. a ., ■■ 5 SK :- . ■' >a ^ Sana K HI ,l>///.r^-.f.*?,r/ , w/;(/ FuirldTicd, Jan& 1B06 h\ W.Otridge tcSan . i7/>/W SYSTEMATIC VIEW tj fllM^^ ° p the t I REVEALED WISDOM OF THE WOMJD OF GOB :iT)PP *On OF WHICH WISDOM THE HEBREW TONGUE PREDESIGNED AND APPROPRIATE EXPOSITOR. deut. xxix. 29. BY r#£ aep. i?^^r WILLIAMS, OF THE ISLAND OF JAMAICA. LOATDOAT. PRINTED BY C. WHITTINCHAM, IMan Strut; AND SOLD BY OTRIDGE AND SON, STRAND. 1806. ERRATUM. Page 108, line 21, (Margin,) for Hosea xliv. read Ezekiel xliv. ot/s 7$$-{( 93 PREFACE. With much serious deliberation I present unto the Church in Christ, and unto the World at large, a series of Elementary Instruc- tions altogether deduced from the Revelations of the Word of God, as recorded in those Scriptures whereof our forefathers have been the faithful guardians; and forasmuch as the modes of explanation are without hu- man example, so do I assure myself of the clement considerations of the good and wise, in a labour hazardous indeed to the indivi- dual, though the result should be beneficial to many. The media of these investigations are the Hebrew and Syriac languages, which are not taken up unto such purposes, with- out much previous examination; the me- thods of which examination, as referring to the Hebrew principally, (whereof the Syriac is a well-advised deviation,) constitute the first part of these essays, under the title of 44 An Idea of the Hebrew Tongue:" the doc- trinal parts, in course rest their strength on 2107459 IV the critical accuracy and appropriate ap- plication of their parent citations. On the difficulties (vhich retard the execution of a work of this comprehensive nature, I am unwilling to expatiate, save that I think it should behove the reader to reflect, whether they be such as obviously arise from a sub- ject of the highest consideration, or such as readily oppose a defective plan. The harmony of the Hieroglyphic Charac- ters will testify their divine descent; these Sacred Emblems in their various connections, will be found to pourtray in every essential article of human faith, those very truths which the north literally and alphabetically derived from them, do declare and an- nounce: surely they were delivered unto man, as a foretaste of the wisdom of a higher and a better order of Intelligences and Virtues; for they arc the Forms of Sounds implicated with the Creed of Nature, into a robe fitted to the righteousness of Mes- siah's merited majesty; they are — the Rule of Revelation* . * Human ingenuity though at all times busied in the rationale of letters and languages, hath never availed to select from the boundless objects of nature any set of The Sounds of Words in this wonderful language, considered as the Voice of Natiwe, will be found at the same time to involve the euphonies of an Evangelistic Giwnmar*; this evidence, mere description would be al- together inadequate to convey, were it not expected, that the learner would feel a con- viction while tracing these testimonies, that shall induce him to impress his memory with the characters and the relative sounds of truths, which can never fail their good and saving destination. It is well known that in the sacred tongue, many or most words, range under their spe- cific radices certain constructions, whose dependencies or analogies unto each other, figures, wherefrom an alphabet may have been decomposed and arranged; what shall we say then of that gracious mind, which hath not only granted that great requisitum, but hath at the same time in that very selection, revealed unto man the covenanted mercies of redemption i * That Modulation of sounds should express the temper and relative condition of the subject, is what strong reason with fortunate experience might probably have conjectured ; but that the characters or letters of those sounds, should be apt expounders of the mysteries of Faith, is far more than what the steadiest natural reliance on an overruling Provi- dence could have presumed to hope for; yet such hath been the way of God with Man — a way too wondrous to have been regarded, almost too gracious to be believed. VI have not been immediately discernible; in order therefore to facilitate this study, in- stances of the weightiest truths so couched have been adduced, and the Gospel has been proved to reveal the rationale of their con- nections. From these several considerations, I think we are authorized to infer, that the language, although spontaneous from the feelings and perceptions of man, is notwith- standing — an Holy Language — predesigned by the wisdom and grace of God, and in no wise the invention nor the arbitrary imposi- tion of any human being: how this conclu- sion should affect our hearts and minds, it is not in my pen sufficiently to enforce. Of the natural character or letters of the Hebrew Alphabet, this treatise thus gives the most evident display; of that character (the Samaritan or Chaldee) which hath hitherto laid claim to an higher antiquity, we have this to say; that it was a wilful perversion of the plain language of revelation : — The tf by them was construed in its generic sense of ivtf a bull, and a figure with two horns fr was made its alphabetic representative; an helmet and habergeon ^3 were brought in lieu of the sword T; the D serpent was cha- Vll racterized by the zagged lightning — the thun- derbolt of power Ty ; the simplex element of light » was signified by a tripled bolt united at the top fTf ; the delineations on the Moons stir- face ^j , were substituted for the 3 of humility; the firmament of strength religiously expressed by a circle D, was obliterated to make room for their mighty Atlas (figured as) stooping under that burden £ ; and the last character of their wisdom, was formed by the hapless contortions of the First of ours on the cross Jy '• The rest were imitative of the Hebrew, or arbitrary, i. e. without reference to the things signified by their pure and native ap- pellations : — For, in the delirium of their im- piety, they neglected to change the names of the letters ; and in the haste of their vanity dropt behind them this clue, to the confe- deracy of their rebellion against Messiah's kingdom. But let not their adulterate and foolish wisdom avail unto more unhappy con- sequences, nor their vainglorious philosophy engender among us a more fatal infidelity*. * False philosophy leads to false religion ; Moses, Joshua and the Prophets, our Lord and his inspired Apos- tles, ever adverted unto one and the same System of Crea- tion — the doctrine and revelation of the Spirit of Truth, by the mission of the Word of God. Vlll The virtues of Christ's advent still influence our hearts, and confident I am, that to detect error in its mischief, is the same as to erase it for ever from the human breast. Some false system of the heavens hath ever been the ostensible opponent of Mes- siah's covenanted protection, and therefore the constant touchstone of Man's fidelity: with the proofs of this assertion, the reader will be made acquainted in the progress of this work; as also with that plain scriptural system, which the Almighty (according to the Author's conceptions) hath in express words, and by architectural type, condescendingly revealed unto man. On that which opposes it at this day, I shall make a few animadver- sions; but lest it should be thought, that I seek thereby too much to humiliate our rea- soning faculties unto iinperious dictates, shall in the end, adventure also some demonstra- tions of that truth, which I have made bold to think, is and hath been the revelation of God from earliest eras. Having observed in the first part of this Preface, that " the Syriac is a well-advised " deviation" of the Hebrew, it might be re- IX quisite, in some measure, to justify the ex- pression, by adducing instances of that rela- tiojiship unto the parent language*. 1DX The Word, in Hebrew, is in Syriac Vr^°) The Lamb "lttfl Flesh >m ^ is despised. 11 Com — the Bread of Life t--^- The Son. fDT Purity — obtains in Syriac \s) Victory. And very many others of the most in- teresting coincidences unto the Christian Reader: add to this, that it was the verna- cular language of our Blessed Lord, and no doubt fitted unto revelation. To judge from the circumstantial evidence of the text, (which is certainly a preferable mode to any straightened comment,) I should conclude, that many truths were from the first, presented to the world in a Syriac garb; for, in this happy language, there oftentimes * Which I rather bring forward in this place, as the texture of the Syriac tongue is not intended to come under any grammatical examination in the following work. b appear a fulness of expression and simpli- city of style, which cast away ambiguity and confusion: nevertheless, am I fully per- suaded, that the Beneficent Creator has stamped His imprimatur on every translation, even into the most barbaric dialects. Ps. xxxiv. 4.— mrr raw noorm tin mn6 iVm CONTENTS. Page An Idea of the Hebrew Tongue 1 Analogies of Systems 82 Hurarn Abiu Vltf Dili! The Cunning Workman 115 Melkizhedeq pTlPD^B 120 Of the Three Great Feasts unto the Lord 127 The Day of Atonement DnM OV .... 132 The Earthy or Red Heifer mix .TlD . . 137 The Vision of Jehovah's Foresight .... 138 Elements of the Established Order of the Heavens and the Earth 141 Zion's System 148 Egypt's and Tycho Brahe's Systems . . l6l Babel's System 163 Of the Symbol of Power, Wisdom, and Truth 169 The JTjiibn qfTiro^J/ial/ipo/ts Systans T3tt JffJZAVJZJVS 9- T^ME3EHZ#.CX3£ . Plate 1. . \3.27iartfa ,!/.«■// /////// m/atmcr on Iffitmt /.> erutentii' agmaole to StYtptiav, Inalotp /'/// Season doffinot veaturc us to bcl&cvc ///,i„ ■ ,■■„:■■/' it n.'j/rt.i.,,- n.v,,„ Strand Plate m. the TEMPX.E OP d< y_V> 3 ^/.v /j/^.yr/ab/co ynr tttx rjj7ET&Z£ii-]£:i J . llr.xr 110 '^ unjii _ j5oo. XT.V 3. 7. .VLLI . 10. //. a j5eo. i. -y. 4 * £ «• * f? ^ ///<■'' Afiffioris of . t//7is /w<--/' . '„„ ■,-,/,;■/;/,,■ W.Otridfft tsSon Jtovut . ,■,,„./. riaU- VI . 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Some letters retain the name together with the form of the entire emblem, as i, i, t, D, y, S; some represent the object of such attributed ability or design, as tf, H, PI, h % D, Sf, (St. John vi. 53, 54, 55, et al.) and n*, (Mark i. 4, 5, 6, with Rom, vi. 3, 4, 5); while others are parts of decom- pounded emblems: in which last case, the letter to the right hand (being the^rs^ letter) assumes the name or designation of the entire emblem, as the 2, the 3, the p, and the Kf. Let it however be remarked, that the re- maining parts of these decompounded em- blems are not therefore lost or done away; but that they become the initial letters of other words, (though not of other emblems-)-,) and in their rank in the alphabetic series, wonderfully augment the earliest record of human faith. * Thus n no where, as a word, signifies a cross, nor n a falling mansion, nor n {i. e. nn) (horns, nor ID a serpent, nor ' fire, nor D the heavens, nor y crucifixion, nor ") a torrent, as by immediate construction ; but these letters, in their al- phabetic significations, severally express qualities, for which those emblems or nouns have naturally or mysti- cally (i. e. by christian metaphor) a pie-eminent distin- guishment, or unto which they manifest a peculiar alliance. f For the emblems of themselves are a complete revela- tion: the letters b, Q, and j augment the historic record, and announce the supposited law, Heb. x. J. Gal. iii. 19 ; the n elucidates the mode of the mystery of regeneration, St. John iii. 1—21, &c. Matt, xi, 23, 29, 30, THE EMBLEMATIC CREED. X* Max formed in the image of his Geu.i. and Maker, in the similitudes of his blessed Rc- V. 1. deemer, was by him placed in the garden of johnxiv.2. Eden, in thel I 1 mansions of Paradise, where- in all the sweet varieties of nature did abound, Gen. ii. 19, anc [ every tfl-j animal proffer its various services: Sin entered, and the man trans- gressed; justly therefore were he and his Gen.iii.24. consort detruded thence, and the ~~| door shut against them. Their once happy mansion was now unto them as a ^J fabric over- turned', their conversation, lamentation and Gen. h. 4. woe. Soon the J J shepherd's life became the occupation of the repentant and faithful, Gen. x. is, ^foflg f. war an( J slaughter swayed the unbe- lieving race. The inflicted earth brought forth Gem xi. i fjjy thorns and thistles, and 1Q Satan's em- pire was to the full established. The cove- nanted time (Gen. xv. 13 — 16) arrives, the Exod. in. \ holy f re descends upon the mount Sinai, and the angel of that covenant f ") stoops to * The second Adam being by merit the representative of human nature, and his cross the symbol of man's re- demption, it follows that the first Adam also, may with propriety be designed thereby. | The following work will involve an illustration of this doctrine, with explanations of certain passages that incul- cate the advent in these latter days of this the very same mighty and zealous messenger of our Lord Jesus Christ. redeem the sons of Jacob, (and 12 1 ? to in- ex. xxxin, struct DIB a perverse generation; Acts vii. 35. 54. For unto this did the fire of his glory pj dwell) in a measured model Q of the Ex< f- **• heavens. The promised and eventful day draws near — the Only Begotten of the Fa- ther, the Light of Light, and "Jf Discerner i sa .ix. 6. of all Things, comes down from heaven, and is incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, and is made Q man, and is f crucified ]«,. mim also for us, under Pontius Pilate; dead and buried, he descended into hell; on the Actsii.27. third day he rises again, according to the Acts h. 31. scriptures, and Jp re-appears unto his disci- *5* ia « 6 pies. Having ordained the ^ waters of bap- tism unto remission of sins, and through re- pentance in faith, unto a 1TTT new birth in j0 £ n iv< lj righteousness, he perpetuates the holy mys- tery, (and Pin breaks his sacred body in distri- M f£ button) of eternal life, unto all who come prepared . lxxxix. ! JbNI JEN* D^iy 1 ? HIPP Tin* Dan. xii. I. Hagg. ii. 6, 7. Rev. xiv. 6, 7. Matt. xvii. 10 — 13. John the Baptist hath indeed come in the spirit and power of Elias, being clad with his very raiment, and acting his office, and he was the Precursor of his Lord; and Jike unto Elias, we trust, will be the angelman's fide- lity. He, who is eminently the similitude of mrr, and the image of rrtfO. Luke 1. throughout. John i. 1 — 34. Ezck. i. 2G, 27, 23. The tabernacle — the pattern of the heavens was the residence of this similitude, who filled the tabernacle and the tent with his glory, as doth the glory of our Lord Jesus XXTI. 17—32. 6 TABLE OF IDEAS, SUGGESTED BY THE PORMS OF EMBLEMS. Of such ideas as are likely to recur to an informed mind, on the contemplation of these objects severally. ^ The Cross, (hence J torture, being rack- ed ; metaph. self denial. [ LJ The Temple, h. architecture, rule, sys- tem, intelligence. ^ The Camel, h. height of stature, a pro- tuberance, excess. ] The Shut Door, h. exclusion, lone- some, musing, solitary. ^y The Falling Mansion, h. ruin, dismay, confusion, trouble. /7 The Shepherd's Crook, h. ease, con- templation, security, rest. f The Sword, h. glittering, furbished; also, rapine, slaughter. /7T\ The Brier, Thorns, h. pointed, sharp ; also, sterility and perplexity. IQ The Serpent, h. deviation, tortuosity; insinuation, treachery. Christ the heavens, and the heaven of heavens. Exod. xxiii. 30 — 33. But the glory of our Lord Jesus is not to be seen by the eyes oimortal man. Exod. xxxiii. 18—23. and xxxiv. 1—9. S The Flame of Fire, lu vengeance, pow- er, light, genial warmth. *] The Humiliated, dejected; a semicir- cular figure, a cover. @) The Starry Firmament; circularity, compactedness, strength. IT The Eye of Man; vision, intellect, benignity, love. ^ The Side Face, half seen; edge, corner, enigmatical, faith*. Y The Crucified Saviour; death, sacri- fice, resolution, victory. ?j?l The Full Face, manifestation; resur- rection, life, glory. ^ The Torrent (as of Jordan) fluidity, purification, baptism. MTF The Teeth, h. change, renewal; white- ness, laughter, joy. Having this Table in our view, and the gospel in our minds, let us endeavour to pourtray, in emblematic composition, those truths, which the scriptures announce in literal solemnity. * Faith is not perfect knowledge (I Cor. xiii. 9 — 12) but it hath the evidence of a truth, which is so communicated, that the heart of man may be tried, and the judgments of God finally j lutijied. Deut. xxx. throughout. Faith is not the edifice of the proud, but the refuge of the meek and lowly, Matt. xi. 28, 29, 30. 8 THE COMPOSITION OF EMBLEMATIC WORDS. X The Cross hath been already noticed to be the symbol of man. 2 1 1 1 Matt.xxvi. Y ^ f. e. ys man in extreme distress, un- der the pressure of bitterest pangs; " My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death," were the first expressions of our agonizing Lord. Ex.iii.3,3. M\ *• e - >n W e > thejire in the bush — The angel of life unto the oppressed of Jacob. Deut. In that he dwelt in the lowhi bush njD*JDtt% xxxiii. 16. ** he did represent our Saviour's humiliate in- carnation, Isa. liii. 1, 2, 3; in which holy state joha xi. however, life was given to the dead, and man redeemed. Rev.xix.7, WSJJJ i-e. WW the lily flower, emblem of purity, righteousness, and joy; prefiguring Matt. xxii. the whiteness of that robe, which will be 1—13. . given from out the wardrobe of the Lamb at his marriage supper, unto such as shall come rightly prepared. No man's own righteous- Exod. xxx. ness can secure him a seat there; he must 17—21. be baptized, and change his own garments, Ex. xxvi.i. ere he can enter that temple; he must change and be changed, before that happy consum- mation. 9 Y IT *"• £• V>, the tree of wisdom and death, Genesis u. or of the knowledge of good and evil; YW 8 ««N »»• signifies to consult with. IT Y i. e. yy triumphing as by virtue of E P h. iv. p. 1 2 his death and wisdom, over all the powers of sin and hell, Ps. xxii. 2 1 1 Jm ^ i.e. an inheritance; being baptized Jos. m. iv. into his death, we are admitted into h\s joy : thus the ark preceded the host, and thus it became Messiah " to fulfil all righteous- ™$tSi t ness." 3 2 1 1 "iT 2HI S i- e - W or jw* Jews — %A£, 9 3 purity, and intellect. The word yttf' signifies isa.xvn.7. to save, and to /oo/c <7^; hence sw is (by another construction) that Righteous One, Nmnb.xw. who saves by beino- looked at. The True Jol !V xii .- TWTM ttfllJ *. e. serpent for serpents; as also the patriarch David saith in the xviiith Psalm ^TOnnarpV E>, but a Saviour to the Humble SWin >33> DP— v. 27, 28. Exod. vii. 10, 11, 12. 3 2 1 IT Q S '-• e - ^b' irradiate — shine forth in 1 2 3 thy ?night, Immunity, and wisdom, Q^-on !ttf* Ps..ixxx. PttPSlPi; and again jy>£in niDpJ ^tf: See the Ps. xciv. words of blessings, Numb. vi. 22 — 27. .3 2 1 C' 1 / I Y *• e « P T ^ our righteousness; in that &<»»•»•»'• He was crucified, that lie remained in a sc- ps. xviii. 2 3 parated state, and that J/e rose again for our ip e t.iii.ia justification. c 10 3 •: i l mj '] \JJ/ *. c EHp /w/?/; having arisen from psaim ex. ^//c rftw/, He is again separated from us, and now sits at the right hand of the Father in 3 the plenitude of bliss. Unto these, the me- ditating mind may add many more, but it might seem sufficiently satisfactory, that the more essential articles of our faith, are thus systematically pourtrayed : for, a large field of demonstration from another source lies yet unexplored; which, however, ere we attempt to investigate, I will adventure one other regulated delineation of a subject, that has at all times challenged the admiring attentions of men. 11 ARCHITECTURAL MEMORANDA. ffi i. e. HO The Tabernacle or Temple of Jehovah. 1 Kings viii. N*l Entrance, as by the door of that Temple. yi Enquiry, into the 0?vfcr of fto house ♦yi. Obad.vi. tOl To pry into secret things, h. scrutinize. IS* The Progenitor and Lord of that house. 31 Meat, or abundant supply for £/w£ house. Tl Rapine; the s&wd within £/*«£ house. 11 Solitary ; having shut-to the f/oor of £Aa£ house. . *tlN £os£; having delayed pro- per entrance there. . in Perplext; as when &/-/ers surmount that house. . in Love — in Him who wore those thorns. rDTo • • • ^ ^ ,fl * r an( * pl easan * — tnc ID ejected from f/«a£ house. Jpjn • • • "11 Purifying waters will issue from tf/ia£ house; hence, j=P T/jc Temple of the Father, and Cleanser of the Worlds. Exod. xxv. John x. 2. John x. 3,4. John x. J. 8. 10. 12. Johnxiv. 2. J3 Ezefc. xxv. 7. Mark xiii. Matt. xxv. 10. Matt. xxv. 11,12,13. Mattxxviu 29, 30. Ibid. Rev. xii. 9, 10. Ezek.xlvii. 12 Matt. xvii. But who is 12? Nay, who is )^_) ; r s . ii. 12. Nltf 12.* ? The Lord of Life or a Murderer'; Actsiii. 14, gy j^V/oNt' blood are we redeemed? Never 15. ^ Luk« xxiii. a g a i n l c t Man mistake, as did our forefathers of the Law on that dread day, when Pilate placed those two together! . „„ Di>n ona rma D»-nz; nnsn "wn Acts iv 24 —so.' Numb. xxi. 16, H, is.— (.nb uy) {onajnooa ppnoa They dug the well that was already full! Jolmvii.37, „-,. . , . , . . 38, 39. i hey smote the rock that saved them ! Gen. L. 19 —23. Nevertheless hath their evil deed (through the merciful wisdom of God) brought about Rom.x. our salvation, and their rejection our happi- ness; what then shall we expect from their Rom. x. reception into favour? "For the gifts and " callings of God are without repentance." But of the Temple this know, my brothers, that it is, for a truth, God's house, and that his only Son Jesus Christ is the only master Heb.ia. there; /;e is the heir, and the rightful lord Heb. iv. v. and owner thereof; even Moses was but the vi» steward therein, and David thought, it would p s . xxvii. have been no dishonour, to have been the 4, 5. door-keeper there. Ps. lxxxiv. * ).3_) • r 2i- i. e. The " Son of the Father"— the true title of our Lord Jesus, as also the name of the released murderer! IS Thus, for a moment, we have contemplat- ed the Hebrew tongue, as the language of representation only; exercising our judgment through the sense of vision. Let us, in the next place, attend to it more minutely, as being the voice of nature, and the Rule of Onomatopoeia — referring to the testimonies of the ear: and, if we should unite these with the euphonies of an Evangelistic Grammar, we hope rather to corroborate by analogies, than to confound by rude contrarieties, or distress by too subtile distinctions. Such are the privileges of truth. All things were designed and created in adapted similitudes to the One Great Antemundanc Exemplar; Christ God is that Exemplar, and He is the Hei>. Beauty of Existency, the Substance of Holi- ness, the Eamb of God, and DTl^N HIM*. 14 TABLE OF IDEAS, IMPRESSED AND OCCASIONED BY THE SOUNDS OF LETTERS. 1 2 X an Expressive of majesty, aa of Sorrow, 3 ah of rejection. 2 b Of contiguity, contignation; also, in- clusion, vacuity. 2 g Of vehemence, expulsion; 2 final im- pediment, &c. T c? Of seclusion; single, slow, meditative. H e Agitated, vibrative, tumultuous, hesi- tative. T w Connective; u continuative; also, per- manent. t z Splendour, activity; also, dispersion, and a buzzing sound. n ch Sharp, incisive; hk (final) breath, energy. D t Softly, imperceptible; inclining, de- clining, twining. » i Puissance, virtue, life; » y or yeh is He; (final) I, my. 3 k Conformant, submiss; "| checked, fenced, restrained. 15 b l Gentle inaction, meandering; leading to, winding. 8 m Body, substance, machine; congre- gate; also, mute. j n Passive, obedient; ] given up to, per- fected in. D s Circularity, revolvency; speed, fleet- ing, passing. y oo Mild and persuasive; o plain, declara- tive; ng, clangour. 2 p Articulate, delicate, gradual; f\ ph, sufflative, furious. i* zh Resolute, enduring, strong; y extre- mity, death. p qu Sickness, qualm; p final, encompass, adhesive. "I rr Rushing, overflowing, rapid; quick consumption. Kf sh Spread over, suffuse, anoint; handling, touching. T\dth Instant, present; distribute, determine, apportion. Ps. viii. — ipNii tas "pttf "hn no wrm rvrv By a little attention, the reader will per- ceive, that the significations attributed to the several letters, are not fanciful and arbi- trary, but such as co-unite with a contem- plation of the objects in the Emblematic Table, and result from observation of the 16 motions and affections of the organs of speech, pending the energies of the mind. But the chief consideration will be, whether the language is really composed and formed from such simple elements. — That he may be able to give an adequate decision on the subject, I must again repeat the necessity of his memory being previously impressed with the forms, significations, and names of the letters severally. By reason alone, we may arrive to attribute design to the creative mind, in the exertion of his power; by faith, we learn to comprehend that design, and to read it in his works. All things are from the same pattern, which pattern is Christ — the visibility of the Almighty Father. There is, therefore, a ride of analogy every where — a harmony of order in every variety : our effort in the hope of the grace of Christ, is to point out that rule, to restore that harmony, and to rejoice in our lot, with all the creatures of our God. Ps. xcv.-— jijytt?» toA rorw vm*i rariJ \& 17 THE VOICE OF NATURE WITH THE LANGUAGE OF GRACE. The sounds attributed unto tf the Cross Se ,t, tT . 1 ? tvvo 1 ableti. of Christ, are declarative of His (Messiah's) varied conditions among the sons of men. Isaiah saw him disrobed of his majesty, sor- rowing in his humility, rejected and despised of his kindred ; the prophet felt the wound, beheld the cross, and through the sounds of N alone, thrills the information on our hearts. Chap. liii. » du. nrnoTOi rwoa nti iron* mn ab) )b -wri *6 •2 2 2 * 3 2 2 S »v aa : ^n inin ddndd «?♦« .D*ttm biro no: 3 3 3 * n ah iiten rsn mm And thus again to describe more speaking- Lukeiv.22. ly the second condition, the tf is often inserted * Supplied vowels are ever at the discretion of the speaker, and naturally follow the temper of the subject. The written vowels are ever long. The rule being given as above, the N becomes the note of either of the aforenamed conditions on analogous topics, even when the Messiah is not personally referred unto — thus Job xxviii. 1 1. where to 1 heighten the expression, the n in nD is changed into n on the recurrence of the word, and the emphasis and cadence rise and fall with the waves. rfii \\tt22 nw ndi *von vfn wan hs "ry D Job. 18 between two radical letters of a word, so that by protracting the syllable, the gloom of re- presentation might be cither altogether oc- casioned, or augmented; thus Ifcn for l"f, IDNb for dl, Mtt for D2, Itffc for *|D, btiV for *?¥, 2 2 2 Dtfttf for Dt:% IND and rf?NTl, &c. &c. Isaiah xiv. enforces the £AM state with the besom 3 3 3 3 3 of destruction HEtt/H NtDKDBl rpnNDtf Dl *. As the vowels are so peculiarly constructive in this mystic language, I beg for the facili- ty of the learner, so far to derange the al- phabetic series, as to bring them under ear- lier consideration than their consonants. See Tables .... H • H inserted between two radicals, purposely expresses, 1st. The agitated mind, the tu- multuous and apprehensive soul. 2Htf love, *?rQ distress, "iru suppliant, om confounded, DHT nauseate, :n^ ponder on, HIT? 'madness, UTh treacherous, DHB troubled, ir\*2 hastening, nn3 vailing, nnp hoping, nm fearful, Dm expediting, im vainglorious, proud. 