X. 5. Wherefore, when he
cometh into the world, he saith. Sacri
fice and offering thou wouldest not,
but a body hast thou prepared me :
6. In bumt-offerings and sacrifices
for sin thou hast had no pleasure :
7. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the
volume of the book it is written of me)
to do thy wUl, O God.
John i. 1. In the beginning was the
Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God.
2. The same was m the beginning
with God.
* * * * It
14. And the Word was made flesh,
and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his
glory, the glory as of the only begotten
of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Heb. i. 1. God, who at sundry times
and in divers manners spake in time
past unto the fathers by the prophets,
2. Hath in those last' days spoken
unto us by his Son, whom he hath ap
pointed heu- of all things, by whom
also he made the worlds ;
3. 'Who, being the brightness of his
glory, and the express image of his per
son, and upholding all things by the
word of his power, when he had by
himself purged our sins, sat down on
the right hand of the Majesty on high.
***** 6. And again, when he bringeth in
the first-begotten into the worid, he
saith, And let aU the angels of God
worship him.
7. And of the angels he saith, "Who
maketh his angels spirits, and his minis
ters a flame of fire.
8. But unto the Son he saith, Thy
throne, O God, is for ever and ever ; a
sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre
of thy kingdom.
9. Thou hast loved righteousness,
and hated iniquity : therefore God, even
thy God, hath anointed thee with the
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The Letter.
3_ * * * And he made him a coat
of many colors. Note.
The body of Christ the veil of hu
raanity, which he took upon him when
he carae into the world, was not only
made like unto his brethren, biit it was
a representation of his mystical body,
the church, with whom he is vitally
united, as Head and raerabers, in one
body. Hence the type of this body, the
coat of Joseph, is said to be of many
parts or colors : "for as the body is one,
and hath many metnbers, and all the
members of Ihat one body, being many, are
one body, so also is Christ."
This mystical oneness explains many
thinga otherwise difficult to understand
or conceive. It shows how the church,
or true believers, are " crucified with
Christ " — " dead with Chriet " — " quick
ened together with Christ ;" — why they
are aaid to be branches of the true vine ;
and why they can no raore bear fruit of
themselves, than a branch broken off
from the vine and withered. Hence
the necessity of " holding the Head, from'
which all the body, by joints and bands,
having nourishment ministered, and knit
together, increaseth with tlie increase of
God." In the many parts or colors of Joseph's
coat, we also see represented the diver
sity of gifts, administered to the various
members of the mystical body of Christ ;
all equally needful for the good of the
whole, though it may be, not all equally
honorable or comely. A schism or rent
in the body, not only spoils the syrame-
try of the whole, but is severely felt by
every meraber ic it : for if one member
suffer, even the most uncomely or in
considerable, all the rest suffer with it
It is aaid of the coat or vesture of Christ,
th«t it had no seam, and was uot di
vided ; but his murderers cast lots for
it — even as they also bid a price upon
his body.
By comparing Ex. xxvi. 30 — 84, and
Heb. ix. 6—9, with Heb. x. 19—21, and
Matt xxvii. 50 — 52, we shall see thatthe
body of Jesus was also signified by the

The Spirit.
1 CoR. xii. 27. Now ye are the body
of Christ, and members in particular.
Heb. X. 10. By the which wfll we
are sanctified through the offering of
the body of Jesus Christ once /or all.
1 CoR. xii. 4. Now there are diver
sities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
5. And there are differences of ad
ministrations, but the same Lord.
6. And there are diversities of ope
rations, but it is the same God which
worketh afl in afl.
7. But tho manifestation of the
Spirit is given to every man to profit
withal. 8. For to one is given by the Spirit
the word of wisdom ; to another, the
word of knowledge by the same Spi
rit; 9. To another, faith by the same
Spirit ; to another, the gffts of healing
by the same Spirit ;
10. To another, the workmg of mira
cles; to another, prophecy; to another,
discerning of spirits ; to another, divers
kinds of tongues; to another, the m-
terpretation of tongues :
11. But afl these worketh that one
and the self-same Spirit, dividing to
every man severally as he wfll.
12. For as the body is one, and hath
many members, and afl the members of
that one body, being many, are one
body : so also is Christ
13. For. by one Spu-it are we all
baptized into one body, whether we be
Jews or Gentfles, whether we be bond
or free; and have been afl made to
drink mto one Spirit.
14. For the body is not one mem
ber, but many.
***** 18. But now hath God set the mem
bers every one of them m the body, as
it hath pleased him.
19. And ff they were all one mem
ber, where were the body ?
20. But now are iftey many members,
yet but one body.

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vail of the temple or tabernacle. This
vail was made of three colors — blue,
purple, and scarlet The blue is a sym
bol of heaven — scarlet the syrabol of
animal lffe or blood ; and purple is the
union of both these. These three co
lors had evident allusion to the divine
and human natures of the Sou of God,
and the union of these natures in one
person. This vail was designed to sepa
rate between the holy and most holy
place ; there to stand until the ffrst or
worldly sanctuary, should be taken
away, and the " new and living way "be
opened into the holiest by the blood of
Jesus. "When, therefore, this blood had been
ehed, and thia new way "consecrated
through ihe vail, that is to say, his fiesh:"
then "the vail of the teraple was rent
in twain," to signify, even by a sensible
demonstration of divine power, that
" it was finished."

26. And whether one member suffer,
aU the members suffer with it ; or one
member be honored, all the members
rejoice with it.
27. Now ye are the body of Christ,
and members in particular.
Heb. X. 19. Having therefore, bre
thren, boldness to enter into the holiest
by the- blood of Jesus,
20. By a new and Uving way, wMch
he hath consecrated for us through the
vafl, that is to say, his flesh.
Ex. xxri. 30. And thou shalt roar
up the tabemacie according to the
fashion thereof which was showed thee
in the mount.
31. And thou shalt make a vail of
blue, and purple, and scariet, and fine
twmed Unen of cunning work: with
cherubuns shall it be made.
***** 33. And thou shalt hang up the vaU
under the taches, that thou mayest
bring in thither within the vaU fhe ark
of the testimony ; and the vail shall di
vide unto you between the holy place
and the most holy.
Matt, xxvii. 50. Jesus, when he
had cried again with a loud voice, yield
ed up the ghost
51. And behold, fhe vafl of the tem
ple was rent m twain from the top to
the bottom : and the earth did quake,
and the rocks rent.
Heb. ix. 6. Now when these things
were thus ordained, the priests went
always into the first tabernacle, accom
plishing the service cf God :
7. But into the second went the high
priest alone once every year, not with
out blood, which he offered for himself,
and /or the errors of fhe people :
8. The Holy Ghost this signifying,
that the way into tho holiest of afl was
not yet made manffest, whfle as the
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The Letter.
4. And -when his bretMen saw that
their father loved him more than afl his
brethren, they hated him, and could not
speak peaceably unto him.
Note.
It was the image and glory of God
that shone forth in the divine Redeeraer,
which excited the hatred of the Jews,
hia brethren of the flesh. " Te have
seen and hated both me and my Father,')
said Jesus to his persecutors. "Many
good works have I shown you from, the
Father : for which of them do ye stone
me?" " He that hateth his brother is a mur
derer; and no murderer hath eternal
life abiding iu him." This declaration
identifies murder, iu the gospel sense of
the word, with the " sin unto death," for
which "no satisfaction was taken" un
der the law; and for which no sacrifice
ia made under the gospel. It ie the
same as the sin agaiust the Holy Ghoet ;
for it is the image and glory of God,
manifested by works which none other
than God can do, that is the object of
despite and hatred ; in those, too, who
well know that it is the power of God,
which they are hating and denying.
Hence Jesus said to the Jews, who ac
cused him of casting out devils by Beel
zebub the prince of devUs, " Whoever
speaketh a word against the Son of man, it
shall- be forgiven him; but whosoever
speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall
not be forgiven him, neither in this world,
neither in the world to come :'' by which
we must understand, that a person raay
speak against, and act againet the Son
of man ignorantly, and believing hira to
be no more than man, and yet be for
given ; for so spoke and acted Paul, as
well as others; but blasphemy against
the Holy Ghost or hatred and despite
toward the image or mauifestatio-fi of
that divine agent is the "sin tunto
death."

The Spirit.
John vu. 5. For neither did his bre
thren believe in him. ,
6. Then Jesus said unto them. My
time is not yet come : but your time is
always ready.
7. The world cannot hate you ; but
me it hateth, because I testify of it,
that the works thereof are evil.
fli. 20. For every one that doeth
evfl hateth the light, neither cometh to
the light, lest Ms deeds should be re
proved. 21. But he that doeth truth cometh
to the light, that his deeds may be
made manifest, that they are wrought
in God. 19. And this is the condemnation,
that Ught is come into the worid, and
men loved darkness rather than light,
because their deeds were evfl.
V. 18. Therefore the Jews sought
the more to kfll him, because he not
only had broken the sabbath, but said
also that God was his Father, making
Mmself equal with God.
***** 23. That all men should honor the
Son, even as they honor the Father.
He that honoreth not the Son, honor
eth not the Father wMch hath sent
him. 1 John iu. 10. In this the cMldren
of God are manifest, and the children
of the devfl : whosoever doeth not
righteousness is not of God, neither he
that loveth not his brother.
11. For this is the message that ye
heard from the beginnmg, that we
should love one another.
12. Not as Cain, who was of that
vricked one, and slew his brother.
And wherefore slew he him ? Because
Ms own works were evfl, and his bro
ther's righteous.
13. Marvel not, my brethren, if the
worid hate you.
14. We know that we have passed
from death unto lffe, because we love
the brethren. He that loveth not his
brother abideth in death.

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The Letter.
5. And Joseph dreamed a dream,
and he told it his brethren : and they
hated him yet the more.
6. And he said unto them. Hear, I
pray you, this dream which I have
dreamed :
7. For behold, we were binding
sheaves in the field, and lo, my sheaf
arose, and also stood upright; and be
hold, your sheaves stood round about,
and made obeisance to my sheaf.
8. And his brethren said to him,
Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or
shalt thou indeed have dominion over
us ? and they hated him yet the more
for his dreams and for his words.
Note.
The offices austained by Chriet in hie
myetical body, the church, are those of
Prophet, Priest, and King. In the pas
sage before us, he is represented as de
claring the future glory and prosperity
of his kingdora, under the figure of the
dream of Joseph, which foretold his own
exaltation in Egypt The prophetic
office of Chriet was exercised in raaking
known from the beginning, that which
should come to paee concerning hiraself;
and increases in the clearness and ex-
plioitneee of ite revelations, more and
raore to the ful-1 light of the gospel day.
One of the most striking features of
the teaching of Christ whether in the
Old or New Testament is that he always
speaks iu parables ; " and without a pa
rable spake he not." The wise and the
prudent among raen, tell us that thie
fact is fully accounted for, in the figura
tive language of the times, and that Je
eue took thie method the better to illus
trate his doctrine, and that the people

15. Whosoever hateth his brother,
is a murderer ; and ye know that no
murderer hath etemal life abiding in
him. ii. 9. He that saith he is in the light,
and hateth his brother, is in darkness
even until now.

The Spirit.
Acts iii. 22, For Moses truly said
unto the fathers, A Prophet shall the
Lord your God raise up unto you, of
your brethren, like unto me ; him shall
ye hear in all things, whatsoever he
shaU say unto you.
23. And it shall como to pass, that
every soul which will not hear that
Prophet, shall be destroyed from amoag
the people.
John i. 18. No man hafh seen God
at any time ; the only begotten Son,
which is in the bosom of the Father, he
hath declared him.
Matt. xi. 27. All things are deli
vered unto me of my Father ; and no
man knoweth the Son, but the Father ;
neither knoweth any man the Father,
save the Son, and he to whomsoever
the Son wfll reveal him.
John xiii. 19. Now I tell you be
fore it come, that when it is come to
pass, ye may believe that I am he.
Isa. xlviu. 3. I have declared the
former things from the beginning ; and
they went forth out of my mouth, and
I showed them ; I did them suddenly,
and they came to pass.
4. Because I knew that thou art ob
stinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew,
and thy br( m bpss ;
5. I have even from the beginning
declared ii to fhee ; before it came to
pass I showed il thee: lest thou
shouldest say, Mine idol hath done
them ; and my graven image, and my
molten image, hath commanded them.
6. Thou hast heard, see all this ; and
will not ye declare it? I have showed
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might have a better understanding of it
But he himself has given quite a differ
ent exposition of the matter. When the
diaoiples asked, " Why speakest thou
unto themin parables?" he replied thus,
"Because it is given unto you to know the
mysteries of the kingdom of lieaven, but
to them it is not given" " And in thera
is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias which
saith, By bearing ye shall hear and shall
not understaud; and seeing, ye shall see
and shall not perceive," &c. As they
had chosen darkness rather than light
they were given up to grope for the wall
as the blind.
Both the Old and New Testament are
full of this parabolic instruction. In
deed, the Old Testaraent is chiefly of this
character. The acts recorded, as well
as the institutions given, have a figura
tive design and meaning. Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob, are all in turn re
proached as deceivers, because they con
cealed a part of the truth. But did not

The Letter.
I 9. And he dreamed yet another
dream, and told it his brethren, and
said. Behold, I have dreamed a dream
more: and behold, the sun and the
moon and the eleven stars made obei
sance to me.
10. And he told it to his father, and
to his brethren : and his father rebuked
him, and said unto him. What is this
dream that thou hast dreamed ? Shall
I and thy mother and thy brethren in
deed come to bow down ourselves to
thee to tho earth ?
11. And his brethren envied him;
but his father observed the saying.
Note.
At first view it may be thought that
Joseph's dreams were received by Israel
with the same feelings as by his bre
thren; but the 11th verse proves that
this waa not the case. Israel observed
the saying, but his brethren envied him.
The marvellous thinga intimated in
these dreams were matter of wonder,
even to the father who loved aud de-

hidden things, and thou didst not know
them. Matt. xiii. 34. All these things
spake Jesus unto the multitude in pa
rables ; and without a parable spake he
not unto them :
36. That it might be fulfilled which
was spoken by the prophet, saying, I
will open my mouth in parables ; I wifl
utter things which have been kept se
cret from the foundation of the world.

Jesue the Great Prophet do the eame?
Had theee men acted merely as men,
and with evil intention, then they were
guilty ; but if they acted as types, under
divine influence, and to effect a apecial
purpose, then they do not merit thie re
proach. That the latter should be in
ferred, appears frora the fact that they
are nowhere aecueed iu the ecriptures
of any evil in the matter, except by their
enemiea.

The Spirit.
IsA. xxu. 21. And I will clothe
him with thy robe and strengthen him
with thy girdle, and I will commit thy
government into his hand : and he shall
be a father to the mhabitants of Jeru
salem, and to the house of Judah.
22. And the key of the house of
David wfll I lay upon his shoulder : so
he shall open, and none shalll shut; and
he shall shut, and none shall open.
23. And I will fasten him as a nail
in a sure place ; and he shall be for a
glorious throne to his father's house.
24. And thoy shafl hang upon him
all the glory of his father's house, the
offspring and the issue, all vessels of
small quantity, from the vessels of
cups, even to all the vessels of flagons.
Ps. Ixxn. 8. He shall have dominion
also from sea to sea, and from the river
unto the ends of the earth.
9. They that dwell in the wilderness
shall bow before Mm ; and his enemies
shall lick the dust
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Righted to honor this favorite son. Much
more have the greater things, of which
these dreams were only a figure, been
the theme of wonder and of ooutempla-
tiou to the church in all ages. It ie
long before the finite ooraprehension,
even ot tiiose who are taught by the
Spirit can fully receive the mysteries of
the kingdom 1 The disciples of Jesus
had no right underetanding of his divine
miesion, of his death and resurrection,
and the great work to be accomplished
by it until after be had risen from tho
dead ; and Peter, on one occasion, even
rebukes hie Lord and Master, for inti
mating such a thing.
Joseph dreams that the sun, moon,
and eleven stars should make obeisance
to hira ; and Israel interprets thie to be
hia own household. This it literally
proved to be : but much raore does it
point to the glory, power, aud dominion
of the King of Zion, when exalted to the
throne of his kingdora, and all things
should be put under his feet, and the
whole church of the First-born should
crown hira Lord of all.
It wae nothing strange that Joseph's
brethren found it difficult to believe that
their despised brother would ever be
lord of Egypt and that they should
ever bow the knee to him ; it wa.s also
incredible even to Israel. Nor was it
, less difficult for the dieoiples of Jesus to
realize that the poor carpenter's eon,
despised and rejected of raen, and who
had not where to lay his head, was ac
tually the Lord of heaven and earth ;
and that he would hereafter come in the
clouds of heaven with power and great
glory to judge the world.

tho isles shafl bring presents : the kings
of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
11. Yea, all kings shall fall down
before him: all nations shall servo
him. Luke ii. 60. And they understood
not the saying which he spake unto
them. 51. And he went down with them,
and came to Nazareth, and was subject
unto them : but his mother kept all
these sayings in hor heart.
Isa, xlv. 22. Look unto me, and be
yo saved, all the ends of the earth : for
I am God, and there is none else.
23. I have sworn by myself, the
word is gone out of my mouth in
righteousness, and shall not return,
That unto me every knee shall bow,
every tongue shall swear, i
Phil. U. 9. Wherefore God also
hath highly exalted him, and given him
a name which is above every name ;
10. That at the name of Jesus every
knee should bow, of things in heaven,
and things in earth, aud things under
the earth ;
11. And thai every tongue should
confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to
the glory of God the Father.
Rev. v. 12. Saying with a loud
voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was
slain to receive power, and riches, and
wisdom, and strength, and honor, and
glory, and blessing.
13. And every creature which is in
heaven, and on the earth, and under the
^earth, and such as aro in tho sea, and
all that are in them, heard I saying,
Blessing, and honor, and glory, and
poY.'er, be unto him that sitteth upon
the throne, and unto tho Lamb, for
ever and ever.

Tlie Letter.
12. And' his brethren went to feed
thoir father's flock in Shechem.
13. And Israel said unto Joseph, Do
not thy brethren feed the flock in She
chem? Come, and I wifl send thee

The Spirit.
Ezk. xxxiv. 11. For thus saith the
Lord God ; Behold I, even I, wfll both
search my sheep, and seek them out.
12. As a shepherd seeketh out his
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unto them. And he said to him. Here
am I.
14. And he said to him. Go, I pray
thee, see whether it be well with thy
brethren, and well with fhe flocks ; and
bring me word again. So ho sent him
out of the vale of Hebron, and he came
to Shechem. Note.
It was to Shechem* (the dawning
light of promise) that the shepherds of
Israel were directed to go for the green
pastures and still waters, beside which
they ehould have fed their flock. But
these shepherds proved to be but " hire
lings whose the eheep are not;" and the
flocks were scattered upon the moun
tains in the dark and cloudy day.
When, in the counsels of eternal wis
dora, the question wae asked, " Who will
go for us ?" the Son is represented ae re
plying, " Here ara I, eend me." It was
a voluntary "giving of himself" up " to
seek and to save ihat which was lost."
He goes out aa frora the vale of Hebron, -I-
the pluce of union and friendship, in
which the Three in One, and One in
Three, "purposed in thems«lves" the
great covenant plan of grace — "ihat,
in the ages to come, they might show the
exceeding riches of grace in their kind
ness toward us, through Christ Jesus."
The act of Israel, in sending his best
beloved eon to seek hie brethren and
know their welfare, when he well knew
their enmity towards him, is a fit repre
sentation of the love of God to a lost
world. The only begotten and best be
loved of the Father, was sent frora his
bosom, to the lost sheep of the house of
Israel, that they might be gathered to
the true fold and the true shepherd.
The hireling pastor? had scattered the
flock, but the Good Shepherd, " whoee
the sheep were," laid down his life that
he might restore them to himself. The
phrase, "bring me word again," implies
not merely a fact but a promise, that the
Son of God, the antitypical Joseph,
ehould not be left in the hands of the
enemv.

* Shechem signifies eariy in the vwriiinrr
t Hebron sigaifies unioii, friendship.

sheep ihat are scattered ; so will I seek
out my sheep, and wfll deflver them out
of all places where they have been
scattered in the cloudy and dark
day. Jer. xxui. 1. Wo be unto the pas
tors that destroy and scatter the sheep
of my pasture ! saith the Lord.
*****; 3. And I will gather the remnant of
my flock out of all countries whither
I have driven them, and wfll brings
them again to their folds ; and they
shafl be fruitful and increase.
4. And I will set up shepherds over
them, which shall feed them : and they
shafl fear no more, nor be dhsmayed,
neither shall they be lacking, saith the
Lord. 5. Behold, the days come, saith the
Lord, that I vriU raise unto David a
righteous Branch, and a King shall
reign and prosper, and shall execute
judgment and justice in the earth.
6. In his days Judah shall be saved,
and Israel shall dwell safely : and tMs
is his name whereby he shall be called,
THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUS
NESS.
Isa. viU. S. Also I heard the voice
of the Lord, saying. Whom shall I send,
and who wUl go for us? Then said I,
Here am I ; send me.
Matt. xxi. 37. But last of afl he
sent unto them his son, saymg. They
wifl reverence my son.
XV. 24. But he answered and said, I
am not sent but unto the lost sheep of
the house of Israel.
Luke xix. 10. For the Son of man
is come to seek and to save that which
was lost.
John vi. 38. For I came down
from "heaven, not to do mine own wiU,
but tho will of him that sent me.
39. And this is the Father's will
which hath sent me, that of all wMch
he hath given me, I should lose no
thing, but should raise it up again at
the last day.

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The Letter.
16. And a certain man found him,
and behold, he was wandering in the
field : and tho man asked him, saying.
What seekest thou ?
16. And he said, I seek my brethren :
tell me, I pray thee, where they feed
their flocks.
17. And the man said. They are
departed hence : for I heard them say.
Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph
went after his brethren, and found
them in Dothan. Note.
The certain man, who directed the
way of Joseph to his brethren, clearly
points to John the Baptist, who was
sent " to prepare the way of t^ie Lord,
and make his paths straight;"— -the
"porter" that opened the door of the
kingdora of heaven, not only to the
Shepherd of the sheep, by announcing
him to the people, ae " the true light"
and "the Lamb of God that taketh
away the sin of the world," — but also
to all that entered by him into the
fold. By preaching the baptisra of re
pentance for the reraission of sins, John
uttered the voice of the true Shepherd
of the sheep; hence he is called "the
voice of one crying in the toilderness."
The true eheep of Christ ku'ew that
voice, and followed it by coming out
from the dark and barren wilderness of
Dothan (the law), and confessing their
sins: they were baptized by John in
Jordan, believing ou him who should
come after.
But as a, faithful watchman, John
guarded the door of the kingdom against
all that would "climb up so-me other way;"
and when the scribes and Pharisees
came to his baptism, because ihey had
Abraham to their father, thinking that
the inheritance was etUl of the law, and
theirs by virtue of birth.^e rejects
thera ae a generation of vipers. Theee
" thieves and robbers " " came not but
for to kfll and to destroy;" they claim
ed, not only Abraham, but God himself,
as their father, yet they knew not him
whom God had sanctified and sent; and

T7ie Spiril.
Matt. iii. 1. In those days came
John the Baptist, preaching in the wil
derness of Judea,
2. And saying, E,epent ye : for the
kingdom of heaven is at hand.
3. For this is he that was spoken of
by the prophet Esaias, saying. The
voice of one crying in the wUderness,
Prepare ye fhe way of the Lord, make
his paths straight.
John x. 1. "Verily, verfly, I say unto
you, He that entereth not by the door
into the sheepfold, but climbeth up
some other way, the same is a thief and
a robber. 2. But he that entereth in by the
door, is the shepherd of the sheep.
3. To him the porter openeth; and
the sheep hear his voice : and he call-
etii his own sheep by name, and lead
eth them out.
4. And when ho putteth forth his
own sheep, he goeth before them, and
the sheep follow him : for they know
Ms voice.
6. And a stranger wfll they not fol
low, but wfll flee from him : for they
know not the voice of strangers.
6. This parable spake Jesus unto
them: but they understood not what
things fhey were which he spake unto
them. 7. Then said Jesus unto them again,
"V"erUy, vorUy, I say unto you, I am the
door of tho sheep.
8. All that ever came before mc are
thieves and robbers : but the sheep did
not hear them.
9. I am the door : by mo if any man
enter in, he shall bo saved, and shall go
in and out, and find pasture.
10. Tho thief cometh not, but for to
steal, and to kUl, and to destroy: I
am come that they might have Iffe, and
that they might have it more abun
dantly. 11. I am fhe good shepherd: the
good shepherd giveth his life for the
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though they were his brethren in the
fleah, they "received him not;" — "but
as many as received him, to them gave
he power to become the sons of Ood, even
to them who believed on his name ; who
were born, not of blood, nor of the will
of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but
of God."
When Joseph found not his brethren
at Shechem, he puraued them to Do
than ; — and when the gracioue Redeemer
found not his people waiting for the pro
mise of his coraing, but going about to
seek life by the deeds of the law, he fol
lowed their vain wanderings, that he
might deliver them from the bondage of
the law, and give them the adoption of
sons.

The Letter.
18. And when they saw him afar
off, even before he came near unto
them, they conspired against him to
slay him.
19. And they said one to another.
Behold, this dreamer cometh.
20. Come now therefore, and let us
slay him, and cast him into some pit;
and we will say, Some evfl boast hath
devoured him ; and we shall see what
wfll become of his dreams.
Note.
The riches of sovereign grace, and
the heights and depths of infinite wis
dom, are never raore signally displayed
than in the history of Joseph and his
brethren, — or rather of one greater than
Joseph and those who imbrued their
hands in hie blood. Truly may it be
.^aid, thej "meant it for evil, but God
meant it for good, and to save much peo
ple alive." Theee brethren of Joseph
little thought that they were executing
the "determinate counsel of God," when,
" with wicked hands," they took away
his life! Much less did it enter their
hearts to conceive, that this very counsel
of the divine mind, had iu view the sal
vation of their lives, and those of their
households, in permitting this murderous
decdl

not the shepherd, whose own the sheep
are not, scoth tho wolf coming, and
leaveth tho sheep, and fleeth ; and the
wolf catcheth them, and scattereth tho
sheep. 13. The hireling fleeth, because he
is an hireling, and careth not for the
sheep. Gal. iv. 4. But when the fulness
of the tirae was come, God sent forth
his Son, made of a woman, made under
the law,
6. To redeem them that wcre under
the law, that we might receive tho
adoption of sons.

Tlie Spirit.
Ps. xx.xi. 1 3. For I have heard tho
slander of many: fear was on every
side: whUe they took counsel together
against me, they devised to take away
my life.
Matt. xxi. 38. But when the hus
bandmen saw the son, fhey said among
themselves. This is the heir ; come, let
us kfll him, and let us seize on his in
heritance. xxvii. 1. When the morning was
come, all' the chief priests and elders of
the people took counsel against Jesus
to put him to deatii.
2. And when thoy had bound him,
they led Mm away, and delivered him
to Pontius Pflate, the governor.
Luke xix. 47. * * * But the chief
priests, and tho scribes, and the chief of
the people sought to destroy him.
Mark xv. 29. And they that passed
by railed on hun, wagging their heads,
and saying. Ah, thou that dostroyest
the temple, and buildest it iu three
days, 30. Save ' thyself, and come down
from tho cross. '
31. Likewise also the chief priests
mocking, said among themselves with
the scribes. He saved others; hunself
he cannot save.

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But how is the raarvel increased,
when transferred to the only begotten
and best beloved of the Father, and we
behold him volvyitarily laying down hie
life — yielding himself as a sacrifice to
the ignorainious death of the cross, that
his very murderere might live 1 for Jeeus
prayed that they raight be forgiven, and
"him the Father heareth alwaye;" —
when we coneider, too, that the very
dreams or predictione, which in both
caeca they intended to disprove, by the
death of their victim, actually involved
the welfare and even the vital existence
of themaelves and. their households 1
It was when Jesus wae " yet afar off,"
even frora the tirae of righteoue Abel,
that the raurderoue purpose of his ene
mies was made manifeet For he has
declared, that wbatever is done to his
foflowers, because they belong to him,
is virtually done to himself. Hence he
tells the Jewish rulers that they were
children of them that slew the prophets,

TTie Letter.
21. And Reuben heard il, and he
delivered him out of their hands; and
said. Let us not kfll him.
22. And Reuben said unto them.
Shed no blood, but cast him into this
pit that is in the wfldemess, and lay no
hand upon him ; thafc he might rid him
out of their hands, to deliver him to
his father again. Note.
We think this testimony to the good
intention of Reuben, ie intended, partiy
at least to remove the rather severe
and unjust stigma that rests upon the
narae of Peter, in consequence of his de
nial of Christ It is thought by raany
that Peter denied his Master, with the
full conviction at the time, that he wae
the Christ. To this opinion we cannot
assent: First because such an act un
der such conviction, would prove that he
was not a subject of grace, because it is
not possible for a Christian to sin thus
wilfully; and eepecially a sin of euch a
nature. We are rather disposed to

32. Let Christ the King of Israel
descend now from the cross, that we
may seo and believe. And they that
were crucified with him, revUed him.
Luke xxiii. 35. And the people
stood beholding: and tho rulers also
with them derided him, saying, He
saved others ; let him save himself, ff
he be Christ, the chosen of God.
36. And the soldiers also mocked
him, coming to him, and offering him
vinegar, 37. And saying, If thou be the King
of the Jews, save thyself.

and they would fill up the measure of
their fathers in crucifying him. — "For
which of the prophets have not your
fathers persecuted? and they have elain
tbem which showed before of the coming
of the Just One, of whora ye have been
the betrayers and murderere."

The Spiril.
Luke xxii. 31. And the Lord said,
Simon, Simon, behold, Satan h.ith de
sired to have you, that he may sift you
as wheat :
32. But 1 have prayed for thee, that
thy faith fail not ; and when thou art
converted, strengthen fhy brethren.
33. And he said unto him, Lord, I
am ready to go with thee both into
prison, and to death.
34. And he said, I tell thee, Peter
the cock shall not crow this day, before,
that thou shalt thrice deny that thou
knowest me.
John xviii. 10. Then Simon Peter,
having a sword, drew it, and smote the
high priest's servant, and cut off Ms
right ear. Tho servant's name was
Malchus. 11. Then said Jesus unto Peter, Put
up thy sword mto tho sheath : the cup
which my Father hath given me, shall I
not di-ink it ?
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think, that when Peter saw Jesus pas
sively give himself up to the hands of
his enemies, and with his own impetu
ous and headstrong nature having no
conception of such meekness and for
bearance; being also entirely ignorant
©f the fact that the death of Christ was
a part of his divine miesion, he was led
to doubt whether indeed he had not
been mistaken ; and that after all, Jesus
was not fhe impostor that he wae ac
cused of being. Stfll his love to Jesus
constrained him to follow hira to the
judgment hall, and see the issue of this
strange conduct in one whom he Jiad
seen put forth, on other occasions, euch
evidences of divine power. But he
there saw him "led as a lamb to the
daughter; and, as a sheep before her
shearers is dumb, so he opened not his
mouth." Alasl that he should not have
remerabered that this wae written of
him. When, therefore, he eaw that all
was lost — i-ud he whom " they had
thought was to have redeemed Israel,"
was led as a malefactor to the cross — his
carnal reason argued the folly of impli
cating himself in the cause of an impostor,
— and he was tempted to deny all know
ledge of the man I This was a base and
cowardly act and better calculated than
any other to humble the self-conceit aud
presumptuous confidence of Peter. For
this purpose it wae doubtlees permitted.
But we think that Jesus, in all his sub
sequent dealings with Peter, took the
greatest care to show his own apprecia
tion of thia sin ; and that he purposely
gave Peter opportunity to appeal to
hiraself, as the searcher of hearts, to con
firra hia profeseion of love toward him.

and so did another disciple. That dis
ciple was known unto the high priest,
and went in with Jesus, into the palace
of the high priest.
16. But Peter stood at the door
without. Then went out that other
disciple, which was known unto the
high priest, and spake unto her that
kept the door, and brought in Peter.
17. Then saith fhe damsel that kept
the door unto Peter, Art not thou also
one oi this man's disciples ? He saith,
I am not.
18. And the servants and officers
stood there, who had made a fire of
coals : (for it was cold ;) and they
warmed themselves: and Peter stood
with them, and warmed himself.
***** 26. And Simon Peter stood and
waimed himself. They said therefore
unto him, Art not thou also one of his
disciples ? He denied it, and said, I am
not. 26. One of the servants of the high
priest (being his kinsman whose ear
Peter cut off) saith, Did not I see thee
in the garden with him ?
27. Peter then denied again, and im
mediately the cock crew.
Mark xiv. 70. * * * A Utile after,
they that stood by said again to Peter,
Surely thou art one of them : for thou
art a Galilean,- and thy speech agreeth
thereto. 71. But he began to curse and to
swear, saying, I know not this man of
whom ye speak.
72. And the second time the cock
crew. And Peter called to mind the
word that Jesus said unto him, Before
tho cock crow twice, thou shalt deny
mo thrice. And when he thought
thereon, he wept.

The Letter.
23. And it camo to pass when Jo
seph was corae unto his brethren, that
they stript Joseph out of his coat, ?iis
• coat of many colors that ivas on him.

The Spirit.
JoKAH ii. 2. And said, I cried by
reason of mine afiiiction unto the Lord,
and he heard me; out ofthe belly of hell
cried I, a'nd thou heardest my voice.

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24. And fhey took him, and cast Mm
into a pit : and the pit was empty, ihere
was no water in it. Note.
It has been before remarked, that the
sufferings of the Son of God, in bearing
the eurse of his people, were of a three
fold character. His agony in the gar
den appears to allude raore particu
larly to the "making his soul an of
fering for sin," or bearing the curee of
the second death. This wae represented
by the wrestling of Jacob with the God-
raan, on the night previous to his raeet
ing Esau. Then followed the triumph
of the serpent, in getting possession of his
victira, — ae exhibited in the encounter
with Esau, iu which the type embraces
both the triumph and the defeat of the
powers of darliuees. Next ie the subjec
tion of his raortal body to the power of
death, which is brought to view in the
present history of Joseph and hia bre
thren. It may be asked, why the twelve pa
triarchs, who are considered types of the
twelve chosen disciples, should here be re
presented as the murderers of Christ
We answer, — there are two reasons:
Firs'.,, it was one of the twelve that did
betray him to death ; — but more parti
cularly it must be reraembered that
theee twelvei heads of the tribes are
often identified with the nation which
they repreeent. This is seen iu the sub
sequent history of Joseph.
Joseph was caet into a pit in which
there was no water. Thia very possibly
alludes to, and explains, the scripture
which, prophetically addressing the Re
deeraer, says — "As for thee, by the
blood of thy covenant I have sent forth
thy prisoners, out of the pit wherein is
no water." Which may signify the eame
idea with that expressed iu Hebrews : —
"Forasmuch, therefore, ae the children
are partakers of flesh and blood, he also
took part of the same, that through
death he might destroy him that had
the power of death, that ia, the devil :
and deliver them, who, through fear of
death, were all their lifetime aubject to
bondage.''

3. For thou hadst cast me into the
deep, in the midst of the seas ; and the
floods compassed me about: all Ihy
billows and thy waves passed over me.
4. Then I said, I am cast out of thy
sight ; yet I will look again toward thy
holy temple.
6. The waters compassed me about,
even to the soul : the depth closed mc
round about, fhe weeds were -^vrapped
about my head.
6. I went down to tho bottoms of
the mountains ; fhe earth wflh her bars
was about me for ever: yet hast thou
brought up my lffe from corruption, O
Lord my God.
7. When my soul fainted within me
I remembered the Lord ; and my prayer
came in unto thee, into thine holy tem
ple. Ps. xviu. 4. The sorrows of death
compassed me, and the fioods of un
godly men made me afraid.
5. The sorrows of heU compassed
me about ; the snares of death prevent
ed mo.
6. In my distress I called upon tho
Lord, and cried unto my God : he heard
my voice out of his temple, and my cry
came before him, even into his ears.
Ixix. 14. Deliver me out of the mire,
and let me not sink : let mo be deUver
ed from them that hate me, and out of
the deep waters.
15. Let not the water-flood over
flow me, neither let the deep swallow
me up, and let not the pit shut her
mouth upon me.
cxvi. 3. The sorrows of death com
passed me, and the pains of hell gat
hold upon me ; I found trouble and sor
row. 4. Then called I upon the name of
the Lord ; O Lord, I beseech thee, de
liver my soul.
xvu. 12. Like as a lion iiftads greedy
of his prey, and as it were a young
Uon lurking in secret places.
13. Arise, O Lord, disappoint him,
cast him down : deliver my soul from
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And again, in Isaiah: — "Thy dead
men shall live; together with my dead
body shall they rise. Awake and sing,
ye that dwell in dust for thy dew is as
the dew of herbs, and the earth shall
cast forth her dead."

The Letter.
25. And they sat down to eat bread :
and they Iffted up their eyes and looked,
and behold, a company of Ishmaelites
came from Gilead, with their camels
bearing spicery, and balm, and myrrh,
gomg to carry il down to Egypt.
26. And Judah said unto his brethren,
What profit is it if we slay our brother,
and conceal his blood ?
27. Come, and let us sell him to the
Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be
upon him : for he is our brother, and
our flesh ; and his brethren were con
tent Note.
Judah, or Judas, as ho is called in
Matt i., is a type of a twofold charac
ter. As one of the tribes of Israel, or
princes of the tribes, Judas ie pre-emi
nent and is styled, " He whom thy bre
thren shall praise," or exalt This tribe
was to be specially preserved in name
and power, until Shiloh should take the
throne and sceptre of his father David,
(typically to the very period of the sell
ing hiin to the high priests, ae exhibited
in the history of Joseph.) Hence Jesus
is called the lion of the tribe of Judah,
because, according to the flesh, he de
scended from this tribe. The preserva
tion of this tribe, when the ten tribes
were scattered, was also the subject of
special promise to David ; and God con
tinued them as his covenant people un
til the day when the staff. Bands was
broken ; — or, when the body of Jesus
was crucified. To the people of this

xxxv. 6. Let their way be dark and
slippery; and let the angel of the Lord
persecute them.
7. For without cause have they hid
for me their net in a pit, which without
cause they have digged for my soul.
Matt, xxvii. 25. ,Then answered
all the people, and said. His blood be on
us, and on our children.

TTie Spirit.
Luke jcvui. 31. Then he took unto
him the twelve, and said unto them.
Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all
things that are written by the prophets
concerning the Son of man shafl be
accomplished. 32. For he shall bo delivered unto
tho Gentiles, and shaU be mocked, and
spitefully entreated, and spitted on;
33. And they shall scourge him, and
put hun to death : and the third day he
shall rise again.
xxu. 2. And the chief priests and
scribes sought how they might Mil him:
for they feared the people.
3. Then entered Satan into Judas
surnamed Iscariot, being of the num
ber of the twelve.
4. And he wont his way, and com
muned with the chief priests and cap
tains, how he might betray hun unto
them. 5. And they were glad, and covenant
ed to give Mm money.
6. And he promised, and sought op
portunity to betray him unto them in
the absence of the multitude.
Acts ii. 22. Ye men of Israel, hear
these words ; Jesus of Nazareth, a man
approved of God among you by mira
cles and wonders and signs, which God
did by him in the midst of you, as ye
yourselves also know :
23. Him, being delivered by the de
terminate counsel and foreknowledge
of God, ye have taken, and by wicked
hands have crucified and slam.

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tribe Jesue first carae, and salvation
was first proclairaed.
So far, it is evident that Judah was
exalted to heaven ; and is obviously
the subject of the portrait drawn of the
prince of Tyrus, in Ezk. xxviii. In the
12th verse of this chapter, reference is
had raore particularly to the "man of
sire" mentioned in '2 Thess. ii., but tbe
remaining part of the chapter gives
the typical representation of Judas,
as one of the twelve stones of the
breastplate worn on the raount of God.
But these, as well as others already de
scribed in the history of Esau, are only

different transformations of the eame
" son of perdition," who here sold bis
brother for twenty pieces of silver. For
it wae for traffic euch as this that Tyrus
wae famous, and for which the bloody
city in league with Antichrist, -was cist
as a millstone into tbe sea.
It is a striking circumstance in this
typical history, that the merchantmen
to whom Joseph was sold, were Ishmael
ites, of the seed of Abraham according
to the flesh, and thus very properly per
sonating the high priests and rulers of
the Jews, who, " though the seed of Abra
ham, were not children."

The Letter.
28. Then there passed by Midianites
merchant-men ; and they drew and
lifted up Joseph out of the pU, and sold
Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty
pieces of sUver : and thoy brought Jo
seph into Egypt Note.
The Midianites were the seed of Abra
ham hy Keturah ; and at thie tirae were
united ae one people with tbe Ishmael
ites; even as Herod and Pontius Pilate
were raade friends iu the crucifixion of
Chriet. Thie fact presents ii striking
confirmation of the words of Paul, " But
as he that was born after the fiesh perse
cuted him ihat was born after the Spirit,
even so it is now''
The flesh and the Spirit, with all that
are born of each, are ever at war with
each other; but the chUdren of the
Spirit wfll finally triumph over all their
eoemies; while the children of the flesh
are to be destroyed for ever.
The nations of Moab and Ammon, of
Medan and Midian, of Jokshan and
Zemman, Ishbak and Ilmah, and of
Edom, are all connected with Abrnhara
hjilie flesh; and in all their branches
are doomed to a final overthrow;
though not with an equal curse. This
fact may be fully proved by tracing
their prophetic history through the en
tire scriptures; but raore especially
from Num. xxiv. 17-25, and Isa. xi. 11-

Tae Spiril.
Zech. ix. 11. As for theo also, by
the blood of thy covenant I have sent
forth thy prisoners out of the pit
wherein is no water.
12. Turn you to the strong hold, ye
prisoners of hope: even to-day do I
declare, thai I wUl render double unto
thee. xi. 12. And I said unto them, If ye
think good, give me my price ; and if
not, forbear. So they weighed for my
price thirty pieces of silver.
13. And the Lord said unto me.
Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price
that I was prized at of them. And I
took tho thirty pieces of silver, and cast
them to tho potter in the house of the
Lord. Luke xxii. 4. And he went his way,
.and communed with the chief priests
.and captains, how he might betray him
unto them.
5. And they were glad, and cove
nanted to give him money.
6. And he promised, and sought op
portunity to betray him .unto them in
the absence of the multitude.
Ps. cix. 13. Let his posterity be cut
off; and in the generation foUowmg
let their name be blotted out.
14. Let the iniquity of his father be
remembered with the Lord ; and let not
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16, with several other raore especial and
individual denunciations.
The order of things not being pre
served iu thia part of the figure, is not
essential to the meaning. It is impos
sible that literal and natural things
should in all points signify those that
are spiritual. Joseph as a typ^ of
Christ uot only in his pereonal minis
try, but also in his kingly office, could
not actually suffer death at the hands of
his brethren at this time, because he
muet be cast into tbe dungeon of Egypt
and raised up to be governor of all the
land. Hence the selling of him by Ju
das followed the casting of him into the
pit, instead oi preceding it, as fu the, an
titype.

