timately in its glorified state in heaven.

2. In the covenant of royalty which God made with him and his seed.-God made a covenant with his chosen, and sware unto David his servant, Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations.This had immediate reference to the house of David according to the flesh, and was fulfilled in continuing the royal power and authority in his family, until God rejected the seed of Israel from being his people; as the sceptre did not depart from Judah, nor a law-giver from between his feet, until Shiloh came. In this we have a typical representation of that covenant which he made with Christ, when he swore in his holiness that he would not lie unto this David. Christ is

sive grant. The other parts were possessed by the Syrians, Ammonites, Moabites and Edomites. Even in Canaan which was possessed by the twelve tribes, there were many of the native inhabitants, subjugated, but not expelled. These were as thorns in their sides. Sometimes they revolted,-obtained an ascendancy, and mightily oppressed Israel. The Philistines, who possessed a great part of their sea-coast, were peculiarly inveterate and vexatious. In the days of Samuel and Saul, they reduced the Israelites to great distress. Their distress and oppression induced them to desire a king who might go out before them, and fight their battles, and God provided David, a man after his own heart, and chose him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance. Being anoint-that king whom God hath set ed king over all Israel, the Lord upon his holy hill of Zion, and God of hosts was with him to whom he hath said, Rule thou whithersoever he went. He sub-in the midst of thine enemies. dued his enemies on every side. Him hath he anointed and estabe The Philistines, Syrians, Am-lished king over his spiritual Is monites, Moabites and Edomites, rael for ever, and declared, that became David's servants, and the enemy should not exact upbrought him gifts, and Israel on him, nor the son of wicked, had rest in all their cities, andness afflict him through his vast sat under their vines and fig-and extensive reign. trees, possessing the land which In David, therefore, taken the Lord God had given to their from an humble and obscure fathers from the river of Egypt, condition, anointed and confirm to the river Euphrates. In him, fed king over all Israel, retalia therefore, we have an impres- ting their insults and oppres sive type of Christ, the spiritual sions upon their enemies, and David, subduing the spiritual establishing them in the peacea enemies of his church, emanci- ble possession of the land which pating it from their insults and the Lord their God had given oppressions, protecting it in the them, we virtually see Christ possession of its spiritual privi- from a state of peculiar abaseleges, the peaceful and happy ment chosen and anointed king enjoyment of its promised bles- over his church, avenging his sings, first in its temporary and elect of all their spiritual adver millennial state on earth, and ul-fsaries, extricating them from all

their injuries and insults, and [fying, and embellishing Jerusagiving them a peaceful and hap-lem, we see Christ regulating, securing and adorning the church by his protecting power and heavenly grace, with all the comeliness of a divine impression.

py possession of all the privileges and blessings which he hath promised in that holy and everlasting covenant which he hath made with them.

3. In Jerusalem as the seat of divine worship, we see the church, the seat of sacred in

In the stipulated, perpetual royalty of David's seed, we see the royalty, permanent and ev-stitutions; the word of the erlasting reign of Christ, the true seed of David. We see Christ exalted to a celestial throne, exercising power over all things in heaven and earth, joyfully acknowledged by all his true and loyal subjects, as

KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF

Lord going forth from it, and out of this Zion, the perfection of holy beauty, God making admirable displays of his fulness and grace.

4. In the order, beauty and strength of Jerusalem, we see the order, gracefulness and seLORDS, and reigning over the curity of the church, beautiful house of Jacob for ever.-We as Tirzah, more comely than see him extending protection, the ancient Jerusalem, and propeace and felicity, to all the sub-tected by those impregnable barjects of his holy and eternal riers, against which the gates of kingdom-and of the increase hell shall never prevail. of his government and peace there shall be no end. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this. Let us now consider Jerusalem in connexion with David, the illustrious monarch of Israeland,

1. In David, dispossessing the Jebusites, and making their strong hold his royal city, we see Christ overcoming Satan, the strong man armed, and despoiling him of his goods, the church naturally holden by him at his will, and applying it to his own designs and use, erecting his royal pavilion, displaying his banners, and

Here will I fix my gracious throne
And reign for ever, saith the Lord,
Here shall my power and love be
known,

And blessings shall attend my

word.'