2dly. Whatever z?i nature is radiant and * n hath one other sound, when placed at the right hand of ' power; viz. of the inflictive; as Mm.?, in words anaia- gous — n»N, n»tt, Ttt, b'N% D'N, jW and row, PlB'N exclamations of challenge— pN 1DO n»n nD'N 4 — xxviii. n intercessory :n i : nrrbirn rnrp mn .ra rrypwi mrr wn cxviii. 19 vibratory*. tOHl radiated marble, 1HT meri- dian splendour, burnished gold, iriT irradiunt, into defalcate to light, (thence) ywre fo feoft- ?/e.s!, in 1 ? ^e glittering sword, a vehement flame, \2Ph luminous, 3HJ light of a lamp, (thence) to instruct, 2 Pet. i. 19, to lead as by a light, so y?n to praise, i. e. to ascribe glory or light unto (meaning creative divine light,) "iHi issuing light, flowing stream, 1H5* yellow, "If!!? t'/rzY/, splendid, OTO £/*e o??7/a sfo»e, inn commixt, ini without order. 3d\y. When such radiancy is designed by the fabrications of tfr£; as f/«/s, ^HN* the /e?*£, the mystic emblem of embodied light, J!"D the priest, arrayed in his effulgent ephod, "UTS a .sy;iro/ £oo>er dedicated to the sun, nTO a s/h/y/Z ornament f dedicated to the moon: hence, (voia. 4thly. The disordered passions of animals cnn, nm, Dm, pru ^rrc. othly. Social concourse — heavenly choir. prO " The goodly Fellowship of the Prophets praise Thee; ^np " The Holy Church through- * As being of analagous condition to the agitations of the moral man, first instanced. t Ornaments were called HV witnesses, because they were symbolical of the federated mysteries which men va- riously worshipped — hence Aaron's stratagem, Exod. xxxii. Jehovah's jealousy, Exod. xxxiv. 12 — 17, and the prophet's many rebukes to the apostate unto false gods. Isaiah i. Ixvi. &c. &c. and into Fallacious Systems of the Host of Heaven. 20 out all the World" *1TO " Do acknowledge Thee" to be their Lord and God. Ps. xxix. 1. :?jn TD3 mrr 1 ? an d ,l, n M nvrb nn Sec Tables \, 1 is ii letter purely grammatical : after the t /?ntf radical, it describes the energy in its action, as tow, pin, rmrj, &c. After the second, it expresses the permanency of any native or acquired ability or virtue; thus, im, -iin:, jw*. s ttmp, &c. &c. 1 between biliterals is not only cupho- nous, but, by connecting the two letters into one syllable, stamps the sense, and conse- quently prevents ambiguity of interpreta- tion; thus -pi caught, not able to move either way, "]"! in thee; ^vtf the skirt of a garment, ^"W which (pertains) to, T\D*h m & why (this)-fo-7»e, wherefore, HfZrTlW peace, prospe- rity: — But its utility is chiefly in pro-nomi- nals and appellatives. 1 as a prefixed letter, is the connective, and, moreover, but, &c. See Tables S • Powejb, virtue, ABiLiry, of any nature whatsoever. This paramount quality derives its form from light visible, the chief of created ele- fv. xxxiii. merits: but there is an intellectual lip'ht, which no mortal man can approach unto, 21 and this Light is the Effulgence of Christ Jesus — of His Life; its name is m?T. " Hal- lowed be thy name \" The substance of mn* Heb.ii.i6. was never commivt with that created Light, but only with the substance of man in the Heb.ii.17, 18 body of Messiah : The sentient soul of Christ is that Holy Being, which results from that Union. No man nor angel therefore can partake of miT (who is the effulgence of Heb.i.1-5. fVntf existency, by possessing existency it- self.) but through the participation of the body of Christ. There is, however, a mighty angel of light, named ^JO'O Mikaul ; (whom God hath made mighty, for there is no power but of God, because of his approved faith and Rev . x u. 7. fidelity.) This angel bxyD is the mn' Nltf "IP j 0S h. >-. u. Captain of God's Host; with Him, the Holy Spirit from Christ mf? did associate from earliest time; He btfy? is not the miT, but Ezek.i. 28. he is the ethereal similitude of the glory of miT, being the miT -nan ntfTO, and hath Expand 7 <=> * Rev. vii. 2. the stamp of that living name, the earnest of Ex*i.xxiv. a future recompence. Every ethereal appear- E *J*jJ iii ' ance therefore (as of the /ire at Sinai) was A ^ v ^ 30 ' not the manifestation of the substance of the Godhead, but the similitude of that manifes- tation; for the manifestation is Jesus Christ johni. 1— . -» 14. — God blessed for ever. Of the office, cha- racter, and person of this angel, we hope by the grace of God to speak more fully in another place. Now forasmuch as our minds cannot go beyond the images of nature, it hath pleased the Gracious Deity to excerpt from that Table, certain characters whereby to desig- nate (as through similitudes) the beneficen- ces of his power and compassion, towards the generations of men. Ex. iii. 14, r ,n -xt andvi.3. I UC JN aiUC iWN is appropriated unto our God as the Httf ^tf Beneficent Creator over all his works; but, for a truth, The Name miT has a peculiar relationship unto human beings; He being their one only Redeemer Ps.xviii.32. from sin, death, and eternal misery. In grammatical construction the word (THK envelops the ideas of an instant, spiri- tual light; the word altogether signifying Self Exist ency — J Am. In grammatical con- struction the word miT envelops the ideas of light, spiritual, impassioned, or conditionate jobxxxvii. — for HIPP (as we have seen) is irDtf* Now the word mrp in derivation is mrvrp God i v, o„ suffers — but the PP the Godhead is the same, John x. 30. •*/ simplex or conditioned. Deut. vi. 4. :* Ins mrv wrfw mrr ^k-i^ V »# * This is */ie Name, by which the Almighty Trinity wills ever to be addressed: Exod. iii. 15. 23 The > after the first radical, describes an innate, spontaneous, or a presumptive ability — an internal energy. The » after the second radical, expresses an acquired but well-merited power; oftentimes endowed with an impartive or transmissive faculty: of this latter are most of the titles of ITttftO himself, as TIN, Tni, TH, T21, TDPI, TIT, TSD, T33, nnn, &c. &c: not so y?>n Lucifer, who presumes to irradiate as from himself; but that presumption engendereth m^in madnesses. When as of our Lord it is said, " though He were a Son, yet learned Heb.v.4, • to . 5. 8. 9. " He obedience, by the things which he suf- syr.Test. " fered; and being thus perfected, He be- " came the Author of Eternal Salvation, " unto all them that obey Him:" and His commandment is " Love one another as I Johnxv.ia, 13. " have loved you" — " Greater love hath no " man than this, that a man lay down his " life for his friends." — Comp. John x. 11. i*J***ft 17, 18. See Tables .... y. The three qualities or powers assigned unto this vowel, with their connate eupho- nies, usually take place in the correspondent order of composition — being oo as the first radical letter, o as the second, and ng with either short vowel preceding as the third. To i i i instance in the first character py, iiy, *by, vhy, oby, fry, uy, asp, -py, w w any, nny, 24 2 t t . ., the exceptions may be "iisy, isy, D^y, and 3 3 3 3 3 |W, Viy, f)iy, py. To instance in the second nyn, -lyj, lyo, -iyD, cy-i, ]vw except tyro, ^y-i. Fn //it f ////•<■/ — the instances are very nume- rous, and scarce admit an exception ; in the reading therefore strikingly expressive. — Exodus xv. ttnpn tt*o roaa >o mrp o^ni rD»3 »o tpN tDy^nn *p'D' rvto:» k 5 ?© new n^nn Nii3 Moses' Song; Miriam's Response: :o*a nan insm did nw hnj o mn^ n>p Thus we see the emblem of wisdom V is, in the/zVs£ instance — mild and persuasive, in its progress plain and declarative, at the last, (like the ^ ) if we heed nor grace nor de- Heb. iv. monstration, it will assuredly prove venge- ful, dire, and suhjugative. " Let us there- " fore fear, lest a promise being left us of rsaim xcv. " entering into his rest, any of us should seem to come short of it — iVlpl Dtf DVH. It must be evident that the voice is the best instructor on this subject: nevertheless, anyone who reads with unbiassed attention, must be sensible of the proprieties of these rules. 25 OF THE CONSONANTS. The intention in this part of the Treatise, being to prove by adduction of instances — the truth of the several meanings assigned unto each letter singly and uncompoimded, in the two Tables of Ideas from forms, and from sounds; it follows that to support the system only such words need to be produced, as have either the vowels in construction, or the radical letter under consideration — doubled: These testimonies should in reason suffice. It is not that their appropriate significations are lost in composition (for I believe it pos- sible to solve every word into those construc- tions naturally or analagously, according to the given rules;) but verily these are not the times to run into recondite minutiae; our object and hope being rather to establish through the grace of Christ, those essential truths that proclaim aloud " Salvation unto " Man, Happiness to the Church of God/' tmtv mo om^n From this principle, it will be the conside- ration also in a subsequent part, " The " Kvangelistic Rationale of the construction " of Words" to treat rather upon the doc- trine* that shall so result, than upon their technical combinations; to enforce the bene- v. 26 final rather than to enucleate the subtle, un- less when it may be in objection to any ge- neral error. See Tables ....1. 2y the continuations, beams, strata, of the heavenly abodes (See Job xxii. VI, et al. r*. civ. d, freq.J the clouds*; y grateful. H2D the Ark, i. e. n separate and distinct pieces, % framed together. 212 hollozc, vacations, confronted, but being without tenant or sap; hence 2 as & preposi- tion refers to that condition, signifying in, within, into; and N*2 to enter into. 2N' we have seen, is the Father, Progenitor, lA i'^ xli ' Builder; so ION* the generative or fructife- rous season of the year. This creative and isa. ix. 5. formative power of the great "iy ON* is trans- joim i. 42, ferred unto the Son, whose name is therefore johnxiv.9. 1 2 the Builder, and HB^y |!l the Son of the Virgin is as truly — the Builder of the World: nj"2 i. c. intelligence is consequently His Teculium, and none can wrest it from Him, nor even explain His Work, without He im- parts the faculty and skill; for n^2 is without doubt derived from p, and the rt] i s His. * How far such hypothesis is justifiable unto reason, the " System of Analogies" produced in the sequel may shew; hut faith hath no alternative, for it is the Word of God; and we doubt not, but that God will in his own good time justify our faith: only, let us take heed that we be not imposed upon by any vain conceits, nor yet by any arbi- trary interpretations. 27 2LPI i. e. PLT7 representing the defective state of the mansion; as a cord in begs sup- ply, " give, restore." O m or % myself, Heb. iii. Gen. xxii. 16 — 18. Wl^ >1. — (yi we have seen.) See Tables a. HW emanations of glory, exultation; (2 g is ever & guttural) HHJ splendour, decor; tf'J the tremendous chasm with its terrific cliff's; r\2 expulsion of breath; yj expiration of life] 5.2 gibbous; 22 the //omsc fop; *p the afar-seen pinnacle. Mark the component letter also in each word*. See Tables 1-j-. "n a lonely solemn gait, in single, coming ps. xiii. by himself, born after a long interval, the last, the favourite — the David. Nt a slow solemn fight, soaring aloft; JTJ p**™" knowledge, gradation of knowledge, sensation, * Through every letter of this investigation, the two Tables of Forms and of Sounds should be consulted; in general, the incipient letter will make its appeal unto the meanings in the Table of Forms, and the final letter unto the Table of Sounds — the reason is obvious. f Wherefore the dental 1 should have this solitary sig- nification in the language of natural sounds, our dull sensa- tions might not so readily perceive and acknowledge; but since the fact is so generally indisputable, and the Table of Emblems confirms it, I think it would be easier and safer attribute this tardy apprehension, to a defect of sinful nature in ourselves, than to disprove the validity of the rule. 28 Gen. ii. 16. experience; -jtf the slow ascent of vapours; nn persona! and peculiar irradiancy ; "V the hand, the peculiar agent; iy the intelligence that stands by — « witness; "ll a single staff, a ^'t-iT' supporter; 0*""11 two staves, — for the purpose of removing the furniture of the house, and the house itself. 12 a detached and advanced troop; 1} in so- litary affliction. Gcn.iv. 13. ; p^ ppf-j^ ^ ^_ Nevertheless Cam built a city, and dedi- G lnd v i3 17 ' cafe^^iin it; but wo* unto niif* whom through despair he had left. Was the curse of God thereby obviated? No! none can give what jobi.7,and himself doth not possess. His children rued ii. 2. I it. But, my brothers, there has no evil be- fallen us, that we should thus despair. There is not a more fatal arrow on the Tempters bow, than that which is feathered with de- spair: ignorance is no guilt unatoneahle; There only, where the intention is evil, is the danger to be dreaded. But where was the House of God erected? On what was its earthy foundation ? W as it LD 46 e 47 45 ' not tne ri> ~ 1 - 1 ^ Maria who conceived*? " blessed is she that believed;" and Mary * So apposite are the coincidences of the type and completion, that in numberless instances, the same words literally express both meanings: but the Syriac tongue is what primarily gives the clue to Constructive, i. e. Evan- gelic Revelation, (see Preface) and thereby leads us on to 29 said, " My soul doth magnify the Lord, " and my spirit doth rejoice in God my " Saviour." See Tables .... f . HT scatter, disperse; nt let loose; Sf lavish; JT tcanton; "it roaming at large; Ttf fAi« aw^ — £/«/£ apfiy, £fo's 5zV/e — that side; TH Jose, dissi- pate thought; QT devise, let the imagination rove; IT oozing from any cistern or recepta- cle; also, a buzzing fly ; VI ra'/J beasts. In like manner Tl, TJ, T 1 ?, TS, n, TD, shew the force of the "f in their composition; and to the utmost justify the rule. See Tables .... n. Is a letter of frequent use, being strongly characteristic. At the commencement of words, it is usually ch, expressive of sharp- ness, incision, &c; final, it is hh, vehement, sufflatiie, expulsive, 8cc; a full aspirate. Jin a circle, described by the incision of a style or imPlD compass on marble, prior to the use of paper. "Til a sharp point, h. ins* one, "TIT bring into one, unite. rnn the joy of union and communion, John xvii. 20—24. tenser application in investigating the mysteries of the Hebrew tongue — That One True Language of Man, from which all others have proceeded, and unto which they must all be changed, and in it be absorpt. 30 Tin penetrating power of lightning; Sn perforate, wound ; ^n power to inflict a wound; V?n hollow, perforated, slain. DH sharpness of warmth ; *n a spear; yn an arrows pfl out of doors, obnoxious to -wounds; pn engrave with a sharp style, thence to de- Deut. v\. 5. cree, legislate (so 2H the bosom, the law of love thereon engraven ;) Tin intensely hot; Din the /S^m — its Gentile name. nn to penetrate to the centre; h. nnn wi* p s . xviii. derneath, inmost; jptf ITlTinrQ means the E P h. iv. 9. very central hell beneath, whereunto our ipet.iii.i9. Lord has descended; and has preached unto Matt. X ii. the spirits in prison: He being thus subjected to the alternations of day and night on either hemisphere above, and at the same in- stant unto both, necessarily computed three days and three nights in thirty-six hours. With the same sound in onomatopoeia, seve- ral triliteral words are connected, as tnn, pn, pnn. The instances of the n final, sufflative, &c. are as numerous, and equally expres- sive; thus mi* ra» m, nr, pd, m, ns, nn, T1W; as also triliterals nil, mt, nil, HID, rf?P, n'^J, pfrtt% &c. To the-^rtf Ew/e, we place as exceptions Din pity, pin gracious, and words of benignant import, which in course must use the softer aspirate. 31 See Tables .... D. 2 1 t 2 \£) ^ M«?i with a Serpent, i. e. a charmer, h. slily, softly. E^Q the serpent got into the house — to- wards the north. Isa. xiv.— psx wra "wo "inn sum 2 11 2 V l£) seduction of the understanding, de- Rev.>iii. ception of the mind. 3 2 *" 1 1 2 3 \£) S IT premeditate but instant attack, darted, shot along. ten deviate; Din a twisted thread, to to"s£ about, writhe; til enwrap, privily ; Dlttf revolt, apostatize; h. JDti/ the revolter, li"D"ty a>/io deceives us, when we are least of all appre- hending mischief. Bold and subtle, he would creep into the Temple of Holiness, " and deceive (if it were possible) the very elect of God/'— Matt. xxiv. 24. See Tables .... -| }. 12) to cover, thence to extinguish; 13 a semi globular ewer; PO conformant ly, thus, like unto litis; "2 as, like as, conformed to; ^ to u-a.xw.i cover over, hold, and contain; p to adjust unto, h. pa surname, give a suitable name M;1 „. MI . unto, //. ttm2 Kupiog* DD to y, "pn, &c. Sec. readily flow into the same allusions of easy descent, con- tinued tendency, 8cc. See Tables .... D. Its form derived from the body of the camel ^. In grammatical position there- fore, the <2 prefixed to an adjective or quality, giveth a form or body to it, i. e. maketh it a substantive, thus anp Holy, 2HpD ^e 50?ic- tuary; nil sacrifice, PQTB the-cr/to of sacrifice 33 and of prayer. — D prefixed (with n suffixed) oftentimes forms ideal substantives thus ffipft» riJtfD, ITlttfD, &c. But if D be prefixed to a substantive already formed, it then takes a quality or virtue from or out of the body of that substantive, annexing it to the substan- tive preceding: Such is evidently the manner of the preposition — o from, out of In composition of words, the power of o as the final radical D, is most expressive; as in the collective words DH, D\ DP, DN 1 ?, and Dtf, the mother of many sons: j»n ^O DN Kin Gen. iii. 20. — Wherein we perceive the faith of Adam; D in its second final sense, silent, thoughtful; OH silent, inactive, ofslow motion, consider ative ; DtOtf closed, or s/im£ wp; dm mute; DtDH refrain; WZT\ prudent; EfytO taste, judgment ; 01 blood — HTttl similitudes, assimulating ; the name D~j blood, doth there- fore express — 1st. .4 congregated substance of many assimulated particles ; 2dly, of slow pro- gression. Its motion being rather through an instant and vital imputation on the ^7/o/e moss, than from any hurried convolvency of its particles. Sec Tables J J. ri3N the lamentation of one deserted; TMT\ of one depressed I; nr of "one afflicted ; rw of one humbled and dejected in mind, pj there- p s . lxxii fore, which signifies a living tenement, docs certainly convey therewith, the idea of (at E H.'b. ii. 1. 34 least) a temporary lowering of the inhabitant — though the inferior nature be eventually exulted — as in the viiith Psalm : J in grammatical rcgimine, is a prefix of the future passive, p a termination of fulness, completion; ]V1V 'W Go #20$tf perfect, Deut. xxxiii. uev.ix. ii. p"Qtf therefore is one /o.sf beyond all hope, AttoXXvuv — the state of a fallen spirit — but mun is the child of hope — the heir through Christ of immortality and light; for him to full, he must condemn himself See Tables D. Circularity or sphericity is the prevailing idea where D commences (in biliterals): D final, speed, fleeting, &c. N*D a capacious measure, as from rm emptied gourd; ID revolvency, SID revolvency Hos. iv. 18. as of the spheres; HID a small circular veil; 2D returning as by a back stream, dross; *)D the round sea ; its shores describing the shape of a bottle or cruse, and the still sur- face of its waters *]1D covered with weeds*; ^D roundridged highway; a round basket; H^D revolve in mind. "|D a round booth, a circular cover; yD re- * The appellation of the Red Sea, was from the memo- rable circumstance of its waters being " turned into blood." Exod. vii. 19, 20. Exod. xvii. 8—16. move your tents of rounded canopies; "VD a globular cauldron; V\ S D entice unto the wor- ship of the created host — the Q heavens. hos.it. is D final: DD the fleet horse, the secv/r crane, the consuming moth; DH fft'/eaf speed, dispatch; Dy the active vintner; D2 melting away the substance or froc/// of — see o; DJ the banner we should //// wmJo: Thus when ilfoses had re- presented the victory to be gained by the cross of Christ, he raised an altar, and said, >DJ niJT Jehovah is my banner; — He it is whom I have prefigured thus. DS to /#iZ in the form and fashion of: D1 to diminish the moisture of; Ov hasty spoil, or booty ; DO trample underfoot, and utterly to do away the dignity of. — Isa. lxiii. See Tables .... t) £. 5 anaspirate, "|2 c/Yop Z^ <7rop, as from a «««// cruse. pJ3 step % s£ep, delicate, nice; *ptf to m- rfre&l (as the prophet saith) " precept upon " precept — precept upon precept; line upon " line — line upon line, here a little and " there a little;" *\T\ to beat notes distinct li/ upon a tabret; tap; t)tf£¥ chirp as a bird; (fl5¥ to survey aspirates the D). The final *] is generally aspirated; t)tf, rptf, *p percussion, r\ll, tp, *]n% *p, *)iy, ^IftD, *)JNj and very many of menacing or angry ven- geance. Isa. xvviii, 9—13. 36 See Tables .... X V. Its signification more readily discernible when final, y& straits of death; \* 5. fens of perdition; y^ ghastly exultant: yr\ cut to the quick; y 1 ? taunting him in death ; f D pressed to death ; ]'B scattered for ever; \'p loathsome, ^P awaken, the summer, a return from death. \*1 crumbled into dust, violent commotion as from running; the agitations of laughter* ; (thence) pleasure, extreme delight: so yis the earth over which fT"NN light runneth, and causcth it to display its many beauties. Wisdom thus speaketh of the earth — Her Frov. viii. delightsome abode. ♦l2nN tafQ npfflffQ :D"1N -J2 nN WWl And the Almighty jobraxvm. S p Ca ]^; n g nn f j 00 declares, that at His for- mation of the earth, " all the sons of God " shouted for joy;" yea, so great was his own pleasure therein, that he constrained the seas from overwhelming it; for in it, He beheld the manhood of his Son, as saith the text. — s r23 nnsn >tpq— Isa. xlvii. See Tables p. When inceptive with a vowel — qualm, sickness: thus Pltfp, tf*p, Vp, and Dtfp the * So the words pffitt, pTO, conformed to onomatopoeia Sheheq, Zheheq, hurrying on the breath in their pronuncia- tion: Gen. xviii. 9 — 15. xxvi. 6 — 16. Matt. xvii. 5. 37 pelican — which disgorges its food from a false stomach or DO; nnp to blunt, turn back the edge of; nip siV&en thread disgorged from the stomach of the worm ; also hope, longing expectation from the sensation of that affec- tion. p final, pTN* to brace and detain with a chain or manacle. pltf embrace in wrestling; also, adhesive particles of dust. pSN fo detain within bounds the streams of rivers. pnx enclosed gallery; pyl adhere as dough; p"ll *Ae issuing and contracting energies of lightning; so pin, pin, pin, pjfi, p^b, pTV, p"lS, [Hlf, pllf, pin, prjj, &c. Sec. wonderfully express £/<«£ circumventive and adhesive power, without injury notwithstanding to the signi- fications of the other component letters*. See Tables n. "II running downwards, T") trickling saliva; THtf a curse; as by a rapid consumption of the body. Zech. xiv. 12. * When with all that has preceded, and with what yet may follow in this part of our discussion, we therewith also consider the winding periphrasis of other languages to express those several significations, which the p final thus succinctly enfolds in each word, and the significant hut unavoidahle contortion of the mouth in pronouncing these words so implicated, we must confess, that he must have been well acquainted with our nature, who thus hath framed the Hebrew tongue. 38 T a sojourner of no fixed abode, going from place to place. Tl free flight ; im free to go where we list; *vm the voluble thistle; "in series, ge- neration; *nm from generation to genera- tion; Tin quick darting rays of the sun, in- tensely hot — a stream of fire; >T0 row, series, run fling in succession; also, wasting putres- cence; no rebellious, departing from law; TD outcast from the tent, revolting from; "ny roused, excited unto action; >1S fruitful, mul- tiplying ^ the species, Gen. v. 3; Htf-jftw* i«g gwwa of the tree, balsam; nip running to- gether, congregate, concur, occur, cross frame, a city, convocation, assembly of men, of ani- mals, &c. See Tables .... p. ty incept: ww the ///?/, also, a?////e marble; WW innocent joy ; *w festive presents; tfttf efotfe — in conceit or reality; nytf regard, respect the y wi/iJ G?id countenance of; yw vociferation of joy or grief, as the tone of the voice might indicate; ywyw extremely delighted ; n*W plea- sant, easy, agreeable, smooth; nttf expatiate freely, spread out the hands in swimming — the thoughts in meditation. 2d Table. W final — suffused, &c. Vtffire — touching all parts, and consuming what it touches ;*gp posi- Ps.cxxxix. fit?e existence; tiff make, form, handle every side; tt/1 suffused with shame; W2 searching every where; feel all around, approach, touch; 39 BH thresh, rub grain upon grain; tPB spread about without ordt r; rO covered over with; WD /Ethiopian; ttfl 1 ? kneading; W feeling; jtf^ttf that name or power, which toucheth all tilings with its Oav/ substance, (see ]HN* under jn) /. e. ifc %/jf, namely — the Sun; &B exten- sion, corpulency, h. ttfSJ the life of sensation — the soul diffused into every nerve, an interme- diate subsistence; ttfp to collect again what has been strewed about — straws, stubble; £H poor, dispersed about, no man heeding them — their kingdom not of this world, yet not forgotten of their Saviour and Redeemer; JtfrO extirpate root and branch — the hardened and irrepentant only: — God wills our life. See Tables n. HI* the definite article the; HHN* the instant pronoun thou; mtf a present token, & positive and assured sign of; m an imperial decree; h. the word death; HN*T this, determinate; ny the Jit occasion, instant opportunity, the mo- ment. tW fixed Jirmhf on its basis; but the more frequent construction of the ri, is deduced from that last sacred act, nn. Htf the coulter or ploughshare, that breaks the earth to pieces, the power of the tf and n of Nature's Lord! " Yet once more (he Ex.xix.i8. " saith) I shake not the earth only, but also Kev.vxii. " heaven," Hag. ii. 6; n; the nine press of Hakxji. 40 God's anger; the violent tramplings of the vintner — thus imitated by the style of Isaiah — Chap, lxiii. 3 — 6. :n» by nnyj ft .♦npna owrw .»D^n d3"i"tni ronw n^ Tnwi .»noro [towni .»sj*n d»ov Dnw 1 Tim. vi. 20, -21. nnn ruinous destructive counsels, perverse disputings; HH driven to the centre, terror, di&nziy, ravaging force ofjire; ro pounded to dust, DTO beaten spices; JVT tree of light, johnxvi.7. which diffnseth its Holy Blessings after its sufferings; HD death, a disjunction of the soul and body, a cutting rending pain no doubt, } T et what its severity, when compared with that, which will await the irrepentant and incorrigible? that second death, which The Rev.xx. 6. Word of God — the mrv "ill only can in- flict — " the dividing asunder of soul and " spirit," Heb. iv. 11, 12. Ps. xxxi. — :n?N btf .mrr '/tin nriHD m TpDN tto nD seduction that leads to the realms of death Til *rDT *?