15. Let them be before the Lord
contmually, that he may cut off the
memory of them from the earth.
Matt. xxvu. 6. And the chief
priests took the sUver pieces, and silid.
It is not lawful for to put them into
the treasury, because it is the price of
blood. 7. And they took counsel, and
bought with them the potter's field, to
bury strangers in.
8. Wherefore that field was called.
The field of blood, unto this day.
9. Then was fulfilled that wMch was
spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying.
And they took the thirty pieces of sil
ver, the price of Mm that was valued,
whom they of the chfldren of Israel did
value ;
10. And gave them for the potter's
field, as the Lord appointed me.

The Letter.
29. And Reuben retumed unto the
pit ; and behold, Joseph was not in the
pit : and he rent his clothes.
30. And he retumed unto his bre
thren, and said, The chfld is not : and
I, wMther shafl I go ?
Note.
The lamentation of Reuben over his
brother Joseph, rerainds us of the sor
row of Peter, when made to realize
what he had done in denying his Master.
It had been at the suggestion of Reuben
that Joseph was caet into the pit with
the secret intention of delivering him
from it; but now he believed him to
have been destroyed ; the thing that he
would meet willingly have prevented,
though it now seemed he had been ac
cessory to it.
The penitent grief of Peter, when
brought to feel that Jesus waa indeed
the Christ and that he had basely de
nied him, raay be better conceived than
described. Yet must every true peni
tent experience the like, when by faith
he looks upon Him whom his sins have
pierced.

The Spirit.
Matt. xxvi. 75. And Peter remem
bered the word of Jesus, which said
unto him. Before the cock crow, thou
shalt deny me thrice. And he went
out, and wept bitterly.
John xx. 2. Then she runneth, and
cometh to Simon Peter, and to the
other disciple whom Jesus loved, and
saith unto them. They have taken away
the Lord out of the sepulcMe, and
we know not where they liave laid
him. 3. Peter therefore went forth, and
that other disciple, and came to the se
pulchre. 4. So they ran both together : and
the other disciple did outrun Peter,
and came first to the sepulchre.
5. And he stooping down, and look-
iag in, saw the flnen clothes lymg;
yet went he not in.
6. Then cometh Simon Peter, fol
lowing him, and went into the sepul
chre, and seeth the linen clothes Ue,
7.' And the napkin, that was about
his head, not lying with the Imen

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In this typical history, however,
Reuben (Peter) is made to lament
hira as if actually dead, and taken out
of the torab. Literally it appears aa if
Joaeph was carried to another country,
and so he doubtless waa ; and yet in the
figurative sense of the subject Egypt
and Jerusalera are tbe sarae. This will
appear by referring to Rev. xi. 8 : " And
their dead bodies shall lie in the street of
the great city which spiritually is called
Sodom and Egypt ; where also our Lord
was crucified."
It was iu Jerusalera, the spiritual
Egypt that the great work of rederap
tion was wrought out; that the ark of
salvation, or of the new and everlasting
covenant, was prepared for the elect
household, " to save much people alive,"
even all the true Israel, when "the fa-
raine " should be "sore in all the land."
And it was in Jerusalera that the Lord
of life and glory was crucified, ocst into
the dungeon of the torab, upon the tes
timony of false witnesses; where also
he was raised up, having burst the
bande of death, because he could not be
holden thereby. Of whora it was testi
fied, "Him hath God exalted to be a
Prince and a Saviour, to give repentance
and remission of sins to Israel."
Joeeph'e brethren could not, in their
wisdom, devise a raore effectual method
to prevent tho accomplishment of his
dreams than by selling him, a bondman,
into Egypt. He would hardly be likely
iu this debased condition to rule over
his father's houeehold. But how muet
they have been confounded, when in
process of tirae they ¦were made to bow
in abject submission at his feet 1

clothes, but wrapped together in a place
by itself.
8. Then went in also that other dis
ciple which came first to the sepulchre,
and he saw, and believed.
9. For as yet they knew not tho
scripture, that he must rise again from
the dead.
10. Then tho disciples went away
again unto their own homo.
Luke xxiv. 13. And, behold, two
of them went that same day to a vfllage
called Emmaus, which was from Jeru
salem about threescore furlongs.
14. And they talked together of afl
these things which had happened.
***** 17. And ho said unto thom, What
manner of communications are these
that ye have ono to another, as ye
walk, and are sad ?
18. And the one. of them, whose
name was Cleopas, answering, said
unto him, Art thou only a stranger in
Jerusalem, and hast not known the
things which are come to pass there in
these days ?
19. And ho said unto them. What
things? And they said unto him. Con
cerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was
a prophet mighty in deed and word
before God and aU the people :
20. And how the chief priests and
our rulers delivered him to be con
demned to death, and have crucified
him. 21. But we trusted that it had been
he which should have redeemed Israel :
and besides all this, to-day is the third
day since (hese things were done.

The Letter.
31. And thoy took Joseph's coat
and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped
the coat in the blood :
32. And they sent the coat of many
colors, and they brought it to their fa
ther; and said. This have we found:
know now whether it be thy son's coat

The SpirU.
Ps. xxiv. 7. Lift up your heads, O
ye gates, and bo ye Ufted up, ye ever
lasting doors ; and the King of glory
shall come in.
8. "Who is this Kmg of glory ? The
Lord strong and mighty, the Lord
mighty in battio.
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33. And he knew it, and said, Il is
my son's coat ; an evfl beast hath de
voured him : Joseph is without doubt
rent in pieces. Note.
It wae a kid of the goats whose blood,
carried by the high priest into the most
holy place, made atonement for the sins
of the people under the law; to show
that iu the end of the worldly testa
ment the Lamb of God would take
away sin by tbe sacrifice of himself.
Hence the Psalraiet, propheeying of this
event, describes the Son of God as as
cending to the Father after this had been
accompIi.=hed, and deraanding entrance
within the everlasting gates, as the King
of glory. But a voice replies, "Who is
this King of glory ?" and the answer is,
"The Lord, mighty in battle ; he is the
King of glory." Or, as it raay be under
stood, "the Lamb that was slain" to
" take away the sins of the world." For
even the well beloved of the Father,
when he had once assuraed the sinner's
place under the curse of the law, could
not have been received again within
those gates, had he not finished the work
given him to do; finished transgression,
and brought in everlasting righteousness
by his own blood.
But these signs of battle, these eviden
ces of blood aud death, of final contest
with the evil beast, the roaring lion,
were at once known aud accepted by
the Father, who had prepared that body
— that " coat of many colors" — the rent
vail of the true tabernacle ; he could
not be mistaken in the Lamb which he
had himself " provided for the sacrifice ;"
and henceforth, in the midst of the
throne, is eeen, "as it wcre, a Lamb
which had been slain;" before whom
" ten thousand times ten thousand, and
thousands of thousands," and " every crea
ture which is in heaiien, and on the earth,
and under the earth," bow the knee and
cry, '• Worthy is tlie Lamb that was sla'm,"
&,c.

even lift ihem up, ye everlasting doors ;
and the King of glory shafl come in.
10. Who is this King of glory? The
Lord of hosts, he is the King of glory.
Rev. xix. 11. And I saw heaven
opened, and behold a white horse ; and
ho that sat upon him was called Faith
ful and True; and in righteousness he
doth judge and make war.
12. His eyes were as a flame of fu-e,
and on his head were many crowns;
and he had a name written that no man
knew but he himself.
13. And he was clothed with a ves
ture dipped in blood ; and Ms name is
called Tho Word of God.
V. 6. And I beheld, and, lo, in the
midst of the throne and of the four
beasts, and in the midst of the elden-s,
stood a Lamb as it had been slam,
having seven horns and seven eyes,
which are the seven Spirits of God sent
forth into all the earth.
Heb. ix. 23. It was therefore ne
cessary that the patterns of things m
the heavens should be purified with
these; but the heavenly things them
selves with better sacrifices than these.
24. For Christ is not entered into
tho holy places made with hands, which
are the figures of the true; but into
heaven itself, now to appear m the pre
sence of God for us :
25. Nor yet that he should offer him
self often, as the high priest entereth
into the holy place every year with
blood of others ;
26. (For then must he often have
suffered since the foundation of the
world;) but now once in the end of
the world hath he appeared, to put away
sin by the sacrifice of himseff.
xui. 10. We have an altar, whereof
they have no right to eat wMch serve
the tabemacie.
***** 12. Wherefore Jesus also, that he
might sanctify the people with his own
blood, suffered without the gate.
13. Lotus go forth therefore unto him
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The Letter.
34. And Jacob rent his clothes, and
put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourn
ed for his son many days.
35. Aud all his sons and all his
daughters rose up to comfort him; but
he refused to be comforted; and he
said. For I will go down into the gi-ave
unto my son mourning. Thus his fa
ther wept for him.
36. And the Midianites sold him into
Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pha
raoh's, and captain of the guard.
Note.
In this passage is described the lan
guage and the deep remorse of every
true believer, when, under the influence
of the Holy Spirit he is first led to dis
cover the evidences of his own share in
procuring tlie death of the Lamb of
God ; — that it was his sins that were
laid upon him. Nor does this godly
sorrow end with his first discovery ; but
as long as he continues in the body of
sin and death, whose indwelling corrup
tions are constantly warring against the
soul, he looks by faith to him whom
these sins have pierced and mourns in
bitterneee; while, at the same time, he
flees to the healing fountain, of that
blood, as the only hope of pardon and
acceptance, peace and joy, grace and
glory. Thus, till he goes down to the
grave, every view, by faith, of the bleed
ing sacrifice, prepares him to sing tbe
song of Moses and the Lamb ; and not
only so, but sanctifies hira to his service
upon earth : constrained by the powerful
conviction that he has not been redeem
ed by corruptible things, such as sUver
and gold, but by the precious blood of
Jesus, as of a Lamb without blemish, he
joyfully presents his own body a living
sacrifice to Hira who died for him and
rose again.
These are the convictions " of sin, of
righteousness, and of judgment," which
are wrought iu every soul redeemed
by the blood of Jesus; and as the
Holy Spirit, whoee ofiice it is to lead
into this experience, is only known by
. his operations, the expression of sorrow

The Spiril.
Zech. xii. 10. And I wUl pour upon
tho house of David, and upon tho in
habitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of
grace and of supplications: and they
shall look upon me whom they have
pi(ireed, and they shall mourn for him,
as one mourneth for his only son, and
shall be m bitterness for him, as ono
that is in bitterness for ?iis first-born.
11. In that day shaU there bo a great
mourning in Jerusalem, as fhe mourn
ing of Hadadrimmon in the valley of
Megiddon. 12. And the land shall mourn, every
famUy apart ; tho family of the house
of David apart, and their wives apart ;
tho family of the house of Nathan
apart, and their wives apart ;
13. The family of tho house of Levi
apart, and their wives apart ; the fami
ly of Shimei apart, and their wivos
apart ;
14. All the famiUes that remain,
every family apart, and their wives
apart. John xvi. 6. But because I have
said these things unto you, sorrow
hath filled your heart
7. Nevertheless I tell you tho truth;
It is expedient for you that I go away ;
for if I go not away, the Comforter
wifl not come unto you ; but if I de
part, I will send him unto you.
8. And when he is come, he will re
prove the world of sin, and of right
eousness, and of judgment:
9. Of sin, because thoy believe not
on me;
10. Of righteousness, because I go
to my Father, and ye see me no more ;
11. Of judgment, because the prince
of this worid is judged.
xviii. 12. Then the band, and the
captain, and oflicei-s of the Jews, took
Jesus, and bound him,
13. And led him away to Annas
first : (for he was father-in-law to Caia
phas, which was the high priest that
same year.)
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for Joseph, virtuafly applies to the work,
and not to the person of this divine
agent We have before observed, that
from the time when Rachel died, and
Israel took up his abode in Beth-el, or
with the houeehold of God, the name
of Israel was common to the church and
to her Head and Lord. This passage,
therefore, is to be understood as applied
to the church; and especially to the dia-

gave counsel to the Jews, that it was
expedient that one man should die for
the people.

ciples after the death of Christ and when
they concluded that he, whom they
hoped would have redeemed larael, was
lost to them for ever.

CHAPTER XXXVHL

The Letter.
PHAEEZ, a progenitor of CHRIST,
BORN OF JUDAH AND A CANAANITISH
WOMAN. 1. And it came to pass at that time,
that Judah went down from his bre
thren, and turned in to a certain Adul-
lamite, whose name was Hirah.
2. And Judah saw there a daughter
of a certain Canaanite, whose name was
Shuah ; and he took her, and went in
unto her.
3. And she conceived, and bare a
son ; and he called his narae Er.
4. And she conceived again, and
bare a son ; and she cafled his name
Onan. 5. And she yet again conceived, and
bare a son ; and called Ms name She-
lah : and he was at Chezib when she
bare him.
6. And Judah took a wffe for Er
his first-born, whose name was Tamar.
7. And Er, Judah's first-bom, was
wicked in tho sight of the Lord; and
tho Lord slew him.
***** 12. And in process of time, the
daughter of Shuah, Judah's wffe, died ;
and Judah was comforted, and went
up unto his sheep-shearers to Timnath,
he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
13. And it was told Tamar, saying.
Behold, thy father-in-law goeth up to
Tunnath to shear his sheep.

The Spiril.
THE TEMPLE BUILT BT SOLOMON FROM
THE -WOOD AND STONE OF TYRE.
John U. 18. Then answered the
Jews, and said unto them. What sign
shewest thou unto us, seeing that thon
doest these thmgs ?
19. Jesus answered and said unto
them. Destroy this temple, and in three
days I wUl raise it up.
20. Then said the Jews, 'Forty and
six years was this temple in buildmg,
and wUt thou rear it up iri three days ?
21. But he spake of the temple of
his body.
22. When therefore he was risen
from the dead, Ms' disciples remember
ed that he had said this unto them :
and they believed the scripture, and
the word which Jesus had said.
1 Kings v. 4. But now the Lord my
God hath given me rest on every side,
so that iliere is neither adversary nor
evfl concurrent.
5. And behold, I purpose to build a
house unto the name of the Lord my
God, as the Lord spake unto David my
father, saying. Thy son whom I wfll
set upon thy throne in thy room, he
shafl build a house unto my name.
6. Now therefore command thou,
that they hew me cedar-trees out of
Lebanon ; and my servants shafl be
with thy servants: and unto thee wfll
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14. And she put her widow's gar
ments off from her, and covered her
with a vafl, and wrapped herself, and
sat in an open place, which is by the
way to Timnath : for she saw that She-
lah was grown, and she was not given
unto him to wife.
15. When Judah saw her, he thought
her to be an harlot; because she had
covered her face.
16. And he turned unto her by the
way, and said. Go to, I pray thee, let
me come in unto thee ; (for he knew
not that she was his daughter-in-law.)
And she said. What wilt thou give
me, that thou mayest come in unto
me? 17. And he said, I wfll send thee a
kid from the fiock. And she said,
Wilt thou give me a pledge tifl thou
send it ?
18. And he said. What pledge shafl
I give thee ? and she said. Thy signet,
and thy bracelets, and thy staff' that is
m thine hand: and he gave il her, and
came in unto her: and she conceived
by him.
19. And she arose, and went away,
and laid by her vafl from her, and put
on the garments of her widowhood,
20. And Judah sent the kid by the
hand of Ms friend the Adullamite, to
receive his pledge from tho woman's
hand; but he found her not
21. Then he asked the men of that
place, saying. Where is the harlot that
was openly by the way-side ? And
they said. There was no harlot in this
place. 22. And he returned to Judah, and
said, I cannot find her ; and also the
men of the place said, that there was no
harlot in this place.
23. And Judah said. Let her take it
to her, lest we be shamed : behold, I
sent this kid, and thou hast not found
her. 26

to all that thou shalt appoint : for thou
knowest that ihere is not among us any
that can skill to hew timber like unto
the Sidonians.
ix. 1 1 . (Now Hiram the king of Tyre
had furnished Solomon with cedar-frees
and fir-trees, and with gold, according
to all his desire,) that theu king Solo
mon gave Hiram twenty cities in tho
land of Galilee.
12. And Hiram came out from Tyre
to see the cities which Solomon h»d
given him ; and they pleased him not.
13. And he said. What cities are
these which thou hast given me, my
brother? And he called them the land
of Cabul unto this day.
14. And Hiram sent to the king six-
score talents of gold.
xi. 1. But king Solomon loved
many strange women, together with
the daughter of Pharaoh, women of
the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites,
Zidonians, and Hittites ;
2. Of the nations conceming which
the Lord said unto the children of Israel,
Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall
they come in unto you ; for surely they
wUl turn away your heart after their
gods: Solomon clave unto these m
love.

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Tlie Letter.
PHAREZ, A PROGENITOR OF CHRIST,
BORN OF JUDAH AND A CANAANITISH
WOMAN.
24. And it came to pass, about three
'months after, that it was told Judah,
saying, Tamar thy daughter-in-law hath
played the harlot; and also, behold,
she is with child by whoredom. And
Judah said. Bring her forth, and let her
be burnt.
25. When she was brought forth,
she sent to her father-in-law, saying,
By the man whose these are am I with
child : and she said, Discem, I pray
thee, whose are these, the signet, and
bracelets, and staff.
26. And Judah acknowledged ihem,
and said, She hath been inorc righteous
than I ; because that I gave her not to
Shelah my son : and he knew her again
no more.
27. And it came to pass, in the time
of her travaU, that, behold, twins were
i n her womb.
28. And it came to pass, when she
travailed, that ilie one put out his hand ;
and the midwife took and bound upon
his hand a scarlet thread, saying. This
came out first.
29. And it came to pass, as he drew
back his hand, that, behold, his brother
came out; and she said. How hast
thou broken forth ? this breach be
upon thee : therefore his name was
cafled Pharez.
30. And afterward came out his
brother, that had the scarlet thread
upon his hand; and his name was
called Zarah. Note.
This thirty-eighth chapter, though
singular and revolting in its details, is
an important link in the chain of events,
both typically and literally. It ia epe-
cially connected with the natural de
scent of Christ aud also with the typi
cal events of hia myetical body, the
church. By tiie genealogy of Christ, in the

The Spirit.
CHRIST DESCENDED ALSO FROM A -WO
MAN OF MOAB.
Ruth iv. 10. Moreover, Ruth, the
Moabitess, the wffe of Mahlon, have
I purchased to be my wife, to raise up
the name of the dead upon his inheri
tance, that the name of the dead be not
cut off from among his brethren, and
from the gate of his place : ye are wit
nesses this day.
11. And all the people that were in
the gate, and the elders said. We are
witnesses. The Lord make the woman
that is come mto thy house like Rachel
and like Leah, which two did bufld the
house of Israel : and do thou worihfly
m Ephratah and be famous in Befh-lc-
hem; 12. And let thy house bb like the
house of Pharez, whom Tamar bare
unto Judah, of the seed which the
Lord shafl give thee of this young wo
man. 13. So Boaz took Ruth, and she
was his wife: and when he went in
unto her, the Lord gave her concep
tion, and she bare a son.
14. And the women said unto Nao
mi, Blessed be the Lord, which hath
not left thee this day without a kms-
man, that his name may be famous in
Israel. 16. And he shall be unto thee a re
storer of ihy Ufe, and nourisher of thine
old age : for thy daughter-in-law, which
loveth thee, which is better to thee
than seven sons, hath home Mm.
16. And Faomi took the child, and
laid it in her bosom, and became nurse
unto it.
17. And the women her neighbors
gave it a name, saying. There is a son
born to Naomi; and they called his
name Obed : he is the father of Jesse,
the father of David.
18. Now these are the generations
of Pharez : Pharez begat Hezron,
19. And Hezron begat Ram, and
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first chapter of Matthew, and that part
of it contained in the 4th chapter of
Ruth, it wfll be seen that frora Fharez,
(a breach,) the eou of Judah by his daugh
ter-in-law, and Obed, the son of Ruth
the Moabitess, a descendant of Lot by his
daughter-in-law, the Lord Jeeus Christ
derives his birth according to the flesh.
It -would be difficult to find a reason
for thie strange appointraent of infinite
wisdom, unless it be designed to show
that aU which concerned him is contrary
to the natural order of things.
Another singular point in this narra
tive of Judah, ie, that this strange event
is brought about through the agency of
his, friend Hiram the Adullamite.
Compare this fact with the history of
Solomon's temple, the figure chosen by
Christ aa a similitude of his body, and
wc find that Hiram, king of Tyre, was a
chief helper in building that temple.
God had told David that Solomon his
son should build him a house; but he
nowhere directs him to join in a confe
deracy with a heathen king and receive
his aid in the work. On the contrary,
we find iraraediately after, that Solo
mon's heart ie turned to idolatry by
means of the strange women, with
whom, by this means, he became con
nected. In like manner, in the building of the
spiritual temple, the mystical body of
Christ in its visible establishment upon
earth, had the workmen alwaye con
tinued to be " raen chosen of God " — and
had not "false teachers crept iu una
wares,'' who, instead of building gold,
silver and precious stonea upon the
true foundation, gathered in " hay, wood
and stubble ;" had there been less of hu
man tradition and the doctrines and com
mandments of men, the church of Christ
would be leae like the harlot of Babylon :
and the breach or schism by which she
haa been raultiplied into "threeaeore
queena and fourscore concubines, and
vii-gins without number," would have
been avoided.

20. And Amniinadab begat Nahshon,
and Nahshon begat Salmon,
21. And Salmon bogat Boaz, and
Boaz bogat Obed,
22. And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse
begat David.
THE MYSTICAL BODY OF CHRIST BE
GUILED BY FALSE TEACHERS.
2 CoE. xi. 1. Would to God ye could
boar with me a little in my folly : and
indeed bear with me.
2. For I am jealous over you with
godly jealousy : for I have espoused
you to one husband, that I may present
you as a chaste virgin to Christ
3. But I fear, lest by any means, as
the serpent beguUed Eve through Ms
subtflty, so your minds should be cor
rupted from the simplicity that is in
Christ. 4. For if he that cometh preacheth
another Jesus, whom we have not
preached, or if ye receive another spirit,
which ye have not received, or another
gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye
might well bear with him.
Gal. i. 6. I marvel that ye are so
soon removed from him that called you
into tho grace of Christ, unto another
gospel :
7. Which is not another ; but there
be some that trouble you, and would
pervert tho gospel of Christ
8. But though wo, or an angel from
heaven, preach any other gospel unto
you than that which we have preached
unto you, let him he accursed.
9. As we said before, so say I now
again, If any man preach any other gos
pel unto you than that yo have re
ceived, let him be accursed.
Jude 4. For there are certain men
crept in unawares, who were before of
old ordained to this condemnation, un
godly men, turning the grace of our
God mto lasciviousness, and denymg
the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus
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CHAPTER XXXIX.

The Letter.
1. And Joseph was brought down to
Egypt, and Potiphar, an officer of Pha
raoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian,
bought him of the hands of the Ishma
elites, which had brought him down
thither. 2. And the Lord was with Joseph,
and he was a prosperous man ; and he
was in the house of his master the
Egyptian. Note.
We have already stated that the order
of events in the antitype, is necessarily
reveraed in the type, for the purpoae of
preaenting all that ia requiaite to a cora
plete figure of the true. In the 37th
chapter are described the scenes of
Gethseraaue and the selling of .lesus by
Judas ; while in the proper order, these
things would follow and not precede his
coming to sojourn in Jerusalem, (spirit
ually Egypt)
Joseph came voluntarily to his bre
thren to seek their weffare; and they
sold him for twenty pieces of silver. He
was next ti\ken by force into Egypt and
ia bought by Potiphar, an ofiieer of Pha
raoh. Iu like raanner Jesus is sold bv
his brethren to the high priests and ru
lers of the nation, and they deliver him
to Pontius Pilate, the Roman Governor.
The service of Joseph in Potiphar's
house, as well as that of Jacob iu the
house of Laban, has respect to the per
sonal ministry of Christ in Jerusalem;
when he took upon him the form of a
servant, and became obedient unto
death, even the death of the cross, that
he raight not only deliver tho lost sheep
of the house of Israel from the bondage
of the law, but "that the proraise of
Abraham raight come on the Gentfles
through faith." For of him, it was said,
" It ia a light thing that thou shouldest
be my servant to raise up the tribes of
larael ; I wfll alao give thee for a fight

The Spirit.
Matt, xxvii. 2. A nd when they had
bound him, they led him away, and de
livered him to Pontius PUate the go
vemor. Matt. xx. 27. And whosoever wifl
be chief among you, let him be your
servant :
28. Even as the Son of raan came
not to be ministered unto, but to mi
nister, and to give his Ufe a ransom for
many. Phil. ii. 5. Let this mind be in you,
which was also in Christ Jesus :
6. Who, being m the form of God,
thought it not robbeiy to be equal with
God; 7. But made himself of no reputa
tion, and took upon him the form of a
servant, and was made in the likeness
of men ;
8. And being found in fashion as a
man, he humbled himself and became
obedient unto death, even the death of
the cross.
Is A. xlU. 1. Behold my servant,
whom I uphold ; mine elect, in whom
my soul delighteth; I have put my
Spirit upon him : he shall bring forth
judgment to the Gentfles.
2. He shafl not cry, nor lift up, nor
cause Ms voice to be heard in the
street. 3. A bruised reed shafl he not break,
and the smokmg flax shafl he not
quench : he shafl bi-mg forth judgment
unto truth.
4. He shafl not fail nor be discou
raged, tifl he have set judgment in the
earth : and the isles shall wait for his
law. * * * * * ^
21. The Lord is well pleased for his
righteousness' sake; he wfll magnffy
the law, and make it honorable.
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to the GentUes, that thou raayest be my
salvation, even unto the ends of the
earth." Aa "a minister of the circumcision
for the truth of God," the Father was
pledged to make his way prosperous in
all to which he was sent " He shall not
fail nor be discouraged till he have aet
judgment in the earth." " I will uphold
him with the right hand of my right
eousness," cfec. " He was in the world,
and the world was raade by him, and
the world knew him not ;" even as Jo-
eeph, who wae destined to rule all the
land of Egypt, and to whora every knee
should bow, raust first serve in the house
of his master, who little imagined the
future honor to which he waa to be ex
alted.

about all Galflee, teaching in their
synagogues, and preaching the gospel
of the kingdom, and healing all manner
of sickness, and all manner of disease,
among the people.
24. And his fame went throughout
all Syria : and they brought unto him
all sick people that were taken with
divers diseases and torments, and those
which were possessed with devils, and
those which were lunatic, and those
that had the palsy; and he healed
them. 26. And there followed him gi-eat
multitudes of people from GaUlee, and
from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem,
and from Judea, and from beyond
Jordan.

The Letter.
3. And his master saw that the Lord
was with him, and that the Lord made
all that he did to prosper in his hand.
4. And Joseph found grace in his
sight, and he served him : and he made
him overseer over his house, and all
that he had he put mto his hand.
6. And it came to pass from the
time that he had made him overseer in
his house, and over all that he had, that
the Lord blessed the Egyptian's house
for Joseph's sake ; and the blessing of
the Lord was upon all that he had in
the house, and in the field.
6. And he left afl that he had in Jo
seph's hand ; and he knew not aught
he had, save the bread which he did
eat: and Joseph was a goodly person,
and well-favored. Note.
In thie prelirainary testimony to the
ekUl and faithfulness with which Joseph
presided over the house of Potiphar, and
the prosperity ascribed to his superin
tending care, and which wae followed by
tiie false accusation and iraprisonraent
of hira to whom they owed so much,
we have a description of the mediatorial
reign of Jeeus which preceded his hu
miliation, death, and exaltation to the

The Spirit.
Isa. ix. 6. For unto us a child is
born, unto us a son is given : and the
government shall be upon his shoulder :
and his name shall be caUed Wonder
ful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The
everlasting Father, Tho Prince of
Peace. 7. Of tho increase of his government
and peace ihere shall be no end, upon
the throne of David, and upon his king
dom, to order it, and to establish it
with judgment and with justice from
henceforth even for ever. The zeal of
the Lord of hosts will perform this.
Ps. Ixxu. 2. He shall judge thy
people with righteousness, and thy poor
with judgment
3. The mountains shall bring peace
to the people, and the littie hills, by
righteousness. 4. He shall judge the poor of the
people, he shall save the chUdren of
the needy, and shall break in pieces the
oppressor. 5. They shafl fear thee as long as
the sun and moon endure, throughout
all generations.
6. He shall come down like rain
upon the mown grass : as showers ihat
water the earth.

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kingly throne of his power. It was
because " the government was upon his
shoulders," that a lost and a guilty
world enjoyed any prosperity, either
spiritual or temporal, even before the
great work of redemption was coneum-
raated. Pilate, the Roman governor,
bore unwitting teetimony to this fact
during the trial of Jesus, and eepecially
in the inscription he placed upon the
cross. " I find ijo fault in the man" —
what evil hath he done ? — "Behold your
King!" A right understanding of the media
torial oflBce of Christ is essential to a
proper apprehension of the Scriptures,
which at one time speak of him as a
servant, subject to the Father, and sent
to do his will, and at another, as " equal
in power and glory," — "the Mighty
God, the Everlasting Father, and the
Prince of Peace." But it must be re
raembered that the hnrailiation of the
Son of God wae voluntary, and aesuraed
for a special purpose ; while the attri
butes of the Godhead were originally
and eeeentially his. He was truly God,
and truly man.

The Letter.
7. And it came to pass after these
things, that his master's wife cast her
eyes upon Joseph: and she said, Lie
with mo.
8. But he refused, and said unto his
master's wife. Behold, my master wot-
teth not what is with mo in the house,
and he hath committed afl that he hafh
to my hand ;
9. There is none .greater in this
house than I ; neither hath he kept
back any thing from mc, but thee, be-

7. In his days shall the righteous
flourish ; and abundance of peace so
long as the moon endureth.
John ifl. 31. He that cometh from
above is above all : he thart is of tho
earth is earthly, and speaketh of the
earth : he that cometh from heaven is
above all.
32. And what he hath seen and
heard, that he testifieth ; and no man
receiveth his testimony.
33. He that hath received his testi
mony hath set to his seal that God is
true. 34. For he whom God hath sent
speaketh the words of God : for God
giveth not the Spirit by measure unto
him. 35. The Father loveth the Son,
and hath given all things into Ms
hand. 36. He that believeth on the Son
hath everlasting lffe: and he that be
lieveth not the Son shaU not see life ;
but the wrath of God abideth on
him. vui. 29. And he that sent me is
with me : the Father hath not left me
alone ; for I do always -those things
that please him.
30. As he spoke these words, many
believed on him.
Luke u. 52. And Jesus increased
in wisdom and stature, and in favor
with God and man.

The Spirit.
Matt. iv. 1. Then was Jesus led
up of the Spirit into the wUderness, to
be tempted of the devU.
2. And when he had fasted forty
days and forty nights, he was after
wards an hungered.
3. And when tho tempter came to
him, he said. If thou be the Son of
God, command that these stones bo
made bread.
4. But he answered and said. It is
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cause thou art Ms wife ; how then can
I do this great wickedness, and sin
against God? Note.
One part of the sufferings by which
the Captain of our salvation was made
perfect or thoroughly furnished for his
office of leader and commander of the
people, was the enduring of temptations.
In the garden of Eden, the wily ser
pent had been successful ; and it is pos
sible hie presumption might have led
him to hope for an equal triumph in the
person of the "Holy One of God," when
he eaw him wearing the same body of
flesh, and "made even lower, than the
angels.'' He had tried the sin of ambi
tion upon Eve, and -n-ith success ; possi
bly he thought that Jesus might be the
more susceptible of the sarae sin, be
cause he knew that he was now under
a cloud ; a vail that obscured his proper
dignity aud glory ; and though he knew
this fact, he did not know or understand
the cause of so strange a diaguiee, and
perhapa imagined that the Son of God
would be glad of the opportunity to as
sert hia real power. But the "prince
of thia world had nothing in him," and
was foiled in his attempt.
It may be matter of surprise to some
how Satan knew Jesus, as it was evident
he did. There is nothing raore proba
ble than that the very form worn by the
Son of God, the second Adara, was that
which had been worn in Eden by his
early representative ; and this may ac
count for hia being recognized by that
old serpent the devil, when he carae
" in the power of the Spirit" yet aa the
"seed of the woman," to execute the sen
tence then pronounced by God, by
which the serpent and his aeed had been
bound to the judgment of the great day,
aud which they were well aware was
about to be executed upon them and to
cast thera out for ever.

alone, but by every word that proceed
eth out of the mouth of God.
6. Then the devfl taketh him up into
the holy city, and setteth him on a pin
nacle of the temple,
6. And saith unto him. If thou be
the Son of God, cast thyself down:
for it is written, He shall give his an-
gels charge concerning thee; and in
iheir hands they shall bear theo up, lest
at any time thou dash thy foot against
a stone. 7. Jesus said unto Mm, It is written
again. Thou shalt not tempt the Lord
thy God
8. Again, the devil taketh him up
into an exceeding high mountain, and
showeth him all the kingdoms of the
world, and the glory of them ;
9. And saith unto him. All these
things wfll I give thee, if thou wflt fall
down and worship me.
10. Then saith Jesus unto him. Get
thee hence, Satan : for it is written.
Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God,
and him only shalt thou serve,.
11. Then the devfl leaveth him, and,
behold, angels camo and ministered
unto him.
Heb. U. 10. For it became him, for
whom are all things, and by whom are
all things, in bringing many sons unto
glory, to make the Captain of their sal
vation perfect through sufferings.
* * * * V-
14. Forasmuch then as the cMldren
arc partakers of flesh and blood, he also
himself likewise took part of the same ;
that through death ho might destroy
Mm that had the power of death, that
is, tho devfl.
***** 17. "Wherefore in all things it be
hoved him to be made like unto his
brethren, that he might be u. meiciful
and faithful high priest m things per- •
taining to God, to make reconciliation
for the sins of the people :
18. For in that he himself hath suf
fered, being tempted, he is able to suc
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1 0. And it came to pass, as she spake
to Joseph day by day, that he heark
ened not unto her, to lie by her, or to
be with her.
11. And it came to pass about this
tune, that Joseph went into the house
to do his business; and ihere was
none of the men of the house there
within. 12. And she caught him by his gar
ment, saying. Lie with me : and he left
his garment in her hand, and fled, and
got him out.
13. And it came to pass, when she
saw that he had left his garment in her
hand, and was fled forth,
14. That she called unto the men of
her house, and spake unto them, say
ing. See, he hath brought in a Hebrew
unto us to mock us : he came in unto
me to Ue with me, and I cried with a
loiid voice :
15. And it came to pass, when he
heard that I Ufted up my voice and
cried, that he left his garment with me,
and fied, and got him out.
16. And she laid up his garment by
her, until his lord came home.
17. And she spake unto him accord
ing to these words, saying. The He
brew servant which thou hast brought
unto us, came in unto me to mock
me :
18. And it came to pass as I Iffted
up my voice and cried, that he left his
garment with me, and fled out.
19. And it came to pass, when his
master heard the words of his wife,
which she spake unto him, saying. After
this manner did thy servant to me; that
his wrath was kindled.
20. And Joseph's master took him,
and put him into the prison, a place
• where the king's prisoners were bound :
and he was there in the prison.
21. But the Lord was with Joseph,
and shewed him mercy, and gave him
favor in the sight of the keeper of the
prison.

The Spirit.
Heb. iv. 15. For we have not an
Mgh priest which cannot be touched
with the feeling of our infirmities ; but
was in afl pomts tempted like as we are,
yet without sin.
16. Let us therefore come boldly
unto the throne of grace, that we may
obtain mercy, and find grace to help in
time of need.
Ps. xxxv. 11. False -witnesses did
rise up : they laid to my charge things
that I knew not.
12. They rewarded me eril for good,
io the spoiUng of my soul.
xxvu. 12. Deliver me not over unto
the wfll of mme enemies ; for false wit
nesses are risen up against me, and
such as breathe out cruelty.
Mark xiv. 65. And the chief priests
and all the council sought for witness
again.st Jesus to put hun to death ; and
found none :
56. For many bare false vritness
against him ; but their witness agreed
not together.
57. And there arose certain, and bare
false witness against him, saying,
58. We heard him say, I will destroy
this temple that is made with hands,
and within three days I will build ano
ther made without hands.
59. But neither so did their witness
agree together. ,
60. And the high priest stood up in
the midst, and asked Jesus, saying, An-
swerest thou nothmg: what is it which
these witness against thee ?
Acts fl. 23. Him, being delivered
by the determinate counsel and fore
knowledge of God, ye have taken, and
by wicked hands have crucified and
slain. John xviii. 12. Then the band, and
the captain, and officers of the Jews
took Jesus, and bound him,
13. And led him away to Annas
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22. And the keeper of the prison
committed to Joseph's hand afl the pri
soners that were in the prison; and
whatsoever they did there, he was the
doer of ii.
23. The keeper of the prison looked
not to any thing that was under his
hand ; because the Lord was with him,
and thai which he did, the Lord made
it to prosper. Note.
This passage has an important allusion
to the fact often referred to in scripture,
that by reason of death, or by "auffering
in the fleah," Jeaus became, or wae made
"jtulge both of quick and dead;" — in
other words, that he was made judge,
both of those who are quickened by the
Spirit to live unto God, and those that
are not; and that therefore the gospel
was preached unto them before death,
or whfle they yet lived, as in 1 Pet iv. 6,
and again, 3d chapter, 18, 19, in which
allusion is made to the preaching of
Noah to the old world; which being by
the Spirit of Christ and the gospel be
ing declared to them by the figure of
the ark, ae exhibiting Jeeue, the only
sacrifice for ein, he " thereby condemned
the world," because, in believing not,
they rejected the only sacrifice, and that
hy which Noah and his household were
saved. By the power given to Joseph in the
prison of Egypt we behold a counter
part to the words of Christ in Rev. i.
18: — "I am he that liveth and was
dead ; and behold, I am alive for ever
more, Araen ; and have the keys of hell
aud of death." It is also parallel with
his words to Peter, (Matt. xvi. 19,) in
which he alludes to the power of the
preached word, whether dispensed to the
old world, or " thera that are dead," and
who were either quickened by it unto lffe
in the Spirit, or sealed over and shut up
in prison to the judgment of the laat
day; — or whether preached to the
"quick and dead " of the preaent day : —
in either caae, all judgment or power over
life and death, boUi natural and apiritual,
is committed unto Jesue, the antitypical
Joseph.

phas, which was the high priest that
same year.)
Matt. xxvu. 35. And they crucified
him, and parted his garments, casting
lots : that it might bo fulfilled which was
spoken by the prophet. They parted
my garments among them, and upon
my vesture did they cast lots.
Rev. i. 17. And when I saw him, I
fell at Ms feet as dead. And he laid
his right hand upon me, saying unto
me. Fear not ; I am the first and the
last: 18. I am he that Uveth, and was
dead ; and behold, I am alive for ever
more, Amen ; and have the keys of hell
and of death.
Matt. xvi. 19. And I wUl give unto
thee the keys of the kingdom of hea
ven : and whatsoever thou shalt bind
on earth, shall be bound in heaven ;
and whatsoever thou shalt loose on
earth, shall be loosed in heaven.
1 Pet. iv. 5. Who shall give account
to him that is ready to judge the quick
and the dead.
6. For, for this cause was the gospel
preached also to them that are dead,
that they might be judged accordmg to
men in the fiesh, but live according to
God in the spirit.
iii. 17. For it is better, if the wUl of
God be so, that ye suffer for well-doing,
than for evil-doing.
18. For Christ also hath once suffered
for sins, the just for tho unjust, that he
might bring us to God, being put to
death in the flesh, but quickened by the
Spirit :
19. By which also he went and
preached unto the spirits in prison ;
20. Which sometime were disobedi
ent, when once the long-suffering of
God waited m the days of Noah, wMlo
the ark was preparing, wherein few,
that is, eight souls, were saved by wa
ter. Zech. ix. 11. As for thee also, by
the blood of thy covenant I have sent
forth thy prisoners out of the pit
wherem is no water.

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But let it be carefully understood,
that this does not represent Jeeus. as
changing the character and condition
of men aftek death, or as quickening
and releasing from the prison of " death
and hell," any who are already sen
tenced there. It only teaches that by
his Spirit iu his prophets, he haa preach
ed the goapel to them^wAo are now dead
and in prison, aa well as unto those that
are living ; and that the gospel has al
ways the eame power of life and death.

12. Turn you to the strong hold, ye
prisoners of hope : even to-day do I
declare that I wfll render double unto
thee.

and either quickena the soul to God, or
seals it over to the second death. And
thua are raen judged according to men
in the flesh, and their character deter
mined, previous to their becoming dis
embodied spirits.

CHAPTER XL.