'Let strangers walk around,
The city where we dwell,
Compass and view thine holy
ground,

And mark the building well. 'The orders of thy house,

The worship of thy court,

The cheerful songs, the solema

vows,

And make a fair report.
'How decent and how wise!
"How glorious to behold!

Beyond the pomp that charms the

eyes,

And rites adorn'd with gold.'

5. In Jerusalem populated and multiplied, we have the church increased to a great multitude

which no man can number.

6. In Jerusalem and mount Zion in their population, opu lence, beauty, strength and glory, we have, ultimately, the church in its glorified state, the new Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven, having

2. In David regulating, forti- the glory of God, and lightened

by the glory of God and the Lamb for ever and ever.

Secondly, The TABERNACLE typical.

or temple. Passing through the door from the east, westward, on the right hand stood the golden table of shew-bread, with its border and golden crown, and its twelve cakes, or loaves. On the left, the golden candlestick, with its seven lamps: and in front, the golden altar of incense, before the entrance through the vail. Passing through the door, or curtain of the vail, in the holy of holies, stood the golden ark, with its golden crown, contain

As we had in Jerusalem, and particularly in mount Zion, the city which God chose to put his name there, so we have the tabernacle as the immediate seat of all the exercises of religious worship; and not less typical of evangelical subjects. God directed the Israelites, by Moses, to make him a sanctuary, that he might dwell among them;ing the golden pot which had giving particular directions res- the manna, Aaron's rod that pecting the dimensions and budded, and the tables of the apartments, with all the utensils covenant. Upon this lay the of it. For this the temple pro- mercy-seat, as a lid or cover; posed by David at a future pe-upon the mercy-seat were the riod, and built by Solomon, two cherubims of glory, shadow. was a substitute. Their forming the mercy-seat with their and use were the same. They wings, and between these, the differed principally in their di- Shekinah, or symbol of the dimensions, and the materials with vine presence. which they were constructed.—| Shall we consider the tabernaThe tabernacle was made of cle a type of the human body? shittim, or the choicest cedar For this are not the words of the wood. The temple of costly apostle some support? If our stones. Each was inclosed by earthly houses of these tabernaa court, or yard. The taberna- cles be dissolved-Knowing that cle, or the temple, was divided I must shortly put off this taber into two parts, separated by a nacle.-If the tabernacle were curtain, called the vail. The a representation of the human first apartment was called, The body, will not the furniture re tent, and the tabernacle, of the present the various faculties of congregation, and the sanctuary. the mind, which, sanctified by The other was called, The holy the Holy Spirit, as the taberna. of holies, the most holy place, cle did, form a residence for the and the oracle. To the taber-blessed God, as Christ bath said, nacle and temple pertained a If a man love me he will keep particular apparatus, or furni-my words, and my Father will ture. Without, before the door, stood the brazen altar, on which were offered burnt offerings and sacrifices. Between the altar and the door stood the laver, or

love him, and we will come unto him and make our abode with him. However we decide upon this, the scriptures plainly direct us to consider the taber

vessel in which the priests wash-nacle, or its substitute, the tem ed before they served at the al-ple, as a type, tar, or went into the tabernacle

1. Of the human body of The boards of the tabernacle Christ. and the stones of the temple Christ said to the Jews, De-were prepared for their place, stroy this temple, and in three before they were applied to their days I will raise it up. He use; and the materials of the spake of the temple of his body. church are sanctified by the In the cunning workmanship of Spirit, and furnished with gifts the tabernacle and temple, we and grace before they are added have an impressive representa- to the spiritual temple. The tion of the wonderful machinery junction of the boards of the and curious texture of Christ's tabernacle by their loops and humanity, the receptacle of that taches, or rings and hooks, aptly divinity which dwelt in him bo- represents the union of the dily. The tabernacle and tem- various members of the church ple, the residence of the She- by mutual and kind affection, kinah, of the glory of the Lord, their hearts being knit together stand forth impressive emblems in love. The tabernacle and of the humanity and divinity of temple were erected for a visiChrist, of the Word made flesh ble, temporary residence of the and dwelling among us, ful! of great Jehovah; and the church grace and truth. As in the tab-is formed for an eternal habitaernacle and temple, the Israelites saw the glory of the Lord; so in the human body of Christ, the abode of divine fulness,Christians see the light of the knowledge of the glory of God. The tabernacle or temple, what an instructive representation of our glorious IMMANUEL, God dwelling in the flesh !-And as the tabernacle, or temple, wastle, in an elegant description of the seat of all intercourse between God and Israel, so is the humanity of Christ the medium of all communication between God and his people. We have the tabernacle a type,

