that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven, whose voice then* shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, (the apostle quotes from Haggai,) yet once more, I shake not the earth only, but also heavent. And this word, yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain, wherefore we, receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved," &c. Now the four days and the seven days are not quite so clearly made out in this instance; but upon the whole, it is plain that the circumstance of the Israelites being brought to the mountain of Sinai, had an application to hereafter things, as regarding what is without the vail, as it shall stand in the end,

XI. The Tabernacle made by Moses, being that which was made with hands, where was an inner

That is, at Sinai.

+ This quotation of Paul from the prophet proves that the latter must have referred (also) to a period after the apostleeven to the time of the end.

I shall endeavour to show, by and bye, that the tabernacle which is without the vail is ultimately to be restored, and the law to be made honourable.

vail, and therein was placed the ark of the testimony*, and on the top, the mercy-seat†, and the two stavest, and within were the tables, and Aaron's rod that budded§ (which was kept as a token against the rebels); and there were Cherubims which shadowed the mercy-seat, from between which (as regarding the heavenly things) the Lord spake to Moses; and over the Tabernacle, or, at the door, was the pillar of a cloud; and this "Tabernacle was placed apart from the camp, afar off from the camp, and it was called the Tabernacle of the congregation which is without the camp ¶," &c. This and all that it contained, and all that it regarded, were patterns**, "they were the holy places made with hands," which, St. Paul says, " are figures of the true." Thus we may know there is a Tabernacle in heaven, and an ark of salvation, and two

See Exodus xl. 2.1

+ Exodus xxv. 21, 22, xl. 20. Exodus xxv. 14, and xl. 20. These, it will appear evident, were for patterns only, and were put to represent Moses and Elias. § See Heb. ix. 4. This was a sign, as it were, the flourishing state of the chosen seed. See Jer. i. 11. The quails, as Esdras saith, were a token to the Israelites, and so also was the unleavened bread; as shall be explained hereafter.

I See Numbers vii. 89.

Exodus xxxiii. 7.

Exodus xxv. 22.

** See Exodus xxv. 40.

staves, of which it is written, "The one I called Beauty, and the other Bands," and that there are Cherubims which shadow the mercy-seat,the Throne of God:-As in the Book of Revelation we may observe it is written, (after that it said, “And the seventh angel sounded, and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever;")" and the Temple of God was open in heaven, and there was seen in his Temple the ark of his Testament: and there were lightnings, and voices and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail +."

XII. I will not go into the detail of the statutes and ordinances which were given to be a yoke about the neck of the unrighteous, and which was increased upon them as they increased in profaneness; but shall merely sum up by saying, that "the law had a shadow of good things to come," as concerning the righteous, and of judgments, as concerning the wicked. The commandments were written with

* Zech. xi. 7, and iv. 14.

+ See Isa. xxxii. 19.

the finger of God upon tables, and, saith the law-giver, " he added no more;" and they are comprised in our duty towards God, and our duty towards our neighbour; and the work of the Law, saith St. Paul, is written in the heart, as the conscience beareth witness; thus, therefore, the Law of laws" the Royal Law, is, to love thy neighbour as thyself;" in so doing we manifest our love to Christ, for, as the Apostle saith," Know ye not your ownselves, how that Jesus Christ is in you. except ye be reprobates." Accordingly we find that when the Son of Man shall come in his glory, and all his holy angels with him, to judge all nations that shall be gathered before him; that he will separate them as sheep, as it were, from goats; and the king shall say to the righteous on the right hand, I was hungry and ye gave me meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in ; naked, and ye clothed me; I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came to me: Then shall they answer him, saying, when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee

in? or naked, and clothed thee? or when saw we thee sick and in prison, and came unto thee? And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. And those also on the left hand shall answer to the like effect, and shall be answered in another manner than the just.

XIII. But to return to figures:-The temple built by Solomon had “a resemblance (i. e., as far as things made by hands can have a resemblance) of the holy tabernacle prepared from the beginning."

XIV. Also the sign given to Hezekiah, whereby he should know that the daughter of Zion, or remnant of God's heritage, should be saved, hath an evident allusion to an after-time; for the sign regarded a period of three years, when it was that night that the angel smote the camp of the Assyrians, and destroyed their host.

XV. Isaiah, and his child by the prophetess,' was a figure of Christ and his church; for the prophet

* 2 Kings xix. 29.

+ 2 Kings xix. 35.