The Letter.
LIfE and death awarded BY JOSEPH.
1. And it came to pass after these
things, that the butier of the king of
Egypt and his baker had offended their
lord the king of Egypt.
2. And Pharaoh was wroth against
two of his officers, against the chief of
the butlers, and against the chief of the
bakers. 3. And he put them in ward in the
house of the captain of tho guard, into
the prison, the place where Joseph was
bound. 4. And the captain of the guard
charged Joseph with them, and he
served them; and they continued a
season in ward.
5. And fhey dreamed a dream both
of them, each man his dream in one
night, each man according to the inter
pretation of his dream ; the bufler and
the baker of tho king of Egypt, which
were bound in the prison.
6. And Joseph came in unto them in
the morning, and looked upon them,
and behold, they were sad.
7. And he asked Pharaoh's officers
that were with him in the ward of his

The Spirit.
LIFE AND DEATH AWARDED BY CjIRIST.
Luke xxu. 32. And there were also
two others, malefactors, led with him to
be put to death.
33. And when they were eome to
the place which is called Calvary, there
they crucified him, and the malefactors ;
one on the right'hand, and the other on
the loft.
* * * * - - *
39. And one of the malefactors,
which were hanged, railed on him,
saying. If thou be Christ, save thyself
and us.
40. But fhe other answering, re
buked him, saying. Dost not fhou fear
God, seeing thou art in the samo con
demnation ?
41. And we indeed justly; for we
receive the due reward of our deeds :
but this man hath done nothing amiss.
42. And he said unto Jesus, Lord,
remember me when thou comest into
thy kingdom.
43. And Jesus said unto him. Verily
I say unto thee, To-day shalt thou be
with me in paradise.
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lord's house, saying. Wherefore look
ye so sadly to-day?
8. And they said unto him. We have
dreamed a dream, and there is no inter
preter of it. And Joseph said unto
them. Do not mterpretations belong to
God ? Tefl mo ihem, I pray you.
9. And the chief butler told his
dream to Joseph, and said unto him.
In my dream, behold, a vine was before
me ;
10. And in the vine were three
branches: and it was as though it
budded, and her blossoms shot forth ;
and the clusters thereof brought forth
ripe grapes :
11. And Pharaoh's cup was in my
hand : and I took the grapes, and
pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I
gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.
12. And Joseph said unto him, This
is the interpretation of it : The three
branches are three days:
13. Yet within three days shall
Pharaoh lift up thy head, and restore
thee unto thy place: and thou shalt
deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand,
after the former manner when thou
wast his butier.
14. But think on me when it shall
be weU with thee, and shew kindness,
I pray thee, unto mo, and make men
tion of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me
out of this house :
15. For indeed I was stolen away
out of the land of the Hebrews; and
here also have I done nothing that thoy
should put mo into the dungeon.
16. When the chief baker saw that
the interpretation was good, he said
unto Joseph, I also was in my dream,
and behold, I had three white baskets
on my head :
17. And in the uppermost basket
there was of all manner of bake-meats
for Pharaoh ; and the birds did eat them
out of the basket upon my head.
18. Aud Joseph answered, and said,
This is fhe interpretation thereof: The
three baskets are three days :
19. Yet within three days shall Pha-

and there was a darkness over aU tho
earth until the ninth hour.
45. And the sun was darkened, and
the vaU of the temple was rent in tho
midst. Mark xv. 27. And with him they
crucify two thieves, the one on his right
hand, and the other on his left.
28. And the scripture was fulfiUed,
which saith, And he was numbered with
the transgressors.
Isa. Un. 9. And he made his grave
with the wicked, and with the rich in
his death ; because he had done.no vio
lence, neither was any deceit in his
mouth. RoM. ix. 15. For he saith to Moses,
I vrill have mercy on whom I will have
mercy, and I will have compassion on
whom I will have compassion.
16. So then, it is not of him that wUl-
eth, nor of Mm that runneth, but of
God that sheweth mercy.
17. For the scripture saith unto
Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose
have I raised thee up, that I might
shew my power in thee, and that my
name might be declared throughout all
the earth.
18. Therefore hath he mercy on
whom he wfll have mercy, and whom
he wfll he hardeneth.
19. Thou wilt say then unto me,
"Why doth he yet find fault? for who
hath resisted his wUl ?
20. Nay but, O man, who art thou
that repliest against God? shall the
thing formed say to him that formed ii.
Why- hast thou made me thus ?
21. Hath not the potter power-over
tho clay, of the same lump to make one
vessel unto honor, and another unto
dishonor ?
22. What ff God, wifling to shew
his wrath, and to make -his power
known, endured with much long-suffer
ing tho vessels of wrath fitted to de
struction :
23. And that he might make known
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raoh lift up thy head from off thee, and
shafl hang thee on a tree ; and the birds
shafl eat thy flesh from off thee.
20. And it came to pass the third
day, which was Pharaoh's birth-day,
that he made a feast unto all his ser
vants : and he lifted up the head of the
chi?f butler and of the chief baker
among his servants.
21. And he restored the chief butler
unto Ms buUership again ; and he gave
the cup into Pharaoh's hand :
22. But he hanged the chief baker,
as Joseph had interpreted to them.
23. Yet did not the chief butler re
member Joseph, but forgat him.
Note.
This narrative of the chief butler and
baker of Pharaoh, forms a striking ana
logy -rfith the history of the two male-

of mercy, which he had afore prepared
unto glory ?

factors who were crucified with Christ.
The minuteness of detail in the first, is
probably to illustrate the prophetic as
well as kingly office of Christ — these
being constantly exercised over both
" quick and dead."
In the case of each of these ofiicers,
their destiny wae to be decided in three
days, when it would be eeen if Joeeph
had given a true interpretation.
It wae also three days which inter
vened, before the entire testiraony con
cerning Jesus of Nazareth would be
proved, and he be declared the Son of
God, with power, by the resurrection
froni the dead. This third day was
"Pharaoh's birth-day." And of this same
day it is eaid, "Thou art my Son, this
day have I begotten thee."

CHAPTER XLI.

The Letter.
JOSEPH raised up FROM PRISON TO
INTERPRET PHARAOh's DREAMS.
' 1. And it came to pass at the end of
two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed :
and behold, he stood by the river.
2. And behold, there came up out of
the river seven well-favored kine and
fat-fleshed ; and they fed in a meadow.
3. And behold, seven other kine
came up after them out of the river, ill-
favored and lean-fleshed; and stood by
the other kine upon the brink of the
river. 4. And the ifl-favored and lean-
fieshed Mne did eat up the seven wefl-
favored arid fat kine. So Pharaoh
awoke. 5. And he slept and dreamed the se
cond time : and behold, seven ears of
com came up upon one stalk, rank and
good.

The Spirit.
JESUS RAISED FROM THE DEAD TO MAKE
MANIFEST THE PURPOSE OF GOD.
Acts ii. 24. Whom God hath
raised up, having loosed the pains of
death : because it was not possible that
he should be holden of it.
26. For David speaketh concerning
him, I foresaw the Lord always before
my face ; for he is on my right hand,
that I should not be moved.
1 CoR. XV. 12. Now if Christ be
preached that he rose from the dead,
how say some among you that there is
no resurrection of the dead ?
13. But if there be no resurrection
of the dead, then is Christ not risen.
14. And if Christ be not risen, then
is our preaching vain, and your faith is
also vain.
15. Yea, and we are found fiflse wit
nesses of God; because we have testi-

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6. And behold, seven thin ears and
blasted with the east wind sprung up
after them.
7. And the seven thin ears devoured
the sev^n rank and full ears. And
Pharaoh awoke, and behold, ii was a
dream. 8. And it came to pass in the mom
ing, that his spirit was troubled ; and
he sent and called for all the magicians
of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof:
and Pharaoh told them his dreams ; but
ihere was none that could interpret
them unto Pharaoh.
9. Then spake the chief butler unto
Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my
faults this day :
10. Pharaoh was wroth with his ser
vants, and put me in ward in the cap
tain of the guard's house, both me, and
the chief baker:
1 1. And we dreamed a dream in one
night, I and he : we dreamed each man
according to the interpretation of his
dream. 12. And there was there with us a
young man, an Hebrew, servant to the
captain of the guard ; and we told him,
and he interpreted to us our dreams ;
to each man according to his dream he
did interpret
13. And it came to pass, as he inter
preted to us, so it was : me he restored
unto mine office, and him he hanged.
14. Then Pharaoh sent and called
Joseph, and they brought him hastily
out of the dungeon : and he shaved
himself, and changed his raiment, and
came in unto Pharaoh.
15. Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have
dreamed a dream, and there is none that
can interpret it : and I have heard say
of thee, thai thou canst understand a
dream to interpret it
16. And Joseph answered Pharaoh,
saying. It is not m me : God shall give
Pharaoh an answer of peace.
Note.
The two full years in this dream of
Pharaoh, apply not so much to any pre
cise raeasure of time, aa to a eoraplete-

fied of God that he raised up Christ :
whom he raised not up, if so be that
the dead rise not.
16. For if tho dead rise not, then is
not Christ raised ;
17. And if Christ be not raised,
your faith is vain ; ye are yet in your
sins. 18. Then they also which are fallen
asleep in Christ are perished.
19. If in this Ufe only we have hope
in Christ, wo are of all men most mi
serable. 20. But now is Christ risen from fhe
dead, and become the first-fruits of
them that slept.
1 Pet. i. 3.. Blessed be the God and
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which,
according to his abundant mercy, hath
begotten us again unto a lively hope
by the resurrection of Jesusy Christ
from the dead,
4. To an inheritance incorruptible,
and undefiled, and that fadeth not away,
reserved in heaven for you,
6. Who are kept by the power of
God through faith unto salvation, ready
to be revealed in the last tune.

ness of design or purpose. So also the
seven years have respect rather to a
mystical raeasure of events than of
tirae ; and the araount of plenty and of
leanness being equal, teaches the fact of
plfin or purpose.
The seven years of plenty, or seveny<z<
kine, allude "to the provisions of grace in
Christ Jesus; predestinated iu the di
vine raind, according to the good plea
sure of Jehovah'e will, which he pur
posed in himself before the foundation
of the world. The seven years of lean-
nese, or seven lean kine, allude to the
ruined and lost condition of man, under
the curse of the law, and in bondage to
sin and Satan ; the one being exactly
comraensurate with the other ; the first
with the last; as the mercy-seat in the
tabernacle was comraensurate with the
law, or tables of judgment in the ark ; the
remedy being appointed for the disease,
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DREAMS.
17. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph,
In my dream, behold, I stood upon the
bank of the river :
18. And behold, there came up out
of the river seven kine, fat-fleshed, and
well-favored ; and .they fed in a mea^
dow: 19. And behold, seven other kine
came up after them, poor, and very fll-
favored, and lean-fleshed, such as I
never saw in all the land of Egypt for
badness :
' 20. And the lean and the ill-favored
kine did eat up the first seven fat kine :
21. And when th^y had eaten them
up, it could not be known that they had
oaten them ; but they were still Ul-
favored, as at the begmning. So I
awoke. 22. And I saw in my dream, and
behold, seven ears came up in one
stalk, fufl and good :
23. And behold, seven ears, wi
thered, thm, and blasted with the cast
wind, sprung up after them :
24. And the thin ears devoured the
seven good ears : and I told this unto
the magicians ; but ihere was none that
could declare it unto me.
26. And Joseph said unto Pharaoh,
The dream of Pharaoh is one : God
hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about
to do.
26. The seven good kine are seven
years ; and the seven good ears are
seven years : the dream is one.
27. And the seven thin and Ul-
favorcd kino that came up after them
are seven years ; and the seven empty
ears blasted with the east wind shall be
seven years of famine.
28. This is the thmg which I have
spoken unto Pharaoh: what God is
about to do he sheweth unto Pharaoh.
29. Behold, there come seven years
of great plenty throughout all the land
of Egypt :

The Spirit.

CHRIST OPENS THE BOOK OF SEVEN
SEALS.
Rev. v. 1. And I saw in the right
hand of him that sat on the throne a
book w-ritten within and on the back
side, sealed with seven seals.
2. And I saw a strong angel pro
claiming with a loud voice. Who is
worthy to open the book, and to loose
the seals thereof?
3. And no man in heaven, nor in
earth, neither under the earth, was able
to open tho book, neither to look
thereon. 4. And I wept much, because no
man was found worthy to open, and to
read the book, neither to look thereon.
5. And one of the elders saith unto
me. Weep not : behold, the Lion of the
tribe of Judah, the Root of Darid, hath
prevafled to open the book, and to
loose tho seven seals thereof. '
6. And I beheld, and lo, in the
midst of tho throne, and of the four
beasts, and in the midst of the elders,
stood a Lamb as it had been slain,
having seven horns, and seven eyes,
which are the seven Spirits of God sent
forth into .ill the earth.
7. And became and took the book
out of the right hand of him that sat
upon the throne.
8. And when he had taljen the book,
the four beasts, and four and twenty
elders fefl down before the Lamb,
having every one of them harps, and
golden vials full of odors, which are the
prayers of saints.
9. And they sung a new song, say
ing. Thou art worthy to take the book,
and to open the seals thereof: for thou
wast slain, and hast redeemed us to
God by thy blood out of every kindred,
and tongue, and people, and nation ;
10. And hast made us unto our God
kings and priests : and wo shall reign
on the earth.
1 CoR. U. 6. Howbeit we speak
wisdom among them that arc perfect :

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30. And there shall arise after them
seven years of famme; and all the
plenty shafl be forgotten in the land of
Egypt ; and tho famine shafl consume
the land :
31. And the plenty shall not be
known in the land by reason of that
famine foflovring : "for it shall be very
grievous. 32. And for that the dream was
doubled unto Ph.araoh twice ; il is be
cause fhe thing is established by God,
and God wfll shortiy bring it to pass.
Note.
The resurrection of Jesus frora the
dead, was iraraediately followed by the
proclaraation of the gospel. The coming
of the kingdom of heaven had been
preached by John the Baptist hy the
Apostles, and by Jesus himself; but. the
full opening of the book of mysteries,
which had been hidden iu God from the
foundation of the world, waited for him
"who was dead and is alive, and liveth
for evermore ;" even " the Lamb that had
heen slain." It was the resurrection
from tlie dead, that sealed the entire tes
timony of Jeeus. All hung upon that
one fact ; for " if dnriet be not rieen.

yet not the wisdom of this worid, nor
of the princes of this worid, that como
to nought :
7. But we speak the wisdom of God
in a mystery, even tho hidden wisdom
which God ordained before the world
unto our glory ;
8. Which none of tho princes of this
worid knew: for had they known ii,
fhey would not have crucified the Lord
of glory.
9. But as it is written. Eye hath not
seen, nor ear heard, neither have en
tered into the heart of man, tho things
which God hath prepared for them that
love him.
10. But God hath revealed rfiem unto
us by his Spirit; for tiie Spirit seareh-
eth all things, yea, the deep things of
God.then is our faith vain; we are yet in-
our sins." But by this act of the Fa
ther in opening the prison doore and
liberating the prisoner of justice, he was
declared to be the Son of God, and that
the work he had accomplished, was ac
cepted in behalf of his people.

The Letter.'
33. Now therefore let Pharaoh look
out a man discreet and wise, ahd set
him over the? land of Egypt.
34. Let Pharaoh do this, and let him
appoint officers over the land, and take
up the fifth part of the land of Egypt
in the seven plenteous years.
35. And let them gather all the food
of those good years that come, and lay
up corn under the hand of Pharaoh ;
and let them keep food in the cities.
36. And that food shall be for store
to tho land against the seven years of
famine, which shall be in the land of
Egypt; that the land perish not through
the famine.
37. And the tiling was good in the
eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all
his servants.

The Spirit.
Ps. Ixxxix. 19. Then thou spakest
in vision to thine Holy One, and saidst,
I have laid help upon one that is mighty ;
I have exalted one chosen out of the
people. 20. I have found David my servant ;
with mine holy oil have I anointed
him: Rev.-v. 11. And I beheld, and I
heard the voice of many angels round
about tho throne, and the beasts, and
fhe elders: and the number of them
was ten thousand times ten thousand,
and thousands of thousands;
12. Saying with a loud voice. Wor
thy is the Lamb that was slain to re
ceive power, and riches, and wisdom,
and strength, and honor, and glory, and
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38. And Pharaoh said unto his ser
vants. Can we find such a one as this
is, a man in whom the spirit of God is ?
39. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph,
Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee
afl this, there is none so discreet and
wise as thou art:
40. Thou shalt be over my house,
and according unto thy word shall afl
my people be ruled : only in the throne
will I be greater than thou.
Note.
In view of the daya of darkneaa, ain,
and miaery, "help was laid upon One
that is mighty ;" — " able to save to the
uttermoet, all that come unto God
through him.'' Upon his elect servant,
in whom he delighted, the Father laid
the iniquity of his people, that with his
stripes they might be healed. In him
he treasured all the riches of wisdom
and knowledge, — of grace aud glory,
righteousness, sanctification, and com
plete redemption, for them, aud in their
behalf, ae the Head of the body, the
church ; from whora ehould be diepensed
to every raeraber, severally ae he had
need. Not as with Adara, the firet co
venant head, who was not able to keep
that which had been coraraitted to hira ;
but with thie better covenant all waa
well ordered and sure. From the infi
nite fulnesa which was in the Head, all
the members should receive; and grace
for grace. In the days of famine they
ahould be satisfied, and they ahould
never perish, neither should aay pluck
them out of his hand.
Thus was prepared and treasured in
the storehouse of the King of kings, food
for the years of famine ; a fulness with
out raeasure, — an amount which no man
can number. Yea, " eye hath not seen,
nor ear heard, neither hath it entered
tiie heart of man, what God hath laid
up for them that fear him."

13. And every creature which is in
heaven, and on the earth, and under
the earth, and such as are in the sea,
and afl that are in them, heard I saying.
Blessing, and honor, and glory, and
power, be unto him that sitteth upon
the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever
arid ever.
14. And the four beasts said. Amen.
And the four and twenty elders fell
down and worshipped him that liveth
for ever and ever.
Acts v. 30. The God of our fathers
raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and
hanged on a tree:
31. Him hath God exalted with his
right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour,
for to give repentance to Israel, and for
giveness of sins.
CoL. U. 2. That their hearts might
be comforted, being knit together in
love, and unto all riches of the fuU as
surance of understanding, to the acr
knowledgment of the mystery of God,
and of the Father, and of Christ ;
3. In whom are hid afl the treasures
of wisdom and knowledge.
***** 9. For in him dwefleth all the fulness
of the Godhead bodily.
10. And ye are complete in hun,
which is the' head of all principaUty and
power. Matt, xxviu. 18. And Jdsus came,
and spake unto them, saying. All
power is given unto me in heaven and
in earth.
Mark xvi. 15. And he said unto
them. Go ye into all the world, and
preach the gospel to every creature.
16. He that believeth and is bap
tized, shall bo saved ; but he that be
lieveth not, shaU be damned.
Eph. ii. 7. That in the ages to come
he might shew the exceeding riches of
his grace in his kindness toward us,
through Christ Jesus.

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The Letter.
41. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph,
See,- 1 have sot thee over all the land
of Egypt.
42. And Pharaoh took off Ms ring
from Ms hand, and put it upon Joseph's
hand, and arrayed him in vestures of
fine linen, and put a gpld chain about
his neck :
43. Aud he made him to ride in the
second chariot which he had ; and they
cried before him. Bow the knee : and
ho made him ruler over aU the land of
Egypt. 44. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph,
I am rtiaraoh, and without thee shall
no man Uft up his hand or foot in all
the land of Egypt. Note.
The name Pharaoh, signifies king or
ruler, and was applied to all the ancient
kings of Egypt The Pharaoh who
raised up and exalted Joseph, ia not the
same king that oppreseed the Israelites,
and wae drowned with hie host iu the
Red Sea. The present Pharaoh was a
good king, and in this typical narrative
he represents the Suprerae Governor ot
the universe. He tells Joseph that in
the throne ouly, is himself greater than
he. This ie of similar import with the
words of Jesus, when he said, " My Fa
ther is greater than I." He was greater
in the dignity of the position which he
occupied, but not in any essential attri
bute. No dignity or honor was with
held frora Joseph, and all power — even
of Ufe and death — wae in his handa.
Much raore was this the case with the
Lord of life and glory, when " exalted
as a Prince and a Saviour, to give re
pentance to Israel aud reraiseion of
eine."' It was because the Son of God had
humbled himself to the form of a servant,
and the death of the crass, that he was
thus exalted ; and it also appears from
the language of scripture, in Phfl. u. 9,
10, 11, and Eph. i. 20, 21, 22, that he wae
not only raieed up to the glory which he
had with the Father before the worid
was, but that in consideration of the
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The Spirit.
Eph. i. 17. That the God of our
Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory,
may give unto you the spirit of wis
dom and revelation in tho knowledge
of him :
18. The oyes of your understanding
being enlightened ; that ye may know
what is the hope of his calling, and
what the riches of the glory of his in
heritance in the saints,
19. And what is tho exceeding great
ness of his power to us-ward who be
lieve, according to the working of his
mighty power,
20. Which ho wrought in Christ,
when he raised him from the dead, and
set him at his own right hand in tho
heavenly places,
21. Far above all principality, and
power, and might, and dominion, and
every name that is named, not only in
this world, but also in that which is to
come; 22. And hath put all things under
his feet, and gave him io be the head
over all things to the church,
23. Which is his body, the fulness
of him that filleth all in all.
Phil. u. 9. Wherefore God also
hath highly exalted him, and given him-
a name which is above every name :
10. That at tho name of Jesus every
knee should bow, of things in heaven,
and things in earth, and things under
the earth :
11. And thai every tongue should
confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to
the glory of God the Father.
Heb. vi. 16. For men verily swear
by the greater : and an oath for con
firmation is to them an ond of all strife.
17, Wherein God, wflling more
abundantiy to show unto the heirs of
promise the immutabUity of his coun
sel, confirmed it by an oath ;
18. That by two unmutable things,
in which ii was impossible for God to
lie, we mighfj have a strong consola
tion, who have fled for refuge to lay
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work he had accoraplished, the second
person in the Holy Trinity was made
pre-eminent, even in the world to come,
— all divine honors henceforth centering
iu " the Lamb ihat was slain," who was
seen in the " midst of the throne."

The Letter.
45. And Pharaoh caUed Joseph's
name Zaphnath-paaneah : and he gave
him ^to wffe Asenath, the daughter of
Poti-pherah priest of On. And Joseph
went out over all the land of Egypt
46. (And Joseph was thu-ty years
old when he stood before Pharaoh
king of Egypt.) And Joseph went
out from tho presence of Pharaoh, and
went throughout all the land of Egypt.
47. And in the seven plenteous
years the earth brought forth by hand-
fuls. 48. And he gathered up all the food
of the seven years, which were in the
land of Egypt, and laid up the food m
the cities : the food of the field, which
was round about every city, laid he up
in the same.
49. And Joseph gathered corn as
the sand of the sea, very much, until
he left numbermg : for it was without
number. Note.
Zaphnath-paaneah eigmfies a revealer
of secrets ; — the narae given to Joseph
because he interpreted the drearas of
Pharaoh, that uo other person could re
veal. And none but he, who was not
only " the Lion of the tribe of Judah,"
" the Root of David" and " the Lamb that
had been slain," — could prevafl to open

John v. 20. For the Father loveth
the Son, and sheweth him all thmgs
that himself doeth : and he wfll shew
him greater works than these, that ye
may marvel.
21. For as the Father raiseth up the
dead, and quickeneth them; even so
the Son quickeneth whom he will.
22. For the Father judgeth no man :
but hath committed all judgment unto
the Son :
23. That aU men should honor the
Son, even as they honor the Father.
He that honoreth not the Son, honoreth
not the Father which hath sent him.

The Spirit.
Rev. v. 1. And I saw in the right
hand of him that sat on the throne a
book written withm and on the back
side, sealed with seven seals.
2. And I saw a strong angel pro-
claimmg with a loud voice. Who is
worthy to open the book, and to loose
the seals thereof?
3. And no man in heaven, nor in
earth, neither under the earth, was able
to open the book, neither to look there
on. 4. And I wept much, because no
man was found worthy to open, and
to read the book, neither to look
thereon. 6. And one of the elders saith unto
me. Weep not : behold, the Lion of the
tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath
prevailed to open the book, and to
loose the seven seals thereof.
Eph. i. 7. In whom we have redemp
tion through his blood, the forgiveness
of sms, according to the riches of his
grace ;
8. Wherem he hath abounded to
ward us m all vrisdom and prudence ;
9. Haring made known unto us the
mystery of his vrill, accordmg to Ms
good pleasure, which he hath purposed
in himself: 10. That in the dispensation of the
fulness of times he might gather toge-

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the book of the mysteries of God, and
loose the scale thereof.
Asenath signifies sorrow, affliction.
Tiis was the wife given by Pharaoh to
Joseph, by whom he had two eons, who
took the birthright from Reuben, and
became heads of tribes.
It was by becoming " a raan of sorrow
and acquainted with grief," that Jesus
became the author of eternal salvation
to hie people, — the Father of a aeed
which wae to serve him. His bride, the
church, ia the purchase of hie blood, —
the reward of his sufferings.
The age of Joseph when he stood be
fore Pharaoh to be installed iu his office
as treasurer of all the wealth of Egypt
and governor of the land, correeponde
with that of Jeeus,when publicly initiated
" a minister of the circumcision for the
truth of God ;"— to fulfil all that had
been promised under the law. From
thie day forward, the divine Redeemer
commenced the special work which had
been given hira to do, in preparing the
bread of life for his people. Joseph
"gathered corn as the sand ofthe sea;"
but who can estiraate the length and
breadth, the height and depth, of those
riches of grace and glory which are laid
up for thera that fear God, and are the
called according to hie purpose ?

The Letter.
50. And unto Joseph were born two
sons before the years of famine came ;
which Asenath, the daughter of Poti-
pherah priest of On, bare unto him.
61. And Joseph called tho name of
the first-born Manasseh : For God, said
he, hath made me forget all my toil, and
afl my father's house.
52. And the name of the second
called he Ephraim: For God hath
caused me to be fruitful in the land
of my affliction. Note.
Let it be remarked, that the two sons
of Joseph were born to him before the

ther in one afl thmgs in Christ, both
which are in heaven, and which are on
earth ; even in him :
11. In whom also we have obtained
an inheritance, being predestinated ac
cording to the purpose of him who
worketh all things after the counsel
of his own will :
12. That we should be to fhe praise
of his glory, who first trusted in
Christ Heb. u. 7. Thou madest him a lit
tle lower than the angels ; thou crown
edst Mm with glory and honor, and
didst set him over the works of thy
hands :
8. Thou hast put all things in sub
jection under his feet. For in that he
put all in subjection under him, ho loft
nothing that is not put under him.
But now we see not yet aU things put
under him :
9. But we see Jesus, who was made
a little lower than the angels for the
suffering of death, crowned vrith glory
and honor ; that ho by tho grace of
God should taste death for every man.
10. For it became him, for whom
are all things, and by whom are all
things, in bringing many sons unto
glory, to make the Captain of their
salvation perfect through sufferings.

The SpirU.
Isa. IUi. 10. Yet it pleased the Lord
to bruise him; ho hath put him to
grief: when thou shalt make his soul
an offering for sin, he shall see his
seed, he shall prolong his days, and the
pleasure of the Lord shaU prosper m
his hand.
11. He shaU see of the travaU of his
soul, and shall be satisfied: by his
knowledge shall my righteous servant
justffy many; for he shall bear their
iniquities. 12. Therefore wifl I divide him a
portion vrith the great, and he shall
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days of famine came. And so, likewise,
the sheep of Christ were his before they
went astray. He was "the Shepherd
and Bishop of their souls," before they
were brought back to the fold, frora their
guflty wanderings. He " came to seek
and to save thai which was lost;'' and no
one can lose that which he never pos
sessed. " Thine ihey were, and thou gavest
ihem me,'' eaid Jesus to the Father.
These two sons were born to Joseph
by Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phe
rah. We have before said that Asenath
signifies sorrow, or trouble. It was only
by means of suffering that the Captain
of salvation wae made perfect; and by
which he divided the spoil with the
strong, and became repossessed of his
seed, which had revolted to the enemy.
Joeeph had two sons and no raore.
So the sheep of Jesus are all found in
two folds, — Jews andi Gentiles.* Manae-
aeh, the narae given to the eldest, signi
fies forgetfulness ; because the joy of
his birth made Joseph forget all hia
toila and his father's house. So the joy
which was set before Jesus, in the pro
mise that he should "see his seed," <Sec.,
made him " endure the cross, despising
the shame," &c. Ephraim eignifies/rw'i-
fulness, and alludes to the great increase
of GentUe converts to the church.

cause he hath poured out his soul unto
death : and he was numbered with the
transgressors; and he bare the sin of
many, and made intercession for the

Eph. i. 3. Blessed be the God and
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who
hath blessed us with all spiritual bless
ings in heavenly ^Zaces in Christ :
4. According as he hath chosen us
in him, before the foundation of the
world, that we should be holy and
without blame before him m love :
6. Having predestinated us unto the
adoption of chfldren by Jesus Christ to
himself, according to the good pleasure
of his wfll,
6. To the praise of the glory of his
grace, wherein he hath made us accept
ed in the Beloved.
Ps. Ixxxix. 3. I have made a cove
nant with my chosen, I have sworn unto
David my servant.
4. Thv seed wiU I estabUsh for ever,
and buUd up thy throne to all genera
tions. Selah.
Heb. xu. 2. Looking unto Jesus,
the author and finisher of our faith :
who, for the joy that was set before
him, endured the cross, despising the
shame, and is set down at the right
hand of the throne of God.
Deut. xxxiii. 17. His glory is like
the firstling of his bullock, and Ms
homs are like the horns of umcoms :
with them he shall push the people
together to the ends of the earth : and
they are the ten thousands of Ephraim,
and they are the thousands of Manas
seh.

The Letter.
53. And the seven years of plente-
ousness that was in the land of Egypt
were ended.

" * Likewise these two raay allude to the two
fold redemption of both soul and body, or of the
spiritual and the natural, or earthly.

The Spirit.
IsA. i. 6. From the sole of the foot
even unto the head there is no sound
ness in it ; but wounds, and bruises,
and putrefying sores : they have not
been closed, neither bound up, neither
mollified -with ointment.
RoM. ui. 9. What then? are we

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54. And the seven years of dearth
began to come, according as Joseph
had said: and the dearth was in aU
lands; but in all the land of Egypt
there was bread.
65. And when afl the land of Egypt
was famished, the people cried to Pha
raoh for bread, and Pharaoh said unto
aU the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph;
what he saith to you, do.
66. And the famine was over aU the
face of the eai-th. And Joseph opened
afl the storehouses, and sold unto the
Egyptians ; and the famine waxed sore
in the land of Egypt.
67. And all countries came_ mto
Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn ; be
cause that the famine was so sore in all
lands. Note.
This passage contains an explanation
of many other scriptures, which are sup
posed to teach the doctrine of a general
atonement for sin. It shows how, aud
how far the whole mass of mankind, the
"just and the unjust" the righteous and
the wicked, are alike benefited by the
raediatorial reign of Christ. The bless
ings of a common providence are " over
all;" and in this sense, ".Jesus died
for all men;" for none could have had
a breathing iu the air, or a standing
upon the eartii as a transgressor, had
not the vicarious. sacrifice of the Lamb
of God been accepted in behalf of his
people ; for whose sake the earth stands,
and on whose account all the creatures
of God are spared to be instruments of
his will in proraoting tiie glory a.nd pros
perity of his kingdom.
Nothing can be clearer than thie fact,
in every part of divine revelation ; and
especially in this history of Joseph, as
will be further developed ae we pro
ceed. It will be found that the ultimate
end and object of that singular provi
dence which brought him into Egypt
was to provideeorn for his father's house,
to whom this corn is freely given with
out money and without price; while to
the Egyptians it is sold, untfl their very
pereons are forfeited to Pharaoh for the
privilege of partaking of it

better than ihey'! No, in no wise ; for
we have before proved both Jews and
Gentiles, that they are all under sin ;
10. As it is written, There is none
righteous, no, not one :
II. There is none that understand
eth, there is none that seeketh after
God. 12. They are aU gone out of the
way, thoy are together become unpro
fitable ; there is none that doeth good,
no, not one.
13. Their throat is an open sepul
chre : with their tongues they have
used deceit : the poison of asps is un
der their Ups :
14. Whose mouth is full of cursing
and bitterness :
15. Theu- feet are swfft to shed
blood :
16. Destruction and misery are in
their ways ;
17. And the way of peace have they
not known :
18. There is no fear of God before
their eyes.
19. Now we know, that what things
soever fhe law saith, it saith to them
who ai-e under the law; that every
mouth may be stopped, and all the
world ^ay become guflty before God.
20. Therefore by tho deeds of the
law there shall no flesh be justified m
his sight : for by the law is the know
ledge of sin.
21. But now the righteousness of
God without tho law is manifested,
being witnessed by the law and the
prophets ;
22. Even the righteousness of God,
which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto
afl, and upon all them that beUeve ; for
there is no difference :
23. For afl have sinned, and come
short of the glory of God;
24. Being justified freely by his grace,
through the redemption that is m Christ
Jesus :
25. Whom God hath set forth io be
a propitiation through faith in his blood,
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When the people cried unto Pharaoh
for bread, he said, " Go unto Joseph :
what he saith, do." Much more are sin
ners directed to Christ for life aud sal
vation, for he ia the only name given
under heaven, or araong raen, by which
tiiey can be saved ; neither can the
sraallest temporal good be enjoyed but
through his merits and for his sake.
But if, in thia aenae, he ie the " Saviour
of all men," it is " especially of thera that
believe ;'' even as Joseph was sold into
Egypt for the saving alive of hia fa
ther's household — -his brethren : and the
Egyptians benefited by this event, just
so far as will appear in the issue of the
history.

mission of sins that are past, through
the forbearance of God.
John xiv. 6. Jesus saith unto him,
I am the way, and the truth, and the
lffe : no man cometh unto the Father,
but \fy me.
Ps. cxlv. 8. The Lord is gracious,
and full of compassion ; slow to anger,
and of great mercy.
9. The Lord is good to afl ; and his
tender mercies are over all his works.
10. All thy works shall praise thee,
O Lord; and thy saints shall bless
thee. *i * * * *
15. The eyes of all wait upon thee ;
and thou givest them their meat in due
season. 16. Thou openest thy hand, and
satisfiest the desire of every living
thing.

CHAPTER XLIL

The Letter.
1. Now when Jacob saw that there
was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his
sons. Why do ye look one upon ano-
tiier? 2. And he said. Behold,' I have heard
that there is com in Egypt : get you
down tMther, and buy for us from
thence ; that we may live, and not die.
Note.
It is the special office of the Holy
Spirit to direct sinners to the Lord Je
aus Christ for life and salvation ; to dis
cover to them their own destitution and
helplessness, and lead them from every
other confidence to trust alone in Him
who is made of God to them, " wisdom,
righteousness, sanctification, and re
demption.'' " The husbandman that labors must
be firet partaker of the fruits." The bre
thren of Joeeph, the typical twelve, who
were to proclaira to Jacob's household

The Spirit.
IsA 1x1. 1. The Spffit of the Lord
God is upon me ; because the Lord
hath anointed me to preach good ti
dings unto the meek ; he hath sent me
to bind up the broken-hearted, to pro
claim liberty to the captives, and the
opening of the prison to them thai are
bound ;
2. To procMm the acceptable year
of the Lord, and the day of vengeance
of our God ; to comfort all that mourn ;
3. To appoint unto them that moum
m Zion, to give unto them beauty for
ashes, the ofl of joy for mourning, the
garment of praise for the spirit of hea
viness ; that they might be called trees
of righteousness, the planting of the
Lord, that he might be glorified.
Iv. 1. Ho, every one that thirsteth,
come ye to the waters, and he that hath
no money; come ye, buy, and eat;

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the marvelloua news of all that had be
fallen him in Egypt, — that he waa " yet
alive," and governor of all the land, —
muet themselves be eye-witnesees of
what they teetified ; they muet go down
mto Egypt behold his glory and pow
er, and receive the corn frora his hands
as the earnest of the fact In like raan
ner were the apostles of Christ qualified
to proclaira the truth of the gospel.
They were eye-witneeses of his death
and resurrection ; they " looked upon
and handled the Word of life ;" and by
theee "infallible proofs" were enabled
to testify, " that which we have eeen
and heard, declare we unto you," &c.
Jacob himeelf communicated to his
sons the news of corn in Egypt ; and
propoeee that they should go and buy.
It is the gospel or " dispensation of the
Spirit" which declares the good news
and glad tidings which were to be unto
afl people — of a Saviour, exalted to give
repentance and reraieeion of sins to Is
rael. The language of thie gospel ia,
" Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to
the waters; come ye, buy and eat; yea,
come, buy wine and milk without money
and without price." And again, " Look
unto rae, and be ye saved, all the ends
of the earth ; for I ara God, and there is
none else. I have aworn by myself, the
word haa goue out of my mouth in right
eousness, and shall not return ; that unto
me every knee shall bow and every
tongue confess."

yea, come, buy wine and mUk without
money and without price. '
2. Wherefore do ye spend money
for ihat which is not bread ? and your
labor for thai which satisfieth uot?
hearken diUgentiy unto me, and eat ye
thai which is good, and let your soul
delight itself in fatness.
3. Incline your ear, and como unto
me : hear, and your soul shaU Uve ; and
I wUl make an everlasting covenant with
you, even tho sure mercies of David.
4. Behold, I have given him for a
witness to the people, a leader and
commander to the people.
5. Behold, thou shalt call a nation
thai thou knowest not, and nations
ihat knew not thee shall run unto theo
because of the Lord thy God, and for
the Holy One of Israel; for he hath
glorified thee.
6. Seek ye the Lord whfle he may be
found, call ye upon hun while he is near :
7. Let the vricked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man Ms thoughts :
and let him return unto the Lord, and
he will have mercy upon him ; and to
our God, for ho wiU abundantly pardon.
8. For my thoughts are not your
thoughts, neither are your ways my
ways, saith the Lord.
9. For as the heavens aro higher
than fhe earth, so are my ways higher
than your ways, and my thoughts than
your thoughts.
10. For as the rain cometh down,
and the snow from heaven, and return
eth not thither, but watereth the earth,
and maketh it bring forth and bud, that
it may give seed to the sower, and
bread to the eater :
11. So shall my word be that goeth
forth out of my mouth : it shall not re
turn unto me void, but it shall accom
plish that which I please, and it shall
prosper in the thing whereto I sont it.
12. For ye shall go out with joy, and
be led forth with peace : the mountains
and the MUs shaU break forth before
you into singing, and all the trees of
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The Letter.
3. And Joseph's ten brethren went
down to buy corn in Egypt.
4. But Benjamin, Joseph's brother,
Jacob sent not with his brethren : for
he said, Lest peradventure mischief be
fall him.
6. And the sons of Israel came to
buy com among those that came : for
the famine was in the land of Canaan.
Note.
Though Jesus had chosen and pre
pared twelve witnesses to testify of all
which he both said and did, it appeare
that after his reeurrection, he did not
discover himself to them all at one
time. Eepecially was Paul, though af
terwards, signally chosen and called to
take part of this ministry .ind apostle
ship, not among the twelve that eom-
panied with Jesus from the first.
Benjamin -was the "-youngest son'' oi
Jacob, and the own brother of Joseph ;
and hence was specially dear to both.
In this first application for the corn of
Egypt Jacob keeps Benjamin at home
with himseff, lest some mischief ahould
befall him. In all these respects Benja
min bears an analogy, both to the Gen
tile branch of the olive tree, and to
Paul, the dietinguished apostle to the
Gentiles, who was the last and the least
of the apostles, because " born out of
due time ;" the Gentiles being the
youngest son of the church, and the last
called into the kingdom. It was the di
vine arrangement that salvation should
be of the Jews, both by promise, by the
natural descent of the Messiah, and by
the first coming of Christ to that people.
But the Gentfles were included in "the
promise," even as Rachel looked for, and
expected the "other son," when Joseph
wae given her.
It wae also permitted th?t Paul, who
afterwards so erainently took the " bi
shopric " and filled the place of Judas,
should be an injurious persecutor of the
church, plotting raischief and violence
against the disciples of Jesus, like a
"ravening wolf," until he was himeelf
apprehended by divine power, brought

The Spirit.
1 Cor. XV. 1. Moreover, brethren,
I declare unto you the gospel which I
preached unto you, which also ye have
received, and wherem ye stand ;
2. By which also ye are saved, ff
ye keep in memory what I preached
unto you, unless ye have be..;jvod in
vam. 3. For I delivered unto you first of
all that which I also received, how that
Christ died for our sms according to
the scriptures;
4. And that he was buried, and that
he rose again the thu-d day according
to the scriptures :
5. And that he was seen of Cephas,
then ofthe twelve:
6. After that, he was seen of above
five hundred brethren at onco; of
whom the greater part remain unto tMs
present, but some are fallen asleep.
7. After that, he was seen of James :
then of all the apostles.
8. And last of all he was seen of
me also, as ono born out of due time.
Eph. i. 11. In whom also we have
obtained an inheritance, being predes
tinated according to the purpose of him
who worketh afl things after the coun
sel of his own wfll :
12. That we should be to the praise
of his glory, who first trasted in
Christ. 13. In whom ye also trusted, after
that ye heard the word of truth, the
gospel of your salvation : in whom also
after that yo believed, ye were sealed
with that Holy Spu-it of promise,
14. Which is the earnest of our in
heritance untU the redemption of the
purchased possession, unto the praise
of his glory.
Acts iu. 25. Ye are the chfldren of
tho prophets, and ofthe covenant which
God made with our fathers, saymg unto
Abraham, And in thy seed shall aU the
Idndreds of the earth be blessed.
26. Unto you first God, having
raised up Ms Son Jesus, sent Mm to

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to bow humbly at his feet, whom he
had so madly persecuted, aud to preach
the faith which he had once destroyed.
"The eone of Jacob carae to buy corn
among those that came." So when Je
eus dispenses the blessinge of salvation
to his people, there are always raulti-
tudea to whom the gospel is preached
ae well ae unto them ; but not being
raixed with faith iu them that hear, it
profite thera not.