**. nS portions of the D>:E 2(17 — fcrefld of faces tj , distributed unto the sons of n 1 ? £Ae United One; rv* to reduce unto death, " ashes to " ashes, dust to dust" iy conflagration — e/e- mental fire; nm dreadful tremor, n n T/*e Gi/jf o/ Gifts— Hallowed Portions of Yms.jxn. the Body of Our Lord, each bearing £Ae sfawp 41 of truth; the very substance of the Lamb Infallible, of the Word of God. " Lord evermore give us this bread." l-^juO v -ij) |jjo; j^o^^o^ JS^^^jo )j)i \)±o It is not expected that the correlations of forms, sounds, and sense, under every instance that hath been ad- duced, wili bear conviction to the mind of the reader at the first perusal: but it is rather hoped, that as he may revert to the explanations, the cloud that may intercept the perception at one time, will be dissipated at another, and the propriety of the rules be eventually manifested : for, the genius of a language is not to be mastered at one slight effort. O 42 EVANGELISTIC RATIONALE OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF WORDS EXEM- PLIFIED. The technical composition of words in this part of our treatise gives way to a high- er rule of explanation, in which it is ab- sorbed, but not therefore lost nor done away. A\ ords of the highest importance unto man, are here selected for our consideration and study ; and that as little offence as possible might be given unto the preconceptions of others, the writer hath essayed rather to affirm a truth, than to expose an error; un- less where its universality hath made that (its exposure) a duty. G jctA 2 i! SIX Adam, man; one made OWtf niD"Q in the similitudes of God; yea more, one re- lated by 01 blood: were it not so, how could Christ have exercised the office of ^tfj near kinsman, and taken vengeance on the old murderer? through death, overcoming him that had the power of death. But the like- ness was D^Vl in similitude of form also, man being the express image of his Maker. In that similitude also, which the rational spirit of the creature beareth unto the intellectual spirit of Christ* ffiiTJ And in that privileged * Some distinction of expression should be used to de- signate the mode and nature of our Lord's intelligence: Numbers xxxv. 19 43 similitude of " rule and dominion over all " the fishes of the sea, and over the fowl of x> sa!rn vii i. " the air, and over every living thing that " moveth upon the earth." Gen. i. 28. But it is intimated that man obtained the name 0"ltf, for that he was made of the dust of nblKfl the earth; truly so, because that the Gen. ii. t. earth itself is a similitude, in its substance, Gen. in. ?. and in all its productions; it was cursed on Gen.iii.n. our account, and in the similitude of man's Mattxin. ingratitude unto His Lord, was made to bring forth thorns and thistles, and every noxious weed. JHIT Iplt TON HIPP *£>StPB p S ai m xi* pN Lord and Judge: " We believe that " thou shalt come to be our judge." ptf is He that judges in that court, where the poor man's plea is preferred without fee or molestation by the yyv N^D most matchless advocate; one who hath himself commisera- tion for us, in that he was " touched with H eb.ii.8,<>. " the feeling of our infirmities" — yet so as Heb.iv.14. without sin: Of. Him it is said, that He was Matt.iv.12. tempted, that He hungered, that He wept, Johll x . 35 . and that lie suffered in the garden, and on the cross. Now David foreseeing these johniv. 6. things by the Holy Spirit of God, thus speaks of — *HN : Acts »■ <29 - Ps. ex.— Mm on* pby .nrw imn bmo His rationality being the result of deity with manhood, whereas our spirits are but derived of Him, we arc all but the parts of His fulness, Col. ii. 9; our lives in Him; im- mortality His Gift. 44 Matt. xnh. (Wherein He attributes His exaltation, unto 41 — 46. his prior sufferings at the brook of Kedron, pTfp — John xviii. 1. And again, in another psalm, He saith (lxxxiv. 6', 7-) :tnata nbon -p .i 1 ? w dw nwn Matt. v. '25. " Make peace with thine of- *.' fended brother, whiles thou art in the way " with him, lest he cry unto heaven against <; thee, and his voice be heard, and the >nx Luke xv. 9 « deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast — 13. " into a pit;" (where no water is.) " Like- " wise, ye rich, make to yourselves friends of " the poor, with that Mammon of Unrigh- " teousness ye now possess; that when ye Ex i's-27.' ** fo&9 they ma y remember your mercies in Gai. ii. 9. « the life to come." prt That whereon every pillar rests. Deut,vi.4. b*tf?N God, a plural noun, but single in governance. Three volitions and distinctions **tjj2* of one name and substance*: Their existency * The Father being God simplex and unconditionate ; the Word being God of the Father alone, in the condition of intellectual visibility — Begotten before all worlds, deriv- ing from the Father alone, the gift of eternal existence, with distinction and freedom of will; Christ Jesus is that word, that visibility — that will made incarnate in the womb of the Virgin Mary, by the incomprehensible power of the Holy Spirit— Matt. i. 18—21. Luke i. 26—35. The IIoljj Spirit is God — of substance derived from the Father and from the Son— having eternal life and holiness, both from the Father and from the Son — with distinction of person and freedom of will ; his will is love ineffable — his 45 is of the Father, whose form and splendour of 'visibility is the Son; the Holy Spirit is that H f t '£ ** one healthful and efficacious energy which is of the Father and of the Son derived, and sent into the world. " As the Father hath John v. 26. " life in Himself so hath He given to the " Son to have life in Himself." And again : u Jesus saith unto him, have I* been so long John™. 9. " time with you, and yet hast thou not joh.xiv.17. " known me, Philip? He that hath seen me " hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou " (then) Shew us the Father?" Jesus said — " The Spirit of Truth (the Holy Ghost the J°imxv.26. " Comforter) which proceedeth from the Fa- " ther, He shall testify of me" — xx. 22, 23. " And when He had said this, He breathed " on them, and saith unto them — Receive ye " the Holy Ghost; whosesoever sins ye re- " mit, they are remitted unto them, and " whosesoever sins ye retain, they are re- " tained."— See also John v. 17- 21—24. Ye see then that the same spirit proceedeth JO Jj t J 5 ^ from the Father and from the Son ; and that 34, 33 - it is that one healthful energy which with glory is to do the will of the Father and of the Son. 1 Cor. xv. 24 — 28. The will of the Son now regulates the worlds, John v. 22, 23; but when the catholic body shall be perfected, (of which body our Lord Christ is the sole head, from which head every member derives its life) then will the will of the Father influence the whole, and all sub* sis/ence be consummated in bliss — possessing life with the Father, glory with the Son, and wisdom with the Spirit of Love. 46 i cor. x.i. its own free consent operateth every good — God blessed for ever. — Matt, xxviii. 19, 20. John x. so. DTT^M Gods, also men " unto whom the John x. 38. " AVord of God came" — and the scriptures cannot be broken. — Ps. lxxxii. 6. But the word rfott (as righteous men have said) doth indeed signify adjuration — & curse: the rea- son whereof when applied unto " The Visi- icor i. 2, « bility of the Father/' holy Paul demon- strated^ and the whole tenor of the gospel Gai. iii. 9. inculcateth. But the word which beareth Gai.iii. i7. that construction is in the singular number Tvf?K, and of the perfected condition; and jobfreq. that this word is The very God, we have not isa.xiiv. 8. ow\y the testimony of Job and of his friends, but of Elias irp^N himself — xxxvii. 22. Mai.iii.23, TVhH Alyeh — the prophet of the last days — the tail of the DW?2 b*R ram of fulnesses, Kxod.xxix. and of consecrations. — To explain: — By laws ceremonial, deeds spiritual are discerned. — "When the Almighty had decreed to repre- sent by type the work of righteousness, to preshadow the body of Messiah; he caused ver. io. the sons of Jacob to bring unto the altar a ver. ii. bullock 12, an offering as for sin nNDil. They slew him before the face of God (the sun fled the sight of it. Matt, xxvii. 45.) They ver. ie. poured his precious blood down to the ver. is. earth; they smote Him whom God had Heb.xii.. smitten, and carried his emaciated frame .Exod.xxix. without the camp — the relict of their blind indignation. — Israel cursed them ! — nntf 47 ilTWp O Bmijn .ty O DDK our Lord prayed for them — " Father, forgive them; for they " know not what they do." (Luke xxiii. 54.) Having slain their ransom, they brought his *»**»« TON**, that Vn of goodly savour; limb by V er. ie. limb they severed it, and brought its bap- tized and martyred members, and placed ver. rr. them by their head: united in life through the same hallowed spirit, they are not sepa- ver; is. rate in death ! (The rp^X was not seen, nor are the Aaron and his sons yet consecrate.) ver . 19. Bring then the other *?♦**, the ^m he hath worked for, and be it consecrate unto its Lord: let the sons of Aaron approach, and ver. 20. receive remission of their guilt: let them be hallowed to their sacred office ; mayhap the ver - 21 - * The various members of the catholic church. b*K is of the male construction, because representing the congre- gated society of men ; (women being included under that generic term. Gen. i. 27. Eph. v. 28. 1 Cor. xi. 11.) The two churches of Jews and of Gentiles, (or rather, the two flocks of the one fold in Christ) are oftentimes signified un- der the names of Judah and of Joseph (the birthright being to Joseph, 1 Chron. v. 1, 2;) or of Ephraim and of'Manasse, Deut. xxxiii. 17.; sometimes indeed Ephraim (of whom the primogeniture is reckoned) is named in the place of his father Joseph ; (Joseph's history being so wonderfully predictive and declarative of the life, yea even of the death of our Lord Christ:) thus again, Judah and Israel are coun- terparts as kingdoms. Ps. lxxx. John iii. 28, 29 — 36. x. 1 4 — i y . Rom. xi. 25 — 36. But the great mystery of this communion, is that eventual happy union of angels and of men into one holy church, under that same Shepherd of our souls — Jesus Christ, the only begotten of the Father. Hcb. xii. 22—29. Exod.xxix. S3. 48 fTSx will be there, KIT! D»«Ao ^ O, and not a man be wanting: let approach the ver. 23. sacred loaf of JucUili, search out tffte oi/er/ v tI . 8*. cake — fibtl it abides niiT ^2% and with these bring the wafered jVjTi: Be all our affections unto God on High presented, on the shoulder of diligent obedience — the ver. Jesus Christ; for " He shall save his people from their sins. Isa. lix. — jmn» d?o Dpya ywv » 3 ^ .^ p^j N ai 49 Marriage, St. Paul says, is a great mys- tery; for thereby we do in this world of simi- litudes represent the eventual consumma- tion; and even in this life, partake of the flesh and blood of our Lord and God, in the happy eucharist; and for the honour of his name and protection — forego our own. In the times of the law, proximity of kindred was the sanction of propriety in that mystic union; but with us, who were heretofore Gentiles without hope, the union of near rela- tions is obviousty discommended. Neither in the first state, did the liberty proceed unto confusion, for then would the assump- tion of a different nature have been misre- presented. By this we learn, my friends, how it be possible for a sin on earth, to offend a. law in heaven. 7N*J is the character and title of him, who challenges that right of marriage under the Lcvitic iaws; and for a truth, our Tyi will not hastily give up his privilege, (see also the word hS2 under D"itf). bH2 also signifies defiled with wore : for this and other significa- tions, read the sixty-third of Isaiah. *V70i Idol Powers which were supposed (o inhabit the planets, and to dispense plenty. Abstracted' science was not the disposition of those early days; the passions of the ap- petitive soul, rather than the lofty energies of the mind, did then rule the man. The questions were — Who is God? Is he one or h Gen. ii. 23, 24. 50 mnnv? If One, What is his name? If many, fl/icn dp they reside? and, Which is the most beneficent to man? &e. &c. &c. Jpos- K T k iu vi n' tac y f rom nin ^ nac ^ U1 ^ 1C ( ^ a y s °f Ezekkl 12 » 13 - presumed so far, as to pourtray f//ese objects Ezek. viii. of their adoration, on an apartment co//- tiguoits to the Lord's courts: nay, the enemy of God and man had prevailed so far over human faculties, as to seduce them to erect the PlfrOpn ^ED symbol of jealousy, at the very entrance of that court-gate ; and to practise yet greater abominations than these, against the holy name: (^l^J — in derision to those fancies.) blbl A Complication of Wheels — A System of Revolvcncies — The Planetary System. This chapter is an emblematic representation of the providence of Almighty God, by the ministry of angels — the ethereal messengers of his will, Heb. ii. 1- — 6, but not the regu- coi. ii. is lators of the spiritual world. It is true that the errors of earlier times, were the issues of gross and sensual desires — hasty unto grati- Deut xxx. fication ; for the promises of obedience, were unto the happiness of life temporal only: but since it hath pleased God, to pro- claim by his only Son Christ Jesus immorta- lity and light, and the promises are sanctifi- cation through faith unto life eternal, how shall the tempter counteract the blessing, but by promulgating infidelity unto eternal death; and how shall infidelity be promul- Ezek. x. 1 —22. Hob. i. 14. Rom. t. 2 Peter 51 gated, but by the presumptive evidences of a, false light? — Isaiah 1. 11. romya ripen etch* "yins idV .mp>*? h?mo u?n »rnp d^ jn :p3\i?n roioiofr -o± nm nrm »tq Wonderous indeed is the wisdom of the Word of God; yet is it at no time displayed without order and design; and his design is ever — mercy to the repentant and faithful — Ek 5 ™' to the thoughtful unto good. The sins of the flesh, are but semblances of the mind's de- pravities, and the transgressions of the law — the errors of faith*. Shew me the of- fence of Jndah, and I will teach thee the folly of Israel ^n#\ But it is not by re- criminations among brethren, that God is glorified, but by the mutual pardon of of- fences: " For if ve forgive men their tres- Matt.™. J ' . . 9—15. " passes, your heavenly Father will also for- " give you: but if ye forgive not men their " trespasses, neither will your Father forgive " your trespasses." Such was the comment of the Lamb of God, upon his own pious prayer. If then in developing by rule and by system, as from the Word of God, the unrighteousness of men under the law. and the follies of the inconsiderate under the gos- pel of faith, harsh words be used, be not therefore prompt to impute malevolence ; (the * And the objects of false adoration are oftentimes the. same unto the children of both covenants, i. c. of the law and of the gospel ; (the law of works, and the gospel of faith in Christ the Son of God.) 52 temper for a time will savour of the sub- ject!) But, understand, my brothers, that it is not man, who is the enemy of God, and the opposer of our Lord, but that Old Tor- tuous Serpent, who would deprave the heart, deceive the head, and riot in the anarchies of destruction. Even at this day, would he creep into the House of God, hide behind the chair, and breathe over the bread of life, his infidelity and death. H THn. Think* not slightly of the offence commit- ted in Gilgal: It was that alone which caused Israel's grievous desolation. ^^2 Gilgal was the place where ^EftfT the son of pj of the Joshua v. tribe of Ephraim did encamp, ere he went, at the command of ni!T, to besiege Jericho 1HH*: there it was, that the children of Jacob — the men born in the iyio wilderness were circumcised; and the reproach of Egypt was " rolled away" (thence its name ^3.) There it was that the angel of Jehovah ap- Dan. xii. i. peared unto him, even that angel who shall in the last days stand upon earth, for the in- struction and defence of the same nation, Rev.viii. anc i f or the benefit and behoof of all man- 1 — 0. kind — for JIc is the prophet of reconciliation * What differs it whether by the worship of planetary- demons, or vain conceits of the magnitudes and the dis- tances of the visible host of heaven, we excite the jealousy of our God, or spurn the controul of the providence of Christ? In either case infidelity is the principle, death the res-ult. 53 — the hope of Joseph, and the 21J9V* "V1N. io;*£h. Luke xiii. 35. "Ill The Word — the manifestation and reve- lation of the thought inscrutable, and the voice of the spirit of life. Rev. xix. 11 — 16. 121 a sudden and preternatural infliction, Heb.iv.12. as from the Word of God, or, by the ministry of the angel of his word. 2 Sam. xxiv. 10 — Ps.ixv.2. 17. Tl~! the Oracle — the Holy of Holies — fiFttPTp tiftp — the character of the virtues of Jesus Christ — the m?T. Luke ii. 47- iv. 22. John vii. 14. 18. 46'. -QTB The Wilderness, John i. 23. where the word of the law was given ; whence John the Baptist came, Isa. xl., and where* Re ^ xiu6 - the One Holy Catholic Church is nourished. 21 12 ■Jf ~| ... fH Secret Wisdo?n — Knozdedge concealed in the fruit of a tree, first plucked * The Israelites in the exod from Egypt passed through the Red Sea below Midian the territory of Jethro; and tra- velling eastward, after three months encamped before Sinai. Exod. xv. 22 — 27. xvi. 1. xvii. 1. xix. 1, 2. In the second year they quitted Sinai, and journeying north- wardly to reach Par an they passed Taberah, and Kibroth Hattaavah, and pitched at Ilazeroth; then " afterwards " the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the "wilderness of Paran" Numb. x. II, 12, 13. xi. 3. xii. 1G. xiii. 1 — 27. — A mid distance betwixt the holy mountain of Horcb and the land of Canaan. Hab. iii. 3. pND "ino tzmpi wa« p»no Tvbtt Therefore the spies took forty days to go and to return to their camp; and the prophet Elijah, though strengthened by an angel, travelled forty days and forty nights, ere he arrived at that holy mount, 1 Kings xix. 1 — 8. which lay to the south of Judca. 54 by the woman; death temporal by her, by her is life eternal. Gen. iii. 20. The woman gives the Jig — the grape from God Almighty. John xv. Gen. ii. 9. }jm mio ninn vv\ .pn -pro o-nn nn Seeing that all nature is emblematic, the garden of Eden planted by the hand of God must have been pre-eminently so; and must have joined its evidences unto all those similitudes, which in their forms and Hfr. 5. ministrations ever sing the praises of the Lamb of God — their Great Exemplar. There must have been some analogy also in the transgression there advised by the tempter — to his ill-obtained wisdom elsewhere; and to his delusions among men at this day. — May isaiah lxiii. God direct. — ptf guilt; i"UN*n the jig-tree, also, the occasion of sorrow, a misfortune; Ez<*. X xiv. q>j^ vanities, delusions, follies; — the Jig-tree Matt,xxh-. is the emblem of the starry or celestial host ; Markxiii. untimely figs — the fallen angels; illegal cu- Lukexxi. riosity, their offence also, Rev. vi. 13. — " And the stars of heaven fell unto the " earth, even as a fig-tree casteth her un- " timely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty isa.xxxiv. " wind." By the HJNTI therefore was repre- sented that ever-dangerous science of the heavenly spheres, flat and flatulent without Matt.xxvi. the wine commixt, not to be understood but 27, -28, 29. ' by the New lestament in the blood of the Lamb. Lukexxii.20. *p the body of (the son of) man — *pj when smitten, JSJ forms the vine, 55 which being beaten and bruised, and given to rest for a time, affords that enlivening spi- rit, which reanimates weak and mortal man. How meet then is the expression DOW Dl Deutxxxii - blood of grapes, how happy the description of knowledge with innocence — " They shall " sit every man under his vine, and under " his fig-tree, and none shall make them " afraid — for the mouth of the Lord of Hosts " hath spoken it." Be ye " therefore wise Matt.x.ie. " as serpents, and harmless as doves." Of the more immediate effect of our pa- rents' transgression in the garden of Eden the text inculcates this DH DB"i*y O "WTl — Gen. iii. 7. " And they felt that they were stript to " their shame," and their passions excited, or ere the time of sanctioned connubial de- sire had fully arrived: their union therefore was lust not love, and their offspring sin*; it would occur then, for a man to be born perfectly pure, another mode of being be- gotten must of necessity have been devised in the wisdom of God. To foreshcw which fion.iii. i.->. decree, not only the well-known prophecies isa.™. u. may be adduced, but instances collated from the deadened and passionless natures of many of the fathers of the holy line, a.t If, ;V v,i the births of their several sons; who, as St, Paul intimates, were rather the children of * 0"vy is no doubt justly translated naked (Ezek. xvi.) but it is nakedness in a state of sin, and not of innocence — a disrobement of tbeii native glory. 56 faith than of concupiscence. Thus the Al- mighty by his prophet Isaiah, with gracious design to encourage the Jews of the last days, in the hope of* a sure return unto Zion, tells them that their state was not so des- perate, as was that of Abraham's having lineal heritage, when at a time that Sarah his wife had attained her ninetieth year, and Gen. xvii. he an hundred. Isaiah li. sompa in mpo tan .Dro^n "m ta* icon Not only with Abraham, was this preparatory miracle performed, but the nearer ancestors of the patriarch David, (Messiah's mother's progenitor,) could not have been far short of the same a«;e at the births of their several Numb. i. offspring; (Salmon being born in the wil- nuth iv. derness, and only Boaz, Obed, and Jesse in- Matt.;. 5. tervening during the long government under the Judges, and Samuel, and part of the 1 Kings vi. reign of Saul.) Jesse was esteemed an old 1 sam. xv.i. man in the days of Saul, who reigned forty years. Acts xiii. The like observation holds with the parentage of the Virgin Mary in the first chapter of St. Matthew, whose de- scent being through Solomon, the regality was preserved entire for the promised Lion of iKingi.37. Judah (Gen. xlix. 10, and Rev. v. 5.) From 48. David unto Mary were thirty generations; from David unto Joseph, the betrothed hus- Lukeiii.23. band of Mary, were forty-one generations. Lukeiii.38. Mary the mother of Jesus was the daughter 1 Chron. xvii. xxii. xxviii. &.C. 57 of Joseph the son of Jacob; Joseph the so?i of Heli, was he who became the husband of Mary, and his descent was through Nathan. Had Christ been of the seed of him who was of the house of Nathan, he had not been en- titled to the crown of David ; but beiutr of the seed of the Virgin, he was consequently of the house of Solomon, through whom the regality did pass: nnw >ft 1111 ntfl. Our Lord therefore is by inheritance as well as by merit, rightful king of heaven and of earth. In the lineage by the amanuensis of St. Matthew, there is an omission of the kings Ahaziah, Joash, and Amaziah (a space of 10,11"* iz, seventy years): there is also a substitution of o\ V-2l1>2tf and the powers of death; and having overcome, ps. xxa. is ready to assist all, who call upon him, in Ht v b 9 ,vic ' faith of his holy love. Din Irredeemable, Desecrate; opposed to ^or.xii-s. B7T?p holy, consecrate: Din a limb amputate — a member excommunicate: No Din was ever received in sacrifice, nor permitted to offi- ciate at the Lord's Holy Table. Lev. xxi. 16—24. xxii. 20—25. •pp! To Restrain, Darkness. Ere light G ? 2 ,, - 3 i ; 4 l ; was begotten on the presence of the waters by the nSfTlB D^Pl^N mi, we read of this re- strictive and compressive power, as being in its very nature inimical to the beauteous emanation, and presessing Chaos and Inane Dinn »JS by "jrm. God agitates the waters, Light bursts its shackles, and the Almighty gladdens in the semblance of his visibility: Ezekuas. God saw that light was good — UtO Oj Light he proclaims DV the champion of creation, Darkness is called the ,1T1 active deviator: Light contends to crush his head, Darkness 2, 3. Gph.iii.i5. runs round to bite his heel; and the earth abides their alternations. Time thus is con- stituted: Their contentions are on record. TIN therefore is DV, and not OV only, but nSttfiMi The twenty-second Psalm relates the manner of the victory, and accordingly Mattxxvii. beareth that title: nnt^n rf?*K by niOD 1 ?. Think not that the grateful light of heaven calls darkness its parent; light that is so ge- Matt. vi. nerated, is not from above. " If therefore " the light that is in thee be darkness, how i. " great must be that darkness." The fire that appeared in the bush, consumed it not; nevertheless there is a light — unapproachably excessive, in whose hands arc all the elements of nature — wdiose ministers are the hierar- chies of heaven. TlHtp Clean, Pure, Pellucid — transmissive of light. tfOtD Unclean, Impure, not to be sacrificed nor eaten. Among the beasts of the field and the birds of the air, (and of fishes also) there are some which by their forms, pro- pensities, or actions, somehow express those qualities of the heart, which man as a re- pentant sinner, should be prompt to possess. By the sacrificing and eating of these, he in a manner confesseth his degraded slate, and hints at that temper of soul, which it behoves him to cultivate, and lift iip unto God (hence nonn &c.) Of the beasts of the held those only are esteemed 61 clean " which chew the cud, and divide the Lev. xi. 3. " hoof" — that is, which ruminate on what is past, and walk onwards separating the good from the evil: of these the lamb is pre- eminent in that its sanctity: by the eating of these, our bodies become substantiated of theirs; (so should the disposition be in- tended to be adopted*.) Thus in the hal- lowed eucharist, hallowed hi the Word of 1 cor. xi. ~ u . V 23—30. God, we eat the bread, and meditate on the Lamb; his efficacious word is there-)-. Of the birds, those truly are clean, which fly in innocence — onward in one direct path, as the pigeon and the dove, studious of peace ; and those whose proper food is the bread of man " that hath the seed within it." Gen. i. 29. "D3 Glory in Light; Weight in Metals; Integrity in Man; The Liver — the separa- tor and rejector of all bile — the Great Moral * The natural process is no doubt the assimulating their natures with ours; but the mind is an active and pervading principle, and may qualify that process. t The consecrated bread becomes as truly of the catho- lic body of Christ, as if our Lord had already received it into his hallowed substance; for, the actuating power is one and the same — the Word of Life. This powerful body being rightly received in the faith, is efficacious unto the conversion of our natural bodies, into His spiritual body. The Wine indeed we partake of last, for what action of ours is it, that requires not a remission of sonic guilt contracted, even pending the time of the action? But the wine ur receive apart, and the bread we receive apart. Ex. xxxii. 15, and xxxiv. 1.4. 62 Type; (i^ the Heart is the source of natu- ral life, and the seat of the soul, and of all natural affections, as the in is of virtues : ) on these two tables ox lobes of the TQD, are written all the duties towards God and i John. man*. Let no man say that he loveth God, if he hate his neighbour; for from the heart are the issues of life; the liver prcpareth, perfecteth, and continuateth it. By rumina- tions and reconsiderations therefore is it, that we learn to say, first, " piety to God, " then, love to man:" but for what gift is it, that we do thus love and reverence our Maker, but that lie hath given us a heart to " love one another?" " God is love/' 1 Cor. xiii. — a Song of Loves. * Forasmuch as man is more ennobled by his moral character, than by the common gift of natural life, is the liver constituted the symbol of Messiah's glory; (as the word T03 doth make known unto us ; being the obvious type of equanimity of temper, through the rejection of an- ger, envy, hatred, and every baneful affection ; for the glory of Messiah is his uncontaminate love unto God and Man, in the perfection of holiness. Natural affection is distinct from moral and religious duties ; nevertheless, it is greatly to be swayed and directed by these, and at the last may be covered by the same IDDWQ jwn. 63 Now the mrp *nl2) is Christ; " Father (saith Johnxvii. *' the blessed Jesus) glorify thou me, with Isa - xlii - 8 - " thine ownself; with the glory which I had " with Thee, before the world was*;" and it is the mrr 723, that sanctifieth the people, Heb.u.9. Exod. xxi. 9. 