VII. 41. The whole length of the temple was sixty cu- CHAP bits, in breadth twenty cubits, and in height thirty cubits; and the most holy within the temple, was again four-square, being twenty cubits each way; its length and breadth and height were equal. 42. The cherubims in the most holy place of the temple, were each ten cubits in height, of one measure and of one size: and the wing of the one cherub touched the wall of the house on one side, and the wing of the other touched the wall on the other side; and their wings touched each other in the midst of the house; and the mercy-seat was placed between the two cherubims. 10. 11. 43. These things represented the extent of Christ's Psal Ixi dominion on both sides, in man and woman, as from 8. lxxxv. sea to sea, and showed the correspondent relation in the two anointed ones, between whom is placed the testimony and the covenant of everlasting life, where mercy and truth are met together, righteousness and peace kiss each other. vii. 21. 44. Besides these figures in the most holy place, two pillars were also reared up in the porch of the temple; the first was called JACHIN, i. e. he that 1 Kings strengthens and makes stedfast; and the second was called Boaz, i. e. in strength. So that when the temple was finished, it could not be entered but between two. Thus, Christ in his first appearing, was a pillar strong and stedfast; and his second appearing was in the strength of the first. 45. Thus, typical persons and typical things, in the most striking particulars, evidently show the purpose of God, in regard to the order of his spiritual work in Christ, to be in the order of two dispensations, and by two anointed ones; which, beyond all reasonable dispute, have had the beginning of their accomplishment, and confirmed by many infallible proofs; first through Christ Jesus, and in the Church which he established at his first appearing; and second in Mother Ann, and in the Church which, through her, was established in this day of Christ's second appearing. 46. And to these types, no antitype can be found in the Antichristian world: for they have rendered CHAP. VAP every comparison defective, by excluding the woman from her proper lot and order in Christ, and from her joint and correspondent relation, and true heirship in the work of redemption. 47. This appears evident from their doctrine of three distinct personalities in the Deity, all in the masculine gender: First the Father, second the Son, and third the Holy Ghost; He proceeding from Father and Son, from everlasting, without the attribute of either Mother or Daughter. To complete their heterogeneous system, they unite two distinct and contrary natures in the Son of God; and finally look for the mystery of God to be finished in the odd number of three males. 48. Where is there any similitude, which applies to this human invented scheme, among any of the works of God, either in heaven or on earth? Where is there any type or shadow, vision or prophecy, of things animate or inanimate, that ever God gave, from the creation of the first man, through all the law and the prophets, down to the present day, that bears any relation to such an unnatural, unscriptural and inconsistent proposition of attributes, without their corresponding relations? And where then is the correspondent cause of the woman's existence ? 49. But we can testify of a truth, that Christ hath verily fulfilled the scripture types, in such a manner, that they can never be fulfilled by any thing else, while the world stands: And the more reasonable and unprejudiced the mind of man becomes, the more exactly, in every particular, will those figures appear to have their accomplishment in the spiritual Father and Mother of the true children of promise. 50. We might further observe, that the same things were shadowed forth under the law by typical ceremonies; among which the two goats for the expiation of sin, is very pointed. Two goats were chosen, Lev. xvi. and presented before the Lord, to make atonement for the whole congregation of Israel. 51. The first was taken by lot and slain, and the blood of it taken within the vail to make an atonement, which typified Christ Jesus, who died for the sins of the world, and entered into the holiest of all, VII. that is, into heaven itself, through the vail, which CHAP. was his flesh. 52. Afterwards the High Priest returned, typifying Christ Jesus in his second appearing, and all the iniquities and transgressions of the children of Israel, were confessed over the head of the scape-goat, and taken away into a land not inhabited. 53. The Holy Ghost thus signifying, that sin could never be finally taken away, by all the blood that could be shed, until Christ should come in the flesh of woman, to destroy and take away sin from where it first entered; and therefore, the full and perfect order of confessing sin, once for all, was never established until Christ's second appearing. 54. In Christ's first appearing, Jesus died for the sins of the world; but there was none who remained in a joint and corresponding relation and equality with him, to receive the confession, and to bear them away. And therefore the first gift and revelation of God through Mother, for the final expiation of sin, was a full and final confession of sins, and a full salvation from all sin as the consequence. 