The Letter.
6. And Joseph was the govemor
over the land, and he it was that sold
to all tho people of the land : and Jo
seph's brethren came, and bowed down
themselves before him with their faces
to the earth.
7. And Joseph saw his brethren, and
he knew thera, but made himself
strange unto them, and spake roughly
unto them ; and he said unto them,
Whence como ye? And thoy said.
From tho land of Canaan to buy food.
8. And Joseph knew his bi-ethren,
but they knew not him.
Note.
Aa Mediator of the new covenant, the
Lord Jeeue Christ first exercised the
office of Prophet. Frora the beginning
he had made known, " at sundry times
and in divers raanners," the things
which should corae to pass concerning
himself; and lastly in his own person,
he made manifest that which had been
hidden, and fulfilled that which had
been predicted.
He next appears aa minister of the
sanctuary, to offer sacrifice for the sins
of the people ; and in his own person,
ae the great raystery of godliness, God
manifest in the flesh, he unites both of
fering and Priest; and by his own blood
obtains eternal redemption for his peo
ple, " by the offering of his own body
once for all, he perfects for ever them that
are sanctified."
Lastiy, he assumes the throne and
sceptre and reigns as King ; dispensing
the blessinge of grace to " the poor, and

bless you, in tuming away every one
of you from his iniquities.
John iu. 14. And as Moses lifted
up the serpent in tho wfldemess, even
so must the Son of man be lifted up :
15. That whosoever believeth in Mm
should not perish, but have eternal
lffe.

Tlie Spirit.
Ps. Ixxu. 1. Give the king thy
judgments, O God, and thy righteous
ness unto the king's son.
2. Ho shall judge thy people with
righteousness, and fhy poor "with judg
ment. 3. The mountains shall bring peace
to the people, and the Uttle hills, by
righteousness. 4. He shall judge the poor of the
people, he shall save the children of
tho needy, and shall break in pieces the
oppressor. 6. They shall fear thee as long as
the sun and moon endure, throughout
all generations.
6. He shall come down like rain
upon the mown grass : as showers ihat
water the earth.
7. In Ms days shall the righteous
flourish: and abundance of peace so
long as the moon endm-efh.
8. He shall have dominion also, from
sea to sea, and from fhe river unto the
ends of the earth.
9. They that dwefl in the wUderness
shall bow before him ; and Ms enemies
shall lick the dust.
10. The kings of Tarshish and of
the isles shall bring presents :' the kings
of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
11. Yea, all kings shall fafl down be
fore hun : afl nations shall serve him.
12. For he shall deliver the needy
when he crieth: the poor also, and him
that hath no helper.
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Mm that hath no helper." "He saves
the children of the needy, and breaks in
pieces the oppressor." "They that dwell
in the wilderness bow before him, and his
enemies lick the dust."
The glories of this narae and office
shall endure for ever. "His kingdom
is an everlasting kingdom, and his domi
nion ruleth over all." In view of the
wondrous things of this reign, well may
it be said, after sumraing thera up,
" The prayers of David the son of Jesse
are ended;" no raore remains to ask, or
to desire.
Joseph knew his brethren, yet he
made himeelf strange to thera, and spake
roughly to them. It is also the method
of Jesus to hide from thoee who come to
him, his gracious purposes of love and
favor, and often to cauee them to despair
of mercy, that they may the better be
prepared to appreciate the riches of that
grace which he is about so freely and
bountifully to bestow upon them.

The Letter.
9. And Joseph remembered the
dreams which he dreamed of thom,
and said unto them. Ye are spies ; to
see the nakedness of the land ye are
come. 10. And they said unto him. Nay,
my lord, but to buy food are thy ser
vants come.
11. We are all one man's sons ; we
are true men; thy servants are no
spies. 12. And he said unto them. Nay,
but to see the nakedness of the land
ye are come.
13. And they said, Thy servants
are twelve bretMen, the sons of one
man in the land of Canaan; and be
hold, the youngest is this day with our
father, and one is not.

needy, and shall save the souls of the
needy. 14. He shafl redeem theu- soul from
deceit and violence : and precious shafl
their blood be in his sight.
16. And he shafl live, and to him
shall bo given of the gold of Sheba :
prayer also shall be made for him con
tinually ; and daily shall he bo praised.
16. There shall be a handful of com
in the earth upon the top of the moun
tains ; the fruit thereof shall shake Uke
Lebanon : and ihey of the city sliaU
flourish lUie grass of the earth.
17. His name shall endure for ever :
his name shall be continued as long as
the sun ; and men shall be blessed in
him : all nations shall call him blessed.
18. Blessed be the Lord God, the
God of Israel, who oMy doeth won
drous things.
19. Blessed be his glorious name for
ever : and let the whole earth be fifled
with his glory ; Amen, and Amen.
20. The prayers of David the son of
Jesse are ended.

The Spirit.
John fl. 19. Jesus answered and
said unto them, Destroy this temple,
and in three days I will raise it up.
20. Then said the Jews, Forty and
six years was this temple in building,
and wUt thou rear it up m three
days? 21. But he spake ofthe temple of
his body.
22. When therefore he was risen
from the dead, his disciples remembered
that he had said this unto them : and
they believed the scripture, and the
word which Jesus had said.
xvi. 16. These tMngs understood
not his disciples at the fu-st : but when
Jasus was glorified, then remembered
thoy that these things were written of
him, and thai they had done these
tMngs unto him.

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413

Note.
i There were two things asserted by
these ten brothers, which Joeeph insists
must be proved, in order to clear them
of the charge of being spies. One wae
the fact of their having another bro
ther with their father, and aleo that
one was not: the twelve brethren raust
be all raade to appear, or, by the life of
Pharaoh, they were spies.
Analogous to this in the antitype, is
the manifest necessity of a united and
concurrent testimony in the witness of
the twelve, who were chosen to company
with Jesus frora the baptisra of John to
the day " when he was taken up." The
truth of the gospel raust stand upon
the joint foundation of the twelve stones.
The fact that one of these was a devil,
and fell from his place in the breastplate
of fire, instead of weakening, increases
the evidence, that the testimony they
bore to the resurrection of Christ wae
true ; because the appearing of Jesus to
Paul, and the putting him into the minis
try in eo signal a manner, giving him,
separately and apart frora the reat, a full
revelation of the raystery of the gospel,
is more conclusive proof of the fact, than
any other could poesibly be. To take
out a defective atone from a foundation,
and, at a distance frora the rest to shape
and form another exactly to fit its place,
requires the hand ofthe raaster builder.
Joseph's brethren assert with confidence,
" thy servants are twelve brethren ;" and
yet they as confidently add, " and one is
not." This must, therefore, have been
said both retrospectively, and propheti
cally ; as it recognizes a fact which they
could not know, as regards the exist
ence of Joseph.

The Letter.
14. And Joseph said unto them,
That is ii that I spake unto you, say
ing, Ye are spies:
16. Hereby ye shafl be proved : By
tiie lffe of Pharaoh ye shafl not go

17. And his disciples remembered
that it was written. The zeal of thme
house hath eaten me up.
***** 5. And as they were afraid, and
bowed down iheir faces to the earth,
they said unto them. Why seek ye the
living among the dead?
6. He is not here, but is risen. Re
member how he spake unto you when
he was yet in GaUlee,
7. Saymg, The Son of man must be
delivered into the hands of sinful men,
and be crucified, and the third day rise
again. 8. And they remembered his words.
Acts i. 1. Tie former treatise have
I made, O Theophflus, of all that Jesus
began both to do and teach,
2. Untfl the day m wMch he was
taken up, after that he through the
Holy Ghost had given commandments
unto the apostles whom he had chosen :
* 3. To whom also he shewed Mmself
alive after his passion by many infalli
ble proofs, being seen of them forty
days, and speaking of tho things per-
taming to the kingdom of God.
Gal. i. 11. But I certify you, bre
thren, that the gospel which was
preached of me is not after man :
12. For I neither received it of man,
neither was I taught il, but by the re
velation of Jesus Christ.
***** 16. But when it pleased God, who
separated me from my mother's womb,
and called me by Ms grace,
16. To reveal his Son in me, that I
might preach hun among the heathen ;
immediately I confeiTcd not with flesh
and blood.

The Spirit.
1 CoR. XV. 14. And ff CMist be not
risen, then is our preaching vain, and
your faith is also vam.
15. Yea, and we are found false
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forth hence, except your youngest bro
ther come hither.
16. Send one of you, and let Mm
fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept
in prison, that your words may be
proved, whether ihere he any truth m
you: or else by the life of Pharaoh
surely ye are spies. Note.
That part of the mystery of Christ
which concerned the Gentiles becoming
" fellow-heirs and of the eame body, and
partakers of the promise in Christ by
the gospel," wae not underetood until
after the resurrection. It wae revealed,
or proraised to the church, by the pro
ph eta, but waa not clearly understood
till it was made manifest to the apostles
by the Spirit
When Peter was sent to the house of
Corneliue to preach the gospel, he could
not comprehend the divine coraraand,
and was only convinced of the truth, by
the pouring out of the Holy Spirit upon
the houeehold. But it wae reserved for
Paul, to " make all men see what is the
fellowship of the mystery which from
the beginning of the world had been hid
in God, who created all things by Jesus
Christ" By the bringing in of the younger bro
ther, or aa it ia in another place, the re
turn of the "younger son," great enlarge
ment aud power was given to the testi
mony of the gospel : and in turn, when
the "elder brother," the Jews, shall be
brought back to their own olive, or
their own land, it will be " as life from
ihe dead."
Joseph's brethren are required to
prove that oue of the twelve is not, —
but the credibility of their testimony is
made chiefiy to rest upon the bringing
of their younger brother into Egypt. So
it is the resurrection frora the dead, rather
than the death of Jesus, and the proraise
of the Spirit which was to follow the re
surrection, to gather the dispersed ot
Israel, and bring nigh those that are
afar off, — upon which the truth of the
gospel rests. "It ie Christ that died;
yea, rather, which is risen again ;" — to
give Ufe to the world.

testified of God that he raised up
Christ : whom he raised not up, if so
be that the dead rise not.
16. For if the dead rise not, then is
not Christ raised ;
17. And ff Christ be not raised,
your faith is vain ; ye are yet in your
sms. 18. Thon they also which are faUen
asleep m Christ are perished.
Eph. ui. 1. For this cause, I, Paul,
the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you
GentUes, 2. If ye have heard of the dispensa^
tion of the grace of God which is given
me to you-ward :
3. How that by revelation he made
known unto me the mystery, as I wrote
afore m few words ;
4. Whereby, when ye read, ye may
understand my knowleege m the mys
tery of Christ,
5. WMch in other ages was not
made known unto the sons of men, as
it is now revealed unto his holy apos
tles and prophets by the Spirit ;
6. That the GentUes should be fel
low-heirs, and of the same body, and
partakers of his promise in Christ by
the gospel :
7. Whereof I was made a minister,
according to the gift of the grace of
God given unto me by the effectual
working of Ms power.
8. Unto me, who am less than the
least of all saints, is this grace given,
that I should preach among the Gentiles '
the unsearchable riches of Christ ;
9. And to make all men see what is
the fellowship of the mystery, wMch
from the beginning of the world hath
been hid in God, who created aU thmgs
by Jesus Christ :
10. To the intent that now unto the
principalities and powers in heavenly
places might be known by the church
the manifold wisdom of God,
11. According to the eternal purpose
which he purposed in Christ Jesus om-
Lord: 12. In whom we have boldness and

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The Letter.
17. And he put them aU together into
ward three days.
18. And Joseph said unto them the
third day, This do, and live ; for I fear
God: 19. If ye be true men, let one of your
brethren be bound in the house of your
prison : go ye, carry corn for the famine
of your houses :
20. But bring your youngest brother
unto rao ; so shall your words be veri
fied, and ye shall not die. And they
did so.
21. And they said one to another,
We are verfly guilty concerning our
brother, in that we saw the anguish of
Ms soul, when he besought us, and we
would not hear ; therefore is this dis
tress come upon us.
22. And Reuben answered them,
saying. Spake I not unto you, saying.
Do not sin against the chfld; and ye
would not hear ; therefore behold also
his blood is required.
23. And they knew not that Joseph
understood ihem; for he spake unto
them by an interpreter.
24. And he turned himseff about
from them, and wept; and returned
to them again, and communed with
them, and took from them Simeon, and
bound Mm before their eyes.
Note.
During the three days that Jeeus was
laid in the tomb, the disciples were
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access with confidence by the faith of
him. 13. Wherefore I desire that yo famt
not at my tribulations for you, which
is your glory.
14. For tMs cause I bow my knees
unto tho Father of our Lord Josus
Christ, 15. Of whom the whole famUy in
heaven and earth is named.

The Spirit.
Luke xxiv. 21. But we trusted that
it had been he which should have re
deemed Israel ; and beside all this, to
day is the thu-d day since these things
were done.
Acts i. 16. i= * * David spake be
fore concerning Judas, which was guide
to them that took Jesus.
17. For he was numbered with us,
and had obtained part of this mmistry.
18. Now this man purchased a field
with the reward of iniquity ; and faU
ing headlong, he burst asunder m the
midst, .ind all his bowels gushed out
***** 26. That he may take part of this
ministry and apostleship, from which
Judas hy transgression fell, that he
might go to his own place.
Luke xxiv. 16. But their eyes were
holden, that they should not know him.
17. And he said unto them. What
manner of commimioations are these
that ye have one to another, as ye walk,
and are sad ?
18. And the one of them, whose
name was Cleopas, answering, said
unto him. Art thou only a stranger in
Jerusalem, and hast not known the
things which are come to pass there in
these days?
19. And he said unto them, What
things ? And they said unto Mm,
Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which
was a prophet mighty m deed and word
before God, and afl the people :
20. And how the chief priests and

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and Master. To their apprehension, all
was lost ; for he who they thought
would have redeemed Israel, had been
crucified ae a malefactor I Being as yet
without underetanding of the nature of
that redemption which he came to ac
coraplish, — the " needs be that Christ
should' suffer," — it never entered their
rainds to conceive of euch a raethod of
deliverance — such a way to victory and
ti'iumph! Thoughts sirailar to these, doubtless
possessed the minds of Joseph's brethren,
when, instead of bread for their houee-
holds, they met only threats, accusation,
aud imprieonmeut Consciousness of ill
desert gave a aombre coloring to all that
befell thera, and the guilt of a brother's
blood, lying heavily upon their hearts,
caused a fearful looking tor of judgraent
at the hand of God. Little did they
imagine that under thia dark cloud was
concealed a purpose of matchless grace,
raercy and love, to such ungodly and
hell-deaerving sinners as theraselves
and that the stern governor of Egypt
was their own gentle aud loving bro
ther. On the third day, Joseph commanded
a new method of proving the truth of
the raen of Canaan. One of their num
ber (Simeon) was to be left bound,

The Letter.
25. Then Joseph commanded to fUl
their sacks with corn, and to restore
every man's money into Ms sack, and
to give them provision for the way:
and thus did he unto them.
26. And they laded their asses with
the corn, and departed thence.
27. And as one of them opened his
sack to give his ass provender in the
inn, he espied Ms money : for behold,
it was in his sack's mouth.
28. And he said unto Ms brethren.
My money is restored; and lo, it is
even in my sack : and their heart fafled
them, and they were afraid, saying one
to another. What is this thai God hath
done unto us ?

our rulers delivered him to be con
demned to death, and have crucified
Mm. Acts xv. 7. And when there had
been much disputing, Peter rose up
and said unto them. Men and brethren,
ye know how that a good whfle ago,
God made choice among us, that the
Gentfles, by my mouth, should hear the
word of the gospel, and believe.
8. And God, which knoweth the
hearts, bare them witness, giving them
the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us :
9. And put no difference between
us and them, purifying their hearts by
faith.

in the house of their prison, while
the others returned with bread for
their households aud to bring their
younger brother. This alludes to the
fact, that when Jesus was, on the third
day, liberated from the prison of the
tomb, one of the twelve (Judas) was
left bound in the second death — "his
own place '' — to prove that he was not a
true man ; while the other disoiplea
were aent into Galilee, to proclaim that
" Jesus was risen indeed from the dead,
and had appeared to Simon."

The Spirit.
RoM. viu. 32. He that spared not
his own Son, but delivered him up for
us all, how shafl he not with him also
freely give us all things ?
John i. 16. And of his fulness have
all we received, and grace for gi-ace.
17. For the law was given by Moses,
but grace and truth came by Jesus
Christ. RoM. iU. 21. But now the right
eousness of God without the law is
manffested, bemg -witnessed by the law
and the prophets ;
22. Even tiie righteousness of God,
which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto
all, and upon all them that believe ; for
there is no difference :

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Note.
The sovereign freeness of divine
grace, abounding to the chief of sinners
through Jesus Christ is the distinguish
ing feature of the gospel. Justification
by faith, without the deeds of the law ;
pardon and peace, through the blood of
the cross, wholly irrespective of human
merit or demerit, is the one grand therae
of apostolic preaching. Freely they had
received, and freely they dispensed to
othera of the rich provisions of God's
house ; the great things which he has laid
up for them that fear him, aud freely
bestows "without money and without
price," upon the destitute and perishing.
But this raethod of divine wisdora is
hid from the wise and prudent, and is
marvellous in the eyes of ignorant and
foolish men ; who, blessing themselves
in their fancied stock of aelf-righteoua-
ness, think to purchase the gifts of God
with this counterfeit coin: and when
they find it rejected and turned back
upon themselves, " their hearts fail them
and they are afraid," not knowing the
" gfft of God," and not conceiving how
help should come in any other way than
that of barter.
Thus also feared and marvelled the
men of Canaan when they discovered
their money returned in their sacks !
Whence is this, that the stern governor
of Egypt, who we supposed would exact
the utterraost farthing, has thus stored
us with corn, and also returned our
money with it I Surely it is the just
judgment of God, who is about to visit
upon us the full demerits of our sins ;
and who thus has purposed to find oc
casion against us 1

23. For afl have sinned, and come
short of the glory of God :
24. Being justified freely by his
grace, through the redemption that is
in Christ Jesus :
26. Whom God hath sot forth to be
a propitiation, through faith in his
blood, to declare his righteousness for
the remission of sins that are past,
through tho forbearance of God.
V. 6. For when we were yet without
strength, in due tunc Christ died for
the ungodly.
7. For scarcely for a righteous man
will one die : yet peradventure for a
good man some would even daro to
die. 8. But God commendeth his love to
wards us, in that while we wore yet
sinners, Christ died for us.
9. Much more then, being now justi
fied by his blood, we shall be saved
from wrath through him.
10. For if, when we were enemies,
we were reconcUed to God by the
death of his Son; much more, being
reconciled, we shall be saved by his
life. Titus iii. 4. But after that the
kindness and love of God om- Saviour
toward man appeared,
5. Not by works of righteousness
which we have done, but according to
his mercy he saved us, by the washmg
of regeneration, and renewing of the
Holy Ghost ;
6. Which he shed on us abundantly
through Jesus Christ our Sa-riour ;
7. That, bemg justified by his grace,
we should be made heirs according to
the hope of etemal Ufe.

The Letter.
29. And they came unto Jacob their
father unto the land of Canaan, and
told hun all that befeU unto them,
saying, 30. The man, who is the lord of the
land, spake roughly to us, and took us
for spies of the countiy.

The Spirit.
Acts xi. 2, 3. And when Peter
was come up to Jerusalem, they that
were of the circumcision contended
with him, saymg. Thou wentest m to
men uncircumcised, and did eat with
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31. And we said unto him. We are
true men : we are no spies.
32. We be twelve brethren, sons of
our father : one is not, and the young
est is this day with our father in the
land of Canaan.
33. And the man, the lord of the
country, said unto us. Hereby shaU I
know that yo are true men : leave one
of your brethren here with nie, and take
food for the famine of your households,
and be gone.
34. Andbring your youngest brother
unto mo ; then shall I know that ye
are no spies, but thai ye are true men :
so wfll I deUver you your brother, and
ye shafl traffic in the land.
Note.
When the calling of the Gentilea was
first made known to the church, it
caused great wonder and controversy
among the disciples. Peter, who first
preached Christ to the houeehold of
Cornelius, not only scrupled himeelf
about obeying the vision, but he was
afterwards obliged to rehearse the whole
matter to those who contended with him
for going in to men uncircumcised.
Again, the miraculous converaion and
calling of Paul to be a choeen vessel in
bearing the gospel to that people, was a
matter of equal myetery and exoiteraent.
Both these eubjects, which are identi
fied with each other, are alluded to

The Letter.
35. And it came to pass as they
emptied their sacks, that, behold, every
man's bundle of money was in his sack :
and when both they and their father
saw the bundles of money, they were
afraid. 36. And Jacob their father said unto
them. Me have ye bereaved cf my
children: Joseph is not, and Simeon
is not, and ye wifl take Benjamin away.
All these things are against me.
37. And Reuben spake unto his fa
ther, saying. Slay my two sons, ff I
bring Mm not to thee : deUver Mm into

from the beginning, and expounded it
in order unto them.
XV. 4. And when they were come to
Jerusalem, they were received of the
church, and of the apostles and elders,
and they declared all things that God
had done with them.
***** 13. And after they had held their
peace, James answered, saying. Men
and brethren, hearken unto me.
14. Simeon hath declared how God
at the first did visit the GentUes, to
take out of them a people for Ms
name. 15. And to this agree the words of
the prophets ; as it is written,
16. After this I will retum, and will
bufld again the tabCraacle of David
which is fallen down ; and I will bufld
again the ruins thereof, and I wifl set
it up: 17. That the residue of men might
seek after the Lord, and afl the Gen
tiles, upon whom my name is caUed,
saith the Lord, who doeth aU these
tMngs. 18. Known unto God are afl his
works from the beginning of the
world.

jointly by the epecial call of Benjamin to
be numbered with the twelve.

The Spirit.
IsA. xl. 27. Why sayest fhou, O
Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way
is hid from the Lord, and my judgment
is passed over from my God?
28. Hast thou not known, hast thou
not heard, ihat the everlasting God, the
Lord, the Creator of the ends of the
earth, fainteth not, neither is weary?
ihere is no searching of his understand
ing. 29. He giveth power to the faint;
and to them thai have no might he in
creaseth strength.
30. Even the youths shafl faint and

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419

my hand, and I wifl brmg him to thee
again. 38. And he said. My son shall not
go down with you ; for his brother is
dead, and he is left alone : ff mischief
befall him by the way m the which yc
go, then shall ye bring down my gray
hairs with sorrow to the grave.
Note.
The lamentation of Jacob, and his fear
of being bereaved, allude to the language
of Zion in view of the loss of her natural
tranches, to make room for the Gen
tiles. That her increase ehould be from her
loes; her fulness from her desolation,
was too much for her faith to graap ;
and her language is, " my way is hid
from the Lord ;" " the Lord hath for
gotten rae ; my Lord hath forsaken me ;"
or with Jacob, "all these things are
against me !" He could not see how
the sending of Benjamin should be the
bringing in of thousands ; and the sure
prelude to the "gathering together in
one " his entire household, to live and
rejoice with hira who was mourned as
dead. Well raight the apostle exclaim, in
view of this same subject tUe union
of Jews and Gentilea in one root:
"0 the depth of the riches both of
the wisdora and knowledge of God !
how unsearchable are his judgments, and
his ways past finding out! For who
hath known the mind of the Lord ? or
who hath been his counsellor ? Or who
hath first given to him, and it shall be
recompensed unto hira again? For of
him, and through him, and to him, are
all things : to whom be glory for ever.
Amen." Bora, xi. 33-36.

be weary, and the young men shall ut-
teriy fafl.
31. But they that wait upon the
Lord shall renew iheir strength ; they
shall mount up with wings as eagles ;
they shall run, and not be weary; and
thej shall walk, and not faint.
xlix. 14. But Zion said, The Lord
hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath
forgotten me.
15. Can a woman forget her sucking
cMld, that she should not have com
passion on the son of her womb?
yea, they may forget, yet wfll I not
forget thee.
16. Behold I have graven thee upon
the palms of my hands ; thy walls are
continually before me.
17. Thy chUdren shall make haste;
thy destroyers and they that made theo
waste, shall go forth of theo.
4. Thon I said, I have labored in
vain, I have spent my strength for
nought, and in vain; yet surely my
judgment is with the Lord, and my
work with my God.
6. And now, saith the Lord that
formed me from tho womb to be his
servant, to bring Jacob again to him,
Though Israel be not gathered, yet
shall I be glorious in the eyes of
tho Lord, and my God shaU be my
strength. 6. And he said, It is a light thing
that thou shouldest be my servant, to
raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to
restore the preserved of Israel ; I will
also give thee for a Ught to the Gen
tfles, that thou mayest be my salvation
unto the end of the earth.
li. 5. My righteousness is near ; my
salvation is gone forth, and mine arms
shaU judge the people ; the isles shall
wait upon me, and on mine arm shall
thoy trust

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CHAPTER XLHI.

The Letter.

1. And the famine was sore in the
land. 2. And it came to pass, when they
had eaten up the corn which they had
brought out of Egypt, their father said
unto them, Go again, buy us a Uttle
food. 3. And Judah spake unto him, say
ing. The man did solemnly protest unto
us, saying. Ye shall not see my face,
except your brother be with you.
4. If thou wilt send our brother with
us, we will go down and buy thee
food: 5. But if thou wilt not send him, we
wfll not go down: for the man said
unto us, Yo shall not see my face, ex
cept your brother be with you.
6. And Israel said. Wherefore dealt
ye so UI with me, as to tell the man
whether ye had yet a brother ?
7. And they said. The man asked us
-straitiyof our state, and of our kindred,
saying. Is your father yet aUve ? have
ye another brother? and we told him
according to the tenor of these words :
Could we certainly know that he would
say. Bring your brother down ?
Note.
It is the hungering and thirsting of
the household of faith, for the enlarge
ment and extension of the Redeeraer's
kingdom, — their longing desire to see
hira rule "frora sea to sea, and from the
river to the ends of the earth," — which
constrains them to apply to the store
house of grace and raercy for these rich
blessings ; — to give him no rest, till he
raake Jerusalera a name and a praise in
the earth.
There are set times to favor Zion;
and the period had now corae, when she
should lengthen herjcords and strength-

Tlie Spirit.
John x. 16. And other sheep I
have, which are not of this fold : them
also I must bring, and they shall hear
my voice ; and there shall be one fold,
and one shepherd.
Acts ix. 1. And Saul, yet breathing
out threatenings and slaughter against
the disciples of the Lord, went unto the
high priest,
2. And desired of Mm letters to Da
mascus to the synagogues, that ff he
found any of this way, whether they
were men or women, he might bring
them bound unto Jerusalem.
3. And as he journeyed, he came
near Damascus ; and suddenly there
shinod round about him a light from
heaven :
4. And he fell to the earth, and
heard a voice saying unto him, Saul,
Saul, why persecutest thou me ?
5. And he said. Who art thou. Lord?
And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom
thou persecutest. It is hard for thee
to kick agamst the pricks.
6. And he, trembling and astonished,
said. Lord, what wflt thou have me to
do? And the Lord said unto him.
Arise, and go into the city, and it shall
be told thee what thou must do.
7. And the men which journeyed
with him stood speechless, hearing a
voice, but seeing no man.
8. And Saul rose from the earth;
and when his eyes were opened, he saw
no man : but they led him by the hand,
and brought him mto Damascus.
9. And he was three days without
sight, and neither did eat nor drink.
10. And there was a certain disciple
at Damascus, named Ananias ; and to
him said the Lord in a vision, Ananias.
And he said. Behold, I am here. Lord.

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421

en her stakes, and break forth on the
right hand and on the left Paul must
be sent far hence, to bear the Redeemer's
name before Gentflea aud kings ; and if
he will not obey the/rs< call, he must
be "apprehended" by a power frora
heaven which he can no longer resist
When Jesus purposes to bring his
people nigh to hiraself, and to raake
greater diacoveries to them of his own
glory, he makes thera feel their deep
poverty;— the famine which is in their
own aoula when uot in the enjoyment of
hia presence. But such is their carnal
self-confidence, and distrust of his love
and raercy, that, not until they are ready
to perish, will they seek his face.

11. And the Lord said unto him.
Arise, and go into the street which is
called Straight, and inquire in the
house of Judas for one caUcd Saul qf
Tarsus : for, behold, he prayeth,
12. And hath seen in a vision a man
named Ananias coming in, and putting
his hand on him, that ho might receive
his sight.
13. Then Ananias answered. Lord,
I have hoard by many of this man, how
much evil he hath done to thy saints at
Jerusalem :
14. And here he hath authority from
the chief priests to bind aU that call on
thy name.
16. But the Lord said unto Mm, Go
thy way : for he is a chosen vessel unto
me, to bear my name before the Gen
tUes, and kings, and tho chUdren of
Israel :
16. For I wiU shevv him how great
things he must suffer for my name's

The Letter.
8. And Judah said unto Israel his
father. Send the lad with mo, and we
¦will arise and go; that we may live,
and not die, both we, and thou, and also
om- little ones.
9. I wifl be surety for him ; of my
hand shalt thou reqmre him : if I bring
him not unto thee, and set him before
thee, then let me bear the blame for
ever :
10. For except we had lingered,
surely now we had returned this second
time. 11. And their father Israel said unto
them. If it must be so now, do this :
take of the best frmts in the land m
your vessels, and carry down the man
a present, a Uttle balm, and a little
honey, spices and myrrh, nuts and al
monds :
12. And take double money in your
hand ; and the money that was brought
again m the mouth of your sacks, carry

The Spirit.
Rev. v. 5. And one of the elders
saith unto me. Weep not : behold, the
Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root
of David, hath prevafled to open the
book, and to loose the seven seals
thereof Acts ix. 26. And when Saul was
come to Jerusalem, ho essayed to join
himself to the disciples : but they were
aU afraid of him, and believed not that
he was a disciple.
27. But Barnabas took him, and
brought him to the apostles, and de
clared unto them how he had seen the
Lord in the way, and that he had spoken
to hun, and how he had preached boldly
at Damascus in the name of Jesus.
28. And he was with thom coming
in and going out at Jerusalem.
29. And he spake boldly in the name
of the Lord Jesus, and disputed against
the Grecians : but they went about to
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it agam in your hand ; peradventure it
was an oversight
13. Take also your brother, and
arise, go agam unto the man :
l4. And God Almighty ^ve you
mercy before the man, that he may
send away your other brother, and
Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my
children, I am bereaved.
15. And the men took that present,
and they took double money in their
hand, and Benjamm ; and rose up, and
went down to Egypt, and stood before
Joseph. Note.
Judah here takes precedence of his
brethren iu interceding and prevailing
for the sending forth of Benjamin, at the
call of Joseph. He even pledges himself
a surety for the issue of the matter. So
the "Lion of the tribe of Judah" prevails
to open the book ofthe divine purposes,
"and to fulfil ihe word of God even ihe
mystery which hath been hid for ages
and from generations, but now is made
manifest to his saints, to whom God
would make known what is the riches of
the glory of this 'mystery among the Gen
tiles," &e. Jacob is constrainerfto con
sent that Benjamin should go, but gives
orders for taking double money, and also
a present, to propitiate the governor of
Egypt In this we see exeraplified the
deep-rooted notion which prevails even
in the church, of rendering an equiva
lent for grace received, — a propitiatory
sacrifice or penance, — thus making
peace, not by the blood of the cross,
but by the deeds of the law. Thie
voluntary humility and will-worehip,
¦was what influenced the believing Pha
risees, in the 15th chapter of Acts, to
urge that it was needful to circumcise
the Gentile converts, and command
them to keep the law of Moses.

30. Which when the brethren knew,
they brought him down to Cesarea, and
sent him forth to Tarsus.
XV. 5. But there rose up certam of
the sect of the Pharisees which beUeved,
saymg. That it was needful to cu-cum-
cise them, and to command ihem to
keep the law of Moses.
6. And the apostles and elders came
together for to consider of tMs mat
ter. 7. And when there had been much
disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto
them. Men and brethren, ye know how
that a good while ago God made choice
among us, that the Gentiles by my
mouth should hear the word of the
gospel, and beUeve.
8. And God, which knoweth the
hearts, bare them -witness, giving them
the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto
us; 9. And put no difference between
us and them, purffymg their hearts by
faith. 10. Now therefore why tempt ye
God, to put a yoke upon the neck of
the disciples, which neither our fathers
nor we were able to bear ?
11. But we believe that through the
grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shaU
be saved, even as they.
Mic vi. 6. Wherevrith shaU I come
before the Lord, and bow myself before
the high God ? shall I come before him
with burnt offerings, vrith calves of a
year old ?
7. WiU the Lord be pleased with
thousands of rams, or with ten thou
sands of rivers of ofl ? shall I give my
first-bom /or my transgression, the fruit
of my body /or the sin of my soul ?

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The Letter.
BENJAMIN brought TO JOSEPH.
16. And when Joseph saw Benjamin
with them, he said to the ruler of his
house. Bring these men home, and slay,
and make ready: for these men shall
dine with me at noon.
17. And the raan did as Joseph
bade : and tho man brought the men
into Joseph's house.
18. And the men were afraid, be
cause they were brought into Joseph's
house ; and they said. Because of the
money that was retumed in our sacks
at tho first time are we brought m;
that he may seek occasion agamst us,
and fafl upon us, and take us for bond
men, and our asses.
19. And they came near to the
steward of Joseph's house, and they
communed with him at the door of the
house, 20. And said, O sir, we came mdeed
down at the first time to buy food:
21. And it came to pass, when we
came to the inn, that we opened our
sacks, and behold, every man's money
was m the mouth of his sack, our
money m full weight : and we have
brought it agam in our hand.
22. And other money have we
brought down in our hands to buy
food: we cannot tefl who put our
money m our sacks.
23. And he said. Peace be to you,
fear not: your God, and the God of
your father, hath given you treasure in
your sacks : I had your money. And
he brought Simeon out unto them.
24. And the man brought the men
into Joseph's house, and gave them
water, and they washed their feet ; and
he gave their asses provender.
26. And they made ready the pro-
sent against Joseph came at noon : for
they heard that they should eat bread
there. 26. And when Joseph came home,
they brought him the present which
was m then: hand into the house, and

The Spirit.
THE YOUNGER SON BROUGHT TO HIS
father's HOUSE.
Luke xv. 1 1. And he said, A cer
tam man had two sons :
12. And the younger of them said
to his father, Father, give rae the por
tion of goods that falleth to me. And
he divided unto them his living.
13. And not many days after, the
younger son gathered all together, and
took his journey into a far country, and
there wasted Ms substance with riotous
living. ***** 15. And he went and joined himself
to a citizen of that country; and he
sent him into his fields to feed svrine.
16. And he would fain have filled
his belly with the husks that the
swine did eat ; and no man gave unto
him. 17. And when he came to himself,
he said. How many Mi-ed servants of
my father's have bread enough and to
spare, and I perish with hunger!
18. I will arise and go to my father,
and vrill say unto him. Father, I have
sinned agamst heaven, and before
thee, 19. And am no more worthy to be
called thy son : make me as one of thy
hired servants.
20. And he arose, and came to his
father. But when he was yet a great
way off, Ms father saw hkn, and had
compassion, and ran, aud fell on his
neck, and kissed him.
21. And the son said unto him. Fa
ther, I have smned against heaven, and
in thy sight, and am no more worthy to
be called thy son.
22. But the father said to his ser
vants, Brmg forth the best robe, and
put it on hun ; and put a ring on his
hand, and shoes on his feet :
23. And bring hither the fatted calf,
and kiU it; and let us eat and be
merry :
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bo-wed themselves to him to the
earth. 27. And he asked them of iheir wel
fare, and said, Is your father well, the
old man of whom ye spake ? Is he yet
alive ?
28. And they answered, Thy servant
our father is in good health, he is yet
alive: and they bowed down their
heads, and made obeisance.
29. And he lifted up his eyes, and
saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's
son, and said. Is this your younger
brother, of whom ye spake unto me ?
And he said, God be gracious unto
thee, my son.
30. And Joseph made haste ; for his
bowels did yearn upon his brother:
and he sought where to weep ; and he
entered into his chamber, and wept
there. 31. And he washed his face, and
went out, and refrained himseff, and
said, Set on bread.
32. And they set on for Mm by him
self, and for them by themselves, and
for the Egyptians which did eat with
him, by themselves; because the Egyp
tians might not eat bread with the He
brews ; for that is an abomination unto
the Egyptians.
33. And they sat before him, the
first-born accordmg to his birth-right,
and the youngest accordmg to his
youth: and the men marvelled one at
another. 34. And ho took and sent messes
unto them from before him : but Ben
jamin's mess was five times so much as
any of theirs. And they drank, and
were mei-ry with him.
Note.
It cannot he doubted that the two
parables, here placed ae analogous with
each other, have both allusion to one
and the sarae event The discrepancies
that occur, are the result of the different
circumstances that were connected with
their being called forth. The parable
from Luke was not simply a prediction,
but was intended to teach the nature of

aUve again ; he was lost, and is found.
And they began to be merry.
26. Now his elder son was in the
field : and as he came and drew nigh
to the house, he heard music and
dancing. 26. And he called one of the ser
vants, and asked what these things
meant. 27. And he said unto him. Thy bro
ther is como ; and thy father hath killed
the fatted calf, because he hafh received
Mm safe and sound.
28. And he. was angry, and would
not go in ; therefore came his father
out, and entreated him.
29. And he answeiing, said to his
father, Lo, these many years do I
serve thee, neither transgressed I at
any time thy commandment; and yet
thou never gavest me a kid, that I
might make merry with my friends :
30. But as soon as this thy son was
come, which hath devoured thy living
with harlots, thou hast kflled for him
the fatted calf.
31. And he said unto him. Son, thou
art ever with me ; and all that I have
is thine. 32. It was meet that we should
make merry, and be glad : for this thy
brother was dead, and is alive again ;
and was lost, and is found.

self-righteoueneee, and expoee the con
duct of the Jewe in their high eeteem of
theraselves while they despised others ;
also, that the dealings of God with thera
would be widely different from their
expectations, and would reprove their
pride and selfiehuees.
The parable of Benjarain, while it
predicted and prefigured the same
event, — the calling in of the Gentiles, —
had, beeides, many other things con
nected with it. The twelve witnesses
raust be prepared to testify to the
household of Jacob, that Joeeph was yet
alive; and that he wae governor of the
land of Egypt. Neither of these things
would be credited but upon the most re-

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425

liable testimony. In addition to the ne-
ceaaity of the number twelve to complete
the apoatieehip, it was raost likely that
Benjamin would be more familiar with
his own brother, — better recognize his
person, and be able with greater cer
tainty to identify him, under these new
and strange ciroumstancee.
So rauch for the type. The antitype

muet aleo be accredited by the raoet in
fallible proofs. All that had been writ
ten and predicted of the Messiah, must
be fulfilled in him. Among these things
was, that he should not only "restore
the preserved of Israel," but that he
should be "a light to lighten ihe Gen
tiles:'

CHAPTER XLIV.

TTie Letter.
1. And he commanded the steward
of his house, saying, FiU the men's
sacks with food, as much as they can
carry, and put every man's money in
his sack's mouth.
2. And put my cup, the silver cup,
m the sack's mouth of the youngest,
and his corn money. And he did ac
cording to the word that Joseph had
spoken. Note.
In order to eee the eymbolical and
mystical meaning of this strange aot of
Joseph iu his conduct towards Benja
min ; and also to find an analogy to it
in the history of Paul and his ministry,
we must look, not merely at the act it
self, but to the design and intention of
it The twelve witnesses that were
chosen to preach the everlasting gospel,
must be prepared and instructed for the
great work. All, excepting Paul, had
been favored with personal intercouree
with Christ during his public ministry,
80 that they could say, " That which we
have seen with our eyes, fehich we have
looked upon, and our hands have handled
ofthe word of life, declare we unto you."
To supply the lack of this epecial
training, it is supposed by sorae, that
Paul, after his rairaculous conversion,
was privileged with the immediate per
sonal teaching of Christ during the three
years which intervened between his
baptism by Ananias, and his going up to

The Spirit.
2 CoR. xii. 1. It is not expedient
for me doubtiess to glory. I will come
to visions and revelations of tho Lord.
2. I knew a man in Christ above
fourteen years ago, (whether in the
body, I cannot tell; or whether out of
the body, I cannot tell: God know
eth:) such a one caught up to tho
third heaven.
3. And I knew such a man, (whe
ther in the body; or out of the body, I
cannot tell : God kuoweth ;)
4. How that he was caught up into
paradise, and heard unspeakable words,
which it is not lawful for a man to
utter. 6. Of such a one wfll I glory: yet
of myself I will not glory, but in mine
infirmities. 6. For though I would desire to
glory I shall not be a fool; for I will
say the truth : but now I forbear, lest
any man should think of me above that
which he seeth me to be, or ihat he
heareth of me.
7. And lest I should be exalted
above measure through the abundance
of the revelations, there was given to
me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger
of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be
exalted above measure.
8. For this thing I besought the
Lord thrice, that it might depart from
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¦Jerusalem to confer with the other
apostles. This idea is thought to be ere-
timated in the firet chapter of Galatians.
That he was made " eye^tness " of the
resurrection of Jesus frora the dead, on
hia memorable journey to Damascus, is
not disputed. At any rate we may sup
pose that every deficiency he raight suf
fer from being " horn out of due time,"
was amply supplied by the abundant
revelations made to him, as recorded in
2 Cor. xii. It is also evident from the
whole history of this apostle, that ,a
"thorn in the fiesh " 'vraa needinl, "lest
he should be exalted above measure."
Equally needful was it that Benja
min, who eo clearly typifiee this apostle,
should at this very time, experience a
sirailar discipline. He had just been
made the object of special favor by the
governor of Egypt, and when they were
all fed from his table, Benjamin's meae
waa five times as much as the rest, though
he was the youngest and leaat of all.
In addition to thie, had he been Buffered
to reach his father's house, there to dis
cover the silver cup, and to conclude
that he had been further distinguished

The Letter.
3. As soon as the mommg was
light, the men were sent away, they,
and their asses.
4. A'nd when they were gone out of
the city, and not yet far off, Joseph said
unto his steward. Up, follow after the
men; and when thou dost overtake
them, say unto them. Wherefore have
ye rewarded eril for good ?
5. Is not this it in which my lord
drinketh, and whereby mdeed he divin-
eth ? ye have done evfl in so domg.
6. And he overtook them, and he
spake unto them these same words.
7. And they said unto him, Where
fore saith my lord these words ? God
forbid that thy servants should do ac
cording to this thmg :
8. Behold, the money which we
found m our sacks' mouths, we brought
agam unto thee out of the land of Ca-

9. And he said unto me, My grace is
sufficient for thee : for my strength is
made perfect in weakness. Most gladly
therefore -wfll I rather glory m my in
firmities, that the power of Christ may
rest upon me.
10. Therefore I take pleasure in in
firmities, in reproaches, in necessities,
in persecutions, m distresses for Christ's
sake : for when I am weak, then am I
strong. 11. I am become a fool in glorying :
ye have compefled me : for I ought to
have been commended of you : for in
nothing am I behind the very chiefest
apostles, though I be nothing.
12. Truly the signs of an apostie
were wrought among you in all pa
tience, in signs, and wonders, and
mighty deeds.

above ihem all by this signal gift, would
not Benjarain have been in danger of
glorying above measure over his less fa
vored brethren !

