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thefe Cherubim, may be used in Scripture, as I have hinted, without making any Referve then for this. Buxt. Chald. 275 cheruf- "Cherubim of a human Form with Wings, representing Angels, Exod. XXV. &c. Talmud-What is a Cherub? the fame as like a Boy; for in Babylon they call a Boy Chagiga, Fol. 13. 2." Though the Faces of these are defcribed; though this is an Hebrew Word used at first many Ages before Babel was; though the Word in Chaldee, in Scripture, fignifies a Great one, Mafter, &c. to avoid this great Mystery they have formed, and told thefe idle foolish Stories. I am afhamed for our great Men, who have not only followed them in Writing, but defigned these Figures after thefe Stories.

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I have fhewed in the Names and Attributes of the Trinity of the Gentiles, That the Heathens had a Temple to the Names under the Title of nates. Philo knew the Fire, Light and Spirit were called Rubbim, or faid to be ficut like Rubbim, and must know they had been worshipped under that Name; fo takes them, or his fuppofed Potentates in them, for those the Cherubim reprefented. The Word 217, as I have faid elsewhere, is the highest Epithet the Hebrew Tougue affords;

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affords; 'tis great in Strength, in Power,
in Wisdom, or whatever can be termed a
Perfection. As thofe Beafts were both
Emblems of the Chiefs,
this is expreffed in the

and of the Names, moft fimple Senfe, , like, ficut, quomodo, in the fame or like Manner, as the the Magnates, Great ones, Potentates, or, &c. Ezra v. 8. We went into the Province of Judea, to

of the great אלהא רבא the House בית

God; 2 Kings vi. 16. For they are
great who is with us. Neh. ix. 19. For
thou in thy great Mercies. Prov. xxvi. 10.

The great one who formed all things. Ifai. xix. 20. And he will fend them a Saviour and a great one, and he fall deliver them. liii. 11. By his Knowledge Shall my righteous Servant make Justification to the great ones-therefore will I divide. him a Portion with

the Great and with the Strong-because he fhall empty out his Body to Death, and be numbered with the Tranfgreffors, and bear the Forfeiture due to the great ones, and he shall intercede for Tranfgreffors. lxiii. 1. Who is this that cometh ND in human Nature, with died Garments from the Vintage? this that is glorious in his Apparel; a taker of Captives, by the

great one his Strength? I that mani

feft

feft the Secret (Mystery) in Righteoufnefs; a great one to fave. Pf. xxxvii. 11. And delight themselves in the Great, the Pacifier. xlviii. 3. The City of the King, the Great one. So Pf. xli. 13. And haft fet me before thee for ever. xlii. 6. I will yet afcribe unto him the Salvation of his Face, [or Light of his Countenance.] lxxxiv. 10. Look upon the Face of TD thine Anointed. cxxxii. 10. For the Beloved one thy Servant's Sake turn not away the Face of thine Anointed.

Let us examine the Texts, Exod. xxv. 9. According to all that I fhew thee, after the Patern of the Tabernacle, and the Pattern of all the Inftruments thereof, even fo fhall ye make it. And they shall make an Ark.-16. And thou shalt put into the Ark the Teftimony which I fhall give thee. And thou shalt make

a Mercy-Seat of pure Gold: Two Cubits and a half shall be the Length thereof, and a Cubit and a half the Breadth thereof. And thou shalt make two Cherubims of Gold, of beaten Work fhalt thou make them, in the two Ends of the Mercy-Seat. And make one Cherub on the one End, and the other Cherub on the other End: Even of the Matter of the

Mercy

Mercy-Seat hall ye make the Cherubims on the two Ends thereof. And the Cherubims fhall ftretch forth their Wings on high, covering the Mercy-Seat [Coverer] with their Wings, and their Faces fhall look one to another: Toward the MercySeat fhall the Faces of the Cherubim be. And thou shalt put the Mercy-Seat above upon the Ark- -and there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee, from above the Mercy-Seat, from between the two Cherubims which are upon the Ark of the Teftimony, of all Things which I will give thee in Commandment unto the Children of Ifrael. 40. And look that you make them after their Pattern which was fhewed thee (which thou was caufed to fee) in the Mount. Ibid. xxxvii. 1. And Bezeleel made the Ark-6. and he made the Mercy-Seat of pure Gold-and he made two Cherubims of Gold beaten out of one Piece made he them, on the two Ends of the Mercy-Seat. One Cherub on [out of the End on this Side, and another Cherub on [out of] the other End on that Side: Out of the Mercy-Seat made he the two Cherubims on the two Ends thereof. And the Cherubims Spread out their Wings on high, and covered with

their Wings over the Mercy-Seat, with their Faces one to another; even to the Mercy-Seat ward were the Faces of the Cherubims. Exod. xxx. 34. Take unto thee State and Onycha, and Galbanum, -with pure Frankincenfe.-36. And thou shalt beat fome of it very fmall, and put of it before the Teftimony in the Tabernacle of the Congregation, where I will meet with thee: It shall be unto you most holy. Levit. xvi. 2. Speak unto Aaron thy Brother, that he come not in at all times into the holy Place, for I will appear in the Cloud upon the Mercy-Seat. Thus fhall Aaron come.-13. And he fhall put the Incenfe upon the Fire before Jehovah, that the Cloud of the Incense may cover the Mercy-Seat that is upon the Teftimony, that he die not. And he fhall take of the Blood of the Bullock, and Sprinkle it with his Finger upon the Mercy-Seat Eaftward: And before the Mercy-Seat fhall he sprinkle of the Blood with his Finger feven times. Then shall he kill the Goat of the Sin-Offering that is for the People, and bring his Blood within the Veil, and do with that Blood as he did with the Blood of the Bullock, and fprinkle it upon the Mercy-Seat, and before the Mercy-Seat. 29. In the feventh Month,