43, 44. But hath not our Psaimviii. Lord natural affection also, for his kindred in the flesh ? or, Wherefore were their names E 5£3?" placed on the heart of his typical precur- sor? ITD A Cherub; D»115 Cherubim. They jg^ , were four; each having the head of a lion, and aadx * the head of a man, and the head of a bull, and the head of an eagle: The lion and the man united on the one part, and the bull and the eagle united on the other part, yet so as that each head should be directed to either 2C 1 , ( 1 ) ™ n ] -J ii quarter of the universe, for they are severally — the heads of all creation-^ united in the * God hath said, " my glory will I not give to another, f neither my praise unto graven images." If Christ then possess this glory is he not "very God?" — Moreover, God hath commanded " that all men should honour the Son, " even as they honour the Father," John v. 21, 22, 23. " For the Father judgeth no man; but hath committed all "judgment unto the Son." t The lion being the emblem of light, the eagle of air, the bull of earth, and the manhood of the gracious waters of the heaven above. Tin's great quaternion thus expressed in one figure, are (primarily) the character* of The One, Holy Ministi-atke Spirit. Kzck. i. and x. The visible ap- pearance of which sacred person, is that of a man vested with light ethereal ; whose invisible natures (the bull and the eagle) are II is Holy Intellectual Spirit, and The Ha- 64 *itb2 flesh of one body ; the bull and the eagle in each, being made to partake of the manhood of the lion of Judah (who alone is the Lamb of God slain from the foundation of the world.) But we see that the office of Rev.v.5— 9. the cherubim is intercessorial to the Lamb, and ministrative through the spirit. The Lamb as the representative of the Almighty Lather, hath no associate, no assessor: nei- ther hath He as the sacrifice for sin ; (the passover also is one nDD;) neither yet as in- tercessor for man unto the Father. L T nto that state of manhood, however, which Him- self hath assumed, He hath graciously unit- ed others — His ministers, Himself the AU Gen xyiii. mighty. Indeed this anticipation of their and xix. ~ J i perfected nature was from the beginning, and the early adoption of the character — an acknowledgment of the gift. Our Lord hath conquered for angels as for men, but for angels through the manhood, being Him- ueb.ii. i6. self unite with this only: what praise shall we not then render unto our God? During Messiah's low estate — the 0*2*0 protected Matt. iv.6. his person, through the providence of the father; as did their images overshadow the ark in the holy of holies: yet even there was tional Spirit in one — thus entabernacled. Therefore in the temple (Ezekiel xli.) only the lion and the man are made apparent; but the scriptures reveal all things neces- sary for man to know. Now this manifestation is that similitude of Christ Jesus. Rev. i. 65 it seen-, that their real support and stability E *^* OT ' proceeded m£Dn p from the mercy seat — the covering of Christ's humanity, and pro- portioned to his deserts. The cherubim were of beaten gold — to shew their tried and ap- H ^ biii ' 2 - proved fidelity r , while the Son of God is TIMID 2HT impeccable, and therefore as God not to have been tempted. This appropriate Lukeiv. s. exemption did our Saviour justify in him- self; demonstrating from the scriptures that lie is very God of very God, worthy of His, Dcut.x.ao. the Tempter's worship. Behold your consan- guinity, O man! the favourite of heaven, and concern of the highest powers! But, alas, that cruel doctrine! that would deprive man of his most consolatory stay, debase the linage of the Godhead, make nature's Lord a disregarded worm in the opaque cor- ner of some multitudinous system, hid from the e\ T e of the Most Gracious Deity, unpi- tied, unassisted by every messenger of favour and compassion ; the sport of each transient gust, the die of accident, timorous and un- grateful. Is this to reverence the Godhead, or rightly to appreciate his works? Is this to enlarge the bornes of reason, or to ensure immortality and light? Is this the end of all our wearying toils — the fruit of scli-uplift- ment ? Ps. xlix. — ! p* ttn npa ma Cherubim moreover arc D*HVO the vehicles Pi.xviu. of the mighty ones — ready to go wherever &. i. i% 66 his spirit inclines — their instrumentality of deliverance was /'// similitude of that from sin ; . dea ii — the npin t and the ppitM yn? — the strong hand and the outstretched arm: for under the wings of the cherubim were, un- der each a hand, which as he lists, he ex- 1 z _lY,"/ 2 tends to any distance by the invisible arm ; S v " ' the grasp being strong to perform any ex- Actsvii.53. ploit: of such ministry was the deliverance from Egypt, the type of that which was ef- fected from deadly sin, when the arm of the hard ic:is extended upon the cross, and each K s— ii''' hand nptn fastened (as by nails) thereunto. Like unto this also, was the figure of Moses, when that his hands were upstayed by Aaron and Hur on cither side of him. Moses sunk under the similitude; for who is worthy to represent thy deeds — Most Mighty King of Heaven — Slain Lamb of God ! Isa. li. — .iTiir yn? ry niDV-nw **\vj The bull Ti"' represents singly the rationality of the T2K of Joseph: the "i& is the generic name, because Christ died for all men — of whom IT?tf is one. — James v. \6 — 20. "jKf-2 An Angel or Messenger from God to man.. rON* : ?,j Work, as it proclaims the skill and design of the Maker. ,,>,, , is ii. r'2XT2 The Machinery of Heaven and Earth — elucidating in the harmony of their ope- rations the wisdom of God. The ministry John i. 4fl 67 of the holy angels in the preservation of the iTim'.*.*i. elect of God, is a doctrine that peifvades Hei>.i. u. both covenants, and must be gratifying unto Co ^ 18 man; but " voluntary humility" unto such ministrative powers, is severely censured by the zealous Paul, and thoroughly disclaim- ed, even by the mighty angel of the cove- Rev. xi*. ° . . . . 10, and nant, whose happy privilege it is, to be the x X ». 9. " one like unto the son of man." b'^D Speech, Articulation, deliberate disclo- sure of the thoughts. bl^ Circumcision, expressing candour and sincerity; i. e. without cloak or guile; hence allusively the circumcision of the heart — ^1*: free exposure, fore front, in the face of. biy consequently is of the opposite sense; wrapped in mystery \ of concealed design, not to be disclosed, difficulty of speech, &c. Moses was more the man of thought than of words. The operations of thought are chiefly by picture, or imagery of the deed: words define — thought combines; words are progressional and deliberative — thought in- stantaneous and executive; but oftentimes, the zeal of the thoughtful man, exceeds that happy point, whereon the principles of me- chanic laws (unto which our earthly frames are subject) do concentrate all their forces; and the hasty exertion brings its own defeat. Vengeance then it is evident, is not meant for man, whose very nature pleads forbear- ance, and is gratified by mercy. — But what 68 shall be said of that code, which passed the lips of him of no words? Truly, that it was from above, that it was taught by Him, zcho thereafter did instruct the apostles — compa- nions of the mute tenants of the sea — un- skilled but by the spirit of God. Ps. viii. — .rv jttd» D'pun ahbw »EJQ Exod.xvi. jp Manna, Measure, Suitable Portions, o^nvi. . j> re p arCt) §r- c Hi! OH Similitude; as that par- ticularly, of manna unto the true bread of life; which divides itself into portions suita- bly to each man's capacity. Although it 1 Is 'i'i' Came prepared unto man's necessities, and needed not their severities, yet did they grind it, or pound it, or seethe it, or bake it, as each to his fancy would have it. Some indeed would keep it from day to day, and then it did breed worms and stank, as it were very flesh. Its colour was p*7 fair as the cecumenic church, its sapor fDBfil T^D as commixt with (holy) oil; it fell with the early dew; it fled as the heat* came on, it is nourished away far from anger, it is kept for righteous men ; ah ! how like to the body of God. T£3 The Sensitive Soul extended through all the body; whereof one member being wounded, the whole are injured; and such * Where the Spirit of Christ is, there is peace; what spirit prevails then, when persecution ravages the flock? 69 is the catholic body of our Lord — formed like a second Eve from the body of her spouse, himself in nDTin. For her life's sake, his heart's blood was shed, and his very sub- stance severed to give her form and being. So perfect is the union and communion, **£'£•*• that it is hard to define where self termi- nates, and public good commences; each as it is affected, strikes through the whole, and by the whole is honoured: the life of all is icor. xii. love. Natural life from Adam, spiritual life 1 Co.. xv. from Christ: In baptism, we assume to die ver. 34. with Christ; by the eucharist, we are rege- ver. 58. nerate through the word, zvhich sanctifieth the bread of his body unto that holy effica- cy — the conversion of our body into his sa- cred body, so thoroughly, that we may in very reality partake of His spirit, and never johnvi.50. taste of death. Ps. cxviii.— iff 'tttt'O "ISDN! PTTTM £ iTO* tib n:D A Lowly Bush; TD derives its name (Sinai) from " the good will of him, that **$$*- " dwelt in the bush," when the wondrous name JTIfT was revealed; whereby redemp- tion is effected. That same angel, that bull of Joseph, that mrp "\tibto, our Lord Christ e*o\ Judah -|£J Anointed of his brethren, so ver . s— 12. Dan T£D Subtle unto Judgment 1SD JB rer.is— is. Naphthali dSt Writeth with the Diamond's rer.21. edge* Cad Cr? Will trust /o f/ze name, and ver. 19. prevail. Asher Uttf yfre atf ?t.s7, and live in hap- vn .,, piness. * lie therefore forfeited the birthright, which in conse- quence devolved unto the eldest son of the second wife — unto Him who bore the contrasted character of unspotted chastity, Gen. xxxix. for the which he thereafter obtained the blessing, being the father of the future David— of die ethereal BTJ» 0^0. 72 Gen.xiix. Issachar ns'TIN For health and protection 14, 15. . ■*■ bow to tribute, ver. is. Zcbulun ttf»2nn The Ttiarshish of Judea, band to Commerce. ver.w-86. Joseph ... DTO The TIP when fruitful with many names. rer. 27. Benjamin PlJDttf* 7H7/ confess at tlie last, and divide the spoil. The DTO >31tf have the heritage of all — Christ bears them on his D3£% and thus as- cends the inmost penetralia of heaven. In 8,9. '* the extended mercies of our Lord, the tribes of Jacob are esteemed but as the one tribe of Judah min*, and the nations are made Gen. xwi. coheirs of the promise unto Abraham — Dn;D 7nnn; and again D^ fl»n 1N7 rWi; because of ffa's promise, was his name changed unto DiTQtf ; as is the Qw name of Joseph unto DTO. yl// Me names therefore were written on the Dflttf, and placed on the shoulder of Messiah, because the keys of the government are on the Shekem of his catholic- body; even on that Shekem, who is 1TIN TTJ, and yHN by Joseph! If all the names be written on him of Joseph, then do his chil- dren prefigure the many tribes of Israel: D tg£SJ,"' and is it not thus signified by Moses in the blessing unto Joseph — when speaking of the glory of niE/ TD1? Witb (his horns) will he hurry on the people; the collections of the earth will he congregate together; for they Gen.xiM.i. are t | ic m y V i (U [ s f t | lc gentiles onStf, and 73 the thousands of forgotten httttO Judah : The hos. x W . 9. bull Uttf therefore is of Ephraim, and the promise established for ever. jwro tna "w ffifrn .lafeb tpin nx niSi Mai. ii. 10. — jutdn nnn ^rf? .who wt* 1:03 yno Messiah of the Jews — the Lord Jesus Christ — is the One God, and Father of us all. Amen. nDD To pass over; The Passover or Pas- Exod. xii-. chal Lamb, unto whose blood the destroying angel had respect; he did not pass over their houses without smiting, because that they were the children of Abraham; but Matt. m. because of the blood of the Lamb, did he pass over. The Paschal Lamb was a sacrifice of pre-eminent sanctity; in it was no part un- clean — the whole to be eaten, but not a bone to be broken; when therefore " they Num.ix.12. " came to Jesus — they brake not his legs, " but — pierced his side:" forthwith blood zech. xh. with water flowed — baptismal grace with the satisfaction for sin. 1 John v. 6. John xix. DT15 Paradise; A Separated Region; DTTlS): The receptacle of those departed Luke xxili , souls, whose sins are forgiven ♦yws »ityj >he?N p s . xxxii . fiKDII >1D^. The situation of paradise before the universal delude, seems to have corrc- i sa . xn\\. . 12 13. spondcd with that region, whcrcunto very many of the ten tribes are said to be separat- ed, and at rest "Q». Since that epoch, the rsa. xiix. scriptures ol God appear to intimate a more L 74 iKingsxix. southern site*: Thither did Elias rly for safety, from that Jezebel, before that he was translated, and thenee did John the Baptist Ezek.xiviii. come; our Lord was thereunto taken; Paul was carried thither; and Holy John ascend- ed: nojtf miT is the city's name. Nil* The Starry Sphere; and also, the Ethereal Animated Host of God. But some Ephes. ii. sue fallen. Satan is styled, "The Prince of " the Power of the Air;" 'and his influence as an intelligenced spirit mentioned — to be uohniv. shunned. Spirits differ in their minds, Man is the metal they assay — his soul the prize. ^•gjji'' But, fear not! Christ is our Father, our God, and Protector; and His name is niNl¥ mrp Jehovah of Hosts; Mikaul is the mm tfltf IV R 7 V _Ln' — J° s - v. 14. The ¥ intimates the faithful host; but Ephraim who had run retrograde on this subject, could not frame his tongue aright to pronounce the mired aspirate — but Hoseaiv. hissing named it N2D — tlitn mm ♦DfOD ID. Now N2D signifies a drunken reeling host. This difficulty of speech, had led them into judexii. a fatal error even aforetime, on the word rtattf, which they called rOlD: and were made to bear the burden of their ingratitude. Nevertheless the mttf is of Ephraim, and may God grant them in the day of visitation, to join in the happy shout! Ps. cxviii. — m nrvhUn mrp wn .nj roriftn mrr wn * See Note under nm, -O"T0, page 53. 75 |Vy Zion — an Eminence, a Signal on high, the City of the Living God, ennobled rather by the ornaments of holiness, than by ferti- lity of soil. tapp rtt»u?Q bso .\va nyw rnn» am* Ps. lxxxvii. — s*p »j»3«3 ba :nbo .tyrban "vy -in i^onn::] }W A Ri&, SVY/e, Desultory Agility, A Limping, Halting Gait; in which Jacob pre- figured the manner of the nD2 Passover. Of Jacob it was said 13T ^y VTif Will; of The Gen.xxx». David 1SDK31 THDltf ^"'^21. But who is He ps.xxxv. that hath prevailed both with God and man? Who heeded not the taunts of his accusers; but for their very sakes, who reviled and smote him — " Endured the cross, despised He 1 ! ^ ii - " the shame, and is set down at the right " hand of the throne of God" until that his enemies be made his footstool? Ps. cxv. Psaimcx. :noM nrv to tfr\ .if tihrv D'nan t& — rp "hbn :dVw tj) nruaa jv to: urow Dip In Front, Before, the East, so nomi- nated by Him, who resting his glory on the ark — the mrp pIN, beheld the altar, (the Ex.xx.21. earth) beyond the azure veil and curtain. Unto him the south was p©* to the right- hand, the north was p£)¥ without light, the east Dip in front, and the apestf D> waters; for Gen. ii.10. //om thence did issue waters unto the east. Ezeicxivii. It is manifest, that the sites of this temple had their references of position unto the earth whereon we live, and that it was also a perfect system in itself, i. c. within its 76 courts: For, how could the relative parts thereof, have received nomination from "e. 1 those, who worshipped at the doors? since unto them — the north was to the right /huh/, the south to the left, the west foremost, and Exod. xnv. the east to their backs. It was the ppiT "11*1 who framed the temple and its pattern. mi Air, Breath, Spirit; whether intellec- tual, rational, or ethereal. This word is ge- nerally in feminine construction; but when the office assumed presupposes a male agent, it is construed with conformant propriety. Thus the spirit of God in the production of cen. i. 2. light is feminine nSITiB ; acting as judge it is con. vi. 3. masculine D1K2 ^^ JIT tf 1 ?; and again in Isaiah xxxiv. 16. Jtflp NTH UllT! This regu- lation* reaches beyond the natural conside- ration of sex, as appears even in the word ITQtf fathers, which is in feminine termina- tion; because, when spoken of as patriarchs and ancestors — their progenies are beheld as enveloped within them — St. Paul, Heb. vii. 10. For a like reason, our forefather Adam, ex- pressing his faith and hope in the cogenerat- ing seed of the woman, constructs the sen- * The attribution of gender is immutable in the relative distinctions of the same nature; but where there is dirTe- rence of nature, individual distinctions are absorbed in the one greater reference, (page 47, note b>ti). Thus what in other languages is unarrangeable confusion, in this sacred tongue is the rule with pure philosophy, and the clue of systemated mystery. 77 tence with the masculine pronoun " tfin O >n^ DN nrvn — He — the mother." N£n ifer//, Cwe; D\S*S1 Invulnerable, or Ge x '?;, vL rather, er/.sv'/// sanable: such were deemed the inhabitants about the skirts of Canaan in old time D'iNDftl ♦D»pJJO DH *]tf "QttflT D'tfSn Deut.ii.11. D*DN QH^ imp*-. At the last — the earth it- self will destroy them, whiles the dead in Christ shall arise unto light and life. Why fca.sxvi.ia. reject in life, the knowledge that must arrive in death? Is it wisdom, or is it courage, to shut the eyes, when it is known that danger is near? Can unbelief destroy reali- ties, or annihilate the things that be? and shall the mind remain a dark a acuity, at the time it most requires light? for a truth, im- mortality is the first-born of revelation ; where this hath made no entrance, there is no hold of that. Ha! thoughtless science, that thus beggars hope, and spurns all friendly aid! True charity " bclieveth all things," but i cor. xiii. hare th God only: being made free by a willing obedience unto the commandments of God, it bends the knee to no idolatry, Ex.xxi. «. and wafts away all superstitious dread, ps.xxxuu 3H NTN N7 m^y N^l "|7tf O U>. As little children think their fathers can arise supe- rior to every evil, so do the sons of faith find shelter in the rock, and in their humi- * ( 1 ';; 1 '- *"• lity feel their strength. : insn '00 »n nyo ron* jon on »ytz;i nw mri' 78 rQttf Rest, S&bbath ; Cessation 'from Labour. There can be no rest without previous la- ccn. ii. i,2. bour. God himself did work, or ere He rested. Rest is the gift of God unto him that worketh peace; " there is no peace, " saith the Lord, unto the wicked," Isaiah Matt.x.4i. xlviii. " He that rcceiveth a prophet in the " name of a prophet, shall receive a pro- " phot's reward" — but He who in gratitude to God, for the good which he hath already received at his hand, shall give unto the M stS r * poor, the fatherless, and the widow, shall not go unrewarded by the Lord of the johnxii. poor, the fatherless, and the widow. When 44—50 the Lord by his prophet Isaiah would ad- vertise the house of Jacob of their misap- isaiah iviii. plied worship, he reproveth them — not for their failure in the rites of worship, nor yet for their want of words in prayer; nay! nor yet for lack of fastings and of bodily af- flictions — u Is this the way (saith he) to fast, " and to afflict the soul, when that ye do " bow the head as a bulrush, and do place " sackcloth and ashes as a bed? Is it not " (rather) this, that I have chosen for a fast? " that ye should loose the galling fetters " of oppression, undo the bending burdens, " and set the oppressed — free?" Feed tire hungry, give drink unto him that is athirst, clothe the naked, receive the stranger, visit the sick, and those that are in prison ; then 79 shalt thou call, and Jehovah will answer: If thou wilt make the Sabbath a day of rest, and take delight therein. :HN TffiS hy -[manm .mn» by synn ?t* Isa. lviii. 14. — :-oi mv >d a ."ion npy rhw Tr&MTi Where is the sacrifice of such a duty? Where is the burden in the foroivino- of offences ? HSn Tophet — in the Valley of the Sons of 2Kin.xxiii. D^n Licentiousness, where children were sacri- ficed unto the fiery deity — the Sun. I see Jegni-si, not how flesh and blood merely, could have devised so great an evil. Surely, there must have been some offence, against the God of Mercies, that human nature should have been so debased from all that is good, and abandoned unto every crime and folly: Alas, the sin of unbelief! Alas, the fatal devices of an irreligious mind! Glory to God on high, z ec ^- xii - and praise unto His Son; praise unto him, who hath delivered us from such base servi- lities, and hath diffused the spirit of wisdom and of good-will, over all the nations of the earth: When that the spirit of contention shall have ceased, and the deeds of envy — undone; when that righteousness shall be established in peace, and mercy be regarded of men ; then shall the nations know, that it was thou, Lord, that fough test for them, that smote the usurping powers of darkness, and set the children— free: They know not now their friend, they have forgot leu the iinea- F.\. \\\n. 19, 20. 80 ments of their father, they have imputed un- to Thee, what thou abhorrest, and have ar- rogated to themselves thine own free-gifts. Blast the image the enemy hath made, grind its substanee into smallest dust, and Stand up Th y s e l f ro r M a n . — u»on by aitsn jqud hit dj dttn nnw D»)a ro alio no mn Ps. exxxiii. What doctrine could have been more induc- tive of envy, among the sons of God, than that the Children of Jacob (unto whom were the promises, and from whom came Christ over all) should have no participation in the inheritance of rest? Where shall Christians find an heavenly abode, but among the tribes of Israel? When as a nation, they par- took of the favour of God, they hasted to ^'et'ai. diffuse the blessing unto all, " one law to " them, and to the sojourner among them:" Who now returns their liberal hospitalities? i What nation blends them in temporals? or, Who instructs them in spirituals, or even seeketh their relief? rnViJ D'jn bso ma pnrra jw srrfr Don too rh bma jw Isa. Ji. 18. And yet they are the selected presbytery of God; and without them our cecumenic offer- ings are imperfectly presented, lie that hath dispersed them, again will gather them : No man may haste the time, and yet the time 81 assuredly must come: not by deeds of mar- tial war, nor yet by forms of antiquated rites; but by acts of sacred righteousness, by thoughts of pious penitence — for thus hath God declared it. :D»ranni jn rm .drum* aw by) .T*n no by rosim .wn by tsdod vby vtsdi .npi -row* dm ,1 ?n •Room Zech. siL-^icon by iota vby -on M 82 ANALOGIES OF SYSTEMS, THE HEBREW TONGUE BEING THE MEDIUM OE TRUTH. The authorities for the similitudes herein introduced, are from the scriptures solely. Of the proprieties of the elucidations, your- selves will determine, by reasoning on those authorities. The latter chapters of the Exo- dus, and the Epistle to the Hebrews should be ever in the mind's view, but the references will be found to be frequent through both Testaments. Jesus Christ — The Splendour of the Visibility of the Father, the Eight of his Glory, and the Form of his Substance — pos- sessing in Himself the exertions of Omnipo- tence, is the Creator of all Things, the Head of all Holy Animation, and the Exemplar of all that is beauteous. When that it did please the Almighty to create the worlds, and to glorify Himself in his only Son, by manifestations of apt similitudes unto his own proper person; he fixed the rules of different natures, in exactest harmony with his own beneficence, and made the preserva- tion of their order to be the continuance of their subsistence, and called confusion — death. 8 .) Dangerous similitudes ! fearful resemblances! what but the substance is worthy of the form ? Ps. exxxix. i4.— :*ind nyp »ue»i 1*^0 d'n^d: Man having in himself disturbed the image of the Godhead, conceived amiss of Genesis \\\ every similitude: having listened unto Him ("iHT p ¥p?i) If ho from a near approach unto the Manifestation, had kindled in his own heart — against the dictates of his own free conscience — the hope of reaching unto wisdom's plenitude, (when that himself though high, was but a part of that fullness' sem- blance) he, like that Tempter, overstepped the line JfttfS of his endurance, and felt — that to augment by unpreseribed methods the measure of God's beneficence, was sure disruption. The hallowed light of conscience flies from the unruly and ambitious spirit, and dark- ness in its rounds overtakes him concealed in the instrument of his guilt. Hid in flight pEV he meditates rebellion n<2; in rapid re- * God is uniform in his design, and worketh all things in weight and number: every nature beareth an analogy unto his own perfection, and therefore each separate na- ture hath a resemblance unto another; and their explica- tion is in himself: but the rules of one nature do not guide the operations of the other, nor arc the diffusions of bro- therly love to be limited by the square and the compass. Let us, therefore, in the following investigations, seek first to trace each perfect system into its similitudes to the one Great Exemplar, and then meditate on their several mutual resemblances. 84 volvencies he agitates the mass, and a nexc li^ht is formed. Let the viewer be viewed — ntlTU t^Hi — in the element of his power, be the prier pried into in his dark recess; and as thon didst house the legion in Leviathan, so now we pray thee, Blessed Light of God! dispel from off the earth all glaring falsities, and make clear the hearts of men, unto the re- ception of thy Holy Spirit, that truth, faith, and fidelity, be the lasting ornaments of thy hallowed temple, mrp'? 111D. Satan rejoicing in his power and newly- formed glory (which yet was the effect of violent despair, rather than of previous de- sign*) hoped by similitude of transgression in every analogous system of creation, to confound the good design of the Creator, to annul His work, and to oppose the light of darkness and of death, unto the glory of light and life. There is a tree of knowledge, and there is a tree of life, in every system, and there is a Tempter who wills delusion and death unto every rational creature; our hope in the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, is to display each system in the harmony of its order, to point out the tree, and to detect the fallacy in its work; so that all may glo- rify God and our Lord, in the unity of one Holy Spirit; and by avoiding the mischief, seek in sincerity each other's good: for that * For the light so formed was a sudden unlooked-for event. 