The Spirit.
2 Cor. xi. 22. Are they Hebrews ?
so am I. Are they Israelites ? so am
I. Are they the seed of A.braham ? so
am I.
23. Are they ministers of Christ ? (I
speak as a fool,) I am more ; in labors
more abundant, in stripes above mea
sure, in prisons more frequent, in
deaths oft.
24. Of the Jews five times received
I forty stripes save one.
25. Thrice was I beaten with rods,
once was I stoned, thrice I suffered
shipwreck, a night and a day I have
been in the deep ;
26. In journeyings often, in perUs of
waters, in perils of robbers, in perfls
by mine own countrymen, in perils by
the heathen, in perils in the city, in
perfls in the wilderness, in perfls in the
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naan : how then should we steal out
of thy lord's house sflver or gold ?
9. With whomsoever of thy ser
vants it be found, both let him die, and
we also wfll be my lord's bond-men.
10. And he said. Now also let it be
according unto your words: he with
whom it is found shafl be my servant ;
and ye shaU be blameless. Note.
How admirably suited are the rae
thods of divine wisdom, to bring back to
the feet of sovereign raercy and grace,
euch aa, by reason of unusual manifesta
tions of favor, are tempted to forget
what raanner of pereone they are.
It was not strange that such an one
ae Panl, — taken to the third heaven, and
listening to worda not lawful for mau to
utter, — regaled from the Master's own
cup, and fed from his own table, should
be in danger of being " exalted above

The Letter.
11. Then they speedily took down
every man his sack to the ground, an'"
opened every man his sack.
12. And he searched, and began at
the eldest, and left at the youngest:
and the cup was found m Benjamin's
sack. 13. Then they rent their clothes, and
laded every man Ms ass, and returned
to the city.
14. And Judah and his brethren
came to Joseph's house, (for he was
yet there :) and they fell before him on
the ground.
15. And Joseph said unto them.
What deed is this that ye have done ?
wot ye not that such a man as I can
certainly divine ?
16. And Judah said. What shall we
say unto my lord ? what shall we speak ?
or how shall we clear ourselves ? God
hath found out the iniquity of thy ser
vants : behold we are my lord's ser
vants, both we, and he also with whom
the cup is found.

27. In weariness and painfulness, m
watchings often, in hunger and thirst,
in fastings often, in cold and naked
ness. 28. Besides those things that are
T\'ithout, that which cometh upon me
daUy, the care of all the churches.
29. Who is weak, and I am not
weak? who is offended, and I burn
not? 30. If I must needs glory, I wUl
glory of the things which concem mine
infirmities. 31. The God and Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for
evermore, knoweth that I lie not.
raeasure," and that a "thorn in the
flesh" should be needful for hira. His
divine Master knew exactly how to ad-
minieter the antidote to such dangerous
influence.

The Spirit.
Rom. xi. 18. Boast not against the
branches. But if thou boast, thou
bearest not the root, but the root thee.
19. Thou wflt say then, The branch
es were broken off, that I might be
graffed m.
20. Wefl ; because of unbeUef they
were broken off, and thou standest by
faith. Be not high-minded, but fear :
21. For ff God spared not the natu
ral branches, take heed lest he also spare
not thee.
22. Behold therefore the goodness
and severity of God : on them which
fell, severity; but toward thee, good
ness, if thou continue in his goodness :
otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
23. And they also, if they abide not
still in unbelief, shall be graffed in :
for God is able to graff them in
again. 24. For if thou wert cut out of the
olive-tree which is wfld by nature, and
wert graffed contrary to nature into a
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'' 17. And he said, God forbid that I
should do so : but the man in whose
hand the cup is found, he shall be my
servant ; and as for you, get you up in
peace unto your father.
18. Then Judah came nearunto him,
and said, O my lord, let thy servant, I
pray thee, speak a word in my lord's
ears, and let not thine anger burn
against thy servant : for thou ari even
as Pharaoh.
19. My lord asked his servants, say
ing. Have ye a father, or a brother ?
20. And we said unto my lord. We
have a father, an old man, and a cMId
of his old age, a littie one : and his bro
ther is dead, and he alone is left of his
mother, aud his father loveth him.
21. And thou saidst unto thy ser
vants. Bring him down unto me that I
may set mine eyes upon him.
22. And we said unto my lord. The
lad cannot leave his father : for ¦if he
should leave his father, his father would
die. 23. And thou saidst unto thy ser
vants. Except your youngest brother
come down with you, ye shaU see my
face no more.
24. And it came to pass, when we
came up unto thy servant my father,
we told him the words of my lord.
25. And our father said, Go again,
and buy us a little food.
26. And we said. We cannot go
down: if our youngest brother be with
us, then wUI we go down : for we may
not see the- man's face, except our
youngest brother be with us.
27. And thy servant my father said
unto us, Yo know that my -wife bare
me two sons :
28. And the one went out from me,
and I said. Surely he is torn in pieces ;
and I saw him not pince :
29. And if ye take this also from
me, and mischief befall him, ye shall
bring down my gray hairs with sorrow
to the grave.
30. Now therefore when I come to
thy servant my father, and the lad be

these, which be the natural branches,
be graffed into their own olive-tree ?
25. For I would not, brethren, that
ye should be ignorant of this mystery,
(lest ye should be wise in your own
conceits,) that bUndness in part is hap
pened to Israel, until the fulness of the
Gentfles be come in.
26. And so afl Israel shafl be saved:
as it is vn-itten, There shall corae out
of Zion the Deliverer, and shafl turn
away ungodliness from Jacob.
RoM. xi. 1. I say then. Hath God
cast away his people? God forbid,
For I also am an Israelite, of the seed
of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamm.
2. God hath not cast away his peo
ple which he foreknew. Wot ye not
what the scripture saith of Elias ? how
he maketh intercession to God against
Israel, saying,
3. Lord, they have kflled thy pro
phets, and digged down thine altars;
and I am left alone, and they seek my
Ufe. 4. But what saith the answer of God
unto him ? I have reserved to myself
seven thousand men, who have not
bowed the knee to ihe image of Baal.
5. Even so then at this present time
also there is a remnant according to
the election of grace.
6. And if by grace, thon is it no
more of works : otherwise grace is no
more grace. But if it be of works,
then is it no more grace: otherwise
work is no more work.
7. What then? Israel hath not ob
tained that which he seeketh for: but
the election hath obtained it, and the
rest were bUnded,
8. (According as it is written, God
hath given them the spirit of slumber,
eyes that thoy should not eee, and ears
that they should not hear ;) unto this
day. 9. And David saith. Let their table
be made a snare, and a trap, and a
stumbling-block, and a recompense unto
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not with us; (seeing that his life is
bound up in the lad's life ;)
31. It shall come to pass, when he
seeth that the lad is not with us, that
he will die : and thy servants shall bring
down the gray hairs of thy servant our
father with sorrow to tho grave.
32. For thy servant became surety
for the lad unto my father, saying. If I
bring him not unto thee, then I shaU
bear tho blame to my father for ever.
33. Now therefore, I pray thee, let
thy servant abide instead of the lad a
bond-man to my lord ; and let the lad
go up with his brethren.
34. For how shaU I go up to my fa
ther, and the lad ie not with me ? lest
peradventure I see^ the evfl that shaU
come on my father. Note.
This figure of the " cup" may not only
refer to the case of Paul, and his pecu-

they may not see, and bow down their
back always.

liar and distinguished favors, but also to
the temptation to which the Gentiles
were exposed, of boasting against the na
tural branches, which were cut off, that
they might be grafted into thg olive
tree. They needed to be instructed and
admonished upon the wisdom and good-
neee of God in this arrangement, that
they might "not be high-minded, but
fear," lest they also be cast away.
The gospel net brings into the visible
kingdom both good and bad; but as it
was with the ancient covenant people, eo
wifl it be under the new covenant;
every branch professionally in the vine,
but which brings forth no fruit " '**
taketh away." Empty " carcasses" wilt
always fall in the wilderness, tor they
can never enter " his rest."

CHAPTER XLV.

The Letter.
1. Then Joseph could not refrain
himseff before all them that stood by
him ; and he cried. Cause every man to
go out from me : and there stood no
man with him, whfle Joseph made him
self known unto his brethren.
2. And he wept aloud; and the
Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh
heard. 3. And Joseph said unto his bre
thren, I am Joseph; doth my father
yet live ? And his brethren could not
answer him ; for they were troubled at
his presence. Note.
The two-fold character ofthe brethren
of Joseph, as representing the twelve
witnesses, and also tbe Jewish nation in
their crucifying the Lord of glory, muet
be kept in view, in order to understand

The Spirit.
Rom. xi. 14. If by any means I may
provoke to emulation ihem which are
my flesh, and might save some of
them. 15. For if the casting away of them
be the reconcfling of the worid, what
shall the receiving of them be, but Ufe
from the dead?
16. For ff the first fruit be holy, the
lump is also holy: and if the root ie
holy, so are the branches.
17. And if .some of the branches be
broken off, and thou, being a wfld
olive-tree, wert graffed in among them,
and with them partakest of fhe root
and fatness of the olive-tree ;
***** 27. For this is my covenant unto
them, when I shafl take away their
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the analogy of this type with spiritual
things. Soraetimes the one figure is
alluded to and sometimes the other.
The manifestations of Jesus to his
people, are wholly aside from the
world. A stranger intermeddleth not
with their joys, neither coraprehendeth
the union and fellowship that exiet be
tween them.
The ehort addreea of Joseph is full of
meaning. " I am Joseph ; doth my fa
ther yet live I" It involves everything
of interest both to himaelf and them.
" lam Joseph," whora ye crucified — who
was dead aud is alive, and lives for ever
more, — lives that you may live also, —
reigns and rules that you may enjoy all
the benefits and blessings that are at his
disposal. "Does my father yet live?"
Are ray people, the church, which I pur
chased with my blood, enjoying peace
aud prosperity ? have they befen fed and
nurtured with the provisions of ray
house, and are they in health and safe
ty ; growing in grace, in wisdom, and
knowledge ?

28. As concerning the gospel, they
are enemies for your sakes: but as
touchmg the election, they are beloved
for the fathers' sakes.
***** 32. For God hath concluded them
all in unbelief, that he might have
mercy upon all.
33. O the depth of the riches both
of the wisdom and knowledge of God !
how unsearchable are Ms judgments,
and Ms ways past finding out !
34. For who hath known the mind
of the Lord? or who hath been his
counseflor ?
35. Or who hath first given to him,
and it shafl be recompensed unto him
again? 36. For of him, and through him,
and to him are afl things : to whom ie
glory for ever. Amen.
Zech. xu. 10. And I will pour upon
the house of David, and upon the inha
bitants of Jemsalem, the spirit of gi-ace
and of supplications; and they shafl
look upon me whom they have pierced,
and they shafl mourn for him, as one
mourneth for his only son, and shall be
in bitterness for him, as one that is m
bitterness for Tiis first-bom.

The Letter.
4. And Joseph said unto his bre
thren, Come near to me, I pray you :
and they came near. And he said, I
am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold
into Egypt.
5. Now therefore be not grieved, nor
angry with yourselves, that ye sold me
hither : for God did send me before you
to preserve Iffe.
6. For these two years haih the fa
mine been in the land: and yet ihere
are five years, m tho which ihere shall
neither ie earing nor harvest.
7. And God sent me before you, to
preserve you a posterity in the earth,
and to save your lives by a great deli
verance. 8. So now it was not you thai sent

The Spirit.
Acts Ui. 17. And now, brethren,
I wot that through ignorance ye did
it, as did also your rulers.
18. But those things, which God be
fore had showed by tho mouth of afl
his prophets, that Christ should suffer,
he hafh so fulfifled.
fl. 23. Him, being delivered by the
determinate counsel and foreknowledge
of God, ye have taken, and by wicked
hands have crucified and slain ;
24. Whom God hath raised up, hav
ing loosed the pains of death : because
it was not possible that he should be
holden of it.
IsA. xliv. 21. Remember these, O
Jacob and Israel ; for thou art my ser
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me Mther, but God : and he hath made
me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all
his house, and a ruler throughout aU
the land of Egypt Note.
The vail haa been rent that separated
you from the love and fellowship of your
brother. The coat of many colors, that
ye saw and hated, no longer divides be
tween ua. You can draw nigh, in full
assurance of my love, for it was not you
that did it; — I freely gave myself to
die; "No man took my life frora me,
but I laid it down of myself." "My
Father sent me before you to preserve
you a posterity, — and save much people
alive, as it is this day."
"All power in heaven and earth ia
committed unto me;" — "Ask what ye
will, and it shall be done unto you."
"All thinga are yours;" — for I am
yours, and in me ye have all the riches
of grace and glory — all that pertains to
the life that now is, and that which is
to come. Do not imagine ye eould
have had any power over rae, had it
not been given you from above. Re
member ye not ray dreams? — what is
written in the prophets concerning rae,
that it needs must be that Christ must
suffer, and rise again from the dead,
that the scriptures raight be fulfilled?
"It was not you that sent me hither, but
God;" — so it was "the deterrainate
counsel and foreknowledge of God '
that delivered hia beat beloved Son
into the hands of hia murderere ! Vain
man, in his wisdom, imagines that it
waa the uuforeaeen exigency of the case,
that induced the Father to raake this
sacrifice! That it waa to prevent the
entire subversion of his original plan,
that he resorted to such a remedy for
an unlooked-for evfl! But how does
the testimony of divine truth pour con
tempt upon the blind presumption of
such reasonera !

servant: O Israel, thou shalt not be
forgotten of me.
22. I have blotted out, as a thick
cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a
cloud, thy sins : return unto me ; for I
have redeemed thee.
23. Sing, O ye heavens; for tho
Lord hath done it ; shout, ye lower
parts of the earth; break forth into
singing, ye mountains, O forest, and
-every tree therein : for the Lord hath
redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself
in Israel.
24. Thus saith the Lord, thy Re
deemer, and he that formed thee from
the womb ; 1 am the Lord that maketh
afl things; that stretcheth forth the
heavens alone ; that spreadeth abroad
the earth by myself ;
25. That frustrateth the tokens of
the liars, and maketh diviners mad;
that turneth -vrise men backward, and
maketh their knowledge foolish ;
26. That confirmeth the word of his
servant, and performeth the counsel of
Ms messengers; that saith to Jerusa
lem, Thou shalt be inhabited ; and to
the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built ;
and I wifl raise up the decayed places
thereof; 27. That saith to the deep, Be dry,
and I will dry up thy rivers.
Heb. X. 16. This is the covenant
that I wfll make with them after those
days, saith the Lord; I will put my
laws into their hearts, and in their
mmds wfll I write them ;
17. And theh sins and miquities wifl
I remember no more.
18. Now, where remission of these
is, there is no more offering for sin.
19. Having therefore, brethren, bold
ness to enter into the hoUest by the
blood of Jesus,
20. By a new and living way, wMch
he hath consecrated for us, through the
vafl, that is to say, Ms flesh ;
21. And having a Mgh priest over
the house of God ;
22. Let us draw near vrith a true
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The Letter.
9. Haste ye, and go up to my father,
and say unto him. Thus saith thy son
Joseph, God hath made me lord of afl
Egypt; come down unto me, tarry
not: 10. And thou shalt dwefl in the land
of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto
me, thou, and thy chfldren, and thy
cMldren's cMldren, and thy fiocks, and
thy herds, and afl that thou hast:
11. And there wifl I nourish thee,
(for yet ihere are five years of famine,)
lest thou, and thy household, and all
that thou hast come to poverty.
Note.
The true bread of Ufe is now dis
pensed to the household of Israel ; par
don and peace, repentance and remission
of sins, through a risen and exalted
Saviour ! The twelve are charged with
their high com raission — to proclaira to
the ends of the earth, that Joseph is yet
alive ; " That earae Jesus whora ye cru
cified, is made both Lord and Christ"
" Therefore repent and be baptized, every
one of you, for the remission of sins, and
ye shall receive the gift of the Holy
Ghost ; for the promise is to you and
to your children, and to them that are
afar off, even as many as the Lord thy
God shall call." " Ye are the children
of the prophets, and of the covenant
which God made with our fathera, say
ing unto Abraham, In thee and in thy
seed shall all the kindreds of the earth
be blessed." "For other aheep I have,
which are not of thia fold ; them also I
muat bring, that there raay be one fold
and one shepherd ;" and " Te shall all
be brought nigh by the blood of Jeaua,
and become fellow-citizens with the
saints, and of the household of God." {

our hearts sprinkled from an evfl con
science, and our bodies washed with
pure water.
23. Let us hold fast the profession
of our faith without wavering ; for he
is faithful that promised.

The Spirit.
Mark xri. 15. And he said unto
them. Go ye into all the world, and
preach the gospel to every creature.
16. He that believeth, and is bap
tized, shafl bo saved : but he that be
lieveth not, shafl be damned.
IsA. xlv. 22. Look unto me, and be
ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for
I am God, and there is none else.
23. I have sworn by myself, the
word is gone out of my mouth in
righteousness, and shafl not retum.
That unto me every knee shall bow,
every tongue shall swear. .
24. Surely, shaU one say. In the Lord
have I righteousness and strength:
even to him shall men come; and all
that are incensed against him shall be
ashamed. 25. In the Lord shall all the seed of
Israel be justified, and shafl glory.
Acts x. 36. The word wMch God
sent unto the chfldren of Israel, preach
ing peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord
of all:)
37. That word, I say, ye know,
which was published throughout all
Judaea, and began from Galflee, after
the baptism which John preached ;
38. How God anomted Jesus of
Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and
with power : who went about doing
good, and healing all that were op
pressed of the devfl, for God was -with
hun. ***** 42. And he commanded us to preach
unto the people, and to testffy that it is
he which was ordained of God to be the
Judge of quick and dead.
43. To him give afl the prophets
witness, that through his name who-

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"Nor is there salvation in any other;
for there is none other name under hea.
ven, given among men, whereby ye can
be saved."
The purpose of Joseph was to bring all
hie father's household to himself, that
they might be nourished by his own
hand, and partake of that riches and
honor which had been awarded to hira.
So alao it waa the Father'a wifl, and
" according to hia good pleaeure which
he purposed iu hiraself, that iu the dis
pensation of the fulness of tiraes, he
might gather together in one all things
in Christ, both which are in heaven and
which are on earth, even in hira.''
There were five years of famine yet
remained, when the proclaraation was
sent out to the house of Israel. The
tiraes and eeaeons are not made known
to raen, but this period has, doubtless,
reference to that in which the gospel
should be preached unto all nations for
a witness, and then shall the end be.

soever believeth m hun shall receive re
mission of sins.
Jer. xxxi. 6. For there shall be a
day, thai the watchmen upon the mount
Ephraim shafl cry, Arise ye, and let
us go up to Zion unto the Lord our
God. 7. For thus saith tho Lord; Sing
with gladness for Jacob, and shout
among the chief of the nations : pub
Ush ye, praise ye, and say, O Lord, save
thy people, the remnant of Israel.
8. Behold, I \rill bring them from
the north country, and gather them
from the coasts of the earth, and with
them the blind and tho lame, the woman
with chfld and her that travaUefh with
child together ; a great company shafl
return thither.
9. They shaU come with weeping,
and with supplications wUl I lead thom :
I wfll cause them to walk by the rivers
of waters in a straight way, wherein
they shafl not stumble: for I am a
father to Israel, and Ephraim is my
first-bom. Isa. I v. 1. Ho, every one that thu-st-
eth, come ye to tho waters, and he that
hath no money; come ye, buy, and
eat ; yea, come, buy wme and milk
without money, and without price.
2. Wherefore do ye spend money for
thai which is not bread? and your labor
for thai which satisfieth not ? hearken
dUigentiy unto me, and eat ye ihat which
is good, and let your soul delight itself
m fatness. 3. Incline your ear, and come unto
me: hear, and your soul shaU live;
and I -will make an everiasting cove
nant with you, even the sure mercies of
David.

The Letter.
12. And behold, your eyes see, and
the eyes of my brother Benjamm, that
it is my mouth that speaketh unto
^°13 And ye shall tefl my father ot
afl my glory m Egypt, and of afl that

The Spirit.
Acts ii. 31. He seeing this before,
spake of the resurrection of Christ, that
his soul was not left m hell, neither did
his fiesh see corruption.
32. This same Jesus hath God raised
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ye have seen : and ye shall haste, and
brmg down my father hither.
14. And ho fell upon his brother
Benjamin's neck, and wept ; and Ben
jamin wept upon his neck.
15. Moreover he kissed all Ms bre
thren, and wept upon them : and after
that his brethren talked with him.
16. And the fame thereof was heard
in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's
brethren are come : and it pleased Pha
raoh wefl, and his servants.
Note.
We have before seen that all the bre
thren except Benjamin were eye-wit
nesses of that which wae typically the
death of Christ ; and also, that they had
all seen him alive the first time they
came into Egypt except this younger
brother ; and now he also beheld hira,
and was ready, with the rest to testify
accordingly. This appliea to the case of
Christ and his apostles ; Paul being the
last to behold him.
In all this narrative, Joseph manifests
a special regard to Benjamin. Reason
will say — it is very natural that he
should love his own brother, born of his
mother, better than those born of ano
ther woman. But we look beyond the
natural, and would seek for the spirit
ual reason for this peculiar regard. And
here all we can do to arrive at the fact
ia to resolve it into the same caae of
which Jesus says, " Even so. Father, for
so it seemeth good in thy sight." It
surely was not because the antitypical
Benjamin — ^whether we consider this to
be the Gentiles, or the apostle of the
Gentiles — was better deserving of the
favor of his divine Master, than the
others. He was a persecutor and a blas
pheraer; and they wasted hie substance
in riotous living. But Paul says, " By
the grace of God lam what I am."
The weeping of Joseph over Benja
min, was an expression of joy and love :
but when he also wept upon all his bre
thren, there was a mingled feeling of
pity and compassion, -wkh the natural
affection and sympathy of a brother.
In like manner, while Jesus rejoiced
over his chosen and beloved disciples, ae

iii. 15. And kflled the Prince of life
whom God hath raised from the dead ;
whereof we are witnesses.
Luke xxiv. 38. And he said unto
them. Why are ye troubled ? and why
do thoughts arise in your hearts ?
39. Behold my hands and my feet,
that it is I myself : handle me, and see ;
for a spirit hath not flesh and bones,
as ye see me have.
40. And when he had thus spoken,
he showed them his hands and his feet.
41. And while they yet believed not
for joy, and wondered, he said unto
them. Have ye here any meat?
42. And they gave him a piece of a
brofled fish, and of an honey-comb.
43. And he took it, and did eat be
fore them.
Isa. xUii. 10. Ye are my witnesses,
saith the Lord, and my servant whom I
have chosen : that ye may know and
believe me, and understand that I am
he: .before me there was no God
formed, neither shafl there be after me.
11. 1, even I, am the Lord; and be
sides me ihere is no saviour.
12. I have declared, and have saved,
and I have shewed, when ihere was
no .strange god among you : therefore
ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord,
that I am God.
Acts xv. 47. For so hath the Lord
commanded us, saying, I have set thee
to be a light of the Gentfles, that thou
shouldest be for salvation unto the
ends of the earth.
48. And when the Gentiles heard
this, they were glad, and glorified the
word of the Lord: and as many as
were ordained to eternal life, believed.
Col. i. 27. To whom God would
make known what is the riches of the
glory of this mystery among the Gen
tfles ; which is Christ in you, the hope
of glory.
28. Whom we preach, warning every
man, and teaching every man in all
wisdom ; that ' we may present every
man perfect m Christ Jesus.

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the purchase of his blood, he wept in
compassion over Jerusalem, in view of

the calamities that awaited that devoted
city.

The Letter.
17. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph,
Say unto thy brethren. This do ye;
lade your beasts, and go, get you unto
the land of Canaan ;
18. And take your father, and your
households, and come unto me : and I
wfll give you the good of the land of
Egypt, and ye shafl eat the fat of the
land. 19. Now thou art commanded, this
do ye ; take you wagons out of the
land of Egypt for your littie ones, and
for your wives, and bring your father,
and come.
20. Also regard not your stuff: for
tho good of all the land of Egypt is
yours. Note.
In every regulation of Joseph, and in
all the arrangements of the kingdora,
Pharaoh exactly coincides. They have
but one mind iu all things. Whatsoever
Joseph directs, is doue; Pharaoh only
enforcing the coraraand, and adding
more particular instructions. Thie is
consietent with what is written, "I and
my Father are one." Sometiraes the gos
pel is terraed "the gospel of the grace
of God;'- and soraetiraes it is called
"the gospel ofhis Son," or "the gospel of
Christ." Again, Jeeua hae aaid, " No man com
eth unto me, except the Father which
sent me, draw him; and I wfll raise
him up at the last day." "They shall
be all taught of God. Every man there
fore that hath heard and learned of the
Father, cometh unto me." "Iu my Fa-
ther'e house are raany raansions. I go to
prepare a place for you ; and if I go and
prepare a place for you, I will come
again and receive you unto myself, that
where I ara, there ye may be also."
"Father, I will that they also whom
thou hast given me be with rae where I
am ; that they raay behold ray glory,
which thou hast given rae : for thou
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The Spirit.
Isa. Iv. 2. Wherefore do yo spend'
money for that which is not bread, and
your labor for that which satisfieth
not ? Hearken dfligentiy unto me, and
eat ye that which is good, and let your
soul delight itself in fatness.
3. Incline your ear and come unto
me, hear and your soul shall live ; and
I will make an everlasting covenant
with you, even the sure mercies of
David. Eph. u. 4. But God, who is rich in
mercy, for his gi-eat love wherewith he
loved us,
5. Even when we were dead in sin,
hath quickened us together with Christ ;
(by grace are ye saved ;)
6. And hath raised us up together,
and made us sit together in heavenly
places in Christ Jesus;
7. That in the ages to come he
might shew the exceeding riches of Ms ¦
grace in his kindness toward us, through .
Christ Jesus.
1 CoK. i. 21. Therefore let no man
glory in men : for all things are yours ;
22. Whether Paul, or ApoUos, or-
Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, .
or things present, or thmgs to come ;
all are yours ;
23. And ye are Christ's; and Christ
is God's.
IsA. Ixiv. 4. For since the beginning
of the world men have not heard, nor-
perceived by the ear, neither hath the
eye seen, O God, besides thee, what
he hath prepared for him that waiteth
for him.
Eph. i. 3. Blessed be tho God and
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who
hath blessed us with all spiritual bless
ings in heavenly places in Christ
John xvii. 20. Neither pray I for
those alone, but for them also which
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lovedst me before the foundation of the
world. 0 righteous Father, the world
hath not known thee : but I have known
thee, and theee have known that thou
hast sent me. And I have declared
unto them thy name, and will declare
it; that the love wherewith thou hast
loved me, may be in them, and I in
them."

The Letter.
2 1 . And the children of Israel did so :
and Joseph gave them wagons, ac
cording to the commandment of Pha
raoh, and gave them provision for tho
way. 22. To aU of them he gave each man
changes of raiment: but to Benjamin
he gave three hundred pieces oi sUver,
and five changes of raiment.
23. And to his father he sent after
this manner; ten asses laden with the
good things of Egypt, and ten she-asses
.laden with corn and broad and meat
-for his father by the way.
Note. J
The angels, ministers, or messengers
employed iu the dispensation both of
the law and the gospel, are soraetimes
• called chariots, or wagons, as in the
Ll7th verse of the 68tli Psalra.
It was such chariots ae theee, and
¦such gifts as are "given to every man
,,(in Zion) to profit withal," that are al
luded to by this figure. The gifts which
are diepensed among the members of
'the mystical body of Christ, for the good
of the whole, are wisely appointed by
¦the Head of the church. Though there
are a diversity of operations, yet are all
equally needful ; and no meraber, how-
-ever lacking in honor, or coraeliness,
can be dispensed with, any more than
the one upon which ie bestowed raore
abundant honor. Benjamin as usual
ihas " more than ihey all." But the an
titypical Benjamin was called to more
abundant labor, and more abundant
¦suffering, aud was as much distinguished
in theee ashe was in gifts.
Among the other things which he re-

21. That they all may be one; as
thou. Father, art in me, and I in thee,
that they also may be one in us ; that
the world may believe that thou hast
sent me.
22. And the glory which thou gavest
me I have given them ; that they may
be one, even as we arc one.

The Spirit.
Ps. Ixvui. 11. The Lord gave the
word ; great was the company of those
that published it.
***** 17. The chariots of God are twenty
thousand, even thousands of angels :
the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in
the holy place.
18. Thou hast ascended on high,
thou -hast led captivity captive : thou
hast received gifts for men ; yea, for
the rebellious also, that the Lord God
might dwell among them.
19. Blessed ie the Lord, who daily
loadeth us with benefits, even the God
of our salvation. Selah.
20. He that is our God is the God of
salvation ; and unto God the Lord ie^
long the issues from death.
21. But God shafl wound the head
of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of
such an one as goeth on still in Ms
trespasses. 22. The Lord said, I wfll bring agam
from Bashan ; I wfll bring my people
again from the depths of the sea :
23. That fhy foot may be dipped in
the blood of thine enemies, and the
tongue of thy dogs in the same.
24. They have seen thy goings, O
God; even the goings of my God, my
kmg, in the sanctuary.
25. The singers went before, the
players on instruments /oZ/cwoerf after;
among them were the damsels playing
with timbrels.
26. Bless ye God in the congrega
tions, even the Lord, from the fountain
of Israel.

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counts as being called to, is "the care of
all the churches." If -we take into ac
count that five only of the apostiee are
recorded as eminent laborers, we raay
suppose that Paul had the oversight of
their works, and thus the five changes of
raiment. Israel also, as the representative of
the church, receives at the hand of Jo
seph, abundance of gifts, " for the way."
To the household of faith it ia pro
mised, "My God shall supply all your
need, according to his riches in glory by
Christ Jesus."

The Letter.
24. So he sent his brethren away,
and they departed: and he said unto
them, See that ye fall not out by the
way. 25. And they went up out of Egypt,
and came into the land of Canaan unto
Jacob their father,
26. And told him, saying, Joseph is
yet alive, and he is governor over all
the land of Egypt. And Jacob's heart
fainted, for he believed them not.
27. And they told him afl the words
of Joseph, which he had said unto
thera : and when he saw the wagons
which Joseph had sent to carry him,
the spirit of Jacob their father revived :
28. And Israel said. It is enough ;
Joseph my son is yet alive : I will go
and see Mm before I die.
Note.
A chief requisite in the testimony
borne by the apostles was, that in all
essential poiute they should agree toge
ther ; not 60 minutely ae to look like
collusion and give the impression of
plan and design, but that iu all impor
tant matters they should speak one
thing. The transition from the deep despond- 1

27. There is littie Benjamin with
their ruler, the princes of Judah and
their council, the princes of Zebulun,
and the princes of Naphtali.
28. Thy God hath commanded thy
strength: strengthen, O God, that
which thou hast wrought for us.
1 CoK. xu. 4. Now there are diver
sities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
5. And there are differences of ad
ministrations, but the same Lord.
6. And there are diversities of opera
tions, but it is the same God which
worketh all in all.
7. But the manifestation of the Spi
rit is given to every man to profit
withal.

77ie Spirit.
I Cor. i. 10. Now, I beseecn you,
brethren, by the name of our Lord Jo
sus Christ, that ye all speak the samo
thing, and thai there be no divisions
among you ; but that ye bo perfectly
joined together in tho same mind, and
in the same judgment
Matt, xxviu. 16. Then the eleven
disciples went away into GaUlee, into a
mountain where Jesus had appointed
them. 17. And when they saw him, they
.worshipped him: but some doubted.
John xx. 25. Except I shall see in
his hands the print of the nails, and put
my finger into the print of the nails,
and thrust my hand into his side, I -will
not believe.
1 Ep. John i. 1. That which was
from the beginning, which we have
heard, which we have seen with our
eyes, which we have looked upon, and
our hands have handled, of the word
of life ;
2. (For the Iffe was manifested, and
we have seen it, and bear witness, and
shew unto you that eternal lffe which
was with the Father, and was mani
fested unto us ;)
3. That which we have seen and

ency, which fell upon the disciplee at
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of his being again alive, muet have been
overwhelming. With all his prerioue
teaching, (the dreams of Joseph,) they
understood nothing of the nature and
design of his death ; of course nothing of
his resurrection. Therefore when the
news was spread araong them that their
Lord was risen, and had been seen by
many, it was not strange that they
should doubt When, however, the evi
dence became conclusive ; especially
when " ihe promise of the Father" (the
waggons) was sent to endue thera with
power, and to bring thera nigh, they no
longer doubted ; but boldly declared the
things which had taken place ; testify
ing both to Jews and Gentilea, that Je
sua was both Lord and Christ.
"No raan can call Christ Lord but by
the Holy Ghost," whose special office it
is to testify of hira. The Spirit of Truth,
the Coraforter, takes of the things that
are Christ's and shows them to his peo
ple, whereby they are enabled to say,
'' It is enough," " Iknow that my Redeem
er lives," and that I ahall have life in hia

may have feUowship with us: and
truly our feUowship is with the Father,
and with his Son Jesus Christ.
IsA. Iii. 6. Therefore my people
shall know my name : therefor* ihey
shall know in that day that I am he that
doth speak : behold, it is I.
7. How beautiful upon the moun
tains are the feet of him that bringeth
good tidings, that publisheth peace;
that bringeth good tidings of good, that
publisheth salvation; that saith unto
Zion, Thy God reigneth !
8. Thy vvatchmen shall lift up the
voice; with the voice together shall
they sing : for they shall see eye to
eye, when the Lord shall bring again
Zion. 9. Break forth into joy, sing to
gether, ye waste places of Jerusa
lem: for the Lord hath comforted
his people, he hath redeemed Jeru
salem.

CHAPTER XLVI.

The Letter.
1. And Israel took' Ms journey with
all that he had, and came to Beer-
sheba, and offered sacrifices unto the
God of his father Isaac.
2. And God spake unto Israel in the
risions of the night, and said, Jacob,
Jacob I And he said. Here am I.
3. And he said, I am God, the God
of thy father : fear not to go down into
Egypt ; for I wiU there make of thee a
great nation.
4. I wifl go down with thee into
Egypt; and I will also surely bring
thee up again: .and Joseph shall put
his hand upon thine eyes.
Note.
I Again Israel ia found at Beer-sheba,

The Spirit.
Acts i. 12. Then returned they
unto Jerusalem from the mount cafled
OUvet, which is from Jerusalem a sab
bath-day's journey.
13. And when they were come in,
they went up into an upper room, where
abode both Peter, and James, and John,
."md Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bar
tholomew, and Matthew, James llie son
of Alpheus, and Siraon Zelotes, and
Judas the brother of James.
14. These all continued with one
accord in prayer .ind supplication, with
the women, and Mary the mother of
Jesus, and with his brethren.
44. Aid all that believed were toge
ther, and had all tiimgs common ;

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tiie well of the oath ; for all that is done
to establish and bless, to build up and
extend Zion, at any time, or under any
circumstances, is in accordance with the
same oath and promise of God to Abra
ham, in which he sware by himself. For
the covenant of peace was between them both
— the Father and the Son ; and not with
man that should lie, or the aon of man
that should repent; and it was given to
Abraham by promise : and not to hira, as
the father of the circumcision only, but
of the uncircumcision also ; that it might
be sure to all the seed ; not to that which
is of the law only, but to that which is
of the faith of our father Abraham.
Hence all such, whether Jew or Gentile,
are bidden to " look unto Abraham their
father, and unto Sarah thai bare them."
And now that the whole house of
Israel are to be gathered to Shiloh,
whether in Jerusalem or iu Egypt, — in
heaven or in earth, — Jews or Gentiles;
— they are reminded of the well of the
oath; and that this is the word of the
Lord, spoken in "visions of the night," —
but brought to pass in this gospel day of
light and eal vation.
"Joseph shall put hie hand upon thine
eyes," — so the reign of the King of kings
and Lord of lords shall extend through
out all ages; and when the testimony of
the dispensation of the Spirit shall be
closed and sealed for ever, and the me
diatorial kingdom shall be given up to
the Father, then shall the second Person
in the Godhead, the Lamb that sits in
the midst of the throne, be God over all,
blessed for evermore ; to whora every
knee shall bow ; and he shall receive
blessing, and honor, and glory, and
power, frora every creature in heaven
and in earth.

The Letter.
6. And Jacob rose up from Beer-
hheba: and the sons of Israel carried
Jacob their father, and their Uttie ones,
and their wives, in the wagons which
Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
6. And they took their cattle, and
their goods, which they had gotten in

45. And sold their possessions and
goods, and parted them to all men, as
every man had need.
46. And they, continuing daUy -with
one accord in the temple, and breakmg
bread from house to house, did eat
their meat with gladness and single
ness of heart,
47. Praising God, and having favor
with all the people. And the Lord
added to the church daily such as
should be saved.
U. 1. And when the day of Pente
cost was fully come, they were afl with
one accord in one place.
2. And suddenly there came a sound
from heaven, as of a rushmg mighty
wind, and it filled all the house where
they were sitting.
3. And there appeared unto them
cloven tongues, like as of fire, and it
sat upon each of them.
4. And they were all fiUed with the
Holy Ghost, and began to speak with
other tongues, as the Spirit gave them
utterance. IsA. U. 12. I, even I, am he that com-
forteth you : who art thou, that thou
shouldest be afraid of a man ihat shall
die, and of the son of man which shall
be made as grass ;
13. And forgettest the Lord thy
Maker, that hath stretched forth the
heavens, and laid the foundations of
the earth ; and hast feared continually
every day because of the fury of the
oppressor, as if he were ready to de
stroy? and where is the fury of the
oppressor ?

The Spirit.
Gen. xxxvii. 9. And he dreamed ye t
another dream, and told it his brethren,
and said. Behold, I have dreamed a
dream more : and behold, the sun and
the moon and the eleven stars made
obeisance to me.
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the land of Canaan, and came into
Egypt, Jacob, and aU his seed with
hun :
7. His sons, and his sons' sons with
him, his daughters, and Ms sons'
daughters, and afl his s«ed, brought he
with him into Egypt
8. And these are the names of the
chfldren of Israel which came into
Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben,
Jacob's first-born.
9. And the sons of Reuben ; Ha-
noch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and
Carmi. 10 And the sous of Simeon ; Je-
muel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin,
and Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Ca
naanitish woman.
11. And the sons of Levi; Gershon,
Kohath, and Merari.
12. And the sons of Judah; Er, and
Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and
Zarah : but Er and Onan died in the
land of Canaan. And the sons of
Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.
1 3. And the sons of Issachar ; Tola,
and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron.
14. And the sons of Zebulun ; So
red, and Elon, and Jahleel.
15. These ie the sons of Leah, which
she bare unto Jacob in Padan-aram,
with his daughter Dinah : all the souls
of Ms sons and his daughters were
thirty and three.
ijj rP T* ^ ^
26. AU the souls that came with
Jacob into Egypt, which came out of
Ms loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives,
all the souls were threescore and six.
27. And the sons of Joseph, which
were borne Mm in Egypt, were two
souls : all the souls of the house of
Jacob, which came into Egypt, were
threescore and ten. Note.
The house of Israel wcre all nurabered
and brought out by name ; to show that
he who keepeth them is " strong in
power," and therefore "not one faileth."
None whose names are written in the
book of life, — engraven on the breast-

to his brethren : and his father rebuked
him, and said unto him. What is this
dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall
I and thy mother and thy brethren in
deed come to bow down ourselves to
thee to the earth ?
Isa. xl. 26. Lift up your eyes on
high, and behold who hath created
these things, that bringeth out their
host by number : he caUelh them all by
names, by the greatness of his might,
for that 7ie is strong in power ; not one
faUeth. Ps. cxxxix. 16. Thine eyes did see
my substance, yet being unperfect ; and
in thy book aU my members were writ
ten, which in continuance were fashion
ed, when as yet there was none of
them. 17. How precious also are thy
thoughts unto me, O God I how great
is the sum of them I
18. Ifl should count them, they are
more in number than the sand : when I
awake, I am still with thee.
Rev. XX. 12. And I saw the dead,
small and great, stand before God;
and the books were opened : and ano
ther book was opened, which is the book
of life : and the dead were judged out
of those things which were written in
fhe books, according to their works.
***** 15. Aud whosoever was not found
written in the book of life was cast
into the lake of fire.
Ex. xxviu. 17. And thou shalt set
in it settings of stones, even four rows
of stones ; ilie first row shall be a sar
dius, a topaz, and a carbuncle : this shall
be fhe first row.
18. And the second row shall be an
emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
19. And the third row a ligure, an
agate, and an amethyst.
20. And the fourth row a beryl, and
an onyx, and a jasper : they shall be set
in gold in their enclosings.
21. Andthe stones shafl be with tho
names of the children of Israel, twelve,
according to their names, like the en-

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plate of the High Priest, and borne by
hira into the holy place for a raeraorial,
— can ever be loat; for of these Jesus
saya, " My Father which gave them me
is greater than all, and none is able to
pluck them out of my Father's hand."
But it must be remembered, that all
this is said of Israel only as a type;
" for they are not all Israel who are of
Israel ;" but the children of promise are
counted for the seed. Yet are the spi
ritual Israel all numbered and called,
and recorded by name in the Larab's
book of life.

gravings of a signet ; every one with
his name shafl they be according to the
twelve tribes.
***** 29. And Aaron shall bear tho names
of the children of Israel in the breast
plate of judgment upon his heart,
when he goeth in unto the holy place,
for a memorial before the Lord con
tinually.

