were only exhibited to appearance by Form and Motion; and, at the refpective times, given to created inanimate Matter, or hammer'd out of Gold, or carved out of Wood, to represent the Trinity in Unity, the taking in of the Man, the making and performing of the Covenant, &c. were created, though none can tell where, nor when, were animate, intelligent; ot were two of them of Jehovah, and one created; or, fuppofing the Effence of Jehovah one Perfon, were Companions of Jehovah, and Operators for him of the first rate, or fuperior to the Angels, or what the Scripture calls the Glory of the Word, the Son, the Light, and another the Spirit; and another they never name but make him Revenger, Punisher, and a fevere Being, fo make the three the Angels of the Prelence, of the Faces; I fay, if they would let Scripture determine thefe, they would believe, and confefs the Meaning of their own Emblems, and that they exhibited the Perfons, and their Actions in Heaven. They might fee the Manner of making the Covenant; that Jehovah, the Perfon, the Glory who appear'd emblematically in form of Light, sometimes environed by a Cloud, fometimes openly; and though it was not permitted to any Mortal to fee

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more than the Splendor of that Light there, 'tis likely in the Figure of a Man, as elfewhere, who ftood between or above the two Cherubim; they beholding his Faces, and he theirs, &c. they might fee the Performance of that Covenant typically ex-. hibited; and that what the Prieft did there, was what the Interceffor, the Mediator, did, and does before, or between, the Rubbim, the Aleim and Man, in the real Heavens. If this Place was the Type of Heaven, as St. Paul tells us Heb.ix. 24. "For Chrift is not entered into the Holy "Places made with Hands, which are the "Figures of the true; but into Heaven it"felf, now to appear in the presence of "God, vultui Dei, for us." If the High Priest was a Tyye of the Light refiding on the

Mercy-Seat between the Cherubim, fo of the Name of Jehovah often mentioned; that Name, that Person who was to take Flesh upon him, and to be the Interceffor; and that the Blood of the Creatures which he, by his Type the High Priest, fprinkled there, was the Type of his Blood. That as the High Prieft fprinkled the Blood which was fhed, without the Vail, in the Sanctum Sanctorum upon the 5 Mercy-Seat, fo Heb. vi. 19. Chrift the Interceffor is entered within the Vail, L 3

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and thus fprinkles, thus exhibits the Merit of his Blood which was fhed, without the Vail, upon Earth. And that he is not, as I have fhewed elfewhere, the Covenant, but the Purifier; nor as it is tranflated, Heb. viii. & al. a better Covenant, for there was but one Covenant; but a better Purifier, as much as the Merit of his Life, Sufferings and Blood, was more valuable than that of the Types, Brutes; then 'tis he, and that, which the Eyes of the Aleim are to regard in Heaven; and he, and that, will be of fufficient Value to be regarded by. them. Now the Text which has been fo much contefted, is proved to be authentick, 1 John v. 7. For there are three that bear record in Heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghoft; and thefe three are one: and if it were poffible that there needed any greater Proof, they are proved to be Parties.

It appears, Heb. ix. 4. that the golden Cenfer, upon which the holy Incense was burn'd, was an Inftrument which belonged to the Sanctum Sanctorum; and if fo, the High Pricft put the burning Coals, and the holy Incense he carried in upon it. 'Tis not to my purpose, and it would take up more time than I have to fpare now, to fhew the emblematical Meaning of cach Species of Sacrifice, or the emblematical

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Use of each Ingredient of the Mixture in the sweet Perfume or Incense, which was to be burn'd by the Prieft when he entered into the Sanctum Sanctorum, to sprinkle the Blood, whofe Smoak was to cover the Mercy-Seat, and so approach the Faces of the Rubbim; and the Neglect was to be punished with immediate death, which the Jews tell us befell feveral of their High Priests, in Failure of executing this part of their Office. Indeed one would at first Sight be apt to think, by the Wording of one Text, that the Vapour from this sweet Incense was intended to hide the Appearance above the Mercy-Seat. But, by Pfal. cxli. 2. Jer. xvii. 26. Revel. v. 8. and viii. 4. al. it appears that the offeringof Incense referred to the Office of Chrift, exhibiting his Merits as Mediator.

As the part which the second Perfon covenanted was fure to be performed, fo what is represented here his Suffering, and his Blood, was exhibited in Heaven: If not as a Reason for creating this System, and Man, at least from the Promise after the Fall, as well as it is fince his Suffering. And upon this Merit Man became his Property. Hence the three Perfons, and the Man taken in, are exhibited, each in two Stations, as making and regarding the Covenant, and as ruling the Universe.

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The Glory, the Word, the Son, in a third Station, ruling his Church, and making the Place where the Suffering is reprefented his Throne, from whence he gives Directions to his Minifters in the Jewish State, fo in Glory.

The Covenant to redeem Man was really made, and ideally exhibited in Hea ven, and afterwards the Persons and those Actions were fupernaturally exhibited upon Earth; and as part of it was to be per-. formed in Heaven, so that Part of it was afterward to be represented, Part by Figures, Part by fupernatural Appearance, Voice, &c. and Part by the Reprefentative of one of the Perfons upon Earth. And, as parts of it were to be really performed upon Earth, thofe Parts were to be typically performed or suffered upon Earth by Representatives. And as the latter Parts were to be performed before the Representatives of those in Heaven; thence the Place where thofe Reprefentatives ftood, and where one of them appeared, was faid to be the Dwelling, the moving House, the Refidence of thofe in Heaven, fo a Type of Heaven; and the Representatives and Appearance, Types of the Effence of the Perfons with Man taken in, of their Actions, &c. Indeed the im

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