85 is the pleasure of God in his creature. Of that sad effect, which the fruit of the tree hath on the passions of all mankind, I for- bear discourse in this place: the body is ever with us, and the Tempter knoweth that he hath therein a ready help, unless the grace of God abound unto holiness. But there are sins of the body also, which may lead unto an eternal exclusion from the society of the faithful. May God decline our hearts from them, and from every desire that may in anywise sully the purity of the profession of faith in Christ our Righteousness! I. The Personal Body of our Lord Christ, is the One Holy Exemplar of every system or world; in this Exemplar the Tempter hath no place. It is mn^ imp. II. The One True Catholic Church of God, (of which Holy Church our Lord Jesus is the Head) hath correspondent parts unto that Exemplar: in this church the Tempter hath no place ; but in its outward semblance., rules by deceit. IH. The Heavens, and Heaven of Heavens were create after the similitude of the One Exemplar; in these the Tempter had place pS¥ \~OT2, but has long since been eject from above, by faithful Mikaul with the Rev. x\\. faithful host of Cod: our Saviour saw his Lukex. n, fall, and testified by what power. 86 IV. The Tabernacle of Witness, built bv i-.xod.xxv. j ne express command of God in the Wilder- ness, had its form from the pattern of the heavens, and heaven of heavens; in it the Tempter hath no place. Ps. exxxii. s. — n?y P**** 1 raw ."innra'? mn» noip V. T%e Temple of God, built by his direc- 1 chron - tion unto David, after the fashion of the XXVlll. ' Tabernacle, was fabricated by the hands of 8Chron.ii. Gentiles: into it the Tempter had no access; but in its formal semblance rules by deceit. Ps. lxxix. i .— .yuip byn na rioo .inVraa d'ij in:i anba VI. TAe Mansion of Paradise, shewn unto Ezekiel by the angel of God, was constructed in like similitude. By the revelation of the offence in either, we learn to trace the serpent where'er he lurks. — i-jriQN by "pon by tod in 7^ «a .xh *h rv\rv xh mb Ps. cxv. Exod. xl. 1. OF THE SANCTUARY anpB. INASMUCH AS IT IS THE MECHANIC SEMBLANCE OF THE mrr no, the personal body of our lord christ. Exod. xxv. — coins 'ruaflft unpo »b iuw In the Ho/?/ of Holies* D*ttHp ttHp (which is eminently the miT pff», although the * 77^ 2/o/j/ of Holies bore typical correspondency unto the faculties of the mind, whose pwn is the head — the recipient of spiritual life : the tent of the congregation had parts within analagous unto the internal organs of the body of our Lord. 87 "IVIE ^iitf bath that name also) there inha- biteth in the Great Sensorium, beyond the FOIS veil, or DpnSO neck — the faculties of sight or of imagination represented b} r the eagle; of heaving or of memory by the lion; of smelling or of meditation by the Zw//; and of tasting or of judgment by the wan; be- tween these the conscient and pervading pre- sence of the Godhead; who resting his glory over the propitiatory rn£D, constituteth that 1*21 oracle, who never speaketh but as God John v . 30. directeth; and all his " words are spirit and John vi. 03. " are life." Immediately below the rD"lS veil (which is ever guarded by all the cheru- bim of life) is placed the mcpn niTO altar Fs [f% 10 > of incense, corresponding to the pn^ vocal organs of the One Holy Intercessor unto the Father: from that golden altar doth ascend the fragrant incense of prayer and of praise D*-D mtDD, acceptable only in Messiah's Johnxvr. 1 * J 23, 24. rcawze rpiT rip FiHltyO fOBf. Though he were Aaron's son who presumed, it was death to alter it, or, to present it in another's name — Lev.* 1. for " Him — hath the Father sanctified and "sent into the world" — Our one only propi- Lev.x.7. tiation. At the north of the sacred edifice, (that is, to the right of the worshipper, but to the left of the object ^KW) is the jrfrttf taWe; whereon is laid the D*35 CH? owe 6read of ym///// people — even q/' all the tribes of Jacob. This tabic corrcspondctli with the heart of Messiah; on which arc engraven, in 88 in. Mil. indelible characters, the 0*35 countenances of 9—16. the twelve tribes of Israel*. " In all their affliction was He afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them." 13>2tf nptf O south, and opposite unto the table of shew Rev v. 6. bread, is that wondrous symbol of the glory of the Lamb of God — the golden lamp-stand tntypa nino nnr m^- the type of the -nia //ic/" of the Holy One, representing his pure and unfeigned piety unto the Father, and his uncontaminatelove unto man. The lamp- stand had one central upright shaft with its lamp; from which shaft proceeded six others bearing lamps; three on this side towards the earth, and three on that side towards the Holiest; and they arc emblems of the One Eternal Code of every duty towards God and man-f. The central light is love: to- wards the earth are fidelity, justice, and for- bearance; towards the D*2np ttHp are faith, hope, and piety : other organ a were sacri- ev. ni. 3. heed in Christ, and thoroughly cleansed in Kx-.xii. io. the type of the One Paschal Lamb, which * For the strength of the recollection of the person is as the force of the affections of the heart. f Which Eternal Code, however, let it be remembered, was from the beginning written on two lobes or tables, be- cause of the distinction of our duties towards God and man; therefore in the emblem (the lamp-stand), a division of the lights which shine towards the altar (the earth) is as it were made from those which shine towards the Holiest. 89 was eaten as though those parts had never been there, -pom* >rf?N -111X1 HHN* ^ Such are the endowments of our Lord Jesus Christ*, The Head of the Catholic Church. II. OF THE TENT OF THE CON- GREGATION^? "?n«. INASMUCH AS IT IS THE FIGURE OF THE ONE TRUE CATHOLIC CHURCH OF GOD t. The Altar of Incense is placed at the feet of mrv jntf the Ark of Jehovah, to shew that by Him only, we have access unto the Father; for that He is the only Mediator betwixt God and man : " O thou that nearest prayer, " unto Thee shall all flesh come/' The Table of Shewbread prefigured our Lord as the life and sustamentum of all the sons of Aaron; the bread thereof was ever to be eaten in the Holy Place. The Golden Lamp-stand — the only light of the whole congregation, ex- s — 9 pressed the fulness of the wisdom and righ- teousness D\2m D^IN of the Son of God, by whose light, we have light. The rn?V PIN* then doth represent the in- dividual exaltation of the Son of Man, even of Christ the Son of David, of whose king- dom " there shall be no end." The Altar * Sec nDD, and the preiigui ating type under the word TDN*. t The Holy of Holies is not here again to be described ; for the Individuality or Personal Soul ot the Lord Jesus, constitutes that One Catholic Head. \ rsalm Ixv. Lev.xxiv.9. Lev. x\iv. Luke i. SO 90 of Incense demonstrateth our Lord's one everlasting priesthood in the Testament of his own blood; the jftbtt? table, expresses the distribution of his one catholic body; and the lamp-stand — the plenitude of his wisdom and righteous integrity; of which body, we are all severally the regenerated members — of which wisdom and righteousness all par- take. III. OF THE tenpB AND THE ijno S"IK. INASMUCH AS THEY ARE TYPES OF THE HEAVENS ASD HEAVEN OF HEAVENS. scor.xii. q f |j ie vision of the third and highest heaven, the record is in the apostle John. Rev. iv. v. xix. xxii. PI and S ii. Of the natural and visible heavens (as of een. i. 6. the earth also) the scriptures of God are in like manner most clear and positive in their testimony, and their testimony is ever — Truth. 1ST. OF THE THIRD AND HIGHEST HEAVEN. Gen. 1.7,8. That distant azure sky which we from Gen.vii.il. earth behold, are pure elemental waters — upheld by a jrp"i firmament, which is as a Gen.viii.2. " sea of glass like unto crystal." ps. cxhiii. Job xxxvii.— jpmo »n-d D»j?tn xxpTwh ioy ypvy The everlasting gates thereof, have the guards of mighty and approved cherubim — ever faithful, as the azure and cherubic veil 91 n^H TOJTJ did always represent. The Third and most distant heavens 12-ijr distil those their enlivening dews through all the body of the ny\V ^nx — that holy congregation, Heb. X H. which happy Paul describes. •2 24. OF THE SECOND AND VISIBLE HEAVENS. In these heavens, there yet remains an altar, near unto the feet of the holy ark k^-™'- 3 ' (that is) of Christ; and to the north the sa- cramental table of the holy bread yet abides; whereof Melchizedek is deputed priest. Psaimcx, Ps. Jxxviii. 23 — 25.—i)pwh orb rfoz; rxnt .wm "edn wan orb To the south of heaven (as relative to the site of Z ion.) The sun and his six planets, like Rev. l angels of the code, migrate in strength and p S aim *«. beauty — in harmony and order. By their light, we also have natural light, as by the great moral laws, we also are judged. The Ten Commandments from Sinai are the knops and flowers of that ordination — Four Rer.uuii. on the mainstand, and one on either shaft*. Exod.xx. The ^nxn nnB*7 "JDD curtain at the entrance of the tent, is azure also, but of more open texture Dp"l TWW wrought into eyelet-holes — Gen. \. n. the preordained settings of those, lights — the nOj?1 02tf, which the One Father hath (riven i ci.. unto his Son, who is the sole master of the 2 K(c * iinn. xxix. xii. 11. * The four first commandments shewing our duty to- wards God, and the six latter our several duties towards our neighbour. 92 house, and the njn shepherd of both the folds: John x. 16. >jn mrp Ps. xxiii. IVicr* starry sphere* is the boundary of this — the first and circumambient heaven, in which we Jobxxxvi. ii ve am { move. The curtain is azure, for that we do behold f^e dripping waters be- yond. O let not human reason trust to the 2 peter, briny ocean for the refreshing gifts of the 1K xvnr vii ' cav ^y anc * or * tne latter rains; lest the r\^X come, and finding infidelity where it should not be — those blessings be restrained ! The japaesv.n apostle James hath given us timely caution, and fervent Peter frowneth on our errors! The nurtlJ IV 2 round laver of brass — sem- blance of the moon, and emblem of the church, moves in our atmosphere, its position betwixt the earth and stars. The n^yn niTD * Let us be permitted to suppose that the settings of the precious stones in the curtain, were in the order of the stars visible — during the season of the feast of tabernacles, i. e. at the time of the harvest moon: at which time the lamps being duly trimmed, Lev. xxiv. 4. "py and arranged, so that the central lamp of day should be concealed from sight, but yet withal so placed, as that the resplendent laver should then strongly reflect his light; how must it have struck a spectator at the altar (i. e. the earth) to see the heavens, the work of God, thus minutely imitated by the fabrication of mortal hands ! Assuredly none but the faith- ful similitude of Ilhn, who flllclh the supernal abodes, could have presumed to rest his ethereal substance upon the hallowed resemblance. Note, I have said minutely, for from this pattern have I taken the diameter of the earth, and apportioned the distances of the celestial luminaries. Exod. xxv. &c. 93 altar of sacrifice — is the earth, and the white- woroen curtains ITttfD W of the court — the fleecy clouds of the heavens around. IV. THE TABERNACLE ptfo OF WITNESS. Instructive Type of the Third and Everduring Heavens, was framed of ribs or ^ttnp planks strongly connected unto each other, and articulating their tenons into D*yrtf vertebra or sockets of silver*. The planks were twenty on either side, and eight to the westward — corresponding to the width of the veil, which hung on four pillars .n .1 .n. , »: All the sockets of the pTO were of silver. The proportion of the breadth to the length, was still that of eight to twenty; because that the planks in their embraces, (by which they were held firmly bound to each other) gave each, on either side, the fourth of a cubit, and the corner ones each an half cubit — the height was ten cubits J PlJBWD**)tWr*WJf« This double-ribbed house, whose foundations are purity, and whose * The body of (the Son of) Man being the Original Exemplar. The D'vinp are made to surround the highest heaven pU?0, rather than the body or tent, because that it was necessary so to express the eternity of J I is nature, who is the head of the catholic church, albeit, He is the hallowed body of the Deity. 94 bonds are love, ever abideth one and the same — The Work of One Intelligent Carpen- ter. Be not deceived! He it is too, and not another, who builds the Temple of God: Under His goodness, the stones forsake their native hardness, and throwing away all intervening and envious filth, fall into each other's arms; or, like the trees of pr*J — cling in lateral embrace. Give unto God the things that are due unto God, and con- sent not that another should aim at the re- ward; yourselves are God's reward. While there is life, there is power of action. *nD n**!f .nD. Exod.xxvi. The ijno ^Htf of the second and visible heavens, endure not for ever; it was coupled by loops r\tibb and studs D'Dnp over the veil; Ex. xxxvi. while the D*ttnp standing on their D^IN* of zealous purity *]D3, do form within themselves a pttfB for his glory "ITQD. The second heavens abide not ever! Wherefore? because sin hath had entrance there, and hath soiled it: let us then take hold of eternal life, while yet it is offered unto us; and let us not be 2reteriii. reckoned among those who " willingly are " ignorant" — that as the earth has once been Gen.vii.n. destroyed by cataracts from the heavens above, and by the overflowing depths — nnnsa ursam norm .nm Dinn nwyo to wpaa So now do all the elements of nature, (with isa.bwi.24. that since renovated earth) aw r ait an eternal 95 conflagration — an unextinguishable fire ! *?N TDffB IW *0 ntf! Numb. xxiv. 23. The n : 7J/n PT1T0 ato of burnt -offering, as a type Ex 1 -™ ii - of the earth, was yin four-square — to shew its stability; not cubical, because not eter- nal; not expressed as being round, because not revolvent*; notwithstanding, its round- ness was so implied, for, around the square of its stability, (which was five cubits to the depth of three) its form was made globular seepiatei. (by the thick covering of brass) describing the sphericity of the seas; below that circular riding Hn3 linn — at the midst of the altar — r. c. rQTDH **TI IV, was a grate of brass nttfnj "Q2.2, depicting the central hell Y~\S nvnnrQJ over this grate, the victim was placed, to shew the nature and service of Christ's many sufferings. Christ Himself then, as well as the earth, is represented by the H7yn P0TB — altar of burnt-offering; on which account, it was called an altar of earth: Exod. xx. 24. tydw ntfl ~\>rhy n^ vVy nnan .'V rnzwn row rnio It was D*OT v i> r — f/«c sfoc& o/' the revolting Judah, (as was all the wood of the Taberna- cle) because Christ our Lord is of the Jews; it was covered ntPHJ with brass, because of the penalty due unto sin, which came through ttflljn; it was nn"? lllJ (within the brass) of * The circle is no scriptural emblem of eternity , but the manifest indicator of revolving time. 96 green limber — lor that his body sazv not cor- ruption). The grate of brass within, pre- figured the consumption and total decay (as by the fire of abstinence) of every organ of excess; altogether — it was the type of The One Atonement. Our offerings being upon that altar, are thereby sanctified; for it is Mntt.xxiii. « the altar that sanctificth the sift." — The lo— '22. Y altar was a perfect representation in itself; it had therefore DH1 attached unto it, in like manner as had Tin-. Table of Shew- bread, the Altar of Incense, and The Ark of mn\yca! and The whole Taber- nacle ; for the Lamb of God is carried in Rev. v. 6. every part, in the breasts of the faithful and Numb. vii. true sons of n 1 ? Levi, as were the D*ttHp ETfp on the shoulders of the sons of Queeth — top* sjroi. Note. Being desirous to point out the strong resemblances of many systems as at one view, I abstain from the finer minutiae Matt v. is. of their parts ; but the analogies are perfect to a letter throughout. V. THE TEMPLE OF GOD— BY SOLOMON. INASMUCH AS IT WAS THE PATTERN OF THE GENTILE CHURCH. iKingvi. This Temple was built after the order of the Tabernacle in the Wilderness. The eter- 97 nity of the Holy of Holies was signified ra- 2Chron.iii. ther in its cubical form, than by the spirit of Re 1 5. xxi- the word, and so the long duration of the body of the temple by its oblongated mea- sure; (the breadth twenty cubits, the height thirty, and the length forty.) The timbers were of cedar wood, and not of D»E2; >VJ)f; (which we have seen to signify the tribes of Jacob.) The boards and flooring of the Ho- liest were also of cedar : not so of the Larger House, which expressed mortality TIO by the ' Rmgvi. 1 " 7 J 14. 1G. fir-tree BPD* Nevertheless its ribs and bones 2ch.0n.iii. 5. are cedar; Ezek. xxxvii. The vestibule of this Catholic Temple, was of the most exalt- ed height — but more limited in breadth: on its right-hand and on its left-hand stood the pillars of heaven and of earth, as it were co- vered with the net of a fisherman: now Din Matt. iv. signineth a net, and DTP! one that casteth a net. But was the promise unto the King of Tyre? Hardly! God seeth all things, and cannot be deceived. The pillars of that holy ^kiei a, mansion, which Ezekiel saw in the wilder- ness, were crowned with palm-trees, and so accommodated ^ziithin, that the faithful keepers of the gates might ascend, and descry afar off. In the Holiest of the Temple, there abode the same ark, which had constituted the holiness of the Tabernacle: all else received a new form (except the lamp-stands, which were made after the pattern DDBttPDS) and o 98 were multiplied by ten* ivy — to signify the rich accession of the Gentiles, into the holy congregation. The veil rO"]D was embodied info doors of olive-tree — the tree of light; the ~\0D curtain into doors of fir-tree turning on posts of olive-tree, to shew that our Lord Act.^M.22 even during his natural life, should ever be regulated by the will of the hallowed Spirit within. (These were the doors that were broken at the crucifixion-f ; — P^ojlom \.^)l o.?i) )i^*Jboo ♦ .a.; JS^ ck* r A J Matt, xxvii. of which our joimx.xiv. Lord had given early intimation). The laver of brass became a baptismal sea, raised on Numb. vii. the shoulders of the twelve disciples of Jesus ; and as if the sacrifices of the Gentiles had required peculiar cleansings, ten lavers on 1 ?."" Without doubt, the doors of olive (which answered to the veil in the Tabernacle) are in this text intended ; and thither we do hope eventually to follow the Lord our leader ; but these were not the doors that were broken at the cru- cifixion, for the Divinity of our Lord Christ was not to be sever d, neither in itself, nor from his Holy Soul at any time. 99 chambers surrounded the temple, but had no immediate access thereto, as by door or by any other entrance; for their doors, to the lowest order of chambers, were placed exter- nally to the temple; The Introductory Door to the mid-order of chambers, was placed externally also, and to the South; whence a circuitous passage led the priests unto the third or highest chambers. (No door to the North.) John x. 1 Kinys vi. .5—8. VI. OF THE TEMPLE SHEWN UNTO THE PROPHET EZEKIEL. piatein. Psalm lxxxiii. 3.— wfotin *vy "in "OTO ni"D33 In the similitude of Satan's first delin- quishment and imperious revolt, it would seem that he hath adventured the cassation of every system — or natural — or moral — or spiritual — or in anywise allegorical; and what should most affect us, is, that he doth ever seek to impose upon our unwary minds a propriety of the rules of those his decep- tions. But, let not the holy image of God — the heir of immortality and glory, attend to any base and destructive follies: Satan is eject of heaven; let his devices be eject our hearts and minds also, for it is in ourselves to do 100 so — by adherence to the Word of God, leav- ing all others, and by cleaving unto him, I say, in pure and confident fidelity: i>pun ubm pro ,wy& now ion : tpw2 D»ott?D pirn .nosn r*MB hot* :rno> ;nn wjnw .ansn p* mir dj Ps. Ixxxy. — :voyE3 "pTb Du;n rfxy vasb pra Man is himself a little world, and as the world at large (the natural and the ethereal heavens) have been the recipients of every spirit or clean or unclean, so hath man within himself a relative hold or harbour for every suggestion or good or bad; and hath ability according to the resolutions of his constancy and fidelity, or according to the indulgences of a salacious imagination, to be the Temple of the Spirit of God, or to be the Babel of every unclean bird. It never was suggested that Satan, by him- self or by any substituted person, had ever access to the Holy of Holies; but that he hath had power (before the conquest by Christ) of presenting himself in the fyiB Sltf or second heavens, among the sons of God, is unquestionable, Job. i. 11. His entry there was not by the door (which is Christ) but as he hath himself said — psy TDT1; for which reason it is, that he hath emboldened to feign a passage into the -tjmb SlN* of the Temple Heb. ix. (the pattern of that heaven) by a similar aperture at the side of the north; but of 101 legal entry that way — there is none; for there is none other door but Christ Jesus — the Son of the Virgin Mary — the Son of God. John x. xiv. There was none other door to the Taber- nacle by Moses; there was none other door to the Temple by Solomon, none other to the Temple by Zerubbabel, nor ever any other unto that shewn unto and described by the prophet Ezekiel, DHp JV1PT >1S O — Ezek. xlvii. 1, 2. as may be plainly seen by the figure with reference to the Hebrew text, piate in. Satan hath been frustrated in his design of being invested with a similitude of God; notwithstanding that frustration, (which was effected by the blood of the Lamb, Rev. xii.) hath he insinuated into the minds of men the form of the system of his fallen domain, itev. x«a: in the place of the fashion of the realities of God's fabrication; and in consequence of such conceptions, is human nature at this day a deteriorated similitude; for our God is a jealous God, and will not in such manner be worshipped. Satan desired to establish his throne beyond the firmament of fixed stars, and to be as a sun among the planets \\vbvb hoik— >NM antf Ss* opiD^ bjfoo. He was ejected with others. \\v\ . xvii. 9 — 1 1. To establish their imperium therefore in the minds of men, they have represented the fixed stars as being at irrelative and inaccessible distances, and feigned the planets (the as- 102 sumed symbols of their fallen thrones) to be below that azured and sapphired curtain. These subjects are not of little conse- quence, for because of perverted belief it is, that the wrath of God abides upon us, and it is time that his Tabernacle should be cleansed; for without a doubt the day of visitation is at hand, and we must decide. D'tfwfl TtltY DN % .D»SBtfDfl f lW hv DTTD9 DTW TlQ IV i Kings xviii. — nnrw* »b fynn dni /ronkufr It is impossible to believe both Moves and Baal, or to embrace the letter of the word with Babel's system! Yet think not, my friends, that I seek to condemn human nature, and to impute guilt to the inconsiderate; for who am I, and what is my righteousness ? The sacrifice is for him that hath strayed, and for him that is deluded — TlDDl r\W tt?*tfft — Ezck. xlv. 18—20, and the fatted calf for the re- pentant profligate. If then there be a day of grace as of terror also at hand, let us be found among the good and the believing, among the children of hope; for despair is the spouse of the devil. Conscious sin is the happiest introduction to the stream of cleans- ings; it lays hold of the skirts of repentance, and brings down remission from above: only, let us not make occasion of our free- dom, for the renewal of offences. Give no man offence. -piate in. In the description of the house inn ttWi *?& 103 the texts that most require critical examen are the verses of chap. xli. 5 — 11. Sur- rounding and attached to the house on its three sides, north, west, and south, were thirty-three mv^ columnal ribs, raised on a m*lD*23 foundation of six cubits; the TWyh® projected Jive cubits, having mxi niches as resting places, for the accommodation of the worshippers, and for the defence of the walls of the house; the niiO were of four cubits breadth each: now the house was on either side sixty cubits, and to the west twenty, altogether one hundred and forty cubits: thirty-three niy 5 ?** of four cubits breadth each, would therefore encompass the house, leaving in the front, to the north and south sides, a njEH OlpB of four cubits each; but the text says of five cubits each, and justly so; because of the m;* which ex- tended it a cubit more on all sides, so that tlxe nnb*B should thereby complete at the es- cape the measure of a full reed-)-, fUpfl "to : f?7*2fN JTIDK ttftP. The niy'T» which were to the sides of the eastern door, had their FVlNpi in front, and a n38PI DTpO on either side as a landing-place; these no doubt were for the accommodation of the king, who entered K*ek. xw,. through the eastern gate. But, the text itself F ^ k - ^ * rtH For this construction, see xliii. 1 3. rDOl 2J nf\ f Adding out; cubit as a slip to the n:~~ DlpQ in the front, and one cubit as a step to the projection of the nufarf at tlie sides. 104 doth plainly assert, the entrance to the house JVin to be hut one, though the outgoings from the sanctuary tenpDPI were many. The Temple by Solomon was but a strait- ened semblance of M/.s- the true fHfWP! P'2, Hagg. ii. 9- The mD'^ 1 ? chambers that are iiere removed twenty cubits, xli. 10. from the house on either side, were there pitched against the house, 1 King vi. 6. not so as directly to he fastened in the wails of the house, but as resting upon filjnas which projected from the house. And thus I trust it will be proved, that there is a day close upon us, when all the promises of God will be fulfilled in their most liberal extent; when D 8 lt 9 XXXli " Jehovah will inherit the nations, as he hath done the sons of Jacob, and diffuse his blessings to the utmost corners of the earth; when all invidious distinctions shall cease, and envy be expunged for ever; when the pious of every nation shall say — I am of isa. xiiv. 5. Levi, and the meritorious of the brothers be i«i. xi.xix. surnamed of Judah; the sons of Ham shall 18—26. fly unto the baptismal streams of A More zeci,. viii. Spacious Jordan, Japheth hew down the pine- masts for the sons of Shem, and the Indians of the west find progenitors every where. irv rrnN .oa N2tt .prw nyrw ,l ? wire na W2» D'pnx .mir 1 ? iyvr\ m Ps. cxviii. — :ia rjrowi nboa .nw rm>y ovn n? " When that the Highest shall inherit the " nations, when that He shall assort the sons 105 " of Adam, he will affix the boundaries of " the people, to the number of the sons of " Israel ; for Jehovah's portion are his peo- " pie, Jacob the lot of his inheritance." Deut. xxxii. " Unto thy seed have I Gen.xv.is. " given this land, (saith the Almighty " God unto our great progenitor) from the " river of Egypt, unto the great river, the " river Euphrates." This promise is on the 5o f{™l\ part of God fulfilled; for unto Solomon Psixxii. (the king a son) the kingdoms within these limits, on either side of Judea, were for a time under voluntary tribute; 1 King vi. 11. 