Month, on the tenth Day of the Month, ye shall afflict your Bodies, and do no Work at all-For on that Day shall the Prieft make an Atonement for you, that you may be clean from all your Sins before Jehovah.

It appears that there was a Pattern of thefe Things fhewed to Mofes in the Mount; and it appears in Buxt. Arca Fœderis, p. 81. that feveral great Divines have thought that Mofes had a Vifion of the very Persons and Actions these Shadows reprefent. But, if that had been, he would have seen the Glory, and would have had no occafion to have preffed fo carnestly to fee it. So to David, I Chron. xxviii. 11. Then David gave to Solomon his Son the Pattern of and the Pattern of ali that `by the Spirit of-18. And for the Pattern of the Chariot of the Cherubims that Spread out their Wings, and covered the Ark of the Covenant of Jehovah. All this, faid David, Jehovah made me understand in Writing by his Hand upon me, even all the Works of this Pattern. And it appears that the Pattern which was fhewed to Mofes in the Mount, and exhibited in thefe Figures in the S. Sanctorum, were proper Reprefentations of the Rubbim in the higheft Heavens, and of their

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Actions in what chiefly concerned the Jewish Religion, from Acts vii. 44. Our Fathers had the Tabernacle of Witness in the Wilderness, as he had appointed, Speaking unto Mofes, that he should make it according to the Fashion he had feen. Heb. viii. 2. A Minifter of the Sanctuary (of holy Things) and of the true Tabernacle which the Lord pitched, and not Man. Ibid. ix. 11. Glaffius, p. 315.

Pifcator, Heb. viii. 5. by the Word Type understands the Archtype itself, or that primary Exemplar of heavenly and fpiritual Things, which were pretypified or prefigured by the Tabernacle, and the Ceremonies annexed to, and celebrated in it; fuch as the Death of Christ upon the Altar of the Crofs, and his Entrance into the Sanctuary of Heaven, which Things were fhewed Mofes by the Spirit." Ibid. 1214. "When the Ceremonies and Types of the Old Testament are called Shadows in respect of Chrift, Col. ii. 17. Heb. i. 10. it (Shadow) is not to be understood naturally, but artificially and picture-ways: For Painters, at first, delineate a Shadow, or Shadow-like Sketch, &c." Ibid. 1118. "But this is faid of Chrift, our Saviour and God incarnate, in a double Senfe. 1. While the Body is opposed to Shadows,

dows, Figures and Types in the Old Teftament, the Reality or Complement of Things prefigured by thefe Shadows, is thereby fignified, Col. ii. 17. Which are a Shadow of Things to come; but the Body is of Chrift; i. e. the Truth and Fulness is in Chrift." This is the Archtype, these are the true Rubbim; and, if exhibiting them make a Covenant, or bringing it to Memory be creating them, then Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are created. Heb. viii. 4-Seeing that there are Priefts that offer Gifts according to the Law: Who ferve unto the Example and Shadow of heavenly Things, as Mofes was admonished of God, when he was about to make the Tabernacle. For fee (faith he) that thou make all Things according to the Pattern fhewed thee in the Mount. Ibid. ix. 1, 3. Here is Philo's Exemplar that was made after the Archtype. Ibid. ix. 5. And over it the Cherubims of Glory fhadowing the Mercy-Seat of which we cannot now Speak particularly. 14. How much more fhall the Blood of Chrift, who, through the eternal Spirit, offered himself without Spot to God, purge your Confciences from dead Works to ferve the living God?

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The rendered Mercy-Seat was to be of the fame Dimension of the Ark, or of its Lid, if it had any other; fo to ftand within the Crown of Gold, the Emblem of the Glory which was about the Top of the Ark, and fo about this. It and the two Cherubims, one at each End, were to be all beaten out of one Piece of Gold, the Emblem of the Effence. This Word

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, which contains the Mystery, fignifies to cover with Pitch, which defends that covered from the Air, Storms, &c. So Pag. 1214. Villa, a Place of Covering, pitched Tents or Coverings. So Dew, Pruina, that covers every thing. It is used for fome fort of Aromatick, they fuppofe Camphir. And fome Veffel in the Temple was called by this Name. Buxt. Chald. a Bason (fupposed to be named for having a Cover) for the Priest to wash his Hands in. Pagn. to clean the Knife from Blood. It is used for Leunculus, a Lion, they fay, from his lying covered. They conftrue it to expiate, Expiation for Sin, &c. But the Idea appears from one who had acted as a Judge. 1 Sam. xii. 3. Of whofe Hand have I taken and covered my Eyes with it. Something that is preferable in the Eyes of the Father, who is both Plaintiff and a perfect Judge, to the Juftice

which could have been performed by the Criminals, or to the Punishment which he could have inflicted upon them. Amos v. 12. Te afflict the Righteous; ye take 55 a Bribe, and opprefs the Poor in Judgment. So Ifai. xxviii. 18. And the Propitiation of your Purifier with Death, and your Vision with the Grave fball not ftand. So as this was a Part of the Emblem of the Effence and Man taken in, and was in the Form of a Table or Stage, where fome Perfon, or thing not then formed, and the Actions he was to perform were to be typically exhibited. Propitiatorium is itself a Covering, and a Place for him who was to cover, it has been faid to cover the Law; and though one who could not read, yet would write, has afferted that the Pentateuch was in the Ark; and thence that it was loft, &c. it never was in it. But if the Law were taken for the Tables, as the Terms of Purification, as the Ark is called, for him who was to fuperfede and fupply it; whatever or whoever this Place was for, he was to be under the Shadow of their Wings, of the Cherubim, or what was to be done there was to be done under their Protection, was to take off the Eyes of those reprefented by the Cherubim from other Ob