offer a sin-offering, doing therein very well and honestly, in that he was mindful of the resurrection -For if he had not hoped, that they who were slain, should have risen again, it had been superfluous and vain to pray for the dead:* wherefore he made a reconciliation for the dead, that they might be delivered from sin."-Here is a plain and direct proof of the belief of the Jews in this doctrine of the resurrection of the body.

Another difficulty the Jews lay under, not unlike that which blinds many christians at this day, was the double views contained in most of the prophecies; for as has been well observed by an excellent writer, "all the prophecies may, and undoubtedly have respect to more fulfilments than one-they may be typical of things past as well as those to come, here and hereafter. The temple with its apparatus were figures of what Moses saw in the mount, yet they were manifestly types of things to come-the deliverance of the Jews from Egypt-their passage through the red sea-their journeying in the wilderness-their settlement in the promised land, all had reference both to temporal and spiritual fulfilmentsMany earthly sovereigns and men of great temporal power were among the types set forth in the scriptures, which led the minds of the Jews to a temporal deliverance, in their fulfilment-For instance,

* Vide 1 Cor. xv. 29. Else what shall they do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?

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Moses, Joseph and David with others, were types of Christ. The conversion of St. Paul was typical of the conversion of the Jews, and as he had an Anannias to instruct him, so may the Jews have at last, a second Elias for the same purpose.-Moses went into the mount and Jesus into heaven.-The people said as for this Moses we wot not what is become of him. The scoffers say of the second coming of Christ, "where is the promise of his coming, for since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as at this time."-Joseph was sold into Egypt by his brethren out of envy; and Christ was sold by his friend, and Pilate knew it was from envy that the Jews, his brethren according to the flesh, had delivered him to his power-Joseph was confined with two thieves, one of whom was restored to the monarch's favor-Christ was crucified between two thieves, to one of whom he said, this night thou shalt be with me in paradise-Joseph was not known to his brethren till the second time of his coming to them: Christ will not be known or acknowledged by the Jews till his second coming in glory-David was hated and persecuted without a cause-Christ more remarkably so-David was accused of crimes he never had committed-Christ was not only accused but died for the sins of the world, which he bore as the substitute of guilty man-David's life was embittered by affliction and overwhelmed with sorrow -Christ was a man of sorrow and acquainted with grief-David went over the brook Cedron (an em

blem of the torrent of God's wrath) through the valley of Jehoshaphat to the mount of Olives, barefoot and weeping as he went; so Christ when he had finished his last supper" went forth with his disciples over the same brook Cedron, and from thence unto the mount of Olives," where he sweat great drops of blood falling down to the ground, and such was his sorrow as to need an angel from heaven to strengthen him, for his great conflict.

Here David worshipped, wept and prayed-and Christ" fell on his face and prayed, O my father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt-This he repeated at three different times, and his soul was exceeding sorrowful even unto death."

Here Ittai David's friend promised to live and die with him, and Peter said to Christ" though I should die with thee yet will I not deny thee."

Ahitophel, David's counsellor, by his council be trayed him, that he might be taken when he fled from Absalom, and afterwards Ahitophel went and hanged himself; so Judas one of Christ's disciples betrayed his master, and afterwards went and hanged himself.

David obtained a final victory over all his enemies and was exalted to a throne-Christ after obtaining a glorious victory over death, hell and the grave, arose triumphant and "was received up into heaven and sat on the right hand of God."

The great principal feasts of the Jews, were de signed partly for the remembrance of things past, and partly as types of things to come-The feast of unleavened bread, or the passover, was designed as a grateful remembrance of the deliverance of the children of Israel from the land of Egypt: this was the remembrance of things past-the type or figure of things to come, was our deliverance from the bondage of sin and satan, by our Lord Jesus Christ, who was prefigured by the paschal Lamb without blemish, and who in the same month, and on the same day of the month, was fore ordained by God to be crucified on the cross for the sins of the whole world, whose blood applied by a lively faith, is to be the deliverance of every soul on whom it is found.

The feast of weeks, or Pentecost (50 days) after the feast of unleavened bread, was in remembrance of the law being given on Mount Sinai, with thundering and lightening—and as a type or figure of the publishing of the doctrines of the gospel on the same day, with a sound from heaven, when cloven tongues of fire fell upon the apostles, and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost.

The feast of tabernacles was in remembrance of the Israelites' long dwelling in tents or tabernacles, and was a type of Christ's incarnation, when the divine nature tabernacled in the flesh; and the word became Immanuel or God with us.

The conduct of the Jews relative to our Saviour, on his incarnation and their essential mistakes, ought

to warn christians, that they run not into the same errors to their greater loss. For may it not be seriously questioned, if there is not, at least, an equal degree of unbelief among Christians, with regard to his second coming, as there was among the Jews, with regard to the Messiah's first coming.-They looked for a mere temporal Prince: we are looking for the mere spiritual coming of Christ, in a universal revival of religion among men; both run to extremes, without submitting to the true word of prophecy, when Christ himself assures us of his second coming in glory, not only by types, figures and prophetic revelations; but also by his ordinances; especially that which he has instituted to show forth his death, until he shall come.

This language, one would have imagined, was sufficiently explicit; but fond of our own conceits, and unwilling to submit our judgments, in things we do not immediately comprehend in all their parts, we are directly engaged to enquire how this can be, and start a thousand objections to the fulfilment of the words of Omnipotence, with all the obstinacy and prevarication of the Jews.-In order to get rid of these men of straw, of our own raising, we fly to the merely spiritual presence of Christ in his church; and by this means, cause all the express declarations of a God of truth, to be reasoned away, and become of no effect, by preferring the doubts and objections of men, to the positive predictions of unerring wisdom. This was not the conduct of the first patriarchs,