2 Chron. ix. 26. (but Solomon personated a greater than himself:) their lands lie possessed not, by actual conquest. Therefore is the promise here extended Ezek.xivii. and renewed: (see also Jcr. xxiii. 1 — 8.) During the captivity, and fourteen years after the demolition of the city and temple, F.2ek.xiviii : the prophet Ezekiel (xl.) was made to see the city and temple of this promised land; which city was situated to the south of Judea, and probably in the heart of the desert of Ara- bia*). This is the land " concerning the * See -ct, "DTO, and the note under them. That the names of places in Arabia Pttraa, (between the Red Sea and Judea) are many of them such as arc mentioned in the journies of Israel, is known unto all geographers; but the dales of their receiving those names is uncertain : let it however be granted that they were so called by the Jews themselves; why should tiny (the Jews) as a migrating na- 106 Ez S;^ 1 " which (saith Jehovah) I lifted up mine " hand to give it unto your lathers: and this " land shall fall unto you for inheritance*." Ez^hii. The land is then described in terms that mny be seen to imply its extending from the Mediterranean through Damascus to pDy of the Euphrates, on the north ; Eu- phrates being termed the Jordan of this en- D asu3, larged portion: its sanctificatcd streams run- ning to >i10"Tpn D'H £Ae Eastern (now Per- sian) *Sea, form the boundary /o f/re e«s£: From Thamar of the eas£ to the Red Sea (named ttnp nmno *») by bHJH D*Fl the Great Indian Ocean, is the southern extent: From bM2n D»n the Great Indian Ocean to Hamath of the Mediterranean is the Zimif £o tf//e rcc.sf; (In which last limit, a line from the extremity of the Red Sea to the Nile, in- tion, be debarred the satisfaction felt by all travellers of nominating places nearer at home, by the appellations of those remembered abroad ? Is not sucb the practice of other nations at this day? Again; it is known unto all commentators of the sacred scriptures, that a day's journey is computed at twenty geographic miles; let the inquisitive reader then measure the distance from Jerusalem to p'n now called Temen, and consider if these coincidences be accidental. * A central situation of 25,000 cubits square with the Temple in the midst, is laid out and separated for the use of " the priests — the ministers of the sanctuary," see Plate IV. and most particularly " for the priests that are " sanctified of the sons of Zadoc" the righteous; Ezek. xlv. xlviii. History hath no where yet shewn the fulfilment of this promise and prophecy. 107 eluding the land of Goshen, must obviously be expended). Ps. lxxii. — :pN *DDM "TV -TTDD1 .D» IV DO TT1 Zecli.ix.10. Gilead (let it be noticed) doth signify a heap G en. XX xi. q/* demarcation placed between two coun- tries). Sliem was baptized in the Red Sea, (1 Cor. x. 1, 2.) and Japheth in Jordan; Euphrates for the sons of Ham, and the rem- nants of the Gentiles. nboo nmin nu?» .mn» -pi us laraa snip "?ip Isa. xl. — swn^b I assert the doctrine, but presume not to af- fix the times. Seeins; then there remains such bliss in store for man, is it not worthy our pursuit to know what retards the blessing, as what might draw it to us? And in this investi<>a- tion, is there no good rule whereby to dis- tinguish from the ingenious devices of man, the timely deductions of faith? The artist may deceive the eye, the eloquent pervert the heart, the mathematician perplex the understanding, and the scholar establish falsehoods: but. when the unskilled gives living images, the untuned reveals gram- matic sounds, the dullard talks of God's proportions, and the unapt brings to light ■wisdom's treasures; shall we stand still in cold indifference, or give the rein to wanton suspicions, till the web of death begirt us, or the gaping gull' receive us? Oh, thought- 108 less man, child of dust and thickest clay! Is it for you to scan ubiquity, for you to mount on wings of righteousness, for you to question God's full knowledge, and doubt the words of heaven's holiness? Ah ! cease to build on Shinar's plains, Give not your strength to her domains; Learn that true wisdom faith reveals, And seek, the life Christ Jesus seals. .■po win nw ro .ana no dim ib tti — iyrha di? ro 1 ? jflifm .iDn narwi .od©q niuw dm o Micah vi. Hoscaix. When the prophet Hosea had prayed unto **r. i4* God for his country, and had wished to see its mothers dry and childless, rather than in the blooms of productive health; for that he well knew the bitter draught they were about to drink: What said Jehovah? crvbbyo in by .Dntuw av o &tj:q onin to Ter. x-t. somiD onm» ta .Drone* *pin Mb .oaruM tvho Ho«a xiiv. So again in Ezekiel — when the Almighty refuses the ministration of certain the sons of Levi, in the Holiest Offices; what is the reason assigned for that rejection? .bttw* myro *byo ipm iwa a*bn dm o :o3ii; \Ntt»i .orpbfci nnM hvn iyn tom But the sons of /Ae Righteous One, who had forborne to give a helping hand to that destructive folly — They shall draw near unto me, saith the God of Israel: .•jnbu; ha wp nam .nmpo Vn »a« nan .•nwQ dm noon .'jmu; 1 ? ver. 10. ver. 15,16 109 Are there not two tables of the law? It* we have offended against the moral — the social code, we may forgive each other our offences: but if we have departed from the righteousness by faith, and have doubted God's veracity, who shall mediate forgive- ness? Who shall dare bring impiety to the altar, or behold the face of Christ in anger? Isaiah lii. 11. Rev. xviii. 4. ..-Dino i*ra .wjn ha noio .dwq ink 1 Peter i. — »oo.*iji The redemption of man through the blood of Messiah, is a mystery that commands the admiration of angels; unto them there per- tains no such privilege; justice knows it not; it is a prerogative beyond the ken of the moral law, it is the wondrous invention of God, superseding but not obstructing the obligations of the law — the duties of the square and compass. Unto angels the elder- born of rational life, there is no plea for pardon, no promise unto repentance; in their integrity they stand, by transgression fall: and lives there a man at this day, who would change the tenure of his existence, and madly brave the excellence of that righ- teousness, at whose sight the highest patriarch felt abashed, and owned that he was " but " dust and ashes?" Told upon ibid has this 110 mystery been presented unto us, and day by day has the gracious proffer been rejected, and the saving wisdom been despised. Oh, Intervention! wheresoe'er Thou art! save me from the wrath of HIM, who will one day search for those that laugh at mercy, and discsteem the sprinklings of commisera- tion — the life of Jesus! jddd o*rbt& \rv uh .wt* ms» ms vh ns* Ps. xlix.— \dr\yh 1 nrn .du;dj pnsj npi The sins of men are various, as arc their passions several ; but there is a sameness of offence in the impiety of the deceiver; in the developemcnt of which, I had hoped to extenuate our guilt: for human nature was from the first unsuspicious and OTiy naked — liable to every impression or good or evil; (like unto this too was the snake of paradise:) evil is not spontaneous in man; it came johni. from without : its place is outer darkness; ice arc the children of light. The dejection of the spiritual code below the abode of heaven, so that licentious anar- chy might there prevail, and that himself might rise imperial from out thereof, was the great offence of Satan. The first similitude of that transgression in Eden, was caused and occasioned by his instigation; for the Jig-tree nis*n was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; the early figs D*TO! are that spiritual code, of s« in. which the planetary choir arc the symbols; Ill &byiji-gs (cast down by the wind), are fallen Rev. vi. 13. stars exhausted of their light; but judgment shall descend upon these, as upon that temple of Moab DWm m. Jer. xlviii. 21, 22. And thus, the Tower of Babel, was the erec- tion of that system, the which has been de- ceptiously revivified in these last days, after a deathlike sleep of many centuries ; Kev. xvii. Of other similitudes, I have heretofore spoken; but, what more than all doth de- monstrate the Tempter's violence and mali- cious subtlety, is that deep wound inflicted in the heart's side of that Holy Exemplar of beauty and of love, when that it lay sus- johnxix. pended on the tree; — "forthwith came " thereout blood and water" — the Serpent's Bane— The Church's Life— The FATHER'S Satisfaction for HIS offended Laws — Heav- en's Eternal Security! Are these the devices of fancy? Are these the unregulated coinci- dences of a lawless imagination ? Prow xxv. — :-cn "ipn ewfoa toi ."121 innn dti^n "na I cannot in conscience criminate those, whose lives are indisputably pure, of in- tending at any time the enforcement of any destructive and fatal error. The coolest brain is ever the most any to matbematic impressions; and it is not until after an ex- tensive view and deliberate investigation of numberless, yet withal relative proportions 112 of problems inter se, that the saturated mind begins to apply them to the works of God; but unfortunately the labour has hitherto been to adapt the demonstrations to a sys- tem already devised, without inquiring into the name and eharacter of the Original De- signer; and thus, the most unsuspieious and fairest spirit, whilst exalted with the thoughts of new truths, and indefinite modes of exist- enee, becomes the hapless occasion of lethi- ferous deceptions: and, as it is said, he was deceived, by an apple! that the rUffll- Gen. iii. — :b?ti) 'JNtWl wren .rite .pas ino ttmpi .no' *jo»no rrbtt spitn rwte intern .mn d'cw rieo .)b no D»rjp .rvnn *iind nm Hab. iii. — inrj pan oun It is now approaching to eighteen hundred Rev. xviii. years, since all those duties by which a man Rom. x. might preserve his soul alive, and all those superadduced sufferings by which a righteous man might become the Saviour and Redeem- er of others, have been fully performed and isaiah mi. fully upborne by the Son of God made man! What then retards the recompense? John i. Unbelief! and the want of Unanimity among those who do believe! but on the part of God — Mercy. 2 Pet. iii. No doubt it is in * To this day pTi called Temtn is the most southern of known habitable places, in the land of Ancient Idiwiwa. 113 the Power of God to form us (as the potter doth his work) to his will and fancy, at any time; but wiiat security should we have for the judicious and gracious exercise of that power through all eternity, did it exert for an instant an unregulated force? The most ad- mirable, the most incomprehensible, and at the same time, the most certified work of God, is the free will of the creature; shall we desire to have that — our wondrous boast, controlled without law? and ourselves mis- placed displaced as unlimited Power, and unaccountable Will shall direct? The chris- tian hath other hope! the christian hath other stability, other certainty! He halh the promises of God, and knows that his Maker will not lie. By the cords of love are we drawn, by the evidences of the most approved reason; we crouch not to the throne of grace through terror, but look at Omnipotence in its glory, and in the consciousness of our own eter- nity, rejoice in his unfathomable beatitude: whence have we derived that eternity? From our own merits! — the indefeasible merits of Christ — our God — our Head — our every indi- vidual life! Who shall burst the bonds of love, and sever the unity of our existence? " Nor death, nor life, nor angels, nor princi- " palities, nor powers, nor things present, " nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, " nor any other creature, shall be able to 114 " separate us from the love of God, which " is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Amen ! Rom. viii. Come then, my brothers, to the spiritual rock of life, to the stream that glad- dens as it goes; come, drink the righteous- ness of Christ, and sport in the waves of its infinitude; your draught shall not lessen mine, nor mine excite your jealousy ! for our God is alike free and accessible unto all — a God without partialities, and without dis- tinctions — save for orders sake! A God to your Heart's desire. :->y> «jty Vd \3D* ?k ."O iwt* bj) *w by d»o^ .pro ton iddu;» .rvw ostt^ n3 "3 N2 o mv ^ Ps. xcvi. — {VtOO 115 HURAM ABIU vin &m THE CUN- »£STJ| NING WORKMAN. iv, ' 16: The extraordinary character, who bore this name, was the son of Hiram, King of Tyre, but he preferred a portion in Naph- thali, to the heritage of ill-earned wealth, and fled to that tribe for refuge, and found it. Well may it be said of Naphthali, that He " giveth goodly words;" and " as a lu " hind let loose" flieth o'er the distant fields and hills, until that she escape her pursuers' hounds, breathless and faint she seeks her associates again, and returns unto the streams of life; so gladdeneth He his heart with the pools of Siloah. Ps. xliL— iprha t^n yiyn wsj p .o»n »p»E»i by nyn too Painfully hast thou struggled for thine Ge "-™ x - adopted son O Rachel, yet well may it be said of Him — " Possess thou the west and '« the south"— for was not his father the g*^£. King of Tyre, though himself were content gSSak with the blessing of Naphthali? But the King of Tyre despised the cities of Galilee, ^"fg*- (whereof Nazareth) and would have none heritance in Jacob. " Because thine heart ekWci " is lifted up, and thou hast said I am a *r.2. " God, I sit in the scat of God, in the midst "of the seas j — therefore, thus saith the vcr.e. 116 EEekiei " Lord God, 1 will bring strangers upon xxviii. 7. . , ° . & l " thee, the terrible of the nations — they per. 8. " shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou " shalt die the deaths of them that are slain " in the midst of the seas." Be not deceived; it is not in the Tem- ple of God by Solomon, nor in the True Da»iei viii. Holy Catholic Church, that the enemy of God and man hath found entrance, and Daniel xi. hath exalted His seat above every God; but Ez.a v. i4, in that Second Temple which Sheshbazzar lo, 16. ■*■ founded at the command of the King of Nehem.xii. Persia, and of Babylon: There it is, that the Vriest Eliashib, (thinking that Nehemiah would not again return,) hath made alliance N-h. xiii. with the Ammonite; and for Him hath built 28,29. a chamber by the Lord's house — for " tithes " of the corn, (and) the new wine, and the " oil;" there lurks the serpent — that &'nj prying serpent; there wrapt in the myste- ries of darkness, he hisseth death, and think- eth to stand by the power of fc< arms" — " Pro- " fane wicked Prince of Israel, whose day is " come, when iniquity shall have an end, " thus saith the Lord God, remove the dia- " dem, and take off* the crown; this shall " not be thus; exalt him that is low, and " debase him that is high." .rvn nV na\ oi .ruDniw mi; my mj? Ezek. xxi. 25 — 32. Is. xxii. 15 — 25. Dati'el xi 3U— i5, 117 'That Second Temple, whose foundation- stone was laid by the hands of Zerubbabel, H fl\,;' was the pattern of that Holy Spiritual Church, unto which the promised glory must extend. — tmaat rwp ton .Tiro dn a .ran nVi ^m tb Zech. iv. 6. Thus with that portion of light, with which it hath pleased God to illumine me, have I adventured to unfold as by system, the forms of His Almighty Works; and by the virtue of the letters of His Word, to display their beauteous symmetry unto the world : happy indeed the labour, if peace were by: But, alas! in such investigations, the subtle source of anarchy and deception doth ever try to deceive the mind, to mislead the heart, and to pervert each faculty of dis- cernment! lest his own deeds being mani- fested, his power over man should cease for ever. With the Hallowed Person of our Lord Christ, he hath no communion: /// the One Holy Catholic Church, he hath no place; from the heavens above he is for ever cast doan; into the Tabernacle he doth not enter; neither hath he any portion in the Temple of God by Solomon; with man only, hath he found a fostering friend": man, the 118 beauty of every symmetry, the receptacle of every virtue doth he try to pervert unto every folly, to debase unto every delin- quency! Again, I say, that it is not in the realities of any of God's works, that the fiend of evil hath any appropriated part or portion; but only among the deluded of men. How shall he be thence eject? By faith and holy frater- Rev. xii. nity-f ; Consociating in the faith of the blood of the Lamb, have Mikaul and the heavenly host made him outcast of their abodes. Be their example our deed, their faith our hope, and their unanimity our strength; for unto us, as unto them, there liveth the same God, and the same one mighty providential Lord over all — Jesus Christ — the Only Begotten of the Father, unto whom with the Father and the Holy Spirit in the unity of one Godhead, be all prayer and praise for ever and ever presented. * Because that men have attributed to II im a seat in the temples of their own delineations; not perceiving that V2tf cmn (by name) is the nrhw i"6\v, and that ION D*nn (by construction) is the Impostor of Hell. f Not by envies and jealousies; nor yet by waning against our fellow believers — whose errors are but our own in another view. Against the deceiver, not the deceived ; against the deluder, not the deluded; should we rise in the panoply of faith, and of the righteous integrity of our Lord and God. Ephes. vi. 10—19. 119 ♦mrv nm pin Exod. xl. 20. Deut. xxxi. 24 — 26. « THE ARK WITH THE COVENANT OF JEHOVAH." Covered with that propitiatory m£3, by whose blood alone, we have remission of sin and of guilt. This only it is, being co- vered with that mS3, that hath power to control the elements of nature, and to lead us safe through the overflowing floods of death, Josh. iii. iv. — Whatsoever doth oppose this is weakness, whatsoever doth presume to imitate or to pervert it, is a lie. Never was the power to reanimate the dead given unto the extinct body of any man, save unto Him, whose precursor Elias lfT^tf was, and who bore the hallowed name yw> ^x GOD JESUS; and that He might bear it with becoming grace, had a doubled portion of the spirit granted unto him; 2 Kings i. ii. xiii. 20, 21. But, who can sustain that spi- rit of fire with meekness and humanity, save He whose great pcculium It Is? — To fulfil a type then, and not to sanction a claim was Elisha so gifted. nnm« vA rvwpn -Tana mtv nynn nob Isa , i ^ l 1 x 9 iii - j-pinpo iDDn vrvt .-ymp Dy wrv "lyvok : Dirby "pro M")pfl nS .Dn nbwo uh .chwo wn : noau? otorv .rum "OTD p* -mo vn Tttnp «TS? ^sKiil* .WTOM "pfttoi ->u;n un-wsm uunp no :rov6 rm unono bin .u>n nD-ni/ 1 ? rwi itmq iy uaym .ITOftn .rwv pDwin rbn byn » 120 MELKIZHEDEQ—piwbn. Gen. xiv. xxxiii. 17 — 20. Josh. iv. v. vi. 26, 27. xviii. 1. xxiv. 1. 26. 32, 33. 1 Kings vii. 46. Ps. ex. Eccl. iv. 13—17. Heb. v. vi. vii. &c. .nam rhsmh jin cd^n Tirfni; o Drum trwant ron» ton .*h rw 'Ji^b nvrf? .ib oantn .ofwrn D»nn ins* nnn *wa i mn nra ou oaon . wv>i *ma .vnsuD WD3 t*b rto)y\ orraa nrwi nQK min :pjb awn wn .tin tSt *nu;»nai DiV^a .VT9Q wpa« mim .run roz;» jttd »nsir? o Mai. ii. 4-7.— ; wn max mrt' tn^d o St. Paul discoursing of the King of Salem saith, that in the days of his flesh, he cried unto Him who was able to save him from death,' and was heard — »J>n tt l K*110, and re- ceived from God the Covenant of Life and of Peace wfWTW D*Tin. But the Covenant of Life and of Peace is with *")*? Levi, who also is called the nitfltf fTirp *[#*?£! Now it is evident " that our Lord sprang out of " Judah, of which tribe Moses spake nothing " concerning priesthood:" Neither can it be said that our Lord was saved from death, when that it is by the very virtue of his death, that Melkizhedeq liveth, and obtain-- eth an everlasting priesthood. Would I then abrogate the offering of Christ's body, to establish any other offering? God forbid! for if the substance of Christ's body had 121 never been broken, how could Melkizhedeq 6 5jjj have held the sacramental bread and wine, and have received tithes of Abraham? But Christ like a God — doing the deeds of a God, offered himself once, and in that once — filled eternity. And it is the gradual and distribu- tive ministration of that same body, which constitutes the priesthood of Melkizhedeq ; " over which ordinance »ni21 *?>%" Christ is the One Eternal Priest unto the Father, as He is unto man — the Lord and the God. But it will be said that neither was Melkizh- edeq of the tribe of ^ Levi; true, because that He is the Levi himself, being the united one, i.e. of the bull and the eagle, as is our Lord — the Levi of the lion and the man. In all things therefore, we have seen the ne- cessity of superseding the ceremonial laze, which was continually interrupted by reason of death, by the spiritual gift, which cannot die, nor be in anywise impaired. Yea, all the formalities of the law, and all the minis- trations of Levitic priests, have been already fulfilled in their responsive character, Christ our holiness. There pertains unto Melkizhedeq also — an enduring Royalty, for that He is King of Shalem, i.e. of peace: now Shalem is that city before which Jacob encamped with his eleven sons, at a place called rvOD Succoth, which was not far from jmy or Zaredethah, (where also the man »2M D"nn by the corn- it 122 mand of the King of Judah; did cast all the vessels of brass ntiTD, which were for the House of the Lord). Now the King of Shalem was TIEM a potter — a worker of thick clay; and his honourable son QDt^ did hear on his shoulders all the vessels as they zee re prepared unto service. That Ilainor and that Shekem, the children of Jacob slew, but He who is constituted King of Righteousness, through faith in the blood of the Lamb, dieth not. But behold, the blood of Shekem crieth out for PDHj and claimeth the heritage of i cbron. v. j nse p/ i; anc ] xmth that obtaineth the birth- right over thy sons, O house of Judah! for is not Shekem — Shi/oh, situate in the portion of Ephr aim? and did not the ti 1 ?^ and the pN* testify to your Fathers' and your Saviour' s Gen. xxix. covenants? and is not the regality of Judah deputed unto SJiiloli? " And unto Him shall " the nations be assembled." By what Rev. v. 5. authority? By the authority of Christ his Father and his God. Is not Jesus the root of Rev. xxn. Davia^ and if he be the root, how is he the John hi. i b ranc h*? jf tnen Melkizhedeq be the rege- nerate Son of Christ — Ps. ex.— "imV ha ~]b irwn omo iKingsxvi. And be the One Exalted 2W unto the Rev. ii. 26, throne of the Son of David, hath not he ob- 27, 28. * Unless He be the root of that David whose kingdom is not yet established? Ezek. xxxiv. And, be the branch (or sucker) from the root of David the son of Jesse? 123 tained the heritage of Judali? And if fee be the lineal offspring of Joseph unto whom are the blessings of the birthright, and of all l ^ rou - Y - paradisaic bliss (and the 2py> T3.N — the spiri- Geh.H. 24.; tual eagle, be indissolubly co-unite with Him) hath not He obtained the heritage of Israel? And thus also, if it be true that He is the Son of Him who sitteth at the right- hand of the Father, Is He not to be esteemed the spiritual Benjamin f»D> p, unto whom the first begotten did assign a royal portion, for the love wherewith he loved Him, as at that time, when He did make himself known unto his brethren? Gen.xlv. Thus haply are all prerogatives concentred in Melkizhedeq of Slialem, through the grace of Christ. There is then a spiritual Jacob, in whose enlarged breast all the tribes of the earth may find a place of love and of protection; who like a father would reconcile his chil- dren together, and unite in one stick "irttf Ylft EzekieI . the trees of Joseph and of Judali, and be unto our Lord Christ their propitious David. St. Paul saith that "Abraham dwelt in ta- Heb. *i. " bernacles with Isaac and Jacob — the heirs Gt 7 '1^7' " with him of the same promise," for Jacob was yet fifteen years old, when Abraham died. It could not then be intended that Isaac and Jacob should represent the one same individual character; for Jacob used to swear " by the fear of his father Isaac " plW vin insi;" and it cannot be required 124 Gcn.xxH. j lcrc t p rove> that Isaac both in life and in "n^i'o. death, prefigured Our Lord Jesus Christ. Gen. xxi. But what, saith the text, y-it y? tf"ip* pfWi O : Roim iv. j£ then there was a promise of a seed in Isaac, who should be the father of the many tribes, without all contention that seed is Jacob: Now of the spiritual children of Our "JJlJj Lord Christ, this is most assured; that the Gentiles are the elder, and to this day, would like Esau support their splendour and their cen.xxxii. life " by force of arms." But Jacob prevails both with God and man, and Israel hath the merited priesthood* : "And } r e shall be " named the priests of the Lord : men shall " call you the ministers of our God." Is. lxi. 9. — :niiT to jni on o .ow orvjn to jroi ^n* dthtti miT -on jo» isa^ixvi. 5 „ Your brethren that hated you, that cast " you out for my name's sake, said mrp liy " Let the Lord be glorified, but He shall ap- " pear to your joy, and they shall be asham- " ed." And thus the Royal Prophet unto the backsliding Church! " He, Jehovah, f What more befitting than that the dote should find a resting place, and the Holy Spirit an appropriate habita- tion ? And who more worthy of that honour among the sons of men, than Melkizhedeq of Shalem — the Hallowed Priest of the Lord's Sacramental Body, and Pure Adminis- trator of the Cup? .vm run na D'O chyen wh Is. lxiii. n-14.— .ronp nn dn onpn own rm 125 •' hath refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and " hath not chosen the tribe of Ephraim, " but hath chosen the tribe of Judah — the " Mount Zion which he loved" 0*01 IDS ]^\ p ^*f>- :lttHj?D. Wherefore hath God rejected them? " Because the children of Ephraim though " armed and carrying the bow, tamed back " in the day of battle; they preserved not " the covenant of God, and refused to walk " in his law, and forgot his works and his " wonders, that he had shewed them/' Are not the sins of Ephraim the offences of other days — the * Me same day according to Israel's creed: so that on that very night, whereon the fiends of hell did think to satiate upon the soul of God, our astonished fathers ex- pressed repentance of their deed, by eating bitter herbs, and Unleavened bread. Instructing presage of those real alllic- tions that shall usher in the morning of their Rest. 128 Lev.*™. ]t was foreknown of God, that an omer — the first fruits rvtWl 1DV HN should on that ver. 11. year, be made to wave HI IT *}£)*? before God, " o/i ///e uer^ morrow after the sabbath jobnjex. « j-Qjpft rnnai3"— ;/br fAeir sff&es who had made it so /o wave MJlFfr* (An owcr is a Lev^xxiii. titl^B of tithes — an holy tithe, Exod. xvi. 16. 36.) But lest that type should not be suffi- ciently declarative, A Perfect Lamb in the fulness of its growth and change, D*on It03 irottf p, was made " £o ascend unto God " mn ,! ? rW?-" — -4 Barn* Offering. ver. is. fF?7/j. that lamb there ascended innjo his hallowed body of two-tenths of finest flour mingled with oil — though the blood that had been poured out was but the fourth of an jTl — for, of the living creatures, it was the manhood of our Lord Jesus Christ only, that suffered death — for all men: (the bull and the eagle live by Him with the Lion.) Trior ver. i4. to this offering pip 0/ their God, they had by abstinence and contrition confessed, that no man could attain unto the resurrection of eternal life but through faith in the sacri- fice of the Paschal Lamb. Lev. xxiii. 