2. Of the Christian church. Of this the apostle hath assured us in his address to the Corinthians. Ye are the temple of God, as God hath said, I will dwell in them and walk in them. The tabernacle was constructed of the choicest wood, the temple of costly stone, and the church of the richest materials, of saints, enriched and adorned with the grace of God.

tion of God through the Spirit. Ultimately,

3. The tabernacle and temple were types of heaven.

This the apostle hath inti mated in observing, that Christ hath not entered into the holy places made with hands, the figures of the true, but into heaven itself; and another apos

the heavenly state, by observing, that the tabernacle of God was with men, and he would dwell with them and be their God. In the tabernacle and temple, and God dwelling in them, we have, consequently, an august and glowing representation of heaven, and God residing in it as his eternal habitation.

To the tabernacle and temple appertained a variety of utensils constituting an apparatus, or furniture, necessary for performing the service, and adapted to aid religious devotion in them. These had their particu

These will most naturally be considered in the order in which they stood, or the places they occupied in the sacred edifice.

lar significancy, and merit an | ficed as the victim, when he was individual explanation. made sin for us that we might Types appendages to the tem- be the righteousness of God ple. in him? As the altar sanctified the gifts which were laid upon it, so the divinity of Christ gave virtue and merit to his humanity, body and soul. Did the shape of the altar, four square, the emblem of stability, denote the immutability of his person, and the four horns, the emblem of power, the perpetu ally and universally availing efficacy of his atonement ?-The

1. The brazen aitar.

tar, and Christ is the only sacrifice for sin-The sacred fire was perpetually preserved on the brazen altar, and the merit of Christ is ever vigorous and efficacious to procure the pardon of

who fled to it, and Christ protects all those who flee to him for refuge-from avenging justice. Turn, therefore, to your strong hold, ye prisoners of hope.

2. The brazen laver.

This was an important article in the tabernacle and temple. It was made of shittim, or the finest cedar-wood, and overlaid with brass. It had four horns at the four corners of it, and stood before the door of the tab-brazen, was the only national alernacle. This was called of God himself, an altar most holy. It sanctified every thing which touched it, the sacrifices which were burnt, and the gifts which were laid upon it, and was the refuge and protection of male-sin-The altar protected those factors who fled to it. That this had an evangelical significancy, the apostle intimated in observing, that Christians had an altar of which they had no right to eat who served the tabernacle; evidently referring to Christ as the great antitype of the Next to the brazen altar, we Jewish altar. This primarily may consider the brazen laver, represented Christ, the person- or vessel in which the priests age who appeared to the pro-washed when they served at the phet as a man of brass, and to altar, or went into the temple. the apostle with feet of fine It stood between the altar and brass, as though they burned in the tabernacle. This laver was a furnace. May we not consider probably a small vessel, but the this altar, which supported the laver of the temple was so cap offerings laid upon it, composed cious, that it was termed, a molof brass, a metal firm and dyra- ten sea. This was filled with ble, and of all metals the most ca-water, and the priests were repable of enduring the fire, a re- quired to wash in it when they presentation of that divinity served at the altar, or went into which only was capable of sus- the tabernacle on the penalty of taining the humanity of Christ, death. This vessel, in the Heunder those agonizing sufferings brew ritual, was very significant. by which he made his soul an It evidently represented that offering for sin-as that altar on fountain which is opened for which his humanity was sacri- the house of David, and the in