The Letter.
28. And he sent Judah before him
unto Joseph, to direct his face unto
Goshen ; and they came into the land
of Goshen.
29. And Joseph made ready his
chariot, and went up to meet Israel Ms
father, to Goshen, and presented him
self unto him, and he fell on his neck,
and wept on his neck a good while.
30. And Israel said unto Joseph,
Now let me die, since I have seen thy
face, because thou art yet alive.
Note.
"" It was eminently the tribe of Judah
which waa chosen to direct the houae of
larael to Christ. Thia tribe were to be
specially and miraculouely preeerved
till Shfloh eame, to whom the gathering
of the people ehould be. When, there
fore, Jeeus was born in Bethlehem of
Judah, as "king of the Jews," to assume
the sceptre of his father David, he wae
obviouely identified with the Shiloh of
this prophecy. As the " Lion of the
tribe of Judah," he opened the sealed
book of the raysteries of God, — raade
manifest what had been hid for ages, —
which had been testified by the pro
phets, and were now revealed to the
church. But it wae not enough that Joseph
sent Judah to direct the face of Jacob
to Goshen. He made ready his chariot
and went hiraaelf to raeet his father, and

The Spirit.
Ps. Ixviii. 17. The chariots of God
are twenty thousand, even thousands of
angels ; the Lord is among them, as in
Sinai, iu the holy place.
Luke U. 26. And, behold, there
was a man in Jerusalem, whose name
was Simeon ; and the sarae man was
just and devout, -waiting for the conso
lation of Israel : and the Holy Ghost
was upon him.
26. And it was revealed unto him by
the Holy Ghost, that he should not see
death, before he had seen the Lord's
Christ. 27. And he came by the Spirit into
tho temple: and when the parents
brought in the chUd Jesus, to do for
him after the custom of tho law,
28. Then took he him up in his
arms, and blessed God, and said,
29. Lord, now lettest thou thy ser
vant depart in peace, according to thy
word: 30. For mine eyes have seen thy
salvation, 31. Which thou hast prepared be
fore tho face of all people ;
32. A Ught to lighten the Gentiles,
and the glory of thy people Israel.
Ps. Ixviii. 3. But let the righteous
be glad; let them rejoice before God:
yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.
4. Sing unto God, sing praises to
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presented himself before him. So, also,
had Jesus granted to his people only
outward testiraony, — the evidence of
the best attested facts, — they would
have remained still afar off in unbelief
Had it not pleased the Father to reveal
hie Son in them as well as to them, they
could never have been able to " rejoice
with joy unspeakable and full of glory."
Had Simeon received no divine and
spiritual testiraony, "that he should not
depart till he had seen the salvation of
God," he could not so confidently have
rejoiced over the infant Jesus, as the ac
complishment of that promise.
This coming forth of Joeeph to meet
hia father, raay aleo have allusion to the
promise of Jeeue to his disciples, when
he sent them forth to preach in all the
cities, "whither he himself would come ;"
" for," said he, " ye shall not have gone
over the cities of Israel till the Sou of
man be come."

TTie Letter.
31. And Joseph said unto his bre
thren, and unto his father's house, I
wiU go up, and shew Pharaoh, and say
unto him. My brethren, and my father's
house, which were in the land of Ca
naan, are come unto me.
32. And the men are shepherds, for
their trade hath been to feed cattie ;
and they have brought their fiocks,
and theu- herds, and all that, they
have. 33. And it shall come to pass, when
Pharaoh shall call you, and shafl say,
What is your occupation ?
34. That ye shafl say. Thy servants'
trade hath been about cattle from our
youth even untfl now, both we and also
our fathers ; that ye may dwell in the
land of Goshen : for every shepherd is
an abommation unto the Egyptians.

the heavens by his name JAH, and re
joice before him.
6. A father of the fatheriess, and a
judge of the widows, is God in his holy
habitation. 6. God setteth the solitary in fami
lies : he bringeth out those which are
bound with chains : but the rebellious
dwell in a dry land.
7. O God, when thou wentest forth
before thy people, when thou didst
march through the wUderness: Se
lah: 8. The earth shook, the heavens also
dropped at the presence of God ; even
Sinai itself was moved at the presence
of God, the God of Israel.
9. Thou, O God, didst send a plenti
ful rain, whereby thou didst confirm
thine inheritance, when it was weary.
10. Thy congregation hath dwelt
therein : thou, O God, hast prepared
of thy goodness for the poor.
***** 19. Blessed ie the Lord, who dafly
loadeth us with benefits, even the God
of our salvation. Selah.

The Spirit.
John xiv. 2. In my Father's house
are many mansions : if it were not so,
I would have told you. I go to prepare
a place for you.
3. And if I go and prepare a place
for you, I wifl come again and receive
you unto myself; that where I am, there
ye may be also.
xvii. 14. I have given them thy
word ; and the world hath hated them,
because they are not of the world, even
as I am not of the world.
16. I pray not that thou shouldest
take them out of the world, but that
thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
16. They are not of the world, even
as I am not of tho world.
XV. 18. If the world hate you, ye
know that it hated me before ii hated
you.

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Note.
Jeeus not only redeeras his people by
his blood, and bestows upon them the
hope of everlasting life, but he also pro
vides for their welfare in this life. Espe
cially he takes care that they are kept
from the pollutions of the world. One
of the raethods of his grace for this pur
pose, is to separate them from the un
godly by the very nature of their high
calling ; which is in itself so distasteful to
the natural heart that it desires no fel
lowship with them. The more clearly
and decidedly the believer raakes known
to the world the true spirit and charac
ter of his religion, the greater will be
the barrier between him and the ungod
ly. He raust not only be " crucified to
ihe world," but the world must be " cru
cified to him," — must hate hira ae it did
hie Lord ; and then, each will preserve
his proper place. A shepherd was an
aboraination to the Egyptians, and they
desired no fellowship with them ; and
just eo far as the disciples of Chriet raa-
nifeet the spirit of their divine Master,
they -will be hated aud avoided by the
world. There is uo communion between
light and darkness.

19. If yo wcre of the world, the
world would love his own : but bo-
cause yo are not of fhe worid, but I
have chosen you out of the world,
therefore tho world hateth you.
20. Remember the word that I said
unto you, The servant is not greater
than his lord. If they have persecuted
me, they wfll also persecute you : if
they have kept my saying, they will
keep yours also.
2 Coe. vi. 14. Be ye not unequally
yoked together with unbelievers ; for
what fellowship hath righteousness
with unrighteousness? and what com
munion hath light with darkness?
15. And what concord hath Christ
with Belial ? or what part hath he that
believeth with an infidel ?
16. And what agreeraent h.ith the
temple of God with idols ? for ye are
the temple of the living God ; as God
hath said, I will dwell iu them, and
walk in ihem ; and I will be their God,
and Uiey shall bo my people.
17. Wherefore, come out from
among them, and be ye separate, saith
the Lord, and touch not tho unclean
thing ; and I will receive you,
18. And will be a Father unto you,
and ye shall be my sons and daughters,
saith the Lord Almighty.
2 Tim. i. 8. Be not thou therefore
ashamed of the testimony of our Lord,
nor of mo his prisoner : but be thou
partaker of the afflictions of the gospel
according to the power of God ;
9. Who hath saved us, and called
us with a holy calling, not according
to our works, but according to his
own purpose and grace, which was
given us in Christ Jesus before the
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CHAPTER XLVII.

ITie Letter.
I. Then Joseph came and told Pha
raoh, and said, My father and my bre
thren, and their flocks, and their herds,
and all that they have, are come out of
the land of Canaan ; and behold, they
are in the land of Goshen.
2. And he took some of his bre
thren, ei-en five men, and presented
them unto Pharaoh.
3. And Pharaoh said unto his bre
thren, What is your occupation ? And
they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants
are shepherds, both we, and also our
fathers. 4. Thoy said moreover unto Pha
raoh, For to sojourn in the land are we
come : for thy servants have no pasture
for their fiocks, for the famine is sore
in the land of Canaan : now therefore,
we pray thee, let thy servants dwefl in
the land of Goshen. Note.
There are always sorae few that are
"burning and shining lights" in the
church, and do honor to their profeseion.
Such are always honored by their dt
vine Master in being called to signal du
ties, and to fill signal offices in Zion, as
earaplea of the grace of God. These all
declare that they have here no continu
ing city, but that they seek one which
ie to come, even as these five brethren
of Joseph declare to Pharaoh that they
had no pasture for their cattle, and that
it wae the famine which brought them
to eeek a dwelling in Goshen.
It may be the case that_^!;e only of Jo
seph's brethren were presented to Pha
raoh, to show that five of the apostles
were true men, and not the others. It
is evident that only five of the first
twelve, are recorded as active laborers
in the vineyard.
Joseph, in all that he did for hia fa-

The Spirit.
John xvii. 6. I have manifested thy
name unto the men which thou gavest
me out of the world: thine they were,
and thou gavest them me; and they
have kept thy word.
7. Now they have known that afl
things whatsoever thou hast given me
are of thee :
8. For I have given unto them the
words which thou gavest me ; and they
have received them, and have known
syrely that I came out from thee, and
they have believed that thou didst
send me.
9. I pray for them : I pray not for
the world, but for them which thou
hast given me ; for they are thine.
10. And all mine are thine, and thme
are mine ; and I am glorified in them.
***** 13. And now come I to thee; and
these things I speak in the world, that
they might have my joy fulfflled in
themselves. 14. I have given them thy word;
and the world hath hated them, because
they are not of the world, even as I am
not of the world.
15. I pray not that thou shouldest
take them out of the world, but that
thou shouldest keep them from the
evil. 16. They are not of the world, even
as I am not of the world.
17. Sanctify them through thy truth:
thy word is truth.
18. As thou hast sent me into the
world, even so have I also sent them
into the world.
19. And for their sakes I sanctify
myself, that they also might be sancti
fied through the truth.
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ther's house, communicated and adviaed
with Pharaoh, even as Jesua did nothing
without the Father. He says to his
people, "Fear not, little flock, for it is
the Father's good pleasure to give you
the kingdom." The raaneione prepared
for thera were in the Father'e house.
For as Pharaoh had given all into the
hands of Joseph, so all the riches of
grace and glory that had been treasured
in Jesus, were for his people, and be
stowed freely for his sake.

in the same calling wherein he was
called. 21. Art thou called being a servant?
care not for it ; but if thou mayest be
made free, use ii rather.
22. For he that is called in the Lord,
being a servant, is the Lord's freeman :
likewise also he that is called, being
tree, is Christ's servant.
23. Ye are bought with a price ; be
not ye the servants of men.
24. Brethren, let every man wherein
he is cafled, therein abide with God.

The Letter.
5. And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph,
saying. Thy father and thy brethren are
come unto thee :
6. The land of Egypt is before thee ;
in the best of the land make thy father
and brethren to dwell; in the land of
Goshen let them dwell ; and if thou
knowest any men of activity among
them, then make them rulers over my
cattle. 7. And Joseph brought in Jacob his
father, and set him before Pharaoh:
and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
8. And Pharaoh said unto Jacob,
How old art thou ?
9. And Jacob said unto Pharaoh,
The days of the years of my pUgriraage
are a hundred and thirty years: few
and evil have the days of the years of
my life been, and have not attained
unto tho days of the years of the life of
my fathers in the days of their pil
grimage. 10. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and
went out from before Pharaoh.
Note.
No good thing does God tiie Father
withhold from his people; those who
come unto him by Jesus Christ; and
while they are made partakers of the
riches of grace, they render the praise
and the blessing to the God and Father
of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
-who has raade thera meet to be partak-

The Spirit.
IsA. xxv. 6. And in this mountain
shafl the Lord of hosts make unto all
people a feast of fat things, a feast of
wines on the lees, of fat things full of
marrow, of wines on the lees wefl re
fined. 7. And he wifl destroy in tiiis moun
tain the face of the covering cast over
all people, and the vafl that is spread
over all nations.
8. He wUl swaUow up death in vic
tory; and the Lord God wUl wipe
away tears from off all faces ; and the
rebuke of his people shall he take away
from off all the earth : for the Lord
hath spoken it.
9. And it shall be said in that day,
Lo, this is our God ; wo have waited
for him, and he will save us : this is
the Lord; we have waited for him,
we will bo glad and rejoice in his sal
vation. Ps. Ixxxiv. 10. For a day in thy
courts is better than a thousand. I
had rather be a door-keeper in the
house of my God, than to dwell in the
tents of wickedness.
11. For the Lord God is a sun and
shield: the Lord wfll give grace and
o-lory : no good thing will he withhold
from them that walk uprightiy.
12. O Lord of hosts, blessed is the
man that trustetii in thee.
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ers of these gifts. They are also con
strained by the mercies of God to render
themselves a living sacrifice to his eer-
vice. Pharaoh inquires of Jacob, How old
art thou! The answer of Jacob, that
he " had not attained unto the days of the
years ofthe life of his fathers,'' alludee to
the comparative shortness of the period
since the dispensation of the Spirit or
gospel had been established. It was
like the one day in seven which God
blessed and sanctified to hie own uee and
service. But this one day of gospel rest,
though at this time but just commenced,
was never to end. Its " sun should no
more go down, neither ehould its moon
withdraw itself ; for the Lord should be
its everlasting light" <^e.
Jacob is set before Pharaoh and bless
es him. And it is also written, " Now
to hira who is of power to establish you
according to my gospel and the preach
ing of Jesus Christ (according to the re
velation of the mystery which wae kept
secret einee the world began, but now
is made manifest, and by the ecriptures
of the prophets, according to the cora-
mandmeot ofthe everlaating God, raade
known to all nations for the obedience
of faith ;) to God, only wise, be glory
through Jesus Christ f"r ever. Amen."
Aud again, " Blessed be the God and
Father of our Lord and Saviour Jeeus

"ZTie Letter.
11. And Joseph placed his father
and his brethren, and gave them a pos
session in tho land of Egypt, in the
best of the land, in the land of Rame-
sos, as Pharaoh had commanded.
12. And Joseph nourished his fa
ther, and his brethren, and all his
father's household, with bread accord
ing to iheir families. Note.
As Joshua gave Israel possession of
the land of Canaan, after all their jour
neyings in the wilderness ; and as Jo
seph gave thera posseesion of the land
of Egypt, " the best ofthe land," so Jeeus,

a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah
an inheritor of my mountains: and
mine elect shafl inherit it, and my ser
vants shafl dwell there.
10. And Sharon shall be a fold of
flocks, and the valley of Achor a place
for the herds to lie down in, for my
people that have sought me.
Col. i. 20. And, having made peace
through the blood of his cross, by him
to reconcfle all things unto himself; by
him, I say, whether ihey be things in
earth, or things in heaven.
21. And you, that were sometime
alienated, and enemies in your mind
by wicked works, yet now hath he re
conciled, 22. In the body of his flesh through
death, to present you holy, and un
blamable, and unreprovable in his
sight ;
12. Giving thanks unto the Father,
which hath made us meet to be par
takers of the inheritance of the samts
in light ;
13. Who hath delivered us from the
power of darkness, and hath translated
us into the kingdom of his dear Son.

Christ who hath blessed us with all
spiritual blessings iu heavenly places in
Chriet"

The Spirit.
1 Pet. i. 3. Blessed ie the God and
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which,
according to his abundant mercy, hath
begotten us again unto a lively hope,
by the resurrection of Jesus Christ
from the dead,
4. To an inheritance incorruptible,
and undefiled, and that fadeth not
away, reserved in heaven for you,
5. Who are kept by the pow-er of
God through faith unto salvation, ready
to be revealed in the last time.
***** 9. Receiving the end of your faith,
even the salvation of your souls.
10. Of wMeh salvation the prophets

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the Captain of their salvation, the Lamb
that was slain to redeem them out of
every nation, kindred, and tongue, hae
given them " an inheritance incorrupti
ble, undefiled, and that fadeth not awuy,
reserved in heaven for all thai are kept
by the powvr of God, through faith unto
salvation." To this inheritance they were begot
ten again, to a lively hope by the resur
rection of Christ from the dead. As he
lives they shall live also ; for he gave
himself for them, that they might have
Ufe, and have it more abundantly.
From its divine Head is the church of
Ch'riet nourished. Every branch of the
living vine draws its vital sustenance
from the root and all its vigor and fruit
fulness ie dependent upon the strength
and life thus ministered.
The inheritance of the eaiute hae re
spect not only to the heavenly rest and
glory after death, but to all the bless
ings of grace iu the wfldemess. For
when the apoetle describes the new co
venant state of things, as compared with
the first diepensation, he speaks of the
heirs of the kingdom ae aheady come to
their poeeession. "Ye are come unto
mount Zion, and unto the city of tbe
living God, the heavenly Jerusalem;
and to an innumerable company of an
gels; to the general assembly and
church of the first born, which are writ
ten in heaven, and to God the Judge of
afl, and to the spirits of just men raade
perfect; and to Jesua the Mediator of
the new covenant and to the blood of
sprinkling, that speaketh better things
than that of Abel"

T7je Letter.
13. And ihere was no bread in all
the land; forthe famine M.-as very sore,
so that the land of Egypt, and all the
land of Canaan, fainted by reason of
the famine.
14. And Joseph gathered up all the
money that was found m fhe land of

have inquired and searched dfligentiy,
who prophesied of the grace thai should
come unto you.
11. Searching what, or what manner
of time, tho Spirit of Christ which was
in them did signify, when it testified
beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and
the glory that should foflow.
Eph. iv. 16. From whom the whole
body fitly joined together and compact
ed by that which every joint supplieth,
according to the effectual working in the
measure of every part, maketh increase
of tho body, unto the edifying of itself
ha love.iu. 14. For this cause I bow my
knees unto the Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ,
15. Of whom tho whole faraily in
heaven and earth is named,
16. That he would grant you, ac
cording to the riches of his glory, to be
strengthened with might by his Spirit
in the inner man ;
17. That Christ may dweU in your
hearts by faith ; that ye, being rooted
and grounded in love,
18. May bo able to comprehend
with aU saints what is tho breadth, and
length, and depth, and height;
19. And to know the love of Christ,
which passeth knowledge, that ye might
be filled with all fhe fulness of God.
20. Now, unto him that is able to do
exceeding abundantly above all that we
ask or think, according to the power
that worketh in us,
21. Unto him ie glory in the church
by Christ Jesus throughout afl ages,
worid without end. Amen.

Tlie Spirit.
Isa. Ix. 2. For behold, the darkness
shall cover tho earth, and gross dark
ness the people: but fhe Lord shall
arise upon tiiee, and his glory shaU bo
seen upon theo.
RoM. iii. 9. What then ? arc wo bet
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Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for
the corn which they bought : and Jo
seph brought the money into Pharaoh's
house. Note.
When the gospel of the kingdom was
first proclaimed, it was the period spo
ken of by the prophet, " darkness shall
cover the earth, and gross darkness the
people." "There was no bread in all the
land;" or, in other words, "there waa
none righteous, no, not one ; there was
none that understandeth ; there was
none that seeketh after God ; they
were all gone out of the way ; they
were together become unprofitable."
" Joseph gathered up all the money
that was found in the land of Egypt
and in the land of Canaan, for the corn
which they bought." And precisely
what the corn of Joseph was to these
lands, ie the preaching of the goepel
among raen. We have already eeen that
the houeehold of lerael received their
corn "without money or price," but the
Egyptiana were obliged to pay for all
they received. Human reason will re
ply, " All this ia very natural ; Joeeph
would of courae make a difference be
tween the Egyptians and his own bre
thren, and his father's house ; especially
as the corn was all his own ; he having
provided it, and without him was not
anything prepared that was prepared ;
BO that had it not been for Joseph, all
flesh would have perished with famine.
Surely the Egyptians had no claira upon
him, but his own brethren, had they
known wlio he was, and in what manner
he would treat them, would have gone to
him with the greatest confidence of be
ing freely supplied. Besides, he de
clares to thera that God had sent him
before tbem for this very purpose !"
All this is very well, aud a true state
raent of the case ; if the earae reasoning
is only allowed in the antitype. The
blessings of the everlasting covenant
were all prepared, and wholly cora
raitted to the Lord Jeeus Christ, as of
right his own, and with the express
stipulation that they were prepared for
his people, — those whora his Father had
given him — the sheep for whora he laid

have before proved both Jews and Gen
tiles, that they are all under sin ;
10. As it is written. There is none
righteous, no not one :
11. There is none that understand
eth, there is none that seeketh after
God. 12. They are all gone out of the
way, they are together become unpro
fitable : there is none that doeth good,
no, not one.
•?¦ T* 'F ¦?• T*
19. Now we know that what things
soever the law saith, it saith to them
who are under the law : that every
mouth may be stopped, and all the
world may become guflty before God.
20. Therefore by the deeds of the
law there shall no flesh be justified in
his sight : for by the law is the know
ledge of sin.
21. But now the righteousness of
God without the law is manifested,
being witnessed by the law and the
prophets ;
22. Even the righteousness of God,
which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto
all and upon afl them that believe ; for
there is no difference :
23. For all have sinned and come
short of the glory of God ;
24. Being justified freely by his
grace, through the redemption that is
in Christ Jesus:
25. Whom God hath set forth to be
a propitiation through faith in his blood,
to declare his righteousness for the re
mission of sins that are past, through
the forbearance of God.
2 CoR. U. 15. For we are unto God
a sweet savor of Christ, in them that
are saved, and in them that perish.
16. To the one we are the savor of
death unto death ; and to the other the
savor of lffe unto lffe: and who is
sufficient for these things ?
Matt. xxiv. 14. And this gospel of
the Mngdom shafl be preached in all
the world, for a witness unto all na
tions : and then shafl the end come. ,

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down his life — Uie church which he pur
chased with his own blood — the mem
bers of his own body, of his flesh, and
of his bones. Where tiien is tbe injus
tice of his dispensing them accordingly !
At the sarae tirae, if there are others.

The Letter.
15. And when money fafled in the
land of Egypt, and in the land of
Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto
Joseph, and said. Give us bread : for
why should we die in thy presence?
for the money faUeth.
16. And Joseph said. Give your cat
tle ; and I will give you for your cat
tle, if money fail.
17. And they brought their cattle
unto Joseph: and Joseph gave them
bread in exchange for horses, and for
the flocks, and for the cattie of the
herds, and for the asses ; and he fed
them with bread, for all their cattle, for
that year.
18. When that year was ended, they
came unto him fhe second year, and
said unto him. We wfll not hide ii from
my lord, how that our money is spent ;
my lord also hath our herds of cattie ;
there is not aught left in the sight of
my lord, but our bodies and our lands :
19. Wherefore shafl we die before
thine eyes, both we and our land ? buy
us and our land for bread, and we and
our land will be servants unto Pha^
raoh ; and give us seed, that we may
Uve, and not die, that the land be not
desolate. 20. And Joseph bought all the land
of Egypt for Pharaoh ; for the Egyp
tians sold every man his field, because
the famine prevailed over them : so the
land became Pharaoh's. Note.
All raen are either under the law or
under grace. The language of the law
is, "Pay that thou owest," — even "the
uttermost farthing." " Cursed is every
one that continueth not in all thinga

who by law and justice, would have
been cut off from the earth at onet, but
who are suffered to live upon the bounty
of the king, because he has need of them,
why should they not pay for what they
receive ?

The Spirit.
Matt. x-»iii. 25. But forasmuch as
he h.id not to pay, his lord commanded
him to be sold, and his wife and chU
dren, and all that he had, and payment
to be made.
V. 26. Agree with thine adversary
quickly, whUe thou art in tho way with
Mm ; lest at any time tho adversary de
Uver thee to the judge, and the judge
deliver thee to the officer, and thou be
cast into prison.
26. Verily, I say unto thee. Thou
shalt by no means corae out thence,
tifl thou hast paid the uttermost far
thing. Rom. iu. 19. Now we know that
what things soever the law saith, it'
saith to them who are under the law :
that every mouth may be stopped, and
all the world may become guilty before
God. 20. Therefore by fhe deeds of the
law, there shall no flesh bo justified in
his sight: for by the law is the know
ledge of sin.
Gal. iii. 10. For as many as are of
the works of the law, are under the
curse : for it is written, Cursed is every
one that continueth not in aU things
which are written in the book of the
law to do them.
11. But that no man is justified by
the law in the sight of God, ii is evi
dent : for, The just shall live by faith.
12. And tho law is not of faith : but,
The man that doeth them shall flve in
X
them. ii. 16. Knowing that a man is not
justified by the works of the law, but
by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we
have believed in Jesus Christ, that we
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written in the book of the law to do
thera." "The soul that siuneth, it shall
die." .AU raen have sinned, and there
fore, by the law, all are under the curse.
And unless delivered from " tbe law of
sin and death," by the "law ofthe Spirit
of life in Christ Jesus," they must remain
forfeited, soul and body, to divine jus
tice. If they are permitted to have a
reprieve from tbe speedy execution of
the sentence of death, they owe this re
prieve, together with every favor of a
common providence, wholly to the fact
that Jesus Christ has a purpose to ac
complish in the redemption of his peo
ple; and until that purpose is fully
effected, he has need of tlie ungodly, as
instruments of his wfll, in bringing
about and fulfilling his designs. For
this reason, his raediatorial office is
effectual in their behalf, eo far that they
are suffered to live, and to enjoy the
common favors of this life, so long ae
the Lord has need of them. In this
sense, and no other, did Jesue die /or all

and not by the works of the law : for
by the works of the law shaU no flesh
be justified.

The Letter.
21. And as for the people, he re
moved them to cities frora one end of
the borders of Egypt oven to the other
end thereof.
22. Only the land of the priests
bought he not ; for the priests had a
portion assigned ihem of Pharaoh, and
did eat thoir portion which Pharaoh
gave them; wherefore they sold not
their lands.
23. Then Joseph said unto the peo
ple, Behold, I have bought you this
day, and your land for Pharaoh : lo,
here is seed for you, and ye shall sow
fhe land.
24. And it shall come to pass in the
increase, that ye shall give the fifth
pari unto Ph.iraoh, and four parts shall
be your own, for seed of the field, and
for your food, and for them of your
households, and for food for your little
ones.

men. He died for them all, just as Jo
seph died, or suffered, for the Egyptians.
That he did noi die for thera, as he did
for Israel, is raost ajjparent, when he says
to his brethren, "God sent rae before
you to preserve you a posterity in the
earth, aud to aave your lives by a great
deliverance ;" — which language accorde
with all that ie predicted of the purpose
of Christ in dying for hie people. And
again, it ie also apparent by the very
different raanner in which the benefits
of his death and exaltation are appro
priated to Israel and to the Egyptians.
To Israel ia/re«Zy given the best of all
the land of Egypt, with all other things
needful; for Joeeph hiraself sustained
thera. Whereas the Egyptians, though
they did share the corn, yet became
bond-slaves to Pharaoh in return for
such a favor.

The Spirit.
1 John u. 19. They went out from
us, but they were not of us ; for if they
had been of us, they would no doubt
have continued -with us : but ihey went
out, that they might be made manffest
that they were not all of us.
1 Cos. ix. 13. Do ye not know that
they which minister about holy things
live of tlie things of the temple, and they
which wait at tho altar are partakers
with the altar ?
Ezk. xviii. 19. Yet say ye, Why?
doth not the son bear the iniquity of
the father ? When the son hath done
that which i^ lawful and right, and
hath kept all my statutes, .and hath done
them, he shall surely live.
20. Tho soul that sinneth, it shall
die. The son shall not bear the iniqui
ty of the father, neither shall the father
bear the iniquity of the son : the right
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25. And they said. Thou hast saved
our fives : let us find grace in the sight
of my lord, and we wfll be Pharaoh's
servants. Note.
By thia it appears that the dispensa
tion of corn to the Egyptians, was the
means of removing them away from Jo
seph as far as the east is from the west
instead of bringing them nigh, as was
the caae with Israel. This is always the
effect of a preached goepel upon the
wicked, when not accompanied by the
power of the Holy Spirit It estranges,
alienates, aud divides between the right
eous and the wicked. It is the " witness "
which either justifies or condemns ;
which ie a " savor of life unto life, or of
death unto death." This fact is exem
plified by the preaching of Peter on the
day of Pentecost^ and that of Stephen
shortiy after. They both preached the
same gospel, but in the first case the
^ord was made effectual by the Spirit,
and in the other it was not. Peter's
sermon was blessed to the conversion of
three thousand eoule ; but Stephen's
hearers took up stones and stoned him
It appears that the priests were ex
empt from the general rules of Joseph's
administration. They had a portion
from Pharaoh ; and we are told, both in
the law and in the gospel, that " they
who serve the altar, shall live of the
altar." But the word priests may
be rendered princes, or heade of the
people. This may, therefore, allude to
the fact that the rulers of the darkness
of the world, who rule iu the hearts of
the chUdren of disobedience, and blind
their minds to the gospel, have no part
or lot in the goepel, or the benefite of the
mediatorial kingdom and reign of Christ,
but receive their portion from God, as
described in Isa. xxx. 33.
The next regulation of Joseph's reign,
30

him, and the wickedness of the wicked
shall be upon him.
21. But ifthe wicked wifl turn from
afl his sins that he hath committed, and
keep all my statutes, and do that which
is lawful and right, he shafl surely live,
he shafl not die.
22. All his transgressions that he
hath committed, they shall not be men
tioned unto him : in his righteousness
that he hath done he shall Uve.
23. Have I any pleasure at all that
the wicked should die ? saith the Lord
God: and not that he should retum
from his ways, and live ?
24. But when the righteous turneth
away from Ms righteousness, and com
mitteth iniquity, and doeth according to
all the abominations that the wicked
man doeth, shaU he live ? All his right
eousness that he hath done shall not be
mentioned : m his trespass that he hath
trespassed, and in his sin that he hath
sinned, in them shall he die.
25. Yet ye say. The way ofthe Lord
is not equal. Hear now, O house of
Israel ; Is not my way equal ? are not
your ways unequal ?
26. When a righteous man turnetli
away from his righteousness, and coir.-
mitteth iniquity, and dieth in them ; or
his iniquity that he hath done shaU he
die.

was to give seed to those whose lands
were forfeited to Pharaoh, and require
thera to raise food for themselves. Alas!
for thoee on whom this decree, in ita
true spirit and raeaning, is imposed!
Their condition may be seen in the
chapter from Ezekiel, which is here
quoted, where God addresses them ou
their own ground, and takes them in
the snare of their own aelf-righteous de
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26. And Joseph made it a law over
the land of Egypt unto this day, thai
Pharaoh should have the fifth pari;
except the land of the priests only,
which became not Pharaoh's.
27. And Israel dwelt m the land of
Egypt, in the country of Goshen ; and
they had possessions therein, and grew,
and multiplied exceedingly.
28. And Jacob lived in the land of
Egypt seventeen years : so the whole
age of Jacob was a hundred forty and
seven years. No-rE.
Under the first testament, whose terras
were, " this do and thou shalt live," a
tenth part of all the increase was the
Lord's. If the goepel requires twice ae
much, from all who are eo blind ae to
venture entering into euch a bond,
where even their own pereons are
declared forfeited, and where all that
is allowed them is a matter of raere
bounty, it surely is no raarvel if they
are found bankrupt ! If, under the law,
which dealt solely upon the principle of
works, nine-tenths of all they gained
was their own, and yet at the time of
reckoning it waa found they had gained
nothing at all, but were brought in
debtora and robbers of God by the tenor
of their own covenant, how much less
by the new covenant, which is not of
works but of faith, can they expect to
render double? — when, too, nothing
is accepted or will pass current, but
that which comes from the treasury of
Joseph !
Under such a state of things, their
wisdom would be to submit at once,
aa being already debtors and nothing
to pay, instead of going about to
establish a fund of their own, upon a
hopeless risk. They should "cease
from their own works " — and not igno
rantly go about to establish their own
righteousness, instead of submitting to
the righteousness of God.
But while the people of Egypt were
in thia etate of deetitution, larael had
possessions, and riches, and had need of

The Spirit.
EzK. xviii. 27. Again, when the
wicked man turneth away from Ms
wickedness that he hath committed,
and doeth that which is lawful and
right, he shall save Ms soul alive.
28. Because he considereth, and
tumeth away from aU his transgres
sions that he hath committed, he shafl
surely live, ho shall not die.
29. Yet saith the house of Israel,
The way of the Lord is not equal. O
house of Israel, are not my ways equal ?
are not your ways unequal ?
30. Therefore I wiU judge you, O
house of Israel, every one according to
his ways, saith the Lord God. Re
pent, and turn yourselves from afl your
transgressions; so miquity shall not be
your ruin.
31. Cast away from you all your
transgressions, whereby ye have trans
gressed; and make you a new heart
and a new spirit : for why wfll ye die,
O house of Israel ?
32. For I have no pleasure m the
death of him that dieth, saith the Lord
God: wherefore tum yourselves, and
live ye.
Acts xrii. 30. And the times of this
ignorance God winked at; but now
commandeth aU men ever3rwhere to re
pent: 31. Because he hath appointed a
day, in the which he -will judge tho
world m righteousness, by thai man
whom he hath ordained: whereof he
hath given assurance unto all men, in
that he hath raised him from the
dead. Is A. U. 11. Therefore the redeemed
of the Lord shall return, and come
' with singing unto Zion ; and everlast
ing joy shall be upon theu- head : they
shall obtain gladness and joy ; and sor
row and mom-ning shall flee away.
Mal. iii. 18. Then shall ye return,
and discern between the righteous and
the wicked, between him that serveth
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nothing — ^because their dependence was
wholly upon Joseph. Out of hia fulness
they all received, and by his power,
nourished and atrengthened, they grew
and increased and multiplied ; for they
lived by faith.
Jacob lived in Egypt till all these
thinga were accomplished ; — till all the
elect household were gathered " in one,"
and established in their heritage ; — and

until all the land of Egypt,except Goehen,
had become forfeited to Pharaoh, and
all the men of Egypt had become bond
men to Pharaoh, by reaeon of the corn
of Joseph ! In like manner it is written,
" This gospel must first be preached to all
nations for a witness, and then shall the
end be." — " He that believeth, shall be
saved ; and he that believeth not, shall .
be damned."

The Letter.
29. And the time drew nigh that
Israel must die : and he cafled his son
Joseph, and said unto Mm, If now I
have found graco in thy sight, put, I
pray thee, thy Ijand under my thigh,
and deal kindly and truly with me ;
bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt :
30. But I wfll lie with my fathers ;
and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt,
and bury me in their burying-place:
and he said, I wfll do as thou hast
said. 31. And he said. Swear unto me.
And he sware unto Mm. And Israel
bowed himself upon the bed's head.
Note.
And now had been fulfilled that which
is written—" That in the dispensation of
the fulness of time, he might gather to
gether in one, all things in Christ," &c.
In the accomplishment of this purpose,
Jacob had been mightUy active. From
the moraent when he was declared to be
the first-born, and typically "a priest
for ever after the order of Melchizedec,"
he is aent forth ae " the anointed " of the
covenant, to raiee up the seed of Abra
ham, seal the heirs of promise, and re
deem thera from the bondage of the
law As the living power of the " dis
pensation ofthe Spirit," he had brought
life and immortality to light laid the
foundation-stone of Betiiel, and brought
together and buflt up the lively stones
of the spiritual temple, aud theu took
up his abode there, to live iu them, and
walk in them, as the bond of union of
the entire household of God. Lastly, he

Tlie Spirit.
1 Cor. XV. 24. Then cometh the endj ,
when he shafl have deUvered up the
kingdom to God, even the Father;
when he shafl have put down afl rule, .
and all authority, and power.
25. For he must reign, tifl he hatM
put all enemies under his feet.
26. The last enemy thai shafl be de--
stroyed is death.
27. For ho hath put all tilings- under
his feet But when he saith' afl things
are put under ftim, i/ is manifest that
he is excepted wMch did put all things -
under him.
28. And when afl things shafl be
subdued unto him, then shafl the Son ,
also himself be subject unto hun that
put all things under him, that God may
be all in all.
29. Else what shafl they do, which
are baptized for the dead, if the dead
rise not at all? why are thoy then bap
tized for the dead?
30. And why stand we in jeopardy
every hour ?
31. I protest by your rejoicing wMch
I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die
dafly. ***** 46. And so it is written. The first
man Adsm was made a living soul,
the last Adam was made a quickening
spirit. 46. H-oiwbeit, that teas not first
which is spiritual, but that which is
natural; and afterward that which- is
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had bronght this entire household to Jo
seph (Jesus) as their lord and king, to
rule over them for ever.
The special office work of the third
Person of the Godhead being thus finish
ed, he lays down the mortal manifesta
tion of hiraself to men, as his fathers had
done. The time had corae for Jacob to
die ; — for the "record " or witness of the
three in heaven, to cease ; that God may
be all iu all. But the three muet never
cease to be one ; and Jacob raust ty the
oath of the covenant be buried iu Macb
pelah, and not in Egypt.
If this era of the typical hietory cor
respond to that spoken of in 1 Cor. xv.
24, it raay be objected, that it is there
declared, " the kingdom shall he deliver
ed to God, even the Father," — whereas,
in the type it is now left in the hands
of the Son. To this seeming difficulty,
we reply that the title of Father is spe
cially ascribed to God as the great ori
ginal source or mover of the plan of
grace, and that of Son, to him, as having
accompliehed this purpose or plan:
therefore, when the work of redemption
ahould be finiahed, and no more media
tion or priestly intercession needful, this
title, intimating a presiding and direct
ing power, is laid down, and God is oue.
But it must be reraembered that the
title of Father belongs equally to Christ
with that of Son, and that the delivery

52. In a moment, in the twinkling
of an eye, at the last trump : for the
trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall
be raised incormptible, and we shafl be
changed. 53. For this corruptible must put on
incorruption, and this mortal must put
on immortality,
54. So when this corruptible shall
have put on incorruption, and this mor
tal shafl have put on immortality, then
shall be brought to pass the saying
that is written. Death is swallowed up
in rictory.
55. O death, where is thy sting? O
grave, where is thy victory ?
56. The sting of death is sin ; and
the strength of sin is the law.
67. But thanks ie\to God, which
giveth us the rictory, through our
Lord Jesus Christ
58. Therefore, my beloved brethren,
be ye steadfast, unmovable, always
abounding in the work of the Lord,
forasmuch as ye know that your labor
is not in vam in the Lord.

of the kingdom is only the laying down
equally of both, in the union of all in
Him who is " the first and the last" —
" the beginning and the end ;" and fiUs
the throne of God and the Lamb.

CHAPTER XLVIIL

The Letter.
1. And it came to pass after these
things, that one told Joseph, Behold, thy
¦father is sick: and he took with him
his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
2. And one told Jacob, and said. Be
hold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee :
and Israel strengthened himself, and
sat upon the bed.
3. Aud Jacob said unto Joseph, God
Almighty appeared unto me at Luz m
the land of Canaan, and blessed me,

The Spirit.
RoM. viu. 23. And not only they,
but ourselves also, which have the first-
fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves
groan within ourselves, waitmg for the
adoption, to wit, the redemption of our
body. 24. For we are saved by hope. But
hope that is seen, is not hope : for what
a man seeth, why doth he yet hope
for? IsA. xxv. 8. He wfll swaUow up

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4. And said unto me. Behold, I wifl
make thee fruitful, and multiply thee,
and I will make of thee a multitude of
people ; and wfll give this land to thy
seed after thee, /or an everlasting pos
session. 5. And now, thy two sons, Ephraim
and Manasseh, which were born unto
thee in the land of Egypt, before I
came unto thee into Egypt, are mine :
as Reuben and Suneon, they shall be
mine. 6. And thy issue, which thou beget-
test after them, shafl be thine, and! shall
be called after the name of their bre
thren in their inheritance. Note.
Before the reign of Jesus could wholly
lay aside ite mediatorial character, there
remained two thinge yet to be accom
plished under the dispensation of ilie
Spirit. The first of these was the adop
tion oi the two sons of Joeeph by Jacob,
and the instalment of them among the
twelve as Reuben and Simeon. For this
last act Jacob ie represented as strength
ening himself on the bed of death ; ty
pically the strengthening of the church
in ite etruggle with the king of terrors.
" The last enemy which shall be destroyed
is death;'' and the intimation of this
truth is the last act of Jacob. In claim
ing the two sons of Joseph, who were
born to him after his typical resurrec
tion from the dead, Jacob virtually de
clares that the church do not receive in
the present life the full " redemption of
the purchased possession," but only an
"earnest of it;" and that thoee who
have " the first-fruits of the Spirit groan
within themselves, waiting forthe adop
tion, even the redemption of the body."
As these two sons of Joeeph were now
adopted by Jacob, aud placed araong the
twelve, it wae to serve as a token, that
the bodies of the saints, left for a time
"aubject to vanity," ehould finally be
adopted into the famfly of the first-born
¦whoee namea are written in heaven, and
made like unto the glorious body of
their ascended Lord.

death in victory : and tho Lord God
wfll wipe away tears from off all faces ;
and the rebuke of his people shall he
take away from off all the earth : for
the Lord hath spoken ii.
9. And it shafl be said in that day,
Lo, this is our God ; we have waited
for him, and he wfll save us: this is
the Lord ; we have waited for him,
we will be glad and rejoice in his sal
vation. 1 CoR. XV. 17. And if Christ be not
raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in
your sins.
18. Then they also which are fallen
asleep in Christ aro perished.
19. If in this life only we have hope
in Christ, we are of all men raost mise
rable. 20. But now is Christ risen from the
dead, and become the firsf>-fruits of them
that slept.
21. For since by raan came death,
by man came also the resurrection of
the dead.
22. For as in Adam aU die, even so
in Christ shall all be made alive.
23. But every man in his own order :
Christ the first-fruits; afterward they
that are Christ's at his coming.
24. Then cometh the end, when he
shaU have delivered up the kingdom to
God, even the Father ; when he shafl
have put down all rule, and aU author
ity, and power.
25. For he must reign, till ho hath
put all enemies under his feet.
26. The last enemy thai shaU be de
stroyed is death.
Eph. i. 12. That we should bo to
the praise ofhis glory, who first trusted
in Christ
13. In whom ye also trusted, after
that ye heard the word of truth, the
trospel of your salvation : in whom also,
after that ye believed, ye were sealed
with that Holy Spirit of promise,
14. Which is the earnest of our in
heritance, until the redemption of tho
purchased possession, unto the praise
of his glory.