17. 129 myitrn 2f\ Of the Feast of Weeks— The Pentecost. — It was foreknown of God, that seven sabbaths, from the morning of the wave-offering unto the morning after the seventh sabbath, should elapse, before the Descent of the Holy Ghost upon the first fruits of the church. The first fruits of men unto God were figured as being yon leavened, and not joiyl PlWl as was the holy body of our Lord; for these were taken D3*rDttn08| from the habitations of sinful men, whereas He was from above, without sin or any evil thing. Their rtSl^n was for the whole world, the two upper cakes of Joseph and of u £Jj*** Judah, of Jews and of Gentiles. Then were offered upon the bread of the Apostles, those Lev. xxiii. seven lambs of honest integrity, and that extraordinary apostle of the uncircumcision* '. oai.u.7— 9. Although the apostles during life, had but the earnest of the spirit for the redemption G !lio'J- 19 * In the Tabernacle of Witness built by the direction of God unto Moses, there was one Lord, two cherubim, seven lamps, one altar of incense, and one table of shcw- bread. In like manner in the church founded by our Saviour, there is one Lord Jesus Christ, two chief apostles (of the circumcision and of the uncircumcision,) seven ad- ministering deacons, one altar for prayer and praise, and one eucharistic table of bread and wine: but in the united and cecumenic church of angels and of men, there is with the Father, the one same Lord m.T — the Lamb of God, four cherubim, seven administering angels with the seven intelligences of the Lamb j the one same altar for prayer and praise remaincth in the *uno S~in, with the one cucha- Lev, iii. 6 —11. Lev. win, 20. ISO of their bodies, yet was their sin taken away by Him who suffered for sinners, and their reconciliation with the offended majesty en- sured by the offering of two lambs their peace- offering: which two lambs supported their wave-offerings, and sanctified them unto the ministry, Acts xx. 28. tjnp D^ID DW iVi )fl2b mn*b vr\\ Now this fiftieth day which Lev. xxiii. happened on the first day of the week, be- came ever after a flip N"ipB //ofy convocation, and a perpetual sabbath MTlTfo Notwith- standing there yet remained uncollected much of the catholic body of our Lord ver.22. -jj^ >j}/S ; but f/ieir time must also come. nODH 3!"! The Feast of Tabernacles pre- vc ^ 23- figured a very distant period: it came not by numeration of da}'s, but as it were by elSE" the ordinances of heaven, after the fulness of Zecli. xiv. 1 ristic table of the bread and wine. So, under the law there were twelve prophets, under the gospel twelve apos- tles, but in the ceeumenie church twenty-four elders: there is, however, but one Mediator betwixt God and man — even Jesus Christ. Aaron under the law was his deputed minister, Melkizhedeq in the Paradise of God the deputed high-priest: but the Great High-Priest of our Salvation is Jesus Christ arisen from the dead, who hath presented unto the Father with his own personal body the blood of Himself slain for man's redemption; of this deed the Aaronie priesthood had the most instructive scmblanee, as hath the Melkizhedequal the pure dispensation in the grace of Christ. 131 times: it foreshewed the eventful return of the Jews, which will be preceded by the loud hos. xii. 9. preaching of the gospel unto the utmost Jer - xxx - parts of the earth; and by sincerest and vo- luntary afflictions and mortifications, neces- sarily preparatory to the great da} r of atone- ment. :ncpQ nrroa nm Din man nwn vh -raw ii^an to o Le ^ xxiii - Then shall all Israel know, that when the Lord delivered them from Egypt, He made them to dwell in booths n*OD in that very zvil- derness, where their rebellion had so dimmed their eyes, that they saw not the good around them. 132 THE DAY OF ATONEMENT. otTO BP. LEVITICUS XVI. XXIII. Lev. xxiii. '24. On the first day of the month (the seventh month) which was also an extraordinary sabbath finite, there began " the memorial " of blowing of trumpets rOTin JH3T." On ver.27. the toi/i Jw/ of the seventh month was the atonement made, during a time of bitterest afflictions, when the Htt/N* was presented in ver. 34. j[ re un to Jehovah. On the fifteenth day began the Feast of Tabernacles, when day by day for eight days — the catholic church was ver.35,36. sanc tifi e d U nto God by fire — (and the spirit); and seventy DHS were consecrate to their Lukex. i heavenly office. Numb. xxix. 12 — 34. —'22. J ♦ones dv Lev. xvi. I — 14-. Aaron pPIN being baptized and clothed unto the ministry in suitable garments, first brought unto the altar " a bullock — the sin- " offering for himself and his house;" and by the prescribed sacrifice of that animal, made atonement for the sins of himself and of his family: being thus cleansed, he became meet and fit, to offer the sin-offering for the people. 133 Immediately upon the actual slaughter of the ^J* 1 5 bullock, two kids of the goats D'Ty **pyw *3ttf which had been selected from the congrega- tion of the sons of Israel, were " made to " stand before the Lord" — at the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation; (where — all sacrifices were at all times to be brought). Lots were cast on the two goats, to determine which should represent the one sacrifice for sin. It being, however, from the first foreknown, that the one on which the lot miT 1 ? to Jehovah should fall, should prefigure the one sacrifice for sin; the other was ^TNTV ozazel or the scape-goat : but let it be well observed, that ozazel did not immediately depart, but stood " alive " before the Lord" until that Aaron with the sin-offering of the bullock and of the goat, had made atonement for himself, his house- hold, and all the congregation of Israel. But wherefore did ozazel stay there? " That he first might be atoned for (by the " blood of the other goat — the sin-offering) " and be sent a scape-goat to the Wilder- <; ness" tmyrop bmvb ins* nbwb vbv is:) 1 ? lcv.xvi.io. Aaron having thus made a reconciliation for rer.ai. sin, by the blood of the bullock and of the m.s». goat — both of which represented the one only ntfbn, and therefore had their blood commi.it in one, v. 18, 19, (for there is but one sacrifice for sin) returned unto the. live goat Wl TVOT, and presented him, and laid his hands upon 134 that goafs head, and confessed over him — all the iniquities of the children of Israel; and sent that goat so burdened by the hands of an opportune person T\V tP*N, unto a separate land HIT: ptf bit** Let us meditate on the information conveyed by this typical revela- tion. Lev. xxiii. In all the gospels, we find mention made of Joseph of Kama (a city of Judea ,-oou.i )Li Jr ^so) )£^o* t x^o c3ro.o-fc, whose b SS u * proper sepulchre received the body of Christ, an hallowed and powerful substitute! Can we doubt, but that a special privilege was here signified to be granted unto that *)DV, who jobxxxii.2. is of the family of D"l, and the son of the ^JO-O; whose living soul, our blessed Lord hath sawed from death, and having atoned for it (as for all others) hath thereby enabled it to carry away the sins of the world unto a land of eternal oblivion. We conclude then, that the two goats did signify Christ Jesus and his deputed priest Melkizhedeq, who dieth not. One represented the body of our Lord — the offering for sin; and the other the life immortal of his regenerated son. But wherefore was a bullock also considered as the ntfDPJ? Because the nature of man uni- versally (of which our Lord assumed) is * Like unto this the offering of the two sparrows, as also of the two turtle doyes in the cleansing of the leprous. Lev. xiv. 135 thereby better signified — ns being a name inclusive of multitude; and also — because our Lord's high minister Melkizhedeq (for whom also, as for all men our Lord hath suffered, and made atonement) is an indivi- dual Tlttf of that species (man) jTyttf repre- sents that superadded sin of the serpent — which our Lord hath also atoned for in max*. As the preaching of the Gospel in the latter days was described as being JT~DT a memorial or remembrance of that which was preached from the- first by our Lord and his faithful apostles; and no new thing: so do I interpret Gaiat. the sacrifice of the Sin-offering to be; for we find the application of it on the day of Pen- tecost, ch. xxiii. 19; to the remission of the sin of the apostles and ministers of our Lord. But what strongly claims our atten- tion towards the close of this chapter (xvi.) is, that the office of administering the sacri- fice, i. e. the reconciUatorij priesthood, is given unto that Son " who shall be anointed and " consecrated to the priesthood in the place " of His Father:' .H' rw n ,l, C' -)c\vi .irw nnty "vvh \rvn tedi roipn to inn n:n rw unto .va*c nnn \mb * All sins of men therefore, both of the body and of the spirit, are amply atoned for by Jesus Christ % and by none other; without any coadjutor, without any assistant angel or man: himself the sole sacrifice, and the one only high-priest unto the Father. 136 Heb. ,. And St. Paul expressly says, " that no " man taketh this honour unto himself, but " He that is called of" God, as was Aaron;" and as was thereafter by a voice from Matt. Hi. heaven — our blessed Lord himself. Shall 13—17. we not then hope, that some similar testifi- zech. iii. cation from the seat of mercy, will be given 1—10, MatLxxiv. un f jj la f man ^ w ho shall be found prepared andisa. un to that office in very truth? for our Lord is a gracious Lord, and doth not exact from man, faith — beyond the strength of the evi- dence given unto that requisition; that God may be glorified in our reason also*. * The operative cause of this perfection of the person of Melkizhedeq, is the Holy Spirit (from the Son of God) who ordaineth unto the ministry ; Acts xx. 28. The pas- sive condition of the subject is the humility of his faith being made man; the final state is the everlasting co-union of this man, with the Holy Spirit in the imputed righteous- ness of Jesus Christ. Ps. lxxxv. — :voj?9 "pi 1 ? own "i^rv vz*h pvt Isaiah lxiii. 11. Gen. ii. 24. Matt. xix. 5, 6. Jer. xxxi. 22. Let it be here well understood, that when it is said, " lots were cast on the two goats to determine which " should represent the one sacrifice for sin," it is not in- tended thereby that there was any deliberation in the choice of the two persons referred unto, but only to determine which goat should bear that name, and so prefigure that person — even nifr our Lord Jesus Christ, who only is or could be the Righteousness of God. 137 THE EARTHY OR RED HEIFER T\mx m£>. NUMBERS XIX. As we have seen that the ns cloth repre- w. i. sent the multiferous person of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the one only ntfDI of human nature; so may we observe that the TiD of men, doth represent the One Holy Catholic ver. 2. Church, which followeth its Lord and Head without the camp, and suffereth after His ver. 3,4. example; not that there is virtue in her suf- ver. 5. ferings as of themselves derived, for her body was no riKDJI for the defiled by the dead, unless during its burning — those things which represented the undecaying body of her ver. g. Lord TIN \'V, his bitter and unto us purifying passion y] TK1 , and the red stream of redcmp- Lev.xiv. tion that flowed from his side nyVlfi »3Kttj were thrown into it, and sanctified it unto Heb.ix.13, that happy utility; its sufferings are known cou.24. unto its Lord. The ashes or (emphatically) the dust i£y of the burnt heifer commixt tfmriMuc. 17. with 0"n D*B living waters, and administer- ed by a clean minister, with a bunch of " hyssop dipped into it, and sprinkled on the unclean, did sanctify " to the purifying of " the flesh" He that received it not as it ^jj 1 *' was given in the third day, i.e. during the ip«t.m.8. administration of the law, should not benefit by it — on the seventh. T 138 THR VISION OF JFAIOVAIVs FORESIGHT. GENESIS XV. Alas! the fleeting righteousness of man! T er.i— 7. The father of the faithful, scarce had obtain- ed the blessings of Ins faith, but he asked of vcr . 8 . God a sign JHK no! IT! IT »rrtf* "Take rer.9. " unto me (said the Condescending Propi- " tiousness) Twbw ?hw that which doth " represent the revolving heaven in its power, Wfem " nw^WO Tjn and that which aduinbrateth " the strength of the earth also, w'jw ^tfl " and every ruling power; add unto these " bw\ im the speculative spirit and appetitive ver. io. " soul of man: divide the beasts in twain, but " sever not the birds" (for our Lord wills not our eternal death); and Abram did so, and became horribly entranced: when behold rer. ti, « a smoking furnace and a lamp of fire, " which passed between the pieces/' and illumined evert/ side: — for what is too power- ful for God to overrule? What is too secret for His Word to scrutinize? Its speed out- strips the lightning; its energy is — the deed; but its power is held in mercy. Abram suf- fered no evil thing (ver. 11) to light upon the carcasses: neither hath any evil spirit 139 ability to hurt the church of God, and those that worship him, but by permission of the Highest, mrv? TIlS, And now Gracious Power of my hope, and certain Stimulator of every pure and holy desire, what is it, that hath thus emboldened me to speak, as of myself, upon subjects that are too heavenly for me to know — too pure for me to touch ? Wherein is mine offence ? Wherein my righteousness? If there be error that leads unto the destruction of any man — or any soul of man — Thou wilt not in thy tender mercies unto all thy creatures, suffer it to endure the light; thou wilt not let the evil there take root, where truth, com- miserating truth alone should dwell; Thou wilt not sure impute ill, that art accustomed to give Good only ! Thou art truth, Thou only art truth, and the one source of it unto all that breathe in thine existency. From Thee no man can fly — unto Thee no man ap- Ps . CX x\\x. proach, save whom Thou drawest — *3Dtyo johiiTi.es. .nm: inn** In Thee there is hope; in Thee all charity! I have tried thy charity ; and in the hope of that its boundless love, have cast these crumbs upon thy living rivers: Blessed are their streams; they never failed the thirsty soul, nor drave away the sinner from thy BMfesMl. door! Thy bounty is not a bounty of dis- 140 Unctions; Thou never madest man offender jer. «. 13, fop a word : freely like Thyself — thy rains do fall, and Thou reproachest none but him, that fears to take, like as Thou Thyself dost give; and Thou dost give Thyself; Thy Word is Thyself, Thy Word is Thy Gift. Give then, blessed Deity, that only which I do crave, that which only in itself can com- pensate the labouring thirst, which itself hath caused! What is my heart, O God? I know it not, there is no certainty in me! Is there aught in me, that can say I am? To- day it is — To-morrow with the distant winds, and every fleeting thought doth shew, that Thou only art. 1 would abide, I would not have the perishable gift; for what is, that is not ever. Look to the heavens and to the earth Thou hast made; how admirable their beauty, how Established is their Order; yet who shall learn to know these things, and in sin obtain the meed of innocence? Canst thou not grant that innocence, unto which my guilty soul is estranged, and stamp it in thy might my covering for ever — The gift of God? unto whom be all praise, and all glory in Jesus Christ convened, for ever and for ever. Amen. ELEMENTS ESTABLISHED ORDER HEAVENS AND THE EARTH. nwi iDi; wbun tai .pn ma dom d-d iWn ttq >o Isa. xl. 1 2. — .Dswm duoji .D»*in d"?D3 ^pim INTRODUCTORY PREFACE. Did I not feel the fullest conviction, that the system I espouse is the plain testimony of the Word of God, as revealed in the in- fallible scriptures of his wisdom, I should not presume to call the attentions of the Public unto any unfinished fancies, howso- ever laboured or ingenious their representa- tion might be. Put since that 1 am so im- pressed, I cannot but hope to stand free from all charge of presumption, although the at- tempt be to prove by Reason, what through Faith has been learnt in the Holy Records. Should I fail in this much-desired elucida- tion, still the Word of God remains on its 142 men basis, and my folly will redound on mine own head only; but, verily, 1 have other hope, and through the grace of Christ, my efforts may bring forth some salutary fruit. If there be error in the hypothesis and de- monstrations of the Solar System, that error it will readily be conceded must be very great, and from its magnitude alone have es- caped particular discernment. Howsoever that be, I object to the system not one error only, but many, and of various quality and consideration : whether they shall be deemed of sufficient extent to invalidate its force, I submit to candid inquiry: and in preface subjoin a specimen of their manner and nature. I. It is asserted as from observation, that the Moon revolves on an axis, exactly once during every orbitual revolution; it is at the same time acknowledged, that she ever presents the same face to the Earth, and is consequently, as it were tied by cords, that she should not revolve on an axis. If it be urged (and what will not be urged ? for all delicacy of argument seems to be removed far away!) that her presenting the same face to the Earth during the whole time of her lunation, is the evidence of a revolution on an axis, then perhaps it will be granted, that some one of those planets which are held in attractions to the Sun, does not revolve on its axis, because that it is ever presenting a 143 change of face unto the central light: or, it must be averred, that there is one law in nature which produccth dissimilar and con- trary effects. II. When I behold the figure whereby the solar hypothesis would represent the grateful seasons, and at one period sec the Sun placed as it were to the polar zenith this Way, and again to the polar zenith that way, I would examine the dial for corroboration, but know that I shall find none: If it be said " you have overlooked the Earth's ele- " vation of 231 degrees" still would there remain a tropic of 661 degrees, which the dial again denies: (but the polar star doth not allow me to grant any such elevation; for surely the magnanimous system hath not commanded half the heavenly conclave to be uplift 23f degrees, that it might have room for demonstration?) III. When I behold the Earth obumbrated by the Moon's shadow to the extent of 1?0 miles at an instant, and would seek to mea- sure the intervening object; shall my reason be satisfied with the rule that dwindles to a twelfth her bulky size, and without a refract- ing medium doth converge the solar raws? IV. h is generally known, that the Solar System doth deem it unnecessary to its per- fection, that the planets should retain any proportion of magnitude unto eaeh other, agreeably to their several distances from the 144 Sun; it is known also, that it equally con- temns every ratio of axual revolution, either according to bulk or to distance : 1 would not enlarge on these concessions generally; yet cannot but think that the paramount inconsistency of the speed of Jupiter's sup- posed revolution on his axis, (said to be per- formed in less than ten hours), should awaken the student's mind unto some manly de- mand of order and systematic propriety. It is beyond the power of human art to imitate such speed; were his circumferential protube- rance more adhesive than gold — the unpa- ralleled agitation would melt his substance into some unknown condition — some new element — whose strange properties would fly the senses, and defy the wildest visions of conjecture. But wherefore, should we multiply in- stances of fatal delusion, or dwell on the hapless lapses of undirected reasonings? One bold error there is, which absorbing in itself the relics of every infatuation, doth rack the mind with the distorted gaze of wonder, and insulting over its sufferings cries, " see " the ecstasy of admiration!" Unto that we willing go; and may the spirit of truth which ever seeks the good of man, give me to expose in plainest terms — the vast absur- dity! V. ( See Plate V .) The large semicircle represents the supposed orbit of the Earth, 145 the Sun being in the centre; the circles mark- ed E the Earth, in the several signs of Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn; N, the polar axis in each, pointing to the North Star (the Earth being in either of the abovenamed situations) ; JE, the Quadrant's Horizontal Base in each, supposed to be directed, as are the dotted lines, to the Polar Star at their several termi- nations: the diameter of the Earth's orbit is said to be 190 millions of miles! — When it is required of the Solar System, to solve the apparent stationary position of the North Star notwithstanding the varying situations of the Earth, it unblushing asserts, (yet what indeed it must assert) that " the diameter of " the Earth's orbit 190 millions of miles (equal " to the space A Z) bears no proportion to " the inconceivable distance of the Polar " Star;" from which immense distance this continual wonder is thus wondrously occa- sioned. It must be evident then, that the bulk or magnitude of the Polar Star, must from this rule be correlative to its distance; and, consequently, that 190 millions of miles is in- adequate to the measure of the magnificence of this imperial assumption! It is impossi- ble to express this error in stronger terms than what itself doth use, in evidence of its own presumed veracity: but, assuredly the mind that did first embosom this fallacy, must previously have denied some saving truth, which hath thus avenged the insult V 146 It cannot then but be concluded, even from these few preliminary observations (unto which so much may be added) that the Solar System of Astronomy is an hypothesis forced upon the minds of men; and I think, moreover, that we are particularly autho- rized to treat it as an extraneous imposition, when we see the exertions of the faithful and humane, to rise from under the pressure of its almost universal sway — To confute it, hath been strangely deemed an insurmount- able difficulty; to believe it, is to turn away the eye from the first saluting words of the Sacred Page; to reconcile it with the Scrip- tures of truth, hath been the labour of many the pious of modern days: May their con- scientious endeavours however inefficacious, stand approved before the judgment-seat of God and his Messiah; and their zealous de- sires be esteemed as the righteousness of faith; for, the deception permitted must have its day, and the folly enhanced its do- minion decreed! 147 ASTRONOMIC ELEMENTS OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH. .n*tfi tea yyo tin no u»r»* mn« . Ps. viii. 2.-r-j£jou?n ty inn ran ittN* In a Book of Elementary Instructions, designed to shew the integrity of the faith through general correspondency of the princi- pal subjects whereon the Scriptures deliver their revered authorities; it cannot be ex- pected that the writer should enter into all minutiae of definitions, or into too much fineness of calculations. We are indeed led unto contemplations of the Visible Host of Heaven, by many considerations; and as wc always rejoice, when that we are enabled to unite the evidence of the senses with the re- sults of experiments; so should we more particularly be gratified — to bring the union of these, unto the radiated measures of the Word of God; — a labour I humbly deem as practicable with the Science of Astronomy, as with any other subject whereon the Holy Scriptures have condescended to reveal the arcana of Omnipotence. ZION's SYSTEM. Whoever walks this globe of Earth, treads as he walks the summit of a circle; and from that his eminence, may behold the lights of heaven to decline in regular de- pression from the plane of the Quadrant's Horizontal Level: the time of their appear- ance unto each hemisphere, is the evidence of their distance, and is therefore termed the Horal Parallax; the measures of their dis- tances ascertain by given rules their several magnitudes. But, first in this — let me differ in the definition of the Horal and truly Natural Parallax; — that it is not the appa- rent diminution of two parallel lines, (as is said of the Sensible and of the Rational Horizon,) but it is the real approximation of a declining plane unto the plane of a Rational and Central Horizon; for, the plane of vision is beyond all question a declining plane, and hath its angles obtuse to a perpen- dicular from the zenith. The Sun's horizontal parallax is said to be about 8"; if He have any measurable diame- ter then, it cannot but be granted that he is not far distant from that precise point, 149 whereat the plane of vision meets the central and right-angled horizon : The Moon, however hath the greatest horizontal parallax, con- sequently she is the nearest luminary: of the planetary host the one called Mars hath the most enlarged parallax; he is therefore of the planets the nearest inspector. But, have the stars no parallax? Their horal parallax is in- deed evident; for to an observer on the equa- tor (to which situation all general and elemen- tary calculations should apply) their visible revolution is not twelve hours. To describe then what parallax truly is, and thus to solve (without the deceptious aid of mistated re- fractions) the coincidences of time and mo- tion, is the design of the figure that follows: (See Plate VI.) in which, there is a magni- tude given unto the Earth, proportionate to the distances of the heavenly orbs, as de- rived from the analogous representation, and demensurated proprieties of the taberna- cle; for the works of God are by the cubit of Truth. (See also Plates 1. II.) By this preservation of the Earth's pro- portionate magnitude, and of the relative distances of the lights of heaven, the reader will be more ready to impressions of true resemblances; and he more apt to delect, delusion, if there be any in practice. For, I would not that it be said of this system, " that it shifts dimensions and angles as the " emergency demands;" at one time WD ^JO 150 threatening to devour us, then anon a little twinkling star whose extinction would scarce be noticed in the spheres! — Oh deception, thy very Name is thy Character! In the figure explanatory of parallax, the luminaries on the several orbits arc placed in direct series with the centre of the Earth; but the lines are drawn from the distant orbit of the Sun to an observer on the equa- tor. The nearest orbit is that of the Moon ; the second describes the sphere of fixed stars; the third with the six attendant orbits, three on this side, and three on that, represents the Sun with his six planets; the fourth is on the hypothesis of the stars being more distant than are the Sun and Planets. By the lines so drawn it is evident, that if every luminary should reckon twelve hours, in going from the plane of the Earth's rational horizon on one side to the relative spot on the opposite side of the same hemisphere, still the time of their being visible to a spec- tator on the equator would vary, according to the distances of their orbits from the centre of the earth. The Moon would es- cape his sight nearly one hour in the twelve; (that is, about thirty minutes from the ra- tional to what is truly the natural horizon on both sides). The Stars would appear to compute less time than doth the solar day; The Sun on the third orbit would precisely measure the hypothetic period; and the more 151 distant stars if any there were, would ac- cording to their distances exceed that given period unto a time of fourteen, sixteen, or even eighteen hours each day; (but nature knoweth none such as these.) Now the cir- cumstances presupposed, happen according- ly with but little variation; and the cause of that variation is so justly ascertained, as to confirm the rule: for, the Moon retarding her daily journey from one rational or dia- metral horizon to the plane on the opposite side about twenty-four minutes, causes her- self to be seen on the plane of vision at the equator, about twenty-two minutes more than the restricted time; the Sydereal day hastening upon the solar about four minutes in its revolution, lessens proportionately to the eye, its yet smaller difference; while the Sun is constant in the daily measure of his journey unto the inhabitants on the equator; and the Planets differ from him but little, as they may be noticed in the periods of pro- gression or retiwradation. But, it may be said, " Is it granted that " we do really see as from the summit of an " inclined plane?" It is granted. It is grant- ed by that table which calculates the in- creasing scope of vision, according to the most gradual and minute elevations: it is granted by that rule, which ascertains the degree of northern latitude by the height of the Volar Star (See Plate VII.) It is giant- 152 ed virtually by that aukward figure, which placing the quadrant's base as on the plane of vision, cuts off the intended right-angled horizon at 86°: It is in like manner ceded by the insufficient demonstrations of the an- gles of refraction, made alike propulsive from every luminary*. OF ECLIPSES. niNsy mn» "fta o nonn minai rxshn msm Jsa. xxiv. 23. — :T03 Wp? *7JJ1 .DfottWai p»2f "JTO Among the many striking proofs from the Visible System, for the stated and true dis- tances of the ministrative Sun and of the Moon, is that drawn from the acknowledged speed of the Moons shadow over the surface of the Earth, during the time of the Suns total eclipse of about five minutes. Thus; — It is known that the Sun in travelling his orbit, exceeds the Moon's computed speed 2' 2" per minute, and that admeasured excess is equat- ed to 301 geographic miles, on the Earth's surface; that is evidently, to the ascertained * Refraction is always the same at the same height, whether or not there be any luminary arising from or descending into the horizon : for Refraction (in an astrono- mic sense) is no more than that universal dispersion of light, by which we may discern (among other things) that we do ever walk the summit of a globe. 