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mediate Presence dwelt in the Types, fo as to make the Actions effectual, by Power, by Action, by Voice, &c. and upon Occafion attended thofe Figures and Appearance there; nay, Addreffes are made to these, with this Species of Prefence, by the Prophets, as well as to the immediate Prefence of thofe, these represented in the highest Heavens; and the People were commanded to fear this Place by the fame Word, as to fear the Aleim.

From the Expreffions in Scripture, that Jehovah Aleim was emblematically to dwell above and below, as, or in, these Exhibitions or Images, Philo and the apoftate Jews, as I have fhewed, confounded themselves and deceived others, with the Misapplication of the Word Shechinah to the Effence as one Person, as if the Effence or Perfons had no Dwelling till it was created, fuppofe that he is to dwell really in something created, fo puddle with Heaven, Word, Potentates, &c. fo make the other two, nay indeed all three, Potentates, Angels, &c. whereas this Word, as well as other Words of nearly the fame Signification, is emblematically applied fometimes to one, fometimes to all the three Perfons, or their Emblems, and

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applied to the Name Jehovah, to the Name Jehovah Aleim, to the Name Aleim, for whom the Tabernacle was fet up, and the Temple built; to the juft One, to the holy One; as a Place for the Pricft, the Reprefentative of the Name Jehovah, who wore the Name Kadesh to Jehovah, Chrift, who he perfonated to execute his Office in, not only as Pricft, but as Interceffor.

To prove this Gen. iv. 26. "Then was an Opening made to Invocation in the Name Jehovah. xii. 8. and invoked in the Name Jehovah. xiii. 4. xxi. 33. xxvi. 25. Exod. vi. 3. And by my Name Jehovah was I not known to them. xx. 7. Shall not take my Name in vain. xxiii. 21. My Name is in him. xxxiii. 19. And call in the Name Jehovah before thee. xxxiv. 5. (Pf. ciii. 8.) and he called in the Name Jehovah, and Jehovah paffed before him, and Jehovah called, gave the Name the Appellations, Jehovah Al,-7-700, &c. Deut. v. 11. Lev. xix. 12. Te shall not fwear by my Name falsely; nor prophane

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the Name of my Aleim." Levit. xx. 3. To defile my Sanctuary, and to profane my holy Name. xxi. 6. And not profane the Name of their Aleim. xxii. 2, 32. That they profane not my holy Name. xxiv. 16. He that blafphemeth the Name Jehovah, fhall die the Death-when he blafphemeth the Name. Deut. vi. 13. x. 20. Thou shalt fear Jehovah thy Aleim, and ferve him, and shalt fwear by his Name. xii. 5. And unto the Place which Jehovah your Aleim fhall chufe-to put his Name there, even unto his Habitation shall ye feek, and thither thou shalt come, and thither ye Shall bring your Burnt-Offerings, &c. v.. II. Then there fhall be a Place which Jehovah Aleim hall chufe, to cause his Name to dwell there. Ibid. v. 21. xiv. 23, 24. xvi. 2, 6, 11. xxvi. 2. Efdr. vi. 12. Neh. i. 9. So 2 Sam. vii. 13. He shall build a Houfe for my Name. So 1 Kings viii. 16, 29. For my Name to be there. So Pfal. lxxiv. 7. Have prophaned the Tabernacle of thy Name. 1 King. ix. 7. 2 Chron. vii. 20. And the House which I fet apart for my Name. 1 Chron. xxix. 16. to build thee a Houfe for the Name of thy holy one. v. 9. for thy Name is in this Houfe. Jer. vii. 11. Is this the Houfe which is called by my Name?-But go ye now unto my Place which was in Shiloh,

Shiloh, where I fet my Name at the first. I muft omit vaft Numbers to the fame Purpose in the Pfalms, &c. 1 King. xviii. 24. I will call on the Name of Jehovah. v. 32. He built an Altar in the Name of Jehovah. 1 Chron. xvi. 2. He bleffed the People in the Name of Jehovah. v. 8. Give Thanks unto Jehovah, call upon his Name. v. 10. Glory ye in his holy Name. v. 35. That we may make Confeffion to

to להשתבח ,the Name of thy holy one

glory in thy Irradiation. Deut. xxvi. 15. Look down from the Habitation of thy holy one. Pfal. v. 8. I will bow me in the Temple of thy holy one. Jer. vii. 30. xxxiv. 15. Houfe which is called by my Name.. Zech. xiv. 9. In that Day fhall Jehovah be one, and his Name one. Ibid. xii. 7, 8, 10. And the Houfe of the Beloved fhall be as the Houfe of the Aleim.

So one or more of thefe Words are applied to the Effence, to the three Perfor joined to Jehovah, to Jehovah Aleim, to the Aleim, to the holy ones, to the Ark with the Cherubim, to the Cherubim already cited, to the Vifages, with relation to the Exhibition of the Covenant, and of the Atonement, the Tabernacle, Temple, Sanctum Sanctorum, the Adytum, Sion, &c. was, by thefe Emblems being placed there,

there, their Refidence: So with relation to the Sacrifices, Offerings, Prayers, burning of Incenfe, fprinkling of Blood, &c. and what was performed before them, fo to them.

משכן

To prove this, Exod. xxv. 8. And let them make me (Jehovah) a Sanctuary; and I will dwell in the Middle of them. According to all that I fhew thee, the Tabernacle; and the Pattern of all the Inftruments thereofthen follows the Ark and the Cherubim. xxix. 45. 1 King. vi. 13. And I will dwell among the Children of Ifrael, and be their Aleim, and they shall know that I am Jehovah their Aleim, &c. Levit. xix. 30. xxvi. 2. And 1 ye shall fear my Sanctuary. v. II. And I will put my Tabernacle in the Midft of you. 1 King. viii. 13. 2 Chron. vi. 2. I have built an Houfe, a Dwelling-Place for thee, aPlace for thee to dwell in for ever. 1 Chron. vi. 48. To all manner of Service of the Tabernacle, the Houfe of the Aleim. xxii. 19. And build the Sanctuary of Jehovah Aleim, to bring in the Ark of the Purifier Jehovah, and the Inftruments of the holy one of the Aleim, into the Houfe built for the Name Jehovah. xxviii, 10. To build an Houfe for the Sanctuary. Pf. ix. 12. Sing to Jehovah who dwelleth in Sion. lxxiv. 2.

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