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7. And as for me, when I came from
Padan, Rachel died by me in the land
of Canaan, in tho way, when yet there
was but a little way to come unto
Ephrath : and I buried her there in tho
way of Ephrath, the same is Beth
lehem. 8. And Israel beheld Joseph's sons,
and said, Who are these ?
9. And Joseph said unto his father,
They are my sons, whom God hath
given me in this place. And he said.
Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and
I wfll bless them. Note.
P Bethlehera of Judah was spoken of by
prophets aa the place whence should
come the Governor who ahould rule la
rael, or the united kingdom of Israel aud
Judah, or Jews and Gentiles. There
fore, before reaching that place, Rachel,
in her single character of the daughter of
Zion, raust die, or cease to be.
David, speaking in prophetic rision of
an habitation for the raighty God of
Jacob, says, " Lo, we have heard of it
at Ephratah :'' frora thence should the
tabernacle arise where should rest the
ark of his etrength.
Jacob, in speaking of adopting the sons
of Joaeph, adverts to this prophecy, and
then, as if keeping hold of the links in
the chain of ite complete fulfilment he
asks of Ephraim aud Manasseh, " Who
are these?" "who hath begotteu me
these?" as if the valley of dry bones,
the "whole house of Israel," rose up in
vision before him from their spiritual
graves, to become a temple for the
mighty God of Jacob !
Ephraim and Manasseh united under
the hand of Jacob in one blessing, (only
Ephraim beiog placed before Manasseh,)
points us to the 19th verse of Ezk.
xxxvii. ; where the prophet ie told that
the stick of Joseph in the hand of
Ephraim, shall be united with the stick
of Judah and become one.
Both of these figures therefore refer
to one great event, which is, firet, the
spiritual resurrection of the valley of vi-

The Spirit.
Ps. CXXXU. 1. Lord, remember Da
vid, and all his afflictions :
2. How he sware unto the Lord,
and vowed unto the mighty God of
Jacob; 3. Surely I vrifl not come into the
tabernacle of mine house, nor go up into
my bed ;
4. I will not give sleep to mme eyes,
nor slumber to mine eyelids,
5. Until I find out a place for the
Lord, an habitation for the mighty God
of Jacob.
6. Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah :
we found it in the fields of the wood.
7. We wifl go into his tabernacles :
we wifl worship at his footstool.
8. Arise, O Lord, into thy rest; thou,
and the ark of thy strength.
9. Let thy priests be clothed -vrith
righteousness ; and let thy saints shout
for joy.
10. For thy servant David's sake,
tum not away the face of thine
anointed. 11. The Lord hath sworn in truth
unto David ; he will not turn from it ;
Of the fruit of thy body wUl I set upon
thy tMone.
12. If thy chUdren will keep my co
venant and my testimony that I shall
teach them; their chfldren also shall
sit upon thy throne for evermore.
13. Forthe Lord hath chosen Zion;
he hath desired it for his habitation.
14. This is my rest for ever; here
vrill I dwell ; for I have desired it.
16. I wfll abundantly bless her pro
vision: I wfll satisfy her poor with
bread. 16. I wfll also clothe her priests vrith
salvation, and her saints shafl shout
aloud for joy.
Matt. ii. 5. And they said unto
him. In Bethlehem of Judea : for thus
it is written by the prophet,
6. And thou Bethlehem, in the land
of Juda, art not the least among the
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sion, or " whole house of Israel ;" and
second, the final resurrection ofthe dead,
when by the quickening of the body
and its reunion with the soul, the en
tire " purchased possession" shafl be re
deeraed. This is the last doctrine taught by the
Spirit of truth.

The Letter.
10. (Now the eyes of Israel were
dim for age, so ihat he could not see :)
and he brought them near unto him ;
and he kissed them, and embraced
them. 11. Aud Israel said unto Joseph, I
had not thought to see thy face : and
lo, God hafh shewed me also thy seed.
12. And Joseph brought them out
from between his knees, and he bowed
Mmseff with his face to the earth.
13. And Joseph took them both,
Ephraim in his right hand toward Isra
el's left hand, and Manasseh in Ms left
hand toward Israel's right hand, and
brought ihem near unto him.
14. And Israel stretched out Ms
right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's
head, who was tho younger, and his
left hand upon Manasseh's head, guid
ing his hands wittingly : for Manasseh
was the first-born. Note.
In discerning the things of the Spirit
the natural eyes are of no uee. We
have seen in every case where the pro
phetic bleeeing ia beetowed, it ia uot
after the sight of the eyes or hearing of
the ears. But he who beatowe this in
heritance, is "of quick underetanding,"
(or touch,) and guidee hia hands wit
tingly in the dispensation of his favore.
We find in all cases where the natural
heir is passed by, that the blessing raay
l-est upon the heir of promiae, the father
shows a reluctance to this rejection of
his first-born. Thus it was with Abra-

come a Governor, that shafl rule my
people Israel.
Ezk. xxxvii. 19. Say unto them.
Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I
wifl take the stick of Joseph, which is
in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes
of Israel his fellows, and will put them
with him, even with tho stick of Judah,
and make them one stick, and they
shafl be one in mine hand.

Tie Spirit.
IsA. xi. 2. And the Spirit of the
Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of
wisdom and understanding, the spirit of
counsel and might, the spirit of know
ledge, and of the fear of the Lord ;
3. And shall make him of quick un
derstanding in the fear of the Lord :
and he shall not judge after the sight
of his eyes, neither reprove after the
hearing of his ears :
4. But with righteousuess shafl he
judge the poor, and reprove with equity
for the meek of the earth : and he shall
smite the earth with the rod of his
mouth, and with the breath of his lip
shall he slay tho wicked.
xlii. 16. And I will bring the blind
by a way thai thej knew not ; I wUl
lead thom in paths thai they have
not known : I wfll make darkness
Ught before them, and crooked things
straight. These things will I do unto
them, and not forsake them.
17. They shall bo turned baclc, they
shall be greatiy ashamed, that trust in
graven images, that say to the molten
images. Ye are our gods.
18. Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye
bUnd, that yo may see.
19. Who is bUnd, but my servant?
or deaf, as my messenger thai I sent ?
who is blind as lie thai is perfect, and
blind as the Lord's servant ?
20. Seeing many things, but fhou
observest not: opening the oars, but
he heareth not.
RoM. ix. 15. For he saith to Mo-

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ham iu the case of Ishmael, — with Isaac
in the case of Eaau, — and now with Jo
seph in the caae of Manaeseh. This na
tural sympathy was also manifested by
Jeeus himself in his laraentation over
Jerusalera, and in his weeping at the
grave of Lazarus, where at the same
time his divine power was so remark
ably put forth.
The manner of Jacob's blessing is very
peculiar, and is expressive of that which
it represents, viz. the way in which the
blessings of salvation are made to rest
upon the redeemed. The hands of Ja
cob were crossed I and how crossing and
contrary to our natural desires and car
nal wisdora are all the dealings of God,
both with soul and body ! and yet all
are blessings!

The Letter.
15. And he blessed Joseph, and said,
God, before whora ray fathers Abraham
and Isaac did walk, the God which fed
me all my life long unto thia day,
16. The Angel which redeemed me
from afl evfl, bless the lads; and let my
name be named on them, and the name
of my fathers Abraham and Isaac ; and
let them grow into a multitude in the
midst of the earth. Note.
Tills bleseing is very remarkable !
Though designed for the lads, it ie eaid,
he blcesed Joseph : because all the bless
ings and all the promises are in Christ
for his people. Jacob next cites the fa
thers of the covenant as co-partnereand
witneseea of all that God had done in
feeding and leading hira all hia life long
unto thia day ; and bringa thia forward
in review, as confirmation and security
for the performance of all involved in
tlii.=. blessing.
He next speaks of the angel which
redeemed hira from all evil. Thia laat
invocation must have reference to Jacob
aa identified with the church, when
" the angel of his presence saved tliem ;
and in his love and in his pity he ro

ses, I wiU have mercy on wom I vrifl
have mercy, and I will have compassion
on whom I wfll have compassion.
16. So then it is not of him that
wflleth, nor of him that runneth, but of
God that sheweth mercy.
1 Cor. XV. 45. And so it is -written.
The first man Adam was made a li-ring
soul, the last Adam was made a quick
ening spirit.
46. Howbeit that was not first which
is spiritual, but that which is natural ;
and afterward that which is spiritual.
47. The first man is of the earth,
earthy; the second man is the Lord
from heaven.

The Spirit.
Deut. xxxU. 9. For tho Lord's por
tion is his people ; Jacob is the lot of
his inheritance.
10. He found him in a desert land,
and in the waste howling wilderness ;
he led Mm about, he instructed him, he
kept him as the apple of his eye.
11. As an eagle stirreth up her nest,
fiuttereth over her young, spreadeth
abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth
them on her wings;
12. So tho Lord alone did lead him,
and ihere was no strange god with
him. xxxui. 28. Israel then shall dwell in
safety alone: the fountain of Jacob
shall be upon a land of corn and wine ;
also his heavens shafl drop down dew.
29. Happy art thou, O Israel : who is
like unto thee, O people saved by the
Lord, the shield of thy help, and who
is the sword of thy exceUency! and
thine enemies shall be found liars unto
thee, and thou shalt tread upon theu-
high places.
Isa. Ixiu. 7. I wifl mention the lov
ing-kindnesses of the Lord, a'nd the
praises of the Lord, according to all
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deemed them ; and he bare them and
carried tliem all the days of old."
And lastly Jacob desires that his narae
and the name of his fathera, Abraham
and Isaac, raight be named upon them,
and that they raight grow into a multi
tude, (fee. This refers ua to the words
of the gospel coraraissiou given to the
twelve, when they were sent to preach
to every creature, " baptizing them in
the name of the Father, ofthe Son, and of
the Holy Ghost." This narae is the sig
nature placed to the seal of the cove
nant to render valid aud sure the deed
of proraise.

T?je Letter.
17. And when Joseph saw that his
father laid his right hand upon tho head
of Ephraim, it displeased him : and he
held up his father's hand, to remove it
from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's
head. 18. And Joseph said unto his father,
Not so, my father : for this is the first
born ; put thy right hand upon his
head. 19. And Ms father refused, and said,
I know it, my son, I know ii : he also
shall become a people, and he also shaU
be great; but truly his younger brother
shall be greater than he, and his seed
shafl become a multitude of nations.
Note.
In opposing the decree of Jacob, sanc
tioned as it was by the names of the
united three, we must suppose Joseph
to aot by the sympathies of his human
nature only, ae the type of Jeeue, or the
Word made flesh. Taking part of the
same nature as the children which the
Father had given hira, he pleads in
their behalf, as the Mediator of the cove
nant. The reply is, tiiat Manaeseh should be
great but surely hie brother should be
greater than he. So was it with Isaac
and Ishraael, and with Jacob and Esau.

the great goodness toward the house of
Israel, which he hath bestowed on them
according to his mercies, and according
to the multitude of his loving-kind
nesses. 8. For he said. Surely they are ray
people, chUdren thai will not lie : so ho
was their Saviour.
9. In all their affliction ho was af
flicted, and tho angel of Ms presence
saved them : in his love and in his pity
he redeemed them ; and he bare them,
and carried them afl tho days of old.
Matt, xxvui. 19. Go ye therefore
and teach afl nations, baptizing themin
fhe name of the Father, and of the Son,
and of the Holy Ghost.

"ZTie Spirit.
Num. xxiU. 19. God is not a man,
that ho should lie ; neither the son of
man, that ho should repent: hath he
said, and shall he not do ill or hath
ho spoken, and shall ho not make it
good? 20. Behold, I have received com
mandment to bless : and he hath bless
ed ; and I cannot reverse it.
IsA. .\1. 13. Who hath directed the
Spirit of tho Lord, or, being Ms coun
sellor, hath taught him ?
14. With whom took he counsel, and
who instructed him, and taught him in
the path of judgraent, and taught him
knowledge, and shewed to him the
way of understanding?
xlvi. 9. Reraember the former things
of old ; for I am God, and there is none
else ; / am God, and there is none like
me, 10. Declaring the end from tho be
ginning, and from ancient times ihe
things that are not -yet done, saying.
My counsel shaU stand, and I wfll do
all my pleasure.
Jer. xxxi. 9. They shall come with
weeping, and with supplications wfll I
lead them ; I wifl cause them to walk
by the rivers of waters in a straight
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The spiritual exceeds the natural ; — the
heir of promise is greater than the seed
of the flesh — and the heavenly inherit
ance, superior to the earthly.
Ephraim ia one of the names given to
the whole family of Israel, while Manas
seh ie never applied but to a small por
tion. This tribe was divided ; half hav
ing their lot on one si^e Jordan, and
half on the other. This shows that they
that are dead, and they that remain
alive, are both of one family.

The Letter.
20. And he blessed them that day,
saying. In thee shall Israel bless, sav
ing, God make thee as Ephraim and as
Manasseh : and he set Ephraim before
Manasseh. 21. And Israel said unto Joseph, Be
hold, I die ; but God shall bo with you,
and bring you again unto the land of
your fathers.
22. Moreover I have given to thee
one portion above thy brethren, which
I took out of the hand of the Amorite
with my sword and with my bow.
Note.
I'he blessing which distinguishes Israel
from the world — or the spiritual from
the natural — ie being made alive in
Christ frora a death in sin, previous to
being made alive from the death of the
body. Therefore it is written, " Blessed
are the dead that die-in the Lord; and
blessed are they which have part in the
first resurrection," &a.
When Christ rose from the dead, he
became the "first-fruits " of ihem that
slept; — a promise of the harvest. By

for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim
is my first-born.
10. Hear the word of the Lord, O
ye nations, and declare ii in the isles
afar off, and say, Ho that scattered
Israel wUl gather him, and keep Mm,
as a shepherd doih his flock.
11. For the Lord hath redeemed
Jacob, and ransomed him from the
hand of him that was stronger than
he. ***** 16. Thus saith the Lord; Refrain
thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes
from tears : for thy work shall be re
warded, saith the Lord ; and they
shafl come again from the land of the
enemy. 17. And there is hope m thine end,
saith fhe Lord, that thy children shafl
come again to their own border.

The Spirit.
Rev. XX. 4. And I saw thrones,
and they sat upon them, and judgment
was given unto them : and / saw the
souls of them that were beheaded for
the witness of Jesus, and for the word
of God, and which had not worshipped
tho beast, neither his image, neither had
received his mark upon their foreheads,
or in their hands ; and they lived and
reigned with Christ a thousand years.
5. But the rest of the dead lived not
again untU the thousand years were
finished. This is the first resurrec
tion. 6. Blessed and holy is he that hath
part in the first resurrection : on such
the second death hath no power, but
they shall be priests of God and of
Christ, and shall reign with him a thou
sand years.
xiv. 13. And I heard a voice from
heaven, saying unto me. Write, Blessed
are the dead which die in the Lord from
henceforth : Yea, saith tho Spirit, that
they may rest from thoir labors; and
their works do follow them.
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"the dew of his youth" the earth should
send forth her dead. Ephraim, which
signifies fruitfulness, is a figurative pro-
raise that the "whole house of Israel,"
quickened and raade alive frora a death
in sin, to apiritual fruitfulness, should
also be quickened together with Christ,
and raade alive from the death of the
body, and raised up to dwell with him
for ever. But in the order of this bless
ing the spiritual quickening is first, and
theu that of the body. But as both lads
were blessed together, so is the promise
of both these ihings equally sure.
Jacob gives to Joseph " one portion
above his brethren, which he took from
the hand of the Amorite with his sword
and with his bow.'' But Jacob was " a
plain man and dwelt in tents ;" and we
never read of his using a sword or con
tending with any one. But " the sword
of the Spirit, which is the word of God,"
is sharp and powerful, and is that with
which a portion is divided to Jesus
"with the strong;" — because he had
made his eoul an offering for sin. And
it is the " dispensation of the Spirit ' ' —
the preached gospel — which is the pow
er of God unto salvation.

have you to bo ignorant, brethren, con
ceming them which are asleep, that ye
sorrow not, even as others which have
no hope.
14. For if we boUeve that Jesns died
and rose again, even so them also
which sleep in Jesus will God bring
with him.
IsA. Uii. 11. He shall see of the
travail of his soul, and shall be satis
fied : by Ms knowledge shall my right
eous servant justify many ; for he shall
bear their iniquities.
12. Therefore wiU I divide him a
portion with the great, and he shaU di
vide the spoil with the strong ; because
he hath poured out his soul unto death :
and he was numbered with tho trans
gressors ; and he bare tho sin of many,
and made intercession for the trans
gressors. Rev. i. 16. And he had in his right
hand seven stars ; and out of his mouth
went a sharp two-edged sword; and
his countenance was as tho sun shmeth
in his strength.
Eph. vi. 17. * * * And the sword
of the Spirit, which is the word of
God.

CHAPTER XLIX.

ITie Letter.
1. And Jacob called unto his sons,
and said, Gather yourselves together,
that I may tell you thai which shaU be-
faU you in the last days.
2. Gather yourselves together and
hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken
unto Israel your father.
3. Reuben, thou art my first-bom,
my might, and tho beginning of my
strength, the excellency of dignity, and
the excellency of power :
4. Unstable as water, thou shalt not
excel ; because thou wentest up to thy
father's bod ; then defiledst thou it : he
went up to my couch.

The Spirit.
Eph. ii. 20. And are built upon tho
foundation of the apostles and pro
phets, Jesus Christ himself being the
chief corner-stone ;
21. In whom all the building fitiy
framed together, groweth unto a holy
temple in the Lord :
22. In whom yo also are buUded to
gether, for a habitation of God through
the Spirit.
Deut. xxxiii. 4. Moses commanded
us a law; even the inheritance of tho
congregation of Jacob.
6. And he was king in Jeshurun,
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Note.
The prophetic declarations of Jacob,
concerning his twelve sons, have respect
to their typical character, ae represent
ing the twelve foundation stones of the
goepel kingdora. Many analogies raay
of course be traced between these heads
of the tribes and the twelve apostles.
We have before corapared Reuben
with Peter. Reuben was the first-born
of Jacob, and Peter was the firet-fruite
of the gospel ; the first called into the
kingdom and service of Christ. Not
only so, but he was chosen to lay the
first stone in the visible kingdora of
heaven, araong both Jews and Gentiles.
He preached the first gospel sermon on
the day of Pentecost and also to the
Gentilea at the house of Cornelius. But
it appears that his apostleship to the
Gentiles was subsequently given to
Paul Reuben was the "excellency of
dignity and the excellency of power " —
and Peter also was pre-eminent for
boldness and zeal in his Master's ser
vice. Peter was distinguished by Jesus in
many ways. His very name, and espe
cially the name given him, of Cephas,
which was only a confirmation of his
own, for both mean a stone or rock, im
plies an allusion to his calling to be the
first workman in the spiritual building.
The words of Jesus iu the 16th chapter
of Matthew, verses 17, 18, 19, corrobo
rate this idea.
But Reuben is accused of being "un
stable as water," and of defiling his
father's couch : in both of which an
analogy is found in the conduct of Pe
ter. First his cowardly denial of his
Master, after boasting his readiness to
die with him ; and second, that though
called to preach salvation by faith, with
out the deeds of the law, he was guilty
of dissimulation, in requiring the Gen
tiles to observe legal ceremonies, through
fear of the Jews ; and thus he defiled
and polluted the pure gospel rest, by
the works of the law.

tribes of Israel were gathered toge
ther. 6. Let Reuben live, and not die ;
and let not his men be few.
Matt. xvi. 17. And Jesus answer
ed, and said unto him. Blessed art
thou, Simon-Barjona : for flesh and
blood hafh not revealed ii unto thee,
but my Father w-hich is in heaven.
18. And I say also unto thee, that
thou ar^ Peter, and upon this rock I
wfll bufld my church : and the gates of
hell shafl not prevaU. against it.
19. And I wUl give unto thee the
keys of the kingdom of heaven : and
whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth,
shall be bound in heaven ; and what
soever thou shalt loose on earth, shall
be loosed in heaven.
Rev. xxi. 12. And had a wall great
and high, and had twelve gates, and at
the gates twelve angels, and names
written thereon, wMch are ilie names
ot the twelve tribes of the chUdren of
Israel. 13. On the east, three gates; on
the north, three gates ; on the south,
three gates; and on the west, three
gates. 14. And the wafl of the city had
twelve foundations, and in them the
names of the twelve apostles of the
Lamb. Gal. ii. 11. But when Peter was
come to Antioch, I withstood Mm to
the face, because he was to bo blamed.
12. For, before that certain came
from James, he did eat with the Gen
tUes: but when they were como, he
withdrew, and separated himself, fear
ing them which were of the circum
cision. 13. And the other Jews dissembled
likewise with him ; insomuch that Bar
nabas also was carried away with their
dissimulation. 14. But when I saw that they walk
ed not uprightly according to the truth
of the gospel, I said unto Peter before
ihem aU, If thou, being a Jew, livest
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The Letter.
5. Simeon and Levi are brethren ;
instruments of cruelty are in their ha
bitations. 6. O my soul, come not thou into
their secret; unto their assembly, mine
honor, be not thou united ! for in their
anger thoy slow a man, and in theu-
self-wUl thoy digged down a wall.
7. Cursed ie their anger, for ii was
fierce; and their wrath, for it was
cruel : I wfll divide them m Jacob, and
scatter them in Israel. Note.
Simeon and Le-ri are here classed or
united together ae brethren of one etarap
or character. If we refer to the words of
Moeee, in speaking of theee sarae heads of
the tribes in Deut. xxxiii., we shall find
that Simeon is not raentioned at all;
aud that Levi is immediately merged,
lost, or changed into "the holy one,
whom thou didst prove at the waters
of Meribah," — or his priesthood into the
order of Melchizedec.
Simeon and Levi were cursed for their
conduct toward the Shechemites, and
were reraoved from their place, having
no part nor lot with the twelve.
The analogy found among the apostles
to these two brethren, is more obscure
and complicated than any others, from
the very nature of their typical charac
ter. Judas, the son of perdition, is con
nected with both of these brethren in
their typical or figurative import ; but
this mysterious antitype also embraces
at least a part of the symbolic character
of Judah. It appears that Judas Isca
riot was the son of Siraon, the Canaanite.
Upon the Canaanites a curse hae rested
frora the beginning; and "the iniquity
of the fathers is visited upon the child
ren unto the third and fourth genera
tion," &e. Judas, then, inherited the

as do the Jews, why compellest thou
the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
16. We who are Jews by nature,
and not sinners of the Gentfles, * *

TTie Spirit.
Deut. xxxiii. 8. And of Levi he
said. Lei thy Thummim and thy Urim
ie with thy holy one, whom thou didst
prove at Massah, and with whom thou
didst strive at the waters of Meribah ;
9. Who said unto his father and to
his mother, I have not seen him, nei
ther did he acknowledge his brethren,
nor knew his own children : for they
have observed thy word, and kept thy
covenant. 10. They shafl teach Jacob thy judg
ments, and Israel thy law ; they shall
put mcense before theo, and whole
burnt sacrifice upon thine altar.
11. Bless, Lord, his substance, and
accept the work of his hands: smite
through the loins of them that rise
against him, and of them that hate Mm,
that they rise not again.
Heb. vu. 12. For the priesthood
being changed, there is made of neces
sity a change also of the law.
13. For he of whom these things
are spoken pertameth to another tribe,
of which no man gave attendance at
the altar.
14. For ii is evident that our Lord
sprang out of Juda; of which tribe
Moses spake nothing concerning priest
hood. 16. And it is yet far more evident :
for that after the sunUitude of Melchi
zedec there ariseth another priest,
16. Who is made, not after the law
of a carnal commandment, but after the
power of an endless life.
17. For he testifieth. Thou art a
priest for ever after the order of Mel
chizedec. Acts i. 16. Men antZ brethren, tho
scripture must needs have been ful
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curse. He also held a place in the breast
plate, — a part in the apoetleehip, from
which he fell by tranegression. In this
particular, he is the antitype both of
Levi and of Esau. But in his own person
— ^his fieshly nature, he is more clearly
portrayed by Judah.

The Letter.
8. Judah, thou ari he whom thy bre
thren shall praise ; thy hand shall be in
the neck of thine enemies : thy father's
chUdren shall bow down before thee.
9. Judah is a lion's whelp ; from the
prey, my son, thou art gone up: he
stooped down, he couched as a Uon,
and as an old Uon : who shall rouse
him up ?
10. The sceptre shall not depart
from Judah, nor a lawgiver from be
tween his feet, untfl Shiloh come : and
unto Mm shall the gathering of tho
people ie.
11. Binding his foal unto the vine,
and his ass's colt unto the choice vine ;
he washed his garments in wine, and
his clothes in the blood of grapes :
12. His oyes shall be red w-ith wine,
and his teeth white with mUk.
Note.
In thia description of Judah tiiere is
much of very mysterious import The

mouth of David spake before concem
ing Judas, which was gmde to them that
took Jesus.
17. For he was numbered with us,
and had obtained part of this ministry.
***** 20. For it is written in the book
of Psalms, Lot his habitation be deso
late, and let no man dwell therem :
and. His bishopric let another take.
Heb. vii. 5. And verily they that are
of the sons of Levi, who receive the
office of the priesthood, have a com
mandment to take tithes of the people
according to the law, that is, of their
brethren, though they came out of the
loins of Abraham.
Josh. xix. 9. Out of the portion of
the children of Judah was the inherit
ance of the children of Simoon : for
tho part of the children of Judah was
too much for them : therefore the
cMldren of Simeon had their inherit
ance withm the inheritance of them.

The Spirit.
Deut. xxxiu. 7. And tiiis is the
blessing of Judah : and he said. Hear,
Lord, the voice of Judah, and bring him
unto his people : let his hands be suffi
cient for him, and be thou a help to him
from his enemies.
Ps. IxxU. 11. Yea, all kings shafl
fafl down before him : all nations shaU
serve him.
12. For ho shall deliver the needy
when he crieth ; the poor also, and him
that hath no helper.
13. He shall spare the poor and
needy, and shall save the souls of the
needy. 14. He shaU redeem their soul from
deceit and violence : and precious shall
their blood be iu his sight
15. And he shall Uve, and to him
shall be given of the gold of Sheba:
prayer also shall be made for him con
tinually ; and daUy shall he be praised.
Eph. ii. 2. Wherein in time past ye
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figure ie comprehensive and compUcated;
and involves some of the most dietin-
guiehing features in the character and
history, both of the Messiah and of the
prince of this world.
"Thou art he whora thy brethren
shall praise." All that are of the same
kindred, origin, and fellowship, wfll do
him honor. This is true, both of Christ
and Satan. " Thy hand shall be in the
neck of thine eneraies." In the day of
his power, he will have them in subjec
tion. This is also true of both. "Thy
father's children . shall bow down to
thee,'' which is true of both these ad
verse parties.
" Judah is a linn's whelp ,-" the son of
a king or ruler : and the Lion of the
tribe of Judah, is also the Son of David ;
and his adversary the roaring lion, is the
son of perdition, the prince of this world.
"From ihe prey, my son, thou art gone
up;' the Son of God has gone up from
the prey of death and hell which he left
vanquished on tiie field of battle. The
son of perdition has gone " to his own
place," frora the prey which he had been
watching to devour for ages ; the " heel "
of the woraan's seed. " He stooped down,
he couched as a lion, and as an old lion ;
who shall rouse him up ?" With all the
skill and wisdom of an old lion, who
would raake sure of his prey, by con
cealing hie purpose, the Son of God
stooped down, humbled himeelf, made
himself of no reputation, and becarae
obedient unto death, even the death of
the cross; because this was the only
way to secure the prey ; while that very
prey was boasting and triumphing in
his supposed defeat. His wily adver
sary also, with all the daring of the
lion, and all the subtlety ofthe serpent
"croucheth and hurableth hiraself that
the poor may fall by hie strong ones."
" The sceptre ehafl not depart frora Ju
dah,'' &c. ; the reign of sin aud Satan
shall not cease till the Son of David a.s-
Eume his throne and sceptre and gather
the people to himself. The King of
Zion shall come to hia kingdom, lowly,
and riding upon an aas, and a colt the
foal of an aae. He comes as the pas
chal lamb to the sacrifice, and binds this
sacrifice even to the horns of the altar ;

world, according to the prince of the
power of the air, fhe spirit that now
worketh in the chfldren of disobedi
ence. Rev. v. 6. And one of the elders
saith unto me. Weep not : behold, the
Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of
David, hath prevaUed to open the book,
and to loose the seven seals thereof.
1 Pet. v. 8. Be sober, bo vigilant ;
because your adversary the devil, as a
roaring lion, walketh about, seeking
whom he may devour.
Heb. u. 14. Forasmuch then as the
chUdren are partakers of fiesh and
blood, he also himself likewise took
part of the same ; that through death
he might destroy Mm that had the
power of death, that is, the devil ;
15. And deliver them, who, through
fear of death, were all their Ufe-time
subject to bondage.
Ps. x. 8. He sitteth in the lurking
places of the villages: in the secret
places doth he murder the innocent :
Ms eyes are privily set against the
poor. 9. He Ueth in wait secretly as a Uon
in his den : he Ueth in wait to catch the
poor ; he doth catch the poor, when he
draweth Mm into his net.
10. He croucheth, and humbleth
himself, that tho poor may fafl by his
strong ones.
IsA. xlUi. 2. Wherefore art thou red
in thine apparel, and thy garments Uke
him that treadeth in the wine fat ?
3. I have trodden the wine-press
alone ; and ofthe people ihere was none
with me : for I will tread them in mine
anger, and trample them in my fury,
and their blood shall be sprinkled upon
my garments, and I will stain afl my
raiment.

he dips his garraents in blood, aud stains
all his raiment, while the wine is poured
freely forth from the " choice vine," as
a libation upon the altar, even the " new
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The Letter.
13. Zebulun shaU dwell at the haven
of the sea ; and he shall be for a haven
of ships ; and his border shall be unto
Zidon. 14. Issachar is a strong ass, couch
ing down between two burdens :
15. And he saw that rest was good,
and the land that it was pleasant ; and
bowed his shoulder to boar, and be
came a servant unto tribute.
Note.
Before we leave the subject of Judah
as a type, we would add, that in all
which is said of him, a reference is had
to the bodily manifestation of kingly
power — whether of Christ or Satan.
And, as remotely connected with this
figure, we would advert to the brazen
serpent. Israel had been bitten by ser
pents, and they were healed by a simi
litude of that which had bitten thera —
but without the venom. So frora Judah
is the bodily form or heel of the seed of
the woman; the veil of his divinity:
And from Judah also, is the bodily form
of the seed of the serpent — the son of
perdition, which devoured that "heel;"
but by which the serpent hiraself, with
his works, were utterly destroyed.
The first two laborers called into the
gospel kingdom, Simon Peter and An
drew his brother, were from the eea-
coaet of Zabulon aud Nephthalim. They
were fishere, but were told to leave
their nets and Christ would raake them
fishers of men. It ia remarkable that
Andrew eignifies strong ; and Issachar
is here called " a strong ass, couching
down between two burdens." Comparing
the language of Moses with that of Ja
cob, it would appear that the calling of
Issachar was upon the land, -B-hile that
bf Zebulun -was upon the sea: ns the
gift of one minister of the gospel is to
spread the net which catches all, both
good and bad ; while that of another is
to judge, and choose, and separate the
precious frora the vile. Both these la
borers were to " call the people to the
mountain," or, in other words, to bring
converts to Zion, the raountain of the

The Spirit.
Deut. xxxiii. 18. And of Zebulun
he said. Rejoice, Zebulun, in tiiy going
out ; and Issachar, in thy tents.
19. They shall call the people unto
the mountain; there they shall offer
sacrifices of righteousness: for they
shafl suck of the abundance of the seas,
and of treasures hid in the sand.
Judges v. 14. Out of Ephraim was
ihere a root of them against Amalek ;
after thee, Benjamin, among thy peo
ple ; out of Machir came down govem-
ors, and out of Zebulun they that han
dle the pen of the writer.
15. And the princes of Issachar were
with Deborah ; even Issachar, and also
Barak: he was sent on foot into the
valley. IsA. ix. 1. Nevertheless the dimness
shall not ie such as was in her vexa
tion, when at the first he lightly afflict
ed the land of Zebulun, and the land
of Naphtafl, and afterward did more
grievously afflict her by the way of the
sea, beyond Jordan, in Galflee of the
nations. 2. The people that walked in dark
ness have seen a great Ught : they that
dwell m the land of the shadow of
death, upon them hath the light shined.
Matt. iv. 13. And leaving Naza
reth, he came and dwelt m Capernaum,
which is upon the sea-coast, in the bor
ders of Zabulon and Nephthalim ;
14. That ff might be fulfilled which
was spoken by Esaias the prophet,
saying, 16. The land of Zabulon, and the
land of Nephthalim, by the way of the
sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the
Gentiles ;
16. The people which sat in dark
ness saw great Ught : and to them
which sat in the region and shadow of
death light is sprung up.
17. From that time Jesus began to
preach, and to say. Repent; for the
kmgdom of heaven is at hand.
18. And Jesus, walking by the sea
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Lord'a houae. The figure seems to be
this: that while one is called to preach
the gospel, to go forth bearing precious
seed; another is called to prepare the
ground, to water and to reap. Yet each,
after his own gift and calling, is labor
ing in the same vineyard, and to esta
blish the Lord's house upon the top of
the mountains and exalt it above the
hflls. The fact was foretold by Isaiah, that
light should first spring up in the land
of Zebulun and Naphtali. It was in
that land that Christ first preached ;

called Peter, and Andrew Ms brother,
casting a net into the sea: fur they
were fishers.
19. And he saith unto them, Follow
rae, and I wfll make you fishers of
men. 20. And they straightway left their
nets, and followed hun.

TTie Letter.
16. Dan shafl judge his people, as
one of the tribes of Israel.
17. Dan shafl be a serpent by the
way, an adder in tho path, that biteth
the horse-heels, so that his rider shafl
fall backward.
18. I have waited for thy salvation,
OLord! 19. Gad, a troop shaU overcome him ;
but he shaU overcome at the last
Note.
Whatever was the individual charac
ter of the sous of Jacob, they were aU
heads of tribes, and whatever were the
character and calling of the twelve
apostles of the Lamb, they wcre all to sit
upon thrones judging the twelve tribes
of larael. Their typical featurea are
eoraetiraes presented in different indivi
duals. Of this we have an example in
Reuben, Judah, and Dan.
By Moeee, Dan is called a "lion's
whelp," which intimates pre-eminence of
birth and station. Among all the apoe-
tles, none were so eminent ae Paul. He ie
first presented to us as exalted in learn
ing, and in all whereof he raight glory
in the flesh. " An Hebrew of the He
brews; as touching the law, a Phari
see; concerning zeal, persecuting the
church; touching the righteousness
which is in the law, blameless." Frora
this height of eelf-righteouenees, this hill
of Bashan as high as the hill of God, with
one "leap" at the call of Jesus, Paul de-
31

and from which he called his first apos
tles; and these apostles were first to
spread that light, both among Jews and
Gentiles.

The Spirit.
Deut. xxxiU. 20. And of Gad he
said. Blessed ie he that enlargeth Gad :
he dweUeth as a Uon, and teareth the
arm with the crown of the head.
21. And ho provided the first part
for himself, because there, in a portion
of the lawgiver, was he seated : and he
came with the heads of the people, he
executed the justice of the Lord, and
his judgraents with Israel.
22. And of Dan he said, Dan is a
lion's whelp ; he shall leap from Bashan..
Josh. i. 12. And to the Reuben-
ites, and to the Gaaites, and to half the
tribe of Manasseh, spake Joshua, say
ing, 13. Remember the word which Mo
ses, the servant ofthe Lord, commanded'
you, saying, Tho Lord your God hath
given you rest, and hath given you this
land. 14. Your wives, your littie ones, and
your cattle, shall remain in the land
which Moses gave you on this side
Jordan ; but yo shall pass before youi;
brethren armed, all the mighty men of
valor, and help them :
16. UntU the Lord hath given your
brethren rest, as he haih given you,.
and they also have possessed the land
which the Lord your God giveth them :
then ye shall return unto the land of
your possession, and enjoy it, which
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soended to his feet From this time he
had "the care of all the churches;" re
gulating their mattere of discipline, and
instructing them into the mj'steriee ol
the faith. But eepecially did he set his-
face as a flint against all the inroads of
¦Judaism. He had a sharp and biting re
buke for all that leave the faith of the
gospel to " stay on horeee and trust in
chariots," or that " go down to Egypt for
help." Paul labored faithfully in the
body, and fully believed he ehould re
ceive his crown. " I have waited for
thy salvation, 0 Lord!"
The vision concerning Gad appeare to
point to Peter, though he hae already
been preeented by Reuben. Peter wae
overcome by a "troop" of thoee fleehly
infirmities which needed to be corrected
before he could be prepared to feed the
flock of God. But eignally did hia di
vine Maeter give him the victory at last !
and in his subsequent ministry the
words of Moses may be well applied to
him.

on this side Jordan, toward the sun-
rising. Ps. Ixvui. 16. The hfll of God is as
the Mil of Bashan ; a high hfll, as the
hill of Bashan.
16. Why leap ye, ye high hUls ? this
is the hifl which God desireth to dwell
in ; yea, the .Lord wfll dwefl in it for
ever. Isa. xxxi. 1. Wo to them that go
;down to Egypt for help ; and stay on
horses, and trast in chariots, because
they are many; and m horsemen, be
cause they are very strong ; but they
look not unto the Holy One of Israel,
neither seek the Lord !
2. Yet he also is -wise, and will
bring evfl, and wUl not caU back his
words : but wUl arise against the house
of the evfl-doers, and against the help
of them that work iniquity.
3. Now the Egyptians are men, and
not God; and their horses flesh, and
not spirit When the Lord .shafl stretch
out his hand, both he that helpeth shall
fall, and he that is holpen shall fall
down, and they afl shall fafl together.

The Letter.
20. Out of Asher his bread shall be
fat, and he shall yield royal damties.
21. Naphtali is a hind let loose : he
giveth goodly words.
27. Benjamin shall raven as a wolf:
in the moming he shall devour the prey,
and at night he shall divide the spoU.
Note.
Asher and Naphtali seem to corabine
the one character and work of John,
" the disciple whom Jesus loved."
The bread of Asher was to be fat, and
his foot waa to be dipped in oil. The
portion of John from his divine Master
was signally rich in grace and favor.
His bread was fat, for it was dealt from
his Master's own hand; aud his foot
steps were upheld aud guided by that
bleaaed Comforter of whom he spake so
much. Yet "his shoes were iron and

The Spirit.
Deut. xxxm. 23. And of NaphtaU
he said, O NaphtaU, satisfied with fa
vor, and fufl with the blessing of the
Lord, possess thou the west and the
south. 24. And of Asher he said. Lei Asher
ie blessed with children ; let him be
acceptable to his brethren, and let Mm
dip his foot in oil.
25. Thy shoes shall be iron and
brass; and as thy days, so shall thy
strength ie.
12. And of Benjamm he said. The
beloved of the Lord shall dwefl ui
safety by him ; and ihe Lord shall cover
him all the day long, and he shafl dwell
between his shoulders.
Sol. Song u. 7. I charge you, O ye
daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes,
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brass ;" so well were his feet shod with
the preparation of the gospel of peace.
Aa hia day, eo was hia strength ; for he
was strong in the grace that ia in Chriet
Jesus. He is like " a hind let loose." The
"hinds and roes of the field " alone fur
nish a sirailitude for the devoted fond
ness of this loving disciple to his Lord.
"He giveth goodly words.'' How full
of heavenly-raindedness are hie epietlee 1
The temper of a little child ie exhibited
iu all he says ; and his favorite title for
the disciples ia that of children. He so
calla thera, no less than eight tiraee iu
his three ehort letters. Again, "he
shall yield royal dainties;" not only
those here described, but the royal raes-
sages and proclaraations of the King of
kings and Lord of lorde, from the
throne of his majeety, were eent by his
hand. We have already noticed Benjamin as
the apostle of the Gentfles ; the manner
of whoee birth and caUing into the
apostleehip form an analogy eo far ; but
whoee character and labors afterward,
are raore fully exhibited in Dan. In
the present paseage, he is alluded to be
fore his conversion : when in the early
history of the church, the raorning of
the goepel day, he was a blasphemer
and a persecutor, and like a wolf araong
the sheep ; but at night he divided tlie
spoil. He divided the labore, not only
of those who buflt up Zion, but of those
who spofled her adversaries ; and finally
he divided with thera the inheritance of
the eaints.

stir not up, nor awake my lovo till he
please. ***** 17. Untfl the day break, and the
shadows flee away, turn, my beloved,
and be thou like a roe or a young hart
upon the mountams of Bether.
2 Sam. xxU. 33. God is my strength
and power: and he maketh my way'
perfect. 34. He maketh my feet like hinds'
feel : and setteth me upon my high
places. 35. He teacheth my hands to war ;
so that a bow of steel is broken by
mine arms.
John xxi. 20. Then Peter, turning
about, seeth the disciple whom Jesus
loved foUowing ; which also leaned on
his breast at supper, and said. Lord,
which is he that betrayeth thee ?
21. Peter seeing him, saith to Jesus,
Lord, and what shall this man do ?
22. Jesus saith unto him, If I wiU
that he tarry tiU I come, what is thai to
thee? Follow thou me.
Rev. i. 1. The Revelation of Jesus
Christ, which God gave unto him, to
shew unto his -servants things wMch
must shortly come to pass; and he
sent and signified it by his angel unto
his servant John :
2. Who bare record of the word of
God, and of the testimony of Jesus
Christ, and of all thmgs that he saw.
3. Blessed is he that readeth, and
they that hear the words of this pro
phecy, and keep those things which are
written therem: for the time is at
hand.