153 velocity of that excess at the distance of fif- teen semidiameters. Again — Did the Moon travel in her orbit with proportionate speed to the Sun in his, her velocity at five semi- diameters would be seventy-five miles per minute; but her velocity is only sixty-five miles minus 10", which in an orbit at fifteen semidiameters would compute a failure of 30' 30" — the measured velocity of the Moon's shadow during an Eclipse of the Sun. Of an Eclipse of the Moon it must be con- fessed, that no system whatsoever, can give an adequate solution purely mathematical, for the times of its duration : the reason whereof I conceive to be, that it hath a na- tural rejection of the power of darkness, as well as natural absorption of the rays of light: for, the penumbra in an eclipse of the Sun is occasioned by a defalcation of the direct rays, through that faculty of the Moon to absorb the solar light, being in scriptural analogy his counterpart HjiD* I would not interrupt the preceding elu- cidations, by nice definitions of the concen- trating power of nature s atmospheric lens, forasmuch as I conclude that medium to con- verge the angles of the incident rays, with a strength correlative to the distance whence they flow. (Plate VIII.) This admitted disposition of the atmosphere, in tome mea- sure solves the limited duration of an Eclipse x 154 oj the Moon, and fully explains wherefore they are not more frequent. From observations of the relative veloci- ties of the two principal Luminaries of the heavens, there results the fallowing ride for the ascertainment of the Longitude at Sea. It is universally known that the Sun encom- passes a circuit of S60 degrees* in twenty- four hours ; It might be remarked with nearly as much accuracy, that the Moon in encompassing a circuit of 360 degrees, adds to that time of twenty-four hours — 48' 46 — The difference of this their speed fixes the rule for determining the longitude in the readiest manner. The Moon's meridional passage over Greenwich for every day or - I have said " a circuit of 360 degrees," not wishing to contest on this occasion the ordinary graduations in ma- thematic experiments: but, if we would indeed pay regard to the instructions of the Founder, as expressed on the globes upon the pillars before the porch of the Temple, I think we should describe an equatorial circuit of 400 de- grees, 1 Kings vii. 42, and 2 Chron. iv. 13, according to the number of pljfi pomegranates placed in two rows at the divisions of the hemispheres — 200 to each hemisphere. If the diameter of 128 or radius of 64 be the correspond- ent measure thereunto, the divisions in the relative gra- duations would dispart in integers — 1. 2. 4. 8. 16. 32. 64. 128. 00") Protectories j Pomegranates the natural emblems of projected lights, as of the Sun and Planets upon the starry spheres, and of these and all upon the atmospheric circumference. 155 night in the succeeding year, being annually calculated and published to the observer's hand, nothing more is required than to no- tice the instant of her meridional ascent at the place of observation, according to a watch regulated or set to that latitude, and the difference of their times will give the longi- tude sought — by this simple statement. As 48 46 — are to 360 degrees, or, As 12 11+ are to 90 degrees, or, As 2 2 — are to 15 degrees, so is the difference of time in minutes and seconds to the Longitude required in degrees and mile is * The diameter assigned to the Sun's orb ac- cording to rules in the use of the convex lens, would be about 400 geographic miles, at the distance of ten semidiameters of the Earth: Notwithstanding which rules, I am unwilling to apply such mode of mensuration to the Ruler of the Day altogether ; persuading my- self that the Almighty in the covenant with Noah — his children — and all animated na- ture, (Gen. ix. 8 — 17) so strongly expressed and admonitorily repeated, did graciously convey unto man by the sign of the Rainbow, the revelation of the Sun's true magnitude: for, the external bow is the [JD1 projection of * The difference of time also in the rising and setting Moon under the same latitude, will be equally correct and illustrative. 156 his real periphery, the inner and livelier bow his concentrated beauties. How shall any man doubt, but that the antediluvian apostasy was as degrading as any at any time since practised? And it* so, what preternatural sign could have so well testified unto repentant man, that miT is the God over all the ministrative powers of nature, as that he should cause the Sun the falsely adored Lord thereof, to be the conti- nual witness of his continuant mercies? For the Rainbow without doubt, is a preternatu- ral effect. It is more than probable, how- ever, (and modern conjectures support the assumption,) that the encreasing area of the Sun's streaming rays, may to appearance form upon the starry firmament, (ten semidi- ameters from the Earth,) and there describe a disc of the required magnitude — 400 miles: (upon which hypothesis are Plates I. and VIII.) But, the rainbow independent of terrestrial definitions, is the true measure of his form, and the assured stamp of his glories. When Moses had finished the tabernacle and its furniture, (the pattern of the Visible Heavens, and the Heaven of Heavens) he placed all the analogous parts thereof, at the relative distances of those of their su- pernal prototypes. The altar of burnt-offer- ing — the Earth, was fixed in the centre of the great court; the laver — the Moon, was 157 placed at five semidiameters of the altar from the altar, (each semi diameter being cal- culated at 21 cubits; the curtain of fixed stars was dropped at ten semidiameters of the altar from the altar; and the lamp-stand — the Sun and six planets, at fifteen semidia- meters of the altar from the altar: I have sought to justify by reason and demonstra- tion the accurate propriety of these several positions, (See Plates I. II. VI. VIII. $c*); and in addition to what has been already observed, venture to subjoin a few concur- rent remarks in further explanation. The spheres (or in other words the orbits) of the Moon, Sun, and Planets, are supposed to be concentric to the Earth; — their annual course on those spheres declining on either side of the equator 23| degrees more or less, for the express purpose and notification of signs, seasons, days, and years; Gen. i. 14 — 19. (Plate IX.) It must occur then, that either of the interior Planets miglit (if such be the plan of the Creator) depart 180 de- grees from the Sun's orb, i. e. be seen in op- * The distances of the heavenly Luminaries arc conse- quently placed in proportions to the equatorial diameter of the Earth ; and the plates are drawn in relation to such distances; but it should be noticed in regard to celestial phenomena, that every latitude north and south, must be deemed as the equator of a smaller globe, bearing relation to more proximate distances ; hence the variations or the duration of nights and days in tropical and polar climes, Ike. &c. 158 position to the Sun, without offence to Human Reason; inasmuch as their spheres ever keep their respective distances unto each other, and unto that of the Sun — the source of their lumination. Like unto this is it with the Moon, and such do I believe it to be with the planet Mars, which is confessedly at times the nearest of that order*. By the adoption of a plan so immediately answer- ing to the testimony of the eye, without dis- paragement to the understanding, I think it possible to construct a model on the given principles, that shall shew the exact dura- tion of nights and days at every season of the year unto each and every latitude; and make appear how it is that the Sun is beheld in its spiral course without setting for nearly six months in every year to the inhabitants of the polar regions; and the Planets for times proportionate to the periods of their manifest revolutions severally; and the Moon also for periods correspondent to her dis- * If it be true that the interior planets Mercury and Venus are at times in the situations of superior planets, wherefore are not tables of the periods of their occultation behind the Great Causal Orb, with the times of such their concealment calculated, and made known unto all men? Moreover, How comes it in a transit that the ingress is at the east of the Sun, and the egress from the west? Is such appearance agreeable to orbitual inclinations? The fiction of being to the north or south of the orbit (viz. of Venus) admits of no actual demonstration; nay ! hath not a pass- able application to the real appearance. 159 tance and lunation; with all that may be said and determined of Eclipses, Nezv Moons, Harvest Moons, &c. See. The attentive reader will perceive that similar conclusions are drawn from the situ- ation of the North Star at ten semidiameters from the Earth, as are taken from the Suns orb at fifteen to the east or west (Plate IX); the reason whereof is this — that the true form of the Earth is that (which the ancients ever deemed it to be, and the Scriptures* moreover may seem to intimate) of an egg; its elongated side being to the north; (Plate IX.) Consequently, the angle of that star's depression, is greater than is that of the Sun or Moon, which are seen to the east and west; the earlier northern latitudes sinking in certain ratio to the protrusion at that pole. I would not enumerate every minutice of coincidence, in this an elementary treatise, but rather observe to lay down sufficient to establish the great outlines of the system: if right, you discern the sacred authority; if it be proved a fallacious construction of that * The word f\m expresses literally the " action of vital M or productive warmth." The meaning action is not only deduced from the component word rm, but also from the descriptive sound of the combined word nm rch-heph : (sec also pnifi pffitf, Kc. and the kindred sounds under the vowel n.) The condition of " vital 01 : productive warmth" is conveyed by the ingenious substitution of the D for CD thereby extending the signification of the word cm. 160 Rom .hi. 4. authority, my errors are my own, and I up- braid no man. Ps. cxxxix. — :nb2 nyr mn« jn owbn rbo jw o Let me be permitted to remark under this head " Of Eclipses," that where Light is not, there Darkness "]tf/n hath actual possession, as it were antecedent occupancy, Gen. i. 2. (pages 59 and 153). He however who formed Light, had Himself created that darkness, Isa. xlv. 7 ? and had created it to be supplanted — by the resolutions of Jacob IpJP, by the up- rightness of ^FIBP Israel. There is then no necessity for the endurance of Satan's assumed power, as of an unalienable consequence. Rev. xxi. 22—27. xxii. 5. 161 EGYPT'S SYSTEM. PLATE X. FIG. I. The Egyptian System of Astronomy, how- soever debasedly metamorphosed it may have been, was not so repugnant to the Writ- ten Word of God, as that on any assumed evidences of its propriety, it should have presumed to do away the rational hypothe- sis of " a distant unsullied heaven, where " Majesty might dwell in its fulness, and " whence Commiseration might descend unto " man:" (for such persuasion, Christianity doth assuredly require). The system like its people hath been so fax friendly unto Israel. Nevertheless, it must be admitted, that all the objections usually stated against the hy- pothesis — " of the Earth's central stability," do apply in their full force, against this sys- tem; forasmuch as it grants at the outset, the justice and accuracy of that principle, which is held to determine the mode of as- certaining the distances and consequent mag- nitudes of the luminous host of heaven; a principle which Reason immediately dis- claims, and fair experiment will be found at the last to reject. In submission to the same mode of argu- ment, would I also deem incompetent, the Y 162 Svstem devised bv the zealous and noble Dane, Tycho Brahe, (Plate X. Fig. 2); for, if the distances and magnitudes of the heavenly host, which the Solar System re- quires, be allowed, I see not how human reason can possibly escape from under those received inferences, which that secret sub- tlety hath woven together*. It is, indeed, unpleasant to censure the device of this first spirited opponent of the usurping evil: he saw the besotted chimera, feared its unhallowed influence, and for the Church's sake whom he loved, gave it that wound* which hath left a vengeful cicatrice to view. His reward be in heaven ! * But, if the distances and magnitudes be conceivably limited, according ioZion's System, the reversed inferences will obviously follow: and we know not but the salubrity, good being, and happiness of the ethereal nature, may re- quire that continual revigoration, which the unremitted harmony of the starry spheres might have been created to produce. 163 BABEL's SYSTEM. PLATE XI. The reader is presented with tzvo figures of this hypothesis; the one (Fig. \) depict- ing that which it pretends now to be; the other (Fig. 2) that which its own attracting laws could probably have wished it to be. The ratio or law of gravity is taken (in course) from experiments in our atmosphere ; by which it appears, either " that the de- " scending body doth double the length of " its precipitation at each successive mo- " ment of its fall," (Plate XII. Fig. 1*J; or, " that it doth add the measure of its first " precipitation to the accumulated series of " the preceding descents, at each successive " moment of descent;" (Plate XII. Fig. 2). The physical energy and effect seems in part to be in this wise. " When any terrestrial " body of considerable weight falls in the " open air, it displaces on either side in its " descent the more contiguous particles, * This is undoubtedly the more perfect ratio in itself; for, by it may be seen the infinite divisibility of the equi- lateral triangle into four equal equilateral triangles. But, mark ; the second descent is but a repetition of the first : and so the word >:w involves not an idea of -multiplication, but of reiteration, alteration, change. 164 '* and continues on in its precipitation; the " particles of air so displaced, do naturally " rush into that vortex, which the descend- " ing body is ever making (by displacing " other particles in constant succession,) and " thus by their force seem to add impulse to " gravity." Whatever the ratio of descent, or the physical assistant energy may be, it is still evident that the area of the air displaced by a falling body, must be an equicrural triangle, having its descending or gravitat- ing plumb in the centre*: and if there be any truth in that highly extolled doctrine (which I contest not), namely, " that in the " ratios of gravity, the sums of the increasing " areas are as the squares of their descents/' it is evident by inspection on the two figures 1 and 2 of Plate XII. that that equicrural triangle must be equilateral — the only clear clucidator of that fact, which is styled pre- eminently — The Law of Nature-}-. By the artifice of applying to the planet- * May there not hence arise a different solution of the inclination of a falling bod) to the side of a deep pit, than that of Attraction., or of laUral gravity ? f Thus, the intensity of light, is said to be remitted in the ratio of the squares of distances from the solar orb ; the density of the atmosphere, to be diminished in the like geometric ratio from the fostering Earth ; and nautical tables of depression and elevation are calculated oyi the same principle ; consequently, we must look to the same c unilateral figure, for the virtue of the mode of such com- putations, in every case. {Plate XII. Fig. Z) 165 ary orbs ratios derived from experiments in our atmosphere, thereby to insinuate a same- ness of some circumfluent element common to the Earth and attendant Planets, the great chaotic subtlety — the Oinn OD bv "]^n Gen. i. s. did from the first intend to disguise decep- tion, and to substantiate infidelity; but its iniquity, we trust, hath run its times, and must soon surcease. Should that law of gravity first mentioned, (Plate XII. Fig. 1 J " Which doth double the " length of its precipitation at each succes- " sive moment of its fall/' be the one reverse- ly designed*, to regulate the Planets in their courses, as seems to be affected in the first figure of Plate XT. in which those requisite proportions of distance from the parent Sun are retained among the Planets called Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, and Herschel — ( See also Plate XII. Fig. S) still evident confusion will be found to prevail among the interior * I say " reversely designed," for the force of gravity is not the law of attraction, nor is the proof of a reality the demonstration of a non-entity. Every species of Earth seeks the centre of creation, with an avidity comparative to its intrinsic weight; (for inmost and lowest are the same word nnn:) and the first particle that fell, oheyed as rea- dily the fiat of the Word, as did the last. Neither yet is gravity to be deemed as the effect of an innate energy, (though in the poverty of imperfect languages, we are com- pelled unto active verbs in the definition of that effect,) but as the precipitancy of ineition unto order when God speakb. 166 Planets, which to preserve the several relative distances must extrude the Earth, and give the second figure of that plate: (Plate XI.) But modern experiment prefers the latter ratio of descents. I interfere not; nor shall I speak of the great confusion among their several velocities; since common observa- tion doth know, that when the gyration or axual rotation of any terrestrial body hurled from the hand, or from any fabricated machine, is violently quick, that then its or- bitual revolution is proportionately slow, and retarded. To determine then on this great subject; let us revert to the first principle and ground- work of the demonstrations applied in testi- fication of that construction, which I have made bold to give unto the records of the re- vealed wisdom — " Whoever walks this globe " of Earth, treads as he walks the summit " of a circle; and from that his eminence, " may behold the lights of heaven to decline " in regular depression from the plane of the " Quadrant's Horizontal Level." It is not possible for common reason to deny this po- sition: the argument is — " Whether the de- " pression is so great as is described in the " figures drawn in elucidation thereof, viz. " 3° 40'?" And the presumption against such hypothesis, is said to be that, which is daily derived from the use and application of the sextant. Now, the table which calculates 167 the refractions of heavenly bodies, allows 33' of a circle beloxv the quadrant's horizontal base (on that very principle of refraction), for every light of heaven as it rises to the sight; and another table of depression, adds to this concession 2, 4, 6 minutes according to a given ratio of calculation ; so that it is actually at this day admitted by the two tables conjointly, that there may be an ex- istent height on Earth, whereat the depres- sion of 3° 40' may be obtained : but com- mon experience is still more favourable, and the young sailor who climbs the lofty masts, would scout the philosophy that should de- mand so high an elevation, to detain the setting Luminary some few minutes in his view. But, let me say; Were it necessary to believe the sacred records to appeal to so exalted an elevation as the aforenamed ta- bles do concede ; rather would I rise to seek an obelisk on Ararat or on Horeb, than hide mine eyes in the slimy vale of Shinar. The vision of lead flying in the air, Zech. v. 5 — 11. — " Then the angel that talked " with me went forth, and said unto me, lift " up now thine eyes on high, and see What " is this that goeth forth? And 1 suid, What " is it? And he said, This is an (empty) " ephah that (now) goeth forth; and he " said, moreover, this is their resemblance " over all the earth: when, behold, even " a round lump of lead m3y "03 was lifted 168 u up; (and he said) this is a certain woman " nriN TON that dwelleth within the ephah; n and he said, This is wickedness* ! And he " cast it into the midst of the ephah, and " he even cast a weight of lead upon the " mouth thereof. Then lifted I up mine " eyes and looked; and behold, there came " out tzvo women, and wind was in their " wings, for they had wings like the wings " of a stork ; (for fleetncss) and they bore up " the ephah of lead between the earth and " the heaven. Then said I to the angel that " talked with me; whither are these going " with the ephah\? And he said unto me, " to build a house for it, in the land of Shi- " nar; and it shall be established, and set " there upon its own base:" (but at the time appointed, it shall come to its end). Dip 'Do '11 y .mr? wv w niDb my my .am rovnon N'n dn wbn .DVDbiy nwi Isa. li. 9. — !]>:n rhb)no * The character of wickedness is evidently that of changing the nature of gravity, and making a globe (as) of lead, buoyant in air. f Here the globe of lead is not only buoyant, but made centrifugal. 169 OF THE SYMBOL OF POWER, WISDOM, AND TRUTH. That the equilateral triangle within a cir- cle, has ever been esteemed by the studious of hieroglyphic characters as the emblem of some sacred virtue, there needs no circum- stantial evidence to attest at this day. In addition to what has been already brought forward on that subject under the last head, I beg to direct the attention to the delinea- tions on Plate XIII.; in which the singular propriety of that universal reception is ma- nifested, on the very plan laid down in ex- planation of the distances and proportions of the Tabernacle — that express model of the Heb. ix. Heavens, and Heaven of Heavens. Let us then describe as that plan has proposed — a distance of fifteen semidiameters on both sides of the altar from the altar, (whereat the Sun's sphere is said to be) as the base of an equilateral triangle, and we shall find the most distant side of the Holy of Holies to be precisely at that given point, where the equal sides shall meet; and all those ratios of distance heretofore treated of, shall meet also in their severally ascribed stations in its quadrisected divisions, with z 170 many other coincidences*. There can be little doubt then, but that an instrument constructed on such proportions^ , would be the most accurate measurer of the heavens. The equilateral triangle is the mathematic Abraham: it multiplies its species more abundantly than the squares, (See Plate XII. Fig. 4 and 5). In Jive descents, it equals eight of the larger table; In nine, it exceeds double the sums of the cubes of both tables; and in thirteen, it more than quadruples the million. But who is He that goeth limping into the house, as though He were the Father of the nations, and had abi- lity to scan the heavens, and were entitled to the scat at the board, and bringeth in the blind and the halt, of whom it is said, " they " shall not come into the house?" 2 Sam. v. Are such as these the offerings of righteous- ness? the vessels prepared for the service of their God? Isa. liiL— :mrp hi »nu?: )-\m * Among these many coincidences will be found a re- velation of that proportion, which the plumb of an equila- teral triangle bears to either of its sides, viz. of 26 semi- diameters of the altar to 30, i. e. of 65 cubits to 75, or in plain numbers of 13 to 15. f The Sextant may suffice unto meridional altitudes, but I should suspect its infallible exactitude in determining i?i- termediate elevations. 171 What, though He boast his imperfect form, and vaunt an useless ability, and in mystery preside at the table; will He compare with the figure of Truth? and match his virtues with the perfect one? Can He like that dis- part the ray, and shew the 1DN mtOB mylttf? or, will he teach the Psalmist praise, and make the colours dance in order? Let him then harmonize the nations, and appease the tumultuous waves! — let him descend a ttM pttfo and renovate the gospel of Salva- tion! — let him walk upright! and be an py ""11 2V in the scorching day, an tf/tf "noy in the terrifying night, and be a Teacher to the sons of Israel*! Ps. iii.— trtip .-|nro to by .nywrn hurt * But shall Israel indeed require the aid of the right- angled golden wedge, or the devices on the Babylonish garment, to instruct them in their spiritual warfare ? Josh.vii. or, be in anywise enriched by the wages of guilt? Gen. xiv. 23. ."ft -ma *?do np* dw .bjtf inu; "w to^no dn 172 ♦npr py "iB5» riNtn p 1 ? •lrwpn non ns to nri ♦•6 *nN3 pqto oik to iBica jD»iDm onw iDp» n^ mvsib ♦o . . . n w* F/A7S. C. WHITTINGHAM, Printer, Dean Street, Fetter Lane. University of California SOUTHERN REGIONAL LIBRARY FACILITY 305 De Neve Drive - Parking Lot 17 • Box 951388 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90095-1388 Return this material to the library from which it was borrowed. 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