flagons, the golden altar to the snuffers, and the sacrifices to the knives which slew them, were all symbolical of those truths which were more clearly revealed in the New Testament. It is a pleasing work for a mind under the influence of the love of the Saviour, to trace those precious truths, though in swaddling bands—and this is a precious gift, the mind sanctified by the Spirit, in search of Jesus, in every passage, either directly or indirectly referring to him. And why should such a mind be thought little of, or contemned? How many have admired the fancies of a poet, an author, who has attempted to trace God in every thing? how have they been exalted to the very skies—Pope, Shakespear, and others. Yet, when the christian would trace his Lord and Saviour in the types, he is considered as a mere fanatic. The writings of the truly-excellent Hervey, in his Meditations, have been much admired; and what human composition can be more lovely than his _Meditation on a Flower Garden_, and his _Descant on Creation_?—while, with a grace-taught eye, he saw his loving Lord, and justly applied the language of Pope, He shines in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees. For my own part, I consider it an indulgence afforded to a spiritual man, that he is able to view his dear Saviour in every part of the sacred writings. What an entertainment to precious faith! and how sweetly can that soul hold communion with her God, while thousands of singular passages present the Lord Jesus to view—I call them singular, not dark, as there is no darkness in the Word, it is in us, not in God, or his Word. I am sure I need make no apology for the singularity of my text; it is calculated to awaken attention—to lead into the glorious and affecting truths of the Gospel. Every part of the word of God is pure, of no private interpretation, and it must be allowed to be truly important. If this be granted, surely my text and its connexion, demand our most serious investigation. Before I immediately consider it, I shall make a quotation or two from some able writers, on the excellency of the figurative parts of God’s word. “Nothing asserted in God’s word is contrary to the true light of nature, though it infinitely transcends it. It is no way absurd to represent spiritual things, and even God himself, by proper emblems, as the sense is easily understood to be figurative; and those figures, drawn from common things, tend to make us ever conversant with spiritual objects.” _Morrison’s Dictionary_. M‘Ewen remarks, “As the sun paints the clouds with a variety of glowing colours, which in their own natures are but dark and lowering vapours, exhaled from the earth—so when the sun of righteousness arises, even the carnal ordinances and commandments of the law, dark and earthly as they seem, are gilded by his beams, and wear a shining appearance.”