The Letter.
22. Joseph is a froitful bough; even
a fruitful bough by a weU, whose
branches run over the wafl.
23. The archers have sorely grieved
him, and shot at Mm, and hated Mm :
24. But Ms bow abode m strength,
and the arms of Ms hands were made
sfa-ong by tiie hands of tiie mighty God

The Spirit.
Deut. xxxui. 13. And of Joseph he
said. Blessed of the Lord ie his land,
for the precious thmgs of heaven, for
the dew, and for the deep that coueheth
beneath, 14. And for the precious fruits
brought forth by the sun, and for the
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The Gospel by Moses;

of Jacob : (from thence is the Shepherd,
the stone of Israel :)
25. Even by the God of thy father,
who shaU help thee, and by the Al
mighty, who shafl bless thee with
blessings of heaven above, blessings of
the deep that Ueth under, blessings of
the breasts and of the womb.
Note.
By referring to the 21st chapter of this
book, will be seen an explanation of this
title of Joseph, "a fruitful bough by a
well." It is there shown that Abrahara
gave to the king of Gerar (or rulers of
Judah) seven ewe lambs, as witness that
he had dug the well called Beer-sheba, or
well of the oath; and that there he planted
a grove, or tree, as it might be rendered.
This tree is said to represent the rod out
of the stem of Jeeee, which should spring
up from tlut people, according to the
oath and promise of the covenant ; —
" the branch which should grow out of
his roots." Joseph is this "branch or
bough," in his typical allusion to Christ
He was promised to Abraham, ae the
seed "in whom all the nations ofthe
earth should be blessed ;'" and thie pro-
miee was given, or recorded among the
tribe of Judah, to be fulfilled in that
tribe ; for this " Branch" ehould be both
the "root and the offspring of David."
This bleeeing of Joseph is virtually
the same which had been confirmed to
the three fathers, only more clearly and
fully developed, as designed to rest spe
cially upon ihe head of Joseph And
this, as the crown or reward of hia sut-
feringe, ae mediator, or messenger of the
covenant

15. And for the cMef things of the
ancient mountains, and for the precious
thmgs of the lasting MUs,
16. And for the precious things of
the earth, and fulness thereof; ahd for
the good vrill of him that dwelt in the
bush : let the blessing come upon the
head of Joseph, and upon the top of
the head of him that was separated
from his brethren.
17. His glory is like the firstiing of
his bullock, and his horns are like the
horns of unicoms : vrith them he shafl
push the people together to the ends
of the earth : and they are the ten thou
sands of Ephraim, and they are the
thousands of Manasseh.
IsA. xii. 10. Fear thou not; for I
am with thee : be not dismayed ; for I
am thy God : I wfll strengthen thee ;
yea, I wfll help thee ; yea, I will uphold
thee with the right hand of my right
eousness. Eph. i. 18. * * That ye may know
what is the hope of his calling, and
what the riches of the glory of his in
heritance in the saints,
1 9. And what is the exceeding great
ness of his power to us-ward who be
lieve, according to the working of his
mighty power,
20. Which he wrought in Christ,
when he raised him from tho dead, and
set him at his own right hand in the
heavenly places,
21. Far above all principaUty, and
power, and might, and dominion, and
every name that is named, not only m
this world, hut also in that which is to
come: 22. And hath put afl things under
his feet, and gave him to be the head
over all things to fhe church,
23. Which is his body, the fulness
of him that fiUelh all in all.
Phil. u. 6. Who, bemg in the form
of God, thought it not robbery to be
equal with God :
7. But made himself of no reputa
tion, and took upon Mm the form of a
servant, and was made in the lUceness
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The Letter.
26. The blessings of thy father have
prevaUed above the blessings of my pro
genitors, unto the utmost bound of the
everlasting hflls : they shall be on the
head of Joseph, and on the crown of the
head of him that was separate from Ms
bretMen. Note.
If, in considering thie blessing of Jo
seph as a type of the Lamb ihat was slain,
we take for our motto, the words placed
at thehead of the scriptures here quoted,
we may be able to decide the question.
Of whom do the prophets and apostles
speak ? — To whom does all this testimony
point? But, conclusive as these few passages
are, iu placing the crown of dominion
and glory upon the head of Jesus, " the
Lamb that is in the midst of th.e throne,"
they are no more so than the whole tes
tiraony of scripture, from the first verse
of Genesis to the last of Revelation.
Till we corae to the book of Revela
tion, however, the throne is occupied by
the Three Persons in the Godhead. Hence
the expression, the Lamb who ie in the
midst of the throne, for Jesus was ex
alted at the right hand of the Majesty
on high, when he ascended to heaven.
But this condition of the throne has re
spect only to the mediatorial kingdom,

8. And bemg found in fashion as
a man, he humbled himself, and be
came obedient unto death, even the
death of the cross.
9. Wherefore God also hath highly
exalted him, and given him a name
which is above every name :
10. That at the name of Jesus every
knee should bow, of things in heaven,
and ihings in earth, and ihings under
the earth :
II. And that every tongue should
confess that Jesiis Christ is Lord, to
the glory of God the Father.
Ps. cxxxii. 18. His enemies vriU I
clothe with shame ; but upon himself
shaU his crown flourish.

The Spirit.
Rev. v. 13. And every creature
which is in heaven, and on tho earth,
and under the earth, and such as are
in the sea, and all that are in them,
heard I saying, Blessmg, and honor,
and glory, and power, ie unto him that
sitteth upon the throne, and unto the
Lamb, for ever and ever.
14. And the four beasts said, Amen.
And tho four and twenty elders fell
down and worshipped him that liveth
for ever and ever.
xix. 16. And he hath on his vesture
and on his thigh a name written,
KING OF KINGS, AND LORD
OF LORDS.
xxU. 13. I am Alpha and Omega,
the beginning and the end, the first
and the last.
***** 16. I, Jesus, have sent mine angel
to testify unto you these things in the
churches. I am the root and the off
spring of David, and the bright and
morning-star. xi. 16. And the four and twenty
elders, which sat before God on their
seats, fell upon their faces, and wor
shipped God,
17. Saying, Wo give thee thanks, O
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The Gospel by Moses ;

in which the Three bore record, or testi
mony, to all that was to be accomplish
ed. But when the ministration of the
Spirit, or the witness of " the Spirit, ilie
water, and the blood" upon earth, was
finished, in the gathering together of all
things in Christ both of these triune
testimonies ceased at once; aud God,
even the Lamb, remained " the faithful
and true witness."
To this final point in the spiritual
world, have we also arrived in the ty
pical history of Joseph. Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob have ceased, and Joseph re
mains lord of Egypt, and "head over
all things to Israel."

wast, and art to come ; because thou
hast taken to thee thy great power,
and hast reigned.
iv. 8. And the four beasts had each
of them six -vrings about him ; and ihey
were fuU of eyes withm : and they rest
not day and night, saying. Holy, holy,
holy, Lord God Almighty, wMch was,
and is, and is to come.
9. And when those beasts give glory,
and honor, and thanks to Mm that sat on
the throne, who liveth for ever and ever,
10. The four and twenty elders fall
down before hun that sat on the throne,
and worship Mm that liveth for ever
and ever, and cast their crowns before
the throne, saying,
11. Thou art worthy, O Lord, to re
ceive glory, and honor, and power : for
thou hast created all thmgs, and for thy
pleasure they are and were created.
i. 13. And in the midst of the seven
candlesticks one like unto the Son of
man, clothed vrith a garment down to
the foot, and girt about the paps with
a golden girdle.
14. His head and his hairs were white
like wool, as white as snow ; and Ms
eyes were as a flame of fire ;
15. And his feet like unto fine brass,
as if they burned in a fumace ; and his
voice as the sound of many waters.
16. And he had m Ms right hand
seven stars : and out of his mouth went
a sharp two-edged sword: and his coun
tenance was as the sun shmeth in Ms
strength. 17. And when I saw Mm, I fell at his
feet as dead. And he laid his right
hand upon me, saying unto me. Fear
not ; I am the first and the last :
18. 1 am he that Uveth, and was
dead ; and behold, I am alive for ever
more. Amen ; and have the keys of hell
and of death.

The Letter.
28. All these are the twelve tribes of
Israel : and this is il that their father
spake unto them, and blessed them:

TTie Spiril.
Deut. xxxui. 29. Happy art thou,
O Israel ; who is like unto thee, O peo
ple saved of the Lord, the shield of thy

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every one according to his blessing he
blessed them.
29. And he charged thom, and said
unto them, I am to be gathered unto
my people ; bury me with my fathers in
the cave that is in the field of Ephron
the Hittite,
30. In the cave that is m tho field of
Machpelah, wMch is before Mamre, in
the land of Canaan, which Abraham
bought with the field of Ephron the
Hittite, for a possession of a burying-
place. 31. (TTiero they buried Abraham and
Sarah his vrife ; there they buried Isaac
and Rebekah Ms wffe ; and there I
buried Leah.)
32. The purchase of the field and of
the cave that is therein, was from the
chfldren of Heth.
33. And when Jacob had made an
end of commanding his sons, he gather
ed up his feet into the bed, and yielded
up the ghost, and wtis gathered unto
his people. Note.
Ephron signifies dust; and Hittite
signifies broken asunder, sepjarated. The
fleshly body of Jacob, formed from the
duet of the earth, is now separated from
his spirit and consigned to the cave of
Machpelah, where are gathered in one
appointed charaber, all the dust of his
kindred, there to wait "in hope" for
the rederaption of the " creature " irom
the bondage of corruption into the glo
rious liberty of the sons of God.
This cave had been purchased and
made sure to Abraham's household,
¦wherein might dwell their precious
dust until the earth shall " cast out her
dead." There were gathered Abraham
and Sarah, the father and the mother of
all that believe; Isaac, the heir of pro
mise, and Rebekah, tbe wife which was
brought to hira by Abraham's steward,
and placed by him in the tent of Sarah ;
and Leah, the wife of Jacob,— the wages
of his servitude ; and here must Jacob
himself rest to make up the entire embo
diment of the redeemed, as they shall be
guarded and preeerved by the Shepherd

help, and who is the sword of thy ex
ceUency! and thine enemies shafl be
found liars unto thee ; and thou shalt
tread upon theu- high places.
Jer. xvi. 16. Thus saith the Lord,
Refram thy voice from weeping, and
thme eyes from tears : for thy work
shall be rewarded, saith the Lord ; and
they shall come again from the land of
fhe enemy.
17. And there is hope in thine end,
saith the Lord, that thy children shall
come again to theu- own border.
Rom. viU. 19. For the eamest ex
pectation of the creature waiteth for
the manifestation of the sons of God.
20. For the creature was made sub
ject to vanity, not wUIiogly, but by rea
son of him who hath subjected ihe same
in hope :
21. Because the creature itself also
shafl be delivered from the bondage of
corruption, into the glorious liberty of
the cMldren of God.
Is A. xxvi. 19. Thy dead men shall
live, together with my dead body shafl
they arise. Awake and sing, yo that
dwell in dust : for thy dew is as the
dew of herbs, and the earth shaU cast
out the dead.
20. Come, my people, enter thou
into thy chambers, and shut thy doors
about thee : Mde thyself as it were for
a little moment, until the mdignation
be overpast.
21. For, behold, the Lord cometh
out of his place to punish the inhabi
tants of the earth for theu- iniquity :
the earth shaU disclose her blood, and
shall no more cover her .slain.
Ps. cii. 25. Of old hast thou laid
the foundation of tho earth : and the
heavens are t'ne work of thy hands.
26. They shall perish, but fhou shalt
endure ; yea, all of them shall wax old
like a garment; as a vesture shalt
thou change them, and they shafl be
changed :
27. But thou art the same, and thy
years shall have no end.
28. The children of thy servants

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and Biehop of their souls, until he shall
bring them all to dwell with hira where
he is, to be like him, and to behold his
glory.

shall continue, and their seed shafl be
established before thee.

CHAPTER L.

The Letter.
1. And Joseph fefl upon his father's
face, and wept upon hun, and kissed
him. 2. And Joseph commanded his ser
vants the physicians to embalm his
father: and the physicians embalmed
Israel. 3. And forty days were fulfifled for
him; for so are fulfilled the days of
those which are embalmed; and the
Egyptians mourned for hun tMeescore
and ten days. Note.
The object of embalming, is to render
permanent that which ia perishable, and
to preserve, in its original form and con
dition, that which would otherwise be
come obscure and untraceable; in order
that all conversant with the deceased
person maybe able at onee to recognise
his peculiar features.
As a type of the " ministration of the
Spirit" or preached goapel, the deatli of
Jacob sealed up and closed ite living
testimony for ever. But there yet re
mained one great object to be accom
pliehed by it : it must appear as a witness
at the day of judgment. For thie end, it
had been preached to all natione. Ae it
is written, " The times of this ignorance
God winked at, but now commandeth
all men everywhere to repent: because
he has appointed a day in ihe which he
will judge the world in righteousness."
Jacob, though dead, must yet speak:
the book of hia teetimony, though
cloeed, must be re-opened, that the
words spoken by Jesua may be ful
filled : " This is ihe condemnation, that
light has come into the world arid men

The Spirit.
2, CoR. iU. 2. Ye are our epistle
written in our hearts, known and read
of all men :
3. Forasmuch as ye are manifestly
declared to be the epistie of Christ,
ministered by us, written not with ink,
but with the Spirit of the living God ;
not in tables of stone, but in fleshly
tables of the heart.
RoM. ii. 15. Which shew the work
of the law written in their hearts, their
conscience also bearing witness, and
their thoughts the meanwhile accusmg,
or else excusing ono another;
16. In the day when God shall judge
the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, ac
cording to my gospel.
2 Pet. i. 14. Knowing that shortly
I must put off thisray tabernacle, even as
our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.
15. Moreover, I will endeavor that
ye may be able after my decease to
have these things always in remem
brance. 16. For we have not followed cun
ningly-devised fables, when we made
known unto you the power and coming
of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were
eye-witnesses of his majesty.
Matt. xxiv. 14. And this gospel of
the kingdom shall be preached in afl
the world, for a witness unto all na^
tions ; .and then shall the end como.
***** 19. When anyone hearoth tho word
of the kingdom, and understandeth it
not, then cometh the wicked one, and
catcheth away that which was sown in
his heart. This is ho which received
seed by the way-side.

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have loved darkness rather than light,"
Ac. For the testimony of one witness
could not condemn a mau to death ;
but " by the testimony of two witnesses,
a man raay be put to death." Hence
the testiraony of a preached gospel must
appear at the bar of God, to seal the
final condemnation of the wicked. Aud
in the mysterious wisdom of God, the
Egyptians themselves must give to this
witness its own distinguishing features,
thus furnishing, by their own deeds, the
evidence of their conderanation. This
same idea is recognieed in the 25th chap-

The Letter.
4. And when the days of his moum-
ing were past, Joseph spake unto the
house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I
have found grace in your eyes, speak,
I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh,
saying, 6. My father made me swear, saying",
Lo, I die : in my grave which I have
digged for me in the land of Canaan,
there shalt thou bury mo. Now there
fore let me go up, I pray thee, and
bury my father, and I wifl como
again. 6. And Pharaoh said. Go up, and
bury thy father, accordmg as he made
thee swear. Note.
The death of Jacob, in its typical
import, ie the end of the gospel day.
And when "the ministration of the
Spirit " ceaees, and faith and repentance
are no longer dispensed to sinners, —
then coraea the judgment, the day ap
pointed to judge the world in righteoua-
neaa. Pharaoh directa, or ordere that
thie be done, as Jacob had said. Jesus,
speaking of the last judgment says —
" Of this day knoweth no man, not even
the angels of God, but my Father only."
Yet would the final judgment take place
as it ia written and testified by the gos
pel dispensation ; for it ia that which
has brought life and immortality, and
the retribution of the last day, to

UoM. ui. 19. Now we know, that
what thmgs soever the law saith, it saith
to them who are under the law ; that
every mouth may be stopped, and afl the
worid may become guflty before God.
Eec. xU. 14. For God shall bring
every work unto judgment, with every
secret thing, whether it be good, or
whether it be evfl.
ter of Matthew, where Christ describes
the evidences, which wfll make manifeet
both the righteous and the wicked.

The Spirit.
Acts xvii. 30. And the times of
this ignorance God winked at; but
now commandeth afl men everywhere
to repent :
31. Because he hafh appointed a day,
in the which he vrill judge the world in
righteousness, by thai man whom he
hath ordained : whereof he hath given
assurance unto all men, in that he hath
raised him from the dead.
Eec. xi. 9. Rejoice, O young man,
in thy youth ; and let thy heart cheer
theo in the days of thy youth, and walk
in the ways of thine heart, and m the
sight of thine eyes: but know thou,
that for all these ihings God wifl bring
thee into judgment.
10. Therefore remove sorrow from
thy heart, and put away evfl from thy
flesh: for chUdhood and youth are
vanity. Rom. u. 16. Which shew the work
of the law written in their hearts, fheir
conscience also bearing witness, and
their thoughts tho meanwhile accusmg,
or else excusing one another ;
16. In the day when God shafl judge
the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, ac
cording to ray gospel.
2 Tim. iv. 1. I charge ihee therefore
before God, and fhe Lord Jesus Christ,
who shall judge the quick and the dead
at his appearing and his kingdom ;
2. Preach the word; be instant in

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light The first testament but darkly
intimates the resurrection from the
dead. But it should be " as Jacob had

The Letter.
7. And Joseph went up to bury his
father ; and with Mm went up all the
servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his
house, and aU the elders of the land of
Egypt, 8. And all the house of Joseph, and
his brethren, and his father^s house :
only their little ones, and their flocks,
and their herds, they left in the land of
Goshen. 9. And there went up with him both
chariots and horsemen; aud it was a
very great company.
10. And they came to the threshmg-
fioor of Atad, wMch is beyond Jordan ;
and there they mourned with a great
and very sore lamentation : and he
made a mourning for his father seven
days. 11. And when the inhabitants of the
land, the Canaanites, saw the mourn
ing m the floor of Atad, they said.
This is a grievous mourning to the
Egyptians : wherefore the name of it
was called Abel-mizraim, which is be
yond Jordan. Note.
In this passage is described, typically,
the asserabling of all nations for the
final judgment: — "a very great com
pany I" The place of trial, where the
judgraent ie eet is a " threshing-fioor I" —
the place where wheat is separated frora
the chaff: — where the Refiner, with the
fan in his hand — (the " book of reraem
brance," in which is recorded "every
secret thing, whether it be good, or whether
it be evil") — will " thoroughly purge his
floor, and gather the wheat into his gar
ner; but he will burn ihe chaff with un
quenchable fire."
This threshing-fioor is "beyond Jor-

season, out of season ; reprove, re
buke, exhort with afl long-suffering
and doctrine.
Jer. viu. 20. The harvest is past,
the summer is ended, and we are not

The Spiril.
Matt. xxv. 31. When the Son of
man shall come in Ms glory, and all the
holy angels vrith him, then shall he sit
upon the throne of his glory.
32. And before hun shafl be gather
ed all nations: and he shall separate
them one from another, as a shepherd
divideth ?jis sheep from the goats :
33. And he shafl set the sheep on
his right hand, but the goats on the
left ui. 12. Whose fan is in his hand,
and he wfll thoroughly purge Ms floor,
and gather his wheat into the gamer ;
Jiut he wfll burn up the chaff with un
quenchable fire.
Rev. XX. 11. And I saw a great
white throne, and him that sat on it
from whose face the earth and the hea
ven fied away ; and there was found no
place for them.
12. And I saw the dead, smafl and
great, stand before God ; and the books
were opened: and another book was
opened, which is the book of lffe : and
the dead were judged out of those
things which were written in the books,
according to their works.
13. And the sea gave up the dead
which were in it ; and death and hell
deUvered up the dead which were in
them : and they were judged every man
according to their works.
14. And death and hell were cast
into the lake of fii-e. TMs is the se
cond death.
16. And whosoever was not found
written in the book of Ufe was cast into
the lake of fire.
vi. 16. And the kings ofthe earth,
and the great men, and the rich men,
and the cMef captams, and tiie mighty

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ill

dan ;"— for " after death is ihe judgment."
Here was a " grievous mourning," — but
only 'I to the Egyptians ;" therefore the
place is cafled Abel-mizraim, which sig
nifies a grievous mourning to ihe Egyp
tians. None others have cauee of mourn
ing but the impenitent For while the
righteoue will rejoice at the appearing
ofthe Judge, in whom they shall behold
the Lamb that has redeemed them by
his blood, the wicked will call upon the
rocks aud mountains to fall on them, to
hide them frora his face.

T'ne Letter.
12. And his sons did unto him ac
cording as he commanded them :
13. For his sons carried hun into the
land of Canaan, and buried him in the
cave of the field of Machpelah, which
Abraham bought with the field, for a
possession of a burying-place.
14. And Joseph returned into Egypt,
he and his brethren, and all that went
up -with Mm to bury his father, after he
had buried his father.
15. And when Joseph's brethren saw
that their father was dead, they said,
Joseph will peradventure hate us, and
wifl certainly requite us aU the evU
which we did unto him.
16. And they sent a messenger unto
Joseph, saying. Thy father did com
mand before ho died, saying,
17. So shall yo say unto Joseph,
Forgive, I pray thee now, tho trespass
of thy brethren, and their sin ; for they
did unto thee evfl: and now, we pray
thee, forgive the trespass of the ser
vants of the God of thy father. And
Joseph wept when they spake unto
him. 18. And Ms brethren also went and
fell down before his face : and they
said, Behold, we ie thy servants.

men, and every bond-man, and every
free-man, Md themselves in the dens
and in the rocks of the mountains ;
16. And said to the mountains and
rocks, Fall on us, and Mde us from the
face of him that sitteth on the throne,
and from the wrath of tho Lamb.
Matt. xxiv. 30. And then shafl ap
pear the sign of the Son of man in
heaven : and then shafl afl the tribes of
the earth mourn, and they shall see tho
Son of man coming m the clouds of
heaven with power and groat glory.
31. Aud he shall send his angels
with a great sound of a trampet, and
they shall gather together his elect
from the ¦ four winds, from one end of
heaven to the other.

TTie Spirit.
Matt. xiii. 40. As therefore the
tares are gathered and burned in the
fire ; so shall it be in the end of this
world. 41. The Son of man shall send forth
his angels, and they shall gather out of
his kingdom aU things that offend, and
them which do iniquity ;
42. And shall cfist them into a fur
nace of fire : there shaU be waiUng and
gnashing of teeth.
43. Then shall the -righteous shine
forth as the sun in the kingdom of their
Father. Who hath ears to hear, let
Mm hear.
***** 46. And these shall go away into
everlasting pumshment : but the right
eous into life eternal.
Rev. xxi. 1. And I saw a new hea
ven and a new earth : for the first hea
ven and tho first earth were passed
away ; and there was no more sea.
2. And I John saw the holy city,
new Jerusalem, coming down from
God out of heaven, prepared as a bride
adorned for her husband.
3. And I hoard a great voice out of
heaven, saying. Behold, the tabernacle
of God is with men, and he wUl dwefl

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19. And Joseph said unto them.
Fear not: for am I in the place of
God? 20. But as for you, ye thought evfl
against me; hut God meant it unto
good, to bring to pass, as ii is this day,
to save much people alive. **
21. Now therefore fear ye not : I
wUl nourish you, and your little ones.
And he comforted them, and spake
kindly unto them. Note.
TUl they reached the threshing-floor
of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, the
Egyptians and Israel continued together
in one company, but no farther ; it ap
pears that here they separated ; and Ja-
iob's sons buried their father iu the cave
of the field of Machpelah ; but the Egyp
tians had no more to do in the raatter.
Were there only one great leading
truth to be shadowed forth by this typi
cal history ; — were there but a single
thread of literal eveute, or epiritual
truths, to be continuously carried out
theu would the history of ancient lerael
typically, and of the church of Christ
spiritually, be now finished ; — we could
not pass beyond the final judgraent.
But this ie not the raanner of the Old
Teetament scriptures, in developing the
shadowy form of spiritual and eternal
thinga. When one figure ia adopted
and pursued for the purpose of carrying
out a leading doctrine of Christ, there
yet remain other phases of that doctrine,
other dependencies and connections, and
eepecially fuller and clearer develop
ments of it, to be preeented by other
types; for "tbe path of the Just is as
the shining light which shineth more
and more unto the perfect day." For
this reason, among others, we find Jo-

with tiiem, and they shafl be his people,
and God himself shafl be wfl;h them,
and be their God.
4. And God shall wipe away afl teafs
from their eyes ; and there shall be no
more death, neither sorrow, nor crying,
neither shall there be any more pain :
for the former thmgs are passed away.
6. And he that sat upon the throne
said. Behold, I make all things new.
And he said unto me. Write : for these
words are true and faithful.
6. And he said unto me. It is done.
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning
and the end. I wfll give unto him that
is athirst of the fountam of the water
of Ufe freely.
7. He that overcometh shall inhcriJ
all things ; and I wifl be his God, ;:nd
he shafl be my son.
xxu. 16. They shafl hunger no more,
neither thirst any more, neither shafl the
sun light on them, nor any heat.
17. For the Lamb which is in the
midst of the throne shall feed them,
and shall lead them unto living foun
tains of waters: and God shall wipe
away aU tears from their eyes.

seph returning with his brethren into
Egypt and still continuing to rule and
reign there ; because the word of God
to Abraham must be fulfilled, that his
seed should sojourn in a strange land
four hundred years, etc., — and there the
book of Exodus raust find thera.
Again, this last sojourn in Egypt raay
have allusion to the fact that in the
new heaven and new earth, the taber
nacle of God ie to be with men; also,
tliat the holy city is eaid to come down
out of heaven.

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479

The Letter.
22. And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he,
and his father's house: and Joseph
lived a hundred and ten years.
23. And Joseph saw Ephraim's chU
dren of the third generation: the chUdren
also of Machir, the son of Manasseh,
were brought up upon Joseph's knees.
24. And Joseph said unto Ms bre
thren, I die ; and God will surely visit
you, and bring you out of this land,
unto the land which he sware to Abra
ham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
25. And Joseph took an oath of the
chUdren of Israel, saying, God will
surely visit you, and ye shall carry up
my bones from hence.
26. So Joseph died, being a hundred
and ten years old : and they embalmed
him, and he was put in a coffin in
Egypt. Note.
Returned into Egypt Joseph and his
father's house now appear to occupy the
"best of the land, the land of Goshen,"
undisturbed. He continues to sustain
and corafort thera with assurancea of
unchangeable love, and is honored and
obeyed as if in the place of God, or as
their head and lord.
Much more wUl "the Larab that wae
slain,'' the spiritual Joeeph, reigu as
"King of kings and Lord of lords" upon
the throne of his glory, as " over all, God
blessed for evermore," when he shall have
gathered together iu one, the things that
are in heaven, and that are on earth ;
when all eneraies shall be subdued under
his feet and he shall swallow up death
in victory; when he shall have deli
vered up the mediatorial kingdom to
the Father frora whom he received it
because there is no raore covenant to be
fulfiUed, and therefore no longer the
official tides of Father, Son, and Holy
Ghost but God, even the Lamb, shall
" be all in all ;" " the beginning and end
ing, which is, which was, and which is to
come, ihe Almighty."
But the body of Joseph must be em
balmed and must be carried up to the
promiaed land with Israel, when they

The Spirit.
Rev. xxi. 22. And I saw no temple
therein: for the Lord God Almighty
and the Lamb are the temple of it.
23. And the city had no need of the
sun, neither of tho moon, to shine in it :
for the glory of God did lighten it, and
the Lamb is the light thereof.
24. And the nations of them which
are saved shall walk in the light of it :
and the kings of the earth do bring
their glory and honor into it.
Ps. ciu. 17. But the mercy of the
Lord is from everlasting to everlasting
upon them that fear him, aud his right
eousness unto chfldren's children;
18. To such as- keep his covenant,
and to those that remember his com
mandments to do thera.
19. Tho Lord hath prepared his
throne in the heavens; and Ms Mng
dom ruleth over all.
Ixxxix. 29. His seed also will I make
io endure for ever, and his throne as the
days of heaven.
30. If his chUdren forsake my law,
and walk not in my judgments ;
31. If they break my statutes, and
keep not my commandments ;
32. Then wfll I visit their transgres
sion with the rod, and their iniquity
with stripes.
33. Nevertheless, my loving-kindness
wfll I not utterly take from him, nor
suffer my faithfulness to fail.
34. My covenant wUl I not break,
nor alter the thing that is gone out of
my Ups.
35. Once have I sworn by mine hoU
ness, that I will not lie unto David.
36. His seed shall endure for ever,
and his throne as the sun before rae.
2. For I have said, Mercy shall be
built up for ever: thy faithfulness
shalt thou establish in the very heavens.
Rom. vui. 38. For I am persuaded,
that neither death, nor life, nor angels,
nor principalities, nor powers, nor
things present, nor things to come,
39. Nor height, nor depth, nor any
other creature, shall be able to separate

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should be delivered from bondage. It
must not be gathered to the cave of
Machpelah, but it must be buried in
Egypt until his brethren went hence,
and then hie bones muet be carried with
them. So also Christ has said, " ihat
where lam there they may be also." " For
how should the body be separated from
the head i" Those very bones of Joseph
which were embalmed in Egypt, muet
be carried by Israel into the promised
land, and buried in a parcel of a field

us from the love of God which is in
Christ Jesus our Lord.

near to Salim,* which Jacob purchased
for a posseeeion to the sons of Joseph for
ever. In this same place was the spirit
ual Joseph buried in baptism, for au en-
sample to all the members of hie mystical
body, that they should follow hia steps.

* See chapter xxxiii. 17, 18, 19 ; also Joshua
xxiv. 32.

ERRATA.

Page 13. In the fourth paragraph, " ministration of death or ministration of condemnation"— for or
read and.
Page 17. In last paragraph of the note, for domiivions, read dominion.
Page 23. In last paragraph of the note, " as that they themselves appear," &c.,— for as, read ao.
Page 60. In first line of the note, for "those sons," read tJiese sons.
Page 76. In first line of note, for in the cross, read is the cross.
Page 87. In the last paragraph, for "in thia blood," &c., read the blood.
Page 118. In first line of note, for Ephraim, read Tsrael.
Page 198. In second line of last paragraph, for committed, read commits.
Page 223, In last hne of second paragraph, for Rom. mil. read Rom. mi,

APPENDIX

(a) Page 7. "Expansion, frora an Hebrew word signifying motion of different
parts of the eame thing at the eame tirae, one part one way, and the other part
the other way,^ with force :— a separation."—" Thie is one of the subjects of the
history of creation, respecting which thou raust not expect me to state my opinion,
K *°s,„°^"atiTe ie truly beyond our conception."— i/ac/jmoni&s. De Sola and
Raphalls " New Translation of the Book of Genesis," dc. Lond
These remarks, though intended to apply only to the literal text, furnish a
strong corroborating evidence in favor of the figure which we have supposed to
be intended by this expanse, or separation of waters. The teetimony of Maeh-
monides to the deep and incomprehensible nature of the narrative, may apply
equally to the entire hiatory as a mere literal record.
(5) P. "7. " * » * the sis days of successive change and improvement, with the
seventh of completion and perfection ; or ae some have it, the six great periods
and revolutions of time, figured under the symbol of the common week -with its
six periods, of social activity, and its seventh of sacred rest." — " Christ in History "
by Robert Turnbull, D.D.
(c) P. 81. " Saved from the fiood, he (Noah) became the father of a new race,
the type of a new rederaption. For the rescue from water, in ancient times, might
have been regarded as a syrabol of a higher deliverance frora sin." — Ibid.
(d) P. 227. " Isaac had the high honor conferred upon hira that he and Rebe
kah were assirailated to royalty, their persons being declared inviolable ; a pre
rogative reserved only for kings. This narrative is inserted to prove how the
divine proraise, ' I mil be with thee,' vras fulfilled; einee the discovery of Isaac's
tergiversation, which in ordinary cases would have lessened/ his respectabUity,
only served to raise him higher in the royal .favor and public estimation." — De
Sola and Raphall's New Translation, &c.
In an uninspired record of human events, there would be nothing remarkable
in such a method of acquiring royal favor ; but as one among the things which
happened io Israel for our ensample, and recorded by the Holy Ghost for our instruc
tion, it must either be intended as a moral lesson, or as a type of spiritual things.
If the forraer, — and Isaac, as well ae Abraham in a similar case, is held up as a warn
ing against wilful aud unjustifiable deception, — we have a right to suppose that
the reproof and punishment which auch conduct invariably meets frora a r'ghteous
God, would have followed. But where ia the evidence of this fact!
Are we then not at liberty to infer, that these men considered it both right and
safe to withhold from that ungodly people a pari ofthe truth respecting their domes
tic relations, trusting in God to take care of their wives, rather than, by revealing
all, to risk their own lives, with the special promises of which they were the sub
jects, and the high destiny they were to accomplish ! In this view of the raatter,
is there not also a typical analogy with the conduct of Christ, who so carefully
concealed frora the Jewish people, the direct knowledge of himself, farther than
was attested by his works ? And when the capricious multitude were at one time

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ready to take hira by force and make him a king, and at the next moment were
equally ready to put him to death, he " charged his disciples to tell no man that he
was the Olirist ;" — for, said he, "I must walk to-day and tomorrow, and the third
day I shall be perfected." And when they accused him of deceiving them, and
said, " How long dost thou make us to doubt ? if thou be the Christ, tell us plainly,"
he replied, "Ye believe not, because ye are not my sheep."
(«) P. 243. " The whole of the events of this chapter have been held forth aa
an iniquitous conapiracy between the mother and her younger eon, cruelly to de
ceive the blind old father, and baaely to defraud her elder son of hia intended
blessing. None of our great commentators have succeeded iu fully justifying
Eebekah and her younger son ; the reason is, that they have failed alike in pene
trating the purpose of Isaac and the intention of Rebekah. It appears, however,
that if we duly reflect on the narrative before us, most of the reproaches that have
been heaped upon our pious ancestors will appear unmerited and groundless.
Know, then, that it never entered into the raind of the righteous patriarch Isaac,
that his aon Esau was to inherit the blessing of Abraham, which comprised the
assurance of his being beloved by the Deity; that the Lord would be unto him a
God ; that he should increase and multiply and becorae a mighty nation, and that
he ehould inherit the land of Canaan. This bleseing leaac never intended to
tranemit to Eeau. Full well he knew that the Lord had not chosen hie elder eon,
who wae rude and savage in his disposition, violent and overbearing in his temper,
and inured to bloodshed by his constant war with the beasts of the forest ; and who
had forsaken the example of Abraham and adopted that of Nirarod. Theee, his
evil qualities, were well known to his father ; but araidst thera all, he possessed
one virtue — obedience and love to his father, which secured the father'e affec
tion. * ¦» * Isaac therefore determined to iraitate the character of Abraham,
who, when growing old, beetowed gifts upon the eone of hie concubines, but
did not before his death bless hie eon Isaac, being well assured that the eternal
benediction was intended for Isaac. * * * But Isaac felt it the more strongly
to be his duty to bestow his blessing on his son Esau, to whom he would not
be acting justly, if he dismissed him with gifts only, as Abrahara had done to
the sons of his concubines. For Esau as well as Jacob wae the son of his wed
ded wife Rebekah. -» * ¦» Isaac therefore determined to bless him, and in
order to do so with a wiUing heart, he bade hira go to the forest and get venison,
and prepare hira 'savory meat,' that when thus in the full enjoyment of what
had been procured by Esau's only virtue, obedience, his raind raight forget the
manifold failings of his son, and bless this virtue only. Therefore he said to him
that 112)53 my soul may bless thee. This is an expression which we do not find
used ou any other occasion in the sacred scriptures ; and the reason why Isaac
so qualified his blessing, as if he had said, although my reason, ray understanding,
and thoee nobler facultiee which constitute the nt3lI53 or intellectual aoul, raay
not concur in the bleeeing I am about to bestow ou thee, yet the feelings of plea
sure aud enjoyment procured by this one virtue, will aet upon those lower facul
ties which constitute the sensitive soul, and in its fervor it will bless thee.
"Rebekah heard the command given by the patriarch, but she failed to diecover
hie true intention, as our great commentators in after ages have done. She feared
that the purpoae of her husband waa to transmit the dirine benediction of Abra
ham exclueively to Eeau; and as he was the firet born, w&uld likewiee in right of
primogeniture in'iierit the greater portion of hie father's property, her pious son
Jacob would be the sufferer through his very virtues. Thus ehe apprehended that
a groee wrong would be done to her younger son, which it wae her duty to pre
vent by any raeane. Therefore, so far frora conspiring to defraud Esau of the
paternal benediction, her object was solely to prevent his usurping the whole of
that which of right belonged to Jacob.
" But the course of the narrative proves that she was raistaken, aud that her sus
picions of Isaac's intention were unfounded ; for the blessing which he conferred
upon the supposed Esau, proves that the patriarch did not think himself at liberty
to alienate from Jacob any portion of that divine benediction, which he felt was
intended for his younger eon. Thue he does not, in his blessing, say that the sup
posed Esau should be the blessed of the Lord, or that he should inherit the pro
mised land; nor did he extend the benediction to Esau and his setd after him ;
but the whole of his blessing ie teraporal and confined to Esau, only. * * * AVhen
Jacob wae about to leave hie paternal roof and depart for Cliaran, Isaac calls him
and blesses him a second tirae. And what ie this second blessing he bestows ou
him ? What other than the divine benediction of Abrahara ! The blessing is

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altogether different from that conferred on the supposed Esau. Whence comee it
that Isaac expreseee no indignation at Jacob's deception, but because he never
intended the bleseing he conferred upon the supposed Esau to be the divine bane-
dictiou reeerved for Jacob t"—i)e Sola and Raphall.
We cannot accord with thie version of the narrative, for we fuUy befieve that
Isaac did beatow upon Jacob at that time, when he stood before hira in the name
and place of Eeau, the entire bleeeing of Abrahara. Tet the view of these Hebrew
translators, certainly suggests several important ideas in connection with the fig
urative design of thie history. It is evident that the literal text admits of a dif
ferent rendering from the English translation, and one that makes the real design
and purpose of Isaac, at least a matter of doubt. Such a questionable sense as
this is in perfect accordance with its antitype, viz. : the last call of God upon his
elder son or old covenant people, and the promise connected with it. By the
mouth of the prophet Malachi, at the time when he is about to cast them out for
ever, he says, "Bringye all tlie tithes into ihe storehouse, that theremay bemeat in my
house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the
windows of lieaven, and pour you out a blessing, that ihere shall not be room enough
to receive it." Now it is abundantly evident that God well knew they never would
do this ; neither did he intend, that the blessing should rest upon that people; it
was to be by another covenant, another priesthood, and the "savory meat" of a
better sacrifice.
(/) P. 260. " ' The fatness of the earth and the dews of heaven I can alike wish
for, and bestow upon you both, but the dominion must abide with thy brother.' —
Machmonides. This view has been adopted by Mendelssohn and raost of the
modern Jewish translators. But some commentators are of opinion that the pre
fix is made to represent the particle /rom in a negative sense. Accordingly, they
render the text, ' Behold ihy dwelling shall be remote from the fatness cf the earth
and from the dew of heaven.' In support of thie rendering, they adduce, first,
the regret that leaao expreseee to Eeau, that he haa already liestowed the fertile
habitation on Jacob, so that he cannot grant it to Esau ; and secondly, the fact
that the mountain of Seir, which the descendants of Esau inhabited, is so far
from fertile, that Seitzen describee it ae perhape the raoet rugged and barren chain
of raountains on earth." — Ibid.
Thia rendering of the text is certainly consistent with fact, eo far as the literal
poeeeeeion of Esau is concerned ; and aleo with his spiritual portion compared
with that of Jacob. But the English version, as explained in our note, is equally
true — that, while Jacob has full possession and enjoyment of the inheritance,
Esau only dwells in the midst of it, or in the presence of it, without having any
part or lot in the matter. And again, the words which follow, in the blessing of
Isaac, confirm this view: "And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy
brother." But had Esau received " the fatness of the earth and the dew of heaven,"
there would have been no need that he ehould live by his sword, or become a
servant. (h) P. 332. " The reason for the institution of this command, is but indistinctly
indicated in the text; for it does not appear why the Israelite descendants of
Jacob, should be prohibited to eat thie nerve of an animal, because their proge
nitor was struck ou his thigh upon that nerve. The motive for this command
appears, therefore, to be to implant in our mind a constant remembrance of the
divine mercy OMd providence of God to Israel, here foreshadowed by the confiict of our
ancestor Jacob {thence called Israel) with a superhuman power, who could infiict only
a temporary injury, but over whom, by the divine aid vouchsafed to him on account
of his virtue and faith, he finally triumphed."— De Sola and Raphall.
The italics are here added by ourselves to dietinguieh a Jew's version of that
royaterioue conflict, in which he sees nothing of Christ, but merely a singular pas
sage in the life of Jacob 1 If, to national Israel, the institution of thia law was
to serve as a memorial oi the conflict, the yielding and the final triumph of the
patriarch, — how much more does the continual representation of the broken body

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oi Jeaus comraeraorate his mighty conflict and everlasting victory, in the mind of
his people I
(t) P. 334. " Various reasons have been assigned why the Masoritea have dotted
the Hebrew word which signifies ' and kissed him.' Sorae affirra it was to indi
cate that Esau was not sincere in his erabrace, but treacherously intended to hurt
Jacob. * * * Another opinion is, that the dots are placed to indicate, that
though Eaau did hate Jacob, he erabraced him cordially on the present occasion.
Whatever may have been the motive for this punctuation, it shows that the
Masorites perceived in this word something reraarkable, which we have no raeans
to discover." — Ibid.
This last reraark of the learned commentator concedes a, great and important
point, viz. : that something raore is needed to obtain a right understanding of
Scripture, than the most acute philological criticiem. And what is this needed
help, but a general knowledge of the unity and analogy of truth, not of the letter
only, but also of the spirit? — to be able to corapare the type with the antitype,
so that they may mutually explain each other ?
(Je) P. 349. " The older commentators all assume that the place where Jacob
lighted, and where he slept, was Mount Moriah, where Abrahara offered up Isaac,
aud on which the teraple was subsequently built. But these ooramentators forget
that the text acquaints us the place Luz, which, from this and other events that
happened there, was called Bethel ; and as thie place ie at a distance of twelve
miles from Jeruealem, it cannot be brought into connection with Mount Moriah :
accordingly the Medraah, in its allegorical style, says, 'the mount went to meet Jacob
at Luz: "—Ibid

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