55. So that in the first and second appearing of Christ, both in the man and in the woman, the figure of the two goats were perfectly fulfilled, and which never was, nor can be fulfilled in any thing else. 56. To these typical things may be added the Two Num. x silver Trumpets, which the Lord commanded Moses 2-11. to make, and which were to be used among the children of Israel on occasion of assembling themselves together in separate assemblies-in their journeyings, and in their wars with their enemies on gathering together the whole congregation to the tabernacle and on all such important occasions they were to be a memorial before God, and an ordinance forever throughout their generations. 57. These Two Trumpets were also typical of the two dispensations of the gospel, or Christ's first and second appearing. The gospel or testimony of Jesus is compared to a trumpet. In the first appearing of Christ, the first gospel trumpet was sounded; and in his second appearing, the second trumpet is sounded, which is called the Last Trumpet-by which the alarm CHAP. is sounded in God's holy mountain, and by which the ever a gospel of salvation is sounded, and the gathering to-steptr gether unto Christ is effected. 4. 58. Thus, were it necessary, it might be shown Son of wherein the whole typical and ceremonial law has its ter re full and final accomplishment in the second appearing of the Isai. v. of Christ. To the law and to the testimony of the 5. prophets; if they speak not according to this word, wome it is because there is no light in them. 20. gold and i THE HE prophecies concerning the two foundation pillars in the work of Redemption, are, to the mind that is in any degree spiritual, still more plain, copious and convincing, than the types and shadows given in the Law. Were we to bring all that the prophets have uttered on this particular subject, and to state every thing in its proper light of correspondence, a large volume would contain but a very small portion. A few particulars, however, are necessary to be noticed at this time. thee they fash C frin rem Acof 7 con it is ticu vir 2. David, by the spirit of prophecy, in the forty-and Efth Psalm, speaks expressly of the male and the female, in Christ's first and second appearing, in the following words: "My heart is inditing a good mat. ter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the King: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee forever." 3. "Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most Mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty. And in thy ma jesty ride prosperously, because of truth, and meekness, and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things. Thine arrows are sharp in the hearts of the King's enemies; whereby the Heb. i. 3. people fall under thee. Thy throne, O God, is for Fa in ໂອກ he ha be ar tid b CHAP. sever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right VIIL sceptre." 4. This has long been applied to Christ Jesus the Son of God; but this is not all, as distinct a charac*ter relating to the Daughter, as the first in the line of the female, is evidently described as follows: 5. "Kings daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the Queen in Penl. gold of Ophir. Hearken, O daughter, and consider, &en and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house; so shall the King greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worshipe thou him. And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall entreat thy favour." 6. "The king's daughter is all glorious within; her clothing is of wrought gold. She shall be brought unto the King in raiment of needle work: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unte thee: with gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought : they shall enter into the King's palace. Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth. I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee forever and ever." 7. As it is sufficiently evident that the prophecy concerning the Son, alluded to a particular person, and not to any collective body called the Church; so it is as evident, that the Daughter must have as particular an allusion, and so must her children, and the virgins her companions that follow her. 8. And as the one was to be a child born, a Son Imi.is given, whose name should be called, The everlasting Father; so the other was to be as expressly fulfilled I in one who should be called The everlasting Mother: for she that hath children and companions that follow her, must be both a mother and a leader. 9. Therefore the truth is, that the prophecy has I had its complete fulfilment, in such a manner as entirely to exclude every other comment or application; being first of all fulfilled in Christ Jesus, the Father, and secondly in Ann Lee, the Mother of our redemption, and the followers of her example, who were begotten and